Dictionary B

• Ba Dictionary B - intransitive verb To kiss.
• Baa Dictionary B - intransitive verb To cry baa, or bleat as a sheep.
• Baas Dictionary B - pleural of Baa.
• Baaing Dictionary B - noun The bleating of a sheep.
• Baalim Dictionary B - pleural of Baal.
• Baal Dictionary B - noun The supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations.
• Baalism Dictionary B - noun Worship of Baal; idolatry.
• Baalist Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Baalite.
• Baalite Dictionary B - noun A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater.
• Baba Dictionary B - noun A kind of plum cake.
• Babbitt Dictionary B - verb transitive To line with Babbitt metal.
• Babbitt metal Dictionary B - A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction.
• Babbled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Babble.
• Babbling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Babble.
• Babble Dictionary B - intransitive verb To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.
• Babblement Dictionary B - noun Babble.
• Babbler Dictionary B - noun An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets.
• Babblery Dictionary B - noun Babble.
• Babe Dictionary B - noun An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.
• Babehood Dictionary B - noun Babyhood.
• Babel Dictionary B - noun The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place.
• Babery Dictionary B - noun Finery of a kind to please a child.
• Babian Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Babion.
• Babion Dictionary B - noun A baboon.
• Babillard Dictionary B - noun The lesser whitethroat of Europe; - called also babbling warbler.
• Babingtonite Dictionary B - noun A mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, manganese, and lime.
• Babiroussa Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Babirussa.
• Babirussa Dictionary B - noun A large hoglike quadruped (Sus, / Porcus, babirussa) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved.
• Babish Dictionary B - adjective Like a babe; a childish; babyish.
• Babism Dictionary B - noun The doctrine of a modern religious sect, which originated in Persia in 1843, being a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish and Parsee elements.
• Babist Dictionary B - noun A believer in Babism.
• Bablah Dictionary B - noun The ring of the fruit of several East Indian species of acacia; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for dyeing drab.
• Baboo Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Babu.
• Babu Dictionary B - noun A Hindoo gentleman; a native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindoo title answering to Mr. or Esquire.
• Baboon Dictionary B - noun One of the Old World Quadrumana, of the genera Cynocephalus and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape.
• Baboonery Dictionary B - noun Baboonish behavior.
• Baboonish Dictionary B - adjective Like a baboon.
• Babies Dictionary B - pleural of Baby.
• Baby Dictionary B - noun An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.
• Babied Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Baby.
• Babying Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Baby.
• Baby farm Dictionary B - A place where the nourishment and care of babies are offered for hire.
• Baby farmer Dictionary B - One who keeps a baby farm.
• Baby farming Dictionary B - The business of keeping a baby farm.
• Babyhood Dictionary B - noun The state or period of infancy.
• Babyhouse Dictionary B - adjective A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture.
• Babyish Dictionary B - adjective Like a baby; childish; puerile; simple.
• Babyism Dictionary B - noun The state of being a baby.
• Baby jumper Dictionary B - A hoop suspended by an elastic strap, in which a young child may be held secure while amusing itself by jumping on the floor.
• Babylonian Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean.
• Babylonic Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Babylonical.
• Babylonical Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to Babylon, or made there; as, Babylonic garments, carpets, or hangings.
• Babylonish Dictionary B - noun Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia.
• Babyroussa Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Babyrussa.
• Babyrussa Dictionary B - noun See Babyroussa.
• Babyship Dictionary B - noun The quality of being a baby; the personality of an infant.
• Bac Dictionary B - noun A broad, flatbottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.
• Baccalaureate Dictionary B - noun The degree of bachelor of arts. (B.A. or A.B.), the first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges.
• Baccara Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Baccarat.
• Baccarat Dictionary B - noun A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.
• Baccare Dictionary B - interjection Alt. of Backare.
• Backare Dictionary B - interjection Stand back! give place! - a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess.
• Baccate Dictionary B - adjective Pulpy throughout, like a berry; - said of fruits.
• Baccated Dictionary B - adjective Having many berries.
• Bacchanal Dictionary B - adjective Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
• Bacchanalia Dictionary B - noun plural A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.
• Bacchanalian Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.
• Bacchanalianism Dictionary B - noun The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry.
• Bacchants Dictionary B - pleural of Bacchant.
• Bacchantes Dictionary B - pleural of Bacchant.
• Bacchant Dictionary B - noun A priest of Bacchus.
• Bacchante Dictionary B - noun A priestess of Bacchus.
• Bacchantic Dictionary B - adjective Bacchanalian.
• Bacchic Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bacchical.
• Bacchical Dictionary B - adjective Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous,with intoxication.
• Bacchii Dictionary B - pleural of Bacchius.
• Bacchius Dictionary B - noun A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.
• Bacchus Dictionary B - noun The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.
• Bacciferous Dictionary B - adjective Producing berries.
• Bacciform Dictionary B - adjective Having the form of a berry.
• Baccivorous Dictionary B - adjective Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds.
• Bace Dictionary B - noun adjective & verb See Base.
• Bacharach Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Backarack.
• Backarack Dictionary B - noun A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.
• Bachelor Dictionary B - noun A man of any age who has not been married.
• Bachelordom Dictionary B - noun The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.
• Bachelorhood Dictionary B - noun The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship.
• Bachelorism Dictionary B - noun Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors.
• Bachelor's button Dictionary B - A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena).
• Bachelorship Dictionary B - noun The state of being a bachelor.
• Bachelry Dictionary B - noun The body of young aspirants for knighthood.
• Bacillar Dictionary B - adjective Shaped like a rod or staff.
• Bacillariae Dictionary B - noun plural See Diatom.
• Bacillary Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to little rods; rod-shaped.
• Bacilliform Dictionary B - adjective Rod-shaped.
• Bacilli Dictionary B - pleural of Bacillus.
• Bacillus Dictionary B - noun A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.
• Back Dictionary B - noun A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
• Backed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Back.
• Backing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Back.
• Backband Dictionary B - noun The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.
• Backbite Dictionary B - intransitive verb To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
• Backbiter Dictionary B - noun One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
• Backbiting Dictionary B - noun Secret slander; detraction.
• Backboard Dictionary B - noun A board which supports the back wen one is sitting;.
• Backbond Dictionary B - noun An instrument which, in conjunction with another making an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust.
• Backbone Dictionary B - noun The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.
• Backboned Dictionary B - adjective Vertebrate.
• Backcast Dictionary B - noun Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse.
• Back door Dictionary B - A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way.
• Backdoor Dictionary B - adjective Acting from behind and in concealment; as, backdoor intrigues.
• Backdown Dictionary B - noun A receding or giving up; a complete surrender.
• Backer Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest.
• Backfall Dictionary B - noun A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.
• Backfriend Dictionary B - noun A secret enemy.
• Backgammon Dictionary B - noun A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables.
• Background Dictionary B - noun Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.
• Backhand Dictionary B - noun A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.
• Backhanded Dictionary B - adjective With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow.
• Backhandedness Dictionary B - noun State of being backhanded; the using of backhanded or indirect methods.
• Backhander Dictionary B - noun A backhanded blow.
• Backhouse Dictionary B - noun A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.
• Backjoint Dictionary B - noun A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.
• Backlash Dictionary B - noun The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.
• Backless Dictionary B - adjective Without a back.
• Backlog Dictionary B - noun A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth.
• Backpiece Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Backplate.
• Backplate Dictionary B - noun A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
• Backrack Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Backrag.
• Backrag Dictionary B - noun See Bacharach.
• Backs Dictionary B - noun plural Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
• Backsaw Dictionary B - noun A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.
• Backset Dictionary B - noun A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
• Backsettler Dictionary B - noun One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.
• Backsheesh Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Backshish.
• Backshish Dictionary B - noun In Egypt and the Turkish empire, a gratuity; a "tip".
• Backside Dictionary B - noun The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.
• Backsight Dictionary B - noun The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3.
• Backslid Dictionary B - imperative of Backslide.
• Backslidden Dictionary B - past participle of Backslide.
• Backsliding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Backslide.
• Backslide Dictionary B - intransitive verb To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
• Backslider Dictionary B - noun One who backslides.
• Backstaff Dictionary B - noun An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; - so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed.
• Back stairs Dictionary B - Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.
• Backstairs Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Backstair.
• Backstair Dictionary B - adjective Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; - as if finding access by the back stairs.
• Backstay Dictionary B - noun A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship, slanting a little aft, to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast.
• Backster Dictionary B - noun A backer.
• Backstitch Dictionary B - noun A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.
• Backstress Dictionary B - noun A female baker.
• Backsword Dictionary B - noun A sword with one sharp edge.
• Backward Dictionary B - adverb Alt. of Backwards.
• Backwards Dictionary B - adverb With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.
• Backwardation Dictionary B - noun The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; - also, the premium so paid. See Contango.
• Backwardly Dictionary B - adverb Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.
• Backwardness Dictionary B - noun The state of being backward.
• Backwash Dictionary B - intransitive verb To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.
• Backwater Dictionary B - noun Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.
• Backwoods Dictionary B - noun plural The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.
• Backwoodsmen Dictionary B - pleural of Backwoodsman.
• Backwoodsman Dictionary B - noun A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States.
• Backworm Dictionary B - noun A disease of hawks. See Filanders.
• Bacon Dictionary B - noun The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh.
• Baconian Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy.
• Bacteria Dictionary B - noun, pronoun See Bacterium.
• Bacterial Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to bacteria.
• Bactericidal Dictionary B - adjective Destructive of bacteria.
• Bactericide Dictionary B - noun Same as Germicide.
• Bacteriological Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to bacteriology; as, bacteriological studies.
• Bacteriologist Dictionary B - noun One skilled in bacteriology.
• Bacteriology Dictionary B - noun The science relating to bacteria.
• Bacterioscopic Dictionary B - adjective Relating to bacterioscopy; as, a bacterioscopic examination.
• Bacterioscopist Dictionary B - noun One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations.
• Bacterioscopy Dictionary B - noun The application of a knowledge of bacteria for their detection and identification, as in the examination of polluted water.
• Bacterium Dictionary B - noun A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus.
• Bacteroid Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bacteroidal.
• Bacteroidal Dictionary B - adjective Resembling bacteria; as, bacteroid particles.
• Bactrian Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia.
• Bacule Dictionary B - noun See Bascule.
• Baculine Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod.
• Baculite Dictionary B - noun A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.
• Baculometry Dictionary B - noun Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff or staffs.
• Bad Dictionary B - imperative Bade.
• Badder Dictionary B - compar. of Bad, a.
• Badderlocks Dictionary B - noun A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; - also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.
• Baddish Dictionary B - adjective Somewhat bad; inferior.
• Bade Dictionary B - A form of the pat tense of Bid.
• Badge Dictionary B - noun A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.
• Badgeless Dictionary B - adjective Having no badge.
• Badger Dictionary B - noun An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; - formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
• Badgered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Badger.
• Badgering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Badger.
• Badgerer Dictionary B - noun One who badgers.
• Badger-legged Dictionary B - adjective Having legs of unequal length, as the badger was thought to have.
• Badiaga Dictionary B - noun A fresh-water sponge (Spongilla), common in the north of Europe, the powder of which is used to take away the livid marks of bruises.
• Badian Dictionary B - noun An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise.
• Badigeon Dictionary B - noun A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.
• Badinage Dictionary B - noun Playful raillery; banter.
• Bad lands Dictionary B - Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by ca ons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).
• Badly Dictionary B - adverb In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably; seriously.
• Badminton Dictionary B - noun A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.
• Badness Dictionary B - noun The state of being bad.
• Baenomere Dictionary B - noun One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods.
• Baenopod Dictionary B - noun One of the thoracic legs of Arthropods.
• Baenosome Dictionary B - noun The thorax of Arthropods.
• Baff Dictionary B - noun A blow; a stroke.
• Baffled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Baffle.
• Baffling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Baffle.
• Baffle Dictionary B - verb transitive To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
• Bafflement Dictionary B - noun The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.
• Baffler Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, baffles.
• Baft Dictionary B - noun Same as Bafta.
• Bafta Dictionary B - noun A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.
• Bag Dictionary B - noun A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.
• Bagged Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bag.
• Bagging Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bag.
• Bagasse Dictionary B - noun Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. It is then dried and used as fuel. Also extended to the refuse of beetroot sugar.
• Bagatelle Dictionary B - noun A trifle; a thing of no importance.
• Baggage Dictionary B - noun The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.
• Baggage master Dictionary B - One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• Baggager Dictionary B - noun One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower.
• Baggala Dictionary B - noun A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian Ocean.
• Baggily Dictionary B - adverb In a loose, baggy way.
• Baggy Dictionary B - adjective Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a bag; flabby; as, baggy trousers; baggy cheeks.
• Bagmen Dictionary B - pleural of Bagman.
• Bagman Dictionary B - noun A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen.
• Bag net Dictionary B - A bag-shaped net for catching fish.
• Bagnio Dictionary B - noun A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; - also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves.
• Bagpipe Dictionary B - noun A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.
• Bagpiper Dictionary B - noun One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper.
• Bagreef Dictionary B - noun The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails.
• Bague Dictionary B - noun The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.
• Baguet Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Baguette.
• Baguette Dictionary B - noun A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.
• Bagwig Dictionary B - noun A wig, in use in the 18th century, with the hair at the back of the head in a bag.
• Bagworm Dictionary B - noun One of several lepidopterous insects which construct, in the larval state, a baglike case which they carry about for protection. One species (Platoeceticus Gloveri) feeds on the orange tree. See Basket worm.
• Bah Dictionary B - interjection An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt.
• Bahar Dictionary B - noun A weight used in certain parts of the East Indies, varying considerably in different localities, the range being from 223 to 625 pounds.
• Baigne Dictionary B - intransitive verb To soak or drench.
• Bail Dictionary B - noun A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.
• Bailed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bail.
• Bailing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bail.
• Bailable Dictionary B - adjective Having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail, upon bond with sureties; - used of persons.
• Bail bond Dictionary B - A bond or obligation given by a prisoner and his surety, to insure the prisoner's appearance in court, at the return of the writ.
• Bailee Dictionary B - noun The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust.
• Bailer Dictionary B - noun See Bailor.
• Bailey Dictionary B - noun The outer wall of a feudal castle.
• Bailie Dictionary B - noun An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman.
• Bailiff Dictionary B - noun Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted.
• Bailiffwick Dictionary B - noun See Bailiwick.
• Bailiwick Dictionary B - noun The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.
• Baillie Dictionary B - noun Bailiff.
• Bailment Dictionary B - noun The action of bailing a person accused.
• Bailor Dictionary B - noun One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.
• Bailpiece Dictionary B - noun A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond.
• Bain Dictionary B - noun A bath; a bagnio.
• Bain-marie Dictionary B - noun A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; - used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.
• Bairam Dictionary B - noun The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after the fast.
• Bairn Dictionary B - noun A child.
• Baisemains Dictionary B - noun plural Respects; compliments.
• Bait Dictionary B - intransitive verb Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.
• Baited Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bait.
• Baiting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bait.
• Baiter Dictionary B - noun One who baits; a tormentor.
• Baize Dictionary B - noun A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; - usually dyed in plain colors.
• Bajocco Dictionary B - noun A small copper coin formerly current in the Roman States, worth about a cent and a half.
• Baked Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bake.
• Baking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bake.
• Bake Dictionary B - verb transitive To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.
• Bakehouse Dictionary B - verb transitive A house for baking; a bakery.
• Bakemeat Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Baked-meat.
• Baked-meat Dictionary B - noun A pie; baked food.
• Baken Dictionary B - p. p. of Bake.
• Baker Dictionary B - intransitive verb One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.
• Baker-legged Dictionary B - adjective Having legs that bend inward at the knees.
• Bakery Dictionary B - noun The trade of a baker.
• Bakingly Dictionary B - adverb In a hot or baking manner.
• Bakistre Dictionary B - noun A baker.
• Baksheesh Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bakshish.
• Bakshish Dictionary B - noun Same as Backsheesh.
• Balaam Dictionary B - noun A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; - an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking.
• Balachong Dictionary B - noun A condiment formed of small fishes or shrimps, pounded up with salt and spices, and then dried. It is much esteemed in China.
• Balaenoidea Dictionary B - noun A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen.
• Balance Dictionary B - noun An apparatus for weighing.
• Balanced Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Balance.
• Balancing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Balance.
• Balanceable Dictionary B - adjective Such as can be balanced.
• Balancement Dictionary B - noun The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces.
• Balancer Dictionary B - noun One who balances, or uses a balance.
• Balancereef Dictionary B - noun The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.
• Balance wheel Dictionary B - A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; - often called simply a balance.
• Balaniferous Dictionary B - adjective Bearing or producing acorns.
• Balanite Dictionary B - noun A fossil balanoid shell.
• Balanoglossus Dictionary B - noun A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and Tornaria.
• Balanoid Dictionary B - adjective Resembling an acorn; - applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle.
• Balas ruby Dictionary B - A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel.
• Balaustine Dictionary B - noun The pomegranate tree (Punica granatum). The bark of the root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally.
• Balbutiate Dictionary B - intransitive verb Alt. of Balbucinate.
• Balbucinate Dictionary B - intransitive verb To stammer.
• Balbuties Dictionary B - noun The defect of stammering; also, a kind of incomplete pronunciation.
• Balcon Dictionary B - noun A balcony.
• Balconied Dictionary B - adjective Having balconies.
• Balconies Dictionary B - pleural of Balcony.
• Balcony Dictionary B - noun A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.
• Bald Dictionary B - adjective Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak.
• Baldachin Dictionary B - noun A rich brocade; baudekin.
• Bald eagle Dictionary B - The white-headed eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) of America. The young, until several years old, lack the white feathers on the head.
• Balder Dictionary B - noun The most beautiful and beloved of the gods; the god of peace; the son of Odin and Freya.
• Balderdash Dictionary B - noun A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
• Bald-faced Dictionary B - adjective Having a white face or a white mark on the face, as a stag.
• Baldhead Dictionary B - noun A person whose head is bald.
• Baldheaded Dictionary B - adjective Having a bald head.
• Baldly Dictionary B - adverb Nakedly; without reserve; inelegantly.
• Baldness Dictionary B - noun The state or condition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style.
• Baldpate Dictionary B - noun A baldheaded person.
• Baldpated Dictionary B - adjective Destitute of hair on the head; baldheaded.
• Baldrib Dictionary B - noun A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat.
• Baldric Dictionary B - noun A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt.
• Baldwin Dictionary B - noun A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple.
• Bale Dictionary B - noun A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw / hay, etc., put up compactly for transportation.
• Baled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bale.
• Baling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bale.
• Balearic Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the isles of Majorca, Minorca, Ivica, etc., in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Valencia.
• Baleen Dictionary B - noun Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.
• Balefire Dictionary B - noun A signal fire; an alarm fire.
• Baleful Dictionary B - adjective Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.
• Balefully Dictionary B - adverb In a baleful manner; perniciously.
• Balefulness Dictionary B - noun The quality or state of being baleful.
• Balisaur Dictionary B - noun A badgerlike animal of India (Arcionyx collaris).
• Balister Dictionary B - noun A crossbow.
• Balistoid Dictionary B - adjective Like a fish of the genus Balistes; of the family Balistidae. See Filefish.
• Balistraria Dictionary B - noun A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged.
• Balize Dictionary B - noun A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark.
• Balk Dictionary B - intransitive verb A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside.
• Balked Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Balk.
• Balking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Balk.
• Balker Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which balks.
• Balkingly Dictionary B - adverb In a manner to balk or frustrate.
• Balkish Dictionary B - adjective Uneven; ridgy.
• Balky Dictionary B - adjective Apt to balk; as, a balky horse.
• Ball Dictionary B - noun Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.
• Balled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Ball.
• Balling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Ball.
• Ballad Dictionary B - noun A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.
• Ballade Dictionary B - noun A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
• Ballader Dictionary B - noun A writer of ballads.
• Ballad monger Dictionary B - A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster.
• Balladry Dictionary B - noun Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads.
• Ballahoo Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Ballahou.
• Ballahou Dictionary B - noun A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies.
• Ballarag Dictionary B - intransitive verb To bully; to threaten.
• Ballast Dictionary B - adjective Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.
• Ballasted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Ballast.
• Ballasting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Ballast.
• Ballastage Dictionary B - noun A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.
• Ballatry Dictionary B - noun See Balladry.
• Ballet Dictionary B - noun An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.
• Ball-flower Dictionary B - noun An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, - usually inserted in a hollow molding.
• Ballist/ Dictionary B - pleural of Ballista.
• Ballista Dictionary B - noun An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.
• Ballister Dictionary B - noun A crossbow.
• Ballistic Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.
• Ballistics Dictionary B - noun The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine.
• Ballium Dictionary B - noun See Bailey.
• Balloon Dictionary B - noun A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.
• Ballooned Dictionary B - adjective Swelled out like a balloon.
• Ballooner Dictionary B - noun One who goes up in a balloon; an aeronaut.
• Balloon fish Dictionary B - A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.
• Ballooning Dictionary B - noun The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.
• Ballooning spider Dictionary B - A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.
• Balloonist Dictionary B - noun An aeronaut.
• Balloonry Dictionary B - noun The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; aeronautics.
• Ballot Dictionary B - noun Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.
• Balloted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Ballot.
• Balloting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Ballot.
• Ballotade Dictionary B - intransitive verb A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out.
• Ballotation Dictionary B - noun Voting by ballot.
• Balloter Dictionary B - noun One who votes by ballot.
• Ballotin Dictionary B - noun An officer who has charge of a ballot box.
• Ballow Dictionary B - noun A cudgel.
• Ballproof Dictionary B - adjective Incapable of being penetrated by balls from firearms.
• Ballroom Dictionary B - noun A room for balls or dancing.
• Balm Dictionary B - noun An aromatic plant of the genus Melissa.
• Balmify Dictionary B - verb transitive To render balmy.
• Balmily Dictionary B - adverb In a balmy manner.
• Balmoral Dictionary B - noun A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress.
• Balmy Dictionary B - adjective Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild.
• Balneal Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to a bath.
• Balneary Dictionary B - noun A bathing room.
• Balneation Dictionary B - noun The act of bathing.
• Balneatory Dictionary B - adjective Belonging to a bath.
• Balneography Dictionary B - noun A description of baths.
• Balneology Dictionary B - noun A treatise on baths; the science of bathing.
• Balneotherapy Dictionary B - noun The treatment of disease by baths.
• Balotade Dictionary B - noun See Ballotade.
• Balsa Dictionary B - noun A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.
• Balsam Dictionary B - noun A resin containing more or less of an essential or volatile oil.
• Balsamation Dictionary B - noun The act of imparting balsamic properties.
• Balsamic Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Balsamical.
• Balsamical Dictionary B - adjective Having the qualities of balsam; containing, or resembling, balsam; soft; mitigative; soothing; restorative.
• Balsamiferous Dictionary B - adjective Producing balsam.
• Balsamine Dictionary B - noun The Impatiens balsamina, or garden balsam.
• Balsamous Dictionary B - adjective Having the quality of balsam; containing balsam.
• Balter Dictionary B - verb transitive To stick together.
• Baltic Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the sea which separates Norway and Sweden from Jutland, Denmark, and Germany; situated on the Baltic Sea.
• Baltimore bird Dictionary B - Alt. of Baltimore oriole.
• Baltimore oriole Dictionary B - A common American bird (Icterus galbula), named after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; - called also golden robin.
• Baluster Dictionary B - noun A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade.
• Balustered Dictionary B - adjective Having balusters.
• Balustrade Dictionary B - noun A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.
• Bam Dictionary B - noun An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
• Bambino Dictionary B - noun A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.
• Bambocciade Dictionary B - noun A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life.
• Bamboo Dictionary B - noun A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries.
• Bamboozled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bamboozle.
• Bamboozling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bamboozle.
• Bamboozle Dictionary B - verb transitive To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug.
• Bamboozler Dictionary B - noun A swindler; one who deceives by trickery.
• Ban Dictionary B - noun A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.
• Banned Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Ban.
• Banning Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Ban.
• Banal Dictionary B - adjective Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.
• Banalities Dictionary B - pleural of Banality.
• Banality Dictionary B - noun Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.
• Banana Dictionary B - noun A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.
• Banat Dictionary B - noun The territory governed by a ban.
• Banc Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bank.
• Bancus Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bank.
• Bank Dictionary B - noun A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.
• Banco Dictionary B - noun A bank, especially that of Venice.
• Band Dictionary B - verb transitive A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter.
• Banded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Band.
• Banding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Band.
• Bandage Dictionary B - noun A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.
• Bandaged Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bandage.
• Bandaging Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bandage.
• Bandala Dictionary B - noun A fabric made in Manilla from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis).
• Bandanna Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bandana.
• Bandana Dictionary B - noun A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.
• Bandbox Dictionary B - noun A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.
• Bandeaux Dictionary B - pleural of Bandeau.
• Bandeau Dictionary B - noun A narrow band or fillet; a part of a head-dress.
• Bandelet Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bandlet.
• Bandlet Dictionary B - noun A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring.
• Bander Dictionary B - noun One banded with others.
• Banderole Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bandrol.
• Bandrol Dictionary B - noun A little banner, flag, or streamer.
• Band fish Dictionary B - A small red fish of the genus Cepola; the ribbon fish.
• Bandicoot Dictionary B - noun A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.
• Banding plane Dictionary B - A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.
• Bandits Dictionary B - pleural of Bandit.
• Banditti Dictionary B - pleural of Bandit.
• Bandit Dictionary B - noun An outlaw; a brigand.
• Bandle Dictionary B - noun An Irish measure of two feet in length.
• Bandmaster Dictionary B - noun The conductor of a musical band.
• Bandog Dictionary B - noun A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up.
• Bandoleer Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bandolier.
• Bandolier Dictionary B - noun A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt.
• Bandoline Dictionary B - noun A glutinous pomatum for the fair.
• Bandon Dictionary B - noun Disposal; control; license.
• Bandore Dictionary B - noun A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore.
• Bandy Dictionary B - noun A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
• Bandies Dictionary B - pleural of Bandy.
• Bandied Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bandy.
• Bandying Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bandy.
• Bandy-legged Dictionary B - adjective Having crooked legs.
• Bane Dictionary B - noun That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.
• Baneberry Dictionary B - noun A genus (Actaea) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceae, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous.
• Baneful Dictionary B - adjective Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.
• Banewort Dictionary B - noun Deadly nightshade.
• Banged Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bang.
• Banging Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bang.
• Bang Dictionary B - verb transitive To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.
• Bangue Dictionary B - noun See Bhang.
• Bangle Dictionary B - verb transitive To waste by little and little; to fritter away.
• Banian Dictionary B - noun A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.
• Banished Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Banish.
• Banishing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Banish.
• Banish Dictionary B - verb transitive To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.
• Banisher Dictionary B - noun One who banishes.
• Banishment Dictionary B - noun The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.
• Banister Dictionary B - noun A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.
• Banked Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bank.
• Banking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bank.
• Bankable Dictionary B - adjective Receivable at a bank.
• Bank bill Dictionary B - In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank note.
• Bank book Dictionary B - A book kept by a depositor, in which an officer of a bank enters the debits and credits of the depositor's account with the bank.
• Banker Dictionary B - noun One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
• Bankeress Dictionary B - noun A female banker.
• Bank note Dictionary B - A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand.
• Bankrupt Dictionary B - noun A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
• Bankrupted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bankrupt.
• Bankrupting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bankrupt.
• Bankruptcies Dictionary B - pleural of Bankruptcy.
• Bankruptcy Dictionary B - noun The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.
• Bankside Dictionary B - noun The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.
• Bank-sided Dictionary B - adjective Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; - opposed to wall-sided.
• Bank swallow Dictionary B - See under 1st Bank, n.
• Banlieue Dictionary B - noun The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city.
• Banner Dictionary B - noun A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.
• Bannered Dictionary B - adjective Furnished with, or bearing, banners.
• Banneret Dictionary B - noun Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; - commonly used as a title of rank.
• Bannerol Dictionary B - noun A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.
• Bannition Dictionary B - noun The act of expulsion.
• Bannock Dictionary B - noun A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; - used in Scotland and the northern counties of England.
• Banns Dictionary B - noun plural Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place.
• Banquet Dictionary B - noun A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.
• Banqueted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Banquet.
• Banqueting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Banquet.
• Banquetter Dictionary B - noun One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts.
• Banquette Dictionary B - noun A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.
• Banshee Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Banshie.
• Banshie Dictionary B - noun A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.
• Banstickle Dictionary B - noun A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.
• Bantam Dictionary B - noun A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.
• Bantam work Dictionary B - Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware.
• Banteng Dictionary B - noun The wild ox of Java (Bibos Banteng).
• Bantered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Banter.
• Bantering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Banter.
• Banter Dictionary B - verb transitive To address playful good-natured ridicule to, - the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.
• Banterer Dictionary B - noun One who banters or rallies.
• Bantingism Dictionary B - noun A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; - so called from William Banting of London.
• Bantling Dictionary B - noun A young or small child; an infant. Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory..
• Banxring Dictionary B - noun An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia.
• Banyan Dictionary B - noun A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.
• Baobab Dictionary B - noun A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.
• Baphomet Dictionary B - noun An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.
• Baptism Dictionary B - intransitive verb The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.
• Baptismal Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to baptism; as, baptismal vows.
• Baptismally Dictionary B - adverb In a baptismal manner.
• Baptist Dictionary B - noun One who administers baptism; - specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ.
• Baptisteries Dictionary B - pleural of Baptistry.
• -tries Dictionary B - pleural of Baptistry.
• Baptistery Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Baptistry.
• Baptistry Dictionary B - noun In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near.
• Baptistic Dictionary B - adjective Of or for baptism; baptismal.
• Baptistical Dictionary B - adjective Baptistic.
• Baptizable Dictionary B - adjective Capable of being baptized; fit to be baptized.
• Baptization Dictionary B - noun Baptism.
• Baptized Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Baptize.
• Baptizing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Baptize.
• Baptize Dictionary B - verb transitive To administer the sacrament of baptism to.
• Baptizement Dictionary B - noun The act of baptizing.
• Baptizer Dictionary B - noun One who baptizes.
• Bar Dictionary B - noun A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.
• Barred Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bar.
• Barring Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bar.
• Barb Dictionary B - noun Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
• Barbed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Barb.
• Barbing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Barb.
• Barbacan Dictionary B - noun See Barbican.
• Barbacanage Dictionary B - noun See Barbicanage.
• Barbadian Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Barbados.
• Barbados Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Barbadoes.
• Barbadoes Dictionary B - noun A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc.
• Barbara Dictionary B - noun The first word in certain mnemonic lines which represent the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives.
• Barbaresque Dictionary B - adjective Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque architecture.
• Barbarian Dictionary B - noun A foreigner.
• Barbaic Dictionary B - adjective Of, or from, barbarian nations; foreign; - often with reference to barbarous nations of east.
• Barbarism Dictionary B - noun An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.
• Barbarities Dictionary B - pleural of Barbarity.
• Barbarity Dictionary B - noun The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.
• Barbarized Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Barbarize.
• Barbarizing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Barbarize.
• Barbarize Dictionary B - intransitive verb To become barbarous.
• Barbarous Dictionary B - adjective Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
• Barbarously Dictionary B - adverb In a barbarous manner.
• Barbarousness Dictionary B - noun The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism.
• Barbary Dictionary B - noun The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. Obs. Also, a kind of pigeon.
• Barbastel Dictionary B - noun A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips.
• Barbate Dictionary B - adjective Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.
• Barbated Dictionary B - adjective Having barbed points.
• Barbecue Dictionary B - noun A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
• Barbecued Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Barbecue.
• Barbecuing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Barbecue.
• Barbel Dictionary B - noun A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished.
• Barbellate Dictionary B - adjective Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point.
• Barbellulate Dictionary B - adjective Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.
• Barber Dictionary B - noun One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons.
• Barbered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Barber.
• Barbering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Barber.
• Barber fish Dictionary B - See Surgeon fish.
• Barbermonger Dictionary B - noun A fop.
• Barberry Dictionary B - noun A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root.
• Barbet Dictionary B - noun A variety of small dog, having long curly hair.
• Barbette Dictionary B - noun A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.
• Barbican Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Barbacan.
• Barbicanage Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Barbacanage.
• Barbicel Dictionary B - noun One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.
• Barbiers Dictionary B - noun A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; - considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form.
• Barbigerous Dictionary B - adjective Having a beard; bearded; hairy.
• Barbiton Dictionary B - noun An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.
• Barbituric acid Dictionary B - A white, crystalline substance, CH2(CO.NH)2.CO, derived from alloxantin, also from malonic acid and urea, and regarded as a substituted urea.
• Barble Dictionary B - noun See Barbel.
• Barbotine Dictionary B - noun A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.
• Barbre Dictionary B - adjective Barbarian.
• Barbule Dictionary B - noun A very minute barb or beard.
• Barcarolle Dictionary B - noun A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers.
• Barcon Dictionary B - noun A vessel for freight; - used in Mediterranean.
• Bard Dictionary B - noun A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
• Barde Dictionary B - noun A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. Often in the pl..
• Barded Dictionary B - past article Accoutered with defensive armor; - said of a horse.
• Bardic Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry.
• Bardish Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards.
• Bardism Dictionary B - noun The system of bards; the learning and maxims of bards.
