·noun A bundle, as of oziers.
II. Bolt ·noun Lightning; a thunderbolt.
III. Bolt ·vi To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
IV. Bolt ·vi A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
V. Bolt ·vt To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.
VI. Bolt ·vt To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
VII. Bolt ·vt To separate, as if by sifting or bolting;
— with out.
VIII. Bolt ·adv In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
IX. Bolt ·noun An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
X. Bolt ·vt To Shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
XI. Bolt ·vt To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
XII. Bolt ·vt To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, ·etc.
XIII. Bolt ·vi To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.
XIV. Bolt ·vi A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.
XV. Bolt ·noun A sieve, ·esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
XVI. Bolt ·noun A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.
XVII. Bolt ·vi A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
XVIII. Bolt ·vt To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
XIX. Bolt ·vi To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
XX. Bolt ·noun A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.
XXI. Bolt ·vi To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to Dart; as, to bolt out of the room.
XXII. Bolt ·noun A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end.
XXIII. Bolt ·vt To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to Shackle; to Restrain.
XXIV. Bolt ·vt To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
XXV. Bolt ·noun A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, ·esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart.