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_b.u.mble-bee_, id. A. Bor.

Q. the _bee_ that _b.u.ms_.

~b.u.m-Clock~, _s._ A humming beetle, that flies in the summer evenings.

_Burns._

BU-MAN, _s._ A name given to the devil.

V. under ~Bu~.

b.u.mBARD, _adj._ Indolent, lazy.

Ital. _bombare_, a humble-bee.

_Dunbar._

~b.u.mbart~, _s._

1. The drone-bee, or perhaps a flesh-fly.

_Melvill's MS._

2. A drone, a driveller.

_Dunbar._

b.u.mBAZED, BOMBAZED, _adj._ Stupified, S.

V. ~Bazed~.

_Ross._

Q. stupified with noise; from Teut. _bomme_, tympanum, and _baesen_, delirare.

b.u.mMACK, b.u.mMOCK, _s._

1. An entertainment anciently given at Christmas by tenants to their landlords, Orkn.

_Wallace's Orkn._

2. A brewing of a large quant.i.ty of malt, for the purpose of being drunk at once at a merry meeting.--Caithn.

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