• Bardling Dictionary B - noun An inferior bard.
• Bardship Dictionary B - noun The state of being a bard.
• Bare Dictionary B - adjective Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
• Bared Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bare.
• Baring Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bare.
• Bareback Dictionary B - adverb On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle; as, to ride bareback.
• Barebacked Dictionary B - adjective Having the back uncovered; as, a barebacked horse.
• Barebone Dictionary B - noun A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin.
• Barefaced Dictionary B - adjective With the face uncovered; not masked.
• Barefacedly Dictionary B - adverb Openly; shamelessly.
• Barefacedness Dictionary B - noun The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.
• Barefoot Dictionary B - adjective & adverb With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.
• Barefooted Dictionary B - adjective Having the feet bare.
• Barege Dictionary B - noun A gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted.
• Barehanded Dictionary B - noun Having bare hands.
• Bareheaded Dictionary B - adjective & adverb Alt. of Barehead.
• Barehead Dictionary B - adjective & adverb Having the head uncovered; as, a bareheaded girl.
• Barelegged Dictionary B - adjective Having the legs bare.
• Barely Dictionary B - adverb Without covering; nakedly.
• Barenecked Dictionary B - adjective Having the neck bare.
• Bareness Dictionary B - noun The state of being bare.
• Baresark Dictionary B - noun A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor.
• Barfish Dictionary B - noun Same as Calico bass.
• Barful Dictionary B - adjective Full of obstructions.
• Bargain Dictionary B - noun An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.
• Bargained Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bargain.
• Bargaining Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bargain.
• Bargainee Dictionary B - intransitive verb The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold.
• Bargainer Dictionary B - noun One who makes a bargain; - sometimes in the sense of bargainor.
• Bargainor Dictionary B - noun One who makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another.
• Barge Dictionary B - noun A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.
• Bargeboard Dictionary B - noun A vergeboard.
• Bargecourse Dictionary B - noun A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable.
• Bargee Dictionary B - noun A bargeman.
• Bargeman Dictionary B - noun The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.
• Bargemastter Dictionary B - noun The proprietor or manager of a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.
• Barger Dictionary B - noun The manager of a barge.
• Barghest Dictionary B - noun A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune.
• Baria Dictionary B - noun Baryta.
• Baric Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to barium; as, baric oxide.
• Barilla Dictionary B - noun A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.
• Barillet Dictionary B - noun A little cask, or something resembling one.
• Bar iron Dictionary B - See under Iron.
• Barite Dictionary B - noun Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins.
• Baritone Dictionary B - adjective & noun See Barytone.
• Barium Dictionary B - noun One of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a very high temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight, 137. Symbol, Ba. Its oxide called baryta.
• Barked Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bark.
• Barking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bark.
• Bark Dictionary B - verb transitive To strip the bark from; to peel.
• Barque Dictionary B - noun Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
• Barkantine Dictionary B - noun Same as Barkentine.
• Bark beetle Dictionary B - A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidae), which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.
• Barkbound Dictionary B - adjective Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.
• Barkeeper Dictionary B - noun One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.
• Barken Dictionary B - adjective Made of bark.
• Barkentine Dictionary B - noun A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc. See Illust. in Append.
• Barker Dictionary B - noun An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably.
• Barker's mill Dictionary B - A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis.
• Barkery Dictionary B - noun A tanhouse.
• Barking irons Dictionary B - Instruments used in taking off the bark of trees.
• Barkless Dictionary B - adjective Destitute of bark.
• Bark louse Dictionary B - An insect of the family Coccidae, which infests the bark of trees and vines.
• Barky Dictionary B - adjective Covered with, or containing, bark.
• Barley Dictionary B - noun A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky.
• Barleybrake Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Barleybreak.
• Barleybreak Dictionary B - noun An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal.
• Barley-bree Dictionary B - noun Liquor made from barley; strong ale.
• Barleycorn Dictionary B - noun A grain or "corn" of barley.
• Barm Dictionary B - noun Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.
• Barmaid Dictionary B - noun A girl or woman who attends the customers of a bar, as in a tavern or beershop.
• Barmaster Dictionary B - noun Formerly, a local judge among miners; now, an officer of the barmote.
• Barmcloth Dictionary B - noun Apron.
• Barmecidal Dictionary B - adjective Unreal; illusory.
• Barmecide Dictionary B - noun One who proffers some illusory advantage or benefit. Also used as an adj.: Barmecidal.
• Barmote Dictionary B - noun A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners.
• Barn Dictionary B - noun A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables.
• Barnabite Dictionary B - noun A member of a religious order, named from St. Barnabas.
• Barnacle Dictionary B - noun Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle.
• Barnyard Dictionary B - noun A yard belonging to a barn.
• Barocco Dictionary B - adjective See Baroque.
• Barograph Dictionary B - noun An instrument for recording automatically the variations of atmospheric pressure.
• Baroko Dictionary B - noun A form or mode of syllogism of which the first proposition is a universal affirmative, and the other two are particular negative.
• Barology Dictionary B - noun The science of weight or gravity.
• Baromacrometer Dictionary B - noun An instrument for ascertaining the weight and length of a newborn infant.
• Barometer Dictionary B - noun An instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, and hence for judging of the probable changes of weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent.
• Barometric Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Barometrical.
• Barometrical Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to the barometer; made or indicated by a barometer; as, barometric changes; barometrical observations.
• Barometrically Dictionary B - adverb By means of a barometer, or according to barometric observations.
• Barometrograph Dictionary B - noun A form of barometer so constructed as to inscribe of itself upon paper a record of the variations of atmospheric pressure.
• Barometry Dictionary B - noun The art or process of making barometrical measurements.
• Barometz Dictionary B - noun The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resembles a lamb; - called also Scythian lamb.
• Baron Dictionary B - noun A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.
• Baronage Dictionary B - noun The whole body of barons or peers.
• Baroness Dictionary B - noun A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
• Baronet Dictionary B - noun A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.
• Baronetage Dictionary B - noun State or rank of a baronet.
• Baronetcy Dictionary B - noun The rank or patent of a baronet.
• Baronial Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to a baron or a barony.
• Baronies Dictionary B - pleural of Barony.
• Barony Dictionary B - noun The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.
• Baroque Dictionary B - adjective In bad taste; grotesque; odd.
• Baroscope Dictionary B - noun Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.
• Baroscopic Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Baroscopical.
• Baroscopical Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.
• Barouche Dictionary B - noun A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.
• Barouchet Dictionary B - noun A kind of light barouche.
• Barpost Dictionary B - noun A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.
• Barracan Dictionary B - noun A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; - still used for outer garments in the Levant.
• Barrack Dictionary B - noun A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
• Barraclade Dictionary B - noun A home-made woolen blanket without nap.
• Barracoon Dictionary B - noun A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily.
• Barracuda Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Barracouata.
• Barracouata Dictionary B - noun A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus Sphyraena, sometimes used as food.
• Barrage Dictionary B - noun An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.
• Barranca Dictionary B - noun A ravine caused by heavy rains or a watercourse.
• Barras Dictionary B - noun A resin, called also galipot.
• Barrator Dictionary B - intransitive verb One guilty of barratry.
• Barratrous Dictionary B - / Tainter with, or constituting, barratry.
• Barratry Dictionary B - noun The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels.
• Barred owl Dictionary B - A large American owl (Syrnium nebulosum); - so called from the transverse bars of a dark brown color on the breast.
• Barrel Dictionary B - noun A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.
• Barreled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Barrel.
• Barrelled Dictionary B - of Barrel.
• Barreling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Barrel.
• Barrelling Dictionary B - of Barrel.
• Barren Dictionary B - adjective Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; - said of women and female animals.
• Barrenly Dictionary B - adverb Unfruitfully; unproductively.
• Barrenness Dictionary B - noun The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness.
• Barrenwort Dictionary B - noun An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.
• Barret Dictionary B - noun A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers; - called also barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics.
• Barricade Dictionary B - noun A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.
• Barricaded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Barricade.
• Barricading Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Barricade.
• Barricader Dictionary B - noun One who constructs barricades.
• Barricado Dictionary B - noun & transitive verb See Barricade.
• Barrier Dictionary B - noun A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.
• Barrigudo Dictionary B - noun A large, dark-colored, South American monkey, of the genus Lagothrix, having a long prehensile tail.
• Barringout Dictionary B - noun The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; - a boyish mode of rebellion in schools.
• Barrister Dictionary B - noun Counselor at law; a counsel admitted to plead at the bar, and undertake the public trial of causes, as distinguished from an attorney or solicitor. See Attorney.
• Barroom Dictionary B - noun A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.
• Barrow Dictionary B - noun A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.
• Barrowist Dictionary B - noun A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.
• Barrulet Dictionary B - noun A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width.
• Barruly Dictionary B - adjective Traversed by barrulets or small bars; - said of the field.
• Barry Dictionary B - adjective Divided into bars; - said of the field.
• Barse Dictionary B - noun The common perch. See 1st Bass.
• Bartender Dictionary B - noun A barkeeper.
• Bartered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Barter.
• Bartering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Barter.
• Barter Dictionary B - intransitive verb To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck.
• Barterer Dictionary B - noun One who barters.
• Bartery Dictionary B - noun Barter.
• Barth Dictionary B - noun A place of shelter for cattle.
• Bartholomew tide Dictionary B - Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th.
• Bartizan Dictionary B - noun A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.
• Bartlett Dictionary B - noun A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchretien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
• Barton Dictionary B - noun The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself.
• Bartram Dictionary B - noun See Bertram.
• Barway Dictionary B - noun A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.
• Barwise Dictionary B - adverb Horizontally.
• Barwood Dictionary B - noun A red wood of a leguminous tree (Baphia nitida), from Angola and the Gaboon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.
• Barycentric Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the center of gravity. See Barycentric calculus, under Calculus.
• Baryphony Dictionary B - noun Difficulty of speech.
• Baryta Dictionary B - noun An oxide of barium (or barytum); a heavy earth with a specific gravity above 4.
• Barytes Dictionary B - noun Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite. See Barite.
• Barytic Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to baryta.
• Baryto-calcite Dictionary B - noun A mineral of a white or gray color, occurring massive or crystallized. It is a compound of the carbonates of barium and calcium.
• Barytone Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Baritone.
• Barytum Dictionary B - noun The metal barium. See Barium.
• Basal Dictionary B - adjective Relating to, or forming, the base.
• Basal-nerved Dictionary B - adjective Having the nerves radiating from the base; - said of leaves.
• Basalt Dictionary B - noun A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated.
• Basaltic Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava.
• Basaltiform Dictionary B - adjective In the form of basalt; columnar.
• Basaltoid Dictionary B - adjective Formed like basalt; basaltiform.
• Basan Dictionary B - noun Same as Basil, a sheepskin.
• Basanite Dictionary B - noun Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.
• Basbleu Dictionary B - noun A bluestocking; a literary woman.
• Bascinet Dictionary B - noun A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor.
• Bascule Dictionary B - noun In mechanics an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls.
• Base Dictionary B - adjective Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.
• Based Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Base.
• Basing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Base.
• Baseball Dictionary B - noun A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball.
• Baseboard Dictionary B - noun A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; - also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard.
• Baseborn Dictionary B - adjective Born out of wedlock.
• Base-burner Dictionary B - noun A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed.
• Base-court Dictionary B - noun The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle.
• Basedow's disease Dictionary B - A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; - called also exophthalmic goiter.
• Baselard Dictionary B - noun A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century.
• Baseless Dictionary B - adjective Without a base; having no foundation or support.
• Basely Dictionary B - adverb In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.
• Basement Dictionary B - adjective The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively.
• Baseness Dictionary B - noun The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.
• Basenet Dictionary B - noun See Bascinet.
• Base viol Dictionary B - See Bass viol.
• Bash Dictionary B - verb transitive & intransitive To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
• Bashaw Dictionary B - noun A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.
• Bashful Dictionary B - adjective Abashed; daunted; dismayed.
• Bashfully Dictionary B - adverb In a bashful manner.
• Bashfulness Dictionary B - noun The quality of being bashful.
• Bashi-bazouk Dictionary B - noun A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army.
• Bashless Dictionary B - adjective Shameless; unblushing.
• Bashyle Dictionary B - noun See Basyle.
• Basi- Dictionary B - A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a base; as, basibranchials, the most ventral of the cartilages or bones of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc.
• Basic Dictionary B - adjective Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
• Basicerite Dictionary B - noun The second joint of the antennae of crustaceans.
• Basicity Dictionary B - noun The quality or state of being a base.
• Basidiospore Dictionary B - noun A spore borne by a basidium.
• Basidium Dictionary B - noun A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.
• Basifier Dictionary B - noun That which converts into a salifiable base.
• Basifugal Dictionary B - noun Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a basifugal growth.
• Basify Dictionary B - verb transitive To convert into a salifiable base.
• Basigynium Dictionary B - noun The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.
• Basihyal Dictionary B - adjective Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted hyoid arch.
• Basihyoid Dictionary B - noun The central tongue bone.
• Basil Dictionary B - noun The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground.
• Basiled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Basil.
• Basiling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Basil.
• Basilar Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Basilary.
• Basilary Dictionary B - noun Relating to, or situated at, the base.
• Basilic Dictionary B - noun Basilica.
• Basilical Dictionary B - adjective Royal; kingly; also, basilican.
• Basilicas Dictionary B - pleural of Basilica.
• Basilic/ Dictionary B - pleural of Basilica.
• Basilica Dictionary B - noun Originally, the place of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose.
• Basilican Dictionary B - adjective Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical.
• Basilicok Dictionary B - noun The basilisk.
• Basilicon Dictionary B - noun An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.
• Basilisk Dictionary B - noun A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.
• Basin Dictionary B - noun A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
• Basined Dictionary B - adjective Inclosed in a basin.
• Basinet Dictionary B - noun Same as Bascinet.
• Basioccipital Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the bone in the base of the cranium, frequently forming a part of the occipital in the adult, but usually distinct in the young.
• Basion Dictionary B - noun The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull.
• Basipodite Dictionary B - noun The basal joint of the legs of Crustacea.
• Basipterygium Dictionary B - noun A bar of cartilage at the base of the embryonic fins of some fishes. It develops into the metapterygium.
• Basipterygoid Dictionary B - adjective & noun Applied to a protuberance of the base of the sphenoid bone.
• Bases Dictionary B - pleural of Basis.
• Basis Dictionary B - noun The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.
• Basisolute Dictionary B - adjective Prolonged at the base, as certain leaves.
• Basisphenoid Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Basisphenoidal.
• Basisphenoidal Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to that part of the base of the cranium between the basioccipital and the presphenoid, which usually ossifies separately in the embryo or in the young, and becomes a part of the sphenoid in the adult.
• Basked Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bask.
• Basking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bask.
• Bask Dictionary B - verb transitive To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.
• Basket Dictionary B - noun A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.
• Basketfuls Dictionary B - pleural of Basketful.
• Basketful Dictionary B - noun As much as a basket will contain.
• Basketry Dictionary B - noun The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively.
• Basking shark Dictionary B - One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.
• Basnet Dictionary B - noun Same as Bascinet.
• Basommatophora Dictionary B - noun plural A group of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails.
• Bason Dictionary B - noun A basin.
• Basque Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language.
• Basquish Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to the country, people, or language of Biscay; Basque.
• Bas-relief Dictionary B - noun Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; - called also bassrelief and basso-rilievo. See Alto-rilievo.
• Bass Dictionary B - pleural of Bass.
• Basses Dictionary B - pleural of Bass.
• Bassa Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bassaw.
• Bassaw Dictionary B - noun See Bashaw.
• Bass drum Dictionary B - The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a.
• Basset Dictionary B - noun A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice.
• Basseted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Basset.
• Basseting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Basset.
• Basset horn Dictionary B - adjective An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.
• Basset hound Dictionary B - A small kind of hound with a long body and short legs, used as an earth dog.
• Bassetto Dictionary B - noun A tenor or small bass viol.
• Bass horn Dictionary B - A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone.
• Bassinet Dictionary B - noun A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in which young children are placed as in a cradle.
• Basso Dictionary B - adjective The bass or lowest part; as, to sing basso.
• Bassock Dictionary B - noun A hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.
• Bassoon Dictionary B - noun A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.
• Bassoonist Dictionary B - noun A performer on the bassoon.
• Basso-rilievo Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Basso-relievo.
• Basso-relievo Dictionary B - noun Same as Bas-relief.
• Bassorin Dictionary B - noun A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses.
• Bass-relief Dictionary B - noun Some as Bas-relief.
• Bass viol Dictionary B - A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello.
• Basswood Dictionary B - noun The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree.
• Bast Dictionary B - noun The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.
• Basta Dictionary B - interjection Enough; stop.
• Bastard Dictionary B - noun A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
• Bastardism Dictionary B - noun The state of being a bastard; bastardy.
• Bastardized Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bastardize.
• Bastardizing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bastardize.
• Bastardize Dictionary B - verb transitive To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
• Bastardly Dictionary B - adjective Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt.
• Bastardy Dictionary B - noun The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.
• Basted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Baste.
• Basting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Baste.
• Baste Dictionary B - verb transitive To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
• Bastile Bastille Dictionary B - noun A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place.
• Bastinade Dictionary B - noun See Bastinado, n.
• Bastinadoes Dictionary B - pleural of Bastinado.
• Bastinado Dictionary B - noun A blow with a stick or cudgel.
• Bastinadoing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bastinado.
• Bastion Dictionary B - noun A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.
• Bastioned Dictionary B - adjective Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
• Basto Dictionary B - noun The ace of clubs in quadrille and omber.
• Baston Dictionary B - noun A staff or cudgel.
• Basyle Dictionary B - noun A positive or nonacid constituent of compound, either elementary, or, if compound, performing the functions of an element.
• Basylous Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to, or having the nature of, a basyle; electro-positive; basic; - opposed to chlorous.
• Bat Dictionary B - noun A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
• Batted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bat.
• Batting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bat.
• Batable Dictionary B - adjective Disputable.
• Batailled Dictionary B - adjective Embattled.
• Batardeau Dictionary B - noun A cofferdam.
• Batatas Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Batata.
• Batata Dictionary B - noun An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas).
• Batavian Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe; or to (b) /atavia or Holland; as, a Batavian legion.
• Batch Dictionary B - verb transitive The quantity of bread baked at one time.
• Bate Dictionary B - noun Strife; contention.
• Bated Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bate.
• Bating Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bate.
• Bateaux Dictionary B - pleural of Bateau.
• Bateau Dictionary B - noun A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers.
• Bateful Dictionary B - adjective Exciting contention; contentious.
• Bateless Dictionary B - adjective Not to be abated.
• Batement Dictionary B - noun Abatement; diminution.
• Batfish Dictionary B - noun A name given to several species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.).
• Batfowler Dictionary B - noun One who practices or finds sport in batfowling.
• Batfowling Dictionary B - noun A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise.
• Batful Dictionary B - intransitive verb Rich; fertile.
• Baths Dictionary B - pleural of Bath.
• Bath Dictionary B - noun The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath.
• Bathed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bathe.
• Bathing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bathe.
• Bathe Dictionary B - verb transitive To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.
• Bather Dictionary B - noun One who bathes.
• Bathetic Dictionary B - adjective Having the character of bathos.
• Bathmism Dictionary B - noun See Vital force.
• Bathometer Dictionary B - noun An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line.
• Bathorse Dictionary B - noun A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.
• Bathos Dictionary B - noun A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
• Bathybius Dictionary B - noun A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin.
• Bathymetric Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bathymetrical.
• Bathymetrical Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea.
• Bathymetry Dictionary B - noun The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea.
• Batiste Dictionary B - noun Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.
• Batlet Dictionary B - noun A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; - called also batler, batling staff, batting staff.
• Batman Dictionary B - noun A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.
• Batmen Dictionary B - pleural of Batman.
• Batoidei Dictionary B - noun plural The division of fishes which includes the rays and skates.
• Baton Dictionary B - noun A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.
• Batoon Dictionary B - noun See Baton, and Baston.
• Bat printing Dictionary B - A mode of printing on glazed ware.
• Batrachia Dictionary B - noun plural The order of amphibians which includes the frogs and toads; the Anura. Sometimes the word is used in a wider sense as equivalent to Amphibia.
• Batrachian Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to the Batrachia.
• Batrachoid Dictionary B - adjective Froglike. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the Batrachidae, a family of marine fishes, including the toadfish. Some have poisonous dorsal spines.
• Batrachomyomachy Dictionary B - noun The battle between the frogs and mice; - a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.
• Batrachophagous Dictionary B - adjective Feeding on frogs.
• Batsmen Dictionary B - pleural of Batsman.
• Batsman Dictionary B - noun The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.
• Bat's-wing Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Batwing.
• Batwing Dictionary B - adjective Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner.
• Batta Dictionary B - noun Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India.
• Battable Dictionary B - adjective Capable of cultivation; fertile; productive; fattening.
• Battailant Dictionary B - intransitive verb Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike.
• Battailous Dictionary B - noun Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike.
• Battalia Dictionary B - noun Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action.
• Battalion Dictionary B - noun A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.
• Battel Dictionary B - noun A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager.
• Batteler Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Battler.
• Battler Dictionary B - noun A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge.
• Battened Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Batten.
• Battening Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Batten.
• Batten Dictionary B - verb transitive To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.
• Battered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Batter.
• Battering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Batter.
• Batter Dictionary B - verb transitive To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.
• Batterer Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, batters.
• Battering-ram Dictionary B - noun An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.
• Battering train Dictionary B - A train of artillery for siege operations.
• Batteries Dictionary B - pleural of Battery.
• Battery Dictionary B - verb transitive The act of battering or beating.
• Battle Dictionary B - adjective Fertile. See Battel, a.
• Battled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Battle.
• Battling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Battle.
• Battle-ax Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Battle-axe.
• Battle-axe Dictionary B - noun A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.
• Battledoor Dictionary B - noun An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.
• Battlement Dictionary B - noun One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
• Battlemented Dictionary B - adjective Having battlements.
• Battologist Dictionary B - noun One who battologizes.
• Battologize Dictionary B - verb transitive To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate.
• Battology Dictionary B - noun A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing.
• Batton Dictionary B - noun See Batten, and Baton.
• Battue Dictionary B - verb transitive The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game.
• Batture Dictionary B - noun An elevated river bed or sea bed.
• Battuta Dictionary B - noun The measuring of time by beating.
• Batty Dictionary B - adjective Belonging to, or resembling, a bat.
• Batule Dictionary B - noun A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; - called also batule board.
• Batzen Dictionary B - pleural of Batz.
• Batz Dictionary B - noun A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about four cents.
• Baubee Dictionary B - noun Same as Bawbee.
• Bauble Dictionary B - noun A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
• Baubling Dictionary B - adjective See Bawbling.
• Baudekin Dictionary B - noun The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : - made originally at Bagdad.
• Baudrick Dictionary B - noun A belt. See Baldric.
• Bauk Dictionary B - noun & verb Alt. of Baulk.
• Baulk Dictionary B - noun & verb See Balk.
• Baunscheidtism Dictionary B - noun A form of acupuncture, followed by the rubbing of the part with a stimulating fluid.
• Bauxite Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Beauxite.
• Beauxite Dictionary B - noun A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.
• Bavarian Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Bavaria.
• Bavaroy Dictionary B - noun A kind of cloak or surtout.
• Bavian Dictionary B - noun A baboon.
• Bavin Dictionary B - noun A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.
• Bawbee Dictionary B - noun A halfpenny.
• Bawble Dictionary B - noun A trinket. See Bauble.
• Bawbling Dictionary B - adjective Insignificant; contemptible.
• Bawcock Dictionary B - noun A fine fellow; - a term of endearment.
• Bawd Dictionary B - noun A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; - usually applied to a woman.
• Bawdily Dictionary B - adverb Obscenely; lewdly.
• Bawdiness Dictionary B - noun Obscenity; lewdness.
• Bawdrick Dictionary B - noun A belt. See Baldric.
• Bawdry Dictionary B - noun The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.
• Bawdy Dictionary B - adjective Dirty; foul; - said of clothes.
• Bawdyhouse Dictionary B - noun A house of prostitution; a house of ill fame; a brothel.
• Bawhorse Dictionary B - noun Same as Bathorse.
• Bawled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bawl.
• Bawling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bawl.
• Bawl Dictionary B - intransitive verb To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.
• Bawler Dictionary B - noun One who bawls.
• Bawn Dictionary B - noun An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure.
• Bawrel Dictionary B - noun A kind of hawk.
• Bawsin Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bawson.
• Bawson Dictionary B - noun A badger.
• Baxter Dictionary B - noun A baker; originally, a female baker.
• Bay Dictionary B - adjective Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; - applied to the color of horses.
• Bayed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bay.
• Baying Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bay.
• Baya Dictionary B - noun The East Indian weaver bird (Ploceus Philippinus).
• Bayad Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bayatte.
• Bayatte Dictionary B - noun A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species (Bagrina bayad and B. docmac).
• Bayadere Dictionary B - noun A female dancer in the East Indies.
• Bay-antler Dictionary B - noun The second tine of a stag's horn. See under Antler.
• Bayard Dictionary B - adjective Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse.
• Bayardly Dictionary B - adjective Blind; stupid.
• Bayberry Dictionary B - noun The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis.
• Baybolt Dictionary B - noun A bolt with a barbed shank.
• Bay ice Dictionary B - See under Ice.
• Bay leaf Dictionary B - See under 3d Bay.
• Bayonet Dictionary B - noun A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.
• Bayoneted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bayonet.
• Bayoneting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bayonet.
• Bayous Dictionary B - pleural of Bayou.
• Bayou Dictionary B - noun An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind.
• Bay rum Dictionary B - A fragrant liquid, used for cosmetic and medicinal purposes.
• Bays Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bayze.
• Bayze Dictionary B - noun See Baize.
• Bay salt Dictionary B - Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large crystalline salt of commerce.
• Bay tree Dictionary B - A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis).
• Bay window Dictionary B - A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; - often corruptly called a bow window.
• Bay yarn Dictionary B - Woolen yarn.
• Bazaar Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bazar.
• Bazar Dictionary B - noun In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale.
• Bdellium Dictionary B - noun An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia.
• Bdelloidea Dictionary B - noun plural The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea.
• Bdellometer Dictionary B - noun A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and an exhausting syringe.
• Bdellomorpha Dictionary B - noun An order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams.
• Was Dictionary B - imperative of Be.
• Been Dictionary B - past participle of Be.
• Being Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Be.
• Be Dictionary B - intransitive verb To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.
• Be- Dictionary B - A prefix, originally the same word as by;.
• Beaches Dictionary B - pleural of Beach.
• Beach Dictionary B - noun Pebbles, collectively; shingle.
• Beached Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beach.
• Beaching Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beach.
• Beach comber Dictionary B - A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber.
• Beachy Dictionary B - adjective Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly.
• Beacon Dictionary B - noun A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
• Beaconed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beacon.
• Beaconing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beacon.
• Beaconage Dictionary B - noun Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.
• Beaconless Dictionary B - adjective Having no beacon.
• Bead Dictionary B - noun A prayer.
• Beaded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bead.
• Beading Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bead.
• Beadhouse Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bedehouse.
• Bedehouse Dictionary B - noun An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.
• Beadle Dictionary B - verb A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; - called also an apparitor or summoner.
• Beadlery Dictionary B - noun Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.
• Beadleship Dictionary B - noun The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle.
• Bead proof Dictionary B - Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters.
• Beadroll Dictionary B - noun A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general.
• -men Dictionary B - pleural of Bedesman.
• Beadsman Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bedesman.
• Bedesman Dictionary B - noun A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.
• Beadsnake Dictionary B - noun A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black.
• -women Dictionary B - pleural of Bedeswoman.
• Beadswoman Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bedeswoman.
• Bedeswoman Dictionary B - noun Fem. of Beadsman.
• Beadwork Dictionary B - noun Ornamental work in beads.
• Beady Dictionary B - adjective Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening.
• Beagle Dictionary B - noun A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Beak Dictionary B - noun The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds.
• Beaked Dictionary B - adjective Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.
• Beaker Dictionary B - noun A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.
• Beakhead Dictionary B - noun An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak.
• Beakiron Dictionary B - noun A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.
• Bealed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beal.
• Bealing Dictionary B - particle pr & verb noun of Beal.
• Beal Dictionary B - intransitive verb To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple.
• Be-all Dictionary B - noun The whole; all that is to be.
• Beam Dictionary B - noun Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
• Beamed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beam.
• Beaming Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beam.
• Beambird Dictionary B - noun A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building.
• Beamful Dictionary B - adjective Beamy; radiant.
• Beamily Dictionary B - adverb In a beaming manner.
• Beaminess Dictionary B - noun The state of being beamy.
• Beamingly Dictionary B - adverb In a beaming manner; radiantly.
• Beamless Dictionary B - adjective Not having a beam.
• Beamlet Dictionary B - noun A small beam of light.
• Beam tree Dictionary B - A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple.
• Beamy Dictionary B - adjective Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining.
• Bean Dictionary B - noun A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.
• Bean caper Dictionary B - A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum.
• Bean trefoil Dictionary B - A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida).
• Bore Dictionary B - imperative of Bear.
• Born Dictionary B - past participle of Bear.
• Borne Dictionary B - of Bear.
• Bearing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bear.
• Bear Dictionary B - verb transitive To support or sustain; to hold up.
• Bere Dictionary B - noun Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare).
• Bearable Dictionary B - adjective Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable.
• Bearberry Dictionary B - noun A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.
• Bearbind Dictionary B - noun The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).
• Beard Dictionary B - noun The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
• Bearded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beard.
• Bearding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beard.
• Beardie Dictionary B - noun The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe.
• Beardless Dictionary B - adjective Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful.
• Beardlessness Dictionary B - noun The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
• Bearer Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
• Bearherd Dictionary B - noun A man who tends a bear.
• Bearhound Dictionary B - noun A hound for baiting or hunting bears.
• Bearing cloth Dictionary B - A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
• Bearing rein Dictionary B - A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; - called in the United States a checkrein.
• Bearish Dictionary B - adjective Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners.
• Bearishness Dictionary B - noun Behavior like that of a bear.
• Bearn Dictionary B - noun See Bairn.
• Bear's-breech Dictionary B - noun See Acanthus, n., 1.
• Bear's-ear Dictionary B - noun A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf.
• Bear's-foot Dictionary B - noun A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.
• Bearskin Dictionary B - noun The skin of a bear.
• Bear's-paw Dictionary B - noun A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.
• Bearward Dictionary B - noun A keeper of bears. See Bearherd.
• Beast Dictionary B - noun Any living creature; an animal; - including man, insects, etc.
• Beasthood Dictionary B - noun State or nature of a beast.
• Beastings Dictionary B - noun plural See Biestings.
• Beastlihead Dictionary B - noun Beastliness.
• Beastlike Dictionary B - adjective Like a beast.
• Beastliness Dictionary B - noun The state or quality of being beastly.
• Beastly Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
• Beat Dictionary B - imperative of Beat.
• Beaten Dictionary B - of Beat.
• Beating Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beat.
• Beater Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, beats.
• Beath Dictionary B - verb transitive To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood.
• Beatific Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Beatifical.
• Beatifical Dictionary B - adjective Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful.
• Beatificate Dictionary B - verb transitive To beatify.
• Beatification Dictionary B - noun The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, - usually a stage in the process of canonization.
• Beatified Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beatify.
• Beatifying Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beatify.
• Beatify Dictionary B - verb transitive To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
• Beatitude Dictionary B - noun Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.
• Beaux Dictionary B - pleural of Beau.
• Beaus Dictionary B - pleural of Beau.
• Beau Dictionary B - noun A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy.
• Beaucatcher Dictionary B - noun A small flat curl worn on the temple by women.
• Beaufet Dictionary B - noun A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet.
• Beaufin Dictionary B - noun See Biffin.
• Beau ideal Dictionary B - A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model.
• Beauish Dictionary B - noun Like a beau; characteristic of a beau; foppish; fine.
• Beau monde Dictionary B - The fashionable world; people of fashion and gayety.
• Beaupere Dictionary B - noun A father.
• Beauseant Dictionary B - noun The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.
• Beauship Dictionary B - noun The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau.
• Beauteous Dictionary B - adjective Full of beauty; beautiful; very handsome.
• Beautied Dictionary B - particle adjective Beautiful; embellished.
• Beautifier Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful.
• Beautiful Dictionary B - adjective Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind.
• Beautified Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beautify.
• Beautifying Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beautify.
• Beautify Dictionary B - verb transitive To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.
• Beautiless Dictionary B - adjective Destitute of beauty.
• Beautie Dictionary B - pleural of Beauty.
• Beauty Dictionary B - noun An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense.
• Beaver Dictionary B - noun An amphibious rodent, of the genus Castor.
• Beavered Dictionary B - adjective Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat.
• Beaverteen Dictionary B - noun A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing.
• Bebeerine Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bebirine.
• Bebirine Dictionary B - noun An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodioei). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine.
• Bebleed Dictionary B - verb transitive To make bloody; to stain with blood.
• Beblood Dictionary B - verb transitive Alt. of Bebloody.
• Bebloody Dictionary B - verb transitive To make bloody; to stain with blood.
• Beblot Dictionary B - verb transitive To blot; to stain.
• Beblubber Dictionary B - verb transitive To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.
