bola | (noun) a rope with weights attached to the ends; is thrown to entangle the legs of an animal; of South American origin | - |
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(noun) a cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie | Synonyms: bola tie, bolo, bolo tie |
bold | (noun) a typeface with thick heavy lines | Synonyms: bold face, boldface |
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boldface | (noun) a typeface with thick heavy lines | Synonyms: bold, bold face |
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boldness | (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: daring, hardihood, hardiness |
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(noun) the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly | Synonyms: strikingness |
(noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: brass, cheek, face, nerve |
bole | (noun) the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber | Synonyms: tree trunk, trunk |
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(noun) a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment) | - |
bolero | (noun) a Spanish dance in triple time accompanied by guitar and castanets | - |
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(noun) a short jacket; worn mostly by women | - |
(noun) music written in the rhythm of the bolero dance | - |
bolete | (noun) any fungus of the family Boletaceae | - |
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bolide | (noun) an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) | Synonyms: fireball |
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bolivar | (noun) the basic unit of money in Venezuela; equal to 100 centimos | - |
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bolivia | (noun) a form of canasta in which sequences can be melded | - |
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boliviano | (noun) the basic unit of money in Bolivia; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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boll | (noun) the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant | - |
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bollard | (noun) a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines) | Synonyms: bitt |
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bollock | (noun) a pulley-block at the head of a topmast | Synonyms: bullock block |
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(noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
bollworm | (noun) any of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls | - |
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bolo | (noun) long heavy knife with a single edge; of Philippine origin | Synonyms: bolo knife |
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(noun) a cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie | Synonyms: bola, bola tie, bolo tie |
bologna | (noun) large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork | Synonyms: Bologna sausage |
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bologram | (noun) record or recording made by a bolometer | Synonyms: bolograph |
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bolograph | (noun) record or recording made by a bolometer | Synonyms: bologram |
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bolometer | (noun) an instrument that measures heat radiation; extremely sensitive | - |
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boloney | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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bolshie | (noun) emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries | Synonyms: Bolshevik, bolshy, Marxist, red |
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bolshy | (noun) emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries | Synonyms: Bolshevik, bolshie, Marxist, red |
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bolster | (noun) a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows | Synonyms: long pillow |
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bolt | (noun) a sudden abandonment (as from a political party) | - |
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(noun) the act of moving with great haste | Synonyms: dash |
(noun) a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener | - |
(noun) the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key | Synonyms: deadbolt |
(noun) a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech | - |
(noun) a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length | - |
(noun) a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder | Synonyms: bolt of lightning, thunderbolt |
bolti | (noun) important food fish of the Nile and other rivers of Africa and Asia Minor | Synonyms: Tilapia nilotica |
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bolus | (noun) a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine | - |
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(noun) a small round soft mass (as of chewed food) | - |