2. A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.
||Boule`verse`ment" (&?;), n. [F., fr. bouleverser to overthrow.] Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.
Boult (blt), n. Corrupted form Bolt.
{ Boul"tel (&?;), Boul"tin } (&?;), n. (Arch.) (a) A molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo. (b) One of the shafts of a clustered column. [Written also bowtel, boltel, boultell, etc.]
Boul"ter (&?;), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.
Boun (&?;), a. [See Bound ready.] Ready; prepared; destined; tending. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Boun, v. t. To make or get ready. Sir W. Scott.
Bounce (&?;), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bounced (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bouncing (&?;).] [OE. bunsen; cf. D. bonzen to strike, bounce, bons blow, LG. bunsen to knock; all prob. of imitative origin.]
1. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
Another bounces as hard as he can knock.
Swift.
Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart.
Dryden.
2. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.
Out bounced the mastiff.
Swift.
Bounced off his arm+chair.
Thackeray.