Bournless to Bowl

Bournless
(Bourn"less), a. Without a bourn or limit.

Bournonite
(Bour"non*ite) n. [Named after Count Bournon, a mineralogist.] (Min.) A mineral of a steel- gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.

Bournous
(Bour*nous") n. See Burnoose.

Bourrée
(||Bour*rée) n. [F.] (Mus.) An old French dance tune in common time.

Bourse
(||Bourse) n. [F. bourse purse, exchange, LL. bursa, fr. Gr. skin, hide, of which a purse was usually made. Cf. Purse, Burse.] An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.

Bouse
(Bouse) v. i. To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.

Bouse
(Bouse), n. Drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze. "A good bouse of liquor." Carlyle.

Bouser
(Bous"er) n. A toper; a boozer.

Boustrophedon
(||Bou`stro*phe"don) n. [Gr. turning like oxen in plowing; to turn.] An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left as in early Greek and Hittite.

Boustrophedonic
(Bou*stroph`e*don"ic) a. Relating to the boustrophedon made of writing.

Boustrophic
(Bou*stroph"ic) a. [Gr. boystro`fos ox-guiding.] Boustrophedonic.

Bousy
(Bousy) a. Drunken; sotted; boozy.

In his cups the bousy poet songs.
Dryden.

Bout
(Bout) n. [A different spelling and application of bought bend.]

1. As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.

In notes with many a winding bout
Of linked sweetness long drawn out.
Milton.

The prince . . . has taken me in his train, so that I am in no danger of starving for this bout.
Goldsmith.

2. A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.

The gentleman will, for his honor's sake, have one bout with you; he can not by the duello avoid it.
Shak.

Boutade
(Bou*tade") n. [F., fr. bouter to thrust. See Butt.] An outbreak; a caprice; a whim. [Obs.]

Boutefeu
(Boute"feu) n. [F.; bouter to thrust, put + feu fire.] An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels. [Obs.]

Animated by . . . John à Chamber, a very boutefeu, . . . they entered into open rebellion.
Bacon.

Boutonnière
(||Bou`ton`nière") n. [F., buttonhole.] A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.

Bouts-rimés
(||Bouts`-ri*més") n. pl. [F. bout end + rimé rhymed.] Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.


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