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Bolos
- noun - a cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie
- long heavy knife with a single edge; of Philippine origin
Bolts
- noun - a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
- a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length
- a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
- a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
- a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)
- eat hastily without proper chewing; "Don't bolt your food!"
- leave suddenly and as if in a hurry; "The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas"; "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out"
- make or roll into bolts; "bolt fabric"
- move or jump suddenly; "She bolted from her seat"
- run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; "The thief made off with our silver"; "the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe"
- secure or lock with a bolt; "bolt the door"
- swallow hastily
- the act of moving with great haste; "he made a dash for th
Bolus
- noun - a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine
- a small round soft mass (as of chewed food)
Bulbs
- noun - a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure
- a rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ
- a rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end); "the bulb of a syringe"
- anything with a round shape resembling a teardrop
- electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity
- lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (`bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata); "the medulla oblongata is the most vital part of the brain because it contains centers controlling breathing and heart functioning"
Bulks
- noun - cause to bulge or swell outwards
- stick out or up; "The parcel bulked in the sack"
- the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports"
- the property possessed by a large mass
- the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part; "the majority of his customers prefer it"; "the bulk of the work is finished"
Bulls
- noun - (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus
- a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)
- a large and strong and heavyset man; "he was a bull of a man"; "a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got"
- a serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad bull of the assignment"
- advance in price; "stocks were bulling"
- an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later
- mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle
- obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull"
- push or force; "He bulled through his demands"
- speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths; "The politician was not well prepared for t
Calks
- noun - a metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping
- injure with a calk
- provide with calks; "calk horse shoes"
- seal with caulking; "caulk the window"
Calls
- noun -
- (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee; "he was ejected for protesting the call"
- a brief social visit; "senior professors' wives no longer make afternoon calls on newcomers"; "the characters in Henry James' novels are forever paying calls on each other, usually in the parlor of some residence"
- a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement
- a demand for a show of hands in a card game; "after two raises there was a call"
- a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience"
- a request; "many calls for Christmas stories"; "not many calls for buggywhips"
- a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course; "he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call"
- a telephone connection; "she reported several anonymous calls"; "he placed a phone call to Lo
Calms
- noun - become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation; "After the fight both men need to cool off."; "It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again."
- cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to; "The patient must be sedated before the operation"
- make calm or still;
- make steady; "steady yourself"
- steadiness of mind under stress; "he accepted their problems with composure and she with equanimity"
- wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale
Cells
- noun - (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals
- a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
- a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
- a room where a prisoner is kept
- a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
- any small compartment; "the cells of a honeycomb"
- small room in which a monk or nun lives