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<hw>Bub"ble</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Bubbled</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Bubbling</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. D. <ets>bobbelen</ets>, Dan. <ets>boble</ets>. See <er>Bubble</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.</def>

<blockquote>The milk that <b>bubbled</b> in the pail. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To run with a gurdling noise, as if forming bubbles; <as>as, a <ex>bubbling</ex> stream</as>.</def>

<i>Pope.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.</def>

<blockquote>At mine ear <b>Bubbled</b> the nightingale and heeded not. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bubbler</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Bub"bler</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To cheat; to deceive.</def>

<blockquote>She has <b>bubbled</b> him out of his youth. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless <b>bubbled</b> here. <i>Sterne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bubbler</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Bub"bler</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who cheats.</def>

<blockquote>All the Jews, jobbers, <b>bubblers</b>, subscribers, projectors, etc. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes.</def>

<h1>Bubble shell</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Bub"ble shell`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A marine univalve shell of the genus <spn>Bulla</spn> and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.</def>

<h1>Bubbling Jock</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Bub"bling Jock`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.</def>

<h1>Bubbly</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Bub"bly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Abounding in bubbles; bubbling.</def>

<i>Nash.</i>

<h1>Bubby</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Bub"by</hw> <tt>(b&ucr;b"b&ycr;)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Prov. G. <ets>b\'81bbi</ets>, or It. <ets>poppa</ets>, Pr. <ets>popa</ets>, OF. <ets>poupe</ets>, a woman's breast.]</ety> <def>A woman's breast.</def> <mark></mark>

<h1>Bubby</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Bub"by</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[A corruption of <ets>brother</ets>.]</ety> <def>Bub; -- a term of familiar or affectionate address to a small boy.</def>

<h1>Bubo</h1> <Xpage=187>

<hw>Bu"bo</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Buboes</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt></plu>. <ety>[LL. <ets>bubo</ets> the groin, a swelling in the groin, Gr. <?/.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>An inflammation, with enlargement, of a limphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.</def>

<h1>Bubonic</h1> <Xpage=187>

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