boule 
2. The legislative assembly of modern Greece. 
A Greek diplomat once told me- Unit in the Itiml:', "i 
Assembly, of his country no part of the government <-\ 
penses was wutrhrii ^' dosrly us those of the diplomatic 
service. ^ '"' I'riiirrt'iti Hfr., I. 'Jii'i. 
boule :t t. An obsolete fonn of lioirl. 
Bouleng6's chronograph. See afevaqprqph. 
See linlil-x,nr. 
-, -. 
boulet, boulette (bo-la', bo-lot'), . [F., a 
bullet, a fetlock, > E. bullet, q. v.] In the 
mitiiiyr, iv horse \vli(p-e fetlock or pastern joint 
benils I'orwiird :iml onl of its natural position. 
bouleuterion (bo-lu-te'ri-on), . ; pi. bmi/iiiii 
ria (-ii). [<<r. ..ioi'>MT/,/imr, < .foi'/'-iriv, advise, 
take counsel, < /few/.//, counsel: see fcoufc 8 .] In 
ancient and modern Greece, a senate-house or 
assembly-chamber. 
boulevard (tm'le-viinl; F.pron.b61'var),. F.; 
older forms Imiili rcrt, botileverc, < D. or MLG. 
IIII/IITI-I;. (!. hollin-rk, bulwark: see bulwark. \ 
Originally, a bulwark or rampart of a fortifica- 
tion or fortified town ; hence, a public walk or 
street occupying the site of demolished fortifi- 
cations. The name Is now sometimes extended to any 
street or walk encircling a town, and also to a street which 
Is of especial width, is given a park-like appearance by re- 
serving spaces at tin: sides or center for shade-trees, now- 
ere, seats, and the like, anil is not used for heavy teaming. 
boulevardier (bS'le-viir-der; P. pron. bol-var- 
dya'), ii. [F., < boulerard, boulevard.] One who 
frequents a boulevard, especially in Paris. 
bouleversement (b8-le-vers'ment), n. [P., < 
houlei'ersa; overthrow, overturn, < boule, a ball 
(> E. bowl?), + verser, turn, overturn, < L. ver- 
sare, turn : see verse, etc.] A turning upside 
down ; the act of overturning ; the state of be- 
ing overturned; overthrow; overturn; subver- 
sion; hence, generally, convulsion or confusion. 
boule-work (bol'werk), . Same as bttM. 
boulimia, boulimy (bo-lim'i-a, bo'li-mi), . 
Same its luiliiiiia. 
boulinikon (bo-lin'i-kon), ii. [A trade-name, 
< Gr. foiif, ox, + /Uw, flax, linen.] A kind oji 
oilcloth made from a pulp composed of buffalo 
or other raw hide, cotton or linen rags, and 
coarse hair. Encyc. Brit. 
boulon (bo'lon), . [Native name.] A harp 
with fibrous strings, used by the negroes of 
Senegambia and Guinea. 
boultelH, Same as boltel. 
boultel-t, [Early mod. E. also boutell ; < ME. 
bultelle, bultell, < OF. "buletel (earlier buretel), 
mod. F. bluteau, a meal-sieve, < buJeter, mod. F. 
bluter, sift, bolt : see bolt 8 .] 1. A kind of cloth 
made for sifting ; hence, a sieve. 2. The bran 
or refuse of meal after dressing. 
boultert, See bolter?. 
boultint, Same as boltel. 
boulting, ". See bolting^. 
bount (boun), a. [The earlier and proper form 
of bound*, q. v. ; < ME. boun, bonne, ready, pre- 
pared^ Icel. buinn (> ODan. bunt), ready, pre- 
pared. pp. of butt, till, get ready: see bond-, 
boor, Sower 1 , etc.} Ready ; prepared ; on the 
point of going or intending to go. 
She wus boun to go the way forthright. 
Chaucer, Franklin is Tale, 1. "59. 
Well chanced it that Adolf the night when he wed 
Had confeas'd and had sain'd him ere bottnf to his bed. 
Scoff, Harold the Dauntless, Iv. 14. 
bount (boun), r. [< ME. bounen, bmcncn, < boun, 
prepared: see boun, .] I. trans. To prepare; 
make ready. 
The kyng boskea lettres anon, to bvu-nrn his bernes [men i. 
Joseph of Arimathie (ed. Skeat), 1. 414. 
I wold lii'tin me to Vmtcll. l><-trii<-tiini / Tnj, 1. 827. 
H. in trans. To make ready to go ; go: as, to 
busk and boun, a common expression in old 
ballads. 
80 mourned he. till Lord Daere's band 
Were bowning back to Cumberland. 
Scott, L. of L. M., v. .in. 
bounce (bonus), r. ; pret. and pp. bounced, ppr. 
bouncing. [Early mod. E. also bounse, < ME. 
bountii'ii. ImnsrH, beat, strike suddenly; cf. LG. 
bunsen, G. dial. bitmlwH, l)eat, knock, = D. bon- 
zen, bounce, throw; cf. D. boas, a bounce, Sw. 
bus, dial, bums = G. bums, bumbs, bumps, adv. 
interj., at a bounce, at once ; cf. Icel. /)<</, 
imitating the sound of a fall. All prob. orig. 
imitative; ef.bounif 2 and bump-.] I. trans. If. 
To beat; thump; knock; bang. 
Wilfully him throwing on the gnu 
Did beat and liuunse his head and brest fill sore. 
Spenser. F. Q., IIL il. 27. 
He bounced his head at every pot Swift. 
2. To cause to bound or spring: as, to bounce 
a ball. 3. To eject or turn out without cere- 
mony; expel vigorously; hence, to dismiss or 
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discharge summarily, as from one's employ- 
ment or post. [Slang, U. S.] 
II. iHtriiim. If. To beat hard or thump, so as 
to make a sudden noise. 
Vet still he bet and Imuiut upon the Uore. 
ajpimipjr, K. y., v. ii. 21. 
Up, then, I say, both young and old, both man and maid 
a*maylng, 
With drums, and guns that bounce aloud, and merry tabor 
playing! 
Beau, and /'(., Knight of Burning Pestle, Iv. : 
Another bounce* as hard as he can knock. N >' 
2. To spring or leap against anything, so as to 
rebound; beat or thump by a spring; spring up 
with a rebound. 
Against his bosom bounc'd his heaving heart. 
Dryden, 1'al. and Arc., i. 566. 
3. To leap or spring; come or go unceremoni- 
ously. 
As I sat quietly meditating at my table, I heard some- 
thing bourne In at the closet-window. 
fiifift, Gulliver's Travels, 11. 5. 
4. To boast or bluster ; exaggerate ; lie. 
He gives away countries, and disposes of kingdoms -. and 
bounces, blusters, and swaggers, as If he were really sover- 
eign lord and sole master of the universe. 
/.'/. Loiclh, Letter to Warburtou, p. 14. 
If It had come to an oath, I don't think he would have 
bounced, neither ; but, in common occurrences, there Is no 
repeating after him. Foote, The Liar, il. 1. 
bounce (bonus), u. [< bounce, t\] 1. A sudden 
spring or leap. 2. A bound or rebound: as, 
you must strike the ball on the bounce. 3. A 
heavy blow, thrust, or thump. 
I heard two or three Irregular bounce* at my landlady's 
door, and upon the opening of It, a loud cheerful voice in- 
i nil in- whether the philosopher was at home. 
Addition, Sir Roger at Vauxhall. 
4f. A loud heavy sound, as of an explosion ; a 
sudden crack or noise. 
I don't value her resentment the bounce of a cracker. 
Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, III. 
5. A boast; a piece of brag or bluster; boast- 
ful language; exaggeration. 6. A bold or im- 
pudent lie ; a downright falsehood ; a bouncer. 
[Colloq.] 
" Why, whose should it be?" cried 1, with a Bounce; 
"I get these things often ;" but that was a bounce. 
(Joldxintih, Haunch of Venison, 1. 42. 
Oh, Cicero! . . . not once did you give utterance to 
such a bounce as when you asserted, that never yet did 
human reason say one thing, and Nature say another. 
De Quineey, Secret Societies, i. 
7. Expulsion; discharge; dismissal. [Slang, 
U. 8.] 8. [Perhaps of diff. origin.] A local 
English name of the dogfish or shark, Scyllio- 
rli in us catulus To get the grand, bounce, to be put 
out or discharged summarily from one's post or employ- 
ment. [Slang, U. S.] 
bounce (bouns), adr. [<bounce, v. and .] With 
a bounce ; suddenly. 
Rapp'd at the door, nor stay'd to ask. 
But /ma >,:' into the parlour entered. 
Gray, Long Story. 
bounceable (boun'sa-bl), a. [< bounce + -able.] 
1. Capable of being bounced, as a ball. 2. In- 
clined to bounce, or lie. [Rare.] 
bouncer (boun'ser), n. [< bounce + -cr 1 .] 1. 
One who or that which bounces. 2. Something 
big or large of its kind. 
The stone must be a bouticer. De Quincey. 
3. A large, strong, vigorous person : as, she is 
a bouncer. 4. A strong muscular fellow kept 
in a hotel, restaurant, or other public resort, to 
bounce or expel disorderly persons. [Slang, 
U. S.] 5. A liar; a boaster; a bully. 6. A 
barefaced lie. [Colloq.] 
But you are not deceiving me ? You know the first time 
you came into my shop what a bouncer you told me. 
Colman the Younger, John Bull, 11. 3. 
bouncing (boun'sing), p. a. [Ppr. of bounce, r.] 
1. Vigorous; strong; stout: as, " the bouncing 
Amazon," Shak., M. N. D., ii. 2; "a bouncing 
lass," Sulwfi; IVlliuni. xlix. 2. Exaggerated; 
excessive; big. [Colloq.] 
We have had a merry and a lusty ordinary, 
And wine, and good meat, and a bouncing reckoning. 
Fletcher, Wildgoose Chase, i. i 
3. Lying; bragging; boastful. 
I never saw such a bouncing, swaggering puppy since I 
was born. Qoidtmith, She Stoops to Conquer, ill. 
bouncing-bet (boun 'sing-bet'), . [That is, 
bouncing Bet ; Bet, Betsy, familiar forms of Eli- 
zabeth.] A name of the common soapwort, Sa- 
ponaria officimilin. See Saponaria. 
bouncingly (boun'sing-li), adv. Boastingly. 
Barrou; Pope's Supremacy. 
bound 1 (bound), n. [Early mod. E. also bownde, 
botene; < ME. boundc, bonne, bunne, < OF. hiiHiit; 
bonne, bone, bune, also bunde, bonds (AP. 
bounde), earlier bodne. < ML. bodina, bodena 
(also, after OF., hmnni. bonnu), earlier bntinfi, 
bound 
a bound, limit. Cf. bourn 2 , a variant of th<> 
same word.] 1. That which limits or circum- 
scribes; an external or limiting line; hence, 
that which keeps in or restrains; limit; con- 
fine : as, the love of money knows no bounds. 
Illimitable ocean, without '<"/,./. 
Without diiiM-iiMon ! M,n..,,, I' I. ii. M 
The dismal night a night 
In which the Ixiniul* of lieu veil and earth were lost. 
* oiiiitiK of Arthur 
But the power of the West-Saxon ruler stretched beyond 
the boundi of Wessex, where, eastward of the Andreds- 
weald, the so-called "Eastern Klngd m up. d iUelf 
round the centre of Kent. J. It. Green, i'"ii'\. of KnK.,p.fl6. 
2. pi. The territory included within boundary- 
lines; domain. 
These rascals who come hither to annoy a noble lady on 
my bound*. >.>", 1'ererll, I. vll. 
3. A limited portion or piece of land, enjoyed 
by the owner of it in respect of tin only, and 
by virtue of an ancient prescription or liberty 
forencouragementtothetinners. I'ryce. [Corn- 
wall.] Butts and bounds. See butt*. to beat the 
bounds*, t trace out the boundaries of a pariah by touch 
ing certain points with a rod. = Syn. 1. Border, ConJIne. 
etc. See ftomt'M/ </. 
bound 1 (bound), v. t. [< ME. bounden, < bounde. 
n.] If. To confine within fixed limits; restrain 
by limitation. 
O God ! I could be bounded In a nut-shell, and count 
myself a king of infinite space, were It not that I have bad 
dreauipi. Shak., Hamlet, II. 2. 
It is not Italy, nor France, nor Europe, 
That must bound me, If my fates call me forth. 
/.'. Jonton, Volpone, ii 1. 
2. To serve as a limit to; constitute the extent 
of ; restrain in amount, degree, etc. : as, to 
bound our wishes by our means. 
Quaff immortality and joy, secure 
Of surfeit, where full measure only boundi 
Excess. Hilton, P. L, v. S9. 
3. To form or constitute the boundary of; 
serve as a bound or limit to : as, the Pacific 
ocean bounds the United States on the west. 
The lasting dominion of Rome was btinded by the Rhine 
and tlie Danube. K. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 107. 
4. To name the boundaries of: as, to bound 
the State of New York. = gyn. To circumscribe, re- 
strict, hem in, border. 
bound 2 (bound), r. [First in early mod. E. ; 
< F. bondir, leap, bound, orig. make a loud re- 
sounding noise ; perhaps < LL. bombitare, hum. 
buzz, freq. verb < L. bombus, a humming or 
buzzing, > bomb%, q. v.] I. intraiis. 1. To leap; 
jump ; spring ; move by leaps. 
Before his lord the ready spaniel bound*. 
Pope, Windsor Forest, I. 9ft 
2. To rebound, as an elastic ball. = Syn. Leap, 
Spring, etc. See ikip, r. i. 
II. traits. 1. To cause to leap. [Bare.] 
If I might buflet for my love, or Imnut my hone for 
her favours, I could lay on like a butcher, and sit like a 
jack-an-apes, never oil SAaJr., Hen. V'., r. 
2. To cause to rebound : as, to bound a ball. 
bound 2 (bound), n. [< bound 3 , r.] 1. A leap 
onward or upward; a jump; a rebound. 
The horses started with a sudden bound. Additon. 
These Inward disgusts are but the first boundi of this 
ball of contention. Decay of Chritt. Piety. 
2. In ordnance, the path of a shot between 
two grazes: generally applied to the horizon- 
tal distance passed over by the shot between 
the points of impact. 
bound 3 (bound), p. a. [Pp. of bind; as an 
adj., in the sense of obligatory, usually in the 
fuller form, bonnden, < ifE. bounden, < AS. 
bunilen, pp. of bindan, bind: see bind.] 1. 
Made fast by a band, tie, or bond; specifically, 
in fetters or chains ; in the condition of a pris- 
oner. 
Now Annas had sent him buund unto Caiapluu. 
John xrill. 24. 
Hence 2. Made fast by other than physical 
bonds. 
We are bound together for good or for evil In our great 
]H,litical interests. 
D. Webtter, Speech, Pittsburgh, July, 1833 
3. Confined ; restrained ; restricted ; held firmly. 
Besides all this, he was btuml UP certain tributes all 
more or less degrading. Brougham. 
Hence 4. Obliged by moral, legal, or com- 
pellable ties ; under obligation or compulsion. 
When the case had been heard, it was evident to all men 
that the bishop had done only what he was 6uunif to do. 
Macaulay, Hist Eng., vi. 
5. Certain; sure. [Colloq.] 
Those of his following considered him as smart as chain- 
lightning and bound to rise. 
, Modern Instance, xxx. 
