+
bandoline
n.
A glutinous pomatum for the fair.
+
beauty
n.
A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman.
+
banshee
n.
Alt. of Banshie
+
breakfast
n.
The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.
+
bettermost
a.
Best.
+
blister
n.
Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.
+
bilge
v.i.
To bulge.
+
bourbonism
n.
The principles of those adhering to the house of Bourbon; obstinate conservatism.
+
blackfish
n.
The black sea bass (Centropristis atrarius) of the Atlantic coast. It is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black Harry.
+
bacteria
n.p.
See Bacterium.
+
batrachian
a.
Pertaining to the Batrachia.
+
baalite
n.
A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater.
+
bared
imp.|p.p.
of Bare
+
beaming
a.
Emitting beams; radiant.
+
barricade
n.
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.
+
broacher
n.
One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter.
+
bribery
n.
Robbery; extortion.
+
bearsbreech
n.
See Acanthus, n., 1.
+
bar
n.
To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.
+
biuret
n.
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.
+
blank
n.
A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
+
bath
n.
A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing.
+
brack
n.
Salt or brackish water.
+
bartery
n.
Barter.
+
belaying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Belay
+
balance
n.
To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance.
+
brequet chain

A watch-guard.
+
biweekly
n.
A publication issued every two weeks.
+
but
adv.|conj.
Except; besides; save.
+
bombilate
n.
To hum; to buzz.
+
bobbish
a.
Hearty; in good spirits.
+
bleary
a.
Somewhat blear.
+
bee line

The shortest line from one place to another, like that of a bee to its hive when loaded with honey; an air line.
+
bewitchedness
n.
The state of being bewitched.
+
bird fancier

One who has for sale the various kinds of birds which are kept in cages.
+
buckthorn
n.
A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus.
+
bawdy
a.
Obscene; filthy; unchaste.
+
besmeared
imp.|p.p.
of Besmear
+
bitch
n.
The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.
+
besee
v.t.|i.
To see; to look; to mind.
+
bitting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bit
+
benign
a.
Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant.
+
botargo
n.
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.
+
black book

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.
+
breastplough
n.
A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf.
+
bearer
n.
A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.
+
bedright  bedrite
n.
The duty or privilege of the marriage bed.
+
bionomy
n.
Physiology.
+
behest
v.t.
To vow.
+
bard
n.
Alt. of Barde
+
bluster
n.
Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.
+
beplastered
imp.|p.p.
of Beplaster
+
beamy
a.
Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy.
+
brazier
n.
Same as Brasier.
+
barrack
n.
A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
+
bigential
a.
Including two tribes or races of men.
+
bedust
v.t.
To sprinkle, soil, or cover with dust.
+
blanketing
n.
The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.
+
bluff
n.
A high, steep bank, as by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.
+
boxiron
n.
A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.
+
blunderer
n.
One who is apt to blunder.
+
bulwark
n.
A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.
+
boroughmonger
n.
One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.
+
bedfere  bedphere
n.
A bedfellow.
+
bankrupting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bankrupt
+
baccalaureate
a.
Pertaining to a bachelor of arts.
+
base
n.
That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.
+
bailer
n.
See Bailor.
+
boatable
a.
Navigable for boats, or small river craft.
+
brontolith
n.
An aerolite.
+
bottom
v.i.
To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.
+
beck
n.
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command.
+
bestrode

imp. & p. p. of Bestride.
+
ballistic
a.
Pertaining to projection, or to a projectile.
+
boyar
n.
Alt. of Boyard
+
boweled
imp.|p.p.
of Bowel
+
brustle
v.i.
To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.
+
biflorate
a.
Alt. of Biflorous
+
brachycephalism
n.
The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.
+
bewitch
v.t.
To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.
+
biases
pl.
of Bias
+
band
v.t.
To bandy; to drive away.
+
bacchanalian
n.
A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
+
backward
a.
Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances.
+
breastfast
n.
A large rope to fasten the midship part of a ship to a wharf, or to another vessel.
+
biographical
a.
Of or pertaining to biography; containing biography.
+
bankruptcy
n.
The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.
+
basto
n.
The ace of clubs in quadrille and omber.
+
balk
v.i.
A deceptive gesture of the pitcher, as if to deliver the ball.
+
bedimmed
imp.|p.p.
of Bedim
+
bursitis
n.
Inflammation of a bursa.
+
benzine
n.
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.
+
banner
n.
A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.
+
brooding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brood
+
birching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Birch
+
biggin
n.
A child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head.
+
breakman
n.
See Brakeman.
+
bubble
n.
To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.
+
bisulphate
n.
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.
+
bestudding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bestud
+
bless
v.t.
To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate
+
been
p.p.
of Be
+
booze
v.i.
To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple.
+
boottree
n.
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.
+
bencher
n.
An alderman of a corporation.
+
blueeyed grass

a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color.
+
bully
a.
Jovial and blustering; dashing.
+
blubber
n.
A large sea nettle or medusa.
+
broiderer
n.
One who embroiders.
+
brachygraphy
n.
Stenography.
+
barn
v.t.
To lay up in a barn.
+
bacterial
a.
Of or pertaining to bacteria.
+
blue grass

A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass.
+
bay
v.t.
To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear.
+
blear
v.t.
To make somewhat sore or watery, as the eyes; to dim, or blur, as the sight. Figuratively: To obscure (mental or moral perception); to blind; to hoodwink.
+
blowball
n.
The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away.
+
botanizer
n.
One who botanizes.
+
bodice
n.
A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it.
+
barren
a.
Mentally dull; stupid.
+
blenched
imp.|p.p.
of Blench
+
bipontine
a.
Relating to books printed at Deuxponts, or Bipontium (Zweibrucken), in Bavaria.
+
back
v.i.
To place or seat upon the back.
+
bugwort
n.
Bugbane.
+
bigeminate
a.
Having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; -- said of a decompound leaf.
+
backed
imp.|p.p.
of Back
+
bladdered
imp.|p.p.
of Bladder
+
boustorphic
a.
Boustrophedonic.
+
bronchotome
n.
An instrument for cutting into the bronchial tubes.
+
bad
superl.
Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news.
+
brustled
imp.|p.p.
of Brustle
+
brightharnessed
a.
Having glittering armor.
+
bruin
a.
A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.
+
boatswain
n.
The jager gull.
+
bandolier
n.
One of the leather or wooden cases in which the charges of powder were carried.
+
balance
n.
To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.
+
bursal
a.
Of or pertaining to a bursa or to bursae.
+
betide
v.i.
To come to pass; to happen; to occur.
+
brog
v.t.
To prod with a pointed instrument, as a lance; also, to broggle.
+
brand
v.t.
A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness.
+
brother
n.
One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc.
+
brace
n.
The mouth of a shaft.
+
back
n.
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.
+
brustling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brustle
+
benzole
n.
Alt. of Benzol
+
blessed
a.
Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored.
+
brooking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brook
+
bulwarking
n.
of Bulwark
+
birch
n.
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).
+
bullseye
n.
A small thick disk of glass inserted in a deck, roof, floor, ship's side, etc., to let in light.
+
bubby
n.
A woman's breast.
+
beam
n.
One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship.
+
bee
n.
Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks.
+
boottopping
n.
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.
+
bergamot
n.
The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
+
bimonthly
n.
A bimonthly publication.
+
brawn
n.
Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.
+
bolis
n.
A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.
+
bode
v.t.
To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
+
boothy
n.
See Bothy.
+
bureau
n.
The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.
+
balk
v.t.
To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
+
blend
v.t.
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.
+
beeve
n.
A beef; a beef creature.
+
bid
v.t.
To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc.
+
bravery
n.
A showy person; a fine gentleman; a beau.
+
bursten

of Breste
+
beneath
adv.
Below, as opposed to heaven, or to any superior region or position; as, in earth beneath.
+
bombshell
n.
A bomb. See Bomb, n.
+
broad gauge

A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge.
+
bilberry
n.
The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit.
+
boatshaped
a.
See Cymbiform.
+
bouldery
a.
Characterized by bowlders.
+
bob
n.
The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.
+
behete
v.t.
See Behight.
+
buoyance
n.
Buoyancy.
+
bindingness
n.
The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality.
+
bowstring
v.t.
To strangle with a bowstring.
+
bodkin
n.
A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle.
+
bacchanalian
a.
Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.
+
begemming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Begem
+
biradiate
a.
Alt. of Biradiated
+
brotelness
n.
Brittleness.
+
belace
v.t.
To cover or adorn with lace.
+
bedrop
v.t.
To sprinkle, as with drops.
+
boroughmaster
n.
The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough.
+
bullhead
n.
A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's thumb.
+
blank
a.
Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.
+
borate
n.
A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.
+
bolt
n.
A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.
+
bombastry
n.
Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.
+
bryological
a.
Relating to bryology; as, bryological studies.
+
baby jumper

A hoop suspended by an elastic strap, in which a young child may be held secure while amusing itself by jumping on the floor.
+
boldo
n.
Alt. of Boldu
+
bite
v.t.
To cheat; to trick; to take in.
+
brow
n.
The general air of the countenance.
+
blague
n.
Mendacious boasting; falsehood; humbug.
+
bivial
a.
Of or relating to the bivium.
+
brachia
n.pl.
See Brachium.
+
bowcompass
n.
A small pair of compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil, or a pen, for drawing circles. Its legs are often connected by a bow-shaped spring, instead of by a joint.
+
biconjugate
a.
Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice.
+
bealed
imp.|p.p.
of Beal
+
bavaroy
n.
A kind of cloak or surtout.
+
baldpate
n.
The American widgeon (Anas Americana).
+
boustrophedonic
a.
Relating to the boustrophedon made of writing.
+
bloodless
a.
Without spirit or activity.
+
befriendment
n.
Act of befriending.
+
belling
n.
A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time.
+
blowth
n.
A blossoming; a bloom.
+
brisure
n.
Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.
+
bayberry
n.
A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle (Pimenta acris).
+
being
adv.
Since; inasmuch as.
+
biblicism
n.
Learning or literature relating to the Bible.
+
bambino
n.
Babe Ruth.
+
bass
n.
Species of Serranus, the sea bass and rock bass. See Sea bass.
+
brakemen
pl.
of Brakeman
+
balcon
n.
A balcony.
+
ban
n.
An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.
+
beastly
a.
Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
+
boshbok
n.
A kind of antelope. See Bush buck.
+
bareback
adv.
On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle; as, to ride bareback.
+
bush
n.
A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
+
baggage
n.
A man of bad character.
+
broach
n.
To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.
+
bedquilt
n.
A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.
+
breathe
v.t.
To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants.
+
boosting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Boost
+
bolero
n.
A Spanish dance, or the lively music which accompanies it.
+
bracing
n.
Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss.
+
bolsterer
n.
A supporter.
+
barbarian
n.
A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.
+
bias
n.
A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.
+
baking
n.
The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread.
+
boxed
imp.|p.p.
of Box
+
bistort
n.
An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent.
+
bypassage
n.
A passage different from the usual one; a byway.
+
british
n.pl.
People of Great Britain.
+
billfish
n.
The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus).
+
bosh
n.
One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.
+
bellibone
n.
A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid.
+
byland
n.
A peninsula.
+
besmoke
v.t.
To harden or dry in smoke.
+
blot
v.t.
To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses.
+
babbler
n.
A name given to any one of family (Timalinae) of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note.
+
bibbs
n.pl.
Pieces of timber bolted to certain parts of a mast to support the trestletrees.
+
bishopric
n.
A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends.
+
buff
v.t.
To strike.
+
breastbeam
n.
The front transverse beam of a locomotive.
+
bitter
v.t.
Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach.
+
buoyancy
n.
The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced.
+
bushel
n.
A large indefinite quantity.
+
bedstock
n.
The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead.
+
backstairs
a.
Alt. of Backstair
+
bullfight
n.
Alt. of Bullfighting
+
ballotin
n.
An officer who has charge of a ballot box.
+
bedspread
n.
A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
+
buckeyed
a.
Having bad or speckled eyes.
+
bijugate
a.
Having two pairs, as of leaflets.
+
burion
n.
The red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch.
+
boweled
a.
Having bowels; hollow.
+
buss
n.
A kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack.
+
bicipital
a.
Dividing into two parts at one extremity; having two heads or two supports; as, a bicipital tree.
+
bill
n.
A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
+
belomancy
n.
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.
+
bedaff
v.t.
To make a daff or fool of.
+
beetle brow

An overhanging brow.
+
bookful
n.
As much as will fill a book; a book full.
+
bid

imp. & p. p. of Bid.
+
blowout
n.
The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
+
bliss
n.
Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy.
+
blackburnian warbler

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.
+
birdsbeak
n.
A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak.
+
blanchimeter
n.
An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer.
+
bluff
v.t.
To frighten or deter from accomplishing a purpose by making a show of confidence in one's strength or resources; as, he bluffed me off.
+
bind
v.i.
To exert a binding or restraining influence.
+
basiled
imp.|p.p.
of Basil
+
belvedere
n.
A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect.
+
bordeller
n.
A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel.
+
bellon
n.
Lead colic.
+
basalnerved
a.
Having the nerves radiating from the base; -- said of leaves.
+
backhand
a.
Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting.
+
bagging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bag
+
betaught
a.
Delivered; committed in trust.
+
backwater
n.
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.
+
belligerency
n.
The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare.
+
boozy
a.
A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.
+
bestrode
imp.
of Bestride
+
beaker
n.
A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.
+
bur marigold

See Beggar's ticks.
+
bumbarge
n.
See Bumboat.
+
binding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bind
+
biologist
n.
A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.
+
bob
n.
A working beam.
+
brow
n.
The forehead; as, a feverish brow.
+
bell
n.
The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.
+
bombardo
n.
Alt. of Bombardon
+
bloodstroke
n.
Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain.
+
bloodroot
n.
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.
+
blirt
n.
A gust of wind and rain.
+
billow
n.
A great wave or flood of anything.
+
bittor bittour
n.
The bittern.
+
brevet
n.
A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [French usage].
+
believable
a.
Capable of being believed; credible.
+
bathmism
n.
See Vital force.
+
bicuspidate
a.
Having two points or prominences; ending in two points; -- said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc.
+
banyan
n.
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.
+
bish
n.
Same as Bikh.
+
braize
n.
Charcoal powder; breeze.
+
blackmail
n.
Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver.
+
biplicate
a.
Twice folded together.
+
brandied
a.
Mingled with brandy; made stronger by the addition of brandy; flavored or treated with brandy; as, brandied peaches.
+
beat
n.
A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
+
blow valve

See Snifting valve.
+
bladdery
a.
Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.
+
boisterous
a.
Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy.
+
beetled
imp.|p.p.
of Beetle
+
bot
n.
See Bots.
+
blazonry
n.
Artistic representation or display.
+
bink
n.
A bench.
+
besotting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Besot
+
bethumped
imp.|p.p.
of Bethump
+
bloating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bloat
+
bodiless
a.
Without material form; incorporeal.
+
bewray
v.t.
To soil. See Beray.
+
bailable
a.
Having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail, upon bond with sureties; -- used of persons.
+
backless
a.
Without a back.
+
ballooning
n.
The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.
+
birdseye
a.
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.
+
barb
v.t.
To shave or dress the beard of.
+
babism
n.
The doctrine of a modern religious sect, which originated in Persia in 1843, being a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish and Parsee elements.
+
bibliographies
pl.
of Bibliography
+
bateaux
pl.
of Bateau
+
briticism
n.
A word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to Great Britain; any manner of using a word or words that is peculiar to Great Britain.
+
beige
n.
Debeige.
+
black wash
n.
Alt. of Blackwash
+
battel
n.
Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively.
+
bulimy
n.
A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.
+
badigeon
n.
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.
+
bobstay
n.
A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.
+
bismuthous
a.
Of, or containing, bismuth, when this element has its lower valence.
+
badly
adv.
In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably; seriously.
+
bias
n.
A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
+
blind
a.
Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
+
balanced
imp.|p.p.
of Balance
+
binder
n.
One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.
+
berber
n.
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.
+
barking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bark
+
browse
n.
To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
+
bobtailed
a.
Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.
+
bleating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bleat
+
balderdash
n.
Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.
+
bloomy
a.
Covered with bloom, as fruit.
+
bristletail
n.
An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura.
+
bases
pl.
of Basis
+
butcher
v.t.
To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.
+
bilging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bilge
+
bowman
n.
The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat; the bow oar.
+
blackmailing
n.
The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.
+
biltong
n.
Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried.
+
brash
n.
Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.
+
barrage
n.
An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.
+
bolt
v.t.
To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.
+
blacking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Black
+
buhlwork
n.
Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc.
+
brace
n.
A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum.
+
bald
a.
Undisguised.
+
bloodiness
n.
Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness.
+
bivouacked
imp.|p.p.
of Bivouac
+
barefacedness
n.
The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.
+
bice
n.
Alt. of Bise
+
branchiogastropoda
n.pl.
Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiae, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.
+
bobtail
a.
Bobtailed.
+
brahminism
n.
The religion or system of doctrines of the Brahmans; the religion of Brahma.
+
bottling
n.
The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles.
+
bite
v.
The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.
+
blazon
v.t.
To depict in colors; to display; to exhibit conspicuously; to publish or make public far and wide.
+
boring
n.
The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.
+
block
v.t.
The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
+
booklet
n.
A little book.
+
blossoming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blossom
+
bound
v.i.
To rebound, as an elastic ball.
+
boss
v.t.
To ornament with bosses; to stud.
+
betutor
v.t.
To tutor; to instruct.
+
bivalvous
a.
Bivalvular.
+
belladonna
n.
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.
+
benediction
n.
The short prayer which closes public worship; as, to give the benediction.
+
bribe
v.i.
To give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or promise.
+
buttery
n.
A cellar in which butts of wine are kept.
+
birr
n.
A rush or impetus; force.
+
boat
v.i.
To go or row in a boat.
+
butane
n.
An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.
+
behight
p.p.
of Behight
+
bearskin
n.
A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers.
+
brace
n.
A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
+
beaten

of Beat
+
bon
a.
Good; valid as security for something.
+
bisulphite
n.
A salt of sulphurous acid in which the base replaces but half the hydrogen of the acid; an acid sulphite.
+
bracelet
n.
An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls.
+
brute
a.
Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.
+
blackguard
v.t.
To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
+
bursch
n.
A youth; especially, a student in a german university.
+
buffer
n.
A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; -- sometimes called buffing apparatus.
+
batavian
n.
A native or inhabitant of Batavia or Holland.
+
breed
n.
A number produced at once; a brood.
+
belly
v.i.
To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge.
+
baleful
a.
Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.
+
blockader
n.
One who blockades.
+
barque
n.
A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
+
bench
n.
The seat where judges sit in court.
+
bit

3d sing. pr. of Bid, for biddeth.
+
barcarolle
n.
A piece of music composed in imitation of such a song.
+
bigotedly
adv.
In the manner of a bigot.
+
blot
n.
A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.
+
budging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Budge
+
boil
n.
A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.
+
burled
imp.|p.p.
of Burl
+
brake
v.t.
A sharp bit or snaffle.
+
bridoon
n.
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.
+
backwards
adv.
In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards.
+
breakdown
n.
A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.
+
brilliant
a.
The smallest size of type used in England printing.
+
ballotade
v.i.
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.
+
bung
v.t.
To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.
+
bumptious
a.
Self-conceited; forward; pushing.
+
bandying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bandy
+
barrow
n.
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.
+
boldfaced
a.
Having a conspicuous or heavy face.
+
bondage
a.
The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.
+
batture
n.
An elevated river bed or sea bed.
+
blown
p.p.|a.
Opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower.
+
boot
v.t.
To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.
+
bill
n.
A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.
+
birthdom
n.
The land of one's birth; one's inheritance.
+
birgander
n.
See Bergander.
+
blueberry
n.
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.
+
breach
n.
The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
+
boilery
n.
A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.
+
bobby
n.
A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler.
+
boiling
a.
Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion.
+
blasphemy
n.
Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification.
+
betimes
adv.
In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with.
+
bribe
v.t.
To rob or steal.
+
battery
v.t.
Two or more pieces of artillery in the field.
+
briefman
n.
One who makes a brief.
+
benevolous
a.
Kind; benevolent.
+
borofluoride
n.
A double fluoride of boron and hydrogen, or some other positive element, or radical; -- called also fluoboride, and formerly fluoborate.
+
bramin

Alt. of Braminic
+
blueback
n.
A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine.
+
breasting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Breast
+
blackball
n.
A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; -- in this sense usually two words.
+
bagpiper
n.
One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper.
+
breaker
n.
Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.
+
bockland
n.
See Bookland.
+
bookkeeper
n.
One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.
+
bishop
v.t.
To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.
+
beaverteen
n.
A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing.
+
bonsmots
pl.
of Bonmot
+
besieged
imp.|p.p.
of Besiege
+
brestsummer
n.
See Breastsummer.
+
bushel
n.
A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.
+
break
v.t.
To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin.
+
beck
n.
See Beak.
+
broach
n.
To open for the first time, as stores.
+
building
n.
The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.
+
brose
n.
Pottage made by pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp. oatmeal), and stirring it. It is called beef brose, water brose, etc., according to the name of the liquid (beef broth, hot water, etc.) used.
+
broach
n.
A spit.
+
box
v.t.
To boxhaul.
+
blackcap
n.
An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
+
bearberry
n.
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.
+
bayed
imp.|p.p.
of Bay
+
brood
v.t.
To think anxiously or moodily upon.
+
balm
v.i.
To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal. Hence: To soothe; to mitigate.
+
bag net

A bag-shaped net for catching fish.
+
bacteroid
a.
Alt. of Bacteroidal
+
base
n.
The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games.
+
barbican
n.
Alt. of Barbacan
+
bluebill
n.
A duck of the genus Fuligula. Two American species (F. marila and F. affinis) are common. See Scaup duck.
+
bowge
v.t.
To cause to leak.
+
beat
v.i.
To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
+
bilbo
n.
A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships.
+
brock
n.
A badger.
+
bucrania
pl.
of Bucranium
+
bond
n.
The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.
+
baresark
n.
A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor.
+
bandicoot
n.
A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.
+
boatswain
n.
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.
+
buying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Buy
+
blanch
a.
To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
+
bryony
n.
The common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia. The root of B. alba (rough or white bryony) and of B. dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic.
+
boln
a.
Alt. of Bollen
+
brutally
adv.
In a brutal manner; cruelly.
+
bygone
a.
Past; gone by.
+
badge
n.
Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
+
bed
n.
The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.
+
birdling
n.
A little bird; a nestling.
+
batta
n.
Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins.
+
ballast
v.t.
To keep steady; to steady, morally.
+
braid
v.t.
Deceitful.
+
bundesrath
n.
The federal council of the German Empire. In the Bundesrath and the Reichstag are vested the legislative functions. The federal council of Switzerland is also so called.
+
botch
n.
A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
+
beached
p.p.|a.
Bordered by a beach.
+
brinishness
n.
State or quality of being brinish.
+
bench
v.i.
To sit on a seat of justice.
+
bushment
n.
An ambuscade.
+
before
prep.
Prior or preceding in dignity, order, rank, right, or worth; rather than.
+
bundle
v.t.
To tie or bind in a bundle or roll.
+
byssus
n.
A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusks, as the Pinna and Mytilus, by which they attach themselves to rocks, etc.
+
brawlingly
adv.
In a brawling manner.
+
bill
n.
A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
+
beam
n.
The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
+
busy
a.
Officious; meddling; foolish active.
+
bacharach
n.
Alt. of Backarack
+
bulldozing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bulldoze
+
blade
n.
The principal rafters of a roof.
+
bacterioscopist
n.
One   skilled   in    bacterioscopic examinations.
+
busy
a.
Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor at leisure; as, a busy merchant.
+
blasphemer
n.
One who blasphemes.
+
blindfold
v.t.
To cover the eyes of, as with a bandage; to hinder from seeing.
+
burrow
n.
An incorporated town. See 1st Borough.
+
behight
imp.
of Behight
+
buzz
v.t.
To sound forth by buzzing.
+
buttonmold
n.
A disk of bone, wood, or other material, which is made into a button by covering it with cloth.
+
bowie knife

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.
+
brisure
n.
A mark of cadency or difference.
+
brash
n.
A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
+
bilaminar
a.
Alt. of Bilaminate
+
beard
v.t.
To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
+
bonded
imp.|p.p.
of Bond
+
banish
v.t.
To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.
+
bewilder
v.t.
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.
+
bullock
n.
A young bull, or any male of the ox kind.
+
blackfeet
n.pl.
A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.
+
buggies
pl.
of Buggy
+
bass
n.
A hassock or thick mat.
+
brassage
n.
A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; -- now called seigniorage.
+
banco
n.
A bank, especially that of Venice.
+
bronchia
n.pl.
The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi.
+
boultin
n.
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.
+
beneficial
a.
Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate.
+
bate
v.t.
To remove.
+
basses
pl.
of Bass
+
bondmaid
n.
A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.
+
brace
n.
A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt.
+
breathableness
n.
State of being breathable.
+
bated
a.
Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.
+
belling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bell
+
bourgeoisie
n.
The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.
+
bots
n.pl.
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.
+
brattice
n.
A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.
+
brandish
n.
A flourish, as with a weapon, whip, etc.
+
burling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Burl
+
bleed
v.t.
To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.
+
bedimming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bedim
+
budget
n.
The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries.
+
bandy
v.t.
To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.
+
brake
v.t.
A baker's kneading though.
+
bounties
pl.
of Bounty
+
blow
v.i.
To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
+
blackfin
n.
See Bluefin.
+
barb
n.
The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
+
biquadrate
n.
The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.
+
baenomere
n.
One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods.
+
breviate
v.t.
To abbreviate.
+
bisexual
a.
Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.
+
bromlife
n.
A carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witherite and strontianite; -- called also alstonite.
+
bibblebabble
n.
Idle talk; babble.
+
brush
n.
A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.
+
backbone
n.
Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness.
+
baby
n.
A small image of an infant; a doll.
+
boil
v.
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.
+
bridge
n.
The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument.
+
bale
n.
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.
+
buffa
a.
Comic, farcical.
+
belfry
n.
The framing on which a bell is suspended.
+
buoy
v.t.
To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
+
brilliant
p.pr.
Distinguished by qualities which excite admiration; splendid; shining; as, brilliant talents.
+
boom
n.
A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended.
+
bakistre
n.
A baker.
+
bawsin
n.
Alt. of Bawson
+
bark
v.i.
To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
+
buoyant
v.t.|i.
Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier.
+
beaching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beach
+
byre
n.
A cow house.
+
bondmen
pl.
of Bondman
+
balefulness
n.
The quality or state of being baleful.
+
bay
n.
A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.
+
bless
v.t.
To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences.
+
boyhood
n.
The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy.
+
blur
n.
A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur.
+
bullfighting
n.
A barbarous sport, of great antiquity, in which men torment, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public amusement, -- still popular in Spain.
+
bankrupt
n.
A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person.
+
breathe
v.t.
To promote free respiration in; to exercise.
+
backwardation
n.
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.
+
busybody
n.
One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person.
+
blown
p.p.|a.
Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas.
+
brutalize
v.i.
To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty.
+
bassinet
n.
See Bascinet.
+
bespit
imp.
of Bespit
+
bestreak
v.t.
To streak.
+
begemmed
imp.|p.p.
of Begem
+
biacuminate
a.
Having points in two directions.
+
bevelled
a.
Replaced by two planes inclining equally upon the adjacent planes, as an edge; having its edges replaced by sloping planes, as a cube or other solid.
+
buckle
n.
A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
+
belayed

of Belay
+
bough
n.
A gallows.
+
brightsome
a.
Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant.
+
basilican
a.
Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical.
+
bungle
v.i.
To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
+
base
n.
The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.
+
beatifying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beatify
+
bulb
n.
A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid.
+
befooled
imp.|p.p.
of Befool
+
bearer
n.
A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant.
+
between
prep.
With relation to two, as involved in an act or attribute of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge between or to choose between courses; to distinguish between you and me; to mediate between nations.
+
bezzle
v.t.
To plunder; to waste in riot.
+
bonnilass
n.
A "bonny lass"; a beautiful girl.
+
blanch
a.
To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.
+
beforehand
adv.
By way of preparation, or preliminary; previously; aforetime.
+
babies
pl.
of Baby
+
battologist
n.
One who battologizes.
+
bandy
n.
A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
+
body
n.
A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body.
+
beehive
n.
A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively.
+
breath
n.
A very slight breeze; air in gentle motion.
+
backare
interj.
Same as Baccare.
+
brookside
n.
The bank of a brook.
+
bail
n.
The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.
+
bolstered
imp.|p.p.
of Bolster
+
billed
a.
Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in composition; as, broad-billed.
+
bob
n.
To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
+
barbarian
n.
A foreigner.
+
bound
n.
A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
+
broadbrimmed
a.
Having a broad brim.
+
brogue
v.t.
A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English.
+
ballahou
n.
A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies.
+
beeld
n.
Same as Beild.
+
blaeberry
n.
The bilberry.
+
black hole

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.
+
bonetta
n.
See Bonito.
+
boot
n.
A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
+
bill
n.
The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
+
backer
n.
One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest.
+
blee
n.
Complexion; color; hue; likeness; form.
+
bound
v.
Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz.
+
buffer
n.
A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an elderly man.
+
broidery
n.
Embroidery.
+
bundled
imp.|p.p.
of Bundle
+
blocking course

The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
+
bezoartical
a.
Having the qualities of an antidote, or of bezoar; healing.
+
bitstock
n.
A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.
+
being
n.
Lifetime; mortal existence.
+
blast
v.i.
To blow; to blow on a trumpet.
+
barghest
n.
A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune.
+
basis
n.
The principal component part of a thing.
+
bronchitic
a.
Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation.
+
bespangling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bespangle
+
buff
a.
Made of buff leather.
+
bauxite
n.
Alt. of Beauxite
+
broadbill
n.
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.
+
buttonhole
n.
The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
+
barrier
n.
Any limit or boundary; a line of separation.
+
beckon
n.
A sign made without words; a beck.
+
berth
n.
A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.
+
barracouata
n.
A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus Sphyraena, sometimes used as food.
+
bluffbowed
a.
Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
+
batrachophagous
a.
Feeding on frogs.
+
byss
n.
See Byssus, n., 1.
+
bladesmith
n.
A sword cutler.
+
bore

imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.
+
billet
n.
A strap which enters a buckle.
+
browless
a.
Without shame.
+
brisk
v.t.|i.
To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up.
+
bow
v.t.
A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
+
bruckeled
a.
Wet and dirty; begrimed.
+
boomer
n.
A large male kangaroo.
+
budlet
n.
A little bud springing from a parent bud.
+
broadsword
n.
A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore.
+
bespangled
imp.|p.p.
of Bespangle
+
bethumpt

of Bethump
+
bibliotaph
n.
Alt. of Bibliotaphist
+
breastsummer
n.
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.
+
buckish
a.
Dandified; foppish.
+
bank
n.
An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.
+
batten
n.
A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc.
+
balkingly
adv.
In a manner to balk or frustrate.
+
belong
v.i.
To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town.
+
biestings
n.pl.
Alt. of Beestings
+
basted
imp.|p.p.
of Baste
+
bombardon
n.
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.
+
blight
n.
A rashlike eruption on the human skin.
+
barbarity
n.
The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.
+
brahmaness
n.
A Brahmani.
+
below
adv.
In court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial below.
+
branchial
a.
Of or pertaining to branchiae or gills.
+
brush
n.
The bushy tail of a fox.
+
back
n.
A ferryboat.  See Bac, 1.
+
bencher
n.
A member of a court or council.
+
bill
v.t.
To advertise by a bill or public notice.
+
besaiel
n.
Alt. of Besayle
+
betrothing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Betroth
+
bridgeward
n.
A bridge keeper; a warden or a guard for a bridge.
+
bluebonnet
n.
A plant. Same as Bluebottle.
+
blackguard
n.
A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
+
bodiless
a.
Having no body.
+
bullon
n.
A West Indian fish (Scarus Croicensis).
+
balneation
n.
The act of bathing.
+
bucking
n.
A washing.
+
blur
n.
A moral stain or blot.
+
borecole
n.
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.
+
blaze
v.t.
To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.
+
bedung
v.t.
To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively.
+
baenosome
n.
The thorax of Arthropods.
+
buck
n.
Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
+
bibliolatrist
n.
A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration.
+
bitt
n.
See Bitts.
+
besaile
n.
Alt. of Besayle
+
biddy
n.
A name used in calling a hen or chicken.
+
breech
n.
The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind the chamber.
+
bivaulted
a.
Having two vaults or arches.
+
bounty
n.
That which is given generously or liberally.
+
bestowing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bestow
+
brunonian
a.
Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.
+
broadcast
a.
Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows.
+
business
n.
Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions.
+
blenniid
a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the blennies.
+
biforn
prep.|adv.
Before.
+
bosomed
imp.|p.p.
of Bosom
+
bubbler
n.
One who cheats.
+
barbering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Barber
+
belly
n.
The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
+
ban
v.i.
To curse; to swear.
+
brew
v.t.
To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.
+
brazenfaced
a.
Impudent; shameless.
+
bragly
adv.
In a manner to be bragged of; finely; proudly.
+
barse
n.
The common perch. See 1st Bass.
+
bengola
n.
A Bengal light.
+
bookstore
n.
A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.
+
boramez
n.
See Barometz.
+
base
a.
Not classical or correct.
+
byword
n.
The object of a contemptuous saying.
+
brutalize
v.t.
To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
+
beak
n.
A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.).
+
brome
n.
See Bromine.
+
berna fly

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.
+
bolognese
n.
A native of Bologna.
+
boon
n.
The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
+
bread
a.
To spread.
+
bunk
v.i.
To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in.
+
brute
v.t.
To report; to bruit.
+
brantail
n.
The European redstart; -- so called from the red color of its tail.
+
breathing
n.
Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed by the letter h.
+
bottlehead
n.
A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale.
+
borwe
n.
Pledge; borrow.
+
binucleate
a.
Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells.
+
bepelt
v.t.
To pelt roundly.
+
boil
v.
To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
+
brawling
a.
Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy.
+
blowen
n.
Alt. of Blowess
+
buckeye
n.
A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut.
+
bend
n.
A band.
+
bush
n.
A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.
+
bilious
a.
Of or pertaining to the bile.
+
bereave
v.t.
To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.
+
basicity
n.
The quality or state of being a base.
+
breech
n.
Breeches.
+
band
v.t.
In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
+
bitterful
a.
Full of bitterness.
+
boat
v.t.
To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.
+
bay
v.i.
To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.
+
bason
n.
A basin.
+
beech tree

The beech.
+
barm
n.
The lap or bosom.
+
boring
n.
The chips or fragments made by boring.
+
billow
n.
A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
+
begild
v.t.
To gild.
+
bank note

Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; a bank bill. See Bank bill, 2.
+
belligerent
p.pr.
Waging war; carrying on war.
+
bog
v.t.
To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.
+
blow
n.
A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.
+
bluff
n.
A game at cards; poker.
+
billiards
n.
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.
+
better
v.i.
To become better; to improve.
+
band
v.i.
To confederate for some common purpose; to unite; to conspire together.
+
brackish
a.
Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.
+
boil
n.
Act or state of boiling.
+
buzz
v.t.
To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice.
+
blunder
v.i.
To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.
+
butting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Butt
+
bedpost
n.
One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead.
+
blain
n.
A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.
+
brachioganoid
n.
One of the Brachioganoidei.
+
brassy
a.
Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.
+
bedim
v.t.
To make dim; to obscure or darken.
+
black art

The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic.
+
black
n.
A stain; a spot; a smooch.
+
baroscopic
a.
Alt. of Baroscopical
+
byrespect
n.
Private end or view; by-interest.
+
bewailment
n.
The act of bewailing.
+
break
v.t.
An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc.
+
barrenly
adv.
Unfruitfully; unproductively.
+
blazer
n.
One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad.
+
benty
a.
A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.
+
bracing
a.
Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind.
+
butter
v.t.
To cover or spread with butter.
+
blatancy
n.
Blatant quality.
+
barefoot
a.|adv.
With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.
+
bandits
pl.
of Bandit
+
balance
n.
The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.
+
birch
v.t.
To whip with a birch rod or twig; to flog.
+
behaved
imp.|p.p.
of Behave
+
bridled
imp.|p.p.
of Bridle
+
band
v.t.
To mark with a band.
+
buckskin
n.
The skin of a buck.
+
bimedial
a.
Applied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).
+
base
n.
The basal plane of a crystal.
+
bourn
n.
Alt. of Bourne
+
bargeman
n.
The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.
+
bosky
a.
Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets.
+
batter
v.t.
To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
+
battle
v.t.
The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.
+
bellycheer
n.
Good cheer; viands.
+
boletic
a.
Pertaining to, or obtained from, the Boletus.
+
bear
v.t.
To behave; to conduct.
+
battalia
n.
Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action.
+
bacchanal
n.
A song or dance in honor of Bacchus.
+
blotted
imp.|p.p.
of Blot
+
bat
n.
Shale or bituminous shale.
+
beat
v.t.
To punish by blows; to thrash.
+
belching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Belch
+
banded
imp.|p.p.
of Band
+
blent
imp.|p.p.
Blinded.  Also (Chaucer), 3d sing. pres. Blindeth.
+
betoss
v.t.
To put in violent motion; to agitate; to disturb; to toss.
+
blushy
a.
Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy.
+
belepered
imp.|p.p.
of Beleper
+
bluster
v.i.
To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage.
+
blubbery
a.
Swollen; protuberant.
+
bonnet
n.
A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks.
+
birthday
n.
The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth.
+
bug
n.
One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.
+
bicentennial
n.
The two hundredth year or anniversary, or its celebration.
+
business
n.
That which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission.
+
bibcock
n.
A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle.
+
bobbinwork
n.
Work woven with bobbins.
+
bandaged
imp.|p.p.
of Bandage
+
bufflehead
n.
The buffel duck. See Buffel duck.
+
bullockseye
n.
See Bull's-eye, 3.
+
bombolo
n.
A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor.
+
blonde
v.t.
Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion.
+
bedrizzle
v.t.
To drizzle upon.
+
balk
v.t.
To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk.
+
bullied
imp.|p.p.
of Bully
+
blackener
n.
One who blackens.
+
bail
n.
A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc.
+
boation
n.
A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation.
+
barbadoes
n.
A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc.
+
bawdrick
n.
A belt. See Baldric.
+
blackhead
n.
The scaup duck.
+
boast
n.
Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
+
bulk
n.
The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.
+
bent
n.
A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
+
bismer
n.
A rule steelyard.
+
boss
n.
A head or reservoir of water.
+
broken
p.p.
of Break
+
bramah press

A hydrostatic press of immense power, invented by Joseph Bramah of London. See under Hydrostatic.
+
bezique
n.
A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points.
+
beside
n.
Aside from; out of the regular course or order of; in a state of deviation from; out of.
+
bioplasm
n.
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.
+
below
adv.
In hell, or the regions of the dead.
+
bewig
v.t.
To cover (the head) with a wig.
+
binding
n.
Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.
+
barrack
n.
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.
+
bull
n.
A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
+
braying
a.
Making a harsh noise; blaring.
+
bosk
n.
A thicket; a small wood.
+
bird
n.
Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird.
+
bogle
n.
A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.
+
bear
v.i.
To endure with patience; to be patient.
+
biangulated
a.
Biangular.
+
beleper
v.t.
To infect with leprosy.
+
blower
n.
A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.
+
bay
n.
A tract covered with bay trees.
+
breve
n.
Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.
+
beasthood
n.
State or nature of a beast.
+
bidale
n.
An invitation of friends to drink ale at some poor man's house, and there to contribute in charity for his relief.
+
beget
v.t.
To produce as an effect; to cause to exist.
+
become
v.i.
To come; to get.
+
blab
v.i.
To talk thoughtlessly or without discretion; to tattle; to tell tales.
+
base
n.
A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
+
bivium
n.
One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra.
+
beefsteak
n.
A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling.
+
bachelor
n.
A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.
+
byssaceous
a.
Byssuslike; consisting of fine fibers or threads, as some very delicate filamentous algae.
+
breasthigh
a.
High as the breast.
+
bank book

