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bonnet

BON'NET, n.

1. A covering for the head, in common use before the introduction of hats. The word, as now used, signifies a cover for the head, worn by females, close at the sides, and projecting over the forehead.



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BON'NET, n.

1. A covering for the head, in common use before the introduction of hats. The word, as now used, signifies a cover for the head, worn by females, close at the sides, and projecting over the forehead.

BON'NET, n. [Fr. bonnet; Sp. bonete; Ir. boinead; Arm. boned.]

  1. A covering for the head, in common use before the introduction of hats. The word, as now used, signifies a cover for the head, worn by females, close at the sides, and projecting over the forehead.
  2. In fortification, a small work with two faces, having only a parapet, with two rows of palisades about 10 or 12 feet distant. Generally it is raised above the salient angle of the counterscarp, and communicates with the covered way. – Encyc. Bonnet à prêtre, or priest's bonnet, is an outwork, having at the head three salient angles and two inwards. – Johnson.
  3. In sea language, an addition to a sail, or an additional part laced to the foot of a sail, in small vessels, and in moderate winds. – Mar. Dict.

Bon"net
  1. A headdress for men and boys; a cap.

    [Obs.] Milton. Shak.
  2. To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover.

    [Obs.] Shak.
  3. The metal cover or shield over the motor.
  4. A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland.

    And p(?)i(?)s and bonnets waving high.
    Sir W. Scott.

  5. A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.
  6. Anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use

    ; as, (a) (Fort.)
  7. An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds.

    Hakluyt.
  8. The second stomach of a ruminating animal.
  9. An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid; a decoy.

    [Cant]

    Bonnet head (Zoöl.), a shark (Sphyrna tiburio) of the southern United States and West Indies. -- Bonnet limpet (Zoöl.), a name given, from their shape, to various species of shells (family Calyptræidæ). -- Bonnet monkey (Zoöl.), an East Indian monkey (Macacus sinicus), with a tuft of hair on its head; the munga. -- Bonnet piece, a gold coin of the time of James V. of Scotland, the king's head on which wears a bonnet. Sir W. Scott. -- To have a bee in the bonnet. See under Bee. -- Black bonnet. See under Black. -- Blue bonnet. See in the Vocabulary.

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Bonnet

BON'NET, noun

1. A covering for the head, in common use before the introduction of hats. The word, as now used, signifies a cover for the head, worn by females, close at the sides, and projecting over the forehead.

2. In fortification, a small work with two faces, having only a parapet, with two rows of palisades about 10 or 12 feet distant. Generally it is raised above the salient angle of the counterscarp, and communicates with the covered way.

Bonnet a pretre, or priest's bonnet is an outwork, having at the head three salient angles and two inwards.

3. In sea language, an addition to sail, or an additional part laced to the foot of a sail, in small vessels, and in moderate winds.

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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sullen

SUL'LEN, a. [perhaps set, fixed, and allied to silent, sill, &c.]

1. Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor.

And sullen I forsook th' imperfect feast.

2. Mischievous; malignant.

Such sullen planets at my birth did shine.

3. Obstinate; intractable.

Things are as sullen as we are.

4. Gloomy; dark; dismal.

Why are thine eyes fix'd to the sullen earth?

Night with her sullen wings.

No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows.

5. Heavy; dull; sorrowful.

Be thou the trumpet of our wrath,

And sullen presage of your own decay.

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