bolster, v. prop up, [support], [maintain].--n. [cushion], [pad], [support].

bolt, v. [sift]; leave suddenly; gulp.

bomb, n. [shell].

bombast, n. magniloquence, [fustian], bombastry, altiloquence, grandiloquence.

bombastic, a. magniloquent, [grandiose], high-sounding, turgid, [inflated], grandiloquent.

bona fide. in good [faith], [real], [actual], [really], actually.

bond, n. [band], [tie], vinculum, copula; pl. shackles, manacles, fetters, [constraint]; pl. [imprisonment], [captivity], [bondage], [restraint]; [obligation].

bond, a. captive, enslaved.

bondage, n. [servitude], [slavery], [captivity], bond [service], thralldom, durance.

bondsman, n. bondman, [slave], [villain], [serf]; [surety].