English English Dictionary
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A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.
An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.
An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels.
A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.
Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.
An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.
A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oolite, and not of the true coal era.
Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.
Resembling an ox in form; ox-shaped.
Of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.
Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament.
The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
To manage the bow.
An arcograph.
Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
To play (music) with a bow.
To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down.
To bend; to curve.