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See Barometz.
A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.
A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O.
A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels.
A board; a table.
The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.
See Bourd.
Service due from a bordar; bordage.
The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier.
A claret wine from Bordeaux.
Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France.
Alt. of Bordello
Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux.
A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel.
A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution.
A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
A narrow flower bed.
A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.