• Becalmed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Becalm.
• Becalming Dictionary B - noun of Becalm.
• Becalm Dictionary B - verb transitive To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease.
• Became Dictionary B - imp. of Become.
• Becard Dictionary B - noun A South American bird of the flycatcher family. (Tityra inquisetor).
• Because Dictionary B - conjecture By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that.
• Beccabunga Dictionary B - noun See Brooklime.
• Beccaficos Dictionary B - pleural of Beccafico.
• Beccafico Dictionary B - noun A small bird. (Silvia hortensis), which is highly prized by the Italians for the delicacy of its flesh in the autumn, when it has fed on figs, grapes, etc.
• Bechamel Dictionary B - noun A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream.
• Bechance Dictionary B - adverb By chance; by accident.
• Becharm Dictionary B - verb transitive To charm; to captivate.
• Beche de mer Dictionary B - The trepang.
• Bechic Dictionary B - Pertaining to, or relieving, a cough.
• Beck Dictionary B - noun See Beak.
• Becked Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beck.
• Becking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beck.
• Becker Dictionary B - noun A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.
• Becket Dictionary B - noun A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope.
• Beckoned Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beckon.
• Beckoning Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beckon.
• Beckon Dictionary B - verb transitive To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand.
• Beclap Dictionary B - verb transitive To catch; to grasp; to insnare.
• Beclipped Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beclip.
• Beclip Dictionary B - verb transitive To embrace; to surround.
• Beclouded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Becloud.
• Beclouding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Becloud.
• Becloud Dictionary B - verb transitive To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud.
• Become Dictionary B - past participle of Become.
• Becoming Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Become.
• Becomed Dictionary B - adjective Proper; decorous.
• Becomingly Dictionary B - adverb In a becoming manner.
• Becomingness Dictionary B - noun The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness.
• Becripple Dictionary B - verb transitive To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame.
• Becuna Dictionary B - noun A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyraena spet). See Barracuda.
• Becurl Dictionary B - verb transitive To curl; to adorn with curls.
• Bed Dictionary B - noun An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.
• Bedded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bed.
• Bedding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bed.
• Bedabbled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bedabble.
• Bedabbling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bedabble.
• Bedabble Dictionary B - verb transitive To dabble; to sprinkle or wet.
• Bedaff Dictionary B - verb transitive To make a daff or fool of.
• Bedagat Dictionary B - noun The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah.
• Bedaggle Dictionary B - verb transitive To daggle.
• Bedashed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bedash.
• Bedashing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bedash.
• Bedash Dictionary B - verb transitive To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter.
• Bedaubed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bedaub.
• Bedaubing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bedaub.
• Bedaub Dictionary B - verb transitive To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty.
• Bedazzled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bedazzle.
• Bedazzling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bedazzle.
• Bedazzle Dictionary B - verb transitive To dazzle or make dim by a strong light.
• Bedbug Dictionary B - noun A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Bedchair Dictionary B - noun A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.
• Bedchamber Dictionary B - noun A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in.
• Bedclothes Dictionary B - noun plural Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.
• Bedcord Dictionary B - noun A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed.
• Bede Dictionary B - verb transitive To pray; also, to offer; to proffer.
• Bedecked Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bedeck.
• Bedecking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bedeck.
• Bedeck Dictionary B - verb transitive To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.
• Bedeguar Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bedegar.
• Bedegar Dictionary B - noun A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosae). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.
• Bedel Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bedell.
• Bedell Dictionary B - noun Same as Beadle.
• Bedelry Dictionary B - noun Beadleship.
• Beden Dictionary B - noun The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.
• Bedevilled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bedevil.
• Bedeviling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bedevil.
• Bedevilling Dictionary B - of Bedevil.
• Bedevil Dictionary B - verb transitive To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.
• Bedevilment Dictionary B - noun The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble.
• Bedewed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bedew.
• Bedewing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bedew.
• Bedew Dictionary B - verb transitive To moisten with dew, or as with dew.
• Bedewer Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, bedews.
• Bedewy Dictionary B - adjective Moist with dew; dewy.
• Bedfellow Dictionary B - noun One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
• Bedfere Bedphere Dictionary B - noun A bedfellow.
• Bedgown Dictionary B - noun A nightgown.
• Bedight Dictionary B - past participle of Bedight.
• Bedighted Dictionary B - of Bedight.
• Bedimmed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bedim.
• Bedimming Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bedim.
• Bedim Dictionary B - verb transitive To make dim; to obscure or darken.
• Bedizen Dictionary B - verb transitive To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste.
• Bedizenment Dictionary B - noun That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.
• Bedkey Dictionary B - noun An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead.
• Bedlam Dictionary B - noun A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.
• Bedlamite Dictionary B - noun An inhabitant of a madhouse; a madman.
• Bedmaker Dictionary B - noun One who makes beds.
• Bed-molding Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bed-moulding.
• Bed-moulding Dictionary B - noun The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona.
• Bedote Dictionary B - verb transitive To cause to dote; to deceive.
• Bedouin Dictionary B - noun One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts.
• Bedpan Dictionary B - noun A pan for warming beds.
• Bedphere Dictionary B - noun See Bedfere.
• Bedpiece Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bedplate.
• Bedplate Dictionary B - noun The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; - called also baseplate and soleplate.
• Bedpost Dictionary B - noun One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead.
• Bedquilt Dictionary B - noun A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.
• Bedrabble Dictionary B - verb transitive To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble.
• Bedraggled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bedraggle.
• Bedraggling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bedraggle.
• Bedraggle Dictionary B - verb transitive To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc.
• Bedrenched Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bedrench.
• Bedrenching Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bedrench.
• Bedrench Dictionary B - verb transitive To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak.
• Bedribble Dictionary B - verb transitive To dribble upon.
• Bedrid Dictionary B - intransitive verb Alt. of Bedridden.
• Bedridden Dictionary B - intransitive verb Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity.
• Bedright Bedrite Dictionary B - noun The duty or privilege of the marriage bed.
• Bedrizzle Dictionary B - verb transitive To drizzle upon.
• Bed rock Dictionary B - The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig.
• Bedroom Dictionary B - noun A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.
• Bedrop Dictionary B - verb transitive To sprinkle, as with drops.
• Bedrug Dictionary B - verb transitive To drug abundantly or excessively.
• Bed screw Dictionary B - A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching.
• Bedside Dictionary B - noun The side of a bed.
• Bedsite Dictionary B - noun A recess in a room for a bed.
• Bedsore Dictionary B - noun A sore on the back or hips caused by lying for a long time in bed.
• Bedspread Dictionary B - noun A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• Bedstaves Dictionary B - pleural of Bedstaff.
• Bedstaff Dictionary B - noun A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side.
• Bedstead Dictionary B - noun A framework for supporting a bed.
• Bed steps Dictionary B - Steps for mounting a bed of unusual height.
• Bedstock Dictionary B - noun The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead.
• Bedstraw Dictionary B - noun Straw put into a bed.
• Bedswerver Dictionary B - noun One who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage vow.
• Bedtick Dictionary B - noun A tick or bag made of cloth, used for inclosing the materials of a bed.
• Bedtime Dictionary B - noun The time to go to bed.
• Beducked Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beduck.
• Beduck Dictionary B - verb transitive To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse.
• Beduin Dictionary B - noun See Bedouin.
• Bedunged Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bedung.
• Bedung Dictionary B - verb transitive To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively.
• Bedust Dictionary B - verb transitive To sprinkle, soil, or cover with dust.
• Bedward Dictionary B - adverb Towards bed.
• Bedwarfed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bedwarf.
• Bedwarf Dictionary B - verb transitive To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf.
• Bedyed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bedye.
• Bedyeing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bedye.
• Bedye Dictionary B - verb transitive To dye or stain.
• Bee Dictionary B - p. p. of Be; - used for been.
• Beebread Dictionary B - noun A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.
• Beeches Dictionary B - pleural of Beech.
• Beech Dictionary B - noun A tree of the genus Fagus.
• Beechen Dictionary B - adjective Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech.
• Beechnut Dictionary B - noun The nut of the beech tree.
• Beech tree Dictionary B - The beech.
• Beechy Dictionary B - adjective Of or relating to beeches.
• Bee-eater Dictionary B - noun A bird of the genus Merops, that feeds on bees. The European species (M. apiaster) is remarkable for its brilliant colors.
• Beef Dictionary B - noun An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.
• Beefeater Dictionary B - noun One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person.
• Beefsteak Dictionary B - noun A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling.
• Beef-witted Dictionary B - noun Stupid; dull.
• Beefwood Dictionary B - noun An Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland.
• Beefy Dictionary B - adjective Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy.
• Beehive Dictionary B - noun A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively.
• Beehouse Dictionary B - noun A house for bees; an apiary.
• Bee larkspur Dictionary B - (Bot.) See Larkspur.
• Beeld Dictionary B - noun Same as Beild.
• Bee line Dictionary B - The shortest line from one place to another, like that of a bee to its hive when loaded with honey; an air line.
• Beelzebub Dictionary B - noun The title of a heathen deity to whom the Jews ascribed the sovereignty of the evil spirits; hence, the Devil or a devil. See Baal.
• Beem Dictionary B - noun A trumpet.
• Beemaster Dictionary B - noun One who keeps bees.
• Beer Dictionary B - noun A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.
• Beeregar Dictionary B - noun Sour beer.
• Beerhouse Dictionary B - noun A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse.
• Beeriness Dictionary B - noun Beery condition.
• Beery Dictionary B - adjective Of or resembling beer; affected by beer; maudlin.
• Beestings Dictionary B - noun Same as Biestings.
• Beeswax Dictionary B - noun The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed.
• Beeswing Dictionary B - noun The second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee.
• Beet Dictionary B - noun A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.
• Beete Dictionary B - verb transitive Alt. of Bete.
• Bete Dictionary B - verb transitive To mend; to repair.
• Beetle Dictionary B - verb transitive A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
• Beetled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beetle.
• Beetling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beetle.
• Beetle brow Dictionary B - An overhanging brow.
• Beetle-browed Dictionary B - Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen.
• Beetlehead Dictionary B - noun A stupid fellow; a blockhead.
• Beetle-headed Dictionary B - adjective Dull; stupid.
• Beetlestock Dictionary B - noun The handle of a beetle.
• Beet radish Dictionary B - Same as Beetrave.
• Beetrave Dictionary B - noun The common beet (Beta vulgaris).
• Beeve Dictionary B - noun A beef; a beef creature.
• Beeves Dictionary B - noun plural of Beef, the animal.
• Befell Dictionary B - imperative of Befall.
• Befallen Dictionary B - past participle of Befall.
• Befalling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Befall.
• Befall Dictionary B - verb transitive To happen to.
• Befitted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Befit.
• Befitting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Befit.
• Befit Dictionary B - verb transitive To be suitable to; to suit; to become.
• Befittingly Dictionary B - adverb In a befitting manner; suitably.
• Beflatter Dictionary B - verb transitive To flatter excessively.
• Beflower Dictionary B - verb transitive To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers.
• Befogged Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Befog.
• Befogging Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Befog.
• Befog Dictionary B - verb transitive To involve in a fog; - mostly as a participle or part. adj.
• Befooled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Befool.
• Befooling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Befool.
• Befool Dictionary B - verb transitive To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive.
• Before Dictionary B - preposition In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house.
• Beforehand Dictionary B - adverb In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; - often followed by with.
• Beforetime Dictionary B - adverb Formerly; aforetime.
• Befortune Dictionary B - verb transitive To befall.
• Befouled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Befoul.
• Befouling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Befoul.
• Befoul Dictionary B - adjective To make foul; to soil.
• Befriended Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Befriend.
• Befriending Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Befriend.
• Befriend Dictionary B - verb transitive To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance.
• Befriendment Dictionary B - noun Act of befriending.
• Befrill Dictionary B - verb transitive To furnish or deck with a frill.
• Befringe Dictionary B - verb transitive To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe.
• Befuddled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Befuddle.
• Befuddle Dictionary B - verb transitive To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.
• Beg Dictionary B - noun A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.
• Begged Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beg.
• Begging Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beg.
• Bega Dictionary B - noun See Bigha.
• Begemmed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Begem.
• Begemming Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Begem.
• Begem Dictionary B - verb transitive To adorn with gems, or as with gems.
• Begot Dictionary B - imperative of Beget.
• Begat Dictionary B - of Beget.
• Begotten Dictionary B - of Beget.
• Begetting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beget.
• Beget Dictionary B - verb transitive To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; - commonly said of the father.
• Begetter Dictionary B - noun One who begets; a father.
• Beggable Dictionary B - adjective Capable of being begged.
• Beggar Dictionary B - noun One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.
• Beggared Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beggar.
• Beggaring Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beggar.
• Beggarhood Dictionary B - noun The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars.
• Beggarism Dictionary B - noun Beggary.
• Beggarliness Dictionary B - noun The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.
• Beggarly Dictionary B - adjective In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
• Beggar's lice Dictionary B - The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.
• Beggar's ticks Dictionary B - The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.
• Beggary Dictionary B - noun The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.
• Beggestere Dictionary B - noun A beggar.
• Beghard Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Beguard.
• Beguard Dictionary B - noun One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins.
• Begilded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Begild.
• Begilt Dictionary B - of Begild.
• Begild Dictionary B - verb transitive To gild.
• Began Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Begin.
• Begun Dictionary B - of Begin.
• Beginning Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Begin.
• Begin Dictionary B - intransitive verb To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
• Beginner Dictionary B - noun One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro.
• Begirt Dictionary B - imperative of Begird.
• Begirded Dictionary B - of Begird.
• Begirding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Begird.
• Begird Dictionary B - verb transitive To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.
• Begirdle Dictionary B - verb transitive To surround as with a girdle.
• Beglerbeg Dictionary B - noun The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier.
• Begnawed Dictionary B - past participle of Begnaw.
• Begnawn Dictionary B - of Begnaw.
• Begnaw Dictionary B - verb transitive To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode.
• Begodded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Begod.
• Begod Dictionary B - verb transitive To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify.
• Begone Dictionary B - interjection Go away; depart; get you gone.
• Begonia Dictionary B - noun A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.
• Begore Dictionary B - verb transitive To besmear with gore.
• Begrave Dictionary B - verb transitive To bury; also, to engrave.
• Begrease Dictionary B - verb transitive To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.
• Begrimed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Begrime.
• Begriming Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Begrime.
• Begrime Dictionary B - verb transitive To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.
• Begrimer Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, begrimes.
• Begrudged Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Begrudge.
• Begrudging Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Begrudge.
• Begrudge Dictionary B - verb transitive To grudge; to envy the possession of.
• Beguiled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beguile.
• Beguiling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beguile.
• Beguile Dictionary B - verb transitive To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.
• Beguilement Dictionary B - noun The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled.
• Beguiler Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, beguiles.
• Beguin Dictionary B - noun See Beghard.
• Beguinage Dictionary B - noun A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines.
• Beguine Dictionary B - noun A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.
• Begum Dictionary B - noun In the East Indies, a princess or lady of high rank.
• Behalf Dictionary B - noun Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication.
• Behappen Dictionary B - verb transitive To happen to.
• Behaved Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Behave.
• Behaving Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Behave.
• Behave Dictionary B - verb transitive To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.
• Behavior Dictionary B - noun Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; - used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.
• Beheaded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Behead.
• Beheading Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Behead.
• Behead Dictionary B - verb transitive To sever the head from; to take off the head of.
• Beheadal Dictionary B - noun Beheading.
• Beheld Dictionary B - imp. & p. p. of Behold.
• Behemoth Dictionary B - noun An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24.
• Behen Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Behn.
• Behn Dictionary B - noun The Centaurea behen, or saw-leaved centaury.
• Behest Dictionary B - noun That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.
• Behete Dictionary B - verb transitive See Behight.
• Behight Dictionary B - imperative of Behight.
• Behoten Dictionary B - of Behight.
• Behind Dictionary B - adjective On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill.
• Behindhand Dictionary B - adverb & adjective In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.
• Behither Dictionary B - preposition On this side of.
• Beholden Dictionary B - past participle of Behold.
• Beholding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Behold.
• Behold Dictionary B - verb transitive To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes.
• Beholder Dictionary B - noun One who beholds; a spectator.
• Beholdingness Dictionary B - noun The state of being obliged or beholden.
• Behoof Dictionary B - verb transitive Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use.
• Behoovable Dictionary B - adjective Supplying need; profitable; advantageous.
• Behooved Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Behoove.
• Behooving Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Behoove.
• Behoove Dictionary B - verb transitive To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; - mostly used impersonally.
• Behooveful Dictionary B - adjective Advantageous; useful; profitable.
• Behove Dictionary B - verb and derivatives. See Behoove, &c.
• Behovely Dictionary B - adjective & adverb Useful, or usefully.
• Behowl Dictionary B - verb transitive To howl at.
• Beige Dictionary B - noun Debeige.
• Beild Dictionary B - noun A place of shelter; protection; refuge.
• Bejade Dictionary B - verb transitive To jade or tire.
• Bejape Dictionary B - verb transitive To jape; to laugh at; to deceive.
• Bejaundice Dictionary B - verb transitive To infect with jaundice.
• Bejeweled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bejewel.
• Bejewelled Dictionary B - of Bejewel.
• Bejeweling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bejewel.
• Bejewelling Dictionary B - of Bejewel.
• Bejewel Dictionary B - verb transitive To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle.
• Bejumble Dictionary B - verb transitive To jumble together.
• Bekah Dictionary B - noun Half a shekel.
• Beknave Dictionary B - verb transitive To call knave.
• Beknow Dictionary B - verb transitive To confess; to acknowledge.
• Bel Dictionary B - noun The Babylonian name of the god known among the Hebrews as Baal. See Baal.
• Belabored Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Belabor.
• Belaboring Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Belabor.
• Belabor Dictionary B - verb transitive To ply diligently; to work carefully upon.
• Bel-accoyle Dictionary B - noun A kind or favorable reception or salutation.
• Belaced Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Belace.
• Belace Dictionary B - verb transitive To fasten, as with a lace or cord.
• Belam Dictionary B - verb transitive To beat or bang.
• Belamour Dictionary B - noun A lover.
• Belamy Dictionary B - noun Good friend; dear friend.
• Belated Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Belate.
• Belating Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Belate.
• Belate Dictionary B - verb transitive To retard or make too late.
• Belaud Dictionary B - verb transitive To laud or praise greatly.
• Belaid Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Belay.
• Belayed Dictionary B - of Belay.
• Belaying Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Belay.
• Belay Dictionary B - verb transitive To lay on or cover; to adorn.
• Belaying pin Dictionary B - A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed.
• Belched Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Belch.
• Belching Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Belch.
• Belch Dictionary B - intransitive verb To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.
• Belcher Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, belches.
• Beldam Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Beldame.
• Beldame Dictionary B - noun Grandmother; - corresponding to belsire.
• Beleaguered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beleaguer.
• Beleaguering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beleaguer.
• Beleaguer Dictionary B - verb transitive To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.
• Beleaguerer Dictionary B - noun One who beleaguers.
• Beleft Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beleave.
• Beleave Dictionary B - verb transitive & intransitive To leave or to be left.
• Belectured Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Belecture.
• Belecturing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Belecture.
• Belecture Dictionary B - verb transitive To vex with lectures; to lecture frequently.
• Belee Dictionary B - verb transitive To place under the lee, or unfavorably to the wind.
• Belemnite Dictionary B - noun A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages.
• Belepered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beleper.
• Beleper Dictionary B - verb transitive To infect with leprosy.
• -esprits Dictionary B - pleural of Bel-esprit.
• Bel-esprit Dictionary B - noun A fine genius, or man of wit.
• Belfry Dictionary B - noun A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.
• Belgard Dictionary B - noun A sweet or loving look.
• Belgian Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Belgium.
• Belgic Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the Belgae, a German tribe who anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean.
• Belgravian Dictionary B - adjective Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.
• Belial Dictionary B - noun An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil.
• Belibel Dictionary B - verb transitive To libel or traduce; to calumniate.
• Belied Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Belie.
• Belying Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Belie.
• Belie Dictionary B - noun To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.
• Belief Dictionary B - noun Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.
• Beliefful Dictionary B - adjective Having belief or faith.
• Believable Dictionary B - adjective Capable of being believed; credible.
• Believed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Believe.
• Believing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Believe.
• Believe Dictionary B - noun To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine.
• Believer Dictionary B - noun One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.
• Belight Dictionary B - verb transitive To illuminate.
• Belike Dictionary B - adverb It is likely or probably; perhaps.
• Belimed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Belime.
• Belime Dictionary B - verb transitive To besmear or insnare with birdlime.
• Belittled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Belittle.
• Belittling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Belittle.
• Belittle Dictionary B - verb transitive To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.
• Belive Dictionary B - adjective Forthwith; speedily; quickly.
• Belk Dictionary B - verb transitive To vomit.
• Bell Dictionary B - noun A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.
• Belled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bell.
• Belling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bell.
• Belladonna Dictionary B - noun An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade.
• Bell animalcule Dictionary B - An infusorian of the family Vorticellidae, common in fresh-water ponds.
• Bell bearer Dictionary B - A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.
• Bellbird Dictionary B - noun A South American bird of the genus Casmarhincos, and family Cotingidae, of several species; the campanero.
• Bell crank Dictionary B - A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.
• Belle Dictionary B - noun A young lady of superior beauty and attractions; a handsome lady, or one who attracts notice in society; a fair lady.
• Belle-lettrist Dictionary B - noun One versed in belles-lettres.
• Bellerophon Dictionary B - noun A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age.
• Belles-lettres Dictionary B - noun plural Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; - used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.
• Belletristic Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Belletristical.
• Belletristical Dictionary B - adjective Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres.
• Bell-faced Dictionary B - adjective Having the striking surface convex; - said of hammers.
• Bellflower Dictionary B - noun A plant of the genus Campanula; - so named from its bell-shaped flowers.
• Bellibone Dictionary B - noun A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid.
• Bellic Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bellical.
• Bellical Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial.
• Bellicose Dictionary B - adjective Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.
• Bellicosely Dictionary B - adverb In a bellicose manner.
• Bellicous Dictionary B - adjective Bellicose.
• Bellied Dictionary B - adjective Having (such) a belly; puffed out; - used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.
• Belligerence Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Belligerency.
• Belligerency Dictionary B - noun The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare.
• Belligerent Dictionary B - past particle Waging war; carrying on war.
• Belligerently Dictionary B - adverb In a belligerent manner; hostilely.
• Bellipotent Dictionary B - past particle Mighty in war; armipotent.
• Bell jar Dictionary B - A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view.
• Bellman Dictionary B - noun A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours.
• Bell metal Dictionary B - A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; - used for making bells.
• Bell-mouthed Dictionary B - adjective Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun.
• Bellon Dictionary B - noun Lead colic.
• Bellona Dictionary B - noun The goddess of war.
• Bellowed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bellow.
• Bellowing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bellow.
• Bellow Dictionary B - verb To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.
• Bellower Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, bellows.
• Bellows Dictionary B - noun singular & plural An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind.
• Bellows fish Dictionary B - A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; - called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.
• Bell pepper Dictionary B - A species of Capsicum, or Guinea pepper (C. annuum). It is the red pepper of the gardens.
• Bell-shaped Dictionary B - adjective Having the shape of a wide-mouthed bell; campanulate.
• Belluine Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal.
• Bellwether Dictionary B - noun A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck.
• Bellwort Dictionary B - noun A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.
• Bellies Dictionary B - pleural of Belly.
• Belly Dictionary B - noun That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.
• Bellying Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Belly.
• Bellyache Dictionary B - noun Pain in the bowels; colic.
• Bellyband Dictionary B - noun A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth.
• Bellybound Dictionary B - adjective Costive; constipated.
• Bellycheat Dictionary B - noun An apron or covering for the front of the person.
• Bellycheer Dictionary B - noun Good cheer; viands.
• Bellyful Dictionary B - noun As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough.
• Belly-god Dictionary B - noun One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.
• Belly-pinched Dictionary B - adjective Pinched with hunger; starved.
• Belocked Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Belock.
• Belock Dictionary B - verb transitive To lock, or fasten as with a lock.
• Belomancy Dictionary B - noun A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future.
• Belonged Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Belong.
• Belonging Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Belong.
• Belong Dictionary B - intransitive verb To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.
• Belonite Dictionary B - noun Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.
• Belooche Beloochee Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Beloochistan, or to its inhabitants.
• Belord Dictionary B - verb transitive To act the lord over.
• Beloved Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Belove.
• Belove Dictionary B - verb transitive To love.
• Below Dictionary B - preposition Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee.
• Belowt Dictionary B - verb transitive To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to.
• Belsire Dictionary B - noun A grandfather, or ancestor.
• Belswagger Dictionary B - noun A lewd man; also, a bully.
• Belt Dictionary B - noun That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.
• Belted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Belt.
• Belting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Belt.
• Beltane Dictionary B - noun The first day of May (Old Style).
• Beltein Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Beltin.
• Beltin Dictionary B - noun See Beltane.
• Beluga Dictionary B - noun A cetacean allied to the dolphins.
• Beluted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Belute.
• Beluting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Belute.
• Belute Dictionary B - verb transitive To bespatter, as with mud.
• Belvedere Dictionary B - noun A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect.
• Belzebuth Dictionary B - noun A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Brazil.
• Bema Dictionary B - noun A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.
• Bemad Dictionary B - verb transitive To make mad.
• Bemangle Dictionary B - verb transitive To mangle; to tear asunder.
• Bemask Dictionary B - verb transitive To mask; to conceal.
• Bemaster Dictionary B - verb transitive To master thoroughly.
• Bemaul Dictionary B - verb transitive To maul or beat severely; to bruise.
• Bemaze Dictionary B - verb transitive To bewilder.
• Bemean Dictionary B - verb transitive To make mean; to lower.
• Bemet Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bemeet.
• Bemeeting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bemeet.
• Bemeet Dictionary B - verb transitive To meet.
• Bemete Dictionary B - verb transitive To mete.
• Bemingle Dictionary B - verb transitive To mingle; to mix.
• Bemired Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bemire.
• Bemiring Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bemire.
• Bemire Dictionary B - verb transitive To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.
• Bemist Dictionary B - verb transitive To envelop in mist.
• Bemoaned Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bemoan.
• Bemoaning Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bemoan.
• Bemoan Dictionary B - verb transitive To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with.
• Bemoaner Dictionary B - noun One who bemoans.
• Bemock Dictionary B - verb transitive To mock; to ridicule.
• Bemoil Dictionary B - verb transitive To soil or encumber with mire and dirt.
• Bemol Dictionary B - noun The sign /; the same as B flat.
• Bemonster Dictionary B - verb transitive To make monstrous or like a monster.
• Bemourn Dictionary B - verb transitive To mourn over.
• Bemuddle Dictionary B - verb transitive To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.
• Bemuffle Dictionary B - verb transitive To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up.
• Bemuse Dictionary B - verb transitive To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor.
• Ben Dictionary B - Alt. of Ben nut.
• Ben nut Dictionary B - The seed of one or more species of moringa; as, oil of ben. See Moringa.
• Benamed Dictionary B - past participle of Bename.
• Benempt Dictionary B - of Bename.
• Bename Dictionary B - verb transitive To promise; to name.
• Benches Dictionary B - pleural of Bench.
• Bench Dictionary B - noun A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.
• Benched Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bench.
• Benching Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bench.
• Bencher Dictionary B - noun One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.
• Bench warrant Dictionary B - A process issued by a presiding judge or by a court against a person guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime; - so called in distinction from a justice's warrant.
• Bended Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bend.
• Bent Dictionary B - of Bend.
• Bending Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bend.
• Bend Dictionary B - verb transitive To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
• Bendable Dictionary B - adjective Capable of being bent.
• Bender Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, bends.
• Bendlet Dictionary B - noun A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.
• Bendwise Dictionary B - adverb Diagonally.
• Bendy Dictionary B - adjective Divided into an even number of bends; - said of a shield or its charge.
• Bene Dictionary B - noun See Benne.
• Beneaped Dictionary B - adjective See Neaped.
• Beneath Dictionary B - preposition Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of.
• Benedicite Dictionary B - noun A canticle (the Latin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel.
• Benedict Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Benedick.
• Benedick Dictionary B - noun A married man, or a man newly married.
• Benedictine Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet.
• Benediction Dictionary B - noun The act of blessing.
• Benedictional Dictionary B - noun A book of benedictions.
• Benedictionary Dictionary B - noun A collected series of benedictions.
• Benedictive Dictionary B - adjective Tending to bless.
• Benedictory Dictionary B - adjective Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer.
• Benedictus Dictionary B - adjective The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); - so named from the first word of the Latin version.
• Benedight Dictionary B - adjective Blessed.
• Benefaction Dictionary B - noun The act of conferring a benefit.
• Benefactor Dictionary B - noun One who confers a benefit or benefits.
• Benefactress Dictionary B - noun A woman who confers a benefit.
• Benefic Dictionary B - adjective Favorable; beneficent.
• Benefice Dictionary B - noun A favor or benefit.
• Beneficed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Benefice.
• Beneficeless Dictionary B - adjective Having no benefice.
• Beneficence Dictionary B - noun The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.
• Beneficent Dictionary B - adjective Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.
• Beneficential Dictionary B - adjective Relating to beneficence.
• Beneficently Dictionary B - adverb In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• Beneficial Dictionary B - adjective Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; - followed by to.
• Beneficially Dictionary B - adverb In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably; helpfully.
• Beneficialness Dictionary B - noun The quality of being beneficial; profitableness.
• Beneficiary Dictionary B - adjective Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession.
• Beneficiaries Dictionary B - pleural of Beneficiary.
• Beneficiate Dictionary B - verb transitive To reduce (ores).
• Beneficient Dictionary B - adjective Beneficent.
• Benefit Dictionary B - noun An act of kindness; a favor conferred.
• Benefited Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Benefit.
• Benefitting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Benefit.
• Benefiter Dictionary B - noun One who confers a benefit; - also, one who receives a benefit.
• Beneme Dictionary B - verb transitive To deprive (of), or take away (from).
• Bene placito Dictionary B - At or during pleasure.
• Benetted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Benet.
• Benet Dictionary B - verb transitive To catch in a net; to insnare.
• Benevolence Dictionary B - noun The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.
• Benevolent Dictionary B - adjective Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable.
• Benevolous Dictionary B - adjective Kind; benevolent.
• Bengal Dictionary B - noun A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc.
• Bengalee Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bengali.
• Bengali Dictionary B - noun The language spoken in Bengal.
• Bengalese Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Bengal.
• Bengola Dictionary B - noun A Bengal light.
• Benighted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Benight.
• Benighting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Benight.
• Benight Dictionary B - verb transitive To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.
• Benightment Dictionary B - noun The condition of being benighted.
• Benign Dictionary B - adjective Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant.
• Benignancy Dictionary B - noun Benignant quality; kindliness.
• Benignant Dictionary B - adjective Kind; gracious; favorable.
• Benignity Dictionary B - noun The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness.
• Benignly Dictionary B - adverb In a benign manner.
• Benim Dictionary B - verb transitive To take away.
• Benison Dictionary B - noun Blessing; beatitude; benediction.
• Benitier Dictionary B - noun A holy-water stoup.
• Benjamin Dictionary B - noun See Benzoin.
• Benjamite Dictionary B - noun A descendant of Benjamin; one of the tribe of Benjamin.
• Benne Dictionary B - noun The name of two plants (Sesamum orientale and S. indicum), originally Asiatic; - also called oil plant. From their seeds an oil is expressed, called benne oil, used mostly for making soap. In the southern United States the seeds are used in candy.
• Bennet Dictionary B - adjective The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc.
• Benshee Dictionary B - noun See Banshee.
• Bent grass Dictionary B - Same as Bent, a kind of grass.
• Benthal Dictionary B - adjective Relating to the deepest zone or region of the ocean.
• Benthamic Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.
• Benthamism Dictionary B - noun That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions.
• Benthamite Dictionary B - noun One who believes in Benthamism.
• Benting time Dictionary B - The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe.
• Benty Dictionary B - adjective A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.
• Benumbed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Benumb.
• Benumbing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Benumb.
• Benumb Dictionary B - adjective To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.
• Benumbment Dictionary B - noun Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor.
• Benzal Dictionary B - noun A compound radical, C6H5.CH, of the aromatic series, related to benzyl and benzoyl; - used adjectively or in combination.
• Benzamide Dictionary B - noun A transparent crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.NH2, obtained by the action of ammonia upon chloride of benzoyl, as also by several other reactions with benzoyl compounds.
• Benzene Dictionary B - noun A volatile, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from which it is separated by fractional distillation. The name is sometimes applied also to the impure commercial product or benzole, and also, but rarely, to a similar mixed product of petroleum.
• Benzile Dictionary B - noun A yellowish crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.CO.C6H5, formed from benzoin by the action of oxidizing agents, and consisting of a doubled benzoyl radical.
• Benzine Dictionary B - noun A liquid consisting mainly of the lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil, used as a solvent and for cleansing soiled fabrics; - called also petroleum spirit, petroleum benzine. Varieties or similar products are gasoline, naphtha, rhigolene, ligroin, etc.
• Benzoate Dictionary B - noun A salt formed by the union of benzoic acid with any salifiable base.
• Benzoic Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin.
