Vocabulary : Bulimy to Bull brier
Bulimy : A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.
Bulk : Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk. ;; The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt. ;; The cargo of a vessel when stowed. ;; The body. ;; To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell. ;; A projecting part of a building.
Bulked : of Bulk
Bulker : A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
Bulkhead : A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck. ;; A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front.
Bulkiness : Greatness in bulk; size.
Bulking : of Bulk
Bulky : Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes.
Bull : The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale. ;; One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action. ;; Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac. ;; A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades. ;; One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5. ;; Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce. ;; To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do. ;; To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4. ;; A seal. See Bulla. ;; A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Bri
Bull brier : A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier.
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