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Bondage: Definition and part of speech

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Bondage

  1. a. Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.
  2. a. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.
  3. a. Obligation; tie of duty.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bondar: Definition and part of speech

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Bondar

  1. n. A small quadruped of Bengal (Paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet; — called also musk cat.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bone: Definition and part of speech

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Bone

  1. n. Fig.: The framework of anything.
  2. n. The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.
  3. n. One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body.
  4. n. Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
  5. n. Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
  6. n. Dice.
  7. n. Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bonder: Definition and part of speech

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Bonder

  1. n. A freeholder on a small scale.
  2. n. One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.
  3. n. A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bondholder: Definition and part of speech

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Bondholder

  1. n. A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bondmaid: Definition and part of speech

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Bondmaid

  1. n. A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.