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n. trousers with legs that flare; commonly worn as part of a sailor's uniform; -- such absurdly wide hems were also fashionable in the 1960s.
Syn. -- bellbottom trousers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels.
Syn. -- bellman, bellhop. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. (Naut.) A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board. especially, A large board out of doors and visible to passers-by, on which the space is rented for advertising purposes; also, the advertising displayed on such a board. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

{ or } n. (Zool.) A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. [ 1913 Webster ]

And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort (1691). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of falling back. [ PJC ]

2. Something or someone to which one resorts as an alternative to a failed resource or method. [ PJC ]

n. an offensive football player who plays farther behind the line of scrimmage than the half-back. They are used primarily for blocking and line plunges.
Syn. -- fullback. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. 1. (Football) To play the position of fullback on a football team; to be the fullback. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) A large North American aquatic salamander (Protonopsis horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Born in or of hell. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Produced in hell. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Prepared in hell. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A composition for infernal purposes; a magical preparation. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of stout pasteboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch) The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it party open at a fixed point. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) An American fresh-water fish (Ictiobus cyprinus syn. Carpiodes cyprinus); -- called also carp sucker, sailfish, spearfish, and skimback. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Spellbound p. pr. & vb. n. Spellbinding. ] To bind or hold by, or as if by, a spell or charm; to entrance or fascinate, esp. by eloquence of speech, as in a political campaign. -- Spell"bind`er n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

a. Bound by, or as by, a spell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The birth of a dead fetus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a fetus which was born dead. [ PJC ]

a. 1. Dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: Abortive; as, a stillborn poem. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A kind of long-stemmed wineglass or cup. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A piece of household furniture common in the eighteenth century, usually in two separate parts, with larger drawers above and smaller ones below and raised on legs fifteen inches or more in height; -- called also highboy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. A long sheet-metal pipe for a chimney top. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Toll a tax + booth. ] [ Written also tolbooth. ] 1. A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth. Wyclif (Mark ii. 14). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To imprison in a tollbooth. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That they might tollbooth Oxford men. Bp. Corbet. [ 1913 Webster ]