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.
+
blastemal
a.
Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.
+
bang
v.t.
To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.
+
bump
n.
The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following.
+
blamer
n.
One who blames.
+
better
a.
Preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness, acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect.
+
banker
n.
The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work.
+
blooded
imp.|p.p.
of Blood
+
bespangle
v.t.
To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering.
+
blebby
a.
Containing blebs, or characterized by blebs; as, blebby glass.
+
barkers mill

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.
+
bone
v.t.
To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.
+
business
n.
Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession.
+
break
v.t.
To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise.
+
bregmatic
a.
Pertaining to the bregma.
+
babirussa
n.
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.
+
birred
imp.|p.p.
of Birr
+
burlesque
n.
A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
+
brood
v.i.
To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
+
blank
n.
A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form.
+
backarack
n.
See Bacharach.
+
barking irons

A pair of pistols.
+
beaconless
a.
Having no beacon.
+
biliary
a.
Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts.
+
boroughenglish
n.
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.
+
bankruptcy
n.
Complete loss; -- followed by of.
+
barde
n.
A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.]
+
babel
n.
The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place.
+
beastly
a.
Abominable; as, beastly weather.
+
bustling
n.
of Bustle
+
burking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Burke
+
bipectinated
a.
Having two margins toothed like a comb.
+
benzoyl
n.
A compound radical, C6H5.CO; the base of benzoic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds.
+
bankrupted
imp.|p.p.
of Bankrupt
+
bottom
v.t.
To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.
+
broma
n.
Aliment; food.
+
brattishing
n.
See Brattice, n.
+
banneret
n.
A small banner.
+
bureaus
pl.
of Bureau
+
barbaic
a.
Of, or from, barbarian nations; foreign; -- often with reference to barbarous nations of east.
+
balmy
a.
Producing balm.
+
bitters
n.pl.
A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
+
bowed
imp.|p.p.
of Bow
+
blotch
a.
A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.
+
bicycular
a.
Relating to bicycling.
+
burrow
n.
A shelter; esp. a hole in the ground made by certain animals, as rabbits, for shelter and habitation.
+
blink beer

Beer kept unbroached until it is sharp.
+
boyishly
adv.
In a boyish manner; like a boy.
+
blue
superl.
Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.
+
bind
v.t.
To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.
+
believer
n.
One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel.
+
bias
n.
A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.
+
bass
pl.
of Bass
+
bachelor
n.
A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts.
+
banstickle
n.
A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.
+
blastide
n.
A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.
+
berthed
imp.|p.p.
of Berth
+
brait
n.
A rough diamond.
+
bordraging
n.
An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid.
+
briar
n.
Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
+
breath
n.
Fig.: That which gives or strengthens life.
+
batiste
n.
Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.
+
bright
a.
Radiating or reflecting light; shedding or having much light; shining; luminous; not dark.
+
bejeweling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bejewel
+
bajocco
n.
A small copper coin formerly current in the Roman States, worth about a cent and a half.
+
belaboring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Belabor
+
bin

A euphonic form of the prefix Bi-.
+
brothers
pl.
of Brother
+
bank
n.
The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.
+
brood
v.t.
The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
+
brief
a.
An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument.
+
bolted
imp.|p.p.
of Bolt
+
blandisher
n.
One who uses blandishments.
+
bloodshedding
n.
Bloodshed.
+
being
n.
Existence, as opposed to nonexistence; state or sphere of existence.
+
bonnibel
n.
A handsome girl.
+
begirt
v.t.
To encompass; to begird.
+
bitten

p. p. of Bite.
+
bluish
a.
Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins.
+
beauty
n.
A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.
+
blasted
imp.|p.p.
of Blast
+
broke
v.i.
To transact business for another.
+
binning
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bin
+
bull
v.i.
A seal. See Bulla.
+
broncho
n.
A native or a Mexican horse of small size.
+
becalm
v.t.
To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.
+
burke
v.t.
To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.
+
belabored
imp.|p.p.
of Belabor
+
bald eagle

The white-headed eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) of America. The young, until several years old, lack the white feathers on the head.
+
brompicrin
n.
A pungent colorless explosive liquid, CNO2Br3, analogous to and resembling chlorpicrin.
+
bubbling jock

The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.
+
bush
v.t.
To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.
+
blench
v.i.
To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
+
betroth
v.t.
To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration.
+
blast
n.
The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.
+
border
v.i.
To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
+
brandlin
n.
Same as Branlin, fish and worm.
+
boycotted
imp.|p.p.
of Boycott
+
benumbed
a.
Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind.
+
bible
n.
A book containing the sacred writings belonging to any religion; as, the Koran is often called the Mohammedan Bible.
+
baldpate
n.
A baldheaded person.
+
bullyrock
n.
A bully.
+
babyism
n.
A babyish manner of acting or speaking.
+
beet radish

Same as Beetrave.
+
buckbasket
n.
A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash.
+
but
adv.|conj.
Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that.
+
bowbells
n.pl.
The bells of Bow Church in London; cockneydom.
+
baudrick
n.
A belt. See Baldric.
+
boltel
n.
See Boultel.
+
bucklerheaded
a.
Having a head like a buckler.
+
bibber
n.
One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.
+
bail
n.
The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.
+
bourdon
n.
A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.)
+
bestill
v.t.
To make still.
+
battered
imp.|p.p.
of Batter
+
balbuties
n.
The defect of stammering; also, a kind of incomplete pronunciation.
+
bait
v.t.
To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.
+
bibliography
n.
A history or description of books and manuscripts, with notices of the different editions, the times when they were printed, etc.
+
baggy
a.
Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a bag; flabby; as, baggy trousers; baggy cheeks.
+
buckstall
n.
A toil or net to take deer.
+
bonne
n.
A female servant charged with the care of a young child.
+
burman
a.
Of or pertaining to the Burmans or to Burmah.
+
board
n.
The side of a ship.
+
buzzingly
adv.
In a buzzing manner; with a buzzing sound.
+
bedevilling

of Bedevil
+
bearward
n.
A keeper of bears. See Bearherd.
+
bafflement
n.
The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.
+
bancus
n.
Alt. of Bank
+
bleareye
n.
A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter.
+
babyhood
n.
The state or period of infancy.
+
blandly
adv.
In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.
+
branch pilot

A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation.
+
bisector
n.
One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle.
+
biferous
a.
Bearing fruit twice a year.
+
buttered
imp.|p.p.
of Butter
+
bycorner
n.
A private corner.
+
bemire
v.t.
To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.
+
basil
v.t.
To grind or form the edge of to an angle.
+
bucket
n.
The valved piston of a lifting pump.
+
begrimer
n.
One who, or that which, begrimes.
+
break
v.t.
To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind.
+
breach
n.
A hernia; a rupture.
+
bryozoan
a.
Of or pertaining to the Bryozoa.
+
bush
n.
A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.
+
brew
v.t.
To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
+
bell
v.i.
To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.
+
basket
v.t.
To put into a basket.
+
bladed
a.
Having a blade or blades; as, a two-bladed knife.
+
breathless
a.
Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath.
+
bravely
adv.
In a brave manner; courageously; gallantly; valiantly; splendidly; nobly.
+
beat
n.
A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
+
balance
n.
Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.
+
barefaced
a.
With the face uncovered; not masked.
+
brotel
a.
Brittle.
+
bilk
n.
A cheat; a trick; a hoax.
+
bespice
v.t.
To season with spice, or with some spicy drug.
+
boy
v.t.
To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.
+
bicrural
a.
Having two legs.
+
batteringram
n.
An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.
+
breed
v.t.
To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
+
bubble
n.
A person deceived by an empty project; a gull.
+
beild
n.
A place of shelter; protection; refuge.
+
bepommel
v.t.
To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing.
+
bit
v.
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.
+
bully
n.
A brisk, dashing fellow.
+
beardless
a.
Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful.
+
brow
n.
The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place; as, the brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill.
+
boisterous
a.
Noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous behavior.
+
bear
v.i.
To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
+
bergamot
n.
A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy.  Encyc. Brit.
+
brachydome
n.
A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. See Dome.
+
barb
n.
The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
+
bellerophon
n.
A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age.
+
begot
imp.
of Beget
+
blown
p.p.|a.
Stale; worthless.
+
brach
n.
A bitch of the hound kind.
+
bethrall
v.t.
To reduce to thralldom; to inthrall.
+
boulder
n.
Same as Bowlder.
+
betrap
v.t.
To put trappings on; to clothe; to deck.
+
best
superl.
Most intimately; most thoroughly or correctly; as, what is expedient is best known to himself.
+
bolster
n.
Anything arranged to act as a support, as in various forms of mechanism, etc.
+
buffet
v.i.
To make one's way by blows or struggling.
+
boat shell

A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba.
+
beaver
n.
A hat, formerly made of the fur of the beaver, but now usually of silk.
+
butchery
n.
A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
+
bike
n.
A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm.
+
bass
n.
The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass.
+
bretwalda
n.
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.
+
bayonet
n.
A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.
+
banderole
n.
Alt. of Bandrol
+
biblicist
n.
One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.
+
brasier
n.
Alt. of Brazier
+
blunging
n.
The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger.
+
break
v.i.
To fall out; to terminate friendship.
+
blankly
adv.
In a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; as, to stare blankly.
+
bipunctual
a.
Having two points.
+
breaking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Break
+
bushing
n.
The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc.
+
brachyceral
a.
Having short antennae, as certain insects.
+
beadle
v.
An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.
+
blackletter
a.
Given to the study of books in black letter; that is, of old books; out of date.
+
balneotherapy
n.
The treatment of disease by baths.
+
brotherhood
n.
The state of being brothers or a brother.
+
bedraggling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bedraggle
+
beelzebub
n.
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.
+
banxring
n.
An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia.
+
betroth
v.t.
To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.
+
bedehouse
n.
An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.
+
barb
n.
A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
+
bookbindery
n.
A bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books.
+
bridewell
n.
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.
+
bid
v.t.
To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known.
+
blastoderm
n.
The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.
+
black book

A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw. III.
+
beneficent
a.
Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.
+
barometrograph
n.
A form of barometer so constructed as to inscribe of itself upon paper a record of the variations of atmospheric pressure.
+
bearing
n.
The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
+
bellower
n.
One who, or that which, bellows.
+
byproduct
n.
A secondary or additional product; something produced, as in the course of a manufacture, in addition to the principal product.
+
bear
v.t.
To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.
+
baker
v.i.
A portable oven in which baking is done.
+
bescribble
v.t.
To scribble over.
+
bugle
n.
A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.
+
basil
n.
The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush basil, or lesser basil (O. minimum), the leaves of which are used in cookery. The name is also given to several kinds of mountain mint (Pycnanthemum).
+
beating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beat
+
bid
v.t.
To pray.
+
based
n.
Wearing, or protected by, bases.
+
basso
a.
The bass or lowest part; as, to sing basso.
+
burning
n.
The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated.
+
baaing
n.
The bleating of a sheep.
+
botanic
a.
Alt. of Botanical
+
bo
interj.
An exclamation used to startle or frighten.
+
bigaroon
n.
The large white-heart cherry.
+
blandation
n.
Flattery.
+
barricaded
imp.|p.p.
of Barricade
+
bandoleer
n.
Alt. of Bandolier
+
barelegged
a.
Having the legs bare.
+
bit
v.
A part of anything, such as may be bitten off or taken into the mouth; a morsel; a bite. Hence: A small piece of anything; a little; a mite.
+
brock
n.
A brocket.
+
bed
n.
The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
+
brindle
a.
Brindled.
+
battler
n.
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.
+
bridging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bridge
+
balm
n.
An aromatic plant of the genus Melissa.
+
blanket
a.
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.
+
babied
imp.|p.p.
of Baby
+
block
v.t.
A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not.
+
brachial
a.
Of the nature of an arm; resembling an arm.
+
bole
n.
The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.
+
biaxial
a.
Having two axes; as, biaxial polarization.
+
binarseniate
n.
A salt having two equivalents of arsenic acid to one of the base.
+
brotherinlaw
n.
The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister.
+
being
n.
An abode; a cottage.
+
blundering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blunder
+
biauriculate
a.
Having two earlike projections at its base, as a leaf.
+
bickering
n.
Altercation; wrangling.
+
barmote
n.
A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners.
+
biffin
n.
A baked apple pressed down into a flat, round cake; a dried apple.
+
bedell
n.
Same as Beadle.
+
brancard
n.
A litter on which a person may be carried.
+
booby
n.
A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.
+
book
v.t.
To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.
+
bareness
n.
The state of being bare.
+
brambly
a.
Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles.
+
bivouacking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bivouac
+
bearing
n.
The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
+
boun
a.
Ready; prepared; destined; tending.
+
bacillariae
n.pl.
See Diatom.
+
bird
v.i.
Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
+
bewonder
v.t.
To wonder at; to admire.
+
bilked
imp.|p.p.
of Bilk
+
beckoning
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beckon
+
bathe
v.i.
To bask in the sun.
+
breed
v.i.
To raise a breed; to get progeny.
+
basbleu
n.
A bluestocking; a literary woman.
+
blackwood
n.
A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.
+
brachyura
n.pl.
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.
+
blank
n.
A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence.
+
bottle green

A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass.
+
button
n.
A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
+
buzzing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Buzz
+
bouquet
n.
A perfume; an aroma; as, the bouquet of wine.
+
bunker
n.
A large bin or similar receptacle; as, a coal bunker.
+
battle
a.
Fertile. See Battel, a.
+
bunched
imp.|p.p.
of Bunch
+
be

A prefix, originally the same word as by;
+
banter
v.t.
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.
+
b

is the second letter of the English alphabet. (See Guide to Pronunciation, // 196, 220.) It is etymologically related to p, v, f, w and m , letters representing sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng.  bear and Lat. ferre; Eng. silver and Ger.  silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr."epta`, Sanskrit saptan. The form of letter B is Roman, from Greek B (Beta), of Semitic origin. The small b was formed by gradual change from the capital B.
+
bergmaster
n.
See Barmaster.
+
barracoon
n.
A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily.
+
bipartible
a.
Capable of being divided into two parts.
+
bulla
n.
A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.
+
blush
v.i.
To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.
+
balistraria
n.
A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged.
+
bird of paradise

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.
+
burnous
n.
A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.
+
buttressed
imp.|p.p.
of Buttress
+
bravado
n.
Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.
+
blackavised
a.
Dark-visaged; swart.
+
bridge
n.
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.
+
berserker
n.
One who fights as if frenzied, like a Berserker.
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broker
v.t.
An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own.
+
bitterly
adv.
In a bitter manner.
+
beetle
v.t.
A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.
+
bowelless
a.
Without pity.
+
babel
n.
Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.
+
bash
v.t.|i.
To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
+
bos
n.
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.
+
boating
n.
In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.
+
billow
v.i.
To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.
+
brigandism
n.
Brigandage.
+
bespeaker
n.
One who bespeaks.
+
boots
n.
A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
+
bluff
a.
Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front.
+
bristle
v.t.
To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up.
+
back
n.
The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.
+
bigg
n.
Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.
+
batsmen
pl.
of Batsman
+
bloody
a.
Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet.
+
black death

A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.
+
burn
n.
A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.
+
bore
n.
The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
+
button
n.
To dress or clothe.
+
bullock
v.t.
To bully.
+
bloom
n.
A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth.
+
buntline
n.
One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.
+
baptizement
n.
The act of baptizing.
+
bilobed
a.
Bilobate.
+
bolivian
a.
Of or pertaining to Bolivia.
+
bibbe
v.t.
To drink; to tipple.
+
behave
v.i.
To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill.
+
bray
v.t.
To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.
+
bewrayer
n.
One who, or that which, bewrays; a revealer.
+
blow
v.t.
To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow the fire.
+
bless
v.t.
To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.
+
bevelled
a.
Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.
+
blunger
n.
A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi/ing the clay in potteries; a plunger.
+
botches
pl.
of Botch
+
beaux
n.
pl. of Beau.
+
barbiton
n.
An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.
+
bearing rein

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.
+
bump
n.
A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance.
+
breast
n.
The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast.
+
bequest
n.
That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift.
+
base
a.
Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals.
+
box
v.t.
To inclose in a box.
+
bricky
a.
Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust.
+
brooch
n.
An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat.
+
banker
n.
A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
+
bowing
n.
The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments.
+
bid

of Bid
+
bias
a.
Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
+
baptization
n.
Baptism.
+
betoken
v.t.
To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm.
+
breathe
v.t.
To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes.
+
baboo
n.
Alt. of Babu
+
brown bill

A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill.
+
buffalo
n.
The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.
+
beside
adv.
On one side.
+
blue
superl.
Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws.
+
bunter
n.
A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman.
+
beam
n.
The straight part or shank of an anchor.
+
barker
n.
One who stands at the doors of shops to urg/ passers by to make purchases.
+
barometrical
a.
Pertaining to the barometer; made or indicated by a barometer; as, barometric changes; barometrical observations.
+
bound
p.p.|a.
Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like.
+
bellical
a.
Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial.
+
brigge
n.
A bridge.
+
boose
n.
A stall or a crib for an ox, cow, or other animal.
+
bluegown
n.
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.
+
bear
v.t.
To afford; to be to; to supply with.
+
byzantine
n.
A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople.
+
believing
a.
That believes; having belief.
+
bloodstick
n.
A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein.
+
blowgun
n.
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.
+
babyrussa
n.
See Babyroussa.
+
biscuit
n.
A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.
+
baronetage
n.
The collective body of baronets.
+
bounce
n.
A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
+
borsholder
a.
The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable.
+
berry
n.
A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.
+
brontolite
n.
Alt. of Brontolith
+
bicycle
n.
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.
+
burrow
v.i.
To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits.
+
better
n.
One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural.
+
bush
n.
The tail, or brush, of a fox.
+
berried
a.
Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate; as, a berried shrub.
+
boxer
n.
One who boxes; a pugilist.
+
beat
v.t.
To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
+
berhyming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Berhyme
+
blow
n.
The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows.
+
bibliolatry
n.
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.
+
balance
n.
A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S.
+
brunt
v.t.
The force of a blow; shock; collision.
+
breadthways
ads.
Breadthwise.
+
belgian
a.
Of or pertaining to Belgium.
+
bearing
n.
Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
+
burgonet
n.
A kind of helmet.
+
bechic
n.
A medicine for relieving coughs.
+
blister
n.
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.
+
bisulcate
a.
Having two grooves or furrows.
+
buried
imp.|p.p.
of Bury
+
besom
n.
A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys.
+
bed steps

Steps for mounting a bed of unusual height.
+
balance
n.
A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).
+
bump
n.
A thump; a heavy blow.
+
barricading
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Barricade
+
bohemian
n.
A native of Bohemia.
+
bartering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Barter
+
balk
v.i.
To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
+
behappen
v.t.
To happen to.
+
befool
v.t.
To cause to behave like a fool; to make foolish.
+
base
n.
The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.
+
bet

imp. & p. p. of Beat.
+
bellow
v.
To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound.
+
blind
v.t.
To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.
+
barreled
imp.|p.p.
of Barrel
+
barrelled

of Barrel
+
borrel
n.
Ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity.
+
border
n.
The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
+
blunder
n.
Confusion; disturbance.
+
barringout
n.
The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools.
+
bowse
v.i.
To pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to bowse away, i. e., to pull all together.
+
band
v.t.
Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
+
beguine
n.
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.
+
bonnet
n.
A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.
+
was
imp.
of Be
+
bullion
n.
Heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.
+
banneret
n.
A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.
+
bowable
a.
Capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; easily influenced; yielding.
+
bank
n.
An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.
+
by
pref.
Near to, while passing; hence, from one to the other side of; past; as, to go by a church.
+
brand iron

The horizontal bar of an andiron.
+
biquadratic
n.
A biquadrate.
+
boggler
n.
One who boggles.
+
bier
n.
A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.
+
bureaux
pl.
of Bureau
+
bode
n.
A bid; an offer.
+
briar
n.
Same as Brier.
+
bunder
n.
A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods.
+
barium
n.
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.
+
barbaresque
a.
Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque architecture.
+
brushed
imp.|p.p.
of Brush
+
blaze
n.
A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.
+
bloted
imp.|p.p.
of Blote
+
bimetallist
n.
An advocate of bimetallism.
+
blow
v.i.
To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
+
breathing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Breathe
+
black
adv.
Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.
+
boxing
n.
The external case of thin material used to bring any member to a required form.
+
biland
n.
A byland.
+
bound
p.p.|a.
Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.
+
butternut
n.
The nut of the Caryocar butyrosum and C. nuciferum, of S. America; -- called also Souari nut.
+
beard
n.
Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.
+
beryllium
n.
A metallic element found in the beryl. See Glucinum.
+
bilaterality
n.
State of being bilateral.
+
blight
n.
Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.
+
bored
imp.|p.p.
of Bore
+
bobber
n.
One who, or that which, bobs.
+
bladefish
n.
A long, thin, marine fish of Europe (Trichiurus lepturus); the ribbon fish.
+
besetting
a.
Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin.
+
bergamot
n.
A variety of pear.
+
blow
n.
A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
+
butted
imp.|p.p.
of But
+
bismuthinite
n.
Native bismuth sulphide; -- sometimes called bismuthite.
+
billon
n.
An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage.
+
bort
n.
Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.
+
bescatter
v.t.
To scatter over.
+
bacilli
pl.
of Bacillus
+
belial
n.
An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil.
+
bartizan
n.
A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.
+
breadthwise
ads.
In the direction of the breadth.
+
bilking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bilk
+
binotonous
a.
Consisting of two notes; as, a binotonous cry.
+
bank note

A promissory note payable at a bank.
+
barway
n.
A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.
+
bastile bastille
n.
"The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.
+
buckram
a.
Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit.
+
bight
v.
A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin.
+
behight
v.
To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
+
buzzard
n.
A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus Buteo and related genera.
+
borrow
v.t.
To feign or counterfeit.
+
boutonniere
n.
A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.
+
biennial
n.
Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.
+
broach
n.
A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.
+
betel
n.
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.
+
book
n.
Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.
+
burdensome
a.
Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive.
+
business
n.
Affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words.
+
beneaped
a.
See Neaped.
+
boast
v.t.
To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
+
bother
n.
One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.
+
back
adv.
Away from contact; by reverse movement.
+
befogging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Befog
+
better
a.
To improve or ameliorate; to increase the good qualities of.
+
blossomless
a.
Without blossoms.
+
boss
n.
Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.
+
bibliopegistic
a.
Pertaining to the art of binding books.
+
biographize
v.t.
To write a history of the life of.
+
babylonical
a.
Tumultuous; disorderly.
+
breakage
n.
An allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use.
+
bass
a.
One who sings, or the instrument which plays, bass.
+
boil
v.t.
To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.
+
binaural
a.
Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears.
+
beestings
n.
Same as Biestings.
+
bidden
p.p.
of Bid
+
battle
v.t.
To assail in battle; to fight.
+
bay
n.
A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.
+
bespurt
v.t.
To spurt on or over; to asperse.
+
beautiful
a.
Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind.
+
bottlescrew
n.
A corkscrew.
+
bikh
n.
The East Indian name of a virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.
+
boxing
n.
The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.
+
blow
v.t.
To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
+
blare
n.
The harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing.
+
bulldog
n.
A variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity, courage, and tenacity of grip; -- so named, probably, from being formerly employed in baiting bulls.
+
bifariously
adv.
In a bifarious manner.
+
backworm
n.
A disease of hawks. See Filanders.
+
bradoon
n.
Same as Bridoon.
+
brevet
a.
Taking or conferring rank by brevet; as, a brevet colonel; a brevet commission.
+
bashaw
n.
A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.
+
basioccipital
n.
The basioccipital bone.
+
busybodies
pl.
of Busybody
+
bullace
n.
A small European plum (Prunus communis, var. insitita). See Plum.
+
butterscotch
n.
A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter.
+
beat
v.i.
To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
+
ballow
n.
A cudgel.
+
basilical
a.
Royal; kingly; also, basilican.
+
belch
v.i.
To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.
+
bookstand
n.
A stand to hold books for reading or reference.
+
breakfast
n.
A meal after fasting, or food in general.
+
bunchiness
n.
The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.
+
bogie
n.
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.
+
buccinum
n.
A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).
+
bully tree

The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceae, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha.
+
blade
n.
The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.
+
bawl
v.i.
To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation.
+
blat
v.t.
To utter inconsiderately.
+
break
v.t.
A projection or recess from the face of a building.
+
blacken
v.t.
To make or render black.
+
bate
v.t.
To attack; to bait.
+
beak
n.
A magistrate or policeman.
+
benzal
n.
A compound radical, C6H5.CH, of the aromatic series, related to benzyl and benzoyl; -- used adjectively or in combination.
+
bridecake
n.
Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding.
+
basket
n.
The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.
+
beverage
v.t.
Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage.
+
belt
n.
A token or badge of knightly rank.
+
ban
n.
A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
+
brazenbrowed
a.
Shamelessly impudent.
+
bowing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bow
+
bade
imp.
of Bid
+
boulder
n.
A large stone, worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a large pebble.
+
bent
n.
Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
+
baled
imp.|p.p.
of Bale
+
bow
v.i.
To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow.
+
bise
n.
A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice.
+
bohemian
a.
Of or pertaining to Bohemia, or to the language of its ancient inhabitants or their descendants. See Bohemian, n., 2.
+
bere
n.
See Bear, barley.
+
begrimed
imp.|p.p.
of Begrime
+
bit
v.
In the Southern and Southwestern States, a small silver coin (as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12 1/2 cents; also, the sum of 12 1/2 cents.
+
bitterness
n.
Dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy.
+
basely
adv.
Illegitimately; in bastardy.
+
boxhaul
v.t.
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).
+
baseness
n.
The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.
+
brigade
n.
A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general.
+
brantfox
n.
A kind of fox found in Sweden (Vulpes alopex), smaller than the common fox (V. vulgaris), but probably a variety of it.
+
britannic
a.
Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.
+
beading
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bead
+
broker
v.t.
A dealer in secondhand goods.
+
bannerol
n.
A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.
+
breathe
v.i.
To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently.
+
box
n.
The square in which the pitcher stands.
+
bench
n.
A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.
+
brave
v.t.
To encounter with courage and fortitude; to set at defiance; to defy; to dare.
+
bole
n.
A bolus; a dose.
+
bipinnate
a.
Alt. of Bipinnated
+
banging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bang
+
bourbon
n.
A politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative.
+
besnow
v.t.
To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes.
+
biodynamics
n.
The doctrine of vital forces or energy.
+
bronzewing
n.
An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; -- so called from its bronze plumage.
+
basic
a.
Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
+
blennies
pl.
of Blenny
+
butyrous
a.
Butyraceous.
+
bipedal
n.
Having two feet; biped.
+
bookmark
n.
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.
+
belie
n.
To mimic; to counterfeit.
+
banditti
pl.
of Bandit
+
bimuscular
a.
Having two adductor muscles, as a bivalve mollusk.
+
brevetted
imp.|p.p.
of Brevet
+
blueeyed
a.
Having blue eyes.
+
biding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bide
+
barleycorn
n.
A grain or "corn" of barley.
+
balloter
n.
One who votes by ballot.
+
belie
n.
To give a false representation or account of.
+
bleareyedness
n.
The state of being blear-eyed.
+
bloody hand

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.
+
balance
v.i.
To move toward a person or couple, and then back.
+
bold
n.
Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief.
+
bowssen
v.t.
To drench; to soak; especially, to immerse (in water believed to have curative properties).
+
babyhouse
a.
A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture.
+
booming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Boom
+
billot
n.
Bullion in the bar or mass.
+
bearn
n.
See Bairn.
+
blazon
n.
The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner.
+
botanical
a.
Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition.
+
buff
n.
The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a.
+
baston
n.
See Baton.
+
bode
n.
A stop; a halting; delay.
+
barmcloth
n.
Apron.
+
benefit
n.
An act of kindness; a favor conferred.
+
began
imp.|p.p.
of Begin
+
bell
v.t.
To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.
+
bladderwort
n.
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.
+
benedict
a.
Having mild and salubrious qualities.
+
blithesome
a.
Cheery; gay; merry.
+
birthplace
n.
The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense.
+
bargain
n.
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.
+
bill
n.
The bell, or boom, of the bittern
+
bundle
v.i.
To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
+
blushing
n.
The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks.
+
braid
v.t.
To reproach. [Obs.] See Upbraid.
+
bake
v.t.
To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
+
basin
n.
The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.
+
breathing
n.
Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit.
+
basined
a.
Inclosed in a basin.
+
ballot
n.
To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.
+
blood
v.t.
To heat the blood of; to exasperate.
+
buffel duck

A small duck (Charitonetta albeola); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead.
+
buglosses
pl.
of Bugloss
+
briton
a.
British.
+
bubble
n.
Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble.
+
benedict
n.
Alt. of Benedick
+
boattail
n.
A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.
+
bemangle
v.t.
To mangle; to tear asunder.
+
bilamellate
a.
Alt. of Bilamellated
+
bisk
n.
See Bisque.
+
blank
n.
A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.
+
bribe
n.
A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust.
+
borrage
a.
Alt. of Borraginaceous
+
brake
v.t.
A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.
+
boort
n.
See Bort.
+
bescatter
v.t.
To cover sparsely by scattering (something); to strew.
+
button
n.
To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
+
bank bill

In England, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency.
+
bar
n.
To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
+
bloodboltered
a.
Having the hair matted with clotted blood.
+
blushet
n.
A modest girl.
+
bar
n.
A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.
+
backing
n.
Support or aid given to a person or cause.
+
boom
v.i.
To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects.
+
begun

of Begin
+
bookseller
n.
One who sells books.
+
back
n.
In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.
+
ballot
v.t.
To vote for or in opposition to.
+
bracteal
a.
Having the nature or appearance of a bract.
+
basilic
n.
Basilica.
+
bedesman
n.
Same as Beadsman.
+
boskiness
n.
Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky.
+
bottleholder
n.
One who attends a pugilist in a prize fight; -- so called from the bottle of water of which he has charge.
+
bibliograph
n.
Bibliographer.
+
braky
a.
Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny.
+
brookite
n.
A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
+
burn
v.t.
To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.
+
blunt
v.t.
To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.
+
blow
n.
The spouting of a whale.
+
birched
imp.|p.p.
of Birch
+
brittlely
adv.
In a brittle manner.
+
bruise
n.
An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.
+
batteries
pl.
of Battery
+
bassoon
n.
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.
+
bastinado
n.
A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet.
+
bitter spar

A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.
+
blackguard
n.
The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
+
bootee
n.
A half boot or short boot.
+
burrel
n.
Same as Borrel.
+
backing
n.
The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover.
+
behave
v.t.
To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.
+
begetter
n.
One who begets; a father.
+
budded
imp.|p.p.
of Bud
+
byblow
n.
An illegitimate child; a bastard.
+
bicorporal
a.
Having two bodies.
+
boomed
imp.|p.p.
of Boom
+
batswing
a.
Alt. of Batwing
+
barring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bar
+
bugger
n.
A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement.
+
booted
imp.|p.p.
of Boot
+
ban
v.t.
To curse; to invoke evil upon.
+
bistouries
pl.
of Bistoury
+
bigamist
n.
One who is guilty of bigamy.
+
bamboozle
v.t.
To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug.
+
blindstory
n.
The triforium as opposed to the clearstory.
+
bole
n.
Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba.
+
bolstering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bolster
+
breviature
n.
An abbreviature; an abbreviation.
+
browdyng
n.
Embroidery.
+
bacteriology
n.
The science relating to bacteria.
+
bark beetle

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.
+
bunyon
n.
Alt. of Bunion
+
barrenness
n.
The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness.
+
bridle iron

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.
+
blanquette
n.
A white fricassee.
+
bloatedness
n.
The state of being bloated.
+
bully
v.t.
To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward.
+
breviped
a.
Having short legs.
+
birth
n.
The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.
+
brush
n.
A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.
+
bassoonist
n.
A performer on the bassoon.
+
bagging
n.
Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke.
+
blankness
n.
The state of being blank.
+
bombazine
n.
A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments.
+
buff
a.
The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff.
+
brambling
n.
The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla); -- called also bramble finch and bramble.
+
batting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bat
+
best
a.
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.
+
birth
n.
Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.
+
bailing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bail
+
bias
v.t.
To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.
+
bricking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brick
+
balance wheel

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.
+
broadside
n.
A sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only; -- called also broadsheet.
+
bever
n.
A light repast between meals; a lunch.
+
bicarbureted
a.
Alt. of -retted
+
brachylogy
n.
Conciseness of expression; brevity.
+
bastardly
adv.
In the manner of a bastard; spuriously.
+
by
pref.
On; along; in traversing. Compare 5.
+
bushmen
pl.
of Bushman
+
bituminous
a.
Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen.
+
bibacity
n.
The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling.
+
bluntish
a.
Somewhat blunt.
+
busy
a.
Crowded with business or activities; -- said of places and times; as, a busy street.
+
beginning
n.
That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
+
bed
n.
See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.
+
brede
n.
Alt. of Breede
+
bitumen
n.
By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
+
baggage master

One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
+
blood
n.
Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.
+
boating
n.
The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.
+
bunsens battery

Alt. of Bunsen's burner
+
band
v.t.
A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body.
+
bedight
p.p.
of Bedight
+
blink
v.i.
To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
+
beef
a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
+
blastoidea
n.pl.
One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.
+
bias
n.
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.
+
bluecap
n.
The blue bonnet or blue titmouse.
+
bevile
n.
A chief broken or opening like a carpenter's bevel.
+
bipinnatifid
a.
Doubly pinnatifid.
+
bluff
v.i.
To act as in the game of bluff.
+
bowwow
n.
An onomatopoetic name for a dog or its bark.
+
blotter
n.
One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.
+
bungarum
n.
A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood.
+
boldness
n.
The state or quality of being bold.
+
bunnian
n.
See Bunyon.
+
birring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Birr
+
benefice
n.
A favor or benefit.
+
beadleship
n.
The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle.
+
blare
v.t.
To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.
+
berme
n.
A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank.
+
bear
v.t.
To render or give; to bring forward.
+
bewondered
imp.|p.p.
of Bewonder
+
botchedly
adv.
In a clumsy manner.
+
bookcraft
n.
Authorship; literary skill.
+
broadening
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Broaden
+
baccivorous
a.
Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds.
+
buffoonish
a.
Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures.
+
bow
v.t.
An arcograph.
+
berthierite
n.
A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.
+
burnt

of Burn
+
bedew
v.t.
To moisten with dew, or as with dew.
+
bullate
a.
Appearing as if blistered; inflated; puckered.
+
bail
v.t.
To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier.
+
bating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bate
+
brag
n.
A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretense or self glorification.
+
bank
n.
The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.
+
backsettler
n.
One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.
+
barbarousness
n.
The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism.
+
brigandish
a.
Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.
+
bought
p.a.
Purchased; bribed.
+
brace
n.
Harness; warlike preparation.
+
bosquet
n.
See Bosket.
+
bene
n.
A prayer; boon.
+
bene placito

At or during pleasure.
+
battology
n.
A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing.
+
bulldozer
n.
One who bulldozes.
+
bur
n.
Alt. of Burr
+
bottone
a.
Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons.
+
bowl
n.
A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.
+
blocking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Block
+
burgess
n.
One who represents a borough in Parliament.
+
brick
v.t.
To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them.
+
bewray
v.t.
To expose; to reveal; to disclose; to betray.
+
bename
v.t.
To promise; to name.
+
bondage
a.
Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.
+
breathing
n.
Breathing place; vent.
+
begone
interj.
Go away; depart; get you gone.
+
bureau
n.
Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief.
+
bugle
n.
An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.
+
botch
n.
To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
+
benamed
p.p.
of Bename
+
bombastic
a.
Alt. of Bombastical
+
blithely
adv.
In a blithe manner.
+
blot
v.t.
To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
+
beplastering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beplaster
+
bandy
a.
Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.
+
bdelloidea
n.pl.
The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea.
+
bower bird

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.
+
black
n.
A black garment or dress; as, she wears black
+
babyish
a.
Like a baby; childish; puerile; simple.
+
bayadere
n.
A female dancer in the East Indies.
+
battering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Batter
+
blackcock
n.
The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); -- so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.
+
bhang
n.
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.
+
blood
n.
Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions.
+
buckle
n.
To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
+
blink
v.i.
Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.
+
bistipuled
a.
Having two stipules.
+
bewash
v.t.
To drench or souse with water.
+
bathing
n.
Act of taking a bath or baths.
+
balsam
n.
A species of tree (Abies balsamea).
+
brideale
n.
A rustic wedding feast; a bridal. See Ale.
+
buffeting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Buffet
+
bawson
n.
A large, unwieldy person.
+
blackguard
n.
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.
+
bustle
v.i.
To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.
+
bourse
n.
An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.
+
barbarity
n.
Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.
+
bassa
n.
Alt. of Bassaw
+
bide
v.t.
To wait for; as, I bide my time. See Abide.
+
badder

compar. of Bad, a.
+
blackballing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blackball
+
bismer
n.
Shame; abuse.
+
backsliding
n.
The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty.
+
balloon
n.
A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
+
bugbear
n.
Same as Bugaboo.
+
bethought
imp.|p.p.
of Bethink
+
bawcock
n.
A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment.
+
bay yarn