• Benzoin Dictionary B - noun A resinous substance, dry and brittle, obtained from the Styrax benzoin, a tree of Sumatra, Java, etc., having a fragrant odor, and slightly aromatic taste. It is used in the preparation of benzoic acid, in medicine, and as a perfume.
• Benzoinated Dictionary B - adjective Containing or impregnated with benzoin; as, benzoinated lard.
• Benzole Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Benzol.
• Benzol Dictionary B - noun An impure benzene, used in the arts as a solvent, and for various other purposes. See Benzene.
• Benzoline Dictionary B - noun Same as Benzole.
• Benzoyl Dictionary B - noun A compound radical, C6H5.CO; the base of benzoic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds.
• Benzyl Dictionary B - noun A compound radical, C6H5.CH2, related to toluene and benzoic acid; - commonly used adjectively.
• Bepaint Dictionary B - verb transitive To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint.
• Bepelt Dictionary B - verb transitive To pelt roundly.
• Bepinched Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bepinch.
• Bepinch Dictionary B - verb transitive To pinch, or mark with pinches.
• Beplastered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beplaster.
• Beplastering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beplaster.
• Beplaster Dictionary B - verb transitive To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub.
• Beplumed Dictionary B - adjective Decked with feathers.
• Bepommeled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bepommel.
• Bepommeling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bepommel.
• Bepommel Dictionary B - verb transitive To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing.
• Bepowder Dictionary B - verb transitive To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.
• Bepraise Dictionary B - verb transitive To praise greatly or extravagantly.
• Beprose Dictionary B - verb transitive To reduce to prose.
• Bepuffed Dictionary B - adjective Puffed; praised.
• Bepurple Dictionary B - verb transitive To tinge or dye with a purple color.
• Bequeathed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bequeath.
• Bequeathing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bequeath.
• Bequeath Dictionary B - verb transitive To give or leave by will; to give by testament; - said especially of personal property.
• Bequeathable Dictionary B - adjective Capable of being bequeathed.
• Bequeathal Dictionary B - noun The act of bequeathing; bequeathment; bequest.
• Bequeathment Dictionary B - noun The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest.
• Bequest Dictionary B - noun The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B.
• Bequethen Dictionary B - old p. p. of Bequeath.
• Bequote Dictionary B - verb transitive To quote constantly or with great frequency.
• Berained Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Berain.
• Beraining Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Berain.
• Berain Dictionary B - verb transitive To rain upon; to wet with rain.
• Berated Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Berate.
• Berating Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Berate.
• Berate Dictionary B - verb transitive To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
• Berattle Dictionary B - verb transitive To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down.
• Beray Dictionary B - verb transitive To make foul; to soil; to defile.
• Berbe Dictionary B - noun An African genet (Genetta pardina). See Genet.
• Berber Dictionary B - noun A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; - called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.
• Berberine Dictionary B - noun An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.
• Berberry Dictionary B - noun See Barberry.
• Berdash Dictionary B - noun A kind of neckcloth.
• Bereaved Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bereave.
• Bereft Dictionary B - of Bereave.
• Bereaving. Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bereave.
• Bereave Dictionary B - verb transitive To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; - with of before the person or thing taken away.
• Bereavement Dictionary B - noun The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.
• Bereaver Dictionary B - noun One who bereaves.
• Beretta Dictionary B - noun Same as Berretta.
• Berg Dictionary B - noun A large mass or hill, as of ice.
• Bergamot Dictionary B - noun A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit.
• Bergander Dictionary B - noun A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake.
• Bergeret Dictionary B - noun A pastoral song.
• Bergh Dictionary B - noun A hill.
• Bergmaster Dictionary B - noun See Barmaster.
• Bergmeal Dictionary B - noun An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite.
• Bergmote Dictionary B - noun See Barmote.
• Bergomask Dictionary B - noun A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.
• Bergylt Dictionary B - noun The Norway haddock. See Rosefish.
• Berhymed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Berhyme.
• Berhyming Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Berhyme.
• Berhyme Dictionary B - verb transitive To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about.
• Beriberi Dictionary B - noun An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.
• Berime Dictionary B - verb transitive To berhyme.
• Berkeleian Dictionary B - adjective Of or relating to Bishop Berkeley or his system of idealism; as, Berkeleian philosophy.
• Berlin Dictionary B - noun A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.
• Berm Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Berme.
• Berme Dictionary B - noun A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.
• Bermuda grass Dictionary B - A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; - called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.
• Bernacle Dictionary B - noun See Barnacle.
• Berna fly Dictionary B - A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta, which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvae do great injury.
• Bernardine Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks.
• Bernese Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to the city or canton of Bern, in Switzerland, or to its inhabitants.
• Bernicle Dictionary B - noun A bernicle goose.
• Bernouse Dictionary B - noun Same as Burnoose.
• Berob Dictionary B - verb transitive To rob; to plunder.
• Beroe Dictionary B - noun A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.
• Berretta Dictionary B - noun A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green.
• Berried Dictionary B - adjective Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate; as, a berried shrub.
• Berries Dictionary B - pleural of Berry.
• Berry Dictionary B - noun Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.
• Berrying Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Berry.
• Berserk Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Berserker.
• Berserker Dictionary B - noun One of a class of legendary heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds.
• Berstle Dictionary B - noun See Bristle.
• Berth Dictionary B - noun Convenient sea room.
• Berthed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Berth.
• Berthing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Berth.
• Bertha Dictionary B - noun A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.
• Berthage Dictionary B - noun A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.
• Berthierite Dictionary B - noun A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.
• Bertram Dictionary B - noun Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum).
• Berycoid Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the Berycidae, a family of marine fishes.
• Beryl Dictionary B - noun A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium.
• Berylline Dictionary B - adjective Like a beryl; of a light or bluish green color.
• Beryllium Dictionary B - noun A metallic element found in the beryl. See Glucinum.
• Berylloid Dictionary B - noun A solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid; - so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl.
• Besaiel Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Besayle.
• Besaile Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Besayle.
• Besayle Dictionary B - noun A great-grandfather.
• Besaint Dictionary B - verb transitive To make a saint of.
• Besant Dictionary B - noun See Bezant.
• Bes-antler Dictionary B - noun Same as Bez-antler.
• Bescatter Dictionary B - verb transitive To scatter over.
• Bescorn Dictionary B - verb transitive To treat with scorn.
• Bescratch Dictionary B - verb transitive To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
• Bescrawl Dictionary B - verb transitive To cover with scrawls; to scribble over.
• Bescreen Dictionary B - verb transitive To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal.
• Bescribble Dictionary B - verb transitive To scribble over.
• Bescumber Dictionary B - verb transitive Alt. of Bescummer.
• Bescummer Dictionary B - verb transitive To discharge ordure or dung upon.
• Besee Dictionary B - verb transitive & intransitive To see; to look; to mind.
• Besought Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beseech.
• Beseeching Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beseech.
• Beseech Dictionary B - verb transitive To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
• Beseecher Dictionary B - noun One who beseeches.
• Beseechment Dictionary B - noun The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly.
• Beseek Dictionary B - verb transitive To beseech.
• Beseemed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beseem.
• Beseeming Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beseem.
• Beseem Dictionary B - verb transitive Literally: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for (one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit.
• Beseemly Dictionary B - adjective Fit; suitable; becoming.
• Beseen Dictionary B - adjective Seen; appearing.
• Beset Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beset.
• Besetting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beset.
• Besetment Dictionary B - noun The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin.
• Besetter Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, besets.
• Beshone Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beshine.
• Beshining Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beshine.
• Beshine Dictionary B - verb transitive To shine upon; to illumine.
• Beshow Dictionary B - noun A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; - called also candlefish.
• Beshrew Dictionary B - verb transitive To curse; to execrate.
• Beshroud Dictionary B - verb transitive To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen.
• Beshut Dictionary B - verb transitive To shut up or out.
• Beside Dictionary B - noun At the side of; on one side of.
• Besides Dictionary B - adverb Alt. of Beside.
• Besieged Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Besiege.
• Besieging Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Besiege.
• Besiege Dictionary B - verb transitive To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.
• Besiegement Dictionary B - noun The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged.
• Besieger Dictionary B - noun One who besieges; - opposed to the besieged.
• Besit Dictionary B - verb transitive To suit; to fit; to become.
• Beslabber Dictionary B - verb transitive To beslobber.
• Beslave Dictionary B - verb transitive To enslave.
• Beslavered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beslaver.
• Beslavering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beslaver.
• Beslaver Dictionary B - verb transitive To defile with slaver; to beslobber.
• Beslime Dictionary B - verb transitive To daub with slime; to soil.
• Beslobber Dictionary B - verb transitive To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise.
• Beslubber Dictionary B - verb transitive To beslobber.
• Besmeared Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Besmear.
• Besmearing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Besmear.
• Besmear Dictionary B - verb transitive To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil.
• Besmearer Dictionary B - noun One that besmears.
• Besmirched Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Besmirch.
• Besmirching Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Besmirch.
• Besmirch Dictionary B - verb transitive To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully.
• Besmoke Dictionary B - verb transitive To foul with smoke.
• Besmutted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Besmut.
• Besmutting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Besmut.
• Besmut Dictionary B - verb transitive To blacken with smut; to foul with soot.
• Besnowed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Besnow.
• Besnow Dictionary B - verb transitive To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes.
• Besnuff Dictionary B - verb transitive To befoul with snuff.
• Besogne Dictionary B - noun A worthless fellow; a bezonian.
• Besom Dictionary B - noun A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys.
• Besomed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Besom.
• Besomer Dictionary B - noun One who uses a besom.
• Besort Dictionary B - verb transitive To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become.
• Besotted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Besot.
• Besotting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Besot.
• Besot Dictionary B - verb transitive To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate.
• Besottingly Dictionary B - adverb In a besotting manner.
• Bespangled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bespangle.
• Bespangling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bespangle.
• Bespangle Dictionary B - verb transitive To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering.
• Bespattered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bespatter.
• Bespattering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bespatter.
• Bespatter Dictionary B - verb transitive To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.
• Bespawl Dictionary B - verb transitive To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle.
• Bespoke Dictionary B - imperative of Bespeak.
• Bespake Dictionary B - of Bespeak.
• Bespoken Dictionary B - of Bespeak.
• Bespeaking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bespeak.
• Bespeak Dictionary B - verb transitive To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.
• Bespeaker Dictionary B - noun One who bespeaks.
• Bespeckled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bespeckle.
• Bespeckling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bespeckle.
• Bespeckle Dictionary B - verb transitive To mark with speckles or spots.
• Bespew Dictionary B - verb transitive To soil or daub with spew; to vomit on.
• Bespice Dictionary B - verb transitive To season with spice, or with some spicy drug.
• Bespirt Dictionary B - verb transitive Same as Bespurt.
• Bespit Dictionary B - imperative of Bespit.
• Bespitten Dictionary B - of Bespit.
• Bespitting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bespit.
• Bespotted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bespot.
• Bespotting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bespot.
• Bespot Dictionary B - verb transitive To mark with spots, or as with spots.
• Bespread Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bespread.
• Bespreading Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bespread.
• Besprent Dictionary B - past participle Sprinkled over; strewed.
• Besprinkled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Besprinkle.
• Besprinkling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Besprinkle.
• Besprinkle Dictionary B - verb transitive To sprinkle over; to scatter over.
• Besprinkler Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, besprinkles.
• Bespurt Dictionary B - verb transitive To spurt on or over; to asperse.
• Bessemer steel Dictionary B - Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; - so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.
• Best Dictionary B - adjective Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cloth; the best abilities.
• Bestad Dictionary B - imperative & past particle Beset; put in peril.
• Bestain Dictionary B - verb transitive To stain.
• Bestarred Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bestar.
• Bestar Dictionary B - verb transitive To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or as with, stars; to bestud.
• Bestead Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bestead.
• Bested Dictionary B - of Bestead.
• Besteaded Dictionary B - of Bestead.
• Bestial Dictionary B - adjective Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.
• Bestiality Dictionary B - noun The state or quality of being bestial.
• Bestialized Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bestialize.
• Bestializing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bestialize.
• Bestialize Dictionary B - verb transitive To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize.
• Bestially Dictionary B - adverb In a bestial manner.
• Bestuck Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bestick.
• Besticking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bestick.
• Bestick Dictionary B - verb transitive To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce.
• Bestill Dictionary B - verb transitive To make still.
• Bestirred Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bestir.
• Bestirring Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bestir.
• Bestir Dictionary B - verb transitive To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor; - usually with the reciprocal pronoun.
• Bestorm Dictionary B - verb intransitive & transitive To storm.
• Bestowed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bestow.
• Bestowing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bestow.
• Bestow Dictionary B - verb transitive To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put.
• Bestowal Dictionary B - noun The act of bestowing; disposal.
• Bestower Dictionary B - noun One that bestows.
• Bestowment Dictionary B - noun The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or bestowal.
• Bestraddle Dictionary B - verb transitive To bestride.
• Bestraught Dictionary B - adjective Out of one's senses; distracted; mad.
• Bestreak Dictionary B - verb transitive To streak.
• Bestrewed Dictionary B - imperative of Bestrew.
• Bestrown Dictionary B - of Bestrew.
• Bestrewing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bestrew.
• Bestrew Dictionary B - verb transitive To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle.
• Bestrode Dictionary B - imperative of Bestride.
• Bestrid Dictionary B - of Bestride.
• Bestridden Dictionary B - past participle of Bestride.
• Bestriding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bestride.
• Bestride Dictionary B - verb transitive To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over.
• Bestudded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bestud.
• Bestudding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bestud.
• Bestud Dictionary B - verb transitive To set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set thickly; to stud; as, to bestud with stars.
• Beswike Dictionary B - verb transitive To lure; to cheat.
• Bet Dictionary B - noun That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager.
• Betted Dictionary B - of Bet.
• Betting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bet.
• Betaine Dictionary B - noun A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beet-root molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; - called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.
• Betook Dictionary B - imperative of Betake.
• Betaken Dictionary B - past participle of Betake.
• Betaking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Betake.
• Betake Dictionary B - verb transitive To take or seize.
• Betaught Dictionary B - adjective Delivered; committed in trust.
• Beteela Dictionary B - noun An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc.
• Beteem Dictionary B - adjective To give ; to bestow; to grant; to accord; to consent.
• Betel Dictionary B - noun A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber with ovate many-nerved leaves.
• Betelguese Dictionary B - noun A bright star of the first magnitude, near one shoulder of Orion.
• Betel nut Dictionary B - The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime.
• Bete noire Dictionary B - Something especially hated or dreaded; a bugbear.
• Bethabara wood Dictionary B - A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian.
• Bethel Dictionary B - noun A place of worship; a hallowed spot.
• Bethought Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bethink.
• Bethinking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bethink.
• Bethink Dictionary B - verb transitive To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; - generally followed by a reflexive pronoun, often with of or that before the subject of thought.
• Bethlehem Dictionary B - noun A hospital for lunatics; - corrupted into bedlam.
• Bethlehemite Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bethlemite.
• Bethlemite Dictionary B - noun An inhabitant of Bethlehem in Judea.
• Bethrall Dictionary B - verb transitive To reduce to thralldom; to inthrall.
• Bethumb Dictionary B - verb transitive To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books.
• Bethumped Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bethump.
• Bethumpt Dictionary B - of Bethump.
• Bethumping Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bethump.
• Bethump Dictionary B - verb transitive To beat or thump soundly.
• Betided Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Betide.
• Betid Dictionary B - Obs of Betide.
• Betiding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Betide.
• Betide Dictionary B - verb transitive To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
• Betime Dictionary B - adverb Alt. of Betimes.
• Betimes Dictionary B - adverb In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early.
• Betitle Dictionary B - verb transitive To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle.
• Betokened Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Betoken.
• Betokening Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Betoken.
• Betoken Dictionary B - verb transitive To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.
• Beton Dictionary B - noun The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion.
• Betongue Dictionary B - verb transitive To attack with the tongue; to abuse; to insult.
• Betonies Dictionary B - pleural of Betony.
• Betony Dictionary B - noun A plant of the genus Betonica (Linn.).
• Betorn Dictionary B - adjective Torn in pieces; tattered.
• Betossed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Betoss.
• Betoss Dictionary B - verb transitive To put in violent motion; to agitate; to disturb; to toss.
• Betrapped Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Betrap.
• Betrap Dictionary B - verb transitive To draw into, or catch in, a trap; to insnare; to circumvent.
• Betrayed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Betray.
• Betraying Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Betray.
• Betray Dictionary B - verb transitive To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city.
• Betrayal Dictionary B - noun The act or the result of betraying.
• Betrayer Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, betrays.
• Betrayment Dictionary B - noun Betrayal.
• Betrimmed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Betrim.
• Betrimming Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Betrim.
• Betrim Dictionary B - verb transitive To set in order; to adorn; to deck, to embellish; to trim.
• Betrothed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Betroth.
• Betrothing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Betroth.
• Betroth Dictionary B - verb transitive To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; - used esp. of a woman.
• Betrothal Dictionary B - noun The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance.
• Betrothment Dictionary B - noun The act of betrothing, or the state of being betrothed; betrothal.
• Betrust Dictionary B - verb transitive To trust or intrust.
• Betrustment Dictionary B - noun The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted.
• Betso Dictionary B - noun A small brass Venetian coin.
• Better Dictionary B - adjective Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
• Bettered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Better.
• Bettering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Better.
• Betterment Dictionary B - noun A making better; amendment; improvement.
• Bettermost Dictionary B - adjective Best.
• Betterness Dictionary B - noun The quality of being better or superior; superiority.
• Bettong Dictionary B - noun A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.
• Bettor Dictionary B - noun One who bets; a better.
• Betty Dictionary B - noun A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.
• Betulin Dictionary B - noun A substance of a resinous nature, obtained from the outer bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; - called also birch camphor.
• Betumbled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Betumble.
• Betumble Dictionary B - verb transitive To throw into disorder; to tumble.
• Betutored Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Betutor.
• Betutor Dictionary B - verb transitive To tutor; to instruct.
• Between Dictionary B - preposition In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.
• Betwixt Dictionary B - preposition In the space which separates; between.
• Beurre Dictionary B - noun A beurre (or buttery) pear, one with the meat soft and melting; - used with a distinguishing word; as, Beurre d'Anjou; Beurre Clairgeau.
• Bevel Dictionary B - noun Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.
• Beveled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bevel.
• Bevelled Dictionary B - of Bevel.
• Beveling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bevel.
• Bevelling Dictionary B - of Bevel.
• Bevel gear Dictionary B - A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.
• Bevelment Dictionary B - noun The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.
• Bever Dictionary B - noun A light repast between meals; a lunch.
• Bevered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bever.
• Beverage Dictionary B - verb transitive Liquid for drinking; drink; - usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage.
• Bevile Dictionary B - noun A chief broken or opening like a carpenter's bevel.
• Beviled Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bevilled.
• Bevilled Dictionary B - adjective Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; - said of a partition line of a shield.
• Bevies Dictionary B - pleural of Bevy.
• Bevy Dictionary B - noun A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.
• Bewailed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bewail.
• Bewailing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bewail.
• Bewail Dictionary B - verb transitive To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over.
• Bewailable Dictionary B - adjective Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.
• Bewailer Dictionary B - noun One who bewails or laments.
• Bewailment Dictionary B - noun The act of bewailing.
• Bewake Dictionary B - verb transitive & intransitive To keep watch over; to keep awake.
• Beware Dictionary B - intransitive verb To be on one's guard; to be cautious; to take care; - commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided.
• Bewash Dictionary B - verb transitive To drench or souse with water.
• Bewept Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Beweep.
• Beweeping Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Beweep.
• Beweep Dictionary B - verb transitive To weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears.
• Bewet Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bewet.
• Bewetted Dictionary B - of Bewet.
• Bewhore Dictionary B - verb transitive To corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of.
• Bewigged Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bewig.
• Bewig Dictionary B - verb transitive To cover (the head) with a wig.
• Bewildered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bewilder.
• Bewildering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bewilder.
• Bewilder Dictionary B - verb transitive To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.
• Bewilderedness Dictionary B - noun The state of being bewildered; bewilderment.
• Bewilderment Dictionary B - noun The state of being bewildered.
• Bewinter Dictionary B - verb transitive To make wintry.
• Bewit Dictionary B - noun A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs.
• Bewitched Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bewitch.
• Bewitching Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bewitch.
• Bewitch Dictionary B - verb transitive To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.
• Bewitchedness Dictionary B - noun The state of being bewitched.
• Bewitcher Dictionary B - noun One who bewitches.
• Bewitchery Dictionary B - noun The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination.
• Bewitchment Dictionary B - noun The act of bewitching, or the state of being bewitched.
• Bewondered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bewonder.
• Bewonder Dictionary B - verb transitive To fill with wonder.
• Bewrapped Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bewrap.
• Bewrap Dictionary B - verb transitive To wrap up; to cover.
• Bewray Dictionary B - verb transitive To soil. See Beray.
• Bewrayed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bewray.
• Bewraying Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bewray.
• Bewrayer Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, bewrays; a revealer.
• Bewrayment Dictionary B - noun Betrayal.
• Bewreck Dictionary B - verb transitive To wreck.
• Bewreke Dictionary B - verb transitive To wreak; to avenge.
• Bewrought Dictionary B - adjective Embroidered.
• Bey Dictionary B - noun A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis.
• Beylic Dictionary B - noun The territory ruled by a bey.
• Beyond Dictionary B - preposition On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than.
• Bezant Dictionary B - noun A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants.
• Bez-antler Dictionary B - noun The second branch of a stag's horn.
• Bezel Dictionary B - noun The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.
• Bezique Dictionary B - noun A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points.
• Bezoar Dictionary B - noun A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea.
• Bezoardic Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to, or compounded with, bezoar.
• Bezoartic Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bezoartical.
• Bezoartical Dictionary B - adjective Having the qualities of an antidote, or of bezoar; healing.
• Bezonian Dictionary B - noun A low fellow or scoundrel; a beggar.
• Bezzled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bezzle.
• Bezzling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bezzle.
• Bezzle Dictionary B - verb transitive To plunder; to waste in riot.
• Bhang Dictionary B - noun An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.
• Bhunder Dictionary B - noun An Indian monkey (Macacus Rhesus), protected by the Hindoos as sacred. See Rhesus.
• Bi- Dictionary B - In most branches of science bi- in composition denotes two, twice, or doubly; as, bidentate, two-toothed; biternate, doubly ternate, etc.
• Biacid Dictionary B - adjective Having two hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by negative atoms or radicals to form salts; - said of bases. See Diacid.
• Biacuminate Dictionary B - adjective Having points in two directions.
• Biangular Dictionary B - adjective Having two angles or corners.
• Biangulate Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Biangulated.
• Biangulated Dictionary B - adjective Biangular.
• Biangulous Dictionary B - adjective Biangular.
• Biantheriferous Dictionary B - adjective Having two anthers.
• Biarticulate Dictionary B - adjective Having, or consisting of, tow joints.
• Biases Dictionary B - pleural of Bias.
• Bias Dictionary B - noun A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line.
• Biased Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bias.
• Biasing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bias.
• Biauriculate Dictionary B - adjective Having two auricles, as the heart of mammals, birds, and reptiles.
• Biaxal Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Biaxial.
• Biaxial Dictionary B - adjective Having two axes; as, biaxial polarization.
• Bib Dictionary B - noun A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.
• Bibbe Dictionary B - verb transitive To drink; to tipple.
• Bibacious Dictionary B - adjective Addicted to drinking.
• Bibacity Dictionary B - noun The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling.
• Bibasic Dictionary B - adjective Having to hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by positive or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; - said of acids. See Dibasic.
• Bibb Dictionary B - noun A bibcock. See Bib, n., 3.
• Bibber Dictionary B - noun One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; - chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.
• Bibble-babble Dictionary B - noun Idle talk; babble.
• Bibbs Dictionary B - noun plural Pieces of timber bolted to certain parts of a mast to support the trestletrees.
• Bibcock Dictionary B - noun A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle.
• Bibirine Dictionary B - noun See Bebeerine.
• Bibitory Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling.
• Bible Dictionary B - noun A book.
• Bibler Dictionary B - verb transitive A great drinker; a tippler.
• Biblical Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority.
• Biblicality Dictionary B - noun The quality of being biblical; a biblical subject.
• Biblically Dictionary B - adverb According to the Bible.
• Biblicism Dictionary B - noun Learning or literature relating to the Bible.
• Biblicist Dictionary B - noun One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.
• Bibliograph Dictionary B - noun Bibliographer.
• Bibliographer Dictionary B - noun One who writes, or is versed in, bibliography.
• Bibliographic Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bibliographical.
• Bibliographical Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to bibliography, or the history of books.
• Bibliographies Dictionary B - pleural of Bibliography.
• Bibliography Dictionary B - noun A history or description of books and manuscripts, with notices of the different editions, the times when they were printed, etc.
• Bibliolater Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bibliolatrist.
• Bibliolatrist Dictionary B - noun A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration.
• Bibliolatry Dictionary B - noun Book worship, esp. of the Bible; - applied by Roman Catholic divines to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over that of the pope or the church, and by Protestants to an excessive regard to the letter of the Scriptures.
• Bibliological Dictionary B - adjective Relating to bibliology.
• Bibliology Dictionary B - noun An account of books; book lore; bibliography.
• Bibliomancy Dictionary B - noun A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events.
• Bibliomania Dictionary B - noun A mania for acquiring books.
• Bibliomaniac Dictionary B - noun One who has a mania for books.
• Bibliomaniacal Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to a passion for books; relating to a bibliomaniac.
• Bibliopegic Dictionary B - adjective Relating to the binding of books.
• Bibliopegist Dictionary B - noun A bookbinder.
• Bibliopegistic Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to the art of binding books.
• Bibliopegy Dictionary B - noun The art of binding books.
• Bibliophile Dictionary B - noun A lover of books.
• Bibliophilism Dictionary B - noun Love of books.
• Bibliophilist Dictionary B - noun A lover of books.
• Bibliophobia Dictionary B - noun A dread of books.
• Bibliopole Dictionary B - noun One who sells books.
• Bibliopolic Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bibliopolar.
• Bibliopolar Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the sale of books.
• Bibliopolism Dictionary B - noun The trade or business of selling books.
• Bibliopolist Dictionary B - noun Same as Bibliopole.
• Bibliopolistic Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to bibliopolism.
• Bibliotaph Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bibliotaphist.
• Bibliotaphist Dictionary B - noun One who hides away books, as in a tomb.
• Bibliothec Dictionary B - noun A librarian.
• Bibliotheca Dictionary B - noun A library.
• Bibliothecal Dictionary B - adjective Belonging to a library.
• Bibliothecary Dictionary B - noun A librarian.
• Bibliotheke Dictionary B - noun A library.
• Biblist Dictionary B - noun One who makes the Bible the sole rule of faith.
• Bibracteate Dictionary B - adjective Furnished with, or having, two bracts.
• Bibulous Dictionary B - verb transitive Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.
• Bibulously Dictionary B - adverb In a bibulous manner; with profuse imbibition or absorption.
• Bicalcarate Dictionary B - adjective Having two spurs, as the wing or leg of a bird.
• Bicallose Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bicallous.
• Bicallous Dictionary B - adjective Having two callosities or hard spots.
• Bicameral Dictionary B - adjective Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches.
• Bicapsular Dictionary B - adjective Having two capsules; as, a bicapsular pericarp.
• Bicarbonate Dictionary B - noun A carbonate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal carbonates; an acid carbonate; - sometimes called supercarbonate.
• Bicarbureted Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of -retted.
• -retted Dictionary B - adjective Containing two atoms or equivalents of carbon in the molecule.
• Bicarinate Dictionary B - adjective Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses.
• Bicaudal Dictionary B - adjective Having, or terminating in, two tails.
• Bicaudate Dictionary B - adjective Two-tailed; bicaudal.
• Bicched Dictionary B - adjective Pecked; pitted; notched.
• Bice Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bise.
• Bise Dictionary B - noun A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; - called also blue bice.
• Bicentenary Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration.
• Bicentennial Dictionary B - adjective Consisting of two hundred years.
• Bicephalous Dictionary B - adjective Having two heads.
• Biceps Dictionary B - noun A muscle having two heads or origins; - applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.
• Bichir Dictionary B - noun A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei.
• Bichloride Dictionary B - noun A compound consisting of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; - called also dichloride.
• Bicho Dictionary B - noun See Jigger.
• Bichromate Dictionary B - noun A salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; - called also dichromate.
• Bichromatize Dictionary B - verb transitive To combine or treat with a bichromate, esp. with bichromate of potassium; as, bichromatized gelatine.
• Bicipital Dictionary B - adjective Having two heads or origins, as a muscle.
• Bicipitous Dictionary B - adjective Having two heads; bicipital.
• Bicker Dictionary B - noun A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
• Bickered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bicker.
• Bickering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bicker.
• Bickerer Dictionary B - noun One who bickers.
• Bickerment Dictionary B - noun Contention.
• Bickern Dictionary B - noun An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.
• Bicolligate Dictionary B - verb transitive Having the anterior toes connected by a basal web.
• Bicolor Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bicolored.
• Bicolored Dictionary B - adjective Of two colors.
• Biconcave Dictionary B - adjective Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebrae.
• Biconjugate Dictionary B - adjective Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice.
• Biconvex Dictionary B - adjective Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens.
• Bicorn Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bicornous.
• Bicorned Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bicornous.
• Bicornous Dictionary B - adjective Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.
• Bicorporal Dictionary B - adjective Having two bodies.
• Bicorporate Dictionary B - adjective Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.
• Bicostate Dictionary B - adjective Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
• Bicrenate Dictionary B - adjective Twice crenated, as in the case of leaves whose crenatures are themselves crenate.
• Bicrescentic Dictionary B - adjective Having the form of a double crescent.
• Bicrural Dictionary B - adjective Having two legs.
• Bicuspid Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bicuspidate.
• Bicuspidate Dictionary B - adjective Having two points or prominences; ending in two points; - said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc.
• Bicyanide Dictionary B - noun See Dicyanide.
• Bicycle Dictionary B - noun A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.
• Bicycler Dictionary B - noun One who rides a bicycle.
• Bicyclic Dictionary B - adjective Relating to bicycles.
• Bicycling Dictionary B - noun The use of a bicycle; the act or practice of riding a bicycle.
• Bicyclism Dictionary B - noun The art of riding a bicycle.
• Bicyclist Dictionary B - noun A bicycler.
• Bicycular Dictionary B - adjective Relating to bicycling.
• Bid Dictionary B - of Bid.
• Bidden Dictionary B - past participle of Bid.
• Bidding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bid.
• Bidale Dictionary B - noun An invitation of friends to drink ale at some poor man's house, and there to contribute in charity for his relief.
• Biddable Dictionary B - adjective Obedient; docile.
• Bidder Dictionary B - noun One who bids or offers a price.
• Biddery ware Dictionary B - A kind of metallic ware made in India. The material is a composition of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened.
• Bidding prayer Dictionary B - The prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before the sermon.
• Biddy Dictionary B - noun A name used in calling a hen or chicken.
• Bided Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bide.
• Biding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bide.
• Bide Dictionary B - verb transitive To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay.
• Bident Dictionary B - noun An instrument or weapon with two prongs.
• Bidental Dictionary B - adjective Having two teeth.
• Bidentate Dictionary B - adjective Having two teeth or two toothlike processes; two-toothed.
• Bidet Dictionary B - noun A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage.
• Bidigitate Dictionary B - adjective Having two fingers or fingerlike projections.
• Bield Dictionary B - noun A shelter. Same as Beild.
• Biennial Dictionary B - adjective Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.
• Biennially Dictionary B - adverb Once in two years.
• Bier Dictionary B - noun A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.
• Bierbalk Dictionary B - noun A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals.
• Biestings Dictionary B - noun plural Alt. of Beestings.
• Bifacial Dictionary B - adjective Having the opposite surfaces alike.
• Bifarious Dictionary B - adjective Twofold; arranged in two rows.
• Bifariously Dictionary B - adverb In a bifarious manner.
• Biferous Dictionary B - adjective Bearing fruit twice a year.
• Biffin Dictionary B - noun A sort of apple peculiar to Norfolk, Eng.
• Bifid Dictionary B - adjective Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.
• Bifidate Dictionary B - adjective See Bifid.
• Bifilar Dictionary B - adjective Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance.
• Biflabellate Dictionary B - adjective Flabellate on both sides.
• Biflagellate Dictionary B - adjective Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.
• Biflorate Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Biflorous.
• Biflorous Dictionary B - adjective Bearing two flowers; two-flowered.
• Bifold Dictionary B - adjective Twofold; double; of two kinds, degrees, etc.
• Bifoliate Dictionary B - adjective Having two leaves; two-leaved.
• Bifoliolate Dictionary B - adjective Having two leaflets, as some compound leaves.
• Biforate Dictionary B - adjective Having two perforations.
• Biforine Dictionary B - noun An oval sac or cell, found in the leaves of certain plants of the order Araceae. It has an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged.
• Biforked Dictionary B - adjective Bifurcate.
• Biform Dictionary B - adjective Having two forms, bodies, or shapes.
• Biformed Dictionary B - adjective Having two forms.
• Biformity Dictionary B - noun A double form.
• Biforn Dictionary B - preparticle & adverb Before.
• Biforous Dictionary B - adjective See Biforate.
