Vocabulary : Buhrstone to Bulb

Buhrstone : A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones.
Build : To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise. ;; To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means. ;; To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; -- frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution. ;; To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building. ;; To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others. ;; Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.
Builded : of Build
Builder : One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.
Building : of Build ;; The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing. ;; The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture. ;; That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.
Built : of Build ;; Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. ;; Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc.
Buke muslin : See Book muslin.
Bukshish : See Backsheesh.
Bulau : An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.
Bulb : A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid. ;; A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta. ;; An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, curved, etc. ;; To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.
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