Word Meanings - BOUGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To swell out. 2. To bilge. "Their ship bouged." Hakluyt.

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• BOUGHT
  1. A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent. Spenser. The boughts of the fore legs. Sir T. Browne. 2. The part of a sling that contains the stone.
• BOUGHTEN
  Purchased; not obtained or produced at home. Coleridge.
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• BOUGIE DECIMALE
  A photometric standard used in France, having the value of one twentieth of the Violle platinum standard, or slightly less than a British standard candle. Called also decimal candle.
• BOUGE
  1. To swell out. 2. To bilge. "Their ship bouged." Hakluyt.
• BOUGET
  A charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water; -- also called water bouget.
• SWELL
  1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. 2. To increase in
• SWELLDOM
  People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
• BOUGH
  Icel. bogr shoulder, bow of a ship, Sw. bog, Dan. bov, OHG. buog, G. bug, and to Gr.bahu arm. sq. root88, 251. Cf. Bow of a 1. An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch. 2. A gallows. Spenser.
• SWELLING
  an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton. (more info) 1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring;
• BILGE
  That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground. 3. Bilge water. Bilge free , stowed in such a way that the bilge is clear of everything; -- said of a cask. -- Bilge pump, a pump
• BOUGIE
  A long, flexible instrument, that is Note: introduced into the urethra, esophagus, etc., to remove obstructions, or for the other purposes. It was originally made of waxed linen rolled into cylindrical form. (more info) Bugia, a town
• BOUGHTY
  Bending. Sherwood.
• SWELLISH
  Dandified; stylish.
• SWELLFISH
  Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
• THEIR
  The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
• BOUGAINVILLAEA
  A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceæ, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• UNSWELL
  To sink from a swollen state; to subside. Chaucer.
• HEARTSWELLING
  Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
• BOSWELLISM
  The style of Boswell.
• ABOUGHT
  of Aby.
• DEAR-BOUGHT
  Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.
• HIGH-SWELLING
  Inflated; boastful.
• OUTSWELL
  1. To exceed in swelling. 2. To swell beyond; to overflow. Hewyt.