• Bifronted Dictionary B - adjective Having two fronts.
• Bifurcate Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bifurcated.
• Bifurcated Dictionary B - adjective Two-pronged; forked.
• Bifurcation Dictionary B - noun A forking, or division into two branches.
• Bifurcous Dictionary B - adjective See Bifurcate, a.
• Big Dictionary B - superlative Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.
• Bigg Dictionary B - noun Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.
• Biga Dictionary B - noun A two-horse chariot.
• Bigam Dictionary B - noun A bigamist.
• Bigamist Dictionary B - noun One who is guilty of bigamy.
• Bigamous Dictionary B - adjective Guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy; as, a bigamous marriage.
• Bigamy Dictionary B - noun The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another.
• Bigarreau Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bigaroon.
• Bigaroon Dictionary B - noun The large white-heart cherry.
• Big-bellied Dictionary B - adjective Having a great belly; as, a big-bellied man or flagon; advanced in pregnancy.
• Bigeminate Dictionary B - adjective Having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; - said of a decompound leaf.
• Bigential Dictionary B - adjective Including two tribes or races of men.
• Bigeye Dictionary B - noun A fish of the genus Priacanthus, remarkable for the large size of the eye.
• Biggen Dictionary B - verb transitive & intransitive To make or become big; to enlarge.
• Bigger Dictionary B - adjective compar. of Big.
• Biggest Dictionary B - adjective superl. of Big.
• Biggin Dictionary B - noun A child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head.
• Bigging Dictionary B - verb transitive A building.
• Biggon Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Biggonnet.
• Biggonnet Dictionary B - noun A cap or hood with pieces covering the ears.
• Bigha Dictionary B - noun A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre.
• Bighorn Dictionary B - noun The Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis / Caprovis montana).
• Bight Dictionary B - verb A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
• Biglandular Dictionary B - adjective Having two glands, as a plant.
• Bigly Dictionary B - adjective In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently.
• Bigness Dictionary B - noun The state or quality of being big; largeness; size; bulk.
• Bignonia Dictionary B - noun A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.
• Bignoniaceous Dictionary B - adjective Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the trumpet flower is an example.
• Bigot Dictionary B - noun A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite.
• Bigoted Dictionary B - adjective Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion practice, or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others.
• Bigotedly Dictionary B - adverb In the manner of a bigot.
• Bigotry Dictionary B - noun The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.
• Bigwig Dictionary B - adjective A person of consequence; as, the bigwigs of society.
• Big-wigged Dictionary B - adjective characterized by pomposity of manner.
• Bihydroguret Dictionary B - noun A compound of two atoms of hydrogen with some other substance.
• Bijoux Dictionary B - pleural of Bijou.
• Bijou Dictionary B - noun A trinket; a jewel; - a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.
• Bijoutry Dictionary B - noun Small articles of virtu, as jewelry, trinkets, etc.
• Bijugate Dictionary B - adjective Having two pairs, as of leaflets.
• Bijugous Dictionary B - adjective Bijugate.
• Bike Dictionary B - noun A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm.
• Bikh Dictionary B - noun The East Indian name of a virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.
• Bilabiate Dictionary B - adjective Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.
• Bilaciniate Dictionary B - adjective Doubly fringed.
• Bilalo Dictionary B - noun A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay of Manila.
• Bilamellate Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bilamellated.
• Bilamellated Dictionary B - adjective Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers.
• Bilaminar Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bilaminate.
• Bilaminate Dictionary B - adjective Formed of, or having, two laminae, or thin plates.
• Biland Dictionary B - noun A byland.
• Bilander Dictionary B - noun A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland.
• Bilateral Dictionary B - adjective Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties.
• Bilaterality Dictionary B - noun State of being bilateral.
• Bilberries Dictionary B - pleural of Bilberry.
• Bilberry Dictionary B - noun The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit.
• Bilboes Dictionary B - pleural of Bilbo.
• Bilbo Dictionary B - noun A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain.
• Bilboquet Dictionary B - noun The toy called cup and ball.
• Bilcock Dictionary B - noun The European water rail.
• Bildstein Dictionary B - noun Same as Agalmatolite.
• Bile Dictionary B - noun A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.
• Bilection Dictionary B - noun That portion of a group of moldings which projects beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection.
• Bilestone Dictionary B - noun A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary.
• Bilge Dictionary B - noun The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
• Bilged Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bilge.
• Bilging Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bilge.
• Bilgy Dictionary B - adjective Having the smell of bilge water.
• Biliary Dictionary B - adjective Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts.
• Biliation Dictionary B - noun The production and excretion of bile.
• Biliferous Dictionary B - adjective Generating bile.
• Bilifuscin Dictionary B - noun A brownish green pigment found in human gallstones and in old bile. It is a derivative of bilirubin.
• Bilimbi Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bilimbing.
• Bilimbing Dictionary B - noun The berries of two East Indian species of Averrhoa, of the Oxalideae or Sorrel family. They are very acid, and highly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases.
• Biliment Dictionary B - noun A woman's ornament; habiliment.
• Bilin Dictionary B - noun A name applied to the amorphous or crystalline mass obtained from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids.
• Bilinear Dictionary B - adjective Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coordinates.
• Bilingual Dictionary B - adjective Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary.
• Bilingualism Dictionary B - noun Quality of being bilingual.
• Bilinguar Dictionary B - adjective See Bilingual.
• Bilinguist Dictionary B - noun One versed in two languages.
• Bilinguous Dictionary B - adjective Having two tongues, or speaking two languages.
• Bilious Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the bile.
• Biliousness Dictionary B - noun The state of being bilious.
• Biliprasin Dictionary B - noun A dark green pigment found in small quantity in human gallstones.
• Bilirubin Dictionary B - noun A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.
• Biliteral Dictionary B - adjective Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb.
• Biliteralism Dictionary B - noun The property or state of being biliteral.
• Biliverdin Dictionary B - noun A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.
• Bilked Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bilk.
• Bilking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bilk.
• Bilk Dictionary B - verb transitive To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor.
• Bill Dictionary B - noun A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
• Billed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bill.
• Billing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bill.
• Billage Dictionary B - noun / v. t. & intransitive Same as Bilge.
• Billard Dictionary B - noun An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish.
• Billbeetle Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Billbug.
• Billbug Dictionary B - noun A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio.
• Billboard Dictionary B - noun A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on.
• Bill book Dictionary B - A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives.
• Bill broker Dictionary B - One who negotiates the discount of bills.
• Billet Dictionary B - noun A small paper; a note; a short letter.
• Billeted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Billet.
• Billeting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Billet.
• Billets-doux Dictionary B - pleural of Billet-doux.
• Billet-doux Dictionary B - noun A love letter or note.
• Billethead Dictionary B - noun A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off.
• Billfish Dictionary B - noun A name applied to several distinct fishes.
• Billhead Dictionary B - noun A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts.
• Bill holder Dictionary B - A person who holds a bill or acceptance.
• Billhook Dictionary B - noun A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.
• Billiard Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the game of billiards.
• Billiards Dictionary B - noun A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.
• Billingsgate Dictionary B - noun A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.
• Billion Dictionary B - noun According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration.
• Billmen Dictionary B - pleural of Billman.
• Billman Dictionary B - noun One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax.
• Billon Dictionary B - noun An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage.
• Billot Dictionary B - noun Bullion in the bar or mass.
• Billow Dictionary B - noun A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
• Billowed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Billow.
• Billowing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Billow.
• Billowy Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
• Billposter Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Billsticker.
• Billsticker Dictionary B - noun One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places.
• Billy Dictionary B - noun A club; esp., a policeman's club.
• Billyboy Dictionary B - noun A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel.
• Billy goat Dictionary B - A male goat.
• Bilobate Dictionary B - adjective Divided into two lobes or segments.
• Bilobed Dictionary B - adjective Bilobate.
• Bilocation Dictionary B - noun Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; - a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints.
• Bilocular Dictionary B - adjective Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp.
• Bilsted Dictionary B - noun See Sweet gum.
• Biltong Dictionary B - noun Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried.
• Bimaculate Dictionary B - adjective Having, or marked with, two spots.
• Bimana Dictionary B - noun plural Animals having two hands; - a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia.
• Bimanous Dictionary B - adjective Having two hands; two-handed.
• Bimarginate Dictionary B - adjective Having a double margin, as certain shells.
• Bimastism Dictionary B - noun The condition of having two mammae or teats.
• Bimedial Dictionary B - adjective Applied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).
• Bimembral Dictionary B - adjective Having two members; as, a bimembral sentence.
• Bimensal Dictionary B - adjective See Bimonthly, a.
• Bimestrial Dictionary B - adjective Continuing two months.
• Bimetallic Dictionary B - adjective Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.
• Bimetallism Dictionary B - noun The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; - in opposition to monometallism.
• Bimetallist Dictionary B - noun An advocate of bimetallism.
• Bimonthly Dictionary B - adjective Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications.
• Bimuscular Dictionary B - adjective Having two adductor muscles, as a bivalve mollusk.
• Bin Dictionary B - noun A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin.
• Binned Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bin.
• Binning Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bin.
• Bin- Dictionary B - A euphonic form of the prefix Bi-.
• Binal Dictionary B - adjective Twofold; double.
• Binarseniate Dictionary B - noun A salt having two equivalents of arsenic acid to one of the base.
• Binary Dictionary B - adjective Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things).
• Binate Dictionary B - adjective Double; growing in pairs or couples.
• Binaural Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears.
• Bound Dictionary B - imperative of Bind.
• Bounden Dictionary B - of Bind.
• Binding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bind.
• Bind Dictionary B - verb transitive To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.
• Binder Dictionary B - noun One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.
• Bindery Dictionary B - noun A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.
• Bindheimite Dictionary B - noun An amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite.
• Bindingly Dictionary B - adverb So as to bind.
• Bindingness Dictionary B - noun The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality.
• Bindweed Dictionary B - noun A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed.
• Bine Dictionary B - noun The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.
• Binervate Dictionary B - adjective Two-nerved; - applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves.
• Bing Dictionary B - noun A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood.
• Biniodide Dictionary B - noun Same as Diiodide.
• Bink Dictionary B - noun A bench.
• Binnacle Dictionary B - noun A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night.
• Binny Dictionary B - noun A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile, and much esteemed for food.
• Binocle Dictionary B - noun A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double-barreled field glass or an opera glass.
• Binocular Dictionary B - adjective Having two eyes.
• Binocularly Dictionary B - adverb In a binocular manner.
• Binoculate Dictionary B - adjective Having two eyes.
• Binomial Dictionary B - noun An expression consisting of two terms connected by the sign plus (+) or minus (-); as, a + b, or 7 - 3.
• Binominal Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to two names; binomial.
• Binominous Dictionary B - adjective Binominal.
• Binotonous Dictionary B - adjective Consisting of two notes; as, a binotonous cry.
• Binous Dictionary B - adjective Same as Binate.
• Binoxalate Dictionary B - noun A salt having two equivalents of oxalic acid to one of the base; an acid oxalate.
• Binoxide Dictionary B - noun Same as Dioxide.
• Binturong Dictionary B - noun A small Asiatic civet of the genus Arctilis.
• Binuclear Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Binucleate.
• Binucleate Dictionary B - adjective Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells.
• Binucleolate Dictionary B - adjective Having two nucleoli.
• Bioblast Dictionary B - noun Same as Bioplast.
• Biocellate Dictionary B - adjective Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); - said of a wing, etc.
• Biochemistry Dictionary B - noun The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.
• Biodynamics Dictionary B - noun The doctrine of vital forces or energy.
• Biogen Dictionary B - noun Bioplasm.
• Biogenesis Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Biogeny.
• Biogeny Dictionary B - noun A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; - opposed to abiogenesis.
• Biogenetic Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to biogenesis.
• Biogenist Dictionary B - noun A believer in the theory of biogenesis.
• Biognosis Dictionary B - noun The investigation of life.
• Biographer Dictionary B - noun One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.
• Biographic Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Biographical.
• Biographical Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to biography; containing biography.
• Biographize Dictionary B - verb transitive To write a history of the life of.
• Biographies Dictionary B - pleural of Biography.
• Biography Dictionary B - noun The written history of a person's life.
• Biologic Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Biological.
• Biological Dictionary B - adjective Of or relating to biology.
• Biologist Dictionary B - noun A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.
• Biology Dictionary B - noun The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.
• Biolysis Dictionary B - noun The destruction of life.
• Biolytic Dictionary B - adjective Relating to the destruction of life.
• Biomagnetic Dictionary B - adjective Relating to biomagnetism.
• Biomagnetism Dictionary B - noun Animal magnetism.
• Biometry Dictionary B - noun Measurement of life; calculation of the probable duration of human life.
• Bion Dictionary B - past particle The physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological individual or morphon.
• Bionomy Dictionary B - noun Physiology.
• Biophor Biophore Dictionary B - noun One of the smaller vital units of a cell, the bearer of vitality and heredity. See Pangen, in Supplement.
• Bioplasm Dictionary B - noun A name suggested by Dr. Beale for the germinal matter supposed to be essential to the functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.
• Bioplasmic Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to, or consisting of, bioplasm.
• Bioplast Dictionary B - noun A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.
• Bioplastic Dictionary B - adjective Bioplasmic.
• Biorgan Dictionary B - noun A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; - distinguished from idorgan.
• Biostatics Dictionary B - noun The physical phenomena of organized bodies, in opposition to their organic or vital phenomena.
• Biostatistics Dictionary B - noun Vital statistics.
• Biotaxy Dictionary B - noun The classification of living organisms according to their structural character; taxonomy.
• Biotic Dictionary B - adjective Relating to life; as, the biotic principle.
• Biotite Dictionary B - noun Mica containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; - a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See Mica.
• Bipalmate Dictionary B - adjective Palmately branched, with the branches again palmated.
• Biparietal Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the diameter of the cranium, from one parietal fossa to the other.
• Biparous Dictionary B - adjective Bringing forth two at a birth.
• Bipartible Dictionary B - adjective Capable of being divided into two parts.
• Bipartient Dictionary B - past particle Dividing into two parts.
• Bipartile Dictionary B - adjective Divisible into two parts.
• Bipartite Dictionary B - adjective Being in two parts; having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party; shared by two; as, a bipartite treaty.
• Bipartition Dictionary B - noun The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.
• Bipectinate Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bipectinated.
• Bipectinated Dictionary B - adjective Having two margins toothed like a comb.
• Biped Dictionary B - noun A two-footed animal, as man.
• Bipedal Dictionary B - noun Having two feet; biped.
• Bipeltate Dictionary B - adjective Having a shell or covering like a double shield.
• Bipennate Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bipennated.
• Bipennated Dictionary B - adjective Having two wings.
• Bipennis Dictionary B - noun An ax with an edge or blade on each side of the handle.
• Bipetalous Dictionary B - adjective Having two petals.
• Bipinnaria Dictionary B - noun The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free-swimming stage.
• Bipinnate Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bipinnated.
• Bipinnated Dictionary B - adjective Twice pinnate.
• Bipinnatifid Dictionary B - adjective Doubly pinnatifid.
• Biplicate Dictionary B - adjective Twice folded together.
• Biplicity Dictionary B - noun The state of being twice folded; reduplication.
• Bipolar Dictionary B - adjective Doubly polar; having two poles; as, a bipolar cell or corpuscle.
• Bipolarity Dictionary B - noun Bipolar quality.
• Bipont Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bipontine.
• Bipontine Dictionary B - adjective Relating to books printed at Deuxponts, or Bipontium (Zweibrucken), in Bavaria.
• Bipunctate Dictionary B - adjective Having two punctures, or spots.
• Bipunctual Dictionary B - adjective Having two points.
• Bipupillate Dictionary B - adjective Having an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies.
• Bipyramidal Dictionary B - adjective Consisting of two pyramids placed base to base; having a pyramid at each of the extremities of a prism, as in quartz crystals.
• Biquadrate Dictionary B - noun The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.
• Biquadratic Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the biquadrate, or fourth power.
• Biquintile Dictionary B - noun An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle - that is, twice 72 degrees.
• Biradiate Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Biradiated.
• Biradiated Dictionary B - adjective Having two rays; as, a biradiate fin.
• Biramous Dictionary B - adjective Having, or consisting of, two branches.
• Birches Dictionary B - pleural of Birch.
• Birch Dictionary B - noun A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta).
• Birched Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Birch.
• Birching Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Birch.
• Birchen Dictionary B - adjective Of or relating to birch.
• Bird Dictionary B - noun Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).
• Birdbolt Dictionary B - noun A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them.
• Bird cage Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Birdcage.
• Birdcage Dictionary B - noun A cage for confining birds.
• Birdcall Dictionary B - noun A sound made in imitation of the note or cry of a bird for the purpose of decoying the bird or its mate.
• Birdcatcher Dictionary B - noun One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler.
• Birdcatching Dictionary B - noun The art, act, or occupation or catching birds or wild fowls.
• Bird cherry Dictionary B - A shrub (Prunus Padus ) found in Northern and Central Europe. It bears small black cherries.
• Birder Dictionary B - noun A birdcatcher.
• Bird-eyed Dictionary B - adjective Quick-sighted; catching a glance as one goes.
• Bird fancier Dictionary B - One who takes pleasure in rearing or collecting rare or curious birds.
• Birdie Dictionary B - noun A pretty or dear little bird; - a pet name.
• Birdikin Dictionary B - noun A young bird.
• Birding Dictionary B - noun Birdcatching or fowling.
• Birdlet Dictionary B - noun A little bird; a nestling.
• Birdlike Dictionary B - adjective Resembling a bird.
• Birdlime Dictionary B - noun An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares.
• Birdling Dictionary B - noun A little bird; a nestling.
• Birdman Dictionary B - noun A fowler or birdcatcher.
• Bird of paradise Dictionary B - The name of several very beautiful birds of the genus Paradisea and allied genera, inhabiting New Guinea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers.
• Bird pepper Dictionary B - A species of capsicum (Capsicum baccatum), whose small, conical, coral-red fruit is among the most piquant of all red peppers.
• Bird's-beak Dictionary B - noun A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak.
• Birdseed Dictionary B - noun Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.
• Bird's-eye Dictionary B - adjective Seen from above, as if by a flying bird; embraced at a glance; hence, general; not minute, or entering into details; as, a bird's-eye view.
• Bird's-eye maple Dictionary B - See under Maple.
• Bird's-foot Dictionary B - noun A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point.
• Bird's-mouth Dictionary B - noun An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter to be laid on a plate; - commonly called crow's-foot in the United States.
• Bird's nest Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bird's-nest.
• Bird's-nest Dictionary B - noun The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young.
• Bird's-nesting Dictionary B - noun Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents.
• Bird's-tongue Dictionary B - noun The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare).
• Bird-witted Dictionary B - adjective Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention.
• Birectangular Dictionary B - adjective Containing or having two right angles; as, a birectangular spherical triangle.
• Bireme Dictionary B - noun An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.
• Biretta Dictionary B - noun Same as Berretta.
• Birgander Dictionary B - noun See Bergander.
• Birk Dictionary B - noun A birch tree.
• Birken Dictionary B - verb transitive To whip with a birch or rod.
• Birkie Dictionary B - noun A lively or mettlesome fellow.
• Birl Dictionary B - verb transitive & intransitive To revolve or cause to revolve; to spin.
• Birlaw Dictionary B - noun A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law.
• Birostrate Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Birostrated.
• Birostrated Dictionary B - adjective Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks.
• Birred Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Birr.
• Birring Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Birr.
• Birr Dictionary B - intransitive verb To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.
• Birrus Dictionary B - noun A coarse kind of thick woolen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages; also, a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or over the head.
• Birse Dictionary B - noun A bristle or bristles.
• Birt Dictionary B - noun A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.
• Birth Dictionary B - noun The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; - generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
• Birthday Dictionary B - noun The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.
• Birthdom Dictionary B - noun The land of one's birth; one's inheritance.
• Birthing Dictionary B - noun Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.
• Birthless Dictionary B - adjective Of mean extraction.
• Birthmark Dictionary B - noun Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth.
• Birthnight Dictionary B - noun The night in which a person is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years.
• Birthplace Dictionary B - noun The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense.
• Birthright Dictionary B - noun Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born.
• Birthroot Dictionary B - noun An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.
• Birthwort Dictionary B - noun A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties.
• Bis Dictionary B - adverb Twice; - a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.
• Bis- Dictionary B - pref. A form of Bi-, sometimes used before s, c, or a vowel.
• Bisa antelope Dictionary B - See Oryx.
• Bisaccate Dictionary B - adjective Having two little bags, sacs, or pouches.
• Biscayan Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Biscay in Spain.
• Biscotin Dictionary B - noun A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit.
• Biscuit Dictionary B - noun A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.
• Biscutate Dictionary B - adjective Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.
• Bisected Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bisect.
• Bisecting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bisect.
• Bisect Dictionary B - verb transitive To cut or divide into two parts.
• Bisection Dictionary B - noun Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts.
• Bisector Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle.
• Bisectrix Dictionary B - noun The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.
• Bisegment Dictionary B - noun One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude.
• Biseptate Dictionary B - adjective With two partitions or septa.
• Biserial Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Biseriate.
• Biseriate Dictionary B - adjective In two rows or series.
• Biserrate Dictionary B - adjective Doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in some leaves.
• Bisetose Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bisetous.
• Bisetous Dictionary B - adjective Having two bristles.
• Bisexous Dictionary B - adjective Bisexual.
• Bisexual Dictionary B - adjective Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.
• Bisexuous Dictionary B - adjective Bisexual.
• Biseye Dictionary B - p. p. of Besee.
• Bish Dictionary B - noun Same as Bikh.
• Bishop Dictionary B - noun A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
• Bishoped Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bishop.
• Bishoping Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bishop.
• Bishopdom Dictionary B - noun Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate.
• Bishoplike Dictionary B - adjective Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop.
• Bishoply Dictionary B - adjective Bishoplike; episcopal.
• Bishopric Dictionary B - noun A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends.
• Bishop's cap Dictionary B - A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort.
• Bishop sleeve Dictionary B - A wide sleeve, once worn by women.
• Bishop's length Dictionary B - A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 by 56.
• Bishop-stool Dictionary B - noun A bishop's seat or see.
• Bishop's-weed Dictionary B - noun An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi.
• Bishop's-wort Dictionary B - noun Wood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush.
• Bisie Dictionary B - verb transitive To busy; to employ.
• Bisilicate Dictionary B - noun A salt of metasilicic acid; - so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The bisilicates include many of the most common and important minerals.
• Bisk Dictionary B - noun Soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh together.
• Bismare Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bismer.
• Bismer Dictionary B - noun Shame; abuse.
• Bismillah Dictionary B - interjection An adjuration or exclamation common among the Mohammedans.
• Bismite Dictionary B - noun Bismuth trioxide, or bismuth ocher.
• Bismuth Dictionary B - noun One of the elements; a metal of a reddish white color, crystallizing in rhombohedrons. It is somewhat harder than lead, and rather brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. It melts at 507 Fahr., being easily fused in the flame of a candle. It is found in a native state, and as a constituent of some minerals. Specific gravity 9.8. Atomic weight 207.5. Symbol Bi.
• Bismuthal Dictionary B - adjective Containing bismuth.
• Bismuthic Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to bismuth; containing bismuth, when this element has its higher valence; as, bismuthic oxide.
• Bismuthiferous Dictionary B - adjective Containing bismuth.
• Bismuthine Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bismuthinite.
• Bismuthinite Dictionary B - noun Native bismuth sulphide; - sometimes called bismuthite.
• Bismuthous Dictionary B - adjective Of, or containing, bismuth, when this element has its lower valence.
• Bismuthyl Dictionary B - noun Hydrous carbonate of bismuth, an earthy mineral of a dull white or yellowish color.
• Bison Dictionary B - noun The aurochs or European bison.
• Bispinose Dictionary B - adjective Having two spines.
• Bisque Dictionary B - noun Unglazed white porcelain.
• Bissextile Dictionary B - noun Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400.
• Bisson Dictionary B - adjective Purblind; blinding.
• Bister Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bistre.
• Bistre Dictionary B - noun A dark brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood.
• Bistipuled Dictionary B - adjective Having two stipules.
• Bistort Dictionary B - noun An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent.
• Bistouries Dictionary B - pleural of Bistoury.
• Bistoury Dictionary B - noun A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface.
• Bisulcate Dictionary B - adjective Having two grooves or furrows.
• Bisulcous Dictionary B - adjective Bisulcate.
• Bisulphate Dictionary B - noun A sulphate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal sulphates; an acid sulphate.
• Bisulphide Dictionary B - noun A sulphide having two atoms of sulphur in the molecule; a disulphide, as in iron pyrites, FeS2; - less frequently called bisulphuret.
• Bisulphite Dictionary B - noun A salt of sulphurous acid in which the base replaces but half the hydrogen of the acid; an acid sulphite.
• Bisulphuret Dictionary B - noun See Bisulphide.
• Bit Dictionary B - verb The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened.
• Bitted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bit.
• Bitting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bit.
• Bitake Dictionary B - verb transitive To commend; to commit.
• Bitangent Dictionary B - adjective Possessing the property of touching at two points.
• Bitartrate Dictionary B - noun A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.
• Bitch Dictionary B - noun The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.
• Bitten Dictionary B - past participle of Bite.
• Biting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bite.
• Bite Dictionary B - verb transitive To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
• Biter Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish.
• Biternate Dictionary B - adjective Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets.
• Bitheism Dictionary B - noun Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism.
• Biting in Dictionary B - The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. See Etch.
• Bitingly Dictionary B - adverb In a biting manner.
• Bitless Dictionary B - adjective Not having a bit or bridle.
• Bitstock Dictionary B - noun A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.
• Bitt Dictionary B - noun See Bitts.
• Bittacle Dictionary B - noun A binnacle.
• Bitter Dictionary B - noun AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.
• Bitterbump Dictionary B - noun the butterbump or bittern.
• Bitterful Dictionary B - adjective Full of bitterness.
• Bittering Dictionary B - noun A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern.
• Bitterish Dictionary B - adjective Somewhat bitter.
• Bitterling Dictionary B - noun A roachlike European fish (Rhodima amarus).
• Bitterly Dictionary B - adverb In a bitter manner.
• Bittern Dictionary B - noun A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species.
• Bitterness Dictionary B - noun The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind.
• Bitternut Dictionary B - noun The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.
• Bitterroot Dictionary B - noun A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spaet'lum.
• Bitters Dictionary B - noun plural A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• Bitter spar Dictionary B - A common name of dolomite; - so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.
• Bittersweet Dictionary B - adjective Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
• Bitterweed Dictionary B - noun A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiaefolia); Roman worm wood.
• Bitterwood Dictionary B - noun A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
• Bitterwort Dictionary B - noun The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste.
• Bittock Dictionary B - noun A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance.
• Bittor Bittour Dictionary B - noun The bittern.
• Bitts Dictionary B - noun plural A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.
• Bitume Dictionary B - noun Bitumen.
• Bitumed Dictionary B - adjective Smeared with bitumen.
• Bitumen Dictionary B - noun Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt.
• Bituminated Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bituminate.
• Bituminating Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bituminate.
• Bituminate Dictionary B - verb transitive To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen.
• Bituminiferous Dictionary B - adjective Producing bitumen.
• Bituminization Dictionary B - noun The process of bituminizing.
• Bituminized Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bituminize.
• Bituminizing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bituminize.
• Bituminize Dictionary B - verb transitive To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.
• Bituminous Dictionary B - adjective Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen.
• Biuret Dictionary B - noun A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.
• Bivalency Dictionary B - noun The quality of being bivalent.
• Bivalent Dictionary B - past particle Equivalent in combining or displacing power to two atoms of hydrogen; dyad.
• Bivalve Dictionary B - noun A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, - or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.
• Bivalved Dictionary B - adjective Having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve.
• Bivalvous Dictionary B - adjective Bivalvular.
• Bivalvular Dictionary B - adjective Having two valves.
• Bivaulted Dictionary B - adjective Having two vaults or arches.
• Bivector Dictionary B - noun A term made up of the two parts / + /1 /-1, where / and /1 are vectors.
• Biventral Dictionary B - adjective Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.
• Bivial Dictionary B - adjective Of or relating to the bivium.
• Bivious Dictionary B - adjective Having, or leading, two ways.
• Bivium Dictionary B - noun One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra.
• Bivouac Dictionary B - noun The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.
• Bivouacked Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bivouac.
• Bivouacking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bivouac.
• Biweekly Dictionary B - adjective Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly.
• Biwreye Dictionary B - verb transitive To bewray; to reveal.
• Bizantine Dictionary B - See Byzantine.
• Bizarre Dictionary B - adjective Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque.
• Bizet Dictionary B - noun The upper faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table. See Brilliant, n.
• Blabbed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blab.
• Blabbing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blab.
• Blab Dictionary B - verb To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.
• Blabber Dictionary B - noun A tattler; a telltale.
• Black Dictionary B - adjective Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.
• Blacked Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Black.
• Blacking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Black.
• Blackamoor Dictionary B - noun A negro or negress.
• Black art Dictionary B - The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic.
• Black-a-vised Dictionary B - adjective Dark-visaged; swart.
• Blackball Dictionary B - noun A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.
• Blackballed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blackball.
• Blackballing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blackball.
• Blackband Dictionary B - noun An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter; - valuable as an iron ore.
• Black bass Dictionary B - An edible, fresh-water fish of the United States, of the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei; the large-mouthed is M. salmoides.
• Blackberry Dictionary B - noun The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.
• Blackbird Dictionary B - noun In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelaeus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See Redwing.
• Blackboard Dictionary B - noun A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools.
• Black book Dictionary B - One of several books of a political character, published at different times and for different purposes; - so called either from the color of the binding, or from the character of the contents.
• Black-browed Dictionary B - adjective Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
• Blackburnian warbler Dictionary B - A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniae). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.
• Blackcap Dictionary B - noun A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.
• Blackcoat Dictionary B - noun A clergyman; - familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat.
• Blackcock Dictionary B - noun The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); - so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.
• Black death Dictionary B - A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.
• Blackened Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blacken.
• Blackening Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blacken.
• Blacken Dictionary B - verb transitive To make or render black.
• Blackener Dictionary B - noun One who blackens.
• Black-eyed Dictionary B - adjective Having black eyes.
• Black-faced Dictionary B - adjective Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.
• Blackfeet Dictionary B - noun plural A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.
• Blackfin Dictionary B - noun See Bluefin.
• Blackfish Dictionary B - noun A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.
• Blackfoot Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.
• Black friar Dictionary B - A friar of the Dominican order; - called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
• Blackguard Dictionary B - noun The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army.
• Blackguarded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blackguard.
• Blackguarding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blackguard.
• Blackguardism Dictionary B - noun The conduct or language of a blackguard; ruffianism.
• Blackguardly Dictionary B - adverb & adjective In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.
• Blackhead Dictionary B - noun The scaup duck.
• Blackheart Dictionary B - noun A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin.
• Black-hearted Dictionary B - adjective Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.
• Black hole Dictionary B - A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; - now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air.
• Blackish Dictionary B - adjective Somewhat black.
• Black-jack Dictionary B - noun A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - called also false galena. See Blende.
• Black lead Dictionary B - Plumbago; graphite. It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
• Blacklead Dictionary B - verb transitive To coat or to polish with black lead.
• Blackleg Dictionary B - noun A notorious gambler.
• Black letter Dictionary B - The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• Black-letter Dictionary B - adjective Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.
• Blacklist Dictionary B - verb transitive To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, - as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a.
• Blackly Dictionary B - adverb In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously.
• Blackmail Dictionary B - noun A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage.
• Blackmailed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blackmail.
• Blackmailing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blackmail.
• Blackmailer Dictionary B - noun One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.
• Black Monday Dictionary B - Easter Monday, so called from the severity of that day in 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold.
• Black monk Dictionary B - A Benedictine monk.
• Blackmoor Dictionary B - noun See Blackamoor.
• Black-mouthed Dictionary B - adjective Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.
• Blackness Dictionary B - noun The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.
• Blackpoll Dictionary B - noun A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata).
• Black pudding Dictionary B - A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal.
• Black Rod Dictionary B - the usher to the Chapter of the Garter, so called from the black rod which he carries. He is of the king's chamber, and also usher to the House of Lords.
• Blackroot Dictionary B - noun See Colicroot.
• Blacks Dictionary B - noun plural The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.
• Blacksalter Dictionary B - noun One who makes crude potash, or black salts.
• Black salts Dictionary B - Crude potash.
• Blacksmith Dictionary B - noun A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.
• Black snake Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Blacksnake.
• Blacksnake Dictionary B - noun A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long.
• Blackstrap Dictionary B - noun A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
• Blacktail Dictionary B - noun A fish; the ruff or pope.
• Blackthorn Dictionary B - noun A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.
• Black vomit Dictionary B - A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; - one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.
• Black wash Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Blackwash.
• Blackwash Dictionary B - noun A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.
• Blackwood Dictionary B - noun A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.
• Blackwork Dictionary B - noun Work wrought by blacksmiths; - so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths.
• Bladder Dictionary B - noun A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; - applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.
• Bladdered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bladder.
• Bladdering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bladder.
• Bladderwort Dictionary B - noun A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.
• Bladdery Dictionary B - adjective Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.
• Blade Dictionary B - noun Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.