Woolen yarn.
+
bear
v.t.
To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor
+
buboes
pl.
of Bubo
+
blue
superl.
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.
+
band
v.t.
Pledge; security.
+
beastings
n.pl.
See Biestings.
+
beluted
imp.|p.p.
of Belute
+
back
v.i.
To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.
+
bepuffed
a.
Puffed; praised.
+
boom
n.
A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor.
+
bagreef
n.
The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails.
+
bind
v.t.
To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.
+
breathe
v.t.
To inject by breathing; to infuse; -- with into.
+
bise
n.
A cold north wind which prevails on the northern coasts of the Mediterranean and in Switzerland, etc.; -- nearly the same as the mistral.
+
better
a.
To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
+
brook
v.t.
To use; to enjoy.
+
bristleshaped
a.
Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf.
+
burnettized
imp.|p.p.
of Burnettize
+
blackball
n.
A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.
+
bullnecked
a.
Having a short and thick neck like that of a bull.
+
burr
n.
A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.
+
brachygrapher
n.
A writer in short hand; a stenographer.
+
besiegement
n.
The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged.
+
blesser
n.
One who blesses; one who bestows or invokes a blessing.
+
blackguard
a.
Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
+
blustering
a.
Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous.
+
bandy
n.
A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
+
banner
n.
Any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner.
+
behindhand
adv.|a.
In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.
+
bladder
n.
A distended, membranaceous pericarp.
+
base
a.
Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant.
+
breechloading
a.
Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle.
+
ballatry
n.
See Balladry.
+
build
v.t.
To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; -- frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution.
+
benempt
p.p.
Named; styled.
+
brevipen
n.
A brevipennate bird.
+
bravo
interj.
Well done! excellent! an exclamation expressive of applause.
+
blockader
n.
A vessel employed in blockading.
+
box
n.
A boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box.
+
belfry
n.
A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.
+
baseboard
n.
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.
+
bribe
v.t.
To give or promise a reward or consideration to (a judge, juror, legislator, voter, or other person in a position of trust) with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct; to induce or influence by a bribe; to give a bribe to.
+
batting
n.
Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting.
+
blot
v.t.
To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
+
boarding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Board
+
badgering
n.
The act of one who badgers.
+
brachman
n.
See Brahman.
+
brake
n.
A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.
+
booting
n.
A kicking, as with a booted foot.
+
bull
n.
Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
+
bilimbi
n.
Alt. of Bilimbing
+
brief
v.t.
To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings.
+
barrow
n.
A hog, esp. a male hog castrated.
+
base
n.
Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield.
+
boggle
n.
To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.
+
beck
v.t.
To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to.
+
breaming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bream
+
bisque
n.
A white soup made of crayfish.
+
blow
v.t.
To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
+
broadhorned
a.
Having horns spreading widely.
+
beerhouse
n.
A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse.
+
boated
imp.|p.p.
of Boat
+
botherer
n.
One who bothers.
+
beefeater
n.
One of the yeomen of the guard, in England.
+
become
p.p.
of Become
+
boiled
imp.|p.p.
of Boil
+
butterman
n.
A man who makes or sells butter.
+
breeches
n.pl.
Trousers; pantaloons.
+
brace
v.t.
To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards.
+
blackberry
n.
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.
+
brisket
n.
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.
+
bactericide
n.
Same as Germicide.
+
beneficialness
n.
The quality of being beneficial; profitableness.
+
bereaving
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bereave
+
brownback
n.
The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
+
blackfish
n.
A fish of southern Europe (Centrolophus pompilus) of the Mackerel family.
+
bonneted
a.
Protected by a bonnet. See Bonnet, 4 (a).
+
buckle
v.i.
To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
+
butting
n.
An abuttal; a boundary.
+
bullies
pl.
of Bully
+
banged
imp.|p.p.
of Bang
+
babehood
n.
Babyhood.
+
barter
v.t.
To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor.
+
boor
n.
A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.
+
busy
v.t.
To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books.
+
barbarous
a.
Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.
+
besnowed
imp.|p.p.
of Besnow
+
bestower
n.
One that bestows.
+
bullet
n.
A small ball.
+
bridgeboard
n.
A board or plank used as a bridge.
+
blast
n.
A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
+
bender
n.
A sixpence.
+
bronzite
n.
A variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. It is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family.
+
besmutted
imp.|p.p.
of Besmut
+
bireme
n.
An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.
+
bower
v.|n.
An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
+
bechance
v.t.|i.
To befall; to chance; to happen to.
+
biogen
n.
Bioplasm.
+
bufflehead
n.
One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow.
+
bauble
n.
The fool's club.
+
bribe
v.t.
To gain by a bribe; of induce as by a bribe.
+
bungled
imp.|p.p.
of Bungle
+
browny
a.
Brown or, somewhat brown.
+
billfish
n.
The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).
+
benzoinated
a.
Containing or impregnated with benzoin; as, benzoinated lard.
+
bake
v.t.
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.
+
briony
n.
See Bryony.
+
bezzle
v.i.
To drink to excess; to revel.
+
balsam
n.
An annual garden plant (Impatiens balsamina) with beautiful flowers; balsamine.
+
bung
n.
The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.
+
ballium
n.
See Bailey.
+
beard
n.
The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.
+
bemuddle
v.t.
To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.
+
bord
n.
The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.
+
bony
a.
Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.
+
burgee
n.
A kind of small coat.
+
bump
v.i.
To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom.
+
beweep
v.i.
To weep.
+
bundle
v.i.
To sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping.
+
breast
n.
The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.
+
bawdily
adv.
Obscenely; lewdly.
+
bowler
n.
One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
+
blackguardly
adv.|a.
In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.
+
blessing
v.t.
The act of one who blesses.
+
break
v.t.
To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods.
+
brownstone
n.
A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes.
+
bawdy
a.
Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes.
+
bushment
n.
A thicket; a cluster of bushes.
+
blued
imp.|p.p.
of Blue
+
bromoform
n.
A colorless liquid, CHBr3, having an agreeable odor and sweetish taste. It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by certain other reactions. In composition it is the same as chloroform, with the substitution of bromine for chlorine. It is somewhat similar to chloroform in its effects.
+
bawled
imp.|p.p.
of Bawl
+
bandicoot
n.
A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.
+
beaconage
n.
Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.
+
brooch
n.
A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting.
+
bromide
n.
A compound of bromine with a positive radical.
+
breathless
a.
Dead; as, a breathless body.
+
but
v.t.
A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company.
+
biped
n.
A two-footed animal, as man.
+
beleaguerer
n.
One who beleaguers.
+
barken
a.
Made of bark.
+
bulgy
a.
Bulged; bulging; bending, or tending to bend, outward.
+
backwards
adv.
Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.
+
bipinnated
a.
Twice pinnate.
+
bank
v.t.
To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.
+
bent
v.
Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
+
bellow
v.
To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor.
+
breakneck
a.
Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed.
+
battailant
v.i.
Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike.
+
bidder
n.
One who bids or offers a price.
+
bedevil
v.t.
To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.
+
barbacan
n.
A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own.
+
bovey coal

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.
+
bow
v.t.
To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
+
bellow
v.
To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.
+
buttress
v.t.
To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
+
bacule
n.
See Bascule.
+
bastioned
a.
Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
+
blast
v.t.
To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel.
+
ballasted
imp.|p.p.
of Ballast
+
buffle
v.i.
To puzzle; to be at a loss.
+
bolt
v.t.
To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
+
bunting
n.
Alt. of Buntine
+
bay
v.i.
Deep-toned, prolonged barking.
+
ballistic
a.
Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.
+
biramous
a.
Having, or consisting of, two branches.
+
beauxite
n.
See Bauxite.
+
braze
v.i.
To harden.
+
brocatel
n.
A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble, from its locality.
+
baggage
n.
A romping, saucy girl.
+
bite
v.
The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.
+
bass
n.
An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.
+
bagnio
n.
A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution.
+
brangling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brangle
+
bayberry
n.
The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree.
+
buzzer
n.
One who, or that which, buzzes; a whisperer; a talebearer.
+
branch
v.i.
To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
+
breed
v.i.
To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
+
bete
v.t.
To mend; to repair.
+
blow
v.t.
To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ.
+
buhlbuhl
n.
See Bulbul.
+
bivalve
n.
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.
+
bank
n.
The building or office used for banking purposes.
+
bubo
n.
An inflammation, with enlargement, of a lymphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.
+
bastinadoing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bastinado
+
bragget
n.
A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc.
+
bosporus
n.
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.
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bouche
n.
Alt. of Bouch
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blackguard
n.
A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
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bondar
n.
A small quadruped of Bengal (Paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet; -- called also musk cat.
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bugle
a.
Jet black.
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buttons
n.
A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery.
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burdenous
a.
Burdensome.
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bask
v.t.
To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.
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bloody
a.
Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.
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boride
n.
A binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical; -- formerly called boruret.
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bishoply
adv.
In the manner of a bishop.
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begone
p.p.
Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone).
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bdellium
n.
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.
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behoovable
a.
Supplying need; profitable; advantageous.
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backslidden
p.p.
of Backslide
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bumbard

See Bombard.
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baize
n.
A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.
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background
n.
A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight.
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bowtel
n.
See Boultel.
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briarean
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed.
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base
n.
An apron.
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bipupillate
a.
Having an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies.
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boatman
n.
A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.
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brusque
a.
Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; bluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style.
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baffle
v.t.
To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
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baltimore bird

Alt. of Baltimore oriole
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benefice
v.t.
To endow with a benefice.
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bespatter
v.t.
To asperse with calumny or reproach.
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box
n.
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.
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braunite
n.
A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha.
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blister
n.
A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister.
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bearspaw
n.
A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.
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blaze
v.i.
To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze.
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bareheaded
a.|adv.
Alt. of Barehead
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bivouac
v.i.
To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army.
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besprent
p.p.
Sprinkled over; strewed.
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branch
n.
One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.
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brake

imp. of Break.
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burdock
n.
A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.
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bolster
n.
the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
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breath
n.
The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath.
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bad

of Bid
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belly
n.
The womb.
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bedewing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bedew
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bell
v.t.
To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.
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bourd
v.i.
To jest.
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back door

A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way.
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blasted
a.
Blighted; withered.
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bide
v.t.
To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or state; to continue to be.
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blandish
v.t.
To make agreeable and enticing.
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brank
n.
Buckwheat.
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bury
v.t.
Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.
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builder
n.
One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.
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broad
superl.
Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.
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blue book

The United States official "Biennial Register."
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barley
n.
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.
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brush
n.
A short contest, or trial, of speed.
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blind
v.t.
To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
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bejumble
v.t.
To jumble together.
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bye
n.
A thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, etc.; as in on or upon the bye, i. e., in passing; indirectly; by implication.
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bounce
n.
Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
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begodded
imp.|p.p.
of Begod
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batrachia
n.pl.
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.
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bellow
v.t.
To emit with a loud voice; to shout; -- used with out.
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beltane
n.
The first day of May (Old Style).
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beg
v.i.
To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
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bipartient
n.
A number that divides another into two equal parts without a remainder.
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bronze
a.
A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.
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belaid
imp.|p.p.
of Belay
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bird
n.
A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves.
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bombard
n.
See Bombardo.
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blackroot
n.
See Colicroot.
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brest
dsing.pr.
for Bursteth.
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bank swallow

See under 1st Bank, n.
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bedesman
n.
A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.
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bowled
imp.|p.p.
of Bowl
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beet
n.
The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.
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bete
v.t.
To renew or enkindle (a fire).
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butt hinge

See 1st Butt, 10.
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bin

An old form of Be and Been.
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boast
v.t.
To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
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bondage
a.
Obligation; tie of duty.
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boll
n.
A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.
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black book

A book compiled in the twelfth century, containing a description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement of the revenues of the crown, etc.
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baldly
adv.
Nakedly; without reserve; inelegantly.
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bacchant
a.
Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.
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boxing
n.
The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring.
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bulblet
n.
A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aerial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion.
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bronze
n.
To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
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billboard
n.
A flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.
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balance
n.
The constellation Libra.
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bulbaceous
n.
Bulbous.
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bluster
v.t.
To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.
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blazing
a.
Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.
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bub
n.
Strong malt liquor.
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betony
n.
A plant of the genus Betonica (Linn.).
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bonnet
n.
A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland.
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biddy
n.
An Irish serving woman or girl.
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brank
v.i.
To prance; to caper.
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befuddle
v.t.
To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.
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burn
v.t.
To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
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brace
v.t.
To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building.
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bagasse
n.
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.
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bowing
n.
In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting.
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bisetous
a.
Having two bristles.
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bibliotheca
n.
A library.
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bucket
n.
One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel.
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base
a.
Low in place or position.
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boathouse
n.
A house for sheltering boats.
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belligerent
p.pr.
Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights.
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bailey
n.
The outer wall of a feudal castle.
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breakcircuit
n.
A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.
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bifidate
a.
See Bifid.
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bib
n.
An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout.
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broil
v.i.
To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.
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berried
imp.|p.p.
of Berry
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bisectrix
n.
The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.
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baudekin
n.
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.
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bote
n.
A privilege or allowance of necessaries.
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brittle
a.
Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
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blank
n.
The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.
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berlin
n.
Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool.
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bitter
v.t.
Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable.
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bent
a.|p.p.
Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.
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bolter
n.
A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.
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bing
n.
A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood.
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bucolical
a.
Bucolic.
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bulletin
n.
A periodical publication, especially one containing the proceeding of a society.
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batatas
n.
Alt. of Batata
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barbet
n.
A variety of small dog, having long curly hair.
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balk
v.i.
A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called "the balks."
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bright
a.
Having qualities that render conspicuous or attractive, or that affect the mind as light does the eye; resplendent with charms; as, bright beauty.
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beguile
v.t.
To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.
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burgrass
n.
Grass of the genus Cenchrus, growing in sand, and having burs for fruit.
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band
v.t.
To bind or tie with a band.
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bustler
n.
An active, stirring person.
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brooklime
n.
A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana.
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bit
imp.
of Bite
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bar
n.
The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court.
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bum
n.
The buttock.
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boxer
n.
One who packs boxes.
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baa
n.
The cry or bleating of a sheep; a bleat.
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biquadratic
n.
A biquadratic equation.
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bracteolate
a.
Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.
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bemingle
v.t.
To mingle; to mix.
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bullhead
n.
A small black water insect.
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button
n.
A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.
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bibliomania
n.
A mania for acquiring books.
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blow
v.i.
To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street.
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busied
imp.|p.p.
of Busy
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breachy
a.
Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.
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bethink
v.i.
To think; to recollect; to consider.
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brazenface
n.
An impudent or shameless person.
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bruise
v.i.
To fight with the fists; to box.
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bain
n.
A bath; a bagnio.
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bouillon
n.
A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth.
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beaupere
n.
A companion.
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brilliant
p.pr.
Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star.
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bearing
n.
The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.
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beget
v.t.
To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.
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bashful
a.
Abashed; daunted; dismayed.
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bloom
n.
A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.
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bonnet
n.
A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.
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brahmani
n.
Any Brahman woman.
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bicyanide
n.
See Dicyanide.
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balmoral
n.
A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress.
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bean caper

A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum.
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bowge
v.i.
To swell out. See Bouge.
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broadcast
a.
Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.
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besnow
v.t.
To cover with snow; to whiten with snow, or as with snow.
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bawl
n.
A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry.
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bequeathal
n.
The act of bequeathing; bequeathment; bequest.
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besteaded

of Bestead
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bemeet
v.t.
To meet.
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bill
n.
An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.
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bear
n.
Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
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benefactress
n.
A woman who confers a benefit.
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beclipped
imp.|p.p.
of Beclip
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balk
v.i.
To stop abruptly and stand still obstinately; to jib; to stop short; to swerve; as, the horse balks.
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bear
n.
A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
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biblist
n.
One who makes the Bible the sole rule of faith.
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blackcap
n.
A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.
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bicyclist
n.
A bicycler.
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banishing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Banish
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bicolor
a.
Alt. of Bicolored
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bottomry
n.
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.
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bill book

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.
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bloodbird
n.
An Australian honeysucker (Myzomela sanguineolata); -- so called from the bright red color of the male bird.
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butterfingered
a.
Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless.
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bastinade
n.
See Bastinado, n.
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bloodshotten
a.
Bloodshot.
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brut
n.
To browse.
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balance
n.
The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September.
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bombazet bombazette
n.
A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled.
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bairn
n.
A child.
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boshes
pl.
of Bosh
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blaze
v.i.
To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous.
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break
v.t.
To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares.
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bobbin
n.
The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
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begonia
n.
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.
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bedeswoman
n.
Fem. of Beadsman.
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barebone
n.
A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin.
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burh
n.
See Burg.
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bonnetless
a.
Without a bonnet.
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balance
v.i.
To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.
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burying place

The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place.
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bit
v.
The cutting iron of a plane.
+
base viol

See Bass viol.
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bunt
v.i.
To swell out; as, the sail bunts.
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blimbing
n.
See Bilimbi, etc.
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bracteate
a.
Having a bract or bracts.
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base
n.
The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration.
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balsamiferous
a.
Producing balsam.
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bobbery
n.
A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery.
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bogglish
a.
Doubtful; skittish.
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bedsore
n.
A sore on the back or hips caused by lying for a long time in bed.
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benefit
n.
Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit.
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blunt
a.
Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute.
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binomial
n.
An expression consisting of two terms connected by the sign plus (+) or minus (-); as, a + b, or 7 - 3.
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bourbonist
n.
One who adheres to the house of Bourbon; a legitimist.
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burlesque
v.i.
To employ burlesque.
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bear
v.i.
To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
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bedizenment
n.
That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.
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boning
n.
A method of leveling a line or surface by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles. See 3d Bone, v. t.
+
bard
n.
The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
+
brimming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brim
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by
pref.
Against.
+
birostrate
a.
Alt. of Birostrated
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bowl
v.i.
To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.
+
badiaga
n.
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.
+
bass
a.
A bass, or deep, sound or tone.
+
bacteria
pl.
of Bacterium
+
brand
v.t.
To mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron.
+
bedegar
n.
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.
+
balustered
a.
Having balusters.
+
butter
n.
An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.
+
bark
n.
The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.
+
blastule
n.
Same as Blastula.
+
bill
v.i.
To strike; to peck.
+
barbet
n.
A larva that feeds on aphides.
+
bishopsweed
n.
Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria).
+
barraclade
n.
A home-made woolen blanket without nap.
+
broadleaved
a.
Alt. of Broad-leafed
+
bete
v.t.
To better; to mend. See Beete.
+
biscotin
n.
A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit.
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banish
v.t.
To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of.
+
bum
v.i.
To make murmuring or humming sound.
+
bovate
n.
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.
+
bleak
a.
Without color; pale; pallid.
+
buzzard
a.
Senseless; stupid.
+
bardism
n.
The system of bards; the learning and maxims of bards.
+
boasting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Boast
+
bowsaw
n.
A saw with a thin or narrow blade set in a strong frame.
+
begirded

of Begird
+
botanies
pl.
of Botany
+
boswellism
n.
The style of Boswell.
+
blendwater
n.
A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected.
+
bund
n.
An embankment against inundation.
+
box
n.
A chest or any receptacle for the deposit of money; as, a poor box; a contribution box.
+
bilious
a.
Choleric; passionate; ill tempered.
+
byplace
n.
A retired or private place.
+
bravery
n.
The act of braving; defiance; bravado.
+
besprinkler
n.
One who, or that which, besprinkles.
+
badger
n.
A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus.  It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet.  One species (M.  vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.
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bernouse
n.
Same as Burnoose.
+
bougie
n.
A long slender rod consisting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.
+
busbies
pl.
of Busby
+
bargain
n.
A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.
+
bicker
v.i.
To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.
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barbarity
n.
A barbarous or cruel act.
+
bardship
n.
The state of being a bard.
+
bolster
n.
A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
+
buffy
a.
Resembling, or characterized by, buff.
+
bullfrog
n.
A very large species of frog (Rana Catesbiana), found in North America; -- so named from its loud bellowing in spring.
+
briber
n.
A thief.
+
blackfish
n.
The tautog of New England (Tautoga).
+
buckety
n.
Paste used by weavers to dress their webs.
+
beheading
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Behead
+
blanch
v.i.
To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.
+
beat
v.i.
To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
+
baronet
n.
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.
+
beat
n.
A stroke; a blow.
+
bavin
n.
A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.
+
bascinet
n.
A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor.
+
banker
n.
The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.
+
bulti
n.
Same as Bolty.
+
buffer
n.
A wheel for buffing; a buff.
+
ball
n.
The globe or earth.
+
bull
n.
One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.
+
babu
n.
A Hindoo gentleman; a native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindoo title answering to Mr.  or Esquire.
+
bullseye
n.
Aldebaran, a bright star in the eye of Taurus or the Bull.
+
beneficiary
n.
A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds.
+
biacid
a.
Having two hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by negative atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of bases. See Diacid.
+
bons vivants
pl.
of Bon vivant
+
boatwomen
pl.
of Boatwoman
+
bilirubin
n.
A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.
+
bedstaff
n.
"A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side."
+
blasphemously
adv.
In a blasphemous manner.
+
beseeching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beseech
+
busk
n.
A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.
+
billet
n.
A small paper; a note; a short letter.
+
bagnio
n.
A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves.
+
bachelor
n.
In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member.
+
balsa
n.
A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.
+
begin
v.i.
To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
+
bob
n.
A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
+
buttery
a.
Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
+
beating
n.
The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.
+
bookkeeping
n.
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.
+
bonder
n.
A freeholder on a small scale.
+
blastophoric
a.
Relating to the blastophore.
+
broad
superl.
Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
+
bethlemite
n.
An insane person; a madman; a bedlamite.
+
barbette
n.
A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.
+
bottom
n.
The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
+
blast
v.i.
To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.
+
beslaver
v.t.
To defile with slaver; to beslobber.
+
branch
n.
A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family.
+
bewrayed
imp.|p.p.
of Bewray
+
bachelry
n.
The body of young aspirants for knighthood.
+
barbermonger
n.
A fop.
+
beat
v.i.
To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
+
bluecap
n.
A Scot; a Scotchman; -- so named from wearing a blue bonnet.
+
bureaucratist
n.
An advocate for , or supporter of, bureaucracy.
+
bilabiate
a.
Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.
+
bloodhound
n.
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.
+
bruised
imp.|p.p.
of Bruise
+
balance wheel

A wheel which imparts regularity to the movements of any engine or machine; a fly wheel.
+
buffleheaded
a.
Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering.
+
bedmaker
n.
One who makes beds.
+
bichloride
n.
A compound consisting of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; -- called also dichloride.
+
brawled
imp.|p.p.
of Brawl
+
bison
n.
The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.
+
bevel
v.t.
To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
+
basipodite
n.
The basal joint of the legs of Crustacea.
+
butterfly
n.
A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.
+
bear
n.
One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
+
bepommeled
imp.|p.p.
of Bepommel
+
blowoff
adj.
An outburst of temper or excitement.
+
brimless
a.
Having no brim; as, brimless caps.
+
beyond
prep.
At a place or time not yet reached; before.
+
bombard
n.
A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
+
bangue
n.
See Bhang.
+
bilingualism
n.
Quality of being bilingual.
+
believing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Believe
+
bleeder
n.
One who, or that which, draws blood.
+
batten
v.t.
The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
+
boarder
n.
One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship.
+
boast
v.t.
To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
+
beamingly
adv.
In a beaming manner; radiantly.
+
buff
n.
A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase "Blindman's buff."
+
berating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Berate
+
broken
v.t.
Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships.
+
bustard
n.
A bird of the genus Otis.
+
beblood
v.t.
Alt. of Bebloody
+
brown
v.t.
To make brown or dusky.
+
blackmailed
imp.|p.p.
of Blackmail
+
babble
v.i.
To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.
+
brandywine
n.
Brandy.
+
byroad
n.
A private or obscure road.
+
bandy
v.t.
To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
+
blacken
v.t.
To make dark; to darken; to cloud.
+
blarneyed
imp.|p.p.
of Blarney
+
bishop
n.
A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
+
basin
n.
The quantity contained in a basin.
+
bookbinder
n.
One whose occupation is to bind books.
+
bend
n.
A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.
+
bicycling
n.
The use of a bicycle; the act or practice of riding a bicycle.
+
bicalcarate
a.
Having two spurs, as the wing or leg of a bird.
+
bearing
n.
The portion of a support on which anything rests.
+
barbecue
n.
A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole.
+
biogenetic
a.
Pertaining to biogenesis.
+
bursa
n.
Any sac or saclike cavity; especially, one of the synovial sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed between tendons and bony prominences.
+
bronzy
a.
Like bronze.
+
boxfish
n.
The trunkfish.
+
begirt
p.p.
of Begird
+
belligerent
n.
A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare.
+
blandish
v.t.
To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.
+
blackjack
n.
The Quercus nigra, or barren oak.
+
butchering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Butcher
+
bull
v.i.
A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.
+
bellybound
a.
Costive; constipated.
+
bribeless
a.
Incapable of being bribed; free from bribes.
+
ballastage
n.
A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.
+
braced
imp.|p.p.
of Brace
+
besprinkled
imp.|p.p.
of Besprinkle
+
bee
n.
An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidae (the honeybees), or family Andrenidae (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee.
+
barbed
imp.|p.p.
of Barb
+
broken
v.t.
Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse.
+
barge
n.
A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.
+
bankruptcy
n.
The act or process of becoming a bankrupt.
+
borer
n.
The hagfish (Myxine).
+
bepurple
v.t.
To tinge or dye with a purple color.
+
bigwigged
a.
characterized by pomposity of manner.
+
bounce
v.t.
To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
+
biogeny
n.
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.
+
bearskin
n.
The skin of a bear.
+
bournless
a.
Without a bourn or limit.
+
blackfoot
a.
Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.
+
bait
v.i.
Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.
+
baffle
v.t.
To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
+
bursar
n.
A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support.
+
battalion
v.t.
To form into battalions.
+
bet
v.t.
To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager.
+
basaltoid
a.
Formed like basalt; basaltiform.
+
beckoned
imp.|p.p.
of Beckon
+
borough
n.
An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.
+
bastardy
n.
The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.
+
backward
a.
Late or behindhand; as, a backward season.
+
brace
n.
Armor for the arm; vantbrace.
+
bonus
n.
An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.
+
biforked
a.
Bifurcate.
+
bankeress
n.
A female banker.
+
boyard
n.
A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.
+
bridle
n.
The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages.
+
beaufin
n.
See Biffin.
+
black letter

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.
+
balled
imp.|p.p.
of Ball
+
basswood
n.
The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree.
+
blemishes
pl.
of Blemish
+
bought

imp. & p. p. of Buy.
+
blarney
v.t.
To influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney.
+
badge
n.
A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.
+
blast
n.
The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose.
+
bear
n.
A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
+
backing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Back
+
basin
n.
An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.
+
butment
n.
The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported.
+
burhel
n.
Alt. of Burrhel
+
business
n.
The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.
+
barbarism
n.
A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.
+
barilla
n.
The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes.
+
bear
v.t.
To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
+
bedouin
n.
One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts.
+
byview
n.
A private or selfish view; self-interested aim or purpose.
+
branchiae
pl.
of Branchia
+
brettices
pl.
of Brettice
+
boswellian
a.
Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.
+
betray
v.t.
To show or to indicate; -- said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.
+
beautifier
n.
One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful.
+
buff
a.
Of the color of buff.
+
bloat
v.t.
To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.
+
bless
v.t.
To wave; to brandish.
+
bakemeat
n.
Alt. of Baked-meat
+
bowne
v.t.
To make ready; to prepare; to dress.
+
beetrave
n.
The common beet (Beta vulgaris).
+
bran
n.
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.
+
bung
n.
The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
+
bond
n.
Moral or political duty or obligation.
+
blondness
n.
The state of being blond.
+
blood
n.
The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.
+
bibliology
n.
An account of books; book lore; bibliography.
+
behight
v.
To call; to name; to address.
+
bespoke
p.p.
of Bespeak
+
bend
v.t.
To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
+
broadseal
v.t.
To stamp with the broad seal; to make sure; to guarantee or warrant.
+
bristliness
n.
The quality or state of having bristles.
+
bank bill

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.
+
barbellulate
a.
Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.
+
bromeliaceous
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera Tillandsia and Billbergia are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family.
+
buttressing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Buttress
+
bullary
n.
A collection of papal bulls.
+
blowse
n.
See Blowze.
+
baphomet
n.
An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.
+
brachycephalic
a.
Alt. of Brachycephalous
+
bloodstone
n.
Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or "streak."
+
bounce
v.t.
To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.
+
beloved
imp.|p.p.
of Belove
+
blubbery
a.
Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.
+
blacken
v.i.
To grow black or dark.
+
begat

of Beget
+
bucket
n.
A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
+
blunderbuss
n.
A stupid, blundering fellow.
+
bedabbling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bedabble
+
bedecking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bedeck
+
broken
v.t.
Subdued; humbled; contrite.
+
brant
n.
A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) -- called also brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species.
+
brash
n.
Broken fragments of ice.
+
boneache
n.
Pain in the bones.
+
bedraggle
v.t.
To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc.
+
bury
n.
A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's
+
battery
v.t.
An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.
+
bolt
n.
A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
+
biddable
a.
Obedient; docile.
+
base
n.
A substance used as a mordant.
+
buddhistic
a.
Same as Buddhist, a.
+
butchers broom

A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.
+
brougham
n.
A light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short.
+
bloomingness
n.
A blooming condition.
+
bitterroot
n.
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.
+
bent
a.|p.p.
Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
+
brillancy
n.
The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brightness, whether in a literal or figurative sense.
+
besprinkle
v.t.
To sprinkle over; to scatter over.
+
bundle
v.t.
To send off abruptly or without ceremony.
+
bedlam
n.
A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.
+
bend
v.t.
To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
+
ben nut

The seed of one or more species of moringa; as, oil of ben. See Moringa.
+
bow
v.t.
To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension.
+
buy
v.t.
To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain.
+
browsed
imp.|p.p.
of Browse
+
burst
v.i.
To exert force or pressure by which something is made suddenly to give way; to break through obstacles or limitations; hence, to appear suddenly and unexpectedly or unaccountably, or to depart in such manner; -- usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc.
+
beseem
v.i.
To seem; to appear; to be fitting.
+
buttoned
imp.|p.p.
of Button
+
beef
n.
Applied colloquially to human flesh.
+
bunodonts
n.pl.
A division of the herbivorous mammals including the hogs and hippopotami; -- so called because the teeth are tuberculated.
+
beginning
n.
The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
+
blur
v.t.
To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
+
boothose
n.
Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots.
+
bender
n.
An instrument used for bending.
+
band
v.t.
A belt or strap.
+
billet
n.
A small stick of wood, as for firewood.
+
benitier
n.
A holy-water stoup.
+
bending
n.
The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.
+
bead
n.
A prayer.
+
burnoose
n.
Alt. of Burnous
+
bivector
n.
A term made up of the two parts / + /1 /-1, where / and /1  are vectors.
+
basin
n.
A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
+
blasting
n.
The act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts.
+
bidding
n.
Command; order; a proclamation or notifying.
+
blow
n.
A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword.
+
bathymetric
a.
Alt. of Bathymetrical
+
bedlam
a.
Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse.
+
begirding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Begird
+
braiser
n.
A kettle or pan for braising.
+
bawdry
n.
Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language.
+
bragger
n.
One who brags; a boaster.
+
bold
v.i.
To be or become bold.
+
bunko
n.
A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery.
+
barque
n.
Same as 3d Bark, n.
+
bed screw

A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces.
+
barry
a.
Divided into bars; -- said of the field.
+
beetlehead
n.
The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Squatarola helvetica). See Plover.
+
bescorn
v.t.
To treat with scorn.
+
beside
n.
Over and above; distinct from; in addition to.
+
blende
n.
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.
+
beseek
v.t.
To beseech.
+
bifid
a.
Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.
+
biformed
a.
Having two forms.
+
boundary
n.
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.
+
bestraught
a.
Out of one's senses; distracted; mad.
+
beckon
v.t.
To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand.
+
barouche
n.
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.
+
bisecting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bisect
+
bicallose
a.
Alt. of Bicallous
+
babying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Baby
+
bandlet
n.
Same as Bandelet.
+
blot
v.t.
To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
+
bathe
v.t.
To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with camphor.
+
butyrate
n.
A salt of butyric acid.
+
backsheesh
n.
Alt. of Backshish
+
blow
v.i.
To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet.
+
brim
v.t.
To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
+
bracketing
n.
A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.
+
brag
n.
The thing which is boasted of.
+
blobberlipped
a.
Having thick lips.
+
bestiality
n.
The state or quality of being bestial.
+
bedyeing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bedye
+
brigadier general

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.
+
bite
v.i.
To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.
+
boohoe
v.i.
To bawl; to cry loudly.
+
bubble
n.
A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.
+
brother german

A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.
+
bipennate
a.
Alt. of Bipennated
+
brisk
a.
Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
+
bloated
p.a.
Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.
+
billet
n.
A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.
+
bagging
n.
The act of putting anything into, or as into, a bag.
+
binturong
n.
A small Asiatic civet of the genus Arctilis.
+
burn
n.
A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6.
+
bagging
n.
Cloth or other material for bags.
+
butchering
n.
The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
+
boning
n.
The manuring of land with bones.
+
beggarhood
n.
The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars.
+
bedwarfed
imp.|p.p.
of Bedwarf
+
bristle
v.t.
To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.
+
branch
a.
Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.
+
bestirred
imp.|p.p.
of Bestir
+
book
v.t.
To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
+
but
v.t.
The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
+
blindfish
n.
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.
+
blow
v.t.
To cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers).
+
bullion
n.
Base or uncurrent coin.
+
brew
v.i.
To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.
+
bondman
n.
A villain, or tenant in villenage.
+
ball
n.
A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.
+
bedrenching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bedrench
+
bluestone
n.
A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States.
+
bituminization
n.
The process of bituminizing.
+
bemired
imp.|p.p.
of Bemire
+
burrel
n.
A sort of pear, called also the red butter pear, from its smooth, delicious, soft pulp.
+
burring machine

A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
+
beware
v.i.
To have a special regard; to heed.
+
brace
n.
The state of being braced or tight; tension.
+
bode
v.t.
A messenger; a herald.
+
bevel gear

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.
+
ballot
n.
The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district.
+
backboard
n.
A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon.
+
begging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beg
+
babingtonite
n.
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.
+
bacchante
n.
A female bacchanal.
+
blessedness
n.
The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God.
+
branched
imp.|p.p.
of Branch
+
bed
n.
The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine.
+
burn
v.t.
To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
+
brutifying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brutify
+
blandise
v.i.
To blandish any one.
+
becuna
n.
A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyraena spet). See Barracuda.
+
burden
n.
That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
+
bowman
n.
A man who uses a bow; an archer.
+
binocle
n.
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.
+
belight
v.t.
To illuminate.
+
belch
n.
Malt liquor; -- vulgarly so called as causing eructation.
+
blast
n.
A violent gust of wind.
+
bicentenary
a.
Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration.
+
borel
n.
See Borrel.
+
balconied
a.
Having balconies.
+
brake
v.t.
An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
+
broadcast
n.
A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.
+
bode
n.
An omen; a foreshadowing.
+
bandog
n.
A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up.
+
box
v.t.
To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.
+
bawbling
a.
Insignificant; contemptible.
+
boast
v.i.
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.
+
bicker
v.i.
To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
+
brokenness
n.
The state or quality of being broken; unevenness.
+
bowstringed
p.a.
Furnished with bowstring.
+
blackmailing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blackmail
+
befall
v.i.
To come to pass; to happen.
+
beefy
a.
Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy.
+
blessing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bless
+
bill
v.t.
To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.
+
bookmaker
n.
One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.
+
birthroot
n.
An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.
+
boeotian
n.
A native of Boeotia; also, one who is dull and ignorant.
+
babbler
n.
An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets.
+
bob
n.
A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.
+
beg
v.t.
To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.
+
bisulphuret
n.
See Bisulphide.
+
bobwhite
n.
The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note.
+
bittock
n.
A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance.
+
board
n.
To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.
+
banian
n.
The Indian fig. See Banyan.
+
buoy
v.t.
To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.
+
before
prep.
In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house.
+
breastrail
n.
The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.
+
booted
a.
Having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; -- said of the tarsus of some birds.
+
bengalese
a.
Of or pertaining to Bengal.
+
byssus
n.
An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads.
+
bespoke

imp. & p. p. of Bespeak.
+
before
prep.
Open for; free of access to; in the power of.
+
boarfish
n.
An Australian percoid fish (Histiopterus recurvirostris), valued as a food fish.
+
begilded
imp.|p.p.
of Begild
+
bole
n.
An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet.
+
briskly
adv.
In a brisk manner; nimbly.
+
beggable
a.
Capable of being begged.
+
bendy
a.
Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.
+
bell
n.
A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.
+
banquet
n.
A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.
+
broach
n.
A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.
+
bavarian
a.
Of or pertaining to Bavaria.
+
bestead
imp.|p.p.
of Bestead
+
bone
n.
The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.
+
bunt
v.t.|i.
To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.
+
burl
n.
An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences.
+
bazar
n.
A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly for a charitable objects.
+
bobbing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bob
+
baillie
n.
Same as Bailie.
+
breath
n.
Time to breathe; respite; pause.
+
bunk
n.
One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.
+
beseem
v.t.
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.
+
blusher
n.
One that blushes.
+
bar
n.
A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
+
beak
n.
The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
+
bearding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beard
+
benignity
n.
Mildness; gentleness.
+
balm
n.
Anything that heals or that mitigates pain.
+
bell animalcule

An infusorian of the family Vorticellidae, common in fresh-water ponds.
+
bridle
v.i.
To hold up the head, and draw in the chin, as an expression of pride, scorn, or resentment; to assume a lofty manner; -- usually with up.
+
brazen
v.t.
To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through.
+
blunder
v.t.
To cause to blunder.
+
boss
n.
A swage or die used for shaping metals.
+
blanch
v.t.
To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
+
bargee
n.
A bargeman.
+
begem
v.t.
To adorn with gems, or as with gems.
+
bashaw
n.
A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat.
+
bill
n.
Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.
+
beshow
n.
A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.
+
bramble net

A net to catch birds.
+
battening
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Batten
+
benefit
n.
Beneficence; liberality.
+
bocca
n.
The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out.
+
bookshelf
n.
A shelf to hold books.
+
biometry
n.
Measurement of life; calculation of the probable duration of human life.
+
barth
n.
A place of shelter for cattle.
+
bob
n.
To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.
+
bibliopole
n.
One who sells books.
+
blood
n.
A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.
+
ballarag
v.i.
To bully; to threaten.
+
beggared
imp.|p.p.
of Beggar
+
benzoin
n.
A white crystalline substance, C14H12O2, obtained from benzoic aldehyde and some other sources.
+
billage
n.v.t.|i.
Same as Bilge.
+
bunt
n.
The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
+
bovine
a.
Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament.
+
billard
n.
An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish.
+
buttonball
n.
See Buttonwood.
+
blocage
n.
The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry.
+
blurted
imp.|p.p.
of Blurt
+
bisetose
a.
Alt. of Bisetous
+
bourgeon
v.i.
To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch.
+
beggars ticks

The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.
+
bedevilled
imp.|p.p.
of Bedevil
+
beehouse
n.
A house for bees; an apiary.
+
bear
n.
A bier.
+
barbastel
n.
A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips.
+
biogeny
n.
Life development generally.
+
board
n.
The border or side of anything.
+
badian
n.
An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise.
+
boshvark
n.
The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket.
+
belowt
v.t.
To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to.
+
bristol
n.
A seaport city in the west of England.
+
bowl
n.
Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.
+
brand
v.t.
Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order Pucciniaei.
+
below
adv.
In some part or page following.
+
bacteriologist
n.
One skilled in bacteriology.
+
berob
v.t.
To rob; to plunder.
+
backwards
adv.
By way of reflection; reflexively.
+
back
n.
An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge.
+
battling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Battle
+
bubbling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bubble
+
balloon
n.
A game played with a large inflated ball.
+
blush
v.i.
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.
+
balmify
v.t.
To render balmy.
+
bishop
n.
An old name for a woman's bustle.
+
bravely
adv.
Well; thrivingly; prosperously.
+
batman
n.
A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.
+
bloody
a.
Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.
+
borne

of Bear
+
beat
v.t.
To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
+
bristle
n.
A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.
+
bray
n.
A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling.
+
brant
a.
Steep.
+
breme
a.
Famous; renowned; well known.
+
baste
v.t.
To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
+
blanket
v.t.
To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
+
battel
n.
A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager.
+
bum
n.
A humming noise.
+
bencher
n.
One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.
+
bouch
n.
An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.
+
bubbler
n.
A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes.
+
buffer
n.
One who polishes with a buff.
+
bulla
n.
A leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it.
+
branks
n.
A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold.
+
bob
v.i.
To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3.
+
bunch
v.i.
To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.
+
bag
n.
A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.
+
bowstringing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bowstring
+
bane
n.
Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.
+
berhyme
v.t.
To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about.
+
bodged
imp.|p.p.
of Bodge
+
beastly
a.
Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy.
+
breakage
n.
The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.
+
blessed
a.
Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven.
+
begird
v.t.
To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.
+
boiar
n.
See Boyar.
+
blankly
adv.
Directly; flatly; point blank.
+
borachte
n.
A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard.
+
bifarious
a.
Pointing two ways, as leaves that grow only on opposite sides of a branch; in two vertical rows.
+
blaspheming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blaspheme
+
bundle
n.
A number of things bound together, as by a cord or envelope, into a mass or package convenient for handling or conveyance; a loose package; a roll; as, a bundle of straw or of paper; a bundle of old clothes.
+
burel
n.|a.
Same as Borrel.
+
blob
n.
A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.
+
borough
n.
The pledge or surety thus given.
+
bleak
a.
A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.
+
bechic

Pertaining to, or relieving, a cough.
+
bargain
v.t.
To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.
+
blackish
a.
Somewhat black.
+
becoming
n.
That which is becoming or appropriate.
+
barter
n.
The thing given in exchange.
+
block
v.t.
The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded.
+
beadle
v.
An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students.
+
baptize
v.t.
To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name.
+
beak
n.
A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
+
men
pl.
of Bedesman
+
bustle
n.
A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.
+
brabblement
n.
A brabble.
+
bovine
a.
Of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.
+
buttermen
pl.
of Butterman
+
base
n.
The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
+
besieger
n.
One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.
+
buffalo
n.
A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.
+
bijoutry
n.
Small articles of virtu, as jewelry, trinkets, etc.
+
bombard
n.
Padded breeches.
+
bleach
a.
To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.
+
blink
v.t.
To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.
+
basked
imp.|p.p.
of Bask
+
boot
v.i.
To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.
+
banging
a.
Huge; great in size.
+
boneless
a.
Without bones.
+
bisulcate
a.
Cloven; said of a foot or hoof.
+
bilimbing
n.
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.
+
basic
a.
Having the base in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.
+
bushboy
n.
See Bushman.
+
broadspreading
a.
Spreading widely.
+
bombax
n.
A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.
+
brazier
n.
An artificer who works in brass.
+
blob
n.
Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.
+
botchery
n.
A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
+
bailee
n.
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.
+
bryophyta
n.pl.
See Cryptogamia.
+
beak
n.
Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
+
butlerage
n.
A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king.
+
burial
n.
A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture.
+
brownism
n.
The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists.
+
birken
a.
Birchen; as, birken groves.
+
battery
v.t.
A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc.
+
birdcall
n.
An instrument of any kind, as a whistle, used in making the sound of a birdcall.
+
behind
adv.
Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind.
+
bleed
v.i.
To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers.
+
balloon
n.
A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
+
beluting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Belute
+
bonito
n.
The cobia or crab eater (Elacate canada), an edible fish of the Middle and Southern United States.
+
bidding prayer

The prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before the sermon.
+
bookwork
n.
Study; application to books.
+
baboonery
n.
Baboonish behavior.
+
bloom
v.i.
To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.
+
bit
v.
Somewhat; something, but not very great.
+
bloody hand

A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom.
+
brandished
imp.|p.p.
of Brandish
+
brier
n.
Alt. of Briar
+
botany
a.|n.
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.
+
bowcompass
n.
A pair of compasses, with a bow or arched plate riveted to one of the legs, and passing through the other.
+
bag
n.
A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
+
boatful
n.
The quantity or amount that fills a boat.
+
breath
n.
Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.
+
browed
a.
Having (such) a brow; -- used in composition; as, dark-browed, stern-browed.
+
bombasine
n.
Same as Bombazine.
+
bare
a.
Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.
+
bransle
n.
A brawl or dance.
+
barkbound
a.
Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.
+
bernardine
a.
Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks.
+
baa
v.i.
To cry baa, or bleat as a sheep.
+
babble
v.i.
To talk much; to chatter; to prate.
+
being
p.pr.
Existing.
+
bushwhacker
n.
One accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes.
+
betorn
a.
Torn in pieces; tattered.
+
beet
n.
A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.
+
battery
v.t.
The act of battering or beating.
+
brazil wood

The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan; -- so called before the discovery of America.
+
bird pepper

A species of capsicum (Capsicum baccatum), whose small, conical, coral-red fruit is among the most piquant of all red peppers.
+
bluntness
n.
Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness.
+
bloodflower
n.
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.
+
born
v.t.
Having from birth a certain character; by or from birth; by nature; innate; as, a born liar.
+
bone
n.
One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body.
+
blue
superl.
Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
+
black
a.
To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
+
brokage
n.
See Brokerage.
+
berrying
n.
A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild.
+
baalist
n.
Alt. of Baalite
+
braggadocio
n.
Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.
+
besought

p. p. of Beseech.
+
bookshelves
pl.
of Bookshelf
+
blarney
n.
Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery.
+
balearic
a.
Of or pertaining to the isles of Majorca, Minorca, Ivica, etc., in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Valencia.
+
breadless
a.
Without bread; destitute of food.
+
byssuses
pl.
of Byssus
+
burt
n.
See Birt.
+
boiling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Boil
+
breakneck
n.
A steep place endangering the neck.
+
beneficence
n.
The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.
+
bicolored
a.
Of two colors.
+
bow
v.t.
To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.
+
belly
n.
The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship.
+
bracketed
imp.|p.p.
of Bracket
+
broker
v.t.
A pimp or procurer.
+
barbarism
n.
An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.
+
board
v.i.
To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.
+
bowpen
n.
Bow-compasses carrying a drawing pen. See Bow-compass.
+
brenne
v.t.|i.
To burn.
+
belaud
v.t.
To laud or praise greatly.
+
blear
v.
Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes.
+
bootes
n.
A northern constellation, containing the bright star Arcturus.
+
bellyband
n.
A band of flannel or other cloth about the belly.
+
bearhound
n.
A hound for baiting or hunting bears.
+
bolling
v.t.
A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.
+
border
v.i.
To approach; to come near to; to verge.
+
back
a.
Moving or operating backward; as, back action.
+
buccinoid
a.
Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidae, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata.
+
blockade
v.t.
An obstruction to passage.
+
bissextile
n.
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.
+
birthright
n.
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.
+
bid
v.t.
To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).
+
broadmouth
n.
One of the Eurylaimidae, a family of East Indian passerine birds.
+
blastment
n.
A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause.
+
bitterbump
n.
the butterbump or bittern.
+
beteela
n.
An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc.
+
bungling
a.
Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman.
+
blinker
n.
One who, or that which, blinks.
+
brethren
pl.
of Brother
+
breathe
v.t.
To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse.
+
blond metal

A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools.
+
birch
n.
The wood or timber of the birch.
+
broomstick
n.
A stick used as a handle of a broom.
+
breastplate
n.
A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool.
+
bafta
n.
A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.
+
betterness
n.
The quality of being better or superior; superiority.
+
breaker
n.
One who, or that which, breaks.
+
bowgrace
n.
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.
+
beefwitted
n.
Stupid; dull.
+
bandaging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bandage
+
bolster
n.
The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
+
boson
n.
See Boatswain.
+
broil
v.t.
To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.
+
bigg
n.|v.
See Big, n. & v.
+
bore
n.
A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.
+
babbitt metal

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.
+
bowery
n.
A farm or plantation with its buildings.
+
brandishing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brandish
+
bureaucrat
n.
An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.
+
build
v.t.
To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.
+
bouncing
a.
Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.
+
bodily
a.
Real; actual; put in execution.
+
blin
v.t.|i.
To stop; to cease; to desist.
+
belgic
a.
Of or pertaining to the Netherlands or to Belgium.
+
bolstered
a.
Swelled out.
+
but
n.
A limit; a boundary.
+
brevirostral
a.
Alt. of Brevirostrate
+
beseeming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beseem
+
boozed
imp.|p.p.
of Booze
+
back
v.i.
To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.
+
burschen
pl.
of Bursch
+
biform
a.
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes.
+
butting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of But
+
bushel
n.
A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
+
brahmin
n.
A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindoos.
+
bibliophilism
n.
Love of books.
+
beam
n.
A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat.
+
balanite
n.
A fossil balanoid shell.
+
boutefeu
n.
An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels.
+
brenningly
adv.
Burningly; ardently.
+
believed
imp.|p.p.
of Believe
+
bridge
n.
A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall.
+
bipennated
a.
Having two wings.
+
brain
n.
The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.
+
bob
n.
A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
+
bottler
n.
One who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc.
+
bluenose
n.
A nickname for a Nova Scotian.
+
bambino
n.
A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.
+
blacksnake
n.
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.
+
boyism
n.
The nature of a boy; childishness.
+
beacon
v.t.
To furnish with a beacon or beacons.
+
bush
n.
A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.
+
bothnian
a.
Alt. of Bothnic
+
boss
n.
A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator.
+
bail bond

Special bail in court to abide the judgment.
+
broadpiece
n.
An old English gold coin, broader than a guinea, as a Carolus or Jacobus.
+
beating
n.
The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.
+
betumble
v.t.
To throw into disorder; to tumble.
+
base
n.
A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base.
+
bedaubed
imp.|p.p.
of Bedaub
+
bullying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bully
+
bodrage
n.
A raid.
+
ben
n.
A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).
+
blotting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blot
+
bugled
a.
Ornamented with bugles.
+
babbling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Babble
+
bulging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bulge
+
bed
n.
A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.
+
brazening
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brazen
+
beam
n.
The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches.
+
bountiful
a.
Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors.
+
bulldozed
imp.|p.p.
of Bulldoze
+
build
v.t.
To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.
+
beadsnake
n.
A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black.
+
bellbird
n.
A South American bird of the genus Casmarhincos, and family Cotingidae, of several species; the campanero.
+
bedstraw
n.
Straw put into a bed.
+
beweep
v.t.
To weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears.
+
botch
n.
To mark with, or as with, botches.
+
bismer
n.
The fifteen-spined (Gasterosteus spinachia).
+
barrowist
n.
A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.
+
basalt
n.
An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain.
+
blamelessly
adv.
In a blameless manner.
+
believe
n.
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.
+
bollen
a.
See Boln, a.
+
bret
n.
See Birt.
+
backgammon
v.i.
In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first "table".
+
bare
a.
Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
+
base
n.
To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; -- used with on or upon.
+
baptist
n.
One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.
+
baigne
v.i.
To soak or drench.
+
between
prep.
In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock.
+
battel
v.i.
To be supplied with provisions from the buttery.
+
black book

A book kept for the purpose of registering the names of persons liable to censure or punishment, as in the English universities, or the English armies.
+
bossage
n.
A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape.
+
bright
a.
Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.
+
blister
v.t.
To raise a blister or blisters upon.
+
bethumb
v.t.
To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books.
+
bruited
imp.|p.p.
of Bruit
+
bipinnaria
n.
The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free-swimming stage.
+
banked
imp.|p.p.
of Bank
+
boncilate
n.
A substance composed of ground bone, mineral matters, etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc.
+
bedabbled
imp.|p.p.
of Bedabble
+
baenopod
n.
One of the thoracic legs of Arthropods.
+
birt
n.
A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.
+
blade
v.t.
To furnish with a blade.
+
bray
n.
The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.
+
brawn
n.
A boar.
+
beat
v.t.
To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
+
blaspheme
v.i.
To utter blasphemy.
+
blame
v.
An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure.
+
brunette
a.
Having a dark tint.
+
bewildering
a.
Causing bewilderment or great perplexity; as, bewildering difficulties.
+
baleen
n.
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.
+
base
a.
Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean.
+
bestially
adv.
In a bestial manner.
+
bateful
a.
Exciting contention; contentious.
+
bonnet
v.i.
To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover.
+
bewreke
v.t.
To wreak; to avenge.
+
bureau
n.
A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture.
+
bellshaped
a.
Having the shape of a wide-mouthed bell; campanulate.
+
beslavering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beslaver
+
billing
a.|n.
Caressing; kissing.
+
baron
n.
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.
+
black
n.
A black pigment or dye.
+
bolt
v.i.
To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
+
bakerlegged
a.
Having legs that bend inward at the knees.
+
barbered
imp.|p.p.
of Barber
+
bugbear
n.
Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc.
+
barkantine
n.
Same as Barkentine.
+
box
n.
The quantity that a box contain.
+
bollworm
n.
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.
+
blank
a.
Utterly confounded or discomfited.
+
brokenbacked
a.
Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.
+
bemaze
v.t.
To bewilder.
+
broadness
n.
The condition or quality of being broad; breadth; coarseness; grossness.
+
biliteral
a.
Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb.
+
beaten
a.
Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.
+
bodleian
a.
Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.
+
beteem
a.
To give ; to bestow; to grant; to accord; to consent.
+
balneal
a.
Of or pertaining to a bath.
+
bonito
n.
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.
+
babble
v.i.
To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.
+
beaucatcher
n.
A small flat curl worn on the temple by women.
+
brick
n.
Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
+
breeched
imp.|p.p.
of Breech
+
beneficial
a.
Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to.
+
bloodguilty
a.
Guilty of murder or bloodshed.
+
bildstein
n.
Same as Agalmatolite.
+
bier
n.
A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.
+
begot
p.p.
of Beget
+
blite
n.
A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.
+
brindle
n.
A brindled color; also, that which is brindled.
+
branch
v.t.
To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.
+
belong
v.i.
To be suitable for; to be due to.
+
breme
a.
Fierce; sharp; severe; cruel.
+
baldfaced
a.
Having a white face or a white mark on the face, as a stag.
+
bestow
v.t.
To use; to apply; to devote, as time or strength in some occupation.
+
bosom
v.t.
To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
+
blurring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blur
+
bookman
n.
A studious man; a scholar.
+
benedictus
a.
The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version.
+
bastard
n.
Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin.
+
brake
n.
A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern.
+
belittling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Belittle
+
bibliopolistic
a.
Of or pertaining to bibliopolism.
+
brere
n.
A brier.
+
bushman
n.
One of a race of South African nomads, living principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any other people.
+
bower
n.
A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
+
bluestocking
n.
A literary lady; a female pedant.
+
bait
v.i.
To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey.
+
bologna
n.
A Bologna sausage.
+
bearer
n.
One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer.
+
blurting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blurt
+
bloting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blote
+
bluecoat
n.
One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc.
+
boulangerite
n.
A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact.  It is a sulphide of antimony and lead.
+
bate
v.i.
To waste away.
+
bumbailiff
n.
See Bound bailiff, under Bound, a.
+
balk
v.i.
One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge.
+
burden
n.
A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.
+
bestiality
n.
Unnatural connection with a beast.
+
belt
n.
Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.
+
borraginaceous
a.
See Borage, n., etc.
+
bordeaux
a.
Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France.
+
beaten
a.
Vanquished; conquered; baffled.
+
bealing
p.pr|vb.n.
of Beal
+
bouncing
a.
Excessive; big.
+
beady
a.
Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening.
+
breezy
a.
Characterized by, or having, breezes; airy.
+
barmaid
n.
A girl or woman who attends the customers of a bar, as in a tavern or beershop.
+
beat
v.i.
To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
+
bepinch
v.t.
To pinch, or mark with pinches.
+
bracteole
n.
Same as Bractlet.
+
bluebell
n.
A plant of the genus Scilla (Scilla nutans).
+
bauk
n.|v.
Alt. of Baulk
+
blaspheme
v.
Figuratively, of persons and things not religiously sacred, but held in high honor: To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.
+
bibliology
n.
The literature or doctrine of the Bible.
+
blubber
v.t.
To give vent to (tears) or utter (broken words or cries); -- with forth or out.
+
bushman
n.
A woodsman; a settler in the bush.
+
belting
n.
The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively.
+
bonaccord
n.
Good will; good fellowship; agreement.
+
blow
v.t.
To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.
+
bud
n.
A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.
+
buck
v.t.
To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
+
breastwheel
n.
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.
+
blowpoint
n.
A child's game.
+
bolster
v.t.
To support with a bolster or pillow.
+
bloat
a.
Bloated.
+
bestow
v.t.
To give or confer; to impart; -- with on or upon.
+
brutalities
pl.
of Brutality
+
became
imp.
of Become
+
blasted
a.
Confounded; accursed; detestable.
+
blinkard
n.
One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes.
+
bud
v.t.
To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.
+
brute
a.
Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.
+
belaccoyle
n.
A kind or favorable reception or salutation.
+
bawrel
n.
A kind of hawk.
+
brawniness
n.
The quality or state of being brawny.
+
bullseye
n.
A circular or oval opening for air or light.
+
back
n.
The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.
+
bakingly
adv.
In a hot or baking manner.
+
bereavement
n.
The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.
+
burse
n.
A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries.
+
buttress
n.
A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.
+
besmirching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Besmirch
+
bimarginate
a.
Having a double margin, as certain shells.
+
batoon
n.
See Baton, and Baston.
+
buddhist
a.
Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.
+
bowl
v.i.
To play with bowls.
+
biplicity
n.
The state of being twice folded; reduplication.
+
bemask
v.t.
To mask; to conceal.
+
balance
n.
To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.
+
back
n.
The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.
+
buffeting
n.
A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity.
+
bookish
a.
Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.
+
bedeviling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bedevil
+
basaltic
a.
Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava.
+
bite
v.i.
To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.
+
bromyrite
n.
Silver bromide, a rare mineral; -- called also bromargyrite.
+
bear
v.i.
To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
+
ben
adv.
The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; -- opposed to but, the outer apartment.
+
women
pl.
of Bedeswoman
+
body
n.
A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody.
+
broken
v.t.
Imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken English; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at parting.
+
bond
n.
A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship.
+
batardeau
n.
A cofferdam.
+
blackness
n.
The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.
+
befuddled
imp.|p.p.
of Befuddle
+
burlesque
n.
Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.
+
bonnet
n.
A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft.
+
baptized
imp.|p.p.
of Baptize
+
boweling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bowel
+
betrapped
imp.|p.p.
of Betrap
+
broad
superl.
Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
+
becripple
v.t.
To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame.
+
belonged
imp.|p.p.
of Belong
+
baston
n.
A staff or cudgel.
+
beguile
v.t.
To elude, or evade by craft; to foil.
+
bury
v.t.
To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife.
+
bousy
a.
Drunken; sotted; boozy.
+
boilary
n.
See Boilery.
+
butterweight
n.
Over weight.
+
beagle
n.
A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix.
+
bacillus
n.
A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.
+
blase
a.
Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.
+
beseen
a.
Decked or adorned; clad.
+
bushel
n.
The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush.
+
bunchbacked
a.
Having a bunch on the back; crooked.
+
bend
v.i.
To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
+
benzoline
n.
Same as Amarine.
+
bridle
n.
A mooring hawser.
+
bittern
a.
A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer.
+
bedwarf
v.t.
To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf.
+
bounce
n.
A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
+
bevel
v.i.
To deviate or incline from an angle of 90°, as a surface; to slant.
+
blot
n.
An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.
+
bomboloes
pl.
of Bombolo
+
bar
n.
A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar.
+
bejeweled
imp.|p.p.
of Bejewel
+
boxwood
n.
The wood of the box (Buxus).
+
beaupere
n.
A father.
+
bespit
p.p.
of Bespit
+
banquetter
n.
One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts.
+
byspell
n.
A proverb.
+
billy goat

A male goat.
+
botuliform
a.
Having the shape of a sausage.
+
ball
v.t.
To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.
+
brag
v.i.
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.
+
balas ruby

A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel.
+
beduin
n.
See Bedouin.
+
bowenite
n.
A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.
+
blin
n.
Cessation; end.
+
basseting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Basset
+
bay
v.t.
To dam, as water; -- with up or back.
+
buff
a.
A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.
+
buddle
v.i.
To wash ore in a buddle.
+
broad
n.
A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
+
bushing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bush
+
background
n.
Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings.
+
buff
n.
A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner.
+
blockade
v.t.
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.
+
bodle
n.
A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny.
+
balk
v.i.
A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside.
+
bearded
imp.|p.p.
of Beard
+
blithe
a.
Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit.
+
bathorse
n.
A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.
+
blared
imp.|p.p.
of Blare
+
bricking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brisk
+
blossomy
a.
Full of blossoms; flowery.
+
bettong
n.
A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.
+
border
v.t.
To confine within bounds; to limit.
+
bedtime
n.
The time to go to bed.
+
bothrenchyma
n.
Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood.
+
beacon
v.t.
To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.
+
blank
a.
Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant.
+
bay
n.
A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.
+
bitless
a.
Not having a bit or bridle.
+
bootmaker
n.
One who makes boots.
+
bilge
n.
Bilge water.
+
banlieue
n.
The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city.
+
bowel
v.t.
To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
+
blooming
a.
Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
+
babblement
n.
Babble.
+
babble
v.i.
To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.
+
bale
n.
Misery; calamity; misfortune; sorrow.
+
bestow
v.t.
To give in marriage.
+
born
v.t.
Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth.
+
boil
v.
To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
+
beggary
n.
The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.
+
benty
a.
Resembling bent.
+
burr
n.
A small circular saw.
+
bow
sing.orpl.
Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
+
brittleness
n.
Aptness to break; fragility.
+
biforine
n.
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.
+
bifurcation
n.
A forking, or division into two branches.
+
barreling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Barrel
+
blanch
v.i.
To use evasion.
+
bam
v.t.
To cheat; to wheedle.
+
basin
n.
A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.
+
break
v.i.
To fall in business; to become bankrupt.
+
bed
v.t.
To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.
+
brig
n.
A bridge.
+
brasier
n.
Alt. of Brazier
+
beweeping
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beweep
+
birth
n.
That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.
+
battle
v.t.
A division of an army; a battalion.
+
brood
v.t.
To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
+
browbound
a.
Crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem.
+
buchu
n.
A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil glands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves.
+
bit
v.t.
To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of.
+
bisilicate
n.
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.
+
bead
n.
A drop of sweat or other liquid.
+
barrack
v.i.
To live or lodge in barracks.
+
boarding
n.
The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose.
+
blindworm
n.
A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder.
+
bogue
n.
The boce; -- called also bogue bream. See Boce.
+
buttock
n.
The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump.
+
baroscopical
a.
Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.
+
bullock
n.
An ox, steer, or stag.
+
blacksalter
n.
One who makes crude potash, or black salts.
+
bifold
a.
Twofold; double; of two kinds, degrees, etc.
+
befittingly
adv.
In a befitting manner; suitably.
+
bifoliolate
a.
Having two leaflets, as some compound leaves.
+
burry
a.
Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool.
+
blasphemed
imp.|p.p.
of Blaspheme
+
blow
v.t.
To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass.
+
bertram
n.
Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum).
+
backrack
n.
Alt. of Backrag
+
ballahoo
n.
Alt. of Ballahou
+
bigamous
a.
Guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy; as, a bigamous marriage.
+
betty
n.
A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.
+
besotted
imp.|p.p.
of Besot
+
berylline
a.
Like a beryl; of a light or bluish green color.
+
blood money

Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser.
+
bosom
a.
Of or pertaining to the bosom.
+
bequeathing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bequeath
+
brenning
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brenne
+
bacchanalianism
n.
The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry.
+
bunchy
a.
Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail.
+
bifurcous
a.
See Bifurcate, a.
+
blubber
v.t.
To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.
+
bearherd
n.
A man who tends a bear.
+
benightment
n.
The condition of being benighted.
+
banqueted
imp.|p.p.
of Banquet
+
budgerow
n.
A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.
+
brokenbacked
a.
Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship.
+
bister
n.
Alt. of Bistre
+
bestead
v.t.
To put in peril; to beset.
+
breaker
n.
A small water cask.
+
bicornous
a.
Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.
+
branch
n.
Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.
+
bonze
n.
A Buddhist or Fohist priest, monk, or nun.
+
breasthook
n.
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.
+
barbarous
a.
Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
+
burdelais
n.
A sort of grape.
+
blesbok
n.
A South African antelope (Alcelaphus albifrons), having a large white spot on the forehead.
+
bullseye
n.
A lantern, with a thick glass lens on one side for concentrating the light on any object; also, the lens itself.
+
blink
v.i.
To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
+
balneology
n.
A treatise on baths; the science of bathing.
+
boothose
n.
Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback.
+
bane
n.
A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.
+
ballet
n.
The company of persons who perform the ballet.
+
bank
v.t.
To pass by the banks of.
+
besought
imp.|p.p.
of Beseech
+
beaker
n.
An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat.
+
bregma
n.
The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull.
+
bureaucratic
a.
Alt. of Bureaucratical
+
bohemia
n.
A country of central Europe.
+
blaubok
n.
The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue.
+
beheaded
imp.|p.p.
of Behead
+
becalm
v.t.
To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease.
+
bulwark
v.t.
To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect.
+
bullet
n.
A cannon ball.
+
balance
n.
An apparatus for weighing.
+
backwoodsman
n.
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.
+
bac
n.
A broad, flatbottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.
+
blackbrowed
a.
Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
+
biniodide
n.
Same as Diiodide.
+
benting time

The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe.
+
bleak
a.
Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.
+
bassorin
n.
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.
+
bridesman
n.
A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the "best man."
+
burbot
n.
A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin.
+
breathful
a.
Full of breath; full of odor; fragrant.
+
bondswoman
n.
See Bondwoman.
+
branchiate
a.
Furnished with branchiae; as, branchiate segments.
+
boyau
n.
A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.
+
barricader
n.
One who constructs barricades.
+
banns
n.pl.
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.
+
butyrometer
n.
An instrument for determining the amount of fatty matter or butter contained in a sample of milk.
+
busked
a.
Wearing a busk.
+
babyship
n.
The quality of being a baby; the personality of an infant.
+
bambocciade
n.
A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life.
+
bethel
n.
A chapel for dissenters.
+
bruit
n.
An abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation.
+
bosomed
a.
Having, or resembling, bosom; kept in the bosom; hidden.
+
bevelment
n.
The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.
+
block
n.
To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat.
+
biomagnetism
n.
Animal magnetism.
+
brooded
imp.|p.p.
of Brood
+
brag
adv.
Proudly; boastfully.
+
blemished
imp.|p.p.
of Blemish
+
bore
n.
Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.
+
branny
a.
Having the appearance of bran; consisting of or containing bran.
+
bag
v.i.
To swell with arrogance.
+
buckra
n.
A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc.
+
blunder
v.i.
To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble.
+
blaze
n.
A white spot on the forehead of a horse.
+
basipterygoid
a.|n.
Applied to a protuberance of the base of the sphenoid bone.
+
bantered
imp.|p.p.
of Banter
+
beach
v.t.
To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.
+
baritone
a.|n.
See Barytone.
+
bur fish

A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish.
+
bass
a.
The lowest part in a musical composition.
+
bung
n.
A sharper or pickpocket.
+
birectangular
a.
Containing or having two right angles; as, a birectangular spherical triangle.
+
bract
n.
Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.
+
bastard
n.
A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
+
begilt

of Begild
+
bricked
imp.|p.p.
of Brisk
+
bloated
imp.|p.p.
of Bloat
+
bodian
n.
A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies.
+
burden
n.
That which is borne or carried; a load.
+
broach
n.
To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.
+
bravery
n.
The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity.
+
bedraggled
imp.|p.p.
of Bedraggle
+
bedroom
n.
A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.
+
baby
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as, baby swans.
+
bigot
a.
Bigoted.
+
backbone
n.
Anything like , or serving the purpose of, a backbone.
+
blent

of Blend
+
bellyache
n.
Pain in the bowels; colic.
+
ba
v.i.
To kiss.
+
berained
imp.|p.p.
of Berain
+
band
v.t.
A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
+
bedash
v.t.
To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter.
+
berated
imp.|p.p.
of Berate
+
base
n.
The number from which a mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of logarithms.
+
bibulous
v.t.
Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.
+
branchiostegous
a.
Branchiostegal.
+
bullyrag
v.t.
Same as Bullirag.
+
blinding
n.
A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.
+
beeves
n.
plural of Beef, the animal.
+
burred
imp.|p.p.
of Burr
+
bosquet
n.
A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.
+
behight
v.
To mean, or intend.
+
beggar
n.
One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.
+
birdlime
n.
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.
+
blameless
a.
Free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; -- sometimes followed by of.
+
burrstone
n.
See Buhrstone.
+
bawd
n.
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.
+
bid
v.t.
To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.
+
burdening
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Burden
+
brewing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brew
+
blind
a.
Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.
+
berry
n.
The coffee bean.
+
basion
n.
The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull.
+
buzz
v.t.
To sound with a "buzz".
+
bicched
a.
Pecked; pitted; notched.
+
bergamot
n.
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.
+
birlaw
n.
A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law.
+
board
n.
To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.
+
basyle
n.
A positive or nonacid constituent of compound, either elementary, or, if compound, performing the functions of an element.
+
blanch
v.t.
To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.
+
blackletter
a.
Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar not marked with red letters as saints' days. Hence: Unlucky; inauspicious.
+
backward
a.
Already past or gone; bygone.
+
bittering
n.
A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern.
+
bergh
n.
A hill.
+
bipartile
a.
Divisible into two parts.
+
bord service

Service due from a bordar; bordage.
+
bench
n.
A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.
+
bemet
imp.|p.p.
of Bemeet
+
bandy
v.i.
To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.
+
brownian
a.
Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below.
+
boxhauled
imp.|p.p.
of Boxhaul
+
blushful
a.
Full of blushes.
+
belt
n.
That which restrains or confines as a girdle.
+
birdsfoot
n.
A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point.
+
bushless
a.
Free from bushes; bare.
+
blade
n.
A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
+
blotter
n.
A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place.
+
barded
p.a.
Wearing rich caparisons.
+
brickwork
n.
The act of building with or laying bricks.
+
beat
v.t.
To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
+
bathetic
a.
Having the character of bathos.
+
bellowed
imp.|p.p.
of Bellow
+
brachiate
a.
Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.
+
brachycephaly
n.
Alt. of Brachycephalism
+
back
v.i.
To get upon the back of; to mount.
+
bound
p.p.
of Bind
+
bellied
imp.|p.p.
of Belly
+
blind
n.
Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
+
bract
n.
A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.
+
balloonry
n.
The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; aeronautics.
+
benefaction
n.
The act of conferring a benefit.
+
bring
v.t.
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.
+
benthamite
n.
One who believes in Benthamism.
+
biting
a.
That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic.
+
bore
v.i.
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
+
berrying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Berry
+
breached
imp.|p.p.
of Breach
+
bepaint
v.t.
To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint.
+
beard
n.
A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
+
bothhands
n.
A factotum.
+
blindage
n.
A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.
+
bandage
v.t.
To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes.
+
beaten
a.
Tried; practiced.
+
bawler
n.
One who bawls.
+
blaming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blame
+
broach
n.
A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.
+
bronchiole
n.
A minute bronchial tube.
+
begod
v.t.
To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify.
+
beccafico
n.
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.
+
burgeois
n.
See 1st Bourgeois.
+
brand spore

One of several spores growing in a series or chain, and produced by one of the fungi called brand.
+
braved
imp.|p.p.
of Brave
+
blocking
n.
Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
+
bob
n.
A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.
+
bearing cloth

A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
+
bone
v.t.
To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.
+
braccate
a.
Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.
+
brumous
a.
Foggy; misty.
+
blastoid
n.
One of the Blastoidea.
+
burst
n.
Any brief, violent exertion or effort; a spurt; as, a burst of speed.
+
beakhead
n.
Same as Beak, 3.
+
biradiated
a.
Having two rays; as, a biradiate fin.
+
basque
n.
One of a race, of unknown origin, inhabiting a region on the Bay of Biscay in Spain and France.
+
beast
n.
Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.
+
ballast
a.
Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.
+
breed
v.t.
To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
+
brimmer
n.
A brimful bowl; a bumper.
+
bolognese
a.
Of or pertaining to Bologna.
+
bromuret
n.
See Bromide.
+
burghal
a.
Belonging to a burgh.
+
ballet
n.
A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.
+
boomerang
n.
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.
+
burst
n.
A rupture or hernia; a breach.
+
blast
n.
A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast.
+
bewit
n.
A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs.
+
beliefful
a.
Having belief or faith.
+
bywork
n.
Work aside from regular work; subordinate or secondary business.
+
besmear
v.t.
To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil.
+
blinde
n.
See Blende.
+
brown
v.i.
To become brown.
+
buoyancies
pl.
of Buoyancy
+
bastinadoes
imp.|p.p.
of Bastinado
+
batwing
a.
Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner.
+
bdellium
n.
A gum resin of reddish brown color, brought from India, Persia, and Africa.
+
break
v.t.
To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments.
+
basking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bask
+
buster
n.
Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree.
+
batement
n.
Abatement; diminution.
+
blunder
v.t.
To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
+
bezzling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bezzle
+
bloomery
n.
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.
+
breccia
n.
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.
+
berry
n.
Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.
+
broach
n.
A spire rising from a tower.
+
ballooning spider

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.
+
binding
a.
That binds; obligatory.
+
brotherhood
n.
The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
+
burnisher
n.
One who burnishes.
+
bridle
n.
The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the tumbler, sear, etc.
+
botanologer
n.
A botanist.
+
braveness
n.
The quality of state or being brave.
+
bolster
n.
A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests.
+
benign
a.
Exhibiting or manifesting kindness, gentleness, favor, etc.; mild; kindly; salutary; wholesome.
+
bottlenose
n.
The puffin.
+
breasting
n.
The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel.
+
breakbone fever

See Dengue.
+
boomorah
n.
A small West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus), resembling the musk deer.
+
boustrophedon
n.
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.
+
bedashing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bedash
+
bathe
v.i.
To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths.
+
bloodless
a.
Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory.
+
bate
v.t.
To deprive of.
+
betide
v.t.
To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
+
bacchant
n.
A bacchanal; a reveler.
+
blusterer
n.
One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.
+
bailiff
n.
A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.
+
bondslave
n.
A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.
+
beastliness
n.
The state or quality of being beastly.
+
balloon
v.i.
To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
+
berattle
v.t.
To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down.
+
bout
n.
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.
+
balloon
n.
The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
+
bully
n.
A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.
+
bipedal
n.
Pertaining to a biped.
+
baguet
n.
Alt. of Baguette
+
bean
n.
The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans.
+
blunt
a.
Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
+
besiege
v.t.
To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.
+
browsing
n.
Browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse.
+
betonies
pl.
of Betony
+
broadwise
adv.
Breadthwise.
+
bray
v.i.
To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.
+
breviaries
pl.
of Breviary
+
britzska
n.
A long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey.
+
backboard
n.
A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc.
+
basihyoid
n.
The central tongue bone.
+
bastard
n.
A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
+
brand
v.t.
A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma.
+
beholden
p.a.
Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted.
+
businesslike
a.
In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
+
bronzine
a.
Made of bronzine; resembling bronze; bronzelike.
+
bearable
a.
Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable.
+
bestializing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bestialize
+
break
v.i.
To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder.
+
bluewing
n.
The blue-winged teal. See Teal.
+
bulb
n.
A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta.
+
beaten
a.
Exhausted; tired out.
+
beholdingness
n.
The state of being obliged or beholden.
+
bethumping
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bethump
+
buckra
a.
White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam.
+
bailer
n.
A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit.
+
bosset
n.
A rudimental antler of a young male of the red deer.
+
blessing
v.t.
A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
+
blowpipe
n.
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.
+
bursarship
n.
The office of a bursar.
+
brome grass

A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.
+
benevolence
n.
An act of kindness; good done; charity given.
+
blush
v.t.
To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
+
blastematic
a.
Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.
+
botany
a.|n.
A book which treats of the science of botany.
+
bunchy
a.
Swelling out in bunches.
+
buckshot
n.
A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.
+
beggary
a.
Beggarly.
+
brank
n.
Alt. of Branks
+
boast
v.t.
To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
+
bishopdom
n.
Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate.
+
belonite
n.
Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.
+
brevity
n.
Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life.
+
buoyancy
n.
Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits.
+
bank
n.
A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.
+
bill holder

A device by means of which bills, etc., are held.
+
bravely
adv.
Finely; gaudily; gayly; showily.
+
bespattered
imp.|p.p.
of Bespatter
+
belated
a.
Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted.
+
blaze
v.t.
To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path.
+
bridgepot
n.
The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle.
+
breed
v.t.
To raise, as any kind of stock.
+
bowstring
n.
A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders.
+
bengal
n.
Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes.
+
beamless
a.
Not having a beam.
+
bang
v.t.
To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair).
+
behoove
v.t.
To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.
+
back
n.
A support or resource in reserve.
+
ballet
n.
A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.
+
bluebeard
n.
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.
+
bespeak
v.t.
To speak to; to address.
+
bacchanal
a.
Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
+
beteem
a.
To allow; to permit; to suffer.
+
bunk
n.
A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
+
bihydroguret
n.
A compound of two atoms of hydrogen with some other substance.
+
breach
n.
A bruise; a wound.
+
beal
v.i.
To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple.
+
beseen
a.
Accomplished; versed.
+
booked
imp.|p.p.
of Book
+
boomer
n.
One who, or that which, booms.
+
blistering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blister
+
buck
v.t.
To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
+
bank
n.
The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.
+
bag
v.t.
To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.
+
bursae
pl.
of Bursa
+
blue book

A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers.
+
barrister
n.
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.
+
basseting
n.
The upward direction of a vein in a mine; the emergence of a stratum at the surface.
+
bemoaned
imp.|p.p.
of Bemoan
+
blay
a.
A fish. See Bleak, n.
+
bloat
n.
A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow.
+
bead
n.
A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc.
+
bright
a.
Illustrious; glorious.
+
blacklead
v.t.
To coat or to polish with black lead.
+
barely
adv.
Without concealment or disguise.
+
bothnic
a.
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.
+
brasen
a.
Same as Brazen.
+
briton
n.
A native of Great Britain.
+
buffoonly
a.
Low; vulgar.
+
brave
superl.
Having any sort of superiority or excellence; -- especially such as in conspicuous.
+
benzoin
n.
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.
+
bryonin
n.
A bitter principle obtained from the root of the bryony (Bryonia alba and B. dioica). It is a white, or slightly colored, substance, and is emetic and cathartic.
+
band
v.t.
A space between elevated lines or ribs, as of the fruits of umbelliferous plants.
+
barnabite
n.
A member of a religious order, named from St. Barnabas.
+
balachong
n.
A condiment formed of small fishes or shrimps, pounded up with salt and spices, and then dried. It is much esteemed in China.
+
brass
n.
A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing.
+
baldpated
a.
Destitute of hair on the head; baldheaded.
+
boniform
a.
Sensitive or responsive to moral excellence.
+
bewake
v.t.|i.
To keep watch over; to keep awake.
+
burrow
v.i.
To lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed place; to hide.
+
beslabber
v.t.
To beslobber.
+
bewraying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bewray
+
bay
n.
A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.
+
bromal
n.
An oily, colorless fluid, CBr3.COH, related to bromoform, as chloral is to chloroform, and obtained by the action of bromine on alcohol.
+
border
v.t.
To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
+
begot

imp. & p. p. of Beget.
+
bed
n.
A course of stone or brick in a wall.
+
blattering
n.
Senseless babble or boasting.
+
bear
v.t.
To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
+
butt
v.i.
To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
+
beached
imp.|p.p.
of Beach
+
bestial
n.
A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial.
+
brogues
n.pl.
Breeches.
+
breaded
a.
Braided
+
burl
n.
A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
+
bourn
v.
Alt. of Bourne
+
branchiomerism
n.
The state of being made up of branchiate segments.
+
bondman
n.
A man slave, or one bound to service without wages.
+
bunn
n.
A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.
+
braid
n.
A narrow fabric, as of wool, silk, or linen, used for binding, trimming, or ornamenting dresses, etc.
+
belee
v.t.
To place under the lee, or unfavorably to the wind.
+
burden
n.
The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.
+
braggart
a.
Boastful.
+
buxine
n.
An alkaloid obtained from the Buxus sempervirens, or common box tree. It is identical with bebeerine; -- called also buxina.
+
becharm
v.t.
To charm; to captivate.
+
broom
n.
A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.
+
branchlet
n.
A little branch; a twig.
+
bren
n.
Bran.
+
bright
v.i.
See Brite, v. i.
+
benthal
a.
Relating to the deepest zone or region of the ocean.
+
boist
n.
A box.
+
bunion
n.
An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the bursae muscosae), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.
+
baldric
n.
A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt.
+
bane
n.
Destruction; death.
+
bosky
a.
Caused by boscage.
+
barbituric acid

A white, crystalline substance, CH2(CO.NH)2.CO, derived from alloxantin, also from malonic acid and urea, and regarded as a substituted urea.
+
bulimus
n.
A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous and abundant in tropical America.
+
billeting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Billet
+
bursting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Burst
+
burned
imp.|p.p.
of Burn
+
belong
v.i.
To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service.
+
beam
v.t.
To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light.
+
buzz
n.
The audible friction of voice consonants.
+
baffling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Baffle
+
betook

imp. of Betake.
+
blackwash
n.
A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny.
+
bespew
v.t.
To soil or daub with spew; to vomit on.
+
bude burner

A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied.
+
beakhead
n.
An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak.
+
biserrate
a.
Doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in some leaves.
+
bletonism
n.
The supposed faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; -- so called from one Bleton, of France.
+
brim
v.i.
To be full to the brim.
+
bicarbonate
n.
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.
+
brazen
a.
Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.
+
buttony
a.
Ornamented with a large number of buttons.
+
blastemata
pl.
of Blastema
+
bullseye
n.
A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging.
+
barouchet
n.
A kind of light barouche.
+
bibasic
a.
Having to hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by positive or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of acids. See Dibasic.
+
bodyguard
n.
A guard to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.
+
brokenly
adv.
In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language.
+
barbated
a.
Having barbed points.
+
bullet
n.
The fetlock of a horse.
+
bouk
n.
Bulk; volume.
+
breather
n.
That which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise.
+
bubble
n.
A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
+
boatbill
n.
A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.
+
bluff
a.
Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.
+
bereave
v.t.
To take away from.
+
byssoid
a.
Byssaceous.
+
brighten
a.
To improve or relieve by dispelling gloom or removing that which obscures and darkens; to shed light upon; to make cheerful; as, to brighten one's prospects.
+
boruret
n.
A boride.
+
blissom
v.i.
To be lustful; to be lascivious.
+
brahman
n.
Alt. of Brahmin
+
blat
v.i.
To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless noise; to talk inconsiderately.
+
bemuse
v.t.
To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor.
+
bursar
n.
A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.
+
behold
v.i.
To direct the eyes to, or fix them upon, an object; to look; to see.
+
blissful
a.
Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree.
+
beleave
v.t.|i.
To leave or to be left.
+
bate
v.i.
To flutter as a hawk; to bait.
+
brag
v.i.
Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
+
beat
v.i.
To be in agitation or doubt.
+
blushing
a.
Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate.
+
blur
v.t.
To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
+
back
n.
The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail.
+
botcherly
a.
Bungling; awkward.
+
backfriend
n.
A secret enemy.
+
bud
n.
A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.
+
beforetime
adv.
Formerly; aforetime.
+
bilander
n.
A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland.
+
barcon
n.
A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean.
+
beadlery
n.
Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.
+
bouse
v.i.
To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.
+
bequeath
v.t.
To give; to offer; to commit.
+
burr
n.
A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
+
blubbered
p.p.|a.
Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip.
+
byssin
n.
See Byssus, n., 1.
+
battable
a.
Capable of cultivation; fertile; productive; fattening.
+
blot
n.
A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.
+
blackboard
n.
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.
+
breeching
n.
The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.
+
bewildered
a.
Greatly perplexed; as, a bewildered mind.
+
bacchius
n.
A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.
+
bower
n.
Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment.
+
bight
v.
A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
+
balloon
v.t.
To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
+
bouge
v.i.
To swell out.
+
bodkin
n.
See Baudekin.
+
buff
a.
Firm; sturdy.
+
burghmaster
n.
An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster.
+
bemad
v.t.
To make mad.
+
brush wheel

A circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, etc., for polishing.
+
boil
v.t.
To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
+
beggars lice

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.
+
bank
v.i.
To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.
+
baiting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bait
+
bonder
n.
One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.
+
betook
imp.
of Betake
+
biting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bite
+
basipterygium
n.
A bar of cartilage at the base of the embryonic fins of some fishes. It develops into the metapterygium.
+
bacillar
a.
Shaped like a rod or staff.
+
bind
v.i.
To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
+
bar
n.
The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center of the sole.
+
back
v.i.
To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
+
babble
v.i.
To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding.
+
bailiffwick
n.
See Bailiwick.
+
backward
n.
The state behind or past.
+
bud
v.i.
To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.
+
bookmaker
n.
A betting man who "makes a book."  See To make a book, under Book, n.
+
burked
imp.|p.p.
of Burke
+
billowed
imp.|p.p.
of Billow
+
body
n.
The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.
+
boot
n.
Profit; gain; advantage; use.
+
binnacle
n.
A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night.
+
blessed
imp.|p.p.
of Bless
+
broach
n.
To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.
+
bombic
a.
Pertaining to, or obtained from, the silkworm; as, bombic acid.
+
brief
a.
Short in duration.
+
brief
adv.
Soon; quickly.
+
brace
n.
A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
+
bank
v.t.
To deposit in a bank.
+
bicaudate
a.
Two-tailed; bicaudal.
+
bedkey
n.
An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead.
+
bion
p.pr.
The physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological individual or morphon.
+
beneficient
a.
Beneficent.
+
bobsleigh
n.
A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed.
+
broma
n.
A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it.
+
bloody
a.
Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.
+
buck bean

A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean.
+
book
n.
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.
+
blennorrhea
n.
An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus.
+
baccalaureate
n.
The degree of bachelor of arts. (B.A. or A.B.), the first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges.
+
burganet
n.
See Burgonet.
+
booked
a.
Registered.
+
bedeguar
n.
Alt. of Bedegar
+
beshone
imp.|p.p.
of Beshine
+
benevolence
n.
The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.
+
bloodletter
n.
One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist.
+
boardable
a.
That can be boarded, as a ship.
+
base
n.
A place or tract of country, protected by fortifications, or by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed, forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc.
+
barren
a.
Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile.
+
bayoneted
imp.|p.p.
of Bayonet
+
bare

of Bear
+
brushiness
n.
The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess.
+
bison
n.
The aurochs or European bison.
+
bowllegged
a.
Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward.
+
blow
v.t.
To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore.
+
blemish
v.t.
To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame.
+
boon
n.
Kind; bountiful; benign.
+
board
n.
A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.
+
bagpipe
n.
A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.
+
ballad
v.t.
To make mention of in ballads.
+
bleak
a.
Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
+
biseptate
a.
With two partitions or septa.
+
burst
v.t.
To break.
+
brand
v.t.
A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.
+
blinker
pl.
A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc.
+
bronchocele
n.
See Goiter.
+
buoyed
imp.|p.p.
of Buoy
+
behest
n.
That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.
+
byzantine
n.
A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium. See Bezant.
+
boscage
n.
A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.
+
battleax
n.
Alt. of Battle-axe
+
bob
n.
To mock or delude; to cheat.
+
bend
n.
A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.
+
befog
v.t.
To involve in a fog; -- mostly as a participle or part. adj.
+
bull fly
n.
Alt. of Bullfly
+
buckle
n.
A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
+
bright
a.
Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; shedding cheerfulness and joy around; cheerful; cheery.
+
bivalve
n.
A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.
+
bull trout

The huso or salmon of the Danube.
+
blocklike
a.
Like a block; stupid.
+
belie
n.
To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.
+
balder
n.
The most beautiful and beloved of the gods; the  god of peace; the son of Odin and Freya.
+
barm
n.
Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.
+
baston
n.
An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court.
+
bathe
n.
The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe.
+
binomial
a.
Having two names; -- used of the system by which every animal and plant receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the other the species, to which it belongs.
+
buccinator
n.
A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.
+
brow
n.
The hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow.
+
bastard
a.
Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.
+
braid
v.t.
To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait.
+
becoming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Become
+
botcher
n.
A young salmon; a grilse.
+
battled
imp.|p.p.
of Battle
+
banker
n.
A ditcher; a drain digger.
+
banteng
n.
The wild ox of Java (Bibos Banteng).
+
basicerite
n.
The second joint of the antennae of crustaceans.
+
bisa antelope

See Oryx.
+
brave
n.
A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
+
bow
v.i.
To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down.
+
betrimming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Betrim
+
bay
n.
A bank or dam to keep back water.
+
branular
a.
Relating to the brain; cerebral.
+
barrel
v.t.
To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
+
brake
v.t.
A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
+
biggest
a.
superl. of Big.
+
beflatter
v.t.
To flatter excessively.
+
biserrate
a.
Serrate on both sides, as some antennae.
+
beviled
a.
Alt. of Bevilled
+
blame
v.
That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin.
+
birdcatcher
n.
One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler.
+
bovid
a.
Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.
+
boodhism
n.
Same as Buddhism.
+
balbucinate
v.i.
To stammer.
+
bestowment
n.
The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or bestowal.
+
bulge
n.
The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2.
+
blowhole
n.
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.
+
beguilement
n.
The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled.
+
barratry
n.
A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo.
+
bragged
imp.|p.p.
of Brag
+
beakhead
n.
A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew.
+
bracket
n.
The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
+
belating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Belate
+
beneficiaries
pl.
of Beneficiary
+
bubaline
a.
Resembling a buffalo.
+
bloat
v.t.
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.
+
big
n.
Alt. of Bigg
+
billfish
n.
The garfish (Tylosurus, / Belone, longirostris) and allied species.
+
bilinguist
n.
One versed in two languages.
+
beplumed
a.
Decked with feathers.
+
bypaths
pl.
of Bypath
+
belluine
a.
Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal.
+
brahmins
pl.
of Brahmin
+
bolt
v.t.
To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
+
brachyural
a.
Alt. of Brachyurous
+
balance
n.
To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
+
beefeater
n.
An African bird of the genus Buphaga, which feeds on the larvae of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two species are known.
+
burgamot
n.
See Bergamot.
+
brawling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brawl
+
bitch
n.
An opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman.
+
barkery
n.
A tanhouse.
+
biliverdin
n.
A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.
+
buoyant
v.t.|i.
Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits.
+
bock beer

A strong beer, originally made in Bavaria.
+
blackcap
n.
The black raspberry.
+
bunion
n.
Same as Bunyon.
+
beadswoman
n.
Alt. of Bedeswoman
+
breath
n.
A single word; the slightest effort; a trifle.
+
boot
v.t.
To punish by kicking with a booted foot.
+
bonnet
n.
An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds.
+
belam
v.t.
To beat or bang.
+
blackguarded
imp.|p.p.
of Blackguard
+
bicaudal
a.
Having, or terminating in, two tails.
+
batta
n.
Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India.
+
bulge
n.
A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall.
+
braminic

See Brahman, Brachmanic, etc.
+
brainy
a.
Having an active or vigorous mind.
+
beneath
prep.
Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming.
+
breed
n.
A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
+
bushwhacking
n.
Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream.
+
bless
v.t.
To guard; to keep; to protect.
+
be
v.i.
To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to.
+
blush
v.t.
To express or make known by blushing.
+
bidentate
a.
Having two teeth or two toothlike processes; two-toothed.
+
bronzist
n.
One who makes, imitates, collects, or deals in, bronzes.
+
benjamin
n.
See Benzoin.
+
brainless
a.
Without understanding; silly; thoughtless; witless.
+
balaenoidea
n.
A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen.
+
bewreck
v.t.
To wreck.
+
brocatel
n.
A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.
+
beginning
n.
That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
+
bismite
n.
Bismuth trioxide, or bismuth ocher.
+
blanch
a.
Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.
+
beautify
v.i.
To become beautiful; to advance in beauty.
+
bottom
n.
The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.
+
batrachian
n.
One of the Batrachia.
+
bountyhood
n.
Goodness; generosity.
+
brine
v.t.
To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay.
+
blancher
n.
One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside.
+
bowel
n.
Offspring.
+
beardless
a.
Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.
+
bezantler
n.
The second branch of a stag's horn.
+
baalim
pl.
of Baal
+
bagworm
n.
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.
+
bloodyminded
a.
Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty.
+
brace
n.
Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
+
baroque
a.
In bad taste; grotesque; odd.
+
beech
n.
A tree of the genus Fagus.
+
bifronted
a.
Having two fronts.
+
brave
superl.
Making a fine show or display.
+
brutality
n.
An inhuman act.
+
bare
a.
With head uncovered; bareheaded.
+
belted
a.
Encircled by, or secured with, a belt; as, a belted plaid; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; as, a belted knight; a belted earl.
+
bleachery
n.
A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.
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broad church

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.
+
blonde
n.
A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk, now sometimes dyed; -- called also blond lace.
+
brickkiln
n.
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.
+
brushite
n.
A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.
+
bide
v.t.
To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay.
+
boggy
a.
Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.
+
bi

In most branches of science bi- in composition denotes two, twice, or doubly; as, bidentate, two-toothed; biternate, doubly ternate, etc.
+
bromism
n.
A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness.
+
brewing
n.
The quantity brewed at once.
+
begrudged
imp.|p.p.
of Begrudge
+
befriended
imp.|p.p.
of Befriend
+
botryoidal
a.
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.
+
bosket
n.
Alt. of Bosquet
+
brighten
a.
To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to.
+
blotting paper

A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.
+
bunkum
n.
See Buncombe.
+
bestride
v.t.
To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over
+
bane
v.t.
To be the bane of; to ruin.
+
biddery ware

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.
+
blaze
n.
A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
+
baronetcy
n.
The rank or patent of a baronet.
+
broadleafed
a.
Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves.
+
benefice
n.
An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson.
+
bluebird
n.
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.
+
bestorm
v.i.|t.
To storm.
+
ballister
n.
A crossbow.
+
blot
v.i.
To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
+
bream
n.
A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream.
+
bachelordom
n.
The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.
+
belying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Belie
+
branchiostegal
a.
Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes.
+
bonding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bond
+
bulbose
a.
Bulbous.
+
bolster
n.
The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
+
banian
n.
A man's loose gown, like that worn by the Banians.
+
biliprasin
n.
A dark green pigment found in small quantity in human gallstones.
+
bound
p.p.|a.
Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.
+
baffling
a.
Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks.
+
bleeding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bleed
+
break
n.
See Commutator.
+
bottled
a.
Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle.
+
bail
n.
The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one.
+
befoul
a.
To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
+
blocked
imp.|p.p.
of Block
+
biorgan
n.
A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.
+
blind
n.
A halting place.
+
bellycheat
n.
An apron or covering for the front of the person.
+
bitangent
a.
Possessing the property of touching at two points.
+
burden
n.
The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
+
brike
n.
A breach; ruin; downfall; peril.
+
ballast
a.
Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
+
bronchus
n.
One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions.
+
bully
a.
Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.
+
briskness
n.
Liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety; vivacity; effervescence.
+
burin
n.
The manner or style of execution of an engraver; as, a soft burin; a brilliant burin.
+
blazon
n.
A shield.
+
bezzled
imp.|p.p.
of Bezzle
+
bibitory
a.
Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling.
+
brute
n.
A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.
+
bass
n.
The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See Bast.
+
blank
n.
Aim; shot; range.
+
basidium
n.
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.
+
bodice
n.
A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.
+
buz
v.|n.
See Buzz.
+
blotch
a.
A large pustule, or a coarse eruption.
+
bimembral
a.
Having two members; as, a bimembral sentence.
+
boohooing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Boohoe
+
bulau
n.
An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.
+
bootikin
n.
A covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the gout.
+
black
n.
The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
+
begotten

p. p. of Beget.
+
biga
n.
A two-horse chariot.
+
brocard
n.
An elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics.
+
bass horn

A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone.
+
behind
adv.
After the departure of another; as, to stay behind.
+
book muslin

A kind of muslin used for the covers of books.
+
brakeman
n.
The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.
+
bipartition
n.
The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.
+
belcher
n.
One who, or that which, belches.
+
bristle
n.
A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
+
bob
n.
A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.
+
boxes
pl.
of Box
+
belief
n.
A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.
+
binding
pl.
The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.
+
bilection
n.
That portion of a group of moldings which projects beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection.
+
bale
n.
Evil; an evil, pernicious influence; something causing great injury.
+
bill
n.
One who wields a bill; a billman.
+
benne
n.
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.
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bona peritura

Perishable goods.
+
bore
n.
A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.
+
brass
n.
Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass.
+
befogged
imp.|p.p.
of Befog
+
brine
v.t.
To steep or saturate in brine.
+
barren
n.
Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile.
+
beluga
n.
A cetacean allied to the dolphins.
+
besaint
v.t.
To make a saint of.
+
breaden
a.
Made of bread.
+
backs
n.pl.
Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
+
brocade
n.
Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched.
+
barded
p.a.
Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse.
+
blackfaced
a.
Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.
+
blast
v.t.
Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character.
+
belectured
imp.|p.p.
of Belecture
+
bemaul
v.t.
To maul or beat severely; to bruise.
+
blueback
n.
A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and northward.
+
bench
v.t.
To place on a bench or seat of honor.
+
banking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bank
+
bookmonger
n.
A dealer in books.
+
black
a.
In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.
+
benediction
n.
A solemn rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water, and formally dedicated to God.
+
bombast
v.t.
To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
+
balking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Balk
+
blinding
a.
Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.
+
block
v.t.
A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.
+
bipolarity
n.
Bipolar quality.
+
bleaky
a.
Bleak.
+
beaminess
n.
The state of being beamy.
+
bifurcate
a.
Alt. of Bifurcated
+
brangled
imp.|p.p.
of Brangle
+
bolting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bolt
+
but
v.i.
See Butt, v., and Abut, v.
+
browning
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brown
+
boza
n.
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.
+
beknave
v.t.
To call knave.
+
bray
v.t.
To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.
+
baggager
n.
One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower.
+
brawler
n.
One that brawls; wrangler.
+
break
v.t.
To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
+
baba
n.
A kind of plum cake.
+
blaze
v.i.
To be resplendent.
+
bejewel
v.t.
To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle.
+
bent

imp. & p. p. of Bend.
+
bespeak
n.
A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.)
+
before
adv.
On the fore part; in front, or in the direction of the front; -- opposed to in the rear.
+
bugger
n.
One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.
+
biternate
a.
Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets.
+
bring
v.t.
To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch; as, what does coal bring per ton?
+
brodekin
n.
A buskin or half-boot.
+
bill
v.t.
To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.
+
burinist
n.
One who works with the burin.
+
bummer
n.
An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.
+
bamboo
n.
A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries.
+
bowstringed
imp.|p.p.
of Bowstring
+
back
n.
The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney.
+
barbacan
n.
An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.
+
blotched
a.
Marked or covered with blotches.
+
biconvex
a.
Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens.
+
best
a.
Most advanced; most correct or complete; as, the best scholar; the best view of a subject.
+
bound
p.p.|a.
Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.
+
bagmen
pl.
of Bagman
+
barricade
n.
Any bar, obstruction, or means of defense.
+
bracer
n.
A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body.
+
barter
n.
The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods.
+
byinterest
n.
Self-interest; private advantage.
+
benzile
n.
A yellowish crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.CO.C6H5, formed from benzoin by the action of oxidizing agents, and consisting of a doubled benzoyl radical.
+
balloon fish

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.
+
bulletin
n.
A brief statement of facts respecting some passing event, as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority for the information of the public.
+
bologna
n.
A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects.
+
brook
v.t.
A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.
+
backsight
n.
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.
+
bramble
n.
Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.
+
barbacan
n.
See Barbican.
+
bow
v.t.
To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue.
+
blanched
imp.|p.p.
of Blanch
+
bidding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bid
+
bemuffle
v.t.
To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up.
+
balker
n.
A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer.
+
burlesque
v.t.
To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
+
ball
n.
A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football.
+
birdlet
n.
A little bird; a nestling.
+
bishopsweed
n.
An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi.
+
bye
n.
A run made upon a missed ball; as, to steal a bye.
+
bellflower
n.
A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple.
+
bosh
n.
The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.
+
bere
n.
Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare).
+
bolt
v.i.
A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.
+
beastlike
a.
Like a beast.
+
benches
pl.
of Bench
+
bill
n.
A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff.
+
blowing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blow
+
bond
n.
The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.
+
baptize
v.t.
To administer the sacrament of baptism to.
+
burst
v.t.
To produce as an effect of bursting; as, to burst a hole through the wall.
+
brahmanic
a.
Alt. of ical
+
bankrupt
n.
A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
+
bi

In the composition of chemical names bi- denotes two atoms, parts, or equivalents of that constituent to the name of which it is prefixed, to one of the other component, or that such constituent is present in double the ordinary proportion; as, bichromate, bisulphide. Be- and di- are often used interchangeably.
+
broadish
a.
Rather broad; moderately broad.
+
between
prep.
In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.
+
bawhorse
n.
Same as Bathorse.
+
brigandage
n.
Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.
+
bernese
n.sing.|pl.
A native or natives of Bern.
+
beck
v.i.
To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand.
+
bugle
n.
A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
+
bill
n.
A pickax, or mattock.
+
barytone
n.
Alt. of Baritone
+
bulb
v.i.
To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.
+
bema
n.
Erroneously: A pulpit.
+
brass
n.
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.
+
brehon
n.
An ancient Irish or Scotch judge.
+
braxy
n.
A disease of sheep. The term is variously applied in different localities.
+
barge
n.
A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge.
+
batz
n.
A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about four cents.
+
backwardly
adv.
Perversely; ill.
+
bewinter
v.t.
To make wintry.
+
bald
a.
Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal.
+
beg
v.t.
To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.
+
beautified
imp.|p.p.
of Beautify
+
banishment
n.
The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.
+
buddhism
n.
The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlightened," in the sixth century b. c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvana) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000.
+
biennial
a.
Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second.
+
bequeath
v.t.
To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property.
+
blighting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blight
+
burnished
imp.|p.p.
of Burnish
+
bigg
v.t.
To build.
+
balling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Ball
+
bispinose
a.
Having two spines.
+
buzzardet
n.
A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with legs relatively longer.
+
bell bearer

A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.
+
baldhead
n.
A white-headed variety of pigeon.
+
baseball
n.
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.
+
boiling
n.
The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.
+
brachystochrone
n.
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.
+
bakery
n.
The trade of a baker.
+
banat
n.
The territory governed by a ban.
+
birse
n.
A bristle or bristles.
+
boredom
n.
The realm of bores; bores, collectively.
+
bomb
n.
A bomb ketch.
+
bifilar
a.
Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance.
+
burgee
n.
A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels.
+
black book

A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution.
+
bible
n.
A book with an authoritative exposition of some topic, respected by many who are experts in the field.
+
bendable
a.
Capable of being bent.
+
basis
n.
The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.
+
bite
v.
A sharper; one who cheats.
+
breadbasket
n.
The stomach.
+
brave
n.
Specifically, an Indian warrior.
+
boot
n.
An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.
+
billsticker
n.
One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places.
+
brinded
a.
Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled.
+
bream
v.t.
To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.
+
bursten

p. p. of Burst, v. i.
+
blowpipe
n.
A blowgun; a blowtube.
+
boasted
imp.|p.p.
of Boast
+
beeregar
n.
Sour beer.
+
boragineous
a.
Relating to the Borage tribe; boraginaceous.
+
bravingly
adv.
In a defiant manner.
+
broken
v.t.
Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman.
+
bloom
n.
A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.
+
bloodwood
n.
A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.
+
bereave
v.t.
To take away.
+
boyaus
pl.
of Boyau
+
bicallous
a.
Having two callosities or hard spots.
+
board
v.t.
To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.
+
bath
n.
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.
+
belswagger
n.
A lewd man; also, a bully.
+
boarding
n.
The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay.
+
benefice
n.
An estate in lands; a fief.
+
bosom
n.
Embrace; loving or affectionate inclosure; fold.
+
botcher
n.
A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.
+
basenet
n.
See Bascinet.
+
busky
a.
See Bosky, and 1st Bush, n.
+
belate
v.t.
To retard or make too late.
+
bacchus
n.
The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.
+
blastophore
n.
That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.
+
beach
n.
The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand.
+
benedictive
a.
Tending to bless.
+
blinder
n.
One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker.
+
baste
v.t.
To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
+
bait
v.i.
To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.
+
bail bond

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.
+
biologic
a.
Alt. of Biological
+
bailer
n.
One who bails or lades.
+
blushingly
adv.
In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.
+
besmearing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Besmear
+
bottine
n.
An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children.
+
blanking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blank
+
billboard
n.
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.
+
bat printing

A mode of printing on glazed ware.
+
backward
adv.
Alt. of Backwards
+
boil
v.
To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
+
bountiful
a.
Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food.
+
bowl
v.t.
To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.
+
bed
n.
The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
+
birder
n.
A birdcatcher.
+
balsam
v.t.
To treat or anoint with balsam; to relieve, as with balsam; to render balsamic.
+
bouge
v.i.
To bilge.
+
blanked
imp.|p.p.
of Blank
+
brood
v.i.
To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
+
bracketing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bracket
+
balloon
n.
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.
+
butterbird
n.
The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.
+
boot
v.t.
To put boots on, esp. for riding.
+
buckskin
n.
A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
+
bonnet
n.
An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid; a decoy.
+
babillard
n.
The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler.
+
barnacle
n.
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.
+
beneath
adv.
In a lower place; underneath.
+
bijoux
pl.
of Bijou
+
but
v.t.
A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint.
+
bacciferous
a.
Producing berries.
+
bake
n.
The process, or result, of baking.
+
birdsnest
n.
The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups.
+
burgeon
v.i.
To bud. See Bourgeon.
+
brush
n.
A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
+
breeze
v.i.
To blow gently.
+
brutal
a.
Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature.
+
bishops length

A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 by 56.
+
blubber
n.
The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.
+
breeding
n.
Descent; pedigree; extraction.
+
been

The past participle of Be. In old authors it is also the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee.
+
blood
n.
Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.
+
buskined
a.
Wearing buskins.
+
biceps
n.
A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.
+
benediction
n.
A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness.
+
botch
n.
A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
+
beachy
a.
Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly.
+
beam tree

A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple.
+
bull trout

Salvelinus malma of California and Oregon; -- called also Dolly Varden trout and red-spotted trout.
+
blowing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blow
+
bayard
a.
Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse.
+
but
v.t.
The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
+
bigger
a.
compar. of Big.
+
bubble
n.
To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.
+
blower
n.
A braggart, or loud talker.
+
burier
n.
One who, or that which, buries.
+
beveled
imp.|p.p.
of Bevel
+
betrothal
n.
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.
+
behemoth
n.
An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24.
+
blow
n.
The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet.
+
barker
n.
An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably.
+
bilge
n.
The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
+
barbule
n.
One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.
+
better
n.
One who bets or lays a wager.
+
bestowment
n.
That which is given or bestowed.
+
bilateral
a.
Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties.
+
bed
n.
The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.
+
brannew
a.
See Brand-new.
+
belabor
v.t.
To beat soundly; to cudgel.
+
battel
v.i.
To make fertile.
+
boxthorn
n.
A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum.
+
blowtube
n.
A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles.
+
beete
v.t.
Alt. of Bete
+
bema
n.
A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.
+
backsaw
n.
A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.
+
batoidei
n.pl.
The division of fishes which includes the rays and skates.
+
bidet
n.
A kind of bath tub for sitting baths; a sitz bath.
+
bodying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Body
+
basso
a.
The double bass, or contrabasso.
+
breathe
v.t.
To express; to manifest; to give forth.
+
bile
n.
A boil.
+
bright
adv.
Brightly.
+
bryozoan
n.
One of the Bryozoa.
+
benthamism
n.
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.
+
blarneying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blarney
+
burr millstone

See Buhrstone.
+
bluff
a.
Abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque; as, a bluff answer; a bluff manner of talking; a bluff sea captain.
+
beat
v.i.
To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
+
bruiting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bruit
+
behoof
v.t.
Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use.
+
blind
a.
Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects.
+
balmy
a.
Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild.
+
balloting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Ballot
+
ball
n.
A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.
+
broider
v.t.
To embroider.
+
biogenist
n.
A believer in the theory of biogenesis.
+
breakable
a.
Capable of being broken.
+
baby
n.
An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.
+
betitle
v.t.
To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle.
+
blub
v.t.|i.
To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.
+
badgeless
a.
Having no badge.
+
bucentaur
n.
A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.
+
broad
superl.
Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive.
+
bombardment
n.
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.
+
ball
n.
A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.
+
birdseye
n.
A plant with a small bright flower, as the Adonis or pheasant's eye, the mealy primrose (Primula farinosa), and species of Veronica, Geranium, etc.
+
bonneted
a.
Wearing a bonnet.
+
bedagat
n.
The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah.
+
bolt
n.
Lightning; a thunderbolt.
+
bankable
a.
Receivable at a bank.
+
botryolite
n.
A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure.
+
between
prep.
Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion.
+
badgered
imp.|p.p.
of Badger
+
bungle
v.t.
To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up.
+
bookbinding
n.
The art, process, or business of binding books.
+
beatific
a.
Alt. of Beatifical
+
beamed
a.
Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag.
+
bailie
n.
An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman.
+
bowel
n.
Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth.
+
banshie
n.
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.
+
bardic
a.
Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry.
+
burke
v.t.
To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.
+
bower
v.|n.
A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
+
blonket
a.
Gray; bluish gray.
+
bombyx
n.
A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. See Silkworm.
+
bespread
v.t.
To spread or cover over.
+
bassrelief
n.
Some as Bas-relief.
+
bigam
n.
A bigamist.
+
blockish
a.
Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.
+
barble
n.
See Barbel.
+
bescreen
v.t.
To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal.
+
boatsman
n.
A boatman.
+
bringing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bring
+
bougainvillaea
n.
A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceae, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.
+
belt
n.
A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.
+
battened
imp.|p.p.
of Batten
+
bait
v.i.
A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
+
bracing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brace
+
banisher
n.
One who banishes.
+
bonito
n.
The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern of the United States and the West Indies.
+
billet
n.
A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.
+
black book

Any book which treats of necromancy.
+
billetsdoux
pl.
of Billet-doux
+
barite
n.
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.
+
beery
a.
Of or resembling beer; affected by beer; maudlin.
+
blennogenous
a.
Generating mucus.
+
buprestidan
n.
One of a tribe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larvae are usually borers in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very destructive to trees.
+
benedictional
n.
A book of benedictions.
+
binuclear
a.
Alt. of Binucleate
+
bellies
pl.
of Belly
+
butt
n.
The common English flounder.
+
batten
v.t.
To furnish or fasten with battens.
+
besetment
n.
The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin.
+
bullwort
n.
See Bishop's-weed.
+
become
v.i.
To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character.
+
bloom
v.t.
To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
+
beholden
p.p.
of Behold
+
build
v.i.
To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.
+
balm
n.
The resinous and aromatic exudation of certain trees or shrubs.
+
bounced
imp.|p.p.
of Bounce
+
bridegroom
n.
A man newly married, or just about to be married.
+
baked
imp.|p.p.
of Bake
+
barnacle
n.
An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.
+
bedside
n.
The side of a bed.
+
blushing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blush
+
belute
v.t.
To bespatter, as with mud.
+
badminton
n.
A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.
+
burgundy
n.
An old province of France (in the eastern central part).
+
bullantic
a.
Pertaining to, or used in, papal bulls.
+
bun
n.
Alt. of Bunn
+
blessed
a.
Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.
+
boom
v.i.
To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.
+
bewitcher
n.
One who bewitches.
+
betso
n.
A small brass Venetian coin.
+
blew
imp.
of Blow
+
beamy
a.
Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining.
+
brightness
n.
Acuteness (of the faculties); sharpness 9wit.
+
bedmoulding
n.
The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona.
+
badgering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Badger
+
bestuck
imp.|p.p.
of Bestick
+
braise
n.
Alt. of Braize
+
bore
v.i.
To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).
+
bindweed
n.
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.
+
badger
v.t.
To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.
+
banc
n.
Alt. of Bank
+
brother
n.
One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character.
+
bespit
v.t.
To daub or soil with spittle.
+
bipolar
a.
Doubly polar; having two poles; as, a bipolar cell or corpuscle.
+
break
v.t.
To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey.
+
blush
n.
A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
+
beaufet
n.
A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet.
+
bub
v.t.
To throw out in bubbles; to bubble.
+
brigand
n.
A light-armed, irregular foot soldier.
+
bantling
n.
A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.]
+
brown
superl.
Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
+
behovely
a.|adv.
Useful, or usefully.
+
baritone
n.
A person having a voice of such range.
+
baculite
n.
A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.
+
biography
n.
The written history of a person's life.
+
blinder
n.
One who, or that which, blinds.
+
bloodulf
n.
The European bullfinch.
+
blind
v.t.
To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.
+
blackmoor
n.
See Blackamoor.
+
blooming
n.
The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
+
barytes
n.
Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite. See Barite.
+
birch
a.
Of or pertaining to the birch; birchen.
+
bucking
n.
The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.
+
birchen
a.
Of or relating to birch.
+
bastardized
imp.|p.p.
of Bastardize
+
ballade
n.
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.
+
barleybreak
n.
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.
+
ball
v.i.
To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls.
+
bumkin
n.
A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen.
+
briber
n.
One who bribes, or pays for corrupt practices.
+
black friar

A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
+
bind
v.t.
To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams.
+
bare
n.
That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
+
bulk
v.i.
To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.
+
benzine
n.
Same as Benzene.
+
bloat
v.t.
To inflate; to puff up; to make vain.
+
burg
n.
A fortified town.
+
bar
n.
A drilling or tamping rod.
+
batter
v.t.
To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.
+
belaying pin

A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed.
+
bind
v.i.
To tie; to confine by any ligature.
+
brake
v.t.
An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
+
bib
v.i.
To drink; to sip; to tipple.
+
bream
n.
An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish.
+
box
n.
A blow on the head or ear with the hand.
+
bravo
a.
A daring villain; a bandit; one who sets law at defiance; a professional assassin or murderer.
+
bivalve
a.
Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels.
+
boycotter
n.
A participant in boycotting.
+
buttonweed
n.
The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and Diodia, of the Madder family.
+
biotite
n.
Mica containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See Mica.
+
brawner
n.
A boor killed for the table.
+
bilifuscin
n.
A brownish green pigment found in human gallstones and in old bile. It is a derivative of bilirubin.
+
bedding
n.
A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.
+
breezy
a.
Fresh; brisk; full of life.
+
backstay
n.
A rope or strap used to prevent excessive forward motion.
+
bosjesman
n.
See Bushman.
+
bocking
n.
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.
+
belay
v.t.
To lay on or cover; to adorn.
+
biggen
v.t.|i.
To make or become big; to enlarge.
+
baptisteries
pl.
of Baptistry
+
blow
v.i.
To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.
+
broad
superl.
Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
+
blatherskite
n.
A blustering, talkative fellow.
+
bent
v.
A transverse frame of a framed structure.
+
base
n.
The chief ingredient in a compound.
+
bankrupt
a.
Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.
+
breed
v.t.
To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
+
beltin
n.
See Beltane.
+
boothy
n.
A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth.
+
baby farming

The business of keeping a baby farm.
+
belletristical
a.
Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres.
+
barrow
n.
A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.
+
beeriness
n.
Beery condition.
+
bearsbreech
n.
The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium)
+
borderer
n.
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.
+
burrow
n.
A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
+
bryozoum
n.
An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zooecia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.).
+
breastwork
n.
A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.
+
binominous
a.
Binominal.
+
blemishing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blemish
+
bottom
n.
The fundament; the buttocks.
+
baste
v.t.
To mark with tar, as sheep.
+
balk
v.i.
A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.
+
burn
v.t.
To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.
+
beplaster
v.t.
To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub.
+
blew

imp. of Blow.
+
belooche beloochee
n.
A native or an inhabitant of Beloochistan.
+
biblically
adv.
According to the Bible.
+
base
n.
The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented.
+
birdlike
a.
Resembling a bird.
+
basedows disease

A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter.
+
bitingly
adv.
In a biting manner.
+
bombast
a.
High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
+
beam
n.
A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam.
+
bylane
n.
A private lane, or one opening out of the usual road.
+
bided
imp.|p.p.
of Bide
+
blackfish
n.
The female salmon in the spawning season.
+
bud
v.i.
To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
+
basta
interj.
Enough; stop.
+
buffeted
imp.|p.p.
of Buffet
+
bolting
n.
A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.
+
bandage
n.
A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.
+
betime
adv.
Alt. of Betimes
+
burman
n.
A member of the Burman family, one of the four great families Burmah; also, sometimes, any inhabitant of Burmah; a Burmese.
+
brushing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brush
+
bow net

A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel-shaped entrance at one end.
+
banish
v.t.
To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.
+
bent
v.
A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
+
bravadoes
pl.
of Bravado
+
brat
n.
A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
+
birl
v.t.|i.
To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse.
+
berthage
n.
A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.
+
block
v.t.
A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below.
+
brevet
v.t.
To confer rank upon by brevet.
+
bang
n.
Alt. of Bangue
+
brittle star

Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea.
+
brownwort
n.
A species of figwort or Scrophularia (S. vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
+
broid
v.t.
To braid.
+
boatage
n.
Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance.
+
bruiser
n.
A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes.
+
baffled
imp.|p.p.
of Baffle
+
broadcast
adv.
So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press.
+
billhead
n.
A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts.
+
bargaining
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bargain
+
barrow
n.
A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain.
+
botchy
a.
Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done.
+
brooked
imp.|p.p.
of Brook
+
benefit
n.
Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.
+
ballista
n.
An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.
+
banding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Band
+
beetling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beetle
+
bog
n.
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.
+
breviate
n.
A short compend; a summary; a brief statement.
+
bona roba

A showy wanton; a courtesan.
+
buntine
n.
A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.
+
bedsite
n.
A recess in a room for a bed.
+
bargainer
n.
One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.
+
biter
n.
One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish.
+
bowery
a.
Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.
+
biformity
n.
A double form.
+
bed
n.
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.
+
bayed
a.
Having a bay or bays.
+
benediction
n.
The form of instituting an abbot, answering to the consecration of a bishop.
+
bicyclic
a.
Relating to bicycles.
+
bottom
n.
Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.
+
begrudging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Begrudge
+
bravoes
pl.
of Bravo
+
bipetalous
a.
Having two petals.
+
boast
v.i.
To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
+
ballflower
n.
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.
+
baggage
n.
The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.
+
bouleversement
n.
Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.
+
bestad
imp.|p.p.
Beset; put in peril.
+
behight
v.
To promise; to vow.
+
ballotation
n.
Voting by ballot.
+
belesprit
n.
A fine genius, or man of wit.
+
barehanded
n.
Having bare hands.
+
between
prep.
Belonging in common to two; shared by both.
+
boost
v.i.
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.
+
boxing
n.
Material used in making boxes or casings.
+
bailable
a.
That can be delivered in trust; as, bailable goods.
+
bylaw
n.
A law that is less important than a general law or constitutional provision, and subsidiary to it; a rule relating to a matter of detail; as, civic societies often adopt a constitution and by-laws for the government of their members. In this sense the word has probably been influenced by by, meaning secondary or aside.
+
buffoonism
n.
The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery.
+
bethought

imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
+
bath
n.
A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure.
+
bishops cap

A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort.
+
bartered
imp.|p.p.
of Barter
+
brightly
adv.
Brilliantly; splendidly; with luster; as, brightly shining armor.
+
bark
v.t.
To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.
+
boat bug

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.
+
burghmote
n.
A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.
+
beylic
n.
The territory ruled by a bey.
+
bema
n.
That part of an early Christian church which was reserved for the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel.
+
barbed
a.
Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.)
+
brachial
a.
Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.
+
boundless
a.
Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited.
+
biped
a.
Having two feet; two-footed.
+
bewetted

of Bewet
+
bouk
n.
The body.
+
burnish
n.
The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster.
+
boatswain
n.
The tropic bird.
+
bespread
imp.|p.p.
of Bespread
+
bemoil
v.t.
To soil or encumber with mire and dirt.
+
base
n.
Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.
+
bulldog
n.
A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
+
bishoplike
a.
Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop.
+
breeching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Breech
+
butt weld

See Butt weld, under Butt.
+
bicostate
a.
Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
+
bewailed
imp.|p.p.
of Bewail
+
beknow
v.t.
To confess; to acknowledge.
+
bullist
n.
A writer or drawer up of papal bulls.
+
bolster
n.
Anything used to prevent chafing.
+
boned
a.
Manured with bone; as, boned land.
+
boroughholder
n.
A headborough; a borsholder.
+
brahminist
n.
An adherent of the religion of the Brahmans.
+
blunt
n.
A fencer's foil.
+
buffet
v.t.
To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.
+
bare
a.
Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
+
base
n.
The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand.
+
bump
n.
The noise made by the bittern.
+
bettor
n.
One who bets; a better.
+
boultel
n.
Alt. of Boultin
+
bolden
v.t.
To make bold; to encourage; to embolden.
+
bailiff
n.
An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc.
+
bashfully
adv.
In a bashful manner.
+
basilar
n.
Alt. of Basilary
+
bumble
n.
The bittern.
+
bitterwood
n.
A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
+
basilisk
n.
A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size.
+
brew
v.t.
To boil or seethe; to cook.
+
barbarous
a.
Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.
+
birdsnest
n.
An orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus Neottia (N. nidus-avis.)
+
breezeless
a.
Motionless; destitute of breezes.
+
bootlick
n.
A toady.
+
ical
a.
Of or pertaining to the Brahmans or to their doctrines and worship.
+
benignly
adv.
In a benign manner.
+
batter
n.
A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
+
blendous
a.
Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, blende.
+
bedtick
n.
A tick or bag made of cloth, used for inclosing the materials of a bed.
+
bossy
n.
A cow or calf; -- familiarly so called.
+
brake
v.t.
A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.
+
business
n.
That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure.
+
bittacle
n.
A binnacle.
+
best
superl.
In the highest degree; beyond all others.
+
blasphemous
a.
Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature.
+
brine
n.
Tears; -- so called from their saltness.
+
bond
a.
In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.
+
back
adv.
In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent.
+
bred
imp.|p.p.
of Breed
+
bottlenosed
a.
Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end.
+
bewail
v.t.
To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over.
+
beagle
n.
Fig.: A spy or detective; a constable.
+
breastplate
n.
A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor.
+
bewrayment
n.
Betrayal.
+
bebloody
v.t.
To make bloody; to stain with blood.
+
berberry
n.
See Barberry.
+
bolster
n.
That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle.
+
barwood
n.
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.
+
boyaux
pl.
of Boyau
+
boletus
n.
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.
+
bouillon
n.
An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.
+
birr
n.
A whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel.
+
basket
n.
The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
+
bethlehem
n.
In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the eucharist is made.
+
borracho
n.
See Borachio.
+
blind
a.
Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.
+
bosom
v.t.
To inclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
+
bowling
n.
The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.
+
barn
n.
A child. [Obs.] See Bairn.
+
batter
v.i.
To slope gently backward.
+
bluefish
n.
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.
+
bear
n.
An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.
+
blow
v.i.
To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows.
+
bordage
n.
The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
+
brake
v.t.
An ancient instrument of torture.
+
bloom
n.
A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
+
be

To render an intransitive verb transitive; as, befall (to fall upon); bespeak (to speak for).
+
brankursine
n.
Bear's-breech, or Acanthus.
+
ballast
a.
Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.
+
bantam work

Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware.
+
brownism
n.
The doctrines of the Brunonian system of medicine. See Brunonian.
+
battledoor
n.
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.
+
beamed
imp.|p.p.
of Beam
+
bicyclism
n.
The art of riding a bicycle.
+
before
adv.
In time past; previously; already.
+
buck
n.
A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
+
bisect
v.t.
To cut or divide into two parts.
+
burr
n.
The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2.
+
bushhammer
v.t.
To dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block of granite.
+
buckboard
n.
A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon.
+
bayad
n.
Alt. of Bayatte
+
bilinguous
a.
Having two tongues, or speaking two languages.
+
bevilled
a.
Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.
+
belt
n.
That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.
+
belord
v.t.
To act the lord over.
+
boughty
a.
Bending.
+
beforehand
a.
In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.
+
beam
n.
Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
+
booser
n.
A toper; a guzzler. See Boozer.
+
burden
n.
A birth.
+
bituminiferous
a.
Producing bitumen.
+
bis
pref.
A form of Bi-, sometimes used before s, c, or a vowel.
+
baptizable
a.
Capable of being baptized; fit to be baptized.
+
burring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Burr
+
benumbed
imp.|p.p.
of Benumb
+
basihyal
a.
Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted hyoid arch.
+
bolting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bolt
+
brood
a.
Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
+
bounce
v.t.
To bully; to scold.
+
bough
n.
An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.
+
beslavered
imp.|p.p.
of Beslaver
+
bushiness
n.
The condition or quality of being bushy.
+
bestial
a.
Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.
+
broacher
n.
A spit; a broach.
+
bottom
n.
An abyss.
+
bolted
imp.|p.p.
of Bolt
+
bracket
n.
A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
+
brimful
a.
Full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow.
+
bezoar
n.
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.
+
belonging
n.
That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects.
+
brood
v.t.
Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
+
broom
n.
An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.
+
backbond
n.
An instrument which, in conjunction with another making an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust.
+
bituminate
v.t.
To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen.
+
bear
v.i.
To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
+
beadroll
n.
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.
+
brickyard
n.
A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.
+
booth
n.
A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.
+
blackleg
n.
A notorious gambler.
+
baft
n.
Same as Bafta.
+
baric
a.
Of or pertaining to barium; as, baric oxide.
+
bestrew
v.t.
To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. 
+
bonapartist
n.
One attached to the policy or family of Bonaparte, or of the Bonapartes.
+
board
n.
A table to put food upon.
+
buffalo
n.
Any species of wild ox.
+
bar
n.
A vein or dike crossing a lode.
+
burgh
n.
A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.
+
besticking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bestick
+
blackstrap
n.
A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
+
batable
a.
Disputable.
+
bishopstool
n.
A bishop's seat or see.
+
bicentenary
n.
The two hundredth anniversary, or its celebration.
+
bravery
n.
Splendor; magnificence; showy appearance; ostentation; fine dress.
+
broadspread
a.
Widespread.
+
biweekly
a.
Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly.
+
barge
n.
A large boat used by flag officers.
+
bacchanal
n.
A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser.
+
brachelytra
n.pl.
A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles.
+
beneficially
adv.
In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably; helpfully.
+
brambled
a.
Overgrown with brambles.
+
betray
v.t.
To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
+
brothel
n.
A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.
+
busk
v.t.|i.
To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
+
bless
v.t.
To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self).
+
billbug
n.
A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio.
+
buckeye
n.
A cant name for a native in Ohio.
+
break
v.i.
To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
+
brotherly
adv.
Like a brother; affectionately; kindly.
+
battalia
n.
An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body.
+
buncombe
n.
Alt. of Bunkum
+
betrayed
imp.|p.p.
of Betray
+
blottesque
a.
Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation.
+
blanch
a.
To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.
+
bullhead
n.
In America, several species of Amiurus; -- called also catfish, horned pout, and bullpout.
+
blackguarding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blackguard
+
bolstered
a.
Supported; upheld.
+
bromatologist
n.
One versed in the science of foods.
+
bluntness
n.
Abruptness of address; rude plainness.
+
bawn
n.
An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure.
+
bias
a.
Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
+
blunting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blunt
+
blockheadism
n.
That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity.
+
bullfeast
n.
See Bullfight.
+
besides
adv.
Alt. of Beside
+
browbeat
v.t.
To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses.
+
butting joint

A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint.
+
bear
v.t.
To support and remove or carry; to convey.
+
bass
n.
The southern, red, or channel bass (Sciaena ocellata). See Redfish.
+
bush
v.t.
To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.
+
bevelling

of Bevel
+
bisie
v.t.
To busy; to employ.
+
blazoned
imp.|p.p.
of Blazon
+
behavior
n.
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.
+
brawling
a.
Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3.
+
bivouac
n.
The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.
+
befouling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Befoul
+
berime
v.t.
To berhyme.
+
bituminizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bituminize
+
buccinal
a.
Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.
+
belch
v.i.
To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate.
+
bescrawl
v.t.
To cover with scrawls; to scribble over.
+
ball
n.
A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus.
+
bendwise
adv.
Diagonally.
+
brother
v.t.
To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood.
+
blending
n.
The act of mingling.
+
bowleg
n.
A crooked leg.
+
bagged
imp.|p.p.
of Bag
+
bet
a.|adv.
An early form of Better.
+
buffooneries
pl.
of Buffoonery
+
bivalvular
a.
Having two valves.
+
bitangent
n.
A line that touches a curve in two points.
+
brilliant
a.
A kind of cotton goods, figured on the weaving.
+
biretta
n.
Same as Berretta.
+
blow
n.
A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms.
+
bedazzling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bedazzle
+
bond
n.
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.
+
beseech
v.t.
To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
+
baptistry
n.
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.
+
bard
n.
Specifically, Peruvian bark.
+
brasse
n.
A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch.
+
benzol
n.
An impure benzene, used in the arts as a solvent, and for various other purposes. See Benzene.
+
biological
a.
Of or relating to biology.
+
bristle
v.i.
To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
+
berry
n.
A mound; a hillock.
+
bandylegged
a.
Having crooked legs.
+
bourder
n.
A jester.
+
brickbat
n.
A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4.
+
brave
v.t.
To adorn; to make fine or showy.
+
brig
n.
A two-masted, square-rigged vessel.
+
betaine
n.
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.
+
beaver
n.
Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woolen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
+
bizarre
a.
Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque.
+
bicapsular
a.
Having two capsules; as, a bicapsular pericarp.
+
befallen
p.p.
of Befall
+
before
prep.
In presence or sight of; face to face with; facing.
+
bibliopolist
n.
Same as Bibliopole.
+
bullfaced
a.
Having a large face.
+
brontosaurus
n.
A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles.
+
behooveful
a.
Advantageous; useful; profitable.
+
benim
v.t.
To take away.
+
bolster
n.
A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows.
+
bail
n.
A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.
+
benempt
p.p.
Promised; vowed.
+
bricklaying
n.
The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks.
+
busying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Busy
+
blunderbuss
n.
A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.
+
beside
adv.
More than that; over and above; not included in the number, or in what has been mentioned; moreover; in addition.
+
bended
imp.|p.p.
of Bend
+
bazar
n.
A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods, as at a fair.
+
beak
n.
A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
+
bitter
n.
AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.
+
bakery
n.
The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.
+
brame
n.
Sharp passion; vexation.
+
bewitchment
n.
The power of bewitching or charming.
+
bustoes
pl.
of Busto
+
blockhouse
n.
A house of squared logs.
+
byplay
n.
Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds.
+
batavian
a.
Of or pertaining to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe; or to (b) /atavia or Holland; as, a Batavian legion.
+
burse
n.
A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull.
+
bushy
a.
Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs.
+
bloomingly
adv.
In a blooming manner.
+
biseriate
a.
In two rows or series.
+
bonhommie
n.
good nature; pleasant and easy manner.
+
basan
n.
Same as Basil, a sheepskin.
+
buffa
n.fem.
The comic actress in an opera.
+
bittern
a.
The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.
+
became

imp. of Become.
+
beseecher
n.
One who beseeches.
+
blandiloquious
a.
Fair-spoken; flattering.
+
brachiata
n.pl.
A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea.
+
bride
v.t.
To make a bride of.
+
browse
n.
To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; -- said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals.
+
branch
n.
Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.
+
beard
n.
The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.
+
buff
n.
The color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown.
+
basidiospore
n.
A spore borne by a basidium.
+
bamboo
v.t.
To flog with the bamboo.
+
blank
a.
Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.
+
begird
v.t.
To surround as with a band; to encompass.
+
bead proof

A degree of strength in alcoholic liquor as shown by beads or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side of the glass, when shaken.
+
besantler
n.
Same as Bez-antler.
+
bearing
n.
The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
+
boiler
n.
One who boils.
+
blacksmith
n.
A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.
+
begrease
v.t.
To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.
+
buckle
n.
A contorted expression, as of the face.
+
bigging
v.t.
A building.
+
blubbered
imp.|p.p.
of Blubber
+
baselard
n.
A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century.
+
bewitch
v.t.
To charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance; to enchant.
+
beguiling
a.
Alluring by guile; deluding; misleading; diverting.
+
bar
n.
A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's action.
+
bracken
n.
A brake or fern.
+
bipeltate
a.
Having a shell or covering like a double shield.
+
brag
n.
A game at cards similar to bluff.
+
brent
a.
Alt. of Brant
+
bisson
a.
Purblind; blinding.
+
basque
n.
A part of a lady's dress, resembling a jacket with a short skirt; -- probably so called because this fashion of dress came from the Basques.
+
beheld
imp.|p.p.
of Behold
+
boning
n.
The clearing of bones from fish or meat.
+
buckram
n.
A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
+
blenching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blench
+
beaux
pl.
of Beau
+
boon
n.
Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
+
back
v.i.
To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.
+
burner
n.
The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced.
+
bilaciniate
a.
Doubly fringed.
+
blackmail
n.
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.
+
boyish
a.
Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile.
+
briar
n.
A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.
+
blencher
n.
One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher.
+
burnish
v.i.
To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large.
+
blend
a.
To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive.
+
blister
v.i.
To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on.
+
bohemian
n.
The language of the Czechs (the ancient inhabitants of Bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the Slavic family.
+
bolt
v.i.
A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
+
blessed thistle

See under Thistle.
+
binal
a.
Twofold; double.
+
bit
v.
A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned by means of a brace or bitstock. See Bitstock.
+
bright
a.
Of brilliant color; of lively hue or appearance.
+
bezoardic
n.
A medicine containing bezoar.
+
budgeness
n.
Sternness; severity.
+
bolt
n.
An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
+
blowtube
n.
A blowgun.
+
behight
v.
To give in trust; to commit; to intrust.
+
beneath
prep.
Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of.
+
bridge
n.
A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.
+
beglerbeg
n.
The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier.
+
blastomere
n.
One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum.
+
blab
n.
One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale.
+
bouser
n.
A toper; a boozer.
+
barebacked
a.
Having the back uncovered; as, a barebacked horse.
+
burden
v.t.
To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.
+
bone
v.t.
To steal; to take possession of.
+
break
v.t.
A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10.
+
bricole
n.
A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.
+
bawl
v.t.
To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does.
+
bendlet
n.
A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.
+
bemourn
v.t.
To mourn over.
+
beurre
n.
A beurre (or buttery) pear, one with the meat soft and melting; -- used with a distinguishing word; as, Beurre d'Anjou; Beurre Clairgeau.
+
battery
v.t.
The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.
+
bridling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bridle
+
brede
n.
A braid.
+
betrayer
n.
One who, or that which, betrays.
+
brothelry
n.
Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel.
+
biographer
n.
One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.
+
belleslettres
n.pl.
Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.
+
befriend
v.t.
To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance.
+
beam
v.i.
To emit beams of light.
+
block book

A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.
+
backdoor
a.
Acting from behind and in concealment; as, backdoor intrigues.
+
bridge
v.t.
To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; -- generally with over.
+
baronial
a.
Pertaining to a baron or a barony.
+
brachytypous
a.
Of a short form.
+
bath
n.
Water or other liquid for bathing.
+
beam
n.
The pole of a carriage.
+
bigly
a.
In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently.
+
bolt
n.
A bundle, as of oziers.
+
bead
n.
Any small globular body
+
braid
n.
A quick motion; a start.
+
bannered
a.
Furnished with, or bearing, banners.
+
birth
n.
The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
+
bechamel
n.
A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream.
+
bias
adv.
In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.
+
buansuah
n.
The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primaevus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.
+
blackstrap
n.
Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.
+
by
pref.
Used in specifying adjacent dimensions; as, a cabin twenty feet by forty.
+
breast
n.
The front of a furnace.
+
bowyer
n.
One who makes or sells bows.
+
benedicite
n.
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.
+
boned
a.
Having (such) bones; -- used in composition; as, big-boned; strong-boned.
+
barrel
n.
A jar.
+
broaching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Broach
+
bushelman
n.
A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler.
+
bar
n.
Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
+
berstle
n.
See Bristle.
+
bill
n.
A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document.
+
bantam
n.
A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.
+
blow
n.
A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter.
+
brutality
n.
The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.
+
benedictine
n.
One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846.
+
bluestocking
n.
The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana).
+
blend
v.i.
To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.
+
blank
n.
A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
+
benched
imp.|p.p.
of Bench
+
bindheimite
n.
An amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite.
+
block
v.t.
A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work.
+
barrack
v.t.
To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops.
+
bleaching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bleach
+
bailey
n.
The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.
+
bookworm
n.
Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.
+
bergamot
n.
A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata).
+
boroglyceride
n.
A compound of boric acid and glycerin, used as an antiseptic.
+
bugle horn

A bugle.
+
bend
v.i.
To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
+
baltic
a.
Of or pertaining to the sea which separates Norway and Sweden from Jutland, Denmark, and Germany; situated on the Baltic Sea.
+
balky
a.
Apt to balk; as, a balky horse.
+
bastinado
n.
A blow with a stick or cudgel.
+
bleached
imp.|p.p.
of Bleach
+
banker
n.
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.
+
bilgy
a.
Having the smell of bilge water.
+
body
n.
The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.
+
bed
v.t.
To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock.
+
bellows fish

A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.
+
blindfolded
imp.|p.p.
of Blindfold
+
biliteralism
n.
The property or state of being biliteral.
+
boot
v.t.
To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?
+
blackheart
n.
A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin.
+
beveled
a.
Alt. of Bevelled
+
bogged
imp.|p.p.
of Bog
+
brandle
v.t.|i.
To shake; to totter.
+
beak
n.
A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles.
+
beaver
n.
An amphibious rodent, of the genus Castor.
+
base
n.
The smallest kind of cannon.
+
backwoodsmen
pl.
of Backwoodsman
+
beggarly
a.
In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
+
barkentine
n.
A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.
+
bluing
n.
The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel.
+
balance
n.
To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account.
+
bignoniaceous
a.
Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the trumpet flower is an example.
+
bloomless
a.
Without bloom or flowers.
+
bedelry
n.
Beadleship.
+
barillet
n.
A little cask, or something resembling one.
+
beholding
n.
The act of seeing; sight; also, that which is beheld.
+
bandle
n.
An Irish measure of two feet in length.
+
bluefin
n.
A species of whitefish (Coregonus nigripinnis) found in Lake Michigan.
+
beetle
v.i.
To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.
+
birdlime
v.t.
To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.
+
brick
n.
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.
+
brokenwinded
a.
Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.
+
brusk
a.
Same as Brusque.
+
bord
n.
A board; a table.
+
brain
n.
The affections; fancy; imagination.
+
brutalized
imp.|p.p.
of Brutalize
+
bacchantes
pl.
of Bacchante
+
bush
n.
A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.
+
brush
n.
To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.
+
bloat
v.i.
To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.
+
bow oar

One who rows at the bow of a boat.
+
betrap
v.t.
To draw into, or catch in, a trap; to insnare; to circumvent.
+
bailed
imp.|p.p.
of Bail
+
bar
n.
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.
+
bowlder
n.
Alt. of Boulder
+
broach
n.
To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.
+
befitted
imp.|p.p.
of Befit
+
bighorn
n.
The Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis / Caprovis montana).
+
bursiculate
a.
Bursiform.
+
ball
n.
Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.
+
battue
v.t.
The game itself.
+
blink
v.t.
To trick; to deceive.
+
boned
imp.|p.p.
of Bone
+
boolies
pl.
of Booly
+
brisk
a.
Full of spirit of life; effervesc/ng, as liquors; sparkling; as, brick cider.
+
blacksmith
n.
A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, / Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color.
+
blacktail
n.
A fish; the ruff or pope.
+
burn
v.i.
To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.
+
battlement
n.
pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.
+
brilliant
a.
A diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract the light, by which it is rendered more brilliant. It has at the middle, or top, a principal face, called the table, which is surrounded by a number of sloping facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the girdle by a pavilion of elongated facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is entirely covered with facets on the surface, and is flat below.
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branchiness
n.
Fullness of branches.
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bethink
v.t.
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.
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bedlam
n.
An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.
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believe
v.i.
To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith.
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bottled
a.
Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant.
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belive
a.
Forthwith; speedily; quickly.
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bunch
n.
A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
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buckie
n.
A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum.
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bugler
n.
One who plays on a bugle.
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brahmosomaj
n.
A modern reforming theistic sect among the Hindoos.
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bald
a.
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.
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beam
n.
The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another.
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brat
n.
The young of an animal.
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burr
v.i.
To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur.
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breast
n.
Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat.
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barn
n.
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.
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blast

A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc.
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bimastism
n.
The condition of having two mammae or teats.
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bowpencil
n.
Bow-compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil.
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bolt
v.i.
To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room.
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baff
n.
A blow; a stroke.
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beaches
pl.
of Beach
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bloncket
a.
Alt. of Blonket
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brusqueness
n.
Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; bluntness.
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braise
v.t.
To stew or broil in a covered kettle or pan.
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belt
v.t.
To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.
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business
n.
Care; anxiety; diligence.
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bistre
n.
A dark brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood.
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belgard
n.
A sweet or loving look.
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back
adv.
In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.
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bespeak
v.t.
To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.
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bridgeless
a.
Having no bridge; not bridged.
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blow
n.
An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it.
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bystroke
n.
An accidental or a slyly given stroke.
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boned
a.
Deprived of bones; as, boned turkey or codfish.
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blank
a.
Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.
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bield
v.t.
To shelter.
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branchy
a.
Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches.
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bay tree

A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis).
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bivalent
p.pr.
Equivalent in combining or displacing power to two atoms of hydrogen; dyad.
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baritone
n.
A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other.
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bowcompasses
pl.
of Bow-compass
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bush
n.
A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
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bengal
n.
A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal.
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bookwork
n.
Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work.
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booted
imp.|p.p.
of Boot
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blea
n.
The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.
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bipennis
n.
An ax with an edge or blade on each side of the handle.
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blowfly
n.
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.
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bear
v.t.
To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
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best
a.
Most; largest; as, the best part of a week.
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beemaster
n.
One who keeps bees.
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baldpate
a.
Alt. of Baldpated
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body
v.t.
To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.
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beneficial
a.
King.
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bustling
a.
Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd.
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bulletproof
a.
Capable of resisting the force of a bullet.
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brazier
n.
A pan for holding burning coals.
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bromatology
n.
The science of aliments.
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booky
a.
Bookish.
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barbara
n.
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.
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birches
pl.
of Birch
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blandished
imp.|p.p.
of Blandish
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borsten

of Breste
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beau monde

The fashionable world; people of fashion and gayety.
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basking shark

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.
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bosom
n.
The part of the dress worn upon the breast; an article, or a portion of an article, of dress to be worn upon the breast; as, the bosom of a shirt; a linen bosom.
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blackcoat
n.
A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat.
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beard
n.
The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
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bachelor
n.
An unmarried woman.
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buggy
n.
A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle.
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balsamation
n.
The act of imparting balsamic properties.
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buzzard
n.
A blockhead; a dunce.
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burette
n.
An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.
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barge
n.
A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
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brewery
n.
A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.
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brazen
a.
Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.
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belie
n.
To fill with lies.
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biggonnet
n.
A cap or hood with pieces covering the ears.
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bed
n.
The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
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beshut
v.t.
To shut up or out.
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barbecue
n.
A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
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bleed
v.i.
To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision.
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bankrupt
a.
Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.
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basaltiform
a.
In the form of basalt; columnar.
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bureau
n.
Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
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bearer
n.
One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
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blurt
v.t.
To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out.
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betel nut

The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime.
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blackballed
imp.|p.p.
of Blackball
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burgrave
n.
See Burggrave.
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benefit
v.t.
To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.
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be
v.i.
To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday.
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broke
imp.
of Break
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back
n.
A garment for the back; hence, clothing.
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bottling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bottle
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esprits
pl.
of Bel-esprit
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behest
n.
A vow; a promise.
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back
v.i.
To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.
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bodiced
a.
Wearing a bodice.
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brimstone
v.t.
Sulphur; See Sulphur.
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barbarian
n.
A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.
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brown
n.
A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.
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backstaff
n.
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.
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blastostyle
n.
In certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. See Hydroidea, and Athecata.
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bat
n.
A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
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buttery
n.
An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.
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bull trout

In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as Salmo trutta and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; -- called also sea trout.
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be

To intensify the meaning; as, bespatter, bestir.
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blaze
v.i.
To blazon.
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battel
a.
Fertile; fruitful; productive.
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blank
v.t.
To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.
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boomslange
n.
A large South African tree snake (Bucephalus Capensis). Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.
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button
n.
A bud; a germ of a plant.
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beton
n.
The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion.
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buckler
v.t.
To shield; to defend.
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burn
v.t.
To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.
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brad
n.
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.
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big
superl.
Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively.
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beldam
n.
Alt. of Beldame
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bolt
v.t.
To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
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bold
n.
Steep; abrupt; prominent.
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blaspheme
v.
To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.
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brawn
n.
The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar.
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berries
pl.
of Berry
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bactericidal
a.
Destructive of bacteria.
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bactrian
n.
A native of Bactria.
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bypast
a.
Past; gone by.
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bemist
v.t.
To envelop in mist.
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balotade
n.
See Ballotade.
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bastardly
a.
Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt.
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bastardizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bastardize
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betrayal
n.
The act or the result of betraying.
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bachelorhood
n.
The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship.
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become
v.t.
To suit or be suitable to; to be congruous with; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things.
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blossom
n.
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.
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belike
adv.
It is likely or probably; perhaps.
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blain
n.
An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister.
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backfall
n.
A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.
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bonitoes
pl.
of Bonito
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brood
v.t.
The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
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besmutting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Besmut
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broiler
n.
One who broils, or cooks by broiling.
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begetting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beget
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bullaries
pl.
of Bullary
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baritone
a.
Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice.
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bitumen
n.
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.
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bladder
v.t.
To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
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bachelorism
n.
Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors.
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back
v.i.
To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.
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burned
p.p.|a.
See Burnt.
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blast
n.
The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath.
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behooved
imp.|p.p.
of Behoove
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boothale
v.t.|i.
To forage for booty; to plunder.
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baldhead
n.
A person whose head is bald.
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band
v.t.
That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
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bay
n.
An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.
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beholding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Behold
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batardeau
n.
A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall.
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backed
a.
Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate.  Used in composition; as, broad-backed; hump-backed.
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bull terrier

A breed of dogs obtained by crossing the bulldog and the terrier.
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beaus
pl.
of Beau
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bridesmaid
n.
A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding.
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bench
v.t.
To furnish with benches.
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boeotian
a.
Of or pertaining to Boeotia; hence, stupid; dull; obtuse.
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bockey
n.
A bowl or vessel made from a gourd.
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bestow
v.t.
To demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by a reflexive pronoun.
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binervate
a.
Having only two nerves, as the wings of some insects.
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baunscheidtism
n.
A form of acupuncture, followed by the rubbing of the part with a stimulating fluid.
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blore
n.
The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.
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blaster
n.
One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.
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breathless
a.
Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention.
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booked
a.
On the way; destined.
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bear
v.t.
To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
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between
n.
Intermediate time or space; interval.
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bulldog
a.
Characteristic of, or like, a bulldog; stubborn; as, bulldog courage; bulldog tenacity.
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branch
n.
A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.
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bottom
n.
That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
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buckshorn
n.
A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus); also, Lobelia coronopifolia.
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brocaded
a.
Woven or worked, as brocade, with gold and silver, or with raised flowers, etc.
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blastodermic
a.
Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
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biliousness
n.
The state of being bilious.
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before
prep.
Under the cognizance or jurisdiction of.
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bague
n.
The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.
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binocular
n.
A binocular glass, whether opera glass, telescope, or microscope.
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bear
n.
Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
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bailiff
n.
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.
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brezilin
n.
See Brazilin.
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blastopore
n.
The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.
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backlash
n.
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.
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bittersweet
n.
A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.
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bewilderedness
n.
The state of being bewildered; bewilderment.
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battle
n.
To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
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bronchial
a.
Belonging to the bronchi and their ramifications in the lungs.
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brawned
a.
Brawny; strong; muscular.
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befringe
v.t.
To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe.
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bo tree

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.
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bailpiece
n.
A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond.
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bile
n.
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.
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blatant
a.
Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.
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bandrol
n.
Same as Banderole.
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bilsted
n.
See Sweet gum.
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blattered
imp.|p.p.
of Blatter
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beget
v.t.
To get (with child.)
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benight
v.t.
To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.
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beverage
v.t.
Specifically, a name applied to various kinds of drink.
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bukshish
n.
See Backsheesh.
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beyond
adv.
Further away; at a distance; yonder.
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buffoon
n.
A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew.
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blocking
n.
The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks.
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bent grass

Same as Bent, a kind of grass.
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barrier
n.
A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.
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beached
p.p.|a.
Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached.
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basiling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Basil
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brin
n.
One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.
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banquette
n.
A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.
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bowstringed
p.a.
Put to death with a bowstring; strangled.
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blaze
v.i.
To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.
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balancer
n.
One who balances, or uses a balance.
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bloodshedder
n.
One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
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burglary
n.
Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not.
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birdcage
n.
A cage for confining birds.
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bequote
v.t.
To quote constantly or with great frequency.
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boding
n.
A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.
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bursary
n.
A scholarship or charitable foundation in a university, as in Scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies.
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bernacle
n.
See Barnacle.
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bridal
n.
Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.
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bricklayer
n.
One whose occupation is to build with bricks.
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basnet
n.
Same as Bascinet.
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blouse
n.
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.
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bless
v.t.
To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.
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best
v.t.
To get the better of.
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breach
v.t.
To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
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brail
n.
A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
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belocked
imp.|p.p.
of Belock
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breechloader
n.
A firearm which receives its load at the breech.
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bulked
imp.|p.p.
of Bulk
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basil
n.
The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground.
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bucranium
n.
A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.
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brid
n.
A bird.
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bondager
n.
A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field.
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bosoming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bosom
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bleaberry
n.
See Blaeberry.
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blitheful
a.
Gay; full of gayety; joyous.
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bounden
p.p|a.
Under obligation; bound by some favor rendered; obliged; beholden.
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bail
n.
A certain limit within a forest.
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buckle
n.
A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.
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betulin
n.
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.
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bezoartic
a.
Alt. of Bezoartical
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beholder
n.
One who beholds; a spectator.
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biscuit
n.
A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.
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bleaching
n.
The act or process of whitening, by removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents.
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bamboozling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bamboozle
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barefooted
a.
Having the feet bare.
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boilingly
adv.
With boiling or ebullition.
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barbadian
a.
Of or pertaining to Barbados.
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bespitting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bespit
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branchiostegal
n.
A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix.
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beprose
v.t.
To reduce to prose.
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brag
v.t.
To boast of.
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bufferhead
n.
The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.
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blowzy
a.
Coarse and ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored; frowzy.
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bestick
v.t.
To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce.
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baffle
v.t.
To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
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beyond
prep.
In a degree or amount exceeding or surpassing; proceeding to a greater degree than; above, as in dignity, excellence, or quality of any kind.
+
boomer
n.
One who works up a "boom".
+
beer
n.
A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.
+
bespeckling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bespeckle
+
branchless
a.
Destitute of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
+
barony
n.
In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252  of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner.
+
best
n.
Utmost; highest endeavor or state; most nearly perfect thing, or being, or action; as, to do one's best; to the best of our ability.
+
broil
n.
A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.
+
boud
n.
A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.
+
bleating
a.
Crying as a sheep does.
+
brewing
n.
The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale.
+
backsliding
a.
Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning.
+
bergander
n.
A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake.
+
belief
n.
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.
+
backlog
n.
A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth.
+
birth
n.
Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.
+
babbler
n.
A hound too noisy on finding a good scent.
+
begin
v.t.
To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of.
+
built
n.
Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship.
+
baggily
adv.
In a loose, baggy way.
+
brogue
n.
A stout, coarse shoe; a brogan.
+
barbule
n.
A very minute barb or beard.
+
blessedly
adv.
Happily; fortunately; joyfully.
+
berthing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Berth
+
bedrabble
v.t.
To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble.
+
baldachin
n.
A structure in form of a canopy, sometimes supported by columns, and sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter's.
+
bestrid

of Bestride
+
back
adv.
In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.
+
bluing
n.
Something to give a bluish tint, as indigo, or preparations used by washerwomen.
+
blab
v.
To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.
+
booby
a.
Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.
+
bled

imp. & p. p. of Bleed.
+
blinkard
n.
That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears.
+
beaver
n.
That piece of armor which protected the lower part of the face, whether forming a part of the helmet or fixed to the breastplate. It was so constructed (with joints or otherwise) that the wearer could raise or lower it to eat and drink.
+
bivouac
v.i.
To encamp for the night without tents or covering.
+
bridemaid
n.
Alt. of Brideman
+
beden
n.
The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.
+
bee
n.
A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee.
+
balancereef
n.
The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.
+
buffle
n.
The buffalo.
+
blind
n.
A blindage. See Blindage.
+
bather
n.
One who bathes.
+
better
compar.
In a higher or greater degree; more; as, to love one better than another.
+
brahma
n.
A valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well feathered. There are two breeds, the dark or penciled, and the light; -- called also Brahmapootra.
+
besayle
n.
A great-grandfather.
+
burghbrech
n.
The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace.
+
bosomy
a.
Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.
+
boastive
a.
Presumptuous.
+
beggar
n.
One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.
+
bibliopegic
a.
Relating to the binding of books.
+
bastinado
v.t.
To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.
+
berycoid
a.
Of or pertaining to the Berycidae, a family of marine fishes.
+
butment
n.
A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.
+
binary
n.
That which is constituted of two figures, things, or parts; two; duality.
+
brassica
n.
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.
+
burl
v.t.
To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.
+
breakwater
n.
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.
+
bilk
v.t.
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.
+
bolide
n.
A kind of bright meteor; a bolis.
+
bib
v.t.
Alt. of Bibbe
+
bon silene

A very fragrant tea rose with petals of various shades of pink.
+
broach
n.
An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
+
blade
n.
The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.
+
bake
v.t.
To harden by cold.
+
blindly
adv.
Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own.
+
bank
n.
The face of the coal at which miners are working.
+
bounden
p.p|a.
Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding.
+
bang
v.i.
To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.
+
bibliopolic
a.
Alt. of Bibliopolar
+
bacillary
a.
Of or pertaining to little rods; rod-shaped.
+
breastplate
n.
A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod.
+
bushing
n.
A bush or lining; -- sometimes called a thimble. See 4th Bush.
+
bashfulness
n.
The quality of being bashful.
+
berth
v.t.
To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.
+
bodied
imp.|p.p.
of Body
+
between
prep.
Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two.
+
becket
n.
A spade for digging turf.
+
blackly
adv.
In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously.
+
brent
imp.|p.p.
Burnt.
+
beard
n.
In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
+
bassetto
n.
A tenor or small bass viol.
+
brawl
v.i.
To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.
+
breach
n.
Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.
+
breed
v.t.
To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
+
baltimore oriole

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.
+
brassiness
n.
The state, condition, or quality of being brassy.
+
bronze
a.
A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.
+
blooming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bloom
+
bitter
v.t.
To make bitter.
+
bluebell
n.
A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell.
+
blinkeyed
a.
Habitually winking.
+
bumming
n.
of Bum
+
broad
n.
The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
+
beshroud
v.t.
To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen.
+
bepinched
imp.|p.p.
of Bepinch
+
bail
n.
The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable.
+
brainpan
n.
The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.
+
banalities
pl.
of Banality
+
boost
n.
A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb; help.
+
bark
n.
Alt. of Barque
+
braid
n.
A plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or weaving together different strands.
+
bank
n.
A sort of table used by printers.
+
bleating
n.
The cry of, or as of, a sheep.
+
backwards
adv.
On the back, or with the back downward.
+
brusher
n.
One who, or that which, brushes.
+
bookshop
n.
A bookseller's shop.
+
bene
n.
Alt. of Ben
+
begrudge
v.t.
To grudge; to envy the possession of.
+
breath
n.
Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration.
+
borele
n.
The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).
+
bourgeois
a.
Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.
+
branch
v.i.
To divide into separate parts or subdivision.
+
bilalo
n.
A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay of Manila.
+
brokerage
n.
The business or employment of a broker.
+
beclap
v.t.
To catch; to grasp; to insnare.
+
branding iron

An iron to brand with.
+
brandisher
n.
One who brandishes.
+
bulker
n.
A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
+
bast
n.
A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.
+
bronze
a.
An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.
+
birth
n.
See Berth.
+
bathed
imp.|p.p.
of Bathe
+
bloomed
imp.|p.p.
of Bloom
+
boa
n.
A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor.
+
besides
prep.
Over and above; separate or distinct from; in addition to; other than; else than. See Beside, prep., 3, and Syn. under Beside.
+
birdie
n.
A pretty or dear little bird; -- a pet name.
+
belted
a.
Marked with a band or circle; as, a belted stalk.
+
barenecked
a.
Having the neck bare.
+
broad
superl.
Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.
+
brazil nut

An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut.
+
behove
v.
and derivatives. See Behoove, &c.
+
becard
n.
A South American bird of the flycatcher family. (Tityra inquisetor).
+
bacteriological
a.
Of or pertaining to bacteriology; as, bacteriological studies.
+
below
adv.
On the earth, as opposed to the heavens.
+
bonnet
n.
A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc.
+
bender
n.
One who, or that which, bends.
+
blanquillo
n.
A large fish of Florida and the W. Indies (Caulolatilus chrysops). It is red, marked with yellow.
+
blame
v.
Hurt; injury.
+
bootjack
n.
A device for pulling off boots.
+
bummalo
n.
A small marine Asiatic fish (Saurus ophidon) used in India as a relish; -- called also Bombay duck.
+
blusterous
a.
Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering.
+
beveling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bevel
+
base
a.
Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.
+
bevies
pl.
of Bevy
+
barnacle
sing.
Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers.
+
bridler
n.
One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle.
+
burglariously
adv.
With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar.
+
batter
v.t.
A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.
+
bearing
n.
Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
+
bragless
a.
Without bragging.
+
buzz
v.t.
To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an under tone; to spread, as report, by whispers, or secretly.
+
borrow
v.t.
To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.
+
bilocation
n.
Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints.
+
bombproof
n.
A structure which heavy shot and shell will not penetrate.
+
beseeming
a.
Becoming; suitable.
+
basylous
a.
Pertaining to, or having the nature of, a basyle; electro-positive; basic; -- opposed to chlorous.
+
bolar
a.
Of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey.
+
baritone
n.
A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.
+
bind
n.
Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron.
+
breastband
n.
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.
+
braize
n.
A European marine fish (Pagrus vulgaris) allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.
+
brazenly
adv.
In a bold, impudent manner.
+
bird cage
n.
Alt. of Birdcage
+
baryphony
n.
Difficulty of speech.
+
brace
n.
A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves.
+
bursary
n.
The treasury of a college or monastery.
+
barytum
n.
The metal barium. See Barium.
+
bunked
imp.|p.p.
of Bunk
+
bacilliform
a.
Rod-shaped.
+
brace
v.i.
To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -- with up.
+
blade
n.
The scapula or shoulder blade.
+
barber fish

See Surgeon fish.
+
buttery
n.
A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.
+
blacking
n.
The act or process of making black.
+
bayard
a.
A stupid, clownish fellow.
+
boot
n.
Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
+
bump
v.t.
To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.
+
bucholzite
n.
Same as Fibrolite.
+
blackened
imp.|p.p.
of Blacken
+
boor
n.
A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.
+
balmoral
n.
A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front.
+
berthing
n.
The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake.
+
brewhouse
n.
A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.
+
bullennail
n.
A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered.
+
band

imp. of Bind.
+
blot
n.
An exposure of a single man to be taken up.
+
break
v.i.
To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty.
+
behowl
v.t.
To howl at.
+
bellwort
n.
A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.
+
bumptiousness
n.
Conceitedness.
+
banning
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Ban
+
beef
n.
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.
+
bustle
n.
Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.
+
blackwash
n.
A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.
+
bastardy
n.
The procreation of a bastard child.
+
bebeerine
n.
Alt. of Bebirine
+
belecturing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Belecture
+
bluster
n.
Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.
+
barleycorn
n.
Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch.
+
bruiser
n.
One who, or that which, bruises.
+
bourd
n.
A jest.
+
brokenness
n.
Contrition; as, brokenness of heart.
+
belooche beloochee
a.
Of or pertaining to Beloochistan, or to its inhabitants.
+
belie
n.
To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander.
+
bequeathed
imp.|p.p.
of Bequeath
+
benumbing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Benumb
+
bobac
n.
The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac).
+
benefaction
n.
A benefit conferred; esp. a charitable donation.
+
bosom
a.
Intimate; confidential; familiar; trusted; cherished; beloved; as, a bosom friend.
+
back
adv.
In return, repayment, or requital.
+
butcherly
a.
Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.
+
beat
v.t.
To tread, as a path.
+
brush
v.i.
To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.
+
barbecue
v.t.
To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog.
+
breathable
a.
Such as can be breathed.
+
blink
v.i.
To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
+
butterweed
n.
An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus).
+
belgic
a.
Of or pertaining to the Belgae, a German tribe who anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean.
+
benediction
n.
The act of blessing.
+
bloody sweat

A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.
+
bedabble
v.t.
To dabble; to sprinkle or wet.
+
birch
n.
A birch twig or birch twigs, used for flogging.
+
bleeding
a.
Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion.
+
bumbelo
n.
A glass used in subliming camphor.
+
battled
p.p.
Embattled.
+
beeswax
n.
The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed.
+
bastard
v.t.
To bastardize.
+
based
a.
Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based.
+
bergamot
n.
A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
+
bird
v.i.
To catch or shoot birds.
+
brevities
pl.
of Brevity
+
building
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Build
+
boil
v.
To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
+
bushwhacker
n.
A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers.
+
barred
imp.|p.p.
of Bar
+
blench
v.i.
To fly off; to turn aside.
+
buoyancy
n.
The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water.
+
bedaub
v.t.
To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty.
+
behind
adv.
At the back part; in the rear.
+
backset
n.
Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water.
+
block
n.
To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.
+
benedicite
n.
An exclamation corresponding to Bless you !.
+
boom
n.
A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage.
+
bargain
n.
An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
+
bud
v.i.
To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
+
bipectinate
a.
Alt. of Bipectinated
+
birdseye maple

See under Maple.
+
branchiopod
n.
One of the Branchiopoda.
+
brief
n.
A writ issuing from the chancery, directed to any judge ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into the case, and upon their verdict to pronounce sentence.
+
bate
v.t.
To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.
+
brake
v.t.
An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.
+
bull brier

A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier.
+
besogne
n.
A worthless fellow; a bezonian.
+
byturning
n.
An obscure road; a way turning from the main road.
+
bystander
n.
One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting.
+
bedewer
n.
One who, or that which, bedews.
+
biflorous
a.
Bearing two flowers; two-flowered.
+
blazoning
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blazon
+
butteries
pl.
of Buttery
+
barbet
n.
A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.
+
brownist
n.
One who advocates the Brunonian system of medicine.
+
booking clerk

A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.
+
banister
n.
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.
+
breathe
v.t.
To put out of breath; to exhaust.
+
bronchic
a.
Bronchial.
+
blomary
n.
See Bloomery.
+
boycott
v.t.
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.
+
bellied
a.
Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.
+
bail
v.t.
To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat.
+
bractless
a.
Destitute of bracts.
+
brace
v.t.
To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
+
besnuff
v.t.
To befoul with snuff.
+
bronco
n.
Same as Broncho.
+
befouled
imp.|p.p.
of Befoul
+
break
v.t.
An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current.
+
bicameral
a.
Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches.
+
barometz
n.
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.
+
blowhole
n.
A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.
+
bronzing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bronze
+
bankruptcies
pl.
of Bankruptcy
+
buffet
v.i.
A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity.
+
babylonical
a.
Pertaining to Babylon, or made there; as, Babylonic garments, carpets, or hangings.
+
bill
v.i.
To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.
+
brokerage
n.
The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.
+
bawling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bawl
+
barker
n.
One who strips trees of their bark.
+
boohooed
imp.|p.p.
of Boohoe
+
bequest
n.
The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B.
+
biggon
n.
Alt. of Biggonnet
+
bismare
n.
Alt. of Bismer
+
breathe
v.t.
To act upon by the breath; to cause to sound by breathing.
+
blae
a.
Dark blue or bluish gray; lead-colored.
+
bewrapped
imp.|p.p.
of Bewrap
+
bathybius
n.
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.
+
buxom
a.
Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.
+
boon
n.
A prayer or petition.
+
bellicous
a.
Bellicose.
+
bracted
a.
Furnished with bracts.
+
bomb
v.i.
To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
+
brander
n.
A gridiron.
+
bummed
imp.|p.p.
of Bum
+
besprinkling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Besprinkle
+
bloomy
a.
Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray.
+
belfry
n.
A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.
+
bond
v.t.
To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise) by giving a bond.
+
bete noire

Something especially hated or dreaded; a bugbear.
+
burr
n.
The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head.
+
bondwomen
pl.
of Bondwoman
+
bind
v.t.
Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other.
+
bleared
a.
Dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum.
+
bate
v.t.
To leave out; to except.
+
breathlessly
adv.
In a breathless manner.
+
brideman
n.
See Bridesmaid, Bridesman.
+
bull
n.
The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
+
boraginaceous
a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceae) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants.
+
boor
n.
A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.
+
beloved
p.p.|a.
Greatly loved; dear to the heart.
+
behooving
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Behoove
+
breamed
imp.|p.p.
of Bream
+
bite
v.t.
To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.
+
butcher
n.
One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.
+
betake
v.t.
To commend or intrust to; to commit to.
+
bestir
v.t.
To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor; -- usually with the reciprocal pronoun.
+
bottom
n.
A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
+
bullace
n.
The bully tree.
+
bizet
n.
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.
+
bass viol

A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello.
+
bewildering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bewilder
+
bulrush
n.
A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water.
+
bluecap
n.
The bluepoll.
+
bicho
n.
See Jigger.
+
bogy
n.
A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear.
+
biangulous
a.
Biangular.
+
batch
v.t.
A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business.
+
break
v.i.
To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn.
+
backwards
adv.
Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
+
bobbinet
n.
A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand.
+
bellicose
a.
Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.
+
bybidder
n.
One who bids at an auction in behalf of the auctioneer or owner, for the purpose of running up the price of articles.
+
black
n.
A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.
+
bichir
n.
A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei.
+
bay
n.
A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.
+
bounteous
a.
Liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously liberal; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production.
+
bedaubing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bedaub
+
bearishness
n.
Behavior like that of a bear.
+
braze
v.i.
To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe.
+
bestrewed
imp.
of Bestrew
+
bidding prayer

The prayer before the sermon, with petitions for various specified classes of persons.
+
blight
n.
The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc.
+
bordered
imp.|p.p.
of Border
+
beauish
n.
Like a beau; characteristic of a beau; foppish; fine.
+
bibliophilist
n.
A lover of books.
+
bend
n.
Hard, indurated clay; bind.
+
blek
v.t.
To blacken; also, to defile.
+
bone
v.t.
To fertilize with bone.
+
base
a.
To reduce the value of; to debase.
+
blasting
n.
A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause.
+
beast
n.
Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.
+
barbate
a.
Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.
+
beaten
a.
Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase.
+
brood
v.t.
To cherish with care.
+
bomb
v.t.
To bombard.
+
bother
v.i.
To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
+
bulge
n.
The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
+
beleaguered
imp.|p.p.
of Beleaguer
+
broomstaff
n.
A broomstick.
+
bosom
n.
A depression round the eye of a millstone.
+
bondholder
n.
A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.
+
bed
v.t.
To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold.
+
blue
v.t.
To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.
+
bisection
n.
Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts.
+
bulking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bulk
+
barroom
n.
A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.
+
brush
n.
To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.
+
baisemains
n.pl.
Respects; compliments.
+
brigaded
imp.|p.p.
of Brigade
+
bedphere
n.
See Bedfere.
+
bipartite
a.
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.
+
brutify
v.t.
To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize.
+
beghard
n.
Alt. of Beguard
+
bold
n.
Somewhat overstepping usual bounds, or conventional rules, as in art, literature, etc.; taking liberties in composition or expression; as, the figures of an author are bold.
+
bow oar

The oar used by the bowman.
+
blossom
n.
To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.
+
badderlocks
n.
A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.
+
boldfaced
a.
Somewhat impudent; lacking modesty; as, a bold-faced woman.
+
bracer
n.
That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.
+
barely
adv.
Merely; only.
+
baker
v.i.
One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.
+
bedashed
imp.|p.p.
of Bedash
+
bake
v.i.
To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.
+
bluing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blue
+
bravura
n.
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.
+
beat
v.t.
To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
+
blossom
n.
The color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color.
+
berhymed
imp.|p.p.
of Berhyme
+
bran
n.
The European carrion crow.
+
bairam
n.
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.
+
beheadal
n.
Beheading.
+
bamboozled
imp.|p.p.
of Bamboozle
+
bumblebee
n.
A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; -- so named from its sound.
+
bole
n.
A measure. See Boll, n., 2.
+
bass drum

The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a.
+
bard
n.
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.
+
brindle
n.
The state of being brindled.
+
buffing apparatus

See Buffer, 1.
+
benching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bench
+
blanch
n.
Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
+
babery
n.
Finery of a kind to please a child.
+
billeted
imp.|p.p.
of Billet
+
blown
p.p.
of Blow
+
booking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Book
+
brest
n.
Alt. of Breast
+
baneful
a.
Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.
+
bearing
n.
The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W.
+
belong
v.i.
To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.
+
birch
n.
A birch-bark canoe.
+
bunn
n.
See Bun.
+
blew
imp.
of Blow
+
brummagem
a.
Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham.
+
baby farm

A place where the nourishment and care of babies are offered for hire.
+
bank
n.
A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
+
banqueting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Banquet
+
bestialize
v.t.
To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize.
+
bronzine
n.
A metal so prepared as to have the appearance of bronze.
+
bloomary
n.
See Bloomery.
+
bandies
pl.
of Bandy
+
before
adv.
In advance.
+
ies
pl.
of Boothy
+
blennioid
a.
Alt. of Blenniid
+
birding
n.
Birdcatching or fowling.
+
baconian
a.
Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy.
+
blow
v.i.
To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows.
+
battle
v.t.
A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
+
bustled
imp.|p.p.
of Bustle
+
betongue
v.t.
To attack with the tongue; to abuse; to insult.
+
brassets
n.
See Brassart.
+
burying ground

Alt. of Burying place
+
bony
a.
Having large or prominent bones.
+
bottleholder
n.
One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer.
+
bell pepper

A species of Capsicum, or Guinea pepper (C. annuum). It is the red pepper of the gardens.
+
built
imp.|p.p.
of Build
+
brazilian
a.
Of or pertaining to Brazil.
+
bantingism
n.
A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.
+
boot
n.
That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.
+
bend
n.
same as caisson disease.  Usually referred to as the bends.
+
bioplasmic
a.
Pertaining to, or consisting of, bioplasm.
+
bouchees
n.pl.
Small patties.
+
blower
n.
A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.
+
bluefish
n.
A West Indian fish (Platyglossus radiatus), of the family Labridae.
+
baneberry
n.
A genus (Actaea) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceae, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous.
+
blast
v.t.
To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.
+
bodily
adv.
In respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as, to carry away bodily. "Leapt bodily below."
+
beldame
n.
Grandmother; -- corresponding to belsire.
+
beem
n.
A trumpet.
+
bandied
imp.|p.p.
of Bandy
+
bronze
a.
Boldness; impudence; "brass."
+
behalf
n.
Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication.
+
breeding
n.
The act or process of generating or bearing.
+
broiler
n.
One who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels.
+
bloodstone
n.
A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.
+
booby
n.
A dunce; a stupid fellow.
+
borrel
n.
Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment.
+
bed
v.t.
To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
+
border
n.
A narrow flower bed.
+
broker
v.t.
One who transacts business for another; an agent.
+
baronage
n.
The dignity or rank of a baron.
+
babiroussa
n.
Alt. of Babirussa
+
brewis
n.
Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter.
+
borrowing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Borrow
+
beldame
n.
An old woman in general; especially, an ugly old woman; a hag.
+
bonus
n.
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.
+
bunny
n.
A pet name for a rabbit or a squirrel.
+
but
v.t.
The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
+
brush
n.
Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.
+
brangle
n.
A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute.
+
biology
n.
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.
+
blench
n.
A looking aside or askance.
+
bere
v.t.
To pierce.
+
bribing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bribe
+
bindingly
adv.
So as to bind.
+
bockelet
n.
A kind of long-winged hawk; -- called also bockerel, and bockeret.
+
billmen
pl.
of Billman
+
bobsled
n.
Alt. of Bobsleigh
+
bear
v.t.
To manage, wield, or direct.
+
buck
v.t.
To break up or pulverize, as ores.
+
beholding
a.
Obliged; beholden.
+
boast
v.t.
To display vaingloriously.
+
ballooner
n.
One who goes up in a balloon; an aeronaut.
+
bearing
n.
Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
+
bohemia
n.
Fig.: The region or community of social Bohemians. See Bohemian, n., 3.
+
biliferous
a.
Generating bile.
+
bolter
n.
An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.
+
ben

Alt. of Ben nut
+
blamelessness
n.
The quality or state of being blameless; innocence.
+
basilical
a.
Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm.
+
branch
n.
A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
+
burden
v.t.
To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
+
brush
n.
The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed.
+
belong
v.i.
To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to.
+
blue
superl.
Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.
+
blue
n.
One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky.
+
biarticulate
a.
Having, or consisting of, tow joints.
+
blue
pl.
Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.
+
boobyish
a.
Stupid; dull.
+
braziletto
n.
See Brazil wood.
+
buckle
n.
To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
+
blandishing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blandish
+
bavian
n.
A baboon.
+
bedstaves
pl.
of Bedstaff
+
block
v.t.
A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
+
black monday

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.
+
berlin
n.
A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.
+
bronchophony
n.
A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease.
+
boaster
n.
A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.
+
beclip
v.t.
To embrace; to surround.
+
baited
imp.|p.p.
of Bait
+
bodkin
n.
An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a /tiletto; an eyeleteer.
+
blackjack
n.
Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc.
+
boning
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bone
+
beatify
v.t.
To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.
+
built
a.
Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc.
+
bombardier
n.
One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.
+
black
a.
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.
+
babylonish
n.
Confused; Babel-like.
+
body
n.
The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.
+
bopeep
n.
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.
+
blazon
v.i.
To shine; to be conspicuous.
+
beatitude
n.
Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues.
+
blueback
n.
An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife.
+
boomer
n.
A North American rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. See Sewellel.
+
break
v.i.
To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking.
+
bromate
v.t.
To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor.
+
bellmouthed
a.
Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun.
+
bookstand
n.
A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall.
+
bickering
n.
A skirmishing.
+
bile
n.
Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile.
+
baccated
a.
Having many berries.
+
balistoid
a.
Like a fish of the genus Balistes; of the family Balistidae. See Filefish.
+
blow
v.t.
To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse.
+
bachelor
n.
A man of any age who has not been married.
+
banter
v.t.
To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest.
+
blood money

Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.
+
brush
n.
An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.
+
buy
v.i.
To negotiate or treat about a purchase.
+
brander
n.
One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron.
+
bigwig
a.
A person of consequence; as, the bigwigs of society.
+
bonify
v.t.
To convert into, or make, good.
+
buceros
n.
A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.
+
bar
n.
To except; to exclude by exception.
+
bilcock
n.
The European water rail.
+
begore
v.t.
To besmear with gore.
+
boast
n.
The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
+
ries
pl.
of Bursary
+
beard
n.
The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds
+
baal
n.
The whole class of divinities to whom the name Baal was applied.
+
bombinate
v.i.
To hum; to boom.
+
bobbin
n.
A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current.
+
brimming
a.
Full to the brim; overflowing.
+
brake
v.t.
That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
+
biography
n.
Biographical writings in general.
+
bowless
a.
Destitute of a bow.
+
boil
v.t.
To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
+
barbacanage
n.
Money paid for the support of a barbican.
+
badinage
n.
Playful raillery; banter.
+
balance wheel

A ratchet-shaped scape wheel, which in some watches is acted upon by the axis of the balance wheel proper (in those watches called a balance).
+
bandit
n.
An outlaw; a brigand.
+
bench warrant

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.
+
brinish
a.
Like brine; somewhat salt; saltish.
+
bittersweet
a.
Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
+
bleareyed
a.
Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted.
+
bonito
n.
The skipjack (Sarda Mediterranea) of the Atlantic, an important and abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and (S. Chilensis) of the Pacific, and other related species. They are large and active fishes, of a blue color with black oblique stripes.
+
background
n.
The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures.
+
blink
pl.
Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them.
+
bolt
n.
A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end.
+
birdbolt
n.
A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them.
+
bunt
n.
A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.
+
belly
n.
The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly.
+
booming
a.
Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity.
+
balance
n.
To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners.
+
bolster
n.
A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing.
+
blackpoll
n.
A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata).
+
breathing
n.
Utterance; communication or publicity by words.
+
bladed
a.
Divested of blades; as, bladed corn.
+
bat
n.
One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire.
+
befall
v.t.
To happen to.
+
bleed
v.t.
To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap.
+
balanoglossus
n.
A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and Tornaria.
+
bivalency
n.
The quality of being bivalent.
+
buxom
a.
Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.
+
black pudding

A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal.
+
billet
n.
A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.
+
brigantine
n.
A practical vessel.
+
betided
imp.|p.p.
of Betide
+
bisque
n.
A point taken by the receiver of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet.
+
barbicel
n.
One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.
+
bend
v.t.
To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
+
beautifying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beautify
+
burlesque
a.
Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical.
+
bottom
n.
Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
+
basisphenoid
n.
The basisphenoid bone.
+
beak
n.
Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land.
+
bowfin
n.
A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.
+
bedswerver
n.
One who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage vow.
+
but
v.t.
A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram.
+
bull
v.i.
A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation."  See Apostolical brief, under Brief.
+
burmese
a.
Of or pertaining to Burmah, or its inhabitants.
+
bespawl
v.t.
To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle.
+
banian
n.
A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.
+
bleed
v.i.
To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
+
breadfruit
n.
The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree.
+
brustle
v.i.
To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment.
+
boiling
n.
Exposure to the action of a hot liquid.
+
bore
v.t.
To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.
+
bestead
v.t.
To put in a certain situation or condition; to circumstance; to place.
+
bedpan
n.
A pan for warming beds.
+
beater
n.
One who, or that which, beats.
+
bonnet
n.
Anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use
+
bourbon
n.
A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France.
+
bimonthly
a.
Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications.
+
buffet
n.
A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.
+
bolognian
a.|n.
Bolognese.
+
besom
v.t.
To sweep, as with a besom.
+
bulla
n.
A genus of marine shells. See Bubble shell.
+
brigading
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brigade
+
bid

of Bid
+
bencher
n.
One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.
+
bookstall
n.
A stall or stand where books are sold.
+
blastema
n.
The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.
+
bimaculate
a.
Having, or marked with, two spots.
+
brob
n.
A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.
+
byword
n.
A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency.
+
bully
v.i.
To act as a bully.
+
bitterling
n.
A roachlike European fish (Rhodima amarus).
+
bombardman
n.
One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard.
+
bleb
n.
A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc.
+
berth
n.
A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
+
black bass

The sea bass. See Blackfish, 3.
+
blueeye
n.
The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.
+
byronic
a.
Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron.
+
bugle horn

A drinking vessel made of horn.
+
baseborn
a.
Vile; mean.
+
brainish
a.
Hot-headed; furious.
+
birdstongue
n.
The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare).
+
besort
v.t.
To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become.
+
binary
a.
Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things).
+
banding plane

A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.
+
bachelorship
n.
The state of being a bachelor.
+
baldwin
n.
A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple.
+
babble
n.
Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.
+
baboonish
a.
Like a baboon.
+
blowzed
a.
Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered.
+
bulge
v.i.
To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges.
+
beadle
v.
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.
+
batten
v.t.
To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.
+
bicipitous
a.
Having two heads; bicipital.
+
boviform
a.
Resembling an ox in form; ox-shaped.
+
budget
n.
A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.
+
brass
n.
A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc.
+
browning
n.
The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.
+
burnettize
v.t.
To subject (wood, fabrics, etc.) to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett.
+
big
v.t.
Alt. of Bigg
+
board
n.
Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.
+
busked
imp.|p.p.
of Busk
+
bibb
n.
A bibcock. See Bib, n., 3.
+
bilk
n.
A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person.
+
bean
n.
A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.
+
boarded
imp.|p.p.
of Board
+
budding
n.
The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
+
bedpost
n.
Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off.  See Bedstaff.
+
balsamic
a.
Alt. of Balsamical
+
breakfasted
imp.|p.p.
of Breakfast
+
belgravian
a.
Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.
+
bluebottle
n.
A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue.
+
brochantite
n.
A basic sulphate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.
+
bed
n.
A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.
+
bugaboo
n.
Alt. of Bugbear
+
burnt
p.p.|a.
Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.
+
botanizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Botanize
+
backwards
adv.
From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
+
bosa
n.
A drink, used in the East. See Boza.
+
before
adv.
Earlier; sooner than; until then.
+
biparous
a.
Bringing forth two at a birth.
+
bard
n.
Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.
+
boom
n.
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.
+
blustrous
a.
Blusterous.
+
ballistics
n.
The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine.
+
beat
v.i.
A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.
+
burst
n.
A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse.
+
balloon
v.i.
To go up or voyage in a balloon.
+
boxen
a.
Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus).
+
buccaneer
v.i.
To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
+
bakshish
n.
Same as Backsheesh.
+
beneficed
imp.|p.p.
of Benefice
+
botryogen
n.
A hydrous sulphate of iron of a deep red color. It often occurs in botryoidal form.
+
breakfasting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Breakfast
+
bid
n.
An offer of a price, especially at auctions; a statement of a sum which one will give for something to be received, or will take for something to be done or furnished; that which is offered.
+
bergmote
n.
See Barmote.
+
blacks
n.pl.
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.
+
burnettizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Burnettize
+
bass
v.t.
To sound in a deep tone.
+
blightingly
adv.
So as to cause blight.
+
bolt
v.t.
To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
+
bacchanal
a.
Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.
+
bless
v.t.
To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food.
+
bullfist
n.
Alt. of Bullfice
+
bedye
v.t.
To dye or stain.
+
brownist
n.
A follower of Robert Brown, of England, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers.
+
burr
n.
A triangular chisel.
+
bible
n.
A book.
+
bevy
n.
A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes.
+
bois darc

The Osage orange (Maclura aurantiaca).
+
boatable
a.
Such as can be transported in a boat.
+
barbados
n.
Alt. of Barbadoes
+
bobbin
n.
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.
+
bitterness
n.
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.
+
bowl
v.t.
To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.
+
bite
v.
The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
+
bottine
n.
A small boot; a lady's boot.
+
backbone
n.
The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.
+
brimstone
a.
Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches.
+
bibliological
a.
Relating to bibliology.
+
betimes
adv.
In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early.
+
boul
n.
A curved handle.
+
better
a.
Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
+
bateless
a.
Not to be abated.
+
beseechment
n.
The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly.
+
bilin
n.
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.
+
break
v.t.
An opening made by fracture or disruption.
+
bewitching
a.
Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming.
+
bouget
n.
A charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water; -- also called water bouget.
+
brunswick green

An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
+
bilged
imp.|p.p.
of Bilge
+
bunking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bunk
+
bedmolding
n.
Alt. of Bed-moulding
+
bimanous
a.
Having two hands; two-handed.
+
bolting
n.
A darting away; a starting off or aside.
+
burr
n.
A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1.
+
bird
n.
Fig.: A girl; a maiden.
+
below
prep.
Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee.
+
bead
n.
A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle.  It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.
+
barque
n.
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.
+
batrachoid
a.
Froglike. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the Batrachidae, a family of marine fishes, including the toadfish. Some have poisonous dorsal spines.
+
betrayment
n.
Betrayal.
+
bar
n.
Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.
+
buck
n.
The beech tree.
+
back
n.
The keel and keelson of a ship.
+
bodied
a.
Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied.
+
boneblack
n.
See Bone black, under Bone, n.
+
belong
v.t.
To be deserved by.
+
black
a.
Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
+
breathe
v.i.
To take breath; to rest from action.
+
bother
v.t.
To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.
+
bladder
n.
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.
+
bungle
n.
A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.
+
broke
v.i.
To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
+
builded
imp.|p.p.
of Build
+
bibacious
a.
Addicted to drinking.
+
board
n.
A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.
+
baptismal
a.
Pertaining to baptism; as, baptismal vows.
+
baggala
n.
A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian Ocean.
+
billingsgate
n.
Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry.
+
bangle
v.t.
To waste by little and little; to fritter away.
+
battery
v.t.
A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals.
+
baal
n.
The supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations.
+
bejaundice
v.t.
To infect with jaundice.
+
beetlebrowed

Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen.
+
bilinear
a.
Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coordinates.
+
bigotry
n.
The practice or tenets of a bigot.
+
bight
v.
The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop.
+
backwardly
adv.
Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.
+
bathe
v.i.
To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath.
+
bengalee
n.
Alt. of Bengali
+
branch
v.t.
To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.
+
bobfly
n.
The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.
+
bowsprit
n.
A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward.
+
beatified
imp.|p.p.
of Beatify
+
banned
imp.|p.p.
of Ban
+
borrow
v.t.
To receive; to take; to derive.
+
bobtail
n.
An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail.
+
barb
n.
Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n., 1.
+
blindmans buff

A play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is.
+
byspeech
n.
An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point.
+
barrelled
a.
Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun.
+
beccaficos
pl.
of Beccafico
+
bullsnose
n.
An external angle when obtuse or rounded.
+
bane
n.
That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.
+
bottomless
a.
Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss.
+
bombast
n.
Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
+
boas
pl.
of Boa
+
blessed
a.
Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful.
+
baksheesh
n.
Alt. of Bakshish
+
brew
v.t.
To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.
+
ball
v.t.
To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
+
bipartient
p.pr.
Dividing into two parts.
+
blackeyed
a.
Having black eyes.
+
boredom
n.
The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.
+
boodle
n.
The whole collection or lot; caboodle.
+
but
v.t.
The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
+
bellyful
n.
As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough.
+
blisses
pl.
of Bliss
+
bellicosely
adv.
In a bellicose manner.
+
bituminated
imp.|p.p.
of Bituminate
+
bank
n.
A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.
+
bottom
v.t.
To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
+
bitter
n.
Any substance that is bitter. See Bitters.
+
barbarized
imp.|p.p.
of Barbarize
+
bibulous
v.t.
Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.
+
baptismally
adv.
In a baptismal manner.
+
bryology
n.
That part of botany which relates to mosses.
+
brutism
n.
The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.
+
bookful
a.
Filled with book learning.
+
brabble
v.i.
To clamor; to contest noisily.
+
batzen
pl.
of Batz
+
binoxide
n.
Same as Dioxide.
+
bardling
n.
An inferior bard.
+
biventral
a.
Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.
+
boatmen
pl.
of Boatman
+
brangler
n.
A quarrelsome person.
+
bodiliness
n.
Corporeality.
+
bodily
a.
Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter.
+
bowwow
a.
Onomatopoetic; as, the bowwow theory of language; a bowwow word.
+
brumaire
n.
The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.
+
billposter
n.
Alt. of Billsticker
+
brotherly
a.
Of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate; as, brotherly love.
+
brace
n.
That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
+
bugbane
n.
A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceae and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.
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bushfighter
n.
One accustomed to bushfighting.
+
bleck
v.t.
Alt. of Blek
+
blood
v.t.
To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.
+
brancher
n.
A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches.
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bluffheaded
a.
Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
+
bate
v.t.
To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
+
bed
n.
(Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
+
breathe
v.i.
To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.
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basalt
n.
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.
+
bygone
n.
Something gone by or past; a past event.
+
breeze
n.
Alt. of Breeze fly
+
backhanded
a.
Turned back, or inclining to the left; as, a backhanded letters.
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brassy
a.
Impudent; impudently bold.
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bloodwort
n.
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.
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bring
v.t.
To cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to.
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burn
n.
The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.
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body
n.
A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity.
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burst
n.
A sudden breaking forth; a violent rending; an explosion; as, a burst of thunder; a burst of applause; a burst of passion; a burst of inspiration.
+
busk
v.t.|i.
To go; to direct one's course.
+
baccara
n.
Alt. of Baccarat
+
basilic
pl.
of Basilica
+
blazon
n.
An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings.
+
boyles law

See under Law.
+
bear
v.i.
To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?
+
bicephalous
a.
Having two heads.
+
bibliophobia
n.
A dread of books.
+
beetle
v.t.
A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
+
bulk
n.
Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.
+
birthing
n.
Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.
+
bashibazouk
n.
A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army.
+
bedizen
v.t.
To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste.
+
bore
v.t.
To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
+
besomer
n.
One who uses a besom.
+
breastheight
n.
The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing.
+
blotchy
a.
Having blotches.
+
biomagnetic
a.
Relating to biomagnetism.
+
barbarism
n.
An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism.
+
billiard
a.
Of or pertaining to the game of billiards.
+
boisterous
a.
Vehement; excessive.
+
boodhist
n.
Same as Buddhist.
+
bournous
n.
See Burnoose.
+
buddha
n.
The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp. Gautama Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni), the founder of Buddhism.
+
boggling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Boggle
+
bestudded
imp.|p.p.
of Bestud
+
barreled
a.
Alt. of Barrelled
+
buzz
v.i.
To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice.
+
bestrid

of Bestride
+
breeching
n.
That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle.
+
benignancy
n.
Benignant quality; kindliness.
+
blubbering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blubber
+
bitten
p.p.
of Bite
+
buffeter
n.
One who buffets; a boxer.
+
blighting
a.
Causing blight.
+
bolled
imp.|p.p.
of Boll
+
becomed
a.
Proper; decorous.
+
betelguese
n.
A bright star of the first magnitude, near one shoulder of Orion.
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belemnite
n.
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.
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blind
n.
Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.
+
bogus
n.
A liquor made of rum and molasses.
+
bang
n.
The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn.
+
bossing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Boss
+
bridge
v.t.
To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.
+
barterer
n.
One who barters.
+
blastula
n.
That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.
+
bimestrial
a.
Continuing two months.
+
bismuthiferous
a.
Containing bismuth.
+
blanch
a.
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
+
boa constrictor

A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.
+
brut
n.
See Birt.
+
bottomed
imp.|p.p.
of Bottom
+
bedel
n.
Alt. of Bedell
+
breadstuff
n.
Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.
+
bold
n.
Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.
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breathlessness
n.
The state of being breathless or out of breath.
+
basicity
n.
The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid.
+
barbarize
v.t.
To make barbarous.
+
bowl
n.
The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.
+
bombard
n.
A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.
+
boltsprit
n.
See Bowsprit.
+
bekah
n.
Half a shekel.
+
barb
n.
One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather.
+
belief
n.
A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.
+
bhunder
n.
An Indian monkey (Macacus Rhesus), protected by the Hindoos as sacred. See Rhesus.
+
bellipotent
p.pr.
Mighty in war; armipotent.
+
blustering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bluster
+
binomial
a.
Consisting of two terms; pertaining to binomials; as, a binomial root.
+
bell crank

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.
+
breadroot
n.
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.
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balm
n.
Any fragrant ointment.
+
byssus
n.
Asbestus.
+
balneary
n.
A bathing room.
+
basifugal
n.
Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a basifugal growth.
+
beat
v.i.
A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
+
baking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bake
+
blend
v.t.
To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
+
bonnes bouches
pl.
of Bonne bouche
+
boastful
a.
Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising.
+
belated
imp.|p.p.
of Belate
+
bank
v.i.
To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.
+
book muslin

A kind of thin white muslin for ladies' dresses.
+
burler
n.
One who burls or dresses cloth.
+
buccaneer
n.
A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries.
+
board
n.
The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.
+
bicentennial
a.
Consisting of two hundred years.
+
butt joint

A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8.
+
bench
n.
The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.
+
borrow
v.t.
To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; -- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.
+
bilious
a.
Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms.
+
bridal
n.
A nuptial festival or ceremony; a marriage.
+
braying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bray
+
breede
n.
Breadth.
+
baronetage
n.
State or rank of a baronet.
+
briny
a.
Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.
+
back
a.
Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements.
+
boarding
n.
The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.
+
bittersweet
n.
A kind of apple so called.
+
bear
v.t.
To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.
+
breech
v.t.
To put into, or clothe with, breeches.
+
ballproof
a.
Incapable of being penetrated by balls from firearms.
+
backband
n.
The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.
+
botanize
v.i.
To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.
+
bearing
n.
Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.
+
basset
a.
Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata.
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basquish
a.
Pertaining to the country, people, or language of Biscay; Basque
+
burr
n.
A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists.
+
beacon
n.
A high hill near the shore.
+
bowyer
n.
An archer; one who uses bow.
+
boldu
n.
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.
+
bibirine
n.
See Bebeerine.
+
brickmaker
n.
One whose occupation is to make bricks.
+
bobbed
imp.|p.p.
of Bob
+
benefit
n.
A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.
+
broke

imp. & p. p. of Break.
+
burnisher
n.
A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
+
becoming
a.
Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting.
+
balsamine
n.
The Impatiens balsamina, or garden balsam.
+
bent
v.
A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
+
blackjack
n.
A large leather vessel for beer, etc.
+
bigotry
n.
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.
+
but
adv.|conj.
On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind.
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baluster
n.
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.
+
bob
n.
To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.
+
betrothment
n.
The act of betrothing, or the state of being betrothed; betrothal.
+
breech
n.
The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
+
bond
n.
A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum.
+
bound
imp.
of Bind
+
bibracteate
a.
Furnished with, or having, two bracts.
+
barbel
n.
A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.
+
beetle
v.t.
To beat with a heavy mallet.
+
back
adv.
(Of time) In times past; ago.
+
ballot
n.
Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.
+
basil
n.
The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.
+
bell jar

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.
+
barrel
n.
A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.
+
burrel fly

The botfly or gadfly of cattle (Hypoderma bovis). See Gadfly.
+
bed screw

A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching.
+
bell
n.
Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.
+
bengali
n.
The language spoken in Bengal.
+
booth
n.
A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market, or at a polling place.
+
ban
n.
Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).
+
brighten
v.i.
To grow bright, or more bright; to become less dark or gloomy; to clear up; to become bright or cheerful.
+
brain
v.t.
To conceive; to understand.
+
brussels
n.
A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc.
+
bunting
n.
A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillidae).
+
blockhouse
n.
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.
+
bolster
n.
A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle.
+
bale
v.t.
See Bail, v. t., to lade.
+
box
v.t.
To strike with the hand or fist, especially to strike on the ear, or on the side of the head.
+
breakneck
n.
A fall that breaks the neck.
+
brustle
n.
A bristle.
+
blasted
a.
Rent open by an explosive.
+
bend
n.
The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.
+
birr
v.i.
To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.
+
bearing
n.
That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.
+
bashyle
n.
See Basyle.
+
billing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bill
+
broad
superl.
Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
+
bonanza
n.
In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income.
+
brink
n.
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.
+
birken
v.t.
To whip with a birch or rod.
+
baffle
n.
A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
+
bickern
n.
An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.
+
bone
n.
Dice.
+
beshrew
v.t.
To curse; to execrate.
+
tries
pl.
of Baptistry
+
brooklet
n.
A small brook.
+
blown
p.p.|a.
Out of breath; tired; exhausted.
+
broiling
n.
The act of causing anything to broil.
+
brevetcies
pl.
of Brevetcy
+
bleat
v.i.
To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf.
+
bayous
pl.
of Bayou
+
bow
v.t.
An ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string.
+
breeze
n.
Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
+
burly
a.
Coarse and rough; boisterous.
+
barfish
n.
Same as Calico bass.
+
bluffer
n.
One who bluffs.
+
balance
n.
To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books.
+
bypass
n.
A by-passage, for a pipe, or other channel, to divert circulation from the usual course.
+
balderdash
n.
A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
+
biolytic
a.
Relating to the destruction of life.
+
beauteous
a.
Full of beauty; beautiful; very handsome.
+
beauseant
n.
The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.
+
bind
v.t.
To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.
+
broadleaf
n.
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.
+
barilla
n.
A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.
+
bushelage
n.
A duty payable on commodities by the bushel.
+
bungling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bungle
+
beefwood
n.
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.
+
bode
p.p.
Bid or bidden.
+
buffoon
v.t.
To treat with buffoonery.
+
bestrode

of Bestride
+
breeder
n.
A cause.
+
berretta
n.
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.
+
bolter
n.
One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.
+
betroth
v.t.
To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.
+
burr
n.
A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.
+
bonapartean
a.
Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family.
+
burned
p.p.
Burnished.
+
buxeous
a.
Belonging to the box tree.
+
batrachomyomachy
n.
The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.
+
buck
v.t.
To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
+
burdener
n.
One who loads; an oppressor.
+
baptistic
a.
Of or for baptism; baptismal.
+
birdeyed
a.
Quick-sighted; catching a glance as one goes.
+
balkish
a.
Uneven; ridgy.
+
bugloss
n.
A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue.
+
basilisk
n.
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.
+
bound
v.i.
To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain.
+
bom
n.
A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes.
+
bulwarked
imp.|p.p.
of Bulwark
+
biliment
n.
A woman's ornament; habiliment.
+
bare
a.
Threadbare; much worn.
+
baculine
a.
Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod.
+
becalmed
imp.|p.p.
of Becalm
+
blundered
imp.|p.p.
of Blunder
+
band
v.t.
A bond
+
bag
v.t.
To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.
+
boot
n.
An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.
+
belord
v.t.
To address by the title of "lord".
+
beset
v.t.
To occupy; to employ; to use up.
+
branks
n.
A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.
+
bitten
a.
Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.
+
benzoic
a.
Pertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin.
+
backwardness
n.
The state of being backward.
+
bail
v.t.
To deliver; to release.
+
buckled
imp.|p.p.
of Buckle
+
beccabunga
n.
See Brooklime.
+
bolster
n.
A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
+
bluebreast
n.
A small European bird; the blue-throated warbler.
+
boycottism
n.
Methods of boycotters.
+
bush
v.i.
To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
+
barbarize
v.i.
To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.
+
bland
a.
Having soft and soothing qualities; not drastic or irritating; not stimulating; as, a bland oil; a bland diet.
+
booted
a.
Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire.
+
bund
n.
League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.
+
bunglingly
adv.
Clumsily; awkwardly.
+
baronage
n.
The whole body of barons or peers.
+
beleaguer
v.t.
To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.
+
bornite
n.
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.
+
boottopping
n.
Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.
+
burgundy
n.
A richly flavored wine, mostly red, made in Burgundy, France.
+
barbecued
imp.|p.p.
of Barbecue
+
boot
n.
The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.
+
bombilation
n.
A humming sound; a booming.
+
bite
v.
A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
+
boar
n.
The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.
+
buss
v.t.
To kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely.
+
byend
n.
Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage.
+
bestarred
imp.|p.p.
of Bestar
+
by
pref.
With, as means, way, process, etc.; through means of; with aid of; through; through the act or agency of; as, a city is destroyed by fire; profit is made by commerce; to take by force.
+
breathing
n.
Exercising; promotion of respiration.
+
babyroussa
n.
Alt. of Babyrussa
+
back
adv.
To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.
+
breathing
n.
Aspiration; secret prayer.
+
bothie
n.
Same as Bothy.
+
blackening
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blacken
+
boaster
n.
One who boasts; a braggart.
+
burg
n.
A borough.
+
bolthead
n.
The head of a bolt.
+
boxberry
n.
The wintergreen. (Gaultheria procumbens).
+
breviary
n.
An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary.
+
bead
n.
A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).
+
banquet
v.i.
To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.
+
betiding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Betide
+
belled
a.
Hung with a bell or bells.
+
bargain
n.
The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap.
+
backboard
n.
A board which supports the back wen one is sitting;
+
bear
v.t.
To support or sustain; to hold up.
+
bistoury
n.
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.
+
blue bonnet
n.
Alt. of Blue-bonnet
+
bounden
p.p|a.
Bound; fastened by bonds.
+
busket
n.
A small bush; also, a sprig or bouquet.
+
brick
n.
Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).
+
bamboozler
n.
A swindler; one who deceives by trickery.
+
blowtube
n.
A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of "metal" (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe.
+
bluff
v.t.
To deter (an opponent) from taking the risk of betting on his hand of cards, as the bluffer does by betting heavily on his own hand although it may be of less value.
+
bury
v.t.
To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands.
+
bore
v.i.
To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a horse.
+
bluffing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bluff
+
bay rum

A fragrant liquid, used for cosmetic and medicinal purposes.
+
bond
n.
A unit of chemical attraction; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. It is often represented in graphic formulae by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence.
+
blanketing
n.
Cloth for blankets.
+
beside
n.
At the side of; on one side of.
+
brook
v.t.
To deserve; to earn.
+
bude light

A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil.
+
bonhomie
n.
Alt. of Bonhommie
+
beriberi
n.
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.
+
bucker
n.
A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
+
bland
a.
Mild; soft; gentle; smooth and soothing in manner; suave; as, a bland temper; bland persuasion; a bland sycophant.
+
bishop
n.
In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.
+
bohun upas

See Upas.
+
bluffy
a.
Inclined to bo bluff; brusque.
+
bewept
imp.|p.p.
of Beweep
+
beard
n.
An imposition; a trick.
+
blood
n.
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.
+
block
v.t.
A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops.
+
boistous
a.
Rough or rude; coarse; strong; violent; boisterous; noisy.
+
baria
n.
Baryta.
+
bee

p. p. of Be; -- used for been.
+
barleybrake
n.
Alt. of Barleybreak
+
bowline
n.
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.
+
bonapartism
n.
The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes.
+
binder
n.
Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.
+
barrier
n.
A fence or railing to mark the limits of a place, or to keep back a crowd.
+
burn
v.t.
To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper.
+
bibliopegy
n.
The art of binding books.
+
butchered
imp.|p.p.
of Butcher
+
blizzard
n.
A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast.
+
beslobber
v.t.
To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise.
+
boldened
imp.|p.p.
of Bolden
+
bag
v.t.
To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.
+
branchiostege

The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.
+
bogue
v.i.
To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.
+
better
a.
To improve the condition of, morally, physically, financially, socially, or otherwise.
+
bright
a.
Transmitting light; clear; transparent.
+
bone
n.
Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
+
brevipennate
a.
Short-winged; -- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu.
+
breechcloth
n.
A cloth worn around the breech.
+
bone
n.
Fig.: The framework of anything.
+
buckhound
n.
A hound for hunting deer.
+
bore
n.
Caliber; importance.
+
brachiopoda
n.
A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.
+
brazing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Braze
+
bumble
v.i.
To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern.
+
borrow
n.
The act of borrowing.
+
bethlemite
n.
An inhabitant of Bethlehem in Judea.
+
barbarian
a.
Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.
+
border
n.
A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
+
breviloquence
n.
A brief and pertinent mode of speaking.
+
blucher
n.
A kind of half boot, named from the Prussian general Blucher.
+
backsliding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Backslide
+
billy
n.
A club; esp., a policeman's club.
+
black bass

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.
+
bicolligate
v.t.
Having the anterior toes connected by a basal web.
+
barbecuing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Barbecue
+
bowed
imp.|p.p.
of Bow
+
bandon
n.
Disposal; control; license.
+
barricade
n.
To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris.
+
bent
v.
The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
+
bathymetrical
a.
Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea.
+
bacchante
n.
A priestess of Bacchus.
+
bacciform
a.
Having the form of a berry.
+
breech
v.t.
To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun.
+
brand goose

A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. See Brant.
+
brachydiagonal
n.
The shorter of the diagonals in a rhombic prism.
+
bretful
a.
Brimful.
+
birthday
n.
The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.
+
bottle
n.
A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
+
bleached
a.
Whitened; make white.
+
brahminic
a.
Alt. of ical
+
brewis
n.
Broth or pottage.
+
borax
n.
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.
+
bright
v.t.
To be or become overripe, as wheat, barley, or hops.
+
bonduc
n.
See Nicker tree.
+
bang
n.
A blow as with a club; a heavy blow.
+
berry
n.
One of the ova or eggs of a fish.
+
brass
n.
Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass.
+
buff
n.
A military coat, made of buff leather.
+
brotherhood
n.
Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
+
barrier
n.
An any obstruction; anything which hinders approach or attack.
+
blastosphere
n.
The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.
+
boxhauling
n.
A method of going from one tack to another. See Boxhaul.
+
bibliopolism
n.
The trade or business of selling books.
+
beaconed
imp.|p.p.
of Beacon
+
bratsche
n.
The tenor viola, or viola.
+
bereaver
n.
One who bereaves.
+
bontebok
n.
The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga). Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni.
+
basset hound

A small kind of hound with a long body and short legs, used as an earth dog.
+
boisterous
a.
Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful.
+
baguette
n.
A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.
+
bespirt
v.t.
Same as Bespurt.
+
beading
n.
Molding in imitation of beads.
+
boulework
n.
Same as Buhl, Buhlwork.
+
batfowler
n.
One who practices or finds sport in batfowling.
+
beginner
n.
One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro.
+
bodement
n.
An omen; a prognostic.
+
betwixt
prep.
From one to another of; mutually affecting.
+
bagatelle
n.
A trifle; a thing of no importance.
+
burdened
imp.|p.p.
of Burden
+
billet
n.
An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.
+
buat
n.
A lantern; also, the moon.
+
britannia
n.
A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and is used for table ware. Called also Britannia metal.
+
braggardism
n.
Boastfulness; act of bragging.
+
benumbment
n.
Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor.
+
bead
n.
A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.
+
breast
n.
Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill.
+
blending
n.
The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly.
+
bejewelling

of Bejewel
+
beltane
n.
A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland.
+
blind
a.
Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
+
bloody
v.t.
To stain with blood.
+
beavered
a.
Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat.
+
bashful
a.
Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression.
+
burr
n.
The lobe or lap of the ear.
+
blote
v.t.
To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat.
+
briefman
n.
A copier of a manuscript.
+
bloodthirsty
a.
Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous.
+
boyism
n.
Boyhood.
+
bluepoll
n.
A kind of salmon (Salmo Cambricus) found in Wales.
+
binate
a.
Double; growing in pairs or couples.
+
boultin
n.
One of the shafts of a clustered column.
+
benedick
n.
A married man, or a man newly married.
+
bristlepointed
a.
Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves.
+
blamable
a.
Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy.
+
buck
n.
A male Indian or negro.
+
bezant
n.
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.
+
badminton
n.
A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.
+
barrelling

of Barrel
+
bouncing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bounce
+
branchiura
n.pl.
A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus).
+
braze
v.t.
To cover or ornament with brass.
+
blanketed
imp.|p.p.
of Blanket
+
bank
n.
The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc.
+
bossism
n.
The rule or practices of bosses, esp. political bosses.
+
blackmail
n.
Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.
+
book
n.
A composition, written or printed; a treatise.
+
butcher
v.t.
To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.
+
bloodsucker
n.
One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer.
+
bishopswort
n.
Wood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush.
+
blank
a.
Of a white or pale color; without color.
+
basisolute
a.
Prolonged at the base, as certain leaves.
+
bombarded
imp.|p.p.
of Bombard
+
but
v.t.
A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
+
betrim
v.t.
To set in order; to adorn; to deck, to embellish; to trim.
+
blunt
n.
Money.
+
bewrap
v.t.
To wrap up; to cover.
+
beat
a.
Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
+
backset
v.i.
To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring.
+
bewet
imp.|p.p.
of Bewet
+
blandiloquous
a.
Alt. of Blandiloquious
+
bowess
n.
Same as Bower.
+
breastbone
n.
The bone of the breast; the sternum.
+
bark
v.t.
To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.
+
bate
v.t.
To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
+
bemoaner
n.
One who bemoans.
+
breadthless
a.
Without breadth.
+
bondsman
n.
A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another.
+
bloom
v.i.
To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers.
+
bachelor
n.
A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight.
+
brevetting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brevet
+
botched
imp.|p.p.
of Botch
+
baubling
a.
See Bawbling.
+
bloodlet
v.t.
bleed; to let blood.
+
bridesmen
pl.
of Bridesman
+
block
v.t.
The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
+
booklearned
a.
Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books.
+
boating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Boat
+
bear
v.t.
To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
+
basigynium
n.
The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.
+
booting
n.
Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.
+
brica brac
n.
Miscellaneous curiosities and works of decorative art, considered collectively.
+
beset
v.t.
To set upon on all sides; to perplex; to harass; -- said of dangers, obstacles, etc.
+
brief
a.
A writ; a breve. See Breve, n., 2.
+
bloodying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bloody
+
bivouac
n.
An encampment for the night without tents or covering.
+
bloomer
n.
A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.
+
base
n.
A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars.
+
bear
v.t.
To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
+
balister
n.
A crossbow.
+
bootless
a.
Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.
+
bobbin
n.
A fine cord or narrow braid.
+
burgeois
n.
A burgess; a citizen. See 2d Bourgeois.
+
bequest
v.t.
To bequeath, or leave as a legacy.
+
bridalty
n.
Celebration of the nuptial feast.
+
beaming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beam
+
borborygm
n.
A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels.
+
bedchamber
n.
A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in.
+
bought
n.
The part of a sling that contains the stone.
+
bruteness
n.
Brutality.
+
bookcase
n.
A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.
+
blown
p.p.
of Blow
+
brood
v.t.
That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
+
boom
v.i.
To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
+
bouge
n.
Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions.
+
behn
n.
The Cucubalus behen, or bladder campion, now called Silene inflata.
+
baggage
n.
Trashy talk.
+
bluejohn
n.
A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes.
+
buffalo
n.
A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.
+
breed
v.t.
To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
+
blatantly
adv.
In a blatant manner.
+
bedazzle
v.t.
To dazzle or make dim by a strong light.
+
breakdown
n.
Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
+
braiding
n.
The act of making or using braids.
+
blackmailer
n.
One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.
+
bend
v.t.
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.
+
boring
n.
A hole made by boring.
+
beetlestock
n.
The handle of a beetle.
+
bibliotheke
n.
A library.
+
bounding
a.
Moving with a bound or bounds.
+
bruit
v.t.
To report; to noise abroad.
+
burn
v.i.
To be of fire; to flame.
+
bezant
n.
A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.
+
bunch
n.
A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.
+
belsire
n.
A grandfather, or ancestor.
+
bullionist
n.
An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold.
+
booming
a.
Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.
+
balsamation
n.
The art or process of embalming.
+
balancement
n.
The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces.
+
baffle
v.i.
To practice deceit.
+
backsword
n.
A sword with one sharp edge.
+
billyboy
n.
A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel.
+
bodge
v.t.
To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch.
+
boon
n.
That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present.
+
bought
n.
A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent.
+
bulwark
n.
The sides of a ship above the upper deck.
+
bacchanal
n.
The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.
+
beebread
n.
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.
+
block
v.t.
A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles.
+
broken
v.t.
Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface.
+
battery
v.t.
Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense.
+
bacchic
a.
Alt. of Bacchical
+
blueveined
a.
Having blue veins or blue streaks.
+
boomkin
n.
Same as Bumkin.
+
bordure
n.
A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.
+
blind
v.t.
To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.
+
basecourt
n.
The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle.
+
betted

of Bet
+
bedouin
a.
Pertaining to the Bedouins; nomad.
+
beeswing
n.
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.
+
bookland
n.
Alt. of Bockland
+
brigandine
n.
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.
+
bead proof

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.
+
bestrown

p. p. of Bestrew.
+
blacked
imp.|p.p.
of Black
+
broadbrim
n.
A hat with a very broad brim, like those worn by men of the society of Friends.
+
bepraise
v.t.
To praise greatly or extravagantly.
+
baptizer
n.
One who baptizes.
+
bestuck

imp. & p. p. Bestick.
+
bowling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bowl
+
beambird
n.
A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building.
+
battue
v.t.
The wanton slaughter of game.
+
brave
superl.
Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.
+
bleed
v.t.
To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund.
+
blosmy
a.
Blossomy.
+
butty
n.
One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.
+
bug
n.
One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.
+
box
v.t.
To furnish with boxes, as a wheel.
+
butterwort
n.
A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.
+
biolysis
n.
The destruction of life.
+
breeches
n.pl.
A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.
+
billion
n.
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.
+
banneret
n.
A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
+
boes
dsing.pr.
Behoves or behooves.
+
blunt
a.
Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
+
bethel
n.
A place of worship; a hallowed spot.
+
barycentric
a.
Of or pertaining to the center of gravity. See Barycentric calculus, under Calculus.
+
bey
n.
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.
+
blasty
a.
Causing blast or injury.
+
basement
a.
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.
+
betid
obs
of Betide
+
baptistical
a.
Baptistic.
+
boreal
a.
Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast.
+
blueness
n.
The quality of being blue; a blue color.
+
boisterousness
n.
The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.
+
booking office

An office where passage tickets are sold.
+
box
n.
A space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement.
+
bawbee
n.
A halfpenny.
+
barbecue
v.t.
To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron.
+
bocardo
n.
A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison.
+
bysmottered
p.a.
Bespotted with mud or dirt.
+
blockhead
n.
A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.
+
backside
n.
The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.
+
brand
v.t.
An instrument to brand with; a branding iron.
+
bogging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bog
+
bastard
n.
Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
+
bib
n.
A bibcock.
+
binoxalate
n.
A salt having two equivalents of oxalic acid to one of the base; an acid oxalate.
+
buck
v.t.
To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
+
bankrupt
a.
Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
+
blandishment
n.
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.
+
beseemed
imp.|p.p.
of Beseem
+
billman
n.
One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax.
+
bugbear
a.
Causing needless fright.
+
buoy
n.
A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
+
birdman
n.
A fowler or birdcatcher.
+
bridechamber
n.
The nuptial apartment.
+
barrow
n.
A heap of rubbish, attle, etc.
+
brief
n.
A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.
+
bassock
n.
A hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.
+
boat
n.
A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
+
barde
pl.
A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
+
bid
v.t.
To invite; to call in; to request to come.
+
beall
n.
The whole; all that is to be.
+
bowelled

of Bowel
+
boding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bode
+
bywipe
n.
A secret or side stroke, as of raillery or sarcasm.
+
bower
v.i.
To lodge.
+
bicrescentic
a.
Having the form of a double crescent.
+
buckling
a.
Wavy; curling, as hair.
+
bow
v.t.
An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument.
+
butchery
n.
The business of a butcher.
+
bordello
n.
A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution.
+
badness
n.
The state of being bad.
+
bouffe
n.
Comic opera. See Opera Bouffe.
+
burlesquer
n.
One who burlesques.
+
bine
n.
The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.
+
buss
n.
A small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery.
+
bellona
n.
The goddess of war.
+
boatman
n.
A boat bug. See Boat bug.
+
brigose
n.
Contentious; quarrelsome.
+
bumped
imp.|p.p.
of Bump
+
blazing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blaze
+
butter
n.
Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter.
+
but
v.t.
A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
+
biliation
n.
The production and excretion of bile.
+
bloodwit
n.
A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.
+
bronzed
imp.|p.p.
of Bronze
+
bogberry
n.
The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places.
+
bemean
v.t.
To make mean; to lower.
+
biscutate
a.
Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.
+
blaring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blare
+
ballist
pl.
of Ballista
+
benefitting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Benefit
+
beleft
imp.|p.p.
of Beleave
+
boggard
n.
A bogey.
+
barrel
n.
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.
+
bore
v.t.
To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.
+
bablah
n.
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.
+
belch
v.i.
To eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent.
+
bouch
n.
A mouth.
+
baccalaureate
n.
A baccalaureate sermon.
+
breedbate
n.
One who breeds or originates quarrels.
+
bishop sleeve

A wide sleeve, once worn by women.
+
bite
v.i.
To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
+
box
n.
An axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing.
+
bellows
n.sing.|pl.
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.
+
bookish
a.
Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences.
+
breadth
a.
Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.
+
bellic
a.
Alt. of Bellical
+
belace
v.t.
To fasten, as with a lace or cord.
+
brown thrush

A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.
+
blastophoral
a.
Alt. of Blastophoric
+
bespeckled
imp.|p.p.
of Bespeckle
+
bodkin
n.
A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking /ut letters from a column or page in making corrections.
+
boom
n.
A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away.
+
bond servant

A slave; one who is bound to service without wages.
+
bigbellied
a.
Having a great belly; as, a big-bellied man or flagon; advanced in pregnancy.
+
bejewelled

of Bejewel
+
bondsman
n.
A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman.
+
basset
v.i.
To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets.
+
bloodily
adv.
In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed blood.
+
biforate
a.
Having two perforations.
+
bevel
n.
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.
+
bestrown

of Bestrew
+
buffo
n.masc.
The comic actor in an opera.
+
buckle
n.
To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.
+
boley
n.
Alt. of Bolye
+
brama
n.
See Brahma.
+
browser
n.
An animal that browses.
+
bubukle
n.
A red pimple.
+
boree
n.
Same as BourrEe.
+
bedbug
n.
A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds.  See Illustration in Appendix.
+
boom
v.i.
To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.
+
beater
n.
A person who beats up game for the hunters.
+
buckle
v.i.
To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
+
bite
v.t.
To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.
+
basket
n.
The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach.
+
bar iron

See under Iron.
+
boron
n.
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.
+
bail
n.
The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court.
+
boring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bore
+
berth
n.
Convenient sea room.
+
backstitch
n.
A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.
+
boosted
imp.|p.p.
of Boost
+
bouncer
n.
One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.
+
bode
v.i.
To foreshow something; to augur.
+
busily
adv.
In a busy manner.
+
burmans
pl.
of Burman
+
briber
n.
That which bribes; a bribe.
+
bottom
v.i.
To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.
+
buffalo
n.
The bison of North America.
+
bedcord
n.
A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed.
+
bilk
n.
Nonsense; vain words.
+
bell
v.i.
To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.
+
bestowed
imp.|p.p.
of Bestow
+
ballad
n.
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.
+
bayatte
n.
A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species (Bagrina bayad and B. docmac).
+
bequeath
v.t.
To hand down; to transmit.
+
brandies
pl.
of Brandy
+
bank
v.t.
To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
+
beblubber
v.t.
To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.
+
biasing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bias
+
brill
n.
A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food; -- called also bret, pearl, prill. See Bret.
+
brutely
adv.
In a rude or violent manner.
+
barb
n.
A bit for a horse.
+
bull
v.t.
To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.
+
brethren
n.
pl. of Brother.
+
burrhel
n.
The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep (Ovis burrhel).
+
boggled
imp.|p.p.
of Boggle
+
bolt
adv.
In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
+
bebleed
v.t.
To make bloody; to stain with blood.
+
barmecidal
a.
Unreal; illusory.
+
board
n.
The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.
+
blind
a.
Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.
+
banquet
v.t.
To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
+
baffle
v.i.
To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
+
bow
v.t.
To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
+
bankrupt
v.t.
To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.
+
buke muslin

See Book muslin.
+
beard
v.t.
To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.
+
batfish
n.
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.)
+
bail
v.t.
To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat.
+
breach
n.
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
+
boneshaw
n.
Sciatica.
+
bond
n.
The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint.
+
briberies
pl.
of Bribery
+
bushy
a.
Thick and spreading, like a bush.
+
baseborn
a.
Born out of wedlock.
+
betty
n.
A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters.
+
beadhouse
n.
Alt. of Bedehouse
+
bodock
n.
The Osage orange.
+
bay leaf

See under 3d Bay.
+
broken
v.t.
Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted.
+
barony
n.
The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.
+
betokened
imp.|p.p.
of Betoken
+
barberry
n.
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.
+
blond
v.t.
Alt. of Blonde
+
belly
n.
That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.
+
bridle
v.t.
To restrain, guide, or govern, with, or as with, a bridle; to check, curb, or control; as, to bridle the passions; to bridle a muse.
+
blimbi
n.
Alt. of Blimbing
+
balter
v.t.
To stick together.
+
brief
a.
An epitome.
+
buffin
n.
A sort of coarse stuff; as, buffin gowns.
+
bulbed
a.
Having a bulb; round-headed.
+
bearer
n.
A tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer.
+
besayle
n.
A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished.
+
blacktail
n.
The black-tailed deer (Cervus / Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer.
+
balsam
n.
A resin containing more or less of an essential or volatile oil.
+
bespake

of Bespeak
+
bagatelle
n.
A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player.
+
bibliographical
a.
Pertaining to bibliography, or the history of books.
+
breast
v.t.
To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.
+
boss
n.
A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus.
+
bizantine

See Byzantine.
+
boss
n.
A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
+
brobdingnagian
n.
A giant.
+
boluses
pl.
of Bolus
+
boudoir
n.
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.
+
bilge
n.
That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.
+
babylonian
a.
Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean.
+
blood
n.
Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage.
+
brachycephalous
a.
Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.
+
brahma
n.
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.
+
bated
imp.|p.p.
of Bate
+
begotten

of Beget
+
bakehouse
v.t.
A house for baking; a bakery.
+
blanch holding

A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.
+
brandy
n.
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.
+
badgerlegged
a.
Having legs of unequal length, as the badger was thought to have.
+
blunder
n.
A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.
+
bade

A form of the pat tense of Bid.
+
bruting
n.
Browsing.
+
bag
n.
A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.
+
blinker
n.
A blinder for horses; a flap of leather on a horse's bridle to prevent him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
+
barbarizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Barbarize
+
babian
n.
Alt. of Babion
+
block
v.t.
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.
+
beat
imp.
of Beat
+
basilica
n.
A church building of the earlier centuries of Christianity, the plan of which was taken from the basilica of the Romans. The name is still applied to some churches by way of honorary distinction.
+
balconies
pl.
of Balcony
+
businesses
pl.
of Business
+
burghership
n.
The state or privileges of a burgher.
+
binned
imp.|p.p.
of Bin
+
bushel
n.
A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
+
bold eagle

an Australian eagle (Aquila audax), which destroys lambs and even the kangaroo.
+
bead
v.t.
To ornament with beads or beading.
+
begriming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Begrime
+
bellyband
n.
A band of canvas, to strengthen a sail.
+
brotherliness
n.
The state or quality of being brotherly.
+
beneath
prep.
Under, in relation to something that is superior, or that oppresses or burdens.
+
brainsick
a.
Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.
+
baguette
n.
One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.
+
bramble bush

The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together.
+
brand
v.t.
To put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way, as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name of manufacture, etc.
+
band
v.t.
A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc.
+
bungalow
n.
A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda.
+
bewhore
v.t.
To pronounce or characterize as a whore.
+
bestraddle
v.t.
To bestride.
+
bayze
n.
See Baize.
+
bristle
v.i.
To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
+
bessemer steel

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.
+
blunderingly
adv.
In a blundering manner.
+
bibliothecary
n.
A librarian.
+
bolt
n.
A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.
+
box
n.
A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.
+
budgy
n.
Consisting of fur.
+
bastard
n.
A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.
+
bookselling
n.
The employment of selling books.
+
butyrone
n.
A liquid ketone obtained by heating calcium butyrate.
+
blatteroon
n.
A senseless babbler or boaster.
+
bewonder
v.t.
To fill with wonder.
+
brattishing
n.
Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet.
+
bothered
imp.|p.p.
of Bother
+
ball
n.
A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.
+
bubby
n.
Bub; -- a term of familiar or affectionate address to a small boy.
+
bearskin
n.
A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats.
+
beef
n.
The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.
+
big
superl.
Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.
+
bierbalk
n.
A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals.
+
barracuda
n.
Alt. of Barracouata
+
basecourt
n.
An inferior court of law, not of record.
+
bate

imp. of Bite.
+
breakfast
v.i.
To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day.
+
bulge
v.i.
To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
+
bedewed
imp.|p.p.
of Bedew
+
brightened
imp.|p.p.
of Brighten
+
burniebee
n.
The ladybird.
+
brighten
a.
To make acute or witty; to enliven.
+
bisected
imp.|p.p.
of Bisect
+
besieging
a.
That besieges; laying siege to.
+
by
adv.
Passing near; going past; past; beyond; as, the procession has gone by; a bird flew by.
+
broach
n.
A broad chisel for stonecutting.
+
blow
v.i.
To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
+
bezant
n.
A circle in or, i. e., gold, representing the gold coin called bezant.
+
bombycinous
a.
Being of the color of the silkworm; transparent with a yellow tint.
+
bay salt

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.
+
bleynte

imp. of Blench.
+
bluets
a.
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.
+
badgerer
n.
A kind of dog used in badger baiting.
+
budge
n.
A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.
+
birk
n.
A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus).
+
burglarer
n.
A burglar.
+
bob
n.
A shilling.
+
bent
v.
Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
+
bugle
n.
A horn used by hunters.
+
buddle
n.
An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions.
+
blockading
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blockade
+
bouged
imp.|p.p.
of Bouge
+
bolt
v.i.
To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
+
boskage
n.
Same as Boscage.
+
bigarreau
n.
Alt. of Bigaroon
+
bejape
v.t.
To jape; to laugh at; to deceive.
+
bequethen

old p. p. of Bequeath.
+
bellow
n.
A loud resounding outcry or noise, as of an enraged bull; a roar.
+
brother
n.
A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood.
+
bis
adv.
Twice; -- a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.
+
battailous
n.
Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike.
+
bellman
n.
A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours.
+
blast
n.
A flatulent disease of sheep.
+
bodkin
n.
A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair.
+
bonded
a.
Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to certain regulations.
+
bubale
n.
A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible.
+
base
n.
A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
+
braggingly
adv.
Boastingly.
+
bondsmen
pl.
of Bondsman
+
bluely
adv.
With a blue color.
+
bilboquet
n.
The toy called cup and ball.
+
blurry
a.
Full of blurs; blurred.
+
bouncer
n.
A boaster; a bully.
+
bulged
imp.|p.p.
of Bulge
+
birdsnesting
n.
Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents.
+
balloon
n.
A bomb or shell.
+
brass
n.
Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.
+
betaking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Betake
+
back
a.
Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent.
+
brushwood
n.
Small branches of trees cut off.
+
bowl
n.
The game of tenpins or bowling.
+
burden
n.
The drone of a bagpipe.
+
blistered
imp.|p.p.
of Blister
+
bishop
v.t.
To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.
+
bumper
n.
A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast.
+
budge
v.
Brisk; stirring; jocund.
+
burnable
a.
Combustible.
+
biscuit
n.
A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.
+
buscon
n.
One who searches for ores; a prospector.
+
bugbear
v.t.
To alarm with idle phantoms.
+
buoyage
n.
Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.
+
bluff
n.
An act of bluffing; an expression of self-confidence for the purpose of intimidation; braggadocio; as, that is only bluff, or a bluff.
+
bicarinate
a.
Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses.
+
blonde
n.
A person of very fair complexion, with light hair and light blue eyes.
+
broad
superl.
Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
+
bow hand

The hand that draws the bow, i. e., the right hand.
+
blockade
v.t.
To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.
+
branching
n.
The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch.
+
bucked
imp.|p.p.
of Buck
+
bewitched
imp.|p.p.
of Bewitch
+
better
compar.
More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and better.
+
beat
v.i.
To move with pulsation or throbbing.
+
bind
n.
A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
+
bishop
n.
A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.
+
barton
n.
The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself.
+
brothersinlaw
pl.
of Brother-in-law
+
bewail
v.i.
To express grief; to lament.
+
budding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bud
+
brash
a.
Hasty in temper; impetuous.
+
bene placito

At pleasure; ad libitum.
+
ballast
v.t.
To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.
+
battle
v.t.
A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
+
bodge
v.i.
See Budge.
+
braiding
n.
Braids, collectively; trimming.
+
buffer
n.
An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.
+
bind
n.
That which binds or ties.
+
begin
v.i.
To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start.
+
breadthwinner
n.
The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living.
+
bushwhacking
n.
The crimes or warfare of bushwhackers.
+
baryta
n.
An oxide of barium (or barytum); a heavy earth with a specific gravity above 4.
+
blazonment
n.
The act of blazoning; blazoning; emblazonment.
+
borer
n.
One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple.
+
barde
pl.
Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
+
bunchy
a.
Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine.
+
blasphemy
n.
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.
+
bodeful
a.
Portentous; ominous.
+
botfly
n.
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.
+
brutalizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brutalize
+
bullseye
n.
A small and thick old-fashioned watch.
+
boss
n.
The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another.
+
booly
n.
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.
+
bloom
n.
The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
+
ballasting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Ballast
+
backare
interj.
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.
+
bismuth
n.
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.
+
breastpin
n.
A pin worn on the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch.
+
base
n.
The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.
+
banter
v.t.
To challenge or defy to a match.
+
bulk
v.
A projecting part of a building.
+
beau
n.
A man who escorts, or pays attentions to, a lady; an escort; a lover.
+
bedrenched
imp.|p.p.
of Bedrench
+
belligerence
n.
Alt. of Belligerency
+
bisexous
a.
Bisexual.
+
bailable
a.
Admitting of bail; as, a bailable offense.
+
boycotting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Boycott
+
bull
n.
One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5.
+
boiler
n.
A vessel in which any thing is boiled.
+
brewing
n.
A mixing together.
+
bound
v.t.
To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
+
bezonian
n.
A low fellow or scoundrel; a beggar.
+
bounce
adv.
With a sudden leap; suddenly.
+
basso
a.
One who sings the lowest part.
+
bracky
a.
Brackish.
+
belace
v.t.
To beat with a strap. See Lace.
+
botany bay

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.
+
binervate
a.
Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves.
+
backhander
n.
A backhanded blow.
+
bluebonnet
n.
A broad, flat Scottish cap of blue woolen, or one wearing such cap; a Scotchman.
+
brokery
n.
The business of a broker.
+
bosh
n.
Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug.
+
bourdon
n.
A kind of organ stop.
+
blitheness
n.
The state of being blithe.
+
baronies
pl.
of Barony
+
bowingly
adv.
In a bending manner.
+
bombard
n.
A bombardment.
+
basing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Base
+
bound
v.t.
To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor.
+
broached
imp.|p.p.
of Broach
+
break
v.t.
A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.
+
brunswick black

See Japan black.
+
borrel
n.
A kind of light stuff, of silk and wool.
+
beggar
n.
One who makes it his business to ask alms.
+
bethlehemite
n.
Alt. of Bethlemite
+
bawd
v.i.
To procure women for lewd purposes.
+
blazoner
n.
One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald.
+
bemoaning
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bemoan
+
bellwether
n.
A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck.
+
board
n.
A table at which a council or court is held. Hence:  A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc.
+
besit
v.t.
To suit; to fit; to become.
+
barbary
n.
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.
+
bident
n.
An instrument or weapon with two prongs.
+
barytocalcite
n.
A mineral of a white or gray color, occurring massive or crystallized. It is a compound of the carbonates of barium and calcium.
+
babylonish
n.
Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia.
+
beheld

imp. & p. p. of Behold.
+
bromine
n.
One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8.  Symbol Br.  It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite.
+
bolt
v.t.
To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
+
buttoning
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Button
+
behen
n.
Alt. of Behn
+
bottom
a.
Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
+
bountihead
n.
Alt. of Bountyhood
+
beautiless
a.
Destitute of beauty.
+
banished
imp.|p.p.
of Banish
+
bracchia
pl.
of Brachium
+
box
n.
A present in a box; a present; esp. a Christmas box or gift.
+
birdcall
n.
A sound made in imitation of the note or cry of a bird for the purpose of decoying the bird or its mate.
+
bishoped
imp.|p.p.
of Bishop
+
bemoan
v.t.
To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with.
+
bay
n.
A berry, particularly of the laurel.
+
bouquetin
n.
The ibex.
+
basal
a.
Relating to, or forming, the base.
+
bladder
n.
Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.
+
bogey
n.
A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.
+
branches
pl.
of Branch
+
but
v.t.
A mark to be shot at; a target.
+
bearing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bear
+
bale
v.t.
To make up in a bale.
+
brocaded
a.
Dressed in brocade.
+
bedewy
a.
Moist with dew; dewy.
+
broken
v.t.
Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish.
+
bread
n.
An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.
+
bowstrung

of Bowstring
+
bourgeois
n.
A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.
+
brief
a.
Rife; common; prevalent.
+
barrator
v.i.
One guilty of barratry.
+
backstay
n.
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.
+
blastocyst
n.
The germinal vesicle.
+
blackcap
n.
An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee.
+
becurl
v.t.
To curl; to adorn with curls.
+
baccate
a.
Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits.
+
blower
n.
The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.
+
becalming
n.
of Becalm
+
blushless
a.
Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent.
+
birdwitted
a.
Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention.
+
ballast
a.
The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete.
+
bowls
n.pl.
See Bowl, a ball, a game.
+
burrowing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Burrow
+
but
prep.adv.|conj.
The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room.
+
begum
n.
In the East Indies, a princess or lady of high rank.
+
binding
n.
The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.
+
ben
adv.|prep.
Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment.
+
bulbule
n.
A small bulb; a bulblet.
+
bastile bastille
n.
A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place.
+
bibliomaniacal
a.
Pertaining to a passion for books; relating to a bibliomaniac.
+
buolt
n.
Corrupted form Bolt.
+
begged
imp.|p.p.
of Beg
+
behoove
v.i.
To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due.
+
benzoline
n.
Same as Benzole.
+
broadly
adv.
In a broad manner.
+
burgess
n.
An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.
+
below
prep.
Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath.
+
bote
n.
Payment of any kind.
+
balloonist
n.
An aeronaut.
+
bankrupt
n.
A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.
+
blatterer
n.
One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.
+
bardish
a.
Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards.
+
brettice
n.
The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.
+
bequeathable
a.
Capable of being bequeathed.
+
blastodermatic
a.
Alt. of Blastodermic
+
burr
n.
The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8.
+
bronzing
n.
A material for bronzing.
+
biographies
pl.
of Biography
+
bullish
a.
Partaking of the nature of a bull, or a blunder.
+
beset
v.t.
To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade.
+
beseemly
a.
Fit; suitable; becoming.
+
bombardier
n.
A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.
+
beg
v.t.
To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.
+
bacchanal
n.
Drunken revelry; an orgy.
+
bow
v.t.
Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow.
+
burden
n.
A club.
+
body
n.
A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.
+
blaze
n.
Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun.
+
blight
v.t.
To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
+
bolt
v.t.
To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
+
basketfuls
pl.
of Basketful
+
bayonet
v.t.
To compel or drive by the bayonet.
+
branching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Branch
+
bawl
v.i.
To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.
+
beauty
n.
An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense.
+
beatitude
n.
Beatification.
+
bellbird
n.
The Myzantha melanophrys of Australia.
+
burghermaster
n.
See Burgomaster.
+
blabbing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blab
+
bushfighting
n.
Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.
+
beak
n.
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.
+
brontology
n.
A treatise upon thunder.
+
brucite
n.
The mineral chondrodite.
+
brushing
a.
Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop.
+
bashless
a.
Shameless; unblushing.
+
booting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Boot
+
bed
v.t.
To furnish with a bed or bedding.
+
bisulcous
a.
Bisulcate.
+
baddish
a.
Somewhat bad; inferior.
+
bedevil
v.t.
To spoil; to corrupt.
+
bulled
a.
Swollen.
+
beast
n.
A game at cards similar to loo.
+
batterer
n.
One who, or that which, batters.
+
balance
n.
Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.
+
bawdry
n.
Illicit intercourse; fornication.
+
beseech
n.
Solicitation; supplication.
+
beam
n.
One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather.
+
byzant
n.
Alt. of Byzantine
+
biostatistics
n.
Vital statistics.
+
baldness
n.
The state or condition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style.
+
bandanna
n.
Alt. of Bandana
+
batty
a.
Belonging to, or resembling, a bat.
+
basifier
n.
That which converts into a salifiable base.
+
brog
n.
A pointed instrument, as a joiner's awl, a brad awl, a needle, or a small sharp stick.
+
barras
n.
A resin, called also galipot.
+
bent
n.
A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
+
breed
v.i.
To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
+
behoove
n.
Advantage; behoof.
+
bespotted
imp.|p.p.
of Bespot
+
bullpout
n.
See Bullhead, 1 (b).
+
button
n.
A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.
+
blende
n.
A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster.
+
bibliopolar
a.
Of or pertaining to the sale of books.
+
bryologist
n.
One versed in bryology.
+
barology
n.
The science of weight or gravity.
+
birostrated
a.
Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks.
+
boroughmongery
n.
The practices of a boroughmonger.
+
boggle
v.t.
To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.
+
brutalization
n.
The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.
+
beeeater
n.
A bird of the genus Merops, that feeds on bees. The European species (M. apiaster) is remarkable for its brilliant colors.
+
bourne
n.
A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.
+
background
n.
Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.
+
bronchotomy
n.
An incision into the windpipe or larynx, including the operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy.
+
basin
n.
A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.
+
bread
v.t.
To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.
+
bacchical
a.
Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous,with intoxication.
+
begnaw
v.t.
To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode.
+
beguin
n.
See Beghard.
+
begin
n.
Beginning.
+
byzantian
a.|n.
See Byzantine.
+
brandish
n.
To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish.
+
boarish
a.
Swinish; brutal; cruel.
+
betraying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Betray
+
butt
v.t.
Alt. of But
+
bench
n.
A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river.
+
byssiferous
a.
Bearing a byssus or tuft.
+
balance
n.
To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them.
+
bloodsucker
n.
Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.
+
bene
n.
See Benne.
+
bridestake
n.
A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round.
+
blencher
n.
One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.
+
brit
n.
Alt. of Britt
+
band
v.t.
A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men.
+
backcast
n.
Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse.
+
bunching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bunch
+
belt
v.t.
To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep.
+
booty
n.
That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.
+
betrust
v.t.
To trust or intrust.
+
blanch
a.
To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
+
boracous
a.
Relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax.
+
birthnight
n.
The night in which a person is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years.
+
biauriculate
a.
Having two auricles, as the heart of mammals, birds, and reptiles.
+
buck
v.i.
To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.
+
building
n.
The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.
+
baubee
n.
Same as Bawbee.
+
brail
n.
Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.
+
before
prep.
An advance of; farther onward, in place or time.
+
burkism
n.
The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection.
+
beetle
v.t.
To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
+
bacon
n.
The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh.
+
brimmed
a.
Full to, or level with, the brim.
+
brunt
v.t.
The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.
+
backdown
n.
A receding or giving up; a complete      surrender.
+
black rod

An usher in the legislature of British colonies.
+
buffoonery
n.
The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures.
+
barbiers
n.
A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form.
+
beatitude
n.
Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.
+
biennially
adv.
Once in two years.
+
bander
n.
One banded with others.
+
brett
n.
Same as Britzska.
+
blearing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blear
+
blood
v.t.
To stain, smear or wet, with blood.
+
burster
n.
One that bursts.
+
burghmaster
n.
A burgomaster.
+
bristling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bristle
+
bohemian
n.
A restless vagabond; -- originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals.
+
beady
a.
Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor.
+
baron
n.
A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife.
+
bivalved
a.
Having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve.
+
brushing
a.
Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine.
+
board
n.
To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.
+
bittersweet
n.
Anything which is bittersweet.
+
baptism
v.i.
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.
+
blackguardism
n.
The conduct or language of a blackguard; ruffianism.
+
beguard
n.
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.
+
bumbast

See Bombast.
+
barbel
n.
Barbs or paps under the tongued of horses and cattle. See 1st Barb, 3.
+
bestud
v.t.
To set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set thickly; to stud; as, to bestud with stars.
+
bump
v.i.
To come in violent contact with something; to thump.
+
box
n.
A small country house.
+
brail
n.
A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
+
badger
v.t.
To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
+
blancher
n.
One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose.
+
blue
superl.
Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.
+
backstair
a.
Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs.
+
bigamy
n.
The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another.
+
blazed
imp.|p.p.
of Blaze
+
boscage
n.
Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.
+
bordar
n.
A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier.
+
basilica
n.
A building used by the Romans as a place of public meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached.
+
bicipital
a.
Pertaining to a biceps muscle; as, bicipital furrows, the depressions on either side of the biceps of the arm.
+
break
v.t.
To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle.
+
bruise
v.t.
To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.
+
blubber
n.
A bubble.
+
buffet
v.i.
A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
+
battery
v.t.
The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him.
+
benignity
n.
Salubrity; wholesome quality.
+
blend
n.
A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.
+
blue
n.
A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
+
bichromate
n.
A salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; -- called also dichromate.
+
backwater
n.
An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction.
+
bucker
n.
A horse or mule that bucks.
+
boot
n.
Booty; spoil.
+
boydekin
n.
A dagger; a bodkin.
+
bow
n.
An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, a bow of deep humility.
+
blissom
a.
Lascivious; also, in heat; -- said of ewes.
+
bowing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bow
+
bribable
a.
Capable of being bribed.
+
barber
n.
One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons.
+
buckskin
n.
Breeches made of buckskin.
+
babble
v.i.
To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones.
+
bruta
n.
See Edentata.
+
brawl
n.
A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl.
+
baxter
n.
A baker; originally, a female baker.
+
bonfire
n.
A large fire built in the open air, as an expression of public joy and exultation, or for amusement.
+
bate
n.
Strife; contention.
+
basisphenoid
a.
Alt. of Basisphenoidal
+
barrel
n.
The hollