bubalis (bubalis)

[NL., also bubale; IMG:content-2668.png:[blocks in formation] Though I am no mark in respect of a huge butt, yet I can tell you great bubbers have shot at me. bubonic poration, the South Sea Company, which was to have a monopoly of the trade with Spanish South America, and a part of the capital stock of which was to constitute the fund. The refusal of Spain to enter into commercial relations with England made the privileges of the company worthle ; but by means of a series of speculative operations and the infatuation of the people its shares were inflated from £100 to £1,050. Its failure caused great dis tre throughout England. bubblel (bub'l), v.; pret. and pp. bubbled, ppr. bubbling. [= MLG. LG. bubbeln = MD. D. bob belen = Dan. boble, bubble; from the noun.] I. in trans. 1. To rise in bubbles, as liquors when boiling or agitated; send up bubbles.-2. To run with a gu gurgling noise; gurgle: as, " bub bling fountains," Pope, Autumn, 1. 43. On yon swoll'n brook that bubbles fast By meadows breathing of the past. Middle ton , Spanish Gypsy, ii. 1. bubble1 (bub'l), n. [First in early mod. E.; = MLG. bubbele , LG. bubbel = MD. bobbel = Dan. boble = Sw. bubbla , formerly bubla , a bubble. The E. and Scand. forms are prob. of LG. 3. To utter a bubbling or gurgling cry. [Rare.] origin, but all, all, like the equiv. early mod. E. burble (see burble ), L. bulla (see bulla, bull2, boil2, etc.), Skt. budbuda, Hind. budbuda, bul bulā, Hindi bululā, Pāli bubbulam, a bubble (and, more remotely, like Bohem. boubel, bub lin a, Pol. babel, > Little Ru . bombel, a bubble words having the same ult. base as bomb2, bomb us, q. v.), are prob. ult. imitative of the sound of the gurgling of water in which bubbles are forming. Cf. blubber, blobber, blob. The senses of 'a trifle, delusion, trick,' etc., proceed naturally from the lit. sense, and have no orig. connection with the accidentally similar It. bubbola, bubula, a trick, fib, sham, deceit, pl. bubbole, idle stories, stories, formerly " bubole, bub bule, toies, iests, vanities, nifles, trifles, bubbles" (Florio), Oh, Fortune, That thou hast none to fool and blow like bubbles But kings and their contents! Fletcher (and another ?), Prophete , iii. 3. Ay, thus we are; and all our painted glory A bubble that a boy blows into the air, And there it breaks. Beau. and Fl . , Knight of Malta, iv. 2. 2. A small globule of air or other gas in or rising through a liquid.-3. The vesicle of air in the gla spirit-tube of a mechanics' level. 4. One of the small hollow beads of gla formerly used for testing the strength of spirits by the rate at which they rise after being plunged in them. See bead , 7.-5. Anything that wants firmne , substance, or permanence; that which is more specious than real; a vain project; a false show; a delusion; a trifle. IMG:content-2669.png:[blocks in formation] 7t. A person deceived by an empty project; a dupe. He has been my bubble these twenty years. Arbuthnot, John Bull. His pity and compa ion make him sometimes a bubble Steele , Tatler, No. 27. to all his fellows. Bubble Act, an English statute of 1720, intended to restrict illusory schemes of corporate or a ociate organization: adopted to prevent the repetition of such frauds as the South Sea bubble. - Bubble and squeak. (a) Adish consisting of fried beef and cabbage: probably so called from the sounds made during frying. Rank and title! bubble and squeak! No! not half so good as bubble and squeak; English beef and good cabbage. But foreign rank and title; foreign cabbage and beef! foreign bubble and foreign squeak! Bulwer , My Novel, viii. 8. (b) In New England, hash or minced meat.-South Sea bubble, a financial scheme which originated in England about 1711 and collapsed in 1720. It was proposed by the Earl of Oxford to fund a floating debt of £10,000,000, the purchasers of which should become stockholders in a cor Tennyson, In Memoriam, xcix, IMG:content-2670.png:[graphic] IMG:content-2671.png:[blocks in formation] Sterne, Tristram Shandy, i. 11. When slavery could not bully, it bubbled its victim. W. Phillips , Speeches, p. 377. bubble2 (bub'l), v. i. [Also bibble; cf. bubblel and blubber.] To shed tears in a sniveling, blubbering, childish way. Jamie son. [Scotch and North. Eng.]