BUNT
\bˈʌnt], \bˈʌnt], \b_ˈʌ_n_t]\
Definitions of BUNT
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- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat
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fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores
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similar to Tilletia caries
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores
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similar to Tilletia caries
By Princeton University
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The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
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To swell out; as, the sail bunts.
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A push or shove; a butt;
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the act of bunting the ball.
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To bat or tap (the ball) slowly within the infield by meeting it with the bat without swinging at it.
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A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; - also called pepperbrand.
By Oddity Software
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The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
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To swell out; as, the sail bunts.
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A push or shove; a butt;
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the act of bunting the ball.
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To bat or tap (the ball) slowly within the infield by meeting it with the bat without swinging at it.
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A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; - also called pepperbrand.
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To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.