Part 1258

<blockquote> came <b>bolt</b> up against the heavy dragoon. <i>Thackeray.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Bolt upright</col>. <cd><sd>(a)</sd> Perfectly upright; perpendicular; straight up; unbendingly erect. <i>Addison</i>. <sd>(b)</sd> On the back at full length. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd></cs>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Bolt</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bolt</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Bolt</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; <as>as, the horse made a <ex>bolt</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.</def>

<blockquote>This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a <b>bolt</b> to America -- or anywhere. <i>Compton Reade.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(U. S. Politics)</fld> <def>A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.</def>

<h1>Bolt</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bolt</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Bolted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Bolting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>bolten</ets>, <ets>boulten</ets>, OF. <ets>buleter</ets>, F. <ets>bluter</ets>, fr. Ll. <ets>buletare</ets>, <ets>buratare</ets>, cf. F. <ets>bure</ets> coarse woolen stuff; fr. L. <ets>burrus</ets> red. See <er>Borrel</er>, and cf. <er>Bultel</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.</def>

<blockquote>He now had <b>bolted</b> all the flour. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Ill schooled in <b>bolted</b> language. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with <i>out</i>.</def>

<blockquote>Time and nature will <b>bolt</b> out the truth of things. <i>L'Estrange.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.</def>

<i>Jacob.</i>

<cs><col>To bolt to the bran</col>, <cd>to examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important.</cd></cs>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<blockquote>This <b>bolts</b> the matter fairly <b>to the bran</b>. <i>Harte.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The report of the committee was examined and sifted and <b>bolted to the bran</b>. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bolt</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bolt</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.</def>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Boltel</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bol"tel</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Boultel</er>.</def>

<h1>Bolter</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bolt"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who bolts; esp.: <sd>(a)</sd> A horse which starts suddenly aside. <sd>(b)</sd> A man who breaks away from his party.</def>