--- title: B — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 40 description: The 1119 words of the English dictionary under B, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/page/40/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / B # B — The English dictionary · page 40 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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[50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/page/50/) … [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/page/59/) **bosom** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The bosom is the front of a person's chest, the place where you hold someone close.[↗](../../bosom/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The bosom is the heart or inner feelings: a bosom friend is one you love and trust.[↗](../../bosom/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Let me take it to my bosom.[↗](../../bosom/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Her head sank on her bosom.[↗](../../bosom/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Joy filled the bosom of the Dryad.[↗](../../bosom/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She is my bosom friend.[↗](../../bosom/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Draw it out of Thy bosom and consume them.[↗](../../bosom/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.74.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bosom/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.[↗](../../bosom/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.129.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bosom/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?[↗](../../bosom/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.6.27, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bosom/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **boss** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A boss is the person in charge at work who tells others what to do.[↗](../../boss/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To boss someone around is to keep telling them what to do in an unkind way.[↗](../../boss/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* In video games a boss is a very strong enemy at the end of a level.[↗](../../boss/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My mum's boss gave her a day off.[↗](../../boss/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Who's the boss here?[↗](../../boss/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Stop bossing me around\![↗](../../boss/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The boss of the shop opened the doors.[↗](../../boss/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · He wants to be his own boss one day.[↗](../../boss/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · I beat the final boss in the game.[↗](../../boss/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · My sister is so bossy.[↗](../../boss/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · He runneth upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers.[↗](../../boss/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.15.26, JPS 1917)[↗](../../boss/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **bossy** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (informal) Bossy means always telling other people what to do, in a way that is annoying.[↗](../../bossy/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal, children) "Bossy boots" is a teasing name for a bossy person.[↗](../../bossy/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My big sister is so bossy\![↗](../../bossy/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Stop being bossy and let someone else choose.[↗](../../bossy/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · In group work, Sam can be a bit bossy.[↗](../../bossy/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't be such a bossy boots.[↗](../../bossy/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The bossy cat chased the dog off the sofa.[↗](../../bossy/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A good leader listens; a bossy person just gives orders.[↗](../../bossy/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **bostonian** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A person who comes from or lives in Boston, a big city in Massachusetts, USA.[↗](../../bostonian/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (adjective) Having to do with Boston or its people, such as the Boston accent.[↗](../../bostonian/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My pen pal is a Bostonian.[↗](../../bostonian/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Bostonians love their baseball team, the Red Sox.[↗](../../bostonian/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The Bostonian accent is easy to recognise.[↗](../../bostonian/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Angry Bostonians threw tea into the harbour.[↗](../../bostonian/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She is a proud Bostonian.[↗](../../bostonian/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **bot** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A bot is a computer program that does tasks by itself, often pretending to be a person, such as answering messages or playing in games.[↗](../../bot/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A bot is sometimes short for robot.[↗](../../bot/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The website has a bot that answers questions.[↗](../../bot/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I played against a bot in the game.[↗](../../bot/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Some accounts online are bots, not real people.[↗](../../bot/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The chatbot helped me find my parcel.[↗](../../bot/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Bots can send lots of spam messages.[↗](../../bot/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Our class built a little robot bot that follows a line.[↗](../../bot/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Be careful: a friendly message online might come from a bot.[↗](../../bot/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **botanic** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To do with plants and the study of plants (botany).[↗](../../botanic/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We visited the botanic gardens on our school trip.[↗](../../botanic/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The botanic garden has plants from every continent.[↗](../../botanic/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She drew botanic pictures of leaves.[↗](../../botanic/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A botanist works at the botanic garden.[↗](../../botanic/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The botanic greenhouse was hot and steamy.[↗](../../botanic/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Botanic gardens help save rare plants.[↗](../../botanic/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **botanical** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Botanical means to do with plants or with botany, the science of plants.[↗](../../botanical/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Botanical means made from plants, as in botanical oils or medicines.[↗](../../botanical/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We visited the botanical garden and saw a giant water lily.[↗](../../botanical/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The botanical name for the sunflower is Helianthus annuus.[↗](../../botanical/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She made a botanical drawing of a dandelion.[↗](../../botanical/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The botanical gardens in Sydney are next to the harbour.[↗](../../botanical/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Scientists collect botanical samples from the rainforest.[↗](../../botanical/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · This shampoo is made with botanical oils.[↗](../../botanical/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Kew Gardens is a famous botanical garden.[↗](../../botanical/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · I will tell you what to do, and the botanical professor, who lives close by here, will be so surprised.[↗](../../botanical/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **botanist** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A botanist is a scientist who studies plants: how they grow, where they live and how they are related.[↗](../../botanist/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Botany is the science that botanists do.[↗](../../botanist/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A botanist studies plants and flowers.[↗](../../botanist/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The botanist found a new kind of orchid.[↗](../../botanist/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We were botanists for the day and collected leaves.[↗](../../botanist/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Botanists work in gardens, labs and rainforests.[↗](../../botanist/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The botanist explained how seeds spread.[↗](../../botanist/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Joseph Banks was a botanist on a long sea voyage.[↗](../../botanist/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · What the botanist tells us after a number of imperfect lectures, the flower proclaimed in a minute.[↗](../../botanist/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **botany** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The scientific study of plants: how they grow, what they are made of, how they are named and where they live.[↗](../../botany/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Botany is the study of plants.[↗](../../botany/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We learned about roots and leaves in our botany lesson.[↗](../../botany/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A botanist collected seeds from the rainforest.[↗](../../botany/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Botany Bay in Sydney was named for its many new plants.[↗](../../botany/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The botanic garden has a giant water lily.[↗](../../botany/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My aunt is a botanist who studies mosses.[↗](../../botany/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · And now the professor of botany presented himself, one who could explain his knowledge in black and white.[↗](../../botany/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **both** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Both means the two of them together, not just one: both hands.[↗](../../both/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* «Both … and» joins two things that are true together: both tall and strong.[↗](../../both/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (casual) «Both of yous» or «yous both» (Ireland, Australia, parts of UK) means «you two».[↗](../../both/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (rough) «Both of you, out!» or «You're both as bad as each other» tells off two people together.[↗](../../both/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* (formal) The exam voice says «each of the two», «the pair», «jointly», «the two aforementioned».[↗](../../both/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* «How many more … than» and «how many fewer … than» both ask for the difference: subtract.[↗](../../both/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Ana has 6 shells and Ben has 4.[↗](../../both/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") How many shells do they have both together?[↗](../../both/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Both boys have 5 cards each.[↗](../../both/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Hold the cup with both hands.[↗](../../both/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Both my parents work in a hospital.[↗](../../both/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She is both clever and kind.[↗](../../both/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Look both ways before you cross.[↗](../../both/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Both of the puppies are asleep.[↗](../../both/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Right, both of yous, in the car now\![↗](../../both/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · You're both as bad as each other, stop fighting over 2 crisps.[↗](../../both/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Determine the number of shells held jointly by the two pupils, given that Ana holds 6 and Ben holds 4.[↗](../../both/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · They both bent over the corpse.[↗](../../both/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Thus he did to both of them in the two corners.[↗](../../both/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.36.29, JPS 1917)[↗](../../both/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.[↗](../../both/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.19.36, JPS 1917)[↗](../../both/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · Wherefore that place was called Beer-sheba; because there they swore both of them.[↗](../../both/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.21.31, JPS 1917)[↗](../../both/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") · Both low and high, rich and poor together.[↗](../../both/#x16 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.49.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../both/#x16 "tree and pragmatics") · Both young men and maidens, old men and children; (Writings PSA.148.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../both/#x17 "tree and pragmatics") · Who smote the first-born of Egypt, both of man and beast.[↗](../../both/#x18 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.135.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../both/#x18 "tree and pragmatics") **bother** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To bother someone is to annoy them or interrupt them: «Don't bother me while I'm reading.».[↗](../../bother/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* If something bothers you, it worries or upsets you.[↗](../../bother/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To bother (to do something) is to make the effort: «He didn't bother to wash his hands.».[↗](../../bother/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Bother is trouble or effort: «It's no bother.».[↗](../../bother/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* «Bother!» is a mild old-fashioned word said when something goes wrong.[↗](../../bother/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Sorry to bother you, but where is the library?[↗](../../bother/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Please don't bother the dog while it's eating.[↗](../../bother/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · What's bothering you?[↗](../../bother/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") You look sad.[↗](../../bother/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The noise didn't bother me.[↗](../../bother/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · He didn't even bother to say thank you.[↗](../../bother/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · «Thanks for helping!»[↗](../../bother/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") «It's no bother.»[↗](../../bother/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · I can't be bothered to tidy my room.[↗](../../bother/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Oh, bother\![↗](../../bother/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") I forgot my lunchbox.[↗](../../bother/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · "Do not bother me," said the potter.[↗](../../bother/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **bothersome** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Bothersome means annoying, causing trouble or worry, so that you feel put out.[↗](../../bothersome/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* That bothersome fly kept landing on my nose.[↗](../../bothersome/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't be bothersome; let me finish.[↗](../../bothersome/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The cricket was bothersome, chirping all night.[↗](../../bothersome/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **bottle** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A bottle is a container with a narrow neck for holding drinks or other liquids.[↗](../../bottle/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A bottle can mean the drink in it: «He drank a bottle of juice».[↗](../../bottle/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To bottle something is to put it into bottles.[↗](../../bottle/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A shop has 25 bottles of soda.[↗](../../bottle/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Each bottle holds 2 liters of water.[↗](../../bottle/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He drank 3 bottles of juice.[↗](../../bottle/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How many bottles are needed for 12 liters?[↗](../../bottle/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Bring a water bottle on the school trip.[↗](../../bottle/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We recycle glass bottles.[↗](../../bottle/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The baby drinks milk from a bottle.[↗](../../bottle/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · A message in a bottle washed up on the beach.[↗](../../bottle/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.[↗](../../bottle/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.21.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bottle/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.[↗](../../bottle/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.21.19, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bottle/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven, (Writings JOB.38.37, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bottle/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, (Prophets JER.19.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bottle/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Thou has counted my wanderings; put Thou my tears into Thy bottle; are they not in Thy book?[↗](../../bottle/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.56.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bottle/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **bottlenose** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The bottlenose dolphin, a common grey dolphin with a short, bottle-shaped snout, often seen near coasts and in shows.[↗](../../bottlenose/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A bottlenose whale, a kind of deep-diving whale.[↗](../../bottlenose/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A pod of bottlenose dolphins swam beside our boat.[↗](../../bottlenose/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Bottlenose dolphins use clicks to find fish.[↗](../../bottlenose/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Each bottlenose has its own signature whistle, like a name.[↗](../../bottlenose/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Bottlenoses breathe air through a blowhole.[↗](../../bottlenose/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We saw bottlenose dolphins in Cardigan Bay.[↗](../../bottlenose/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The bottlenose leapt high out of the water.[↗](../../bottlenose/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **bottom** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The bottom is the lowest part of something.[↗](../../bottom/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The bottom is the ground under water, like the bottom of the sea.[↗](../../bottom/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Your bottom is the part of your body you sit on.[↗](../../bottom/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* The bottom of a list or a class is the last place.[↗](../../bottom/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* The bottom of something can also be the real cause or source hidden behind it.[↗](../../bottom/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The bottom shelf holds 15 books.[↗](../../bottom/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He climbs from the bottom to the top of 40 steps.[↗](../../bottom/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The bottom row has 9 cans.[↗](../../bottom/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The fish swims at the bottom of the tank.[↗](../../bottom/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Write your name at the bottom of the page.[↗](../../bottom/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We cleaned the house from top to bottom.[↗](../../bottom/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The detective got to the bottom of the mystery.[↗](../../bottom/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The baby fell on her bottom.[↗](../../bottom/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · A stone sank to the bottom of the pond.[↗](../../bottom/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Our team was at the bottom of the table.[↗](../../bottom/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · There must be a Princess at the bottom of this.’[↗](../../bottom/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel at the bottom hard by the living creatures, at the four faces thereof.[↗](../../bottom/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.1.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bottom/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · And when the living creatures went, the wheels went hard by them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the bottom, the wheels were lifted up.[↗](../../bottom/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.1.19, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bottom/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars closed upon me for ever; yet hast Thou brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.[↗](../../bottom/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JON.2.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bottom/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **bottomless** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Bottomless means so deep or so large that it has no end or floor you can reach.[↗](../../bottomless/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The well seemed bottomless.[↗](../../bottomless/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · His stomach seemed a bottomless pit.[↗](../../bottomless/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Into the bottomless pit with you\![↗](../../bottomless/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Her hunger for gold was bottomless.[↗](../../bottomless/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") **boudoir** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (old-fashioned) A lady's small private sitting room or dressing room.[↗](../../boudoir/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (literary) A pretty, private bedroom.[↗](../../boudoir/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The duchess received her friends in her boudoir.[↗](../../boudoir/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The boudoir had pink curtains and a little writing desk.[↗](../../boudoir/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · In the old house we saw the lady's boudoir with its mirror and chair.[↗](../../boudoir/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The maid brought tea up to her mistress's boudoir.[↗](../../boudoir/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The story says the queen sat sulking in her boudoir.[↗](../../boudoir/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Today most people would just say «bedroom» or «sitting room».[↗](../../boudoir/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Hereupon he wandered into a boudoir formed entirely of mirrors, like the one in Castle Rosenburg; but here the glasses magnified to an astonishing degree.[↗](../../boudoir/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **bough** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A bough is a large, main branch of a tree.[↗](../../bough/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* It is a slightly old-fashioned or poetic word; in everyday talk people usually say «branch».[↗](../../bough/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The children sat in the shade under the boughs of the oak.[↗](../../bough/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall.[↗](../../bough/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Snow weighed down the boughs of the pine trees.[↗](../../bough/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · «Deck the halls with boughs of holly» is a Christmas carol.[↗](../../bough/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A heavy bough fell in the storm and blocked the lane.[↗](../../bough/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Birds built a nest on the highest bough.[↗](../../bough/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Rotten twigs and dry boughs are they all.”[↗](../../bough/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.[↗](../../bough/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.24.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bough/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And ye shall take you on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook, and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.[↗](../../bough/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.23.40, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bough/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.[↗](../../bough/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.14.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bough/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the mighty cedars with the boughs thereof.[↗](../../bough/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.80.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bough/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · The LORD is God, and hath given us light; order the festival procession with boughs, even unto the horns of the altar.[↗](../../bough/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.118.27, JPS 1917)[↗](../../bough/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **boulder** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A boulder is a very large, rounded rock, too big to pick up.[↗](../../boulder/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A huge boulder blocked the path.[↗](../../boulder/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The glacier carried boulders down the valley.[↗](../../boulder/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We climbed on the boulders at the beach.[↗](../../boulder/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The sign warned of falling boulders.[↗](../../boulder/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · It took ten people to push the boulder.[↗](../../boulder/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Over a long time, water wore the boulder smooth.[↗](../../boulder/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · One feels quite a novice beside these venerable million-year-old boulders.[↗](../../boulder/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) … [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/page/30/) … [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/page/39/) **40** [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/page/41/) … 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