Part 1300

<h1>Bother</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Both"er</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.</def>

<blockquote>Without <b>bothering</b> about it. <i>H. James.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bother</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Both"er</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; <as>as, to be in a <ex>bother</ex></as>.</def>

<h1>Botheration</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Both`er*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<h1>Botherer</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Both"er*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who bothers.</def>

<h1>Bothersome</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Both"er*some</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.</def>

<h1>Both-hands</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Both"-hands`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A factotum.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>He is his master's <b>both-hands</b>, I assure you. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bothie</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Both"ie</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Bothy</er>.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<h1>Bothnian, Bothnic</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw><hw>Both"ni*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Both"nic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to Bothnia, a country of northern Europe, or to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of the Baltic sea.</def>

<h1>Bothrenchyma</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Both*ren"chy*ma</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <ets><?/</ets> pit + <ets><?/</ets> something poured in. Formed like <ets>parenchyma</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood.</def>

<h1>Bothy Boothy</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw><hw>Both"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <hw>Booth"y</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>-ies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu> <ety>[Scottish. Cf. <er>Booth</er>.]</ety> <def>A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<h1>Botocudos</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Bo`to*cu"dos</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[Pg. <ets>botoque</ets> stopple. So called because they wear a wooden plug in the pierced lower lip.]</ety> <def>A Brazilian tribe of Indians, noted for their use of poisons; -- also called <i>Aymbor\'82s</i>.</def>

<h1>Bo tree</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Bo" tree`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha.</def>

<blockquote>The sacred <b>bo tree</b> of the Buddhists (<spn>Ficus religiosa</spn>), which is planted close to every temple, and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of the god himself. . . . It differs from the banyan (<spn>Ficus Indica</spn>) by sending down no roots from its branches. <i>Tennent.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Botryogen</h1> <Xpage=169>