mbody, embodiment, disembody, disembodiment, manikin,
corporeality, corporeity, in cuerpo, somatic.
body servant. valet, squire.
body snatcher. resurrectionist, ghoul.
bodyguard, n. lifeguard, _garde du corps_, retinue.
bog, n. quagmire, marsh, swamp, fen, morass, slough.
boggle, v. hesitate, stickle, falter; bungle.
bogus, a. (Colloq.) spurious, counterfeit, fictitious, sham,
fraudulent, forged, mock, false, supposititious.
bogy, n. bugaboo, bugbear, bogle, specter.
boil, n. furuncle. Associated Word: furuncular.
boil, v. seethe, simmer, effervesce.--n. boiling.
boil away. evaporate.
boiling, a. seething, ebullient, effervescent, simmering.
boiling, n. ebullition, coction, effervescence, seething,
gurgitation, simmering, ebullience.
boisterous, a. noisy, tumultuous, turbulent, hoidenish, unrestrained,
rude.
bold, a. daring, intrepid, brave; forward, immodest, rude, hoidenish,
brazen, saucy, insolent, unabashed, audacious, pert, shameless, malapert;
conspicuous, prominent, salient; steep, abrupt, precipitous, acclivitous,
jagged. Antonyms: modest, bashful, diffident, coy, shy, timid, retiring.
bold-faced, a. impudent, brazen-faced, insolent.
boldness, n. temerity, impudence, presumption, effrontery,
impertinence, nerve.
boll, n. pod, pericarp.
bolster, v. prop up, support, maintain.--n. cushion, pad,
support.
bolt, v. sift; leave suddenly; gulp.
bomb, n. shell.
bombast, n. magniloquence, fustian, bombastry, altiloquence,
grandiloquence.
bombastic, a. magniloquent, grandiose, high-sounding, turgid,
inflated, grandiloquent.
bona fide. in good faith, real, actual, really, actually.
bond, n. band, tie, vinculum, copula; pl. shackles, manacles,
fetters, constraint; pl. imprisonment, captivity, bondage, restraint;
obligation.
bond, a. captive, enslaved.
bondage, n. servitude, slavery, captivity, bond service, thralldom,
durance.
bondsman, n. bondman, slave, villain, serf; surety.
bone, n. (little) ossicle, osselet.
bone, n. Associated Words: osteology, osteography, ossify,
ossification, ossiferous, ossific, splint, marrow, ossivorous, ossuary,
osteoplasty, caries, osteopathy, solen, necrosis, gangrene, rongeur,
impaction, calcify, calcification, bursa, ossein, ossifying, ostalgia,
ossifragous, skeleton.
bone formation. ostosis, ossification, ectostosis, osteogeny.
boneless, a. exosseous.
bonelike, a. osseous, ossified, bony.
boneset, n. thoroughwo
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