Index of English words, starting with "bo"

(1) - Bouncer (n.) Something big; a good stout example of the kind.
(2) - Bouncer (n.) A bold lie; also, a liar.
(3) - Bouncer (n.) A boaster; a bully.
(4) - Bouncer (n.) One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.

(1) - Bouncing (a.) Excessive; big.
(2) - Bouncing (a.) Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.
(3) - Bouncing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bounce

(1) - Bouncingly (adv.) With a bounce.

(1) - Bound (n.) Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
(2) - Bound (p. p.) of Bind
(3) - Bound (n.) The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.
(4) - Bound (v. t.) To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.
(5) - Bound (v. t.) To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
(6) - Bound (v. i.) To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain.
(7) - Bound (v. i.) To rebound, as an elastic ball.
(8) - Bound (v. t.) To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.
(9) - Bound (imp.) of Bind
(10) - Bound (n.) A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
(11) - Bound (v.) Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz.
(12) - Bound (n.) Spring from one foot to the other.
(13) - Bound () imp. & p. p. of Bind.
(14) - Bound (p. p. & a.) Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.
(15) - Bound (p. p. & a.) Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.
(16) - Bound (p. p. & a.) Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.
(17) - Bound (p. p. & a.) Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.
(18) - Bound (p. p. & a.) Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.
(19) - Bound (p. p. & a.) Constipated; costive.
(20) - Bound (v. t.) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.