Name Report For First Name BOB:
BOB
First name BOB's origin is English. BOB means "abbreviation of robert". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BOB below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of bob.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with BOB and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with BOB - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming BOB
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BOB AS A WHOLE:
bobo bobbi bobbie bobbyNAMES RHYMING WITH BOB (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ob) - Names That Ends with ob:
jakob jacob jaykob ayoob taroob job robNAMES RHYMING WITH BOB (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (bo) - Names That Begins with bo:
boadhagh boadicea boarte boas boaz boc bocleah bocley boda bodaway boden bodgan bodi bodiccea bodicea bodicia bodil bodwyn body boell boethius bofind bogart bogdan boghos bogohardt bohannon bohdan bohdana bohort bohous bohumil bokhari bolaji boldizsar bolton bomani bond bondig bonie boniface bonifacio bonifacius bonifaco bonita bonnar bonni bonnibelle bonnie bonnie-jo bonny bonny-jean bonny-lee boone booth boothe bora borak borbala bordan borden boreas borre bors borsala bort bosworth botan botewolf both bothain bothan bothe botolf botolff botwolf boudicea boukra boulad boulboul boulus bourkan bourke bourn bourne bow bowden bowdyn bowen bowie bowyn boyce boyd boyden boyne boynton bozena boziNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BOB:
First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'b':
bab barnab bearacb bebEnglish Words Rhyming BOB
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BOB AS A WHOLE:
| bob | noun (n.) Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail. |
| noun (n.) A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait. | |
| noun (n.) A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float. | |
| noun (n.) The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line. | |
| noun (n.) A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head. | |
| noun (n.) A working beam. | |
| noun (n.) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig. | |
| noun (n.) A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells. | |
| noun (n.) The refrain of a song. | |
| noun (n.) A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist. | |
| noun (n.) A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick. | |
| noun (n.) A shilling. | |
| noun (n.) To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob. | |
| noun (n.) To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap. | |
| noun (n.) To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch. | |
| noun (n.) To mock or delude; to cheat. | |
| noun (n.) To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail. | |
| verb (v. i.) To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything. | |
| verb (v. i.) To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3. |
| bobbing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bob |
| bobac | noun (n.) The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac). |
| bobance | noun (n.) A boasting. |
| bobber | noun (n.) One who, or that which, bobs. |
| bobbery | noun (n.) A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery. |
| bobbin | noun (n.) A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension. |
| noun (n.) A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch. | |
| noun (n.) A fine cord or narrow braid. | |
| noun (n.) A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current. |
| bobbinet | noun (n.) A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand. |
| bobbinwork | noun (n.) Work woven with bobbins. |
| bobbish | adjective (a.) Hearty; in good spirits. |
| bobby | noun (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler. |
| bobfly | noun (n.) The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly. |
| bobolink | noun (n.) An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln. |
| bobsled | noun (n.) Alt. of Bobsleigh |
| bobsleigh | noun (n.) A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed. |
| bobstay | noun (n.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl. |
| bobtail | noun (n.) An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail. |
| adjective (a.) Bobtailed. |
| bobtailed | adjective (a.) Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat. |
| bobwhite | noun (n.) The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note. |
| cabob | noun (n.) A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia. |
| noun (n.) A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and sweet herbs. | |
| verb (v. t.) To roast, as a cabob. |
| kabob | noun (n. & v. t.) See Cabob, n. & v. t. |
| nabob | noun (n.) A deputy or viceroy in India; a governor of a province of the ancient Mogul empire. |
| noun (n.) One who returns to Europe from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth. |
| subobtuse | adjective (a.) Partially obtuse. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BOB (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ob) - English Words That Ends with ob:
| blob | noun (n.) Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister. |
| noun (n.) A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb. |
| brob | noun (n.) A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping. |
| carob | noun (n.) An evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratania Siliqua) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John's bread; -- called also carob tree. |
| noun (n.) One of the long, sweet, succulent, pods of the carob tree, which are used as food for animals and sometimes eaten by man; -- called also St. John's bread, carob bean, and algaroba bean. |
| cob | noun (n.) The top or head of anything. |
| noun (n.) A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person. | |
| noun (n.) The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow. | |
| noun (n.) A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head. | |
| noun (n.) A young herring. | |
| noun (n.) A fish; -- also called miller's thumb. | |
| noun (n.) A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle. | |
| noun (n.) A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus). | |
| noun (n.) A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone. | |
| noun (n.) A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut. | |
| noun (n.) Clay mixed with straw. | |
| noun (n.) A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood. | |
| noun (n.) A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d. | |
| verb (v. t.) To strike | |
| verb (v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions. | |
| verb (v. t.) To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like. |
| corncob | noun (n.) The cob or axis on which the kernels of Indian corn grow. |
| fob | noun (n.) A little pocket for a watch. |
| verb (v.t.) To beat; to maul. | |
| verb (v.t.) To cheat; to trick; to impose on. |
| gob | noun (n.) Same as Goaf. |
| noun (n.) A little mass or collection; a small quantity; a mouthful. | |
| noun (n.) The mouth. |
| hob | noun (n.) The hub of a wheel. See Hub. |
| noun (n.) The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm. | |
| noun (n.) A threaded and fluted hardened steel cutter, resembling a tap, used in a lathe for forming the teeth of screw chasers, worm wheels, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A fairy; a sprite; an elf. | |
| noun (n.) A countryman; a rustic; a clown. | |
| noun (n.) A peg, pin, or mark used as a target in some games, as an iron pin in quoits; also, a game in which such a target is used. | |
| noun (n.) The male ferret. |
| hobnob | noun (n.) Familiar, social intercourse. |
| adverb (adv.) Have or have not; -- a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking. | |
| adverb (adv.) At random; hit or miss. (Obs.) | |
| verb (v. i.) To drink familiarly (with another). | |
| verb (v. i.) To associate familiarly; to be on intimate terms. |
| jacob | noun (n.) A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel. |
| job | noun (n.) A sudden thrust or stab; a jab. |
| noun (n.) A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars. | |
| noun (n.) A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business. | |
| noun (n.) Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately. | |
| noun (n.) A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job. | |
| noun (n.) The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man. | |
| verb (v. t.) To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. | |
| verb (v. t.) To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. | |
| verb (v. t.) To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract. | |
| verb (v. t.) To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods. | |
| verb (v. t.) To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage. | |
| verb (v. i.) To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work. | |
| verb (v. i.) To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage. | |
| verb (v. i.) To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks. |
| karob | noun (n.) The twenty-fourth part of a grain; -- a weight used by goldsmiths. |
| kincob | noun (n.) India silk brocaded with flowers in silver or gold. |
| adjective (a.) Of the nature of kincob; brocaded. |
| knob | noun (n.) A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone. |
| noun (n.) A knoblike ornament or handle; as, the knob of a lock, door, or drawer. | |
| noun (n.) A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob. | |
| noun (n.) See Knop. | |
| verb (v. i.) To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed. |
| kob | noun (n.) Alt. of Koba |
| lob | noun (n.) A dull, heavy person. |
| noun (n.) Something thick and heavy. | |
| noun (n.) The European pollock. | |
| noun (n.) The act of lobbing; specif., an (often gentle) stroke which sends a ball up into the air, as in tennis to avoid a player at the net. | |
| verb (v. t.) To let fall heavily or lazily. | |
| verb (v. t.) See Cob, v. t. |
| loob | noun (n.) The clay or slimes washed from tin ore in dressing. |
| mob | noun (n.) A mobcap. |
| noun (n.) The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it. | |
| noun (n.) A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd. | |
| verb (v. t.) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. | |
| verb (v. t.) To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person. |
| nob | noun (n.) The head. |
| noun (n.) A person in a superior position in life; a nobleman. |
| rhob | noun (n.) See 1st Rob. |
| rob | noun (n.) The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar. |
| verb (v. t.) To take (something) away from by force; to strip by stealing; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take the property of (any one) from his person, or in his presence, feloniously, and against his will, by violence or by putting him in fear. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud; as, to rob one of his rest, or of his good name; a tree robs the plants near it of sunlight. | |
| verb (v. i.) To take that which belongs to another, without right or permission, esp. by violence. |
| rohob | noun (n.) An inspissated juice. See Rob. |
| snob | noun (n.) A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors. |
| noun (n.) A townsman. | |
| noun (n.) A journeyman shoemaker. | |
| noun (n.) A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick. |
| sob | noun (n.) The act of sobbing; a convulsive sigh, or inspiration of the breath, as in sorrow. |
| noun (n.) Any sorrowful cry or sound. | |
| verb (v. t.) To soak. | |
| verb (v. i.) To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or with a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with tears, and with a convulsive drawing in of the breath. |
| swob | noun (n. & v.) See Swab. |
| throb | noun (n.) A beat, or strong pulsation, as of the heart and arteries; a violent beating; a papitation: |
| verb (v. i.) To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BOB (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (bo) - Words That Begins with bo:
| boa | noun (n.) A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques). |
| noun (n.) A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor. |
| boar | noun (n.) The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog. |
| board | noun (n.) A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc. |
| noun (n.) A table to put food upon. | |
| noun (n.) Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board. | |
| noun (n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board. | |
| noun (n.) Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards. | |
| noun (n.) The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession. | |
| noun (n.) The border or side of anything. | |
| noun (n.) The side of a ship. | |
| noun (n.) The stretch which a ship makes in one tack. | |
| noun (n.) To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way. | |
| noun (n.) To enter, as a railway car. | |
| noun (n.) To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals. | |
| noun (n.) To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house. | |
| verb (v. i.) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel. | |
| verb (v. t.) To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo. |
| boarding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Board |
| noun (n.) The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose. | |
| noun (n.) The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards. | |
| noun (n.) The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay. |
| boardable | adjective (a.) That can be boarded, as a ship. |
| boarder | noun (n.) One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind. |
| noun (n.) One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship. |
| boarfish | noun (n.) A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproidae; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout. |
| noun (n.) An Australian percoid fish (Histiopterus recurvirostris), valued as a food fish. |
| boarish | adjective (a.) Swinish; brutal; cruel. |
| boasting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boast |
| noun (n.) The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. |
| boast | noun (n.) Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging. |
| noun (n.) The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation. | |
| verb (v. i.) To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth. | |
| verb (v. i.) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult. | |
| verb (v. t.) To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol. | |
| verb (v. t.) To display vaingloriously. | |
| verb (v. t.) To possess or have; as, to boast a name. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required. |
| boastance | noun (n.) Boasting. |
| boaster | noun (n.) One who boasts; a braggart. |
| noun (n.) A stone mason's broad-faced chisel. |
| boastful | adjective (a.) Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. |
| boastive | adjective (a.) Presumptuous. |
| boastless | adjective (a.) Without boasting or ostentation. |
| boat | noun (n.) A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail. |
| noun (n.) Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats. | |
| noun (n.) A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat. | |
| verb (v. t.) To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods. | |
| verb (v. t.) To place in a boat; as, to boat oars. | |
| verb (v. i.) To go or row in a boat. |
| boating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boat |
| noun (n.) The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats. | |
| noun (n.) In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish. |
| boatable | adjective (a.) Such as can be transported in a boat. |
| adjective (a.) Navigable for boats, or small river craft. |
| boatage | noun (n.) Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance. |
| boatbill | noun (n.) A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost. |
| noun (n.) A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus. |
| boatful | noun (n.) The quantity or amount that fills a boat. |
| boathouse | noun (n.) A house for sheltering boats. |
| boation | noun (n.) A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation. |
| boatman | noun (n.) A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat. |
| noun (n.) A boat bug. See Boat bug. |
| boatmanship | noun (n.) The art of managing a boat. |
| boatsman | noun (n.) A boatman. |
| boatswain | noun (n.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties. |
| noun (n.) The jager gull. | |
| noun (n.) The tropic bird. |
| boatwoman | noun (n.) A woman who manages a boat. |
| bocal | noun (n.) A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck. |
| bocardo | noun (n.) A form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative. |
| noun (n.) A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison. |
| bocasine | noun (n.) A sort of fine buckram. |
| bocca | noun (n.) The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out. |
| boce | noun (n.) A European fish (Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue. |
| bockelet | noun (n.) A kind of long-winged hawk; -- called also bockerel, and bockeret. |
| bockey | noun (n.) A bowl or vessel made from a gourd. |
| bocking | noun (n.) A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made. |
| bockland | noun (n.) See Bookland. |
| noun (n.) Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds. |
| boddice | noun (n.) See Bodick. |
| boding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bode |
| noun (n.) A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding. | |
| adjective (a.) Foreshowing; presaging; ominous. |
| bode | noun (n.) An omen; a foreshadowing. |
| noun (n.) A bid; an offer. | |
| noun (n.) A stop; a halting; delay. | |
| verb (v. t.) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow. | |
| verb (v. i.) To foreshow something; to augur. | |
| verb (v. t.) A messenger; a herald. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) Abode. | |
| (p. p.) Bid or bidden. |
| bodeful | adjective (a.) Portentous; ominous. |
| bodement | noun (n.) An omen; a prognostic. |
| bodge | noun (n.) A botch; a patch. |
| verb (v. t.) To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch. | |
| verb (v. i.) See Budge. |
| bodian | noun (n.) A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies. |
| bodice | noun (n.) A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays. |
| noun (n.) A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it. |
| bodiced | adjective (a.) Wearing a bodice. |
| bodied | adjective (a.) Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Body |
| bodiless | adjective (a.) Having no body. |
| adjective (a.) Without material form; incorporeal. |
| bodiliness | noun (n.) Corporeality. |
| bodily | adjective (a.) Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind. | |
| adjective (a.) Real; actual; put in execution. | |
| adverb (adv.) Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body. | |
| adverb (adv.) In respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as, to carry away bodily. "Leapt bodily below." |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BOB:
English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 'b':
| baldrib | noun (n.) A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat. |
| baobab | noun (n.) A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia. |
| barb | noun (n.) Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it. |
| noun (n.) A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners. | |
| noun (n.) Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen. | |
| noun (n.) The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else. | |
| noun (n.) A bit for a horse. | |
| noun (n.) One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather. | |
| noun (n.) A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting. | |
| noun (n.) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook. | |
| noun (n.) The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors. | |
| noun (n.) A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary. | |
| noun (n.) Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n., 1. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shave or dress the beard of. | |
| verb (v. t.) To clip; to mow. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc. |
| beelzebub | noun (n.) The title of a heathen deity to whom the Jews ascribed the sovereignty of the evil spirits; hence, the Devil or a devil. See Baal. |
| benumb | adjective (a.) To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. |
| bib | noun (n.) A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes. |
| noun (n.) An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout. | |
| noun (n.) A bibcock. | |
| verb (v. t.) Alt. of Bibbe | |
| verb (v. i.) To drink; to sip; to tipple. |
| bibb | noun (n.) A bibcock. See Bib, n., 3. |
| blab | noun (n.) One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale. |
| verb (v.) To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion. | |
| verb (v. i.) To talk thoughtlessly or without discretion; to tattle; to tell tales. |
| bleb | noun (n.) A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc. |
| bomb | noun (n.) A great noise; a hollow sound. |
| noun (n.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell. | |
| noun (n.) A bomb ketch. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bombard. | |
| verb (v. i.) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. |
| bub | noun (n.) Strong malt liquor. |
| noun (n.) A young brother; a little boy; -- a familiar term of address of a small boy. | |
| verb (v. t.) To throw out in bubbles; to bubble. |
| bulb | noun (n.) A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid. |
| noun (n.) A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta. | |
| noun (n.) An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, curved, etc. | |
| verb (v. i.) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell. |
| bab | noun (n.) Lit., gate; -- a title given to the founder of Babism, and taken from that of Bab-ud-Din, assumed by him. |
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