• Bladebone Dictionary B - noun The scapula. See Blade, 4.
• Bladed Dictionary B - adjective Having a blade or blades; as, a two-bladed knife.
• Bladefish Dictionary B - noun A long, thin, marine fish of Europe (Trichiurus lepturus); the ribbon fish.
• Bladesmith Dictionary B - noun A sword cutler.
• Blady Dictionary B - adjective Consisting of blades.
• Blae Dictionary B - adjective Dark blue or bluish gray; lead-colored.
• Blaeberry Dictionary B - noun The bilberry.
• Blague Dictionary B - noun Mendacious boasting; falsehood; humbug.
• Blain Dictionary B - noun An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister.
• Blamable Dictionary B - adjective Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy.
• Blamed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blame.
• Blaming Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blame.
• Blame Dictionary B - verb transitive To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.
• Blameful Dictionary B - adjective Faulty; meriting blame.
• Blameless Dictionary B - adjective Free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; - sometimes followed by of.
• Blamelessly Dictionary B - adverb In a blameless manner.
• Blamelessness Dictionary B - noun The quality or state of being blameless; innocence.
• Blamer Dictionary B - noun One who blames.
• Blameworthy Dictionary B - adjective Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible.
• Blancard Dictionary B - noun A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven.
• Blanched Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blanch.
• Blanching Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blanch.
• Blanch Dictionary B - adjective To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
• Blancher Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose.
• Blanch holding Dictionary B - A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.
• Blanchimeter Dictionary B - noun An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer.
• Blancmange Dictionary B - noun A preparation for desserts, etc., made from isinglass, sea moss, cornstarch, or other gelatinous or starchy substance, with mild, usually sweetened and flavored, and shaped in a mold.
• Blancmanger Dictionary B - noun A sort of fricassee with white sauce, variously made of capon, fish, etc.
• Bland Dictionary B - adjective Mild; soft; gentle; smooth and soothing in manner; suave; as, a bland temper; bland persuasion; a bland sycophant.
• Blandation Dictionary B - noun Flattery.
• Blandiloquence Dictionary B - noun Mild, flattering speech.
• Blandiloquous Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Blandiloquious.
• Blandiloquious Dictionary B - adjective Fair-spoken; flattering.
• Blandise Dictionary B - intransitive verb To blandish any one.
• Blandished Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blandish.
• Blandishing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blandish.
• Blandish Dictionary B - verb transitive To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.
• Blandisher Dictionary B - noun One who uses blandishments.
• Blandishment Dictionary B - noun The act of blandishing; a word or act expressive of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement.
• Blandly Dictionary B - adverb In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.
• Blandness Dictionary B - noun The state or quality of being bland.
• Blank Dictionary B - adjective Of a white or pale color; without color.
• Blanked Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blank.
• Blanking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blank.
• Blanket Dictionary B - adjective A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.
• Blanketed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blanket.
• Blanketing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blanket.
• Blankly Dictionary B - adverb In a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; as, to stare blankly.
• Blankness Dictionary B - noun The state of being blank.
• Blanquette Dictionary B - noun A white fricassee.
• Blanquillo Dictionary B - noun A large fish of Florida and the W. Indies (Caulolatilus chrysops). It is red, marked with yellow.
• Blared Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blare.
• Blaring Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blare.
• Blare Dictionary B - intransitive verb To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.
• Blarney Dictionary B - noun Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery.
• Blarneyed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blarney.
• Blarneying Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blarney.
• Blase Dictionary B - adjective Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.
• Blasphemed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blaspheme.
• Blaspheming Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blaspheme.
• Blaspheme Dictionary B - verb To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.
• Blasphemer Dictionary B - noun One who blasphemes.
• Blasphemous Dictionary B - adjective Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature.
• Blasphemously Dictionary B - adverb In a blasphemous manner.
• Blasphemy Dictionary B - noun An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.
• -blast Dictionary B - A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc.
• Blast Dictionary B - noun A violent gust of wind.
• Blasted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blast.
• Blasting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blast.
• Blastemata Dictionary B - pleural of Blastema.
• Blastema Dictionary B - noun The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.
• Blastemal Dictionary B - adjective Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.
• Blastematic Dictionary B - adjective Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.
• Blaster Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.
• Blastide Dictionary B - noun A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.
• Blastment Dictionary B - noun A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause.
• Blastocarpous Dictionary B - adjective Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove.
• Blastocoele Dictionary B - noun The cavity of the blastosphere, or segmentation cavity.
• Blastocyst Dictionary B - noun The germinal vesicle.
• Blastoderm Dictionary B - noun The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.
• Blastodermatic Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Blastodermic.
• Blastodermic Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
• Blastogenesis Dictionary B - noun Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.
• Blastoid Dictionary B - noun One of the Blastoidea.
• Blastoidea Dictionary B - noun plural One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.
• Blastomere Dictionary B - noun One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum.
• Blastophoral Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Blastophoric.
• Blastophoric Dictionary B - adjective Relating to the blastophore.
• Blastophore Dictionary B - noun That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.
• Blastopore Dictionary B - noun The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.
• Blastosphere Dictionary B - noun The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.
• Blastostyle Dictionary B - noun In certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. See Hydroidea, and Athecata.
• Blast pipe Dictionary B - The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.
• Blastula Dictionary B - noun That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.
• Blastule Dictionary B - noun Same as Blastula.
• Blasty Dictionary B - adjective Affected by blasts; gusty.
• Blat Dictionary B - intransitive verb To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless noise; to talk inconsiderately.
• Blatancy Dictionary B - noun Blatant quality.
• Blatant Dictionary B - adjective Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.
• Blatantly Dictionary B - adverb In a blatant manner.
• Blatherskite Dictionary B - noun A blustering, talkative fellow.
• Blattered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blatter.
• Blatter Dictionary B - intransitive verb To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter.
• Blatteration Dictionary B - noun Blattering.
• Blatterer Dictionary B - noun One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.
• Blattering Dictionary B - noun Senseless babble or boasting.
• Blatteroon Dictionary B - noun A senseless babbler or boaster.
• Blaubok Dictionary B - noun The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue.
• Blay Dictionary B - adjective A fish. See Bleak, n.
• Blaze Dictionary B - noun A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.
• Blazed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blaze.
• Blazing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blaze.
• Blazer Dictionary B - noun One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad.
• Blazon Dictionary B - noun A shield.
• Blazoned Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blazon.
• Blazoning Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blazon.
• Blazoner Dictionary B - noun One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald.
• Blazonment Dictionary B - noun The act of blazoning; blazoning; emblazonment.
• Blazonry Dictionary B - noun Same as Blazon, 3.
• Blea Dictionary B - noun The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.
• Bleaberry Dictionary B - noun See Blaeberry.
• Bleached Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bleach.
• Bleaching Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bleach.
• Bleach Dictionary B - adjective To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.
• Bleacher Dictionary B - noun One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching.
• Bleacheries Dictionary B - pleural of Bleachery.
• Bleachery Dictionary B - noun A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.
• Bleak Dictionary B - adjective Without color; pale; pallid.
• Bleaky Dictionary B - adjective Bleak.
• Blear Dictionary B - verb Dim or sore with water or rheum; - said of the eyes.
• Bleared Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blear.
• Blearing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blear.
• Bleareye Dictionary B - noun A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter.
• Blear-eyed Dictionary B - adjective Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted.
• Bleareyedness Dictionary B - noun The state of being blear-eyed.
• Bleary Dictionary B - adjective Somewhat blear.
• Bleated Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bleat.
• Bleating Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bleat.
• Bleat Dictionary B - intransitive verb To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf.
• Bleater Dictionary B - noun One who bleats; a sheep.
• Bleb Dictionary B - noun A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc.
• Blebby Dictionary B - adjective Containing blebs, or characterized by blebs; as, blebby glass.
• Bleck Dictionary B - verb transitive Alt. of Blek.
• Blek Dictionary B - verb transitive To blacken; also, to defile.
• Bled Dictionary B - imp. & p. p. of Bleed.
• Blee Dictionary B - noun Complexion; color; hue; likeness; form.
• Bleeding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bleed.
• Bleed Dictionary B - intransitive verb To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.
• Bleeder Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, draws blood.
• Blemished Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blemish.
• Blemishing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blemish.
• Blemish Dictionary B - verb transitive To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.
• Blemishes Dictionary B - pleural of Blemish.
• Blemishless Dictionary B - adjective Without blemish; spotless.
• Blemishment Dictionary B - noun The state of being blemished; blemish; disgrace; damage; impairment.
• Blenched Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blench.
• Blenching Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blench.
• Blench Dictionary B - intransitive verb To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
• Blencher Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher.
• Blench holding Dictionary B - See Blanch holding.
• Blended Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blend.
• Blent Dictionary B - of Blend.
• Blending Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blend.
• Blend Dictionary B - verb transitive To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound.
• Blende Dictionary B - noun A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.
• Blender Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending.
• Blendous Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, blende.
• Blendwater Dictionary B - noun A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected.
• Blenheim spaniel Dictionary B - A small variety of spaniel, kept as a pet.
• Blenk Dictionary B - intransitive verb To blink; to shine; to look.
• Blennioid Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Blenniid.
• Blenniid Dictionary B - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the blennies.
• Blennogenous Dictionary B - adjective Generating mucus.
• Blennorrhea Dictionary B - noun An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus.
• Blennies Dictionary B - pleural of Blenny.
• Blenny Dictionary B - noun A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniidae; - so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous.
• Blesbok Dictionary B - noun A South African antelope (Alcelaphus albifrons), having a large white spot on the forehead.
• Blessed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bless.
• Blest Dictionary B - of Bless.
• Blessing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bless.
• Bless Dictionary B - verb transitive To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate.
• Blessedly Dictionary B - adverb Happily; fortunately; joyfully.
• Blessedness Dictionary B - noun The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God.
• Blessed thistle Dictionary B - See under Thistle.
• Blesser Dictionary B - noun One who blesses; one who bestows or invokes a blessing.
• Blet Dictionary B - noun A form of decay in fruit which is overripe.
• Bletonism Dictionary B - noun The supposed faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; - so called from one Bleton, of France.
• Bletting Dictionary B - noun A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit.
• Blew Dictionary B - imp. of Blow.
• Bleyme Dictionary B - noun An inflammation in the foot of a horse, between the sole and the bone.
• Bleynte Dictionary B - imp. of Blench.
• Blickey Dictionary B - noun A tin dinner pail.
• Blighted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blight.
• Blighting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blight.
• Blight Dictionary B - verb transitive To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
• Blightingly Dictionary B - adverb So as to cause blight.
• Blimbi Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Blimbing.
• Blimbing Dictionary B - noun See Bilimbi, etc.
• Blin Dictionary B - verb transitive & intransitive To stop; to cease; to desist.
• Blind Dictionary B - adjective Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.
• Blinded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blind.
• Blinding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blind.
• Blinde Dictionary B - noun See Blende.
• Blindage Dictionary B - noun A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.
• Blinder Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, blinds.
• Blindfish Dictionary B - noun A small fish (Amblyopsis spelaeus) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.
• Blindfolded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blindfold.
• Blindfolding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blindfold.
• Blindfold Dictionary B - verb transitive To cover the eyes of, as with a bandage; to hinder from seeing.
• Blindly Dictionary B - adverb Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own.
• Blindman's buff Dictionary B - A play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is.
• Blindman's holiday Dictionary B - The time between daylight and candle light.
• Blindness Dictionary B - noun State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively.
• Blindstory Dictionary B - noun The triforium as opposed to the clearstory.
• Blindworm Dictionary B - noun A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; - formerly a name for the adder.
• Blinked Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blink.
• Blinking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blink.
• Blink Dictionary B - intransitive verb To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
• Blinkard Dictionary B - noun One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes.
• Blink beer Dictionary B - Beer kept unbroached until it is sharp.
• Blinker Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, blinks.
• Blink-eyed Dictionary B - adjective Habitually winking.
• Blirt Dictionary B - noun A gust of wind and rain.
• Blisses Dictionary B - pleural of Bliss.
• Bliss Dictionary B - noun Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy.
• Blissful Dictionary B - adjective Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree.
• Blissless Dictionary B - adjective Destitute of bliss.
• Blissom Dictionary B - intransitive verb To be lustful; to be lascivious.
• Blister Dictionary B - noun A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle.
• Blistered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blister.
• Blistering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blister.
• Blistery Dictionary B - adjective Full of blisters.
• Blite Dictionary B - noun A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.
• Blithe Dictionary B - adjective Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit.
• Blitheful Dictionary B - adjective Gay; full of gayety; joyous.
• Blithely Dictionary B - adverb In a blithe manner.
• Blitheness Dictionary B - noun The state of being blithe.
• Blithesome Dictionary B - adjective Cheery; gay; merry.
• Blive Dictionary B - adverb Quickly; forthwith.
• Blizzard Dictionary B - noun A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast.
• Bloated Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bloat.
• Bloating Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bloat.
• Bloat Dictionary B - verb transitive To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.
• Bloatedness Dictionary B - noun The state of being bloated.
• Bloater Dictionary B - noun The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; - called also bloat herring.
• Blob Dictionary B - noun Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.
• Blobber Dictionary B - noun A bubble; blubber.
• Blobber-lipped Dictionary B - adjective Having thick lips.
• Blocage Dictionary B - noun The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry.
• Block Dictionary B - verb transitive A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc.
• Blocked Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Block.
• Blocking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Block.
• Blockade Dictionary B - verb transitive The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.
• Blockaded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blockade.
• Blockading Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blockade.
• Blockader Dictionary B - noun One who blockades.
• Blockage Dictionary B - noun The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.
• Block book Dictionary B - A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.
• Blockhead Dictionary B - noun A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.
• Blockheaded Dictionary B - adjective Stupid; dull.
• Blockheadism Dictionary B - noun That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity.
• Blockhouse Dictionary B - noun An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; - formerly much used in America and Germany.
• Blocking course Dictionary B - The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
• Blockish Dictionary B - adjective Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.
• Blocklike Dictionary B - adjective Like a block; stupid.
• Block tin Dictionary B - See under Tin.
• Bloedite Dictionary B - noun A hydrous sulphate of magnesium and sodium.
• Blomary Dictionary B - noun See Bloomery.
• Bloncket Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Blonket.
• Blonket Dictionary B - adjective Gray; bluish gray.
• Blond Dictionary B - verb transitive Alt. of Blonde.
• Blonde Dictionary B - verb transitive Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion.
• Blond metal Dictionary B - A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools.
• Blondness Dictionary B - noun The state of being blond.
• Blood Dictionary B - noun The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.
• Blooded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blood.
• Blooding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blood.
• Bloodbird Dictionary B - noun An Australian honeysucker (Myzomela sanguineolata); - so called from the bright red color of the male bird.
• Blood-boltered Dictionary B - adjective Having the hair matted with clotted blood.
• Bloodflower Dictionary B - noun A genus of bulbous plants, natives of Southern Africa, named Haemanthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of H. toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows.
• Bloodguilty Dictionary B - adjective Guilty of murder or bloodshed.
• Bloodhound Dictionary B - noun A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff.
• Bloodily Dictionary B - adverb In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed blood.
• Bloodiness Dictionary B - noun The state of being bloody.
• Bloodless Dictionary B - adjective Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead.
• Bloodlet Dictionary B - verb transitive bleed; to let blood.
• Bloodletter Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist.
• Bloodletting Dictionary B - noun The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; - esp. applied to venesection.
• Blood money Dictionary B - Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.
• Bloodroot Dictionary B - noun A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; - called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria.
• Bloodshed Dictionary B - noun The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
• Bloodshedder Dictionary B - noun One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• Bloodshedding Dictionary B - noun Bloodshed.
• Bloodshot Dictionary B - adjective Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated.
• Blood-shotten Dictionary B - adjective Bloodshot.
• Bloodstick Dictionary B - noun A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein.
• Bloodstone Dictionary B - noun A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; - called also heliotrope.
• Bloodstroke Dictionary B - noun Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain.
• Bloodsucker Dictionary B - noun Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.
• Bloodthirsty Dictionary B - adjective Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous.
• Bloodulf Dictionary B - noun The European bullfinch.
• Blood vessel Dictionary B - Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.
• Bloodwite Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bloodwit.
• Bloodwit Dictionary B - noun A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.
• Bloodwood Dictionary B - noun A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.
• Bloodwort Dictionary B - noun A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Haemodoraceae), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.
• Bloody Dictionary B - adjective Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.
• Bloodied Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bloody.
• Bloodying Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bloody.
• Bloodybones Dictionary B - noun A terrible bugbear.
• Bloody flux Dictionary B - The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood.
• Bloody hand Dictionary B - A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison.
• Bloody-minded Dictionary B - adjective Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty.
• Bloody sweat Dictionary B - A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.
• Bloom Dictionary B - noun A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.
• Bloomed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bloom.
• Blooming Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bloom.
• Bloomary Dictionary B - noun See Bloomery.
• Bloomer Dictionary B - noun A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.
• Bloomery Dictionary B - noun A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron.
• Bloomingly Dictionary B - adverb In a blooming manner.
• Bloomingness Dictionary B - noun A blooming condition.
• Bloomless Dictionary B - adjective Without bloom or flowers.
• Bloomy Dictionary B - adjective Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray.
• Blooth Dictionary B - noun Bloom; a blossoming.
• Blore Dictionary B - noun The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.
• Blosmy Dictionary B - adjective Blossomy.
• Blossom Dictionary B - noun The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.
• Blossomed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blossom.
• Blossoming Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blossom.
• Blossomless Dictionary B - adjective Without blossoms.
• Blossomy Dictionary B - adjective Full of blossoms; flowery.
• Blotted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blot.
• Blotting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blot.
• Blot Dictionary B - verb transitive To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
• Blotch Dictionary B - adjective A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.
• Blotched Dictionary B - adjective Marked or covered with blotches.
• Blotchy Dictionary B - adjective Having blotches.
• Bloted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blote.
• Bloting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blote.
• Blote Dictionary B - verb transitive To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat.
• Blotless Dictionary B - adjective Without blot.
• Blotter Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.
• Blottesque Dictionary B - adjective Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation.
• Blotting paper Dictionary B - A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.
• Blouse Dictionary B - noun A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.
• Blown Dictionary B - past participle of Blow.
• Blowing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blow.
• Blow Dictionary B - intransitive verb To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
• Blowball Dictionary B - noun The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away.
• Blowen Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Blowess.
• Blowess Dictionary B - noun A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet.
• Blower Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, blows.
• Blowfly Dictionary B - noun Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvae (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other animal products.
• Blowgun Dictionary B - noun A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; - called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan.
• Blowhole Dictionary B - noun A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.
• Blow-off Dictionary B - noun A blowing off steam, water, etc.;.
• Blow-out Dictionary B - noun The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
• Blowpipe Dictionary B - noun A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object.
• Blowpoint Dictionary B - noun A child's game.
• Blowse Dictionary B - noun See Blowze.
• Blowth Dictionary B - noun A blossoming; a bloom.
• Blowtube Dictionary B - noun A blowgun.
• Blow valve Dictionary B - See Snifting valve.
• Blowy Dictionary B - adjective Windy; as, blowy weather; a blowy upland.
• Blowze Dictionary B - noun A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench.
• Blowzed Dictionary B - adjective Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered.
• Blowzy Dictionary B - adjective Coarse and ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored; frowzy.
• Blub Dictionary B - verb transitive & intransitive To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.
• Blubber Dictionary B - noun A bubble.
• Blubbered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blubber.
• Blubbering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blubber.
• Blubbery Dictionary B - adjective Swollen; protuberant.
• Blucher Dictionary B - noun A kind of half boot, named from the Prussian general Blucher.
• Bludgeon Dictionary B - noun A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.
• Blue Dictionary B - superlative Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets.
• Blued Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blue.
• Bluing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blue.
• Blueback Dictionary B - noun A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine.
• Bluebeard Dictionary B - noun The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. - Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate.
• Bluebell Dictionary B - noun A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell.
• Blueberry Dictionary B - noun The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are V. Pennsylvanicum and V. vacillans. V. corymbosum is the tall blueberry.
• Bluebill Dictionary B - noun A duck of the genus Fuligula. Two American species (F. marila and F. affinis) are common. See Scaup duck.
• Bluebird Dictionary B - noun A small song bird (Sialia sialis), very common in the United States, and, in the north, one of the earliest to arrive in spring. The male is blue, with the breast reddish. It is related to the European robin.
• Blue bonnet Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Blue-bonnet.
• Blue-bonnet Dictionary B - noun A broad, flat Scottish cap of blue woolen, or one wearing such cap; a Scotchman.
• Blue book Dictionary B - A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers.
• Bluebottle Dictionary B - noun A plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.
• Bluebreast Dictionary B - noun A small European bird; the blue-throated warbler.
• Bluecap Dictionary B - noun The bluepoll.
• Bluecoat Dictionary B - noun One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc.
• Blue-eye Dictionary B - noun The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.
• Blue-eyed Dictionary B - adjective Having blue eyes.
• Blue-eyed grass Dictionary B - a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color.
• Bluefin Dictionary B - noun A species of whitefish (Coregonus nigripinnis) found in Lake Michigan.
• Bluefish Dictionary B - noun A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidae, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.
• Bluegown Dictionary B - noun One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.
• Blue grass Dictionary B - A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass.
• Blue jay Dictionary B - The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue.
• Blue-john Dictionary B - noun A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes.
• Bluely Dictionary B - adverb With a blue color.
• Blueness Dictionary B - noun The quality of being blue; a blue color.
• Bluenose Dictionary B - noun A nickname for a Nova Scotian.
• Bluepoll Dictionary B - noun A kind of salmon (Salmo Cambricus) found in Wales.
• Blueprint Dictionary B - See under Print.
• Bluestocking Dictionary B - noun A literary lady; a female pedant.
• Bluestockingism Dictionary B - noun The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
• Bluestone Dictionary B - noun Blue vitriol.
• Bluethroat Dictionary B - noun A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia (Cyanecula Suecica), related to the nightingales; - called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.
• Bluets Dictionary B - adjective A name given to several different species of plants having blue flowers, as the Houstonia coerulea, the Centaurea cyanus or bluebottle, and the Vaccinium angustifolium.
• Blue-veined Dictionary B - adjective Having blue veins or blue streaks.
• Bluewing Dictionary B - noun The blue-winged teal. See Teal.
• Bluey Dictionary B - adjective Bluish.
• Bluff Dictionary B - adjective Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship.
• Bluffed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bluff.
• Bluffing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bluff.
• Bluff-bowed Dictionary B - adjective Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
• Bluffer Dictionary B - noun One who bluffs.
• Bluff-headed Dictionary B - adjective Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
• Bluffness Dictionary B - noun The quality or state of being bluff.
• Bluffy Dictionary B - adjective Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks.
• Bluish Dictionary B - adjective Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins.
• Blundered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blunder.
• Blundering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blunder.
• Blunder Dictionary B - intransitive verb To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.
• Blunderbuss Dictionary B - noun A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.
• Blunderer Dictionary B - noun One who is apt to blunder.
• Blunderhead Dictionary B - noun A stupid, blundering fellow.
• Blunderingly Dictionary B - adverb In a blundering manner.
• Blunge Dictionary B - verb transitive To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay.
• Blunger Dictionary B - noun A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi/ing the clay in potteries; a plunger.
• Blunging Dictionary B - noun The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger.
• Blunt Dictionary B - adjective Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
• Blunted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blunt.
• Blunting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blunt.
• Bluntish Dictionary B - adjective Somewhat blunt.
• Bluntly Dictionary B - adverb In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
• Bluntness Dictionary B - noun Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness.
• Blunt-witted Dictionary B - noun Dull; stupid.
• Blurred Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blur.
• Blurring Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blur.
• Blur Dictionary B - verb transitive To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink.
• Blurry Dictionary B - adjective Full of blurs; blurred.
• Blurted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blurt.
• Blurting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blurt.
• Blurt Dictionary B - verb transitive To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; - commonly with out.
• Blushed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Blush.
• Blushing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Blush.
• Blush Dictionary B - intransitive verb To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.
• Blusher Dictionary B - noun One that blushes.
• Blushet Dictionary B - noun A modest girl.
• Blushful Dictionary B - adjective Full of blushes.
• Blushingly Dictionary B - adverb In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.
• Blushless Dictionary B - adjective Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent.
• Blushy Dictionary B - adjective Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy.
• Blustered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bluster.
• Blustering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bluster.
• Bluster Dictionary B - intransitive verb To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
• Blusterer Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.
• Blusteringly Dictionary B - adverb In a blustering manner.
• Blusterous Dictionary B - adjective Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering.
• Blustrous Dictionary B - adjective Blusterous.
• Bo Dictionary B - interjection An exclamation used to startle or frighten.
• Boas Dictionary B - pleural of Boa.
• Boa Dictionary B - noun A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques).
• Boa constrictor Dictionary B - A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Boanerges Dictionary B - Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator.
• Boar Dictionary B - noun The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.
• Board Dictionary B - noun A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, - used for building, etc.
• Boarded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Board.
• Boarding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Board.
• Boardable Dictionary B - adjective That can be boarded, as a ship.
• Boarder Dictionary B - noun One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
• Boarfish Dictionary B - noun A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproidae; - so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout.
• Boarish Dictionary B - adjective Swinish; brutal; cruel.
• Boasted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Boast.
• Boasting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Boast.
• Boast Dictionary B - intransitive verb To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth.
• Boastance Dictionary B - noun Boasting.
• Boaster Dictionary B - noun One who boasts; a braggart.
• Boastful Dictionary B - adjective Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising.
• Boastingly Dictionary B - adverb Boastfully; with boasting.
• Boastive Dictionary B - adjective Presumptuous.
• Boastless Dictionary B - adjective Without boasting or ostentation.
• Boat Dictionary B - noun A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
• Boated Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Boat.
• Boating Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Boat.
• Boatable Dictionary B - adjective Such as can be transported in a boat.
• Boatage Dictionary B - noun Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance.
• Boatbill Dictionary B - noun A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.
• Boat bug Dictionary B - An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; - so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a little boat. Called also boat fly, boat insect, boatman, and water boatman.
• Boatfuls Dictionary B - pleural of Boatful.
• Boatful Dictionary B - noun The quantity or amount that fills a boat.
• Boathouse Dictionary B - noun A house for sheltering boats.
• Boation Dictionary B - noun A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation.
• Boatmen Dictionary B - pleural of Boatman.
• Boatman Dictionary B - noun A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.
• Boatmanship Dictionary B - noun The art of managing a boat.
• Boat-shaped Dictionary B - adjective See Cymbiform.
• Boat shell Dictionary B - A marine gastropod of the genus Crepidula. The species are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck.
• Boatsman Dictionary B - noun A boatman.
• Boatswain Dictionary B - noun An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.
• Boat-tail Dictionary B - noun A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.
• Boatwomen Dictionary B - pleural of Boatwoman.
• Boatwoman Dictionary B - noun A woman who manages a boat.
• Bob Dictionary B - noun Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail.
• Bobbed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bob.
• Bobbing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bob.
• Bobac Dictionary B - noun The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac).
• Bobance Dictionary B - noun A boasting.
• Bobber Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, bobs.
• Bobbery Dictionary B - noun A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery.
• Bobbin Dictionary B - noun A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.
• Bobbinet Dictionary B - noun A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand.
• Bobbinwork Dictionary B - noun Work woven with bobbins.
• Bobbish Dictionary B - adjective Hearty; in good spirits.
• Bobby Dictionary B - noun A nickname for a policeman; - from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler.
• Bob-cherry Dictionary B - noun A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.
• Bobfly Dictionary B - noun The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.
• Bobolink Dictionary B - noun An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; - called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln.
• Bobsled Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bobsleigh.
• Bobsleigh Dictionary B - noun A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed.
• Bobstay Dictionary B - noun A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; - usually in the pl.
• Bobtail Dictionary B - noun An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail.
• Bobtailed Dictionary B - adjective Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.
• Bobwhite Dictionary B - noun The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); - so called from its note.
• Bob wig Dictionary B - A short wig with bobs or short curls; - called also bobtail wig.
• Bocal Dictionary B - noun A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.
• Bocardo Dictionary B - noun A form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative.
• Bocasine Dictionary B - noun A sort of fine buckram.
• Bocca Dictionary B - noun The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out.
• Boce Dictionary B - noun A European fish (Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; - called also box, and bogue.
• Bock beer Dictionary B - A strong beer, originally made in Bavaria.
• Bockelet Dictionary B - noun A kind of long-winged hawk; - called also bockerel, and bockeret.
• Bockey Dictionary B - noun A bowl or vessel made from a gourd.
• Bocking Dictionary B - noun A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; - so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.
• Bockland Dictionary B - noun See Bookland.
• Boddice Dictionary B - noun See Bodick.
• Boded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bode.
• Boding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bode.
• Bode Dictionary B - verb transitive To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
• Bodeful Dictionary B - adjective Portentous; ominous.
• Bodement Dictionary B - noun An omen; a prognostic.
• Bodge Dictionary B - noun A botch; a patch.
• Bodged Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bodge.
• Bodian Dictionary B - noun A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies.
• Bodice Dictionary B - noun A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.
• Bodiced Dictionary B - adjective Wearing a bodice.
• Bodied Dictionary B - adjective Having a body; - usually in composition; as, able-bodied.
• Bodiless Dictionary B - adjective Having no body.
• Bodiliness Dictionary B - noun Corporeality.
• Bodily Dictionary B - adjective Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter.
• Bodkin Dictionary B - noun A dagger.
• Bodle Dictionary B - noun A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny.
• Bodleian Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.
• Bodock Dictionary B - noun The Osage orange.
• Bodrage Dictionary B - noun A raid.
• Bodies Dictionary B - pleural of Body.
• Body Dictionary B - noun The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.
• Bodying Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Body.
• Bodyguard Dictionary B - noun A guard to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.
• Boeotian Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Boeotia; hence, stupid; dull; obtuse.
• Boer Dictionary B - noun A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.
• Boes Dictionary B - 3d singular plural Behoves or behooves.
• Bog Dictionary B - noun A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
• Bogged Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bog.
• Bogging Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bog.
• Bogberry Dictionary B - noun The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places.
• Bogey Dictionary B - noun A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.
• Boggard Dictionary B - noun A bogey.
• Boggled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Boggle.
• Boggling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Boggle.
• Boggle Dictionary B - noun To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.
• Boggler Dictionary B - noun One who boggles.
• Bogglish Dictionary B - adjective Doubtful; skittish.
• Boggy Dictionary B - adjective Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.
• Bogie Dictionary B - noun A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.
• Bogle Dictionary B - noun A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.
• Bogsucker Dictionary B - noun The American woodcock; - so called from its feeding among the bogs.
• Bogtrotter Dictionary B - noun One who lives in a boggy country; - applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish.
• Bogtrotting Dictionary B - adjective Living among bogs.
• Bogue Dictionary B - intransitive verb To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; - said only of inferior craft.
• Bogus Dictionary B - adjective Spurious; fictitious; sham; - a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.
• Bogwood Dictionary B - noun The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.
• Bogies Dictionary B - pleural of Bogy.
• Bogy Dictionary B - noun A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear.
• Bohea Dictionary B - noun Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea.
• Bohemia Dictionary B - noun A country of central Europe.
• Bohemian Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Bohemia, or to the language of its ancient inhabitants or their descendants. See Bohemian, n., 2.
• Bohemianism Dictionary B - noun The characteristic conduct or methods of a Bohemian.
• Bohun upas Dictionary B - See Upas.
• Boiar Dictionary B - noun See Boyar.
• Boiled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Boil.
• Boiling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Boil.
• Boil Dictionary B - verb To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.
• Boilary Dictionary B - noun See Boilery.
• Boiler Dictionary B - noun One who boils.
• Boilery Dictionary B - noun A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.
• Boilingly Dictionary B - adverb With boiling or ebullition.
• Bois d'arc Dictionary B - The Osage orange (Maclura aurantiaca).
• Bois durci Dictionary B - A hard, highly polishable composition, made of fine sawdust from hard wood (as rosewood) mixed with blood, and pressed.
• Boist Dictionary B - noun A box.
• Boisterous Dictionary B - adjective Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful.
• Boisterously Dictionary B - adverb In a boisterous manner.
• Boisterousness Dictionary B - noun The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.
• Boistous Dictionary B - adjective Rough or rude; coarse; strong; violent; boisterous; noisy.
• Bojanus organ Dictionary B - A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney.
• Bokadam Dictionary B - noun See Cerberus.
• Boke Dictionary B - verb transitive & intransitive To poke; to thrust.
• Bolar Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey.
• Bolas Dictionary B - noun singular & plural A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather cord; - used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.
• Bold Dictionary B - noun Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.
• Bold eagle Dictionary B - an Australian eagle (Aquila audax), which destroys lambs and even the kangaroo.
• Boldened Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bolden.
• Bolden Dictionary B - verb transitive To make bold; to encourage; to embolden.
• Bold-faced Dictionary B - adjective Somewhat impudent; lacking modesty; as, a bold-faced woman.
• Boldly Dictionary B - adverb In a bold manner.
• Boldness Dictionary B - noun The state or quality of being bold.
• Boldo Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Boldu.
• Boldu Dictionary B - noun A fragrant evergreen shrub of Chili (Peumus Boldus). The bark is used in tanning, the wood for making charcoal, the leaves in medicine, and the drupes are eaten.
• Bole Dictionary B - noun The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.
• Bolection Dictionary B - noun A projecting molding round a panel. Same as Bilection.
• Bolero Dictionary B - noun A Spanish dance, or the lively music which accompanies it.
• bolete Dictionary B - noun any fungus of the family Boletaceae.
• Boletic Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, the Boletus.
• Boletus Dictionary B - noun A genus of fungi having the under side of the pileus or cap composed of a multitude of fine separate tubes. A few are edible, and others very poisonous.
• Boley Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bolye.
• Bolye Dictionary B - noun Same as Booly.
• Bolide Dictionary B - noun A kind of bright meteor; a bolis.
• Bolis Dictionary B - noun A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.
• Bolivian Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Bolivia.
• Boll Dictionary B - noun The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
• Bolled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Boll.
• Bollandists Dictionary B - noun plural The Jesuit editors of the "Acta Sanctorum", or Lives of the Saints; - named from John Bolland, who began the work.
• Bollard Dictionary B - noun An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes.
• Bollen Dictionary B - adjective See Boln, a.
• Bolling Dictionary B - verb transitive A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.
• Bollworm Dictionary B - noun The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops.
• Boln Dictionary B - intransitive verb To swell; to puff.
• Bologna Dictionary B - noun A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects.
• Bolognese Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Bologna.
• Bolognian Dictionary B - adjective & noun Bolognese.
• Bolometer Dictionary B - noun An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; - called also actinic balance, thermic balance.
• Bolster Dictionary B - noun A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; - generally laid under the pillows.
• Bolstered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bolster.
• Bolstering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bolster.
• Bolsterer Dictionary B - noun A supporter.
• Bolt Dictionary B - 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.
• Bolted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bolt.
• Bolting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bolt.
• Boltel Dictionary B - noun See Boultel.
• Bolter Dictionary B - noun One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.
• Bolthead Dictionary B - noun A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; - called also a matrass or receiver.
• Boltonite Dictionary B - noun A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.
• Boltrope Dictionary B - noun A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.
• Boltsprit Dictionary B - noun See Bowsprit.
• Bolty Dictionary B - noun An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis).
• Boluses Dictionary B - pleural of Bolus.
• Bolus Dictionary B - noun A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.
• Bom Dictionary B - noun A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes.
• Bomb Dictionary B - noun A great noise; a hollow sound.
• Bombace Dictionary B - noun Cotton; padding.
• Bombard Dictionary B - noun A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
• Bombarded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bombard.
• Bombarding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bombard.
• Bombardier Dictionary B - noun One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.
• Bombardman Dictionary B - noun One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard.
• Bombardment Dictionary B - noun An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.
• Bombardo Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bombardon.
• Bombardon Dictionary B - noun Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide.
• Bombasine Dictionary B - noun Same as Bombazine.
• Bombast Dictionary B - noun Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
• Bombastic Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bombastical.
• Bombastical Dictionary B - adjective Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.
• Bombastry Dictionary B - noun Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.
• Bombax Dictionary B - noun A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.
• Bombazet Bombazette Dictionary B - noun A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled.
• Bombazine Dictionary B - noun A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments.
• Bombic Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, the silkworm; as, bombic acid.
• Bombilate Dictionary B - noun To hum; to buzz.
• Bombilation Dictionary B - noun A humming sound; a booming.
• Bombinate Dictionary B - intransitive verb To hum; to boom.
• Bombination Dictionary B - noun A humming or buzzing.
• Bomboloes Dictionary B - pleural of Bombolo.
• Bombolo Dictionary B - noun A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor.
• Bombproof Dictionary B - adjective Secure against the explosive force of bombs.
• Bombshell Dictionary B - noun A bomb. See Bomb, n.
• Bombycid Dictionary B - adjective Like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, or the family Bombycidae.
• Bombycinous Dictionary B - adjective Silken; made of silk.
• Bombylious Dictionary B - adjective Buzzing, like a bumblebee; as, the bombylious noise of the horse fly.
• Bombyx Dictionary B - noun A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. See Silkworm.
• Bon Dictionary B - adjective Good; valid as security for something.
• Bon-accord Dictionary B - noun Good will; good fellowship; agreement.
• Bona fide Dictionary B - In or with good faith; without fraud or deceit; real or really; actual or actually; genuine or genuinely; as, you must proceed bona fide; a bona fide purchaser or transaction.
• Bonair Dictionary B - adjective Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding.
• Bonanza Dictionary B - noun In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income.
• Bonapartean Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family.
• Bonapartism Dictionary B - noun The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes.
• Bonapartist Dictionary B - noun One attached to the policy or family of Bonaparte, or of the Bonapartes.
• Bona peritura Dictionary B - Perishable goods.
• Bona roba Dictionary B - A showy wanton; a courtesan.
• Bonasus Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bonassus.
• Bonassus Dictionary B - noun The aurochs or European bison. See Aurochs.
• Bonbon Dictionary B - noun Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.
• Bonce Dictionary B - noun A boy's game played with large marbles.
• Bonchretien Dictionary B - noun A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett.
• Boncilate Dictionary B - noun A substance composed of ground bone, mineral matters, etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc.
• Bond Dictionary B - noun That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle.
• Bonded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bond.
• Bonding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bond.
• Bondage Dictionary B - adjective The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.
• Bondager Dictionary B - noun A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field.
• Bondar Dictionary B - noun A small quadruped of Bengal (Paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet; - called also musk cat.
• Bonder Dictionary B - noun One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.
• Bondholder Dictionary B - noun A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.
• Bondmaid Dictionary B - noun A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.
• Bondmen Dictionary B - pleural of Bondman.
• Bondman Dictionary B - noun A man slave, or one bound to service without wages.
• Bond servant Dictionary B - A slave; one who is bound to service without wages.
• Bond service Dictionary B - The condition of a bond servant; service without wages; slavery.
• Bondslave Dictionary B - noun A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.
• Bondsmen Dictionary B - pleural of Bondsman.
• Bondsman Dictionary B - noun A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman.
• Bondstone Dictionary B - noun A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.
• Bondswoman Dictionary B - noun See Bondwoman.
• Bonduc Dictionary B - noun See Nicker tree.
• Bondwomen Dictionary B - pleural of Bondwoman.
• Bondwoman Dictionary B - noun A woman who is a slave, or in bondage.
• Bone Dictionary B - noun The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.
• Boned Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bone.
• Boning Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bone.
• Boneache Dictionary B - noun Pain in the bones.
• Boneblack Dictionary B - noun See Bone black, under Bone, n.
• Bonedog Dictionary B - noun The spiny dogfish.
• Bonefish Dictionary B - noun See Ladyfish.
• Boneless Dictionary B - adjective Without bones.
• Boneset Dictionary B - noun A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
• Bonesetter Dictionary B - noun One who sets broken or dislocated bones; - commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones.
• Boneshaw Dictionary B - noun Sciatica.
• Bonetta Dictionary B - noun See Bonito.
• Bonfire Dictionary B - noun A large fire built in the open air, as an expression of public joy and exultation, or for amusement.
• Bongrace Dictionary B - noun A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat.
• Bonhomie Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bonhommie.
• Bonhommie Dictionary B - noun good nature; pleasant and easy manner.
• Bonibell Dictionary B - noun See Bonnibel.
• Boniface Dictionary B - noun An innkeeper.
• Boniform Dictionary B - adjective Sensitive or responsive to moral excellence.
• Bonify Dictionary B - verb transitive To convert into, or make, good.
• Boniness Dictionary B - noun The condition or quality of being bony.
• Bonitary Dictionary B - adjective Beneficial, as opposed to statutory or civil; as, bonitary dominion of land.
• Bonitoes Dictionary B - pleural of Bonito.
• Bonito Dictionary B - noun A large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast.
• Bonsmots Dictionary B - pleural of Bonmot.
• Bonmot Dictionary B - noun A witty repartee; a jest.
• Bonne Dictionary B - noun A female servant charged with the care of a young child.
• Bonnes bouches Dictionary B - pleural of Bonne bouche.
• Bonne bouche Dictionary B - A delicious morsel or mouthful; a tidbit.
• Bonnet Dictionary B - noun A headdress for men and boys; a cap.
• Bonneted Dictionary B - adjective Wearing a bonnet.
• Bonnetless Dictionary B - adjective Without a bonnet.
• Bonnibel Dictionary B - noun A handsome girl.
• Bonnie Dictionary B - adjective See Bonny, a.
• Bonnilass Dictionary B - noun A "bonny lass"; a beautiful girl.
• Bonnily Dictionary B - adverb Gayly; handsomely.
• Bonniness Dictionary B - noun The quality of being bonny; gayety; handsomeness.
• Bonny Dictionary B - adjective Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful.
• Bonnyclabber Dictionary B - noun Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; - sometimes called simply clabber.
• Bon Silene Dictionary B - A very fragrant tea rose with petals of various shades of pink.
• Bonspiel Dictionary B - noun A cur/ing match between clubs.
• Bontebok Dictionary B - noun The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga). Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni.
• Bon ton Dictionary B - The height of the fashion; fashionable society.
• Bonuses Dictionary B - pleural of Bonus.
• Bonus Dictionary B - noun A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter.
• Bons vivants Dictionary B - pleural of Bon vivant.
• Bon vivant Dictionary B - past particle A good fellow; a jovial companion; a free liver.
• Bony Dictionary B - adjective Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.
• Bonze Dictionary B - noun A Buddhist or Fohist priest, monk, or nun.
• Boobies Dictionary B - pleural of Booby.
• Booby Dictionary B - noun A dunce; a stupid fellow.
• Boobyish Dictionary B - adjective Stupid; dull.
• Boodh Dictionary B - noun Same as Buddha.
• Boodhism Dictionary B - noun Same as Buddhism.
• Boodhist Dictionary B - noun Same as Buddhist.
• Boodle Dictionary B - noun The whole collection or lot; caboodle.
• Boohooed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Boohoe.
• Boohooing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Boohoe.
• Boohoe Dictionary B - intransitive verb To bawl; to cry loudly.
• Boohoo Dictionary B - noun The sailfish; - called also woohoo.
• Book Dictionary B - noun A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.
• Booked Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Book.
• Booking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Book.
• Bookbinder Dictionary B - noun One whose occupation is to bind books.
• Bookbindery Dictionary B - noun A bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books.
• Bookbinding Dictionary B - noun The art, process, or business of binding books.
• Bookcase Dictionary B - noun A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.
• Bookcraft Dictionary B - noun Authorship; literary skill.
• Booker Dictionary B - noun One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper.
• Bookful Dictionary B - noun As much as will fill a book; a book full.
• Bookholder Dictionary B - noun A prompter at a theater.
• Booking clerk Dictionary B - A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.
• Booking office Dictionary B - An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.
• Bookish Dictionary B - adjective Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.
• Bookkeeper Dictionary B - noun One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.
• Bookkeeping Dictionary B - noun The art of recording pecuniary or business transactions in a regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger.
• Bookland Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bockland.
• Book-learned Dictionary B - adjective Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books.
• Bookless Dictionary B - adjective Without books; unlearned.
• Booklet Dictionary B - noun A little book.
• Bookmaker Dictionary B - noun One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.
• Bookmen Dictionary B - pleural of Bookman.
• Bookman Dictionary B - noun A studious man; a scholar.
• Bookmark Dictionary B - noun Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.
• Bookmate Dictionary B - noun A schoolfellow; an associate in study.
• Bookmonger Dictionary B - noun A dealer in books.
• Book muslin Dictionary B - A kind of muslin used for the covers of books.
• Bookplate Dictionary B - noun A label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership or its position in a library.
• Bookseller Dictionary B - noun One who sells books.
• Bookselling Dictionary B - noun The employment of selling books.
• Bookshelves Dictionary B - pleural of Bookshelf.
• Bookshelf Dictionary B - noun A shelf to hold books.
• Bookshop Dictionary B - noun A bookseller's shop.
• Bookstall Dictionary B - noun A stall or stand where books are sold.
• Bookstand Dictionary B - noun A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall.
• Bookstore Dictionary B - noun A store where books are kept for sale; - called in England a bookseller's shop.
• Bookwork Dictionary B - noun Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work.
• Bookworm Dictionary B - noun Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.
• Booky Dictionary B - adjective Bookish.
• Boolies Dictionary B - pleural of Booly.
• Booly Dictionary B - noun A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers.
• Boom Dictionary B - noun A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.
• Boomed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Boom.
• Booming Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Boom.
• Boomdas Dictionary B - noun A small African hyracoid mammal (Dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman.
• Boomer Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, booms.
• Boomerang Dictionary B - noun A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward to a considerable height, and finally taking a retrograde direction, so as to fall near the place from which it was thrown, or even far in the rear of it.
• Boomkin Dictionary B - noun Same as Bumkin.
• Boomorah Dictionary B - noun A small West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus), resembling the musk deer.
• Boomslange Dictionary B - noun A large South African tree snake (Bucephalus Capensis). Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.
• Boon Dictionary B - noun A prayer or petition.
• Boor Dictionary B - noun A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.
• Boorish Dictionary B - adjective Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly.
• Boort Dictionary B - noun See Bort.
• Boose Dictionary B - noun A stall or a crib for an ox, cow, or other animal.
• Booser Dictionary B - noun A toper; a guzzler. See Boozer.
• Boosted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Boost.
• Boosting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Boost.
• Boost Dictionary B - intransitive verb To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up; hence, to assist in overcoming obstacles, or in making advancement.
• Boot Dictionary B - noun Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
• Booted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Boot.
• Booting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Boot.
• Bootblack Dictionary B - noun One who blacks boots.
• Bootee Dictionary B - noun A half boot or short boot.
• Bootes Dictionary B - noun A northern constellation, containing the bright star Arcturus.
• Booth Dictionary B - noun A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.
• Boothale Dictionary B - verb transitive & intransitive To forage for booty; to plunder.
• Boothose Dictionary B - noun Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots.
• Boothy Dictionary B - noun See Bothy.
• Bootikin Dictionary B - noun A little boot, legging, or gaiter.
• Bootjack Dictionary B - noun A device for pulling off boots.
• Bootless Dictionary B - adjective Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.
• Bootlick Dictionary B - noun A toady.
• Bootmaker Dictionary B - noun One who makes boots.
• Boots Dictionary B - noun A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
• Boottopping Dictionary B - noun The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.
• Boottree Dictionary B - noun An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven.
• Booty Dictionary B - noun That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.
• Boozed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Booze.
• Boozing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Booze.
• Booze Dictionary B - intransitive verb To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple.
• Boozer Dictionary B - noun One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.
• Boozy Dictionary B - adjective A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.
• Bopeep Dictionary B - noun The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened.
• Borable Dictionary B - adjective Capable of being bored.
• Borachte Dictionary B - noun A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard.
• Boracic Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid.
• Boracite Dictionary B - noun A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.
• Boracous Dictionary B - adjective Relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax.
• Borage Dictionary B - noun A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.
• Boragewort Dictionary B - noun Plant of the Borage family.
• Boraginaceous Dictionary B - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceae) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants.
• Boragineous Dictionary B - adjective Relating to the Borage tribe; boraginaceous.
• Boramez Dictionary B - noun See Barometz.
• Borate Dictionary B - noun A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.
• Borax Dictionary B - noun A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O.
• Borborygm Dictionary B - noun A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels.
• Bord Dictionary B - noun A board; a table.
• Bordage Dictionary B - noun The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
• Bordar Dictionary B - noun A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier.
• Bordeaux Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France.
• Bordel Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bordello.
• Bordello Dictionary B - noun A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution.
• Bordelais Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux.
• Bordeller Dictionary B - noun A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel.
• Border Dictionary B - noun The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
• Bordered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Border.
• Bordering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Border.
• Borderer Dictionary B - noun One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region.
• Bordland Dictionary B - noun Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table.
• Bordlode Dictionary B - noun The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house.
• Bordman Dictionary B - noun A bordar; a tenant in bordage.
• Bordrag Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bordraging.
• Bordraging Dictionary B - noun An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid.
• Bord service Dictionary B - Service due from a bordar; bordage.
• Bordure Dictionary B - noun A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.
• Bored Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bore.
• Boring Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bore.
• Boreal Dictionary B - adjective Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast.
• Boreas Dictionary B - noun The north wind; - usually a personification.
• Borecole Dictionary B - noun A brassicaceous plant of many varieties, cultivated for its leaves, which are not formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale.
• Boredom Dictionary B - noun The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.
• Boree Dictionary B - noun Same as BourrEe.
• Borel Dictionary B - noun See Borrel.
• Borele Dictionary B - noun The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).
• Borer Dictionary B - noun One that bores; an instrument for boring.
• Boric Dictionary B - adjective Of, pertaining to, or containing, boron.
• Boride Dictionary B - noun A binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical; - formerly called boruret.
• Borneol Dictionary B - noun A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, and camphol.
• Bornite Dictionary B - noun A valuable ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur; - also called purple copper ore (or erubescite), in allusion to the colors shown upon the slightly tarnished surface.
• Borofluoride Dictionary B - noun A double fluoride of boron and hydrogen, or some other positive element, or radical; - called also fluoboride, and formerly fluoborate.
• Boroglyceride Dictionary B - noun A compound of boric acid and glycerin, used as an antiseptic.
• Boron Dictionary B - noun A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B.
• Borosilicate Dictionary B - noun A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc.
• Borough Dictionary B - noun In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
• Borough-English Dictionary B - noun A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother.
• Boroughhead Dictionary B - noun See Headborough.
• Boroughholder Dictionary B - noun A headborough; a borsholder.
• Boroughmaster Dictionary B - noun The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough.
• Boroughmonger Dictionary B - noun One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.
• Boroughmongering Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Boroughmongery.
• Boroughmongery Dictionary B - noun The practices of a boroughmonger.
• Borracho Dictionary B - noun See Borachio.
• Borrage Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Borraginaceous.
• Borraginaceous Dictionary B - adjective See Borage, n., etc.
• Borrel Dictionary B - noun Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment.
• Borrowed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Borrow.
• Borrowing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Borrow.
• Borrow Dictionary B - verb transitive To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; - the opposite of lend.
• Borrower Dictionary B - noun One who borrows.
• Borsholder Dictionary B - adjective The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable.
• Bort Dictionary B - noun Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.
• Boruret Dictionary B - noun A boride.
• Borwe Dictionary B - noun Pledge; borrow.
• Bos Dictionary B - noun A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.
• Bosa Dictionary B - noun A drink, used in the East. See Boza.
• Boscage Dictionary B - noun A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.
• Bosh Dictionary B - noun Figure; outline; show.
• Boshes Dictionary B - pleural of Bosh.
• Boshbok Dictionary B - noun A kind of antelope. See Bush buck.
• Boshvark Dictionary B - noun The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket.
• Bosjesman Dictionary B - noun See Bushman.
• Bosk Dictionary B - noun A thicket; a small wood.
• Boskage Dictionary B - noun Same as Boscage.
• Bosket Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bosquet.
• Bosquet Dictionary B - noun A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.
• Boskiness Dictionary B - noun Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky.
• Bosky Dictionary B - adjective Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets.
• Bosom Dictionary B - noun The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.
• Bosomed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bosom.
• Bosoming Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bosom.
• Bosomy Dictionary B - adjective Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.
• Boson Dictionary B - noun See Boatswain.
• Bosporian Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the Thracian or the Cimmerian Bosporus.
• Bosporus Dictionary B - noun A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof.
• Bosses Dictionary B - pleural of Boss.
• Boss Dictionary B - noun Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.
• Bossed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Boss.
• Bossing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Boss.
• Bossage Dictionary B - noun A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape.
• Bosset Dictionary B - noun A rudimental antler of a young male of the red deer.
• Bossism Dictionary B - noun The rule or practices of bosses, esp. political bosses.
• Bossy Dictionary B - adjective Ornamented with bosses; studded.
• Boston Dictionary B - noun A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; - said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.
• Boswellian Dictionary B - adjective Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.
• Boswellism Dictionary B - noun The style of Boswell.
• Bot Dictionary B - noun See Bots.
• Botanic Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Botanical.
• Botanical Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition.
• Botanist Dictionary B - noun One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.
• Botanized Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Botanize.
• Botanizing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Botanize.
• Botanize Dictionary B - intransitive verb To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.
• Botanizer Dictionary B - noun One who botanizes.
• Botanologer Dictionary B - noun A botanist.
• Botanology Dictionary B - noun The science of botany.
• Botanomancy Dictionary B - noun An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves.
• Botanies Dictionary B - pleural of Botany.
• Botany Dictionary B - adjective & noun The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See Plant.
• Botany Bay Dictionary B - A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; - so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.
• Botargo Dictionary B - noun A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.
• Botches Dictionary B - pleural of Botch.
• Botch Dictionary B - noun A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
• Botched Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Botch.
• Botching Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Botch.
• Botchedly Dictionary B - adverb In a clumsy manner.
• Botcher Dictionary B - noun One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler.
• Botcherly Dictionary B - adjective Bungling; awkward.
• Botchery Dictionary B - noun A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
• Botchy Dictionary B - adjective Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done.
• Bote Dictionary B - noun Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.
• Boteless Dictionary B - adjective Unavailing; in vain. See Bootless.
• Botfly Dictionary B - noun A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvae of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.
• Both Dictionary B - adjective or pronoun The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either.
• Bothered Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bother.
• Bothering Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bother.
• Bother Dictionary B - verb transitive To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.
• Botheration Dictionary B - noun The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.
• Botherer Dictionary B - noun One who bothers.
• Bothersome Dictionary B - adjective Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.
• Both-hands Dictionary B - noun A factotum.
• Bothie Dictionary B - noun Same as Bothy.
• Bothnian Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bothnic.
• Bothnic Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Bothnia, a country of northern Europe, or to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of the Baltic sea.
• Bothrenchyma Dictionary B - noun Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood.
• -ies Dictionary B - pleural of Boothy.
• Bothy Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Boothy.
• Botocudos Dictionary B - noun plural A Brazilian tribe of Indians, noted for their use of poisons; - also called Aymbores.
• Bo tree Dictionary B - The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha.
• Botryogen Dictionary B - noun A hydrous sulphate of iron of a deep red color. It often occurs in botryoidal form.
• Botryoid Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Botryoidal.
• Botryoidal Dictionary B - adjective Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences.
• Botryolite Dictionary B - noun A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure.
• Botryose Dictionary B - adjective Having the form of a cluster of grapes.
• Bots Dictionary B - noun plural The larvae of several species of botfly, especially those larvae which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments.
• Bottine Dictionary B - noun A small boot; a lady's boot.
• Bottle Dictionary B - noun A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
• Bottled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bottle.
• Bottling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bottle.
• Bottle green Dictionary B - A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass.
• Bottlehead Dictionary B - noun A cetacean allied to the grampus; - called also bottle-nosed whale.
• Bottleholder Dictionary B - noun One who attends a pugilist in a prize fight; - so called from the bottle of water of which he has charge.
• Bottle-nose Dictionary B - noun A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe.
• Bottle-nosed Dictionary B - adjective Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end.
• Bottler Dictionary B - noun One who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc.
• Bottlescrew Dictionary B - noun A corkscrew.
• Bottom Dictionary B - noun The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.
• Bottomed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bottom.
• Bottoming Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bottom.
• Bottomless Dictionary B - adjective Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss.
• Bottomry Dictionary B - noun A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and usually does, exceed the legal rate of interest. See Hypothecation.
• Bottony Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Bottone.
• Bottone Dictionary B - adjective Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons.
• Botts Dictionary B - noun plural See Bots.
• Botuliform Dictionary B - adjective Having the shape of a sausage.
• Bouche Dictionary B - noun Same as Bush, a lining.
• Bouch Dictionary B - noun A mouth.
• Bouchees Dictionary B - noun plural Small patties.
• Boud Dictionary B - noun A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.
• Boudoir Dictionary B - noun A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room.
• Bouffe Dictionary B - noun Comic opera. See Opera Bouffe.
• Bougainvillaea Dictionary B - noun A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceae, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.
• Bouged Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bouge.
• Bouge Dictionary B - intransitive verb To swell out.
• Bouget Dictionary B - noun A charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water; - also called water bouget.
• Bough Dictionary B - noun An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.
• Bought Dictionary B - noun A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent.
• Boughten Dictionary B - adjective Purchased; not obtained or produced at home.
• Boughty Dictionary B - adjective Bending.
• Bougie Dictionary B - noun A long, flexible instrument, that is.
• Bouilli Dictionary B - noun Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made.
• Bouillon Dictionary B - noun A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth.
• Bouk Dictionary B - noun The body.
• Boul Dictionary B - noun A curved handle.
• Boulangerite Dictionary B - noun A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead.
• Boulder Dictionary B - noun Same as Bowlder.
• Bouldery Dictionary B - adjective Characterized by bowlders.
• Boule Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Boulework.
• Boulework Dictionary B - noun Same as Buhl, Buhlwork.
• Boulevard Dictionary B - noun Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.
• Bouleversement Dictionary B - noun Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.
• Buolt Dictionary B - noun Corrupted form Bolt.
• Boultel Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Boultin.
• Boultin Dictionary B - noun A molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.
• Boulter Dictionary B - noun A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.
• Boun Dictionary B - adjective Ready; prepared; destined; tending.
• Bounced Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bounce.
• Bouncing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bounce.
• Bounce Dictionary B - intransitive verb To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
• Bouncer Dictionary B - noun One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.
• Bouncingly Dictionary B - adverb With a bounce.
• Bounded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bound.
• Bounding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bound.
• Boundaries Dictionary B - pleural of Boundary.
• Boundary Dictionary B - noun That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit.
• Bounder Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, limits; a boundary.
• Boundless Dictionary B - adjective Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited.
• Bounteous Dictionary B - adjective Liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously liberal; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production.
• Bountiful Dictionary B - adjective Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors.
• Bountihead Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Bountyhood.
• Bountyhood Dictionary B - noun Goodness; generosity.
• Bounties Dictionary B - pleural of Bounty.
• Bounty Dictionary B - noun Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth.
• Bouquet Dictionary B - noun A nosegay; a bunch of flowers.
• Bouquetin Dictionary B - noun The ibex.
• Bour Dictionary B - noun A chamber or a cottage.
• Bourbon Dictionary B - noun A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France.
• Bourbonism Dictionary B - noun The principles of those adhering to the house of Bourbon; obstinate conservatism.
• Bourbonist Dictionary B - noun One who adheres to the house of Bourbon; a legitimist.
• Bourbon whisky Dictionary B - See under Whisky.
• Bourd Dictionary B - noun A jest.
• Bourder Dictionary B - noun A jester.
• Bourdon Dictionary B - noun A pilgrim's staff.
• Bourgeois Dictionary B - noun A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.
• Bourgeoisie Dictionary B - noun The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.
• Bourgeon Dictionary B - intransitive verb To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch.
• Bouri Dictionary B - noun A mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of Southern Europe and in Africa.
• Bourn Dictionary B - verb Alt. of Bourne.
• Bourne Dictionary B - verb A stream or rivulet; a burn.
• Bournless Dictionary B - adjective Without a bourn or limit.
• Bournonite Dictionary B - noun A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.
• Bournous Dictionary B - noun See Burnoose.
• Bourree Dictionary B - noun An old French dance tune in common time.
• Bourse Dictionary B - noun An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.
• Bouse Dictionary B - intransitive verb To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.
• Bouser Dictionary B - noun A toper; a boozer.
• Boustrophedon Dictionary B - noun An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.
• Boustrophedonic Dictionary B - adjective Relating to the boustrophedon made of writing.
• Boustorphic Dictionary B - adjective Boustrophedonic.
• Bousy Dictionary B - adjective Drunken; sotted; boozy.
• Bout Dictionary B - noun As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.
• Boutade Dictionary B - noun An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.
• Boutefeu Dictionary B - noun An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels.
• Boutonniere Dictionary B - noun A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.
• Bouts-rimes Dictionary B - noun plural Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.
• Bovate Dictionary B - noun An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.
• Bovey coal Dictionary B - A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; - found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oolite, and not of the true coal era.
• Bovid Dictionary B - adjective Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.
• Boviform Dictionary B - adjective Resembling an ox in form; ox-shaped.
• Bovine Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.
• Bowed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bow.
• Bowing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bow.
• Bow Dictionary B - verb transitive To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
• Bowable Dictionary B - adjective Capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; easily influenced; yielding.
• Bowbell Dictionary B - noun One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney.
• Bow-bells Dictionary B - noun plural The bells of Bow Church in London; cockneydom.
• Bowbent Dictionary B - adjective Bent, like a bow.
• Bow-compasses Dictionary B - pleural of Bow-compass.
• Bow-compass Dictionary B - noun An arcograph.
• Bowel Dictionary B - noun One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; - generally used in the plural.
• Boweled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bowel.
• Bowelled Dictionary B - of Bowel.
• Boweling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bowel.
• Bowelling Dictionary B - of Bowel.
• Bowelless Dictionary B - adjective Without pity.
• Bowenite Dictionary B - noun A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.
• Bower Dictionary B - Verb & noun One who bows or bends.
• Bower bird Dictionary B - An Australian bird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus / holosericeus), allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with bright-colored objects; the satin bird.
• Bowery Dictionary B - adjective Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.
• Boweries Dictionary B - pleural of Bowery.
• Bowess Dictionary B - noun Same as Bower.
• Bowfin Dictionary B - noun A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; - called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.
• Bowge Dictionary B - intransitive verb To swell out. See Bouge.
• Bowgrace Dictionary B - noun A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice.
• Bow hand Dictionary B - The hand that holds the bow, i. e., the left hand.
• Bowhead Dictionary B - noun The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balaena mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.
• Bowie knife Dictionary B - A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; - used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. Also, by extension, any large sheath knife.
• Bowingly Dictionary B - adverb In a bending manner.
• Bowknot Dictionary B - noun A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.
• Bowl Dictionary B - noun A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.
• Bowled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bowl.
• Bowling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bowl.
• Bowlder Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Boulder.
• Bowldery Dictionary B - adjective Characterized by bowlders.
• Bowleg Dictionary B - noun A crooked leg.
• Bowl-legged Dictionary B - adjective Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward.
• Bowler Dictionary B - noun One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
• Bowless Dictionary B - adjective Destitute of a bow.
• Bowline Dictionary B - noun A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled.
• Bowls Dictionary B - noun plural See Bowl, a ball, a game.
• Bowmen Dictionary B - pleural of Bowman.
• Bowman Dictionary B - noun A man who uses a bow; an archer.
• Bowne Dictionary B - verb transitive To make ready; to prepare; to dress.
• Bow net Dictionary B - A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel-shaped entrance at one end.
• Bow oar Dictionary B - The oar used by the bowman.
• Bow-pen Dictionary B - noun Bow-compasses carrying a drawing pen. See Bow-compass.
• Bow-pencil Dictionary B - noun Bow-compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil.
• Bow-saw Dictionary B - noun A saw with a thin or narrow blade set in a strong frame.
• Bowse Dictionary B - intransitive verb To carouse; to bouse; to booze.
• Bowshot Dictionary B - noun The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.
• Bowsprit Dictionary B - noun A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward.
• Bowssen Dictionary B - verb transitive To drench; to soak; especially, to immerse (in water believed to have curative properties).
• Bowstring Dictionary B - noun The string of a bow.
• Bowstringed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bowstring.
• Bowstrung Dictionary B - of Bowstring.
• Bowstringing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bowstring.
• Bowtel Dictionary B - noun See Boultel.
• Bowwow Dictionary B - noun An onomatopoetic name for a dog or its bark.
• Bowyer Dictionary B - noun An archer; one who uses bow.
• Box Dictionary B - noun A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (B. suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc.
• Boxes Dictionary B - pleural of Box.
• Boxed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Box.
• Boxing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Box.
• Boxberry Dictionary B - noun The wintergreen. (Gaultheria procumbens).
• Boxen Dictionary B - adjective Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus).
• Boxer Dictionary B - noun One who packs boxes.
• Boxfish Dictionary B - noun The trunkfish.
• Boxhauled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Boxhaul.
• Boxhaul Dictionary B - verb transitive To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; - so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind).
• Boxhauling Dictionary B - noun A method of going from one tack to another. See Boxhaul.
• Box-iron Dictionary B - noun A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.
• Boxkeeper Dictionary B - noun An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.
• Boxthorn Dictionary B - noun A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum.
• Boxwood Dictionary B - noun The wood of the box (Buxus).
• Boy Dictionary B - noun A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.
• Boyar Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Boyard.
• Boyard Dictionary B - noun A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.
• Boyaux Dictionary B - pleural of Boyau.
• Boyaus Dictionary B - pleural of Boyau.
• Boyau Dictionary B - noun A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.
• Boycotted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Boycott.
• Boycotting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Boycott.
• Boycott Dictionary B - verb transitive To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.
• Boycotter Dictionary B - noun A participant in boycotting.
• Boycottism Dictionary B - noun Methods of boycotters.
• Boydekin Dictionary B - noun A dagger; a bodkin.
• Boyer Dictionary B - noun A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.
• Boyhood Dictionary B - noun The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy.
• Boyish Dictionary B - adjective Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile.
• Boyishly Dictionary B - adverb In a boyish manner; like a boy.
• Boyishness Dictionary B - noun The manners or behavior of a boy.
• Boyism Dictionary B - noun Boyhood.
• Boyle's law Dictionary B - See under Law.
• Boza Dictionary B - noun An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water.
• Brabantine Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to Brabant, an ancient province of the Netherlands.
• Brabble Dictionary B - intransitive verb To clamor; to contest noisily.
• Brabblement Dictionary B - noun A brabble.
• Brabbler Dictionary B - noun A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler.
• Braccate Dictionary B - adjective Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.
• Brace Dictionary B - noun That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
• Braced Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Brace.
• Bracing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Brace.
• Bracelet Dictionary B - noun An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls.
• Bracer Dictionary B - noun That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.
• Brach Dictionary B - noun A bitch of the hound kind.
• Brachelytra Dictionary B - noun plural A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles.
• Brachia Dictionary B - noun plural See Brachium.
• Brachial Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.
• Brachiata Dictionary B - noun plural A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea.
• Brachiate Dictionary B - adjective Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.
• Brachioganoid Dictionary B - noun One of the Brachioganoidei.
• Brachioganoidei Dictionary B - noun plural An order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of Africa is a living example. See Crossopterygii.
• Brachiolaria Dictionary B - noun plural A peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia.
• Brachiopod Dictionary B - noun One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.
• Brachiopoda Dictionary B - noun A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.
• Bracchia Dictionary B - pleural of Brachium.
• Brachium Dictionary B - noun The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.
• Brachman Dictionary B - noun See Brahman.
• Brachycatalectic Dictionary B - noun A verse wanting two syllables at its termination.
• Brachycephalic Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Brachycephalous.
• Brachycephalous Dictionary B - adjective Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; - in distinction from dolichocephalic.
• Brachycephaly Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Brachycephalism.
• Brachycephalism Dictionary B - noun The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.
• Brachyceral Dictionary B - adjective Having short antennae, as certain insects.
• Brachydiagonal Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism.
• Brachydome Dictionary B - noun A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. See Dome.
• Brachygrapher Dictionary B - noun A writer in short hand; a stenographer.
• Brachygraphy Dictionary B - noun Stenography.
• Brachylogy Dictionary B - noun Conciseness of expression; brevity.
• Brachypinacoid Dictionary B - noun A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.
• Brachyptera Dictionary B - noun plural A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.
• Brachypteres Dictionary B - noun plural A group of birds, including auks, divers, and penguins.
• Brachypterous Dictionary B - adjective Having short wings.
• Brachystochrone Dictionary B - noun A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.
• Brachytypous Dictionary B - adjective Of a short form.
• Brachyura Dictionary B - noun plural A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. Also spelt Brachyoura. See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix.
• Brachyural Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Brachyurous.
• Brachyurous Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to the Brachyura.
• Brachyuran Dictionary B - noun One of the Brachyura.
• Brack Dictionary B - noun An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.
• Bracken Dictionary B - noun A brake or fern.
• Bracket Dictionary B - noun An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.
• Bracketed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bracket.
• Bracketing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bracket.
• Brackish Dictionary B - adjective Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.
• Brackishness Dictionary B - noun The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.
• Bracky Dictionary B - adjective Brackish.
• Bract Dictionary B - noun A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.
• Bractea Dictionary B - noun A bract.
• Bracteal Dictionary B - adjective Having the nature or appearance of a bract.
• Bracteate Dictionary B - adjective Having a bract or bracts.
• Bracted Dictionary B - adjective Furnished with bracts.
• Bracteolate Dictionary B - adjective Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.
• Bracteole Dictionary B - noun Same as Bractlet.
• Bractless Dictionary B - adjective Destitute of bracts.
• Bractlet Dictionary B - noun A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers.
• Brad Dictionary B - noun A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head.
• Brad awl Dictionary B - A straight awl with chisel edge, used to make holes for brads, etc.
• Bradoon Dictionary B - noun Same as Bridoon.
• Brae Dictionary B - noun A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.
• Bragged Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Brag.
• Bragging Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Brag.
• Brag Dictionary B - intransitive verb To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; - often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do.
• Braggadocio Dictionary B - noun A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer.
• Braggardism Dictionary B - noun Boastfulness; act of bragging.
• Braggart Dictionary B - intransitive verb A boaster.
• Bragger Dictionary B - noun One who brags; a boaster.
• Bragget Dictionary B - noun A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc.
• Braggingly Dictionary B - adverb Boastingly.
• Bragless Dictionary B - adjective Without bragging.
• Bragly Dictionary B - adverb In a manner to be bragged of; finely; proudly.
• Brahma Dictionary B - noun The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindoo gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer.
• Brahmans Dictionary B - pleural of Brahmin.
• Brahmins Dictionary B - pleural of Brahmin.
• Brahman Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Brahmin.
• Brahmin Dictionary B - noun A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindoos.
• Brahmaness Dictionary B - noun A Brahmani.
• Brahmani Dictionary B - noun Any Brahman woman.
• Brahmanic Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of ical.
• -ical Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of ical.
• Brahminic Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of ical.
• Brahmanism Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Brahminism.
• Brahminism Dictionary B - noun The religion or system of doctrines of the Brahmans; the religion of Brahma.
• Brahmanist Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Brahminist.
• Brahminist Dictionary B - noun An adherent of the religion of the Brahmans.
• Brahmoism Dictionary B - noun The religious system of Brahmo-somaj.
• Brahmo-somaj Dictionary B - noun A modern reforming theistic sect among the Hindoos.
• Braided Dictionary B - imperative &. past particle of Braid.
• Braiding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Braid.
• Braid Dictionary B - verb transitive To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait.
• Brail Dictionary B - noun A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
• Brain Dictionary B - noun The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.
• Brained Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Brain.
• Braining Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Brain.
• Brainish Dictionary B - adjective Hot-headed; furious.
• Brainless Dictionary B - adjective Without understanding; silly; thoughtless; witless.
• Brainpan Dictionary B - noun The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.
• Brainsick Dictionary B - adjective Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.
• Brainsickly Dictionary B - adverb In a brainsick manner.
• Brainy Dictionary B - adjective Having an active or vigorous mind.
• Braise Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Braize.
• Braize Dictionary B - noun A European marine fish (Pagrus vulgaris) allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.
• Braiser Dictionary B - noun A kettle or pan for braising.
• Brait Dictionary B - noun A rough diamond.
• Brake Dictionary B - imp. of Break.
• Brakemen Dictionary B - pleural of Brakeman.
• Brakeman Dictionary B - noun A man in charge of a brake or brakes.
• Braky Dictionary B - adjective Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny.
• Brama Dictionary B - noun See Brahma.
• Bramah press Dictionary B - A hydrostatic press of immense power, invented by Joseph Bramah of London. See under Hydrostatic.
• Bramble Dictionary B - noun Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.
• Bramble bush Dictionary B - The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together.
• Brambled Dictionary B - adjective Overgrown with brambles.
• Bramble net Dictionary B - A net to catch birds.
• Brambling Dictionary B - noun The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla); - called also bramble finch and bramble.
• Brambly Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles.
• Brame Dictionary B - noun Sharp passion; vexation.
• Bramin Dictionary B - Alt. of Braminic.
• Braminic Dictionary B - See Brahman, Brachmanic, etc.
• Bran Dictionary B - noun The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
• Brancard Dictionary B - noun A litter on which a person may be carried.
• Branches Dictionary B - pleural of Branch.
• Branch Dictionary B - noun A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
• Branched Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Branch.
• Branching Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Branch.
• Brancher Dictionary B - noun That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.
• Branchery Dictionary B - noun A system of branches.
• Branchiae Dictionary B - pleural of Branchia.
• Branchia Dictionary B - noun A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.
• Branchial Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to branchiae or gills.
• Branchiate Dictionary B - adjective Furnished with branchiae; as, branchiate segments.
• Branchiferous Dictionary B - adjective Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.
• Branchiness Dictionary B - noun Fullness of branches.
• Branchiogastropoda Dictionary B - noun plural Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiae, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.
• Branchiomerism Dictionary B - noun The state of being made up of branchiate segments.
• Branchiopod Dictionary B - noun One of the Branchiopoda.
• Branchiopoda Dictionary B - noun plural An order of Entomostraca; - so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense.
• Branchiostegal Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes.
• Branchiostege Dictionary B - The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Branchiostegous Dictionary B - adjective Branchiostegal.
• Branchiostoma Dictionary B - noun The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• Branchiura Dictionary B - noun plural A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus).
• Branchless Dictionary B - adjective Destitute of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
• Branchlet Dictionary B - noun A little branch; a twig.
• Branch pilot Dictionary B - A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation.
• Branchy Dictionary B - adjective Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches.
• Brand Dictionary B - verb transitive A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.
• Branded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Brand.
• Branding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Brand.
• Brander Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron.
• Brand goose Dictionary B - A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. See Brant.
• Brandied Dictionary B - adjective Mingled with brandy; made stronger by the addition of brandy; flavored or treated with brandy; as, brandied peaches.
• Branding iron Dictionary B - An iron to brand with.
• Brand iron Dictionary B - A branding iron.
• Brandished Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Brandish.
• Brandishing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Brandish.
• Brandish Dictionary B - noun To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish.
• Brandisher Dictionary B - noun One who brandishes.
• Brandle Dictionary B - verb transitive & intransitive To shake; to totter.
• Brandling Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Brandlin.
• Brandlin Dictionary B - noun Same as Branlin, fish and worm.
• Brand-new Dictionary B - adjective Quite new; bright as if fresh from the forge.
• Brand spore Dictionary B - One of several spores growing in a series or chain, and produced by one of the fungi called brand.
• Brandies Dictionary B - pleural of Brandy.
• Brandy Dictionary B - noun A strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain.
• Brandywine Dictionary B - noun Brandy.
• Brangle Dictionary B - noun A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute.
• Brangled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Brangle.
• Brangling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Brangle.
• Branglement Dictionary B - noun Wrangle; brangle.
• Brangler Dictionary B - noun A quarrelsome person.
• Brank Dictionary B - noun Buckwheat.
• Branks Dictionary B - noun A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.
• Brankursine Dictionary B - noun Bear's-breech, or Acanthus.
• Branlin Dictionary B - noun A young salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron.
• Bran-new Dictionary B - adjective See Brand-new.
• Branny Dictionary B - adjective Having the appearance of bran; consisting of or containing bran.
• Bransle Dictionary B - noun A brawl or dance.
• Brant Dictionary B - noun A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) #NAME?.
• Brantail Dictionary B - noun The European redstart; - so called from the red color of its tail.
• Brant-fox Dictionary B - noun A kind of fox found in Sweden (Vulpes alopex), smaller than the common fox (V. vulgaris), but probably a variety of it.
• Branular Dictionary B - adjective Relating to the brain; cerebral.
• Brasen Dictionary B - adjective Same as Brazen.
• Brash Dictionary B - adjective Hasty in temper; impetuous.
• Brasier Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Brazier.
• Brazier Dictionary B - noun An artificer who works in brass.
• Brasses Dictionary B - pleural of Brass.
• Brass Dictionary B - noun An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals.
• Brassage Dictionary B - noun A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; - now called seigniorage.
• Brassart Dictionary B - noun Armor for the arm; - generally used for the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th centuries, of many parts.
• Brasse Dictionary B - noun A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch.
• Brassets Dictionary B - noun See Brassart.
• Brassica Dictionary B - noun A genus of plants embracing several species and varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage (B. oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B. campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape or coleseed (B. napus), etc.
• Brassicaceous Dictionary B - adjective Related to, or resembling, the cabbage, or plants of the Cabbage family.
• Brassiness Dictionary B - noun The state, condition, or quality of being brassy.
• Brass-visaged Dictionary B - adjective Impudent; bold.
• Brassy Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.
• Brast Dictionary B - verb transitive & intransitive To burst.
• Brat Dictionary B - noun A coarse garment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general.
• Bratsche Dictionary B - noun The tenor viola, or viola.
• Brattice Dictionary B - noun A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.
• Brattishing Dictionary B - noun See Brattice, n.
• Braunite Dictionary B - noun A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha.
• Bravade Dictionary B - noun Bravado.
• Bravadoes Dictionary B - pleural of Bravado.
• Bravado Dictionary B - noun Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.
• Brave Dictionary B - superlative Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; - opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.
• Braved Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Brave.
• Braving Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Brave.
• Bravely Dictionary B - adverb In a brave manner; courageously; gallantly; valiantly; splendidly; nobly.
• Braveness Dictionary B - noun The quality of state or being brave.
• Bravery Dictionary B - noun The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity.
• Bravingly Dictionary B - adverb In a defiant manner.
• Bravoes Dictionary B - pleural of Bravo.
• Bravo Dictionary B - adjective A daring villain; a bandit; one who sets law at defiance; a professional assassin or murderer.
• Bravura Dictionary B - noun A florid, brilliant style of music, written for effect, to show the range and flexibility of a singer's voice, or the technical force and skill of a performer; virtuoso music.
• Brawled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Brawl.
• Brawling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Brawl.
• Brawl Dictionary B - intransitive verb To quarrel noisily and outrageously.
• Brawler Dictionary B - noun One that brawls; wrangler.
• Brawlingly Dictionary B - adverb In a brawling manner.
• Brawn Dictionary B - noun A muscle; flesh.
• Brawned Dictionary B - adjective Brawny; strong; muscular.
• Brawner Dictionary B - noun A boor killed for the table.
• Brawniness Dictionary B - noun The quality or state of being brawny.
• Brawny Dictionary B - adjective Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong.
• Braxy Dictionary B - noun A disease of sheep. The term is variously applied in different localities.
• Brayed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bray.
• Braying Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bray.
• Bray Dictionary B - verb transitive To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.
• Brayer Dictionary B - noun An implement for braying and spreading ink in hand printing.
• Brazed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Braze.
• Brazing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Braze.
• Braze Dictionary B - intransitive verb To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe.
• Brazen Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.
• Brazened Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Brazen.
• Brazening Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Brazen.
• Brazen-browed Dictionary B - adjective Shamelessly impudent.
• Brazenface Dictionary B - noun An impudent or shameless person.
• Brazenfaced Dictionary B - adjective Impudent; shameless.
• Brazenly Dictionary B - adverb In a bold, impudent manner.
• Brazenness Dictionary B - noun The quality or state of being brazen.
• Braziletto Dictionary B - noun See Brazil wood.
• Brazilian Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Brazil.
• Brazilin Dictionary B - noun A substance contained in both Brazil wood and Sapan wood, from which it is extracted as a yellow crystalline substance which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies.
• Brazil nut Dictionary B - An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut.
• Brazil wood Dictionary B - The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan; - so called before the discovery of America.
• Breach Dictionary B - noun The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
• Breached Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Breach.
• Breaching Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Breach.
• Breachy Dictionary B - adjective Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.
• Bread Dictionary B - adjective To spread.
• Breadbasket Dictionary B - noun The stomach.
• Breadcorn Dictionary B - Corn of grain of which bread is made, as wheat, rye, etc.
• Breaded Dictionary B - adjective Braided.
• Breaden Dictionary B - adjective Made of bread.
• Breadfruit Dictionary B - noun The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name.
• Breadless Dictionary B - adjective Without bread; destitute of food.
• Breadroot Dictionary B - noun The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.
• Breadstuff Dictionary B - noun Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.
• Breadth Dictionary B - adjective Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.
• Breadthless Dictionary B - adjective Without breadth.
• Breadthways Dictionary B - adjective Breadthwise.
• Breadthwise Dictionary B - adjective In the direction of the breadth.
• Breadthwinner Dictionary B - noun The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living.
• broke Dictionary B - imperative of Break.
• Broken Dictionary B - past participle of Break.
• Breaking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Break.
• Break Dictionary B - verb transitive To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock.
• Breakable Dictionary B - adjective Capable of being broken.
• Breakage Dictionary B - noun The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.
• Breakbone fever Dictionary B - See Dengue.
• Break-circuit Dictionary B - noun A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.
• Breakdown Dictionary B - noun The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
• Breaker Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, breaks.
• Breakfast Dictionary B - noun The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.
• breakfasted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Breakfast.
• Breakfasting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Breakfast.
• Breakman Dictionary B - noun See Brakeman.
• Breakneck Dictionary B - noun A fall that breaks the neck.
• Break-up Dictionary B - noun Disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break-up of an assembly or dinner party; a break-up of the government.
• Breakwater Dictionary B - noun Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence.
• Bream Dictionary B - noun A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
• Breamed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bream.
• Breaming Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bream.
• Breast Dictionary B - noun The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.
• Breasted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Breast.
• Breasting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Breast.
• Breastband Dictionary B - noun A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding.
• Breastbeam Dictionary B - noun The front transverse beam of a locomotive.
• Breastbone Dictionary B - noun The bone of the breast; the sternum.
• Breast-deep Dictionary B - adjective Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast.
• Breastfast Dictionary B - noun A large rope to fasten the midship part of a ship to a wharf, or to another vessel.
• Breastheight Dictionary B - noun The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing.
• Breast-high Dictionary B - adjective High as the breast.
• Breasthook Dictionary B - noun A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side.
• Breastknot Dictionary B - noun A knot of ribbons worn on the breast.
• Breastpin Dictionary B - noun A pin worn on the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch.
• Breastplate Dictionary B - noun A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor.
• Breastplow Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Breastplough.
• Breastplough Dictionary B - noun A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; - used to cut or pare turf.
• Breastrail Dictionary B - noun The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.
• Breastrope Dictionary B - noun See Breastband.
• Breastsummer Dictionary B - noun A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; - used principally above shop windows.
• Breastwheel Dictionary B - noun A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.
• Breastwork Dictionary B - noun A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.
• Breath Dictionary B - noun The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc.
• Breathable Dictionary B - adjective Such as can be breathed.
• Breathableness Dictionary B - noun State of being breathable.
• Breathed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Breathe.
• Breathing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Breathe.
• Breathe Dictionary B - intransitive verb To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.
• Breather Dictionary B - noun One who breathes. Hence: (a) One who lives.(b) One who utters. (c) One who animates or inspires.
• Breathful Dictionary B - adjective Full of breath; full of odor; fragrant.
• Breathless Dictionary B - adjective Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath.
• Breathlessly Dictionary B - adverb In a breathless manner.
• Breathlessness Dictionary B - noun The state of being breathless or out of breath.
• Breccia Dictionary B - noun A rock composed of angular fragments either of the same mineral or of different minerals, etc., united by a cement, and commonly presenting a variety of colors.
• Brecciated Dictionary B - adjective Consisting of angular fragments cemented together; resembling breccia in appearance.
• Bred Dictionary B - imp. & p. p. of Breed.
• Brede Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Breede.
• Breede Dictionary B - noun Breadth.
• Breech Dictionary B - noun The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.
• Breeched Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Breech.
• Breeching Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Breech.
• Breechblock Dictionary B - noun The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.
• Breechcloth Dictionary B - noun A cloth worn around the breech.
• Breeches Dictionary B - noun plural A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.
• Breechloader Dictionary B - noun A firearm which receives its load at the breech.
• Breech-loading Dictionary B - adjective Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle.
• Breech pin Dictionary B - Alt. of Breech screw.
• Breech screw Dictionary B - A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.
• Breech sight Dictionary B - A device attached to the breech of a firearm, to guide the eye, in conjunction with the front sight, in taking aim.
• Breeding Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Breed.
• Breed Dictionary B - verb transitive To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
• Breedbate Dictionary B - noun One who breeds or originates quarrels.
• Breeder Dictionary B - noun One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc.
• Breeze Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Breeze fly.
• Breeze fly Dictionary B - noun A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; - called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies.
• Breezeless Dictionary B - adjective Motionless; destitute of breezes.
• Breeziness Dictionary B - noun State of being breezy.
• Breezy Dictionary B - adjective Characterized by, or having, breezes; airy.
• Bregma Dictionary B - noun The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull.
• Bregmatic Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to the bregma.
• Brehon Dictionary B - noun An ancient Irish or Scotch judge.
• Breme Dictionary B - adjective Fierce; sharp; severe; cruel.
• Brent Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Brenne.
• Brenning Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Brenne.
• Bren Dictionary B - verb transitive & intransitive Alt. of Brenne.
• Brenne Dictionary B - verb transitive & intransitive To burn.
• Brennage Dictionary B - noun A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.
• Brenningly Dictionary B - adverb Burningly; ardently.
• Brequet chain Dictionary B - A watch-guard.
• Brere Dictionary B - noun A brier.
• Brest Dictionary B - 3d singular plural for Bursteth.
• Brusten Dictionary B - past participle of Breste.
• Borsten Dictionary B - of Breste.
• Bursten Dictionary B - of Breste.
• Breste Dictionary B - verb transitive & intransitive To burst.
• Brestsummer Dictionary B - noun See Breastsummer.
• Bret Dictionary B - noun See Birt.
• Bretful Dictionary B - adjective Brimful.
• Brethren Dictionary B - noun pl. of Brother.
• Breton Dictionary B - adjective Of or relating to Brittany, or Bretagne, in France.
• Brett Dictionary B - noun Same as Britzska.
• Brettices Dictionary B - pleural of Brettice.
• Brettice Dictionary B - noun The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.
• Bretwalda Dictionary B - noun The official title applied to that one of the Anglo-Saxon chieftains who was chosen by the other chiefs to lead them in their warfare against the British tribes.
• Bretzel Dictionary B - noun See Pretzel.
• Breve Dictionary B - noun A note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. It was formerly of a square figure (as thus: / ), but is now made oval, with a line perpendicular to the staff on each of its sides; - formerly much used for choir service.
• Brevet Dictionary B - noun A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. French usage.
• Brevetted Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Brevet.
• Brevetting Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Brevet.
• Brevetcies Dictionary B - pleural of Brevetcy.
• Brevetcy Dictionary B - noun The rank or condition of a brevet officer.
• Breviaries Dictionary B - pleural of Breviary.
• Breviary Dictionary B - noun An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary.
• Breviate Dictionary B - noun A short compend; a summary; a brief statement.
• Breviature Dictionary B - noun An abbreviature; an abbreviation.
• Brevier Dictionary B - noun A size of type between bourgeois and minion.
• Breviloquence Dictionary B - noun A brief and pertinent mode of speaking.
• Breviped Dictionary B - adjective Having short legs.
• Brevipen Dictionary B - noun A brevipennate bird.
• Brevipennate Dictionary B - adjective Short-winged; - applied to birds which can not fly, owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu.
• Brevirostral Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Brevirostrate.
• Brevirostrate Dictionary B - adjective Short-billed; having a short beak.
• Brevities Dictionary B - pleural of Brevity.
• Brevity Dictionary B - noun Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life.
• Brewed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Brew.
• Brewing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Brew.
• Brew Dictionary B - verb transitive To boil or seethe; to cook.
• Brewage Dictionary B - noun Malt liquor; drink brewed.
• Brewer Dictionary B - noun One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
• Brewery Dictionary B - noun A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.
• Brewhouse Dictionary B - noun A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.
• Brewis Dictionary B - noun Broth or pottage.
• Brewsterite Dictionary B - noun A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and strontia.
• Brezilin Dictionary B - noun See Brazilin.
• Briar Dictionary B - noun Same as Brier.
• Briarean Dictionary B - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed.
• Bribable Dictionary B - adjective Capable of being bribed.
• Bribe Dictionary B - noun A gift begged; a present.
• Bribed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bribe.
• Bribing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bribe.
• Bribeless Dictionary B - adjective Incapable of being bribed; free from bribes.
• Briber Dictionary B - noun A thief.
• Briberies Dictionary B - pleural of Bribery.
• Bribery Dictionary B - noun Robbery; extortion.
• Bric-a brac Dictionary B - noun Miscellaneous curiosities and works of decorative art, considered collectively.
• Brick Dictionary B - noun A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.
• Bricked Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Brick.
• Bricking Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Brick.
• Brickbat Dictionary B - noun A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4.
• Brickkiln Dictionary B - noun A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them.
• Bricklayer Dictionary B - noun One whose occupation is to build with bricks.
• Bricklaying Dictionary B - noun The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks.
• Brickle Dictionary B - adjective Brittle; easily broken.
• Brickleness Dictionary B - noun Brittleness.
• Brickmaker Dictionary B - noun One whose occupation is to make bricks.
• Brickwork Dictionary B - noun Anything made of bricks.
• Bricky Dictionary B - adjective Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust.
• Brickyard Dictionary B - noun A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.
• Bricole Dictionary B - noun A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.
• Brid Dictionary B - noun A bird.
• Bridal Dictionary B - noun Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.
• Bridalty Dictionary B - noun Celebration of the nuptial feast.
• Bride Dictionary B - noun A woman newly married, or about to be married.
• Bride-ale Dictionary B - noun A rustic wedding feast; a bridal. See Ale.
• Bridebed Dictionary B - noun The marriage bed.
• Bridecake Dictionary B - noun Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding.
• Bridechamber Dictionary B - noun The nuptial apartment.
• Bridegroom Dictionary B - noun A man newly married, or just about to be married.
• Brideknot Dictionary B - noun A knot of ribbons worn by a guest at a wedding; a wedding favor.
• Bridemaid Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Brideman.
• Brideman Dictionary B - noun See Bridesmaid, Bridesman.
• Bridesmaid Dictionary B - noun A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding.
• Bridesmen Dictionary B - pleural of Bridesman.
• Bridesman Dictionary B - noun A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the "best man.".
• Bridestake Dictionary B - noun A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round.
• Bridewell Dictionary B - noun A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; - so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.
• Bridge Dictionary B - noun A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.
• Bridged Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bridge.
• Bridging Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bridge.
• Bridgeboard Dictionary B - noun A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened.
• Bridgehead Dictionary B - noun A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tete-de-pont.
• Bridgeless Dictionary B - adjective Having no bridge; not bridged.
• Bridgepot Dictionary B - noun The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle.
• Bridgetree Dictionary B - noun The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill.
• Bridge-ward Dictionary B - noun A bridge keeper; a warden or a guard for a bridge.
• Bridgeing Dictionary B - noun The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight.
• Bridgey Dictionary B - adjective Full of bridges.
• Bridle Dictionary B - noun The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages.
• Bridled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bridle.
• Bridling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bridle.
• Bridle iron Dictionary B - A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; - called also stirrup and hanger.
• Bridler Dictionary B - noun One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle.
• Bridoon Dictionary B - noun The snaffle and rein of a military bridle, which acts independently of the bit, at the pleasure of the rider. It is used in connection with a curb bit, which has its own rein.
• Brief Dictionary B - adjective Short in duration.
• Briefless Dictionary B - adjective Having no brief; without clients; as, a briefless barrister.
• Briefly Dictionary B - adverb Concisely; in few words.
• Briefman Dictionary B - noun One who makes a brief.
• Briefness Dictionary B - noun The quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in discourse or writing.
• Brier Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Briar.
• Briered Dictionary B - adjective Set with briers.
• Briery Dictionary B - adjective Full of briers; thorny.
• Brig Dictionary B - noun A bridge.
• Brigade Dictionary B - noun A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general.
• Brigaded Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Brigade.
• Brigading Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Brigade.
• Brigadier general Dictionary B - An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier.
• Brigand Dictionary B - noun A light-armed, irregular foot soldier.
• Brigandage Dictionary B - noun Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.
• Brigandine Dictionary B - noun A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages.
• Brigandish Dictionary B - adjective Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.
• Brigandism Dictionary B - noun Brigandage.
• Brigantine Dictionary B - noun A practical vessel.
• Brigge Dictionary B - noun A bridge.
• Bright Dictionary B - intransitive verb See Brite, v. i.
• Brightened Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Brighten.
• Brightening Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Brighten.
• Brighten Dictionary B - adjective To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to.
• Bright-harnessed Dictionary B - adjective Having glittering armor.
• Brightly Dictionary B - adverb Brilliantly; splendidly; with luster; as, brightly shining armor.
• Brightness Dictionary B - noun The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness.
• Bright's disease Dictionary B - An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright's disease are now recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved, and in the intensity and course of the morbid process.
• Brightsome Dictionary B - adjective Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant.
• Brigose Dictionary B - noun Contentious; quarrelsome.
• Brigue Dictionary B - noun A cabal, intrigue, faction, contention, strife, or quarrel.
• Brike Dictionary B - noun A breach; ruin; downfall; peril.
• Brill Dictionary B - noun A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food; - called also bret, pearl, prill. See Bret.
• Brillante Dictionary B - adjective In a gay, showy, and sparkling style.
• Brillance Dictionary B - noun Brilliancy.
• Brillancy Dictionary B - noun The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brightness, whether in a literal or figurative sense.
• Brilliant Dictionary B - past particle Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star.
• Brilliantly Dictionary B - adverb In a brilliant manner.
• Brilliantness Dictionary B - noun Brilliancy; splendor; glitter.
• Brills Dictionary B - noun plural The hair on the eyelids of a horse.
• Brim Dictionary B - noun The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything.
• Brimmed Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Brim.
• Brimming Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Brim.
• Brimful Dictionary B - adjective Full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow.
• Brimless Dictionary B - adjective Having no brim; as, brimless caps.
• Brimmer Dictionary B - noun A brimful bowl; a bumper.
• Brimstone Dictionary B - verb transitive Sulphur; See Sulphur.
• Brimstony Dictionary B - adjective Containing or resembling brimstone; sulphurous.
• Brin Dictionary B - noun One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.
• Brinded Dictionary B - adjective Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled.
• Brindle Dictionary B - noun The state of being brindled.
• Brindled Dictionary B - adjective Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded.
• Brine Dictionary B - noun Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters.
• Brought Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bring.
• Bringing Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bring.
• Bring Dictionary B - verb transitive To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.
• Bringer Dictionary B - noun One who brings.
• Brininess Dictionary B - noun The state or quality of being briny; saltness; brinishness.
• Brinish Dictionary B - adjective Like brine; somewhat salt; saltish.
• Brinishness Dictionary B - noun State or quality of being brinish.
• Brinjaree Dictionary B - noun A rough-haired East Indian variety of the greyhound.
• Brink Dictionary B - noun The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig.
• Briny Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.
• Briony Dictionary B - noun See Bryony.
• Brisk Dictionary B - adjective Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
• Brisket Dictionary B - noun That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.
• Briskly Dictionary B - adverb In a brisk manner; nimbly.
• Briskness Dictionary B - noun Liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety; vivacity; effervescence.
• Bristle Dictionary B - noun A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
• Bristled Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Bristle.
• Bristling Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Bristle.
• Bristle-pointed Dictionary B - adjective Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves.
• Bristle-shaped Dictionary B - adjective Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf.
• Bristletail Dictionary B - noun An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura.
• Bristliness Dictionary B - noun The quality or state of having bristles.
• Bristly Dictionary B - adjective Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.
• Bristol Dictionary B - noun A seaport city in the west of England.
• Brisure Dictionary B - noun Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.
• Brit Dictionary B - noun Alt. of Britt.
• Britt Dictionary B - noun The young of the common herring; also, a small species of herring; the sprat.
• Britannia Dictionary B - noun A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and is used for table ware. Called also Britannia metal.
• Britannic Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.
• Brite Dictionary B - verb transitive Alt. of Bright.
• Briticism Dictionary B - noun A word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to Great Britain; any manner of using a word or words that is peculiar to Great Britain.
• British Dictionary B - adjective Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inhabitants; - sometimes restricted to the original inhabitants.
• Britisher Dictionary B - noun An Englishman; a subject or inhabitant of Great Britain, esp. one in the British military or naval service.
• Briton Dictionary B - adjective British.
• Brittle Dictionary B - adjective Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
• Brittlely Dictionary B - adverb In a brittle manner.
• Brittleness Dictionary B - noun Aptness to break; fragility.
• Brittle star Dictionary B - Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea.
• Britzska Dictionary B - noun A long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey.
• Brize Dictionary B - noun The breeze fly. See Breeze.
• Broach Dictionary B - noun A spit.
• Broached Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Broach.
• Broaching Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Broach.
• Broacher Dictionary B - noun A spit; a broach.
• Broad Dictionary B - superlative Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; - opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
• Broadax Broadaxe Dictionary B - noun An ancient military weapon; a battle-ax.
• Broadbill Dictionary B - noun A wild duck (Aythya, / Fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; - called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck.
• Broadbrim Dictionary B - noun A hat with a very broad brim, like those worn by men of the society of Friends.
• Broad-brimmed Dictionary B - adjective Having a broad brim.
• Broadcast Dictionary B - noun A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.
• Broad Church Dictionary B - A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, intermediate between the High Church party and the Low Church, or evangelical, party. The term has been applied to other bodies of men holding liberal or comprehensive views of Christian doctrine and fellowship.
• Broadcloth Dictionary B - noun A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); - so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
• Broadened Dictionary B - imperative & past particle of Broaden.
• Broadening Dictionary B - past particle & verb noun of Broaden.
• Broaden Dictionary B - adjective To grow broad; to become broader or wider.
• Broad gauge Dictionary B - A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge.
• Broad-horned Dictionary B - adjective Having horns spreading widely.
• Broadish Dictionary B - adjective Rather broad; moderately broad.
• Broadleaf Dictionary B - noun A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; - sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit.
• Broad-leaved Dictionary B - adjective Alt. of Broad-leafed.
• Broad-leafed Dictionary B - adjective Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves.
• Broadly Dictionary B - adverb In a broad manner.
• Broadmouth Dictionary B - noun One of the Eurylaimidae, a family of East Indian