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Boride
- - A binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical; -- formerly called boruret.
Boring
- verb - cause to be bored
- make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool; "don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall"
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
- the act of drilling
- the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
Bosies
- noun - a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way
Bovids
- noun - hollow-horned ruminants
Bovine
- adjective - any of various members of the genus Bos
- dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox; "showed a bovine apathy"
- of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)
- slow
Bovini
- noun - term not used technically; essentially coextensive with genus Bos
Bowiea
- noun - small genus of tropical African perennial bulbous herbs with deciduous twining stems; sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae
Bowing
- verb - bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
- bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head; "He bowed before the King"; "She bowed her head in shame"
- bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting; "He bowed before the King"
- bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting
- managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument; "the violinist's bowing was excellent"
- play on a string instrument with a bow
- showing an excessively deferential manner
- yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure"
Boxing
- noun - fighting with the fists
- the enclosure of something in a package or box
Boyish
- adjective - befitting or characteristic of a young boy; "a boyish grin"; "schoolboyish pranks"