Part 1259

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

<hw>Bolt"er</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who sifts flour or meal.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.</def>

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

<hw>Bolt"er</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A kind of fishing line. See <er>Boulter</er>.</def>

<h1>Bolthead</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bolt"head`</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A long, straightnecked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a <altname>matrass</altname> or receiver.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The head of a bolt.</def>

<h1>Bolting</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bolt"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A darting away; a starting off or aside.</def>

<h1>Bolting</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bolt"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A sifting, as of flour or meal.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<cs><col>Bolting cloth</col>, <cd>wire, hair, silk, or other sieve cloth of different degrees of fineness; -- used by millers for sifting flour. <i>McElrath<i>.</cd> -- <col>Bolting hutch</col>, <cd>a bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (<i>fig<i>.) a receptacle.</cd></cs>

<h1>Boltonite</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bol"ton*ite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.</def>

<h1>Boltrope</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bolt"rope`</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.</def>

<h1>Boltsprit</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bolt"sprit`</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[A corruption of <ets>bowsprit</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>See <er>Bowsprit</er>.</def>

<h1>Bolty</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bol"ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>An edible fish of the Nile (genus <spn>Chromis</spn>).</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>bulti</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Bolus</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bo"lus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Boluses</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[L. <ets>bolus</ets> bit, morsel; cf. G. <ets><?/</ets> lump of earth. See <er>Bole</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, clay.]</ety> <def>A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.</def>

<h1>Bom</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bom</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes.</def>

<h1>Bomb</h1> <Xpage=164>

<hw>Bomb</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>bombe</ets> bombshell, fr. L. <ets>bombus</ets> a humming or buzzing noise, Gr. <ets><?/</ets>.]</ety>