Chapter Bulge to Byword of B by Soule's Synonymes

Bullying, n. Bluster, swagger, fanfaronade, gasconade, vaporing, hectoring, fire-eating, mock-heroics, browbeating, domineering.

Bulwark, n.

1. Rampart, redoubt, fortification.

2. Security, safeguard, palladium, protection, main reliance, chief defence.

Bumble-bee, n. Humble-bee.

Bump, n.

1. Thump, knock, blow, shock, jar, jolt.

2. Swelling, protuberance, lump.

3. (Colloquial, in allusion to the doctrine of Phrenology that protuberances on the skull indicate faculties of the mind). Faculty, power, endowment, gift.

Bump, v. a. Knock, thump, strike, hit.

Bump, v. n.

1. Come in contact, strike together, strike, thump.

2. Boom (as the bittern), make a hollow, resounding noise.

Bumper, n. Full glass, flowing bowl, brimming beaker, brimmed goblet.

Bumpkin, n. Rustic, peasant, clodpoll, clown, boor, hind, lout, lubber, swain, ploughman, country-fellow, chaw-bacon (colloq.).

Bumptious, a. (Colloq.) Conceited, vain, egotistical, self-opinionated, self-conceited.

Bunch, n.

1. Protuberance, hunch, knob, lump, bump.

2. Cluster (as of grapes).

3. Batch, assortment, lot, set, parcel, collection, group.

4. Tuft, knot.