4. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
5. The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
6. Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or
fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble.
Then a soldier . . .
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth.
Shak.
7. A person deceived by an empty project; a gull. [Obs.] "Ganny's a cheat, and I'm a bubble." Prior.
Bubble
(Bub"ble), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bubbled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bubbling ] [Cf. D. bobbelen, Dan.
boble. See Bubble, n.]
1. To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.
The milk that bubbled in the pail.
Tennyson.
2. To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream. Pope.
3. To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.
At mine ear
Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not.
Tennyson.
Bubbler
(Bub"bler), v. t. To cheat; to deceive.
She has bubbled him out of his youth.
Addison.
The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here.
Sterne.
Bubbler
(Bub"bler) n.
1. One who cheats.
All the Jews, jobbers, bubblers, subscribers, projectors, etc.
Pope.
2. (Zoöl.) A fish of the Ohio river; — so called from the noise it makes.
Bubble shell
(Bub"ble shell`) (Zoöl.) A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging
to the Tectibranchiata.
Bubbling Jock
(Bub"bling Jock`) (Zoöl.) The male wild turkey, the gobbler; — so called in allusion to its
notes.
Bubbly
(Bub"bly) a. Abounding in bubbles; bubbling. Nash.
Bubby
(Bub"by) n. [Cf. Prov. G. bübbi, or It. poppa, Pr. popa, OF. poupe, a woman's breast.] A
woman's breast. [Low]
Bubby
(Bub"by), n. [A corruption of brother.] Bub; — a term of familiar or affectionate address to a
small boy.
Bubo
(Bu"bo) n.; pl. Buboes [LL. bubo the groin, a swelling in the groin, Gr. boubw`n.] (Med.) An
inflammation, with enlargement, of a lymphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.
Bubonic
(Bu*bon"ic) a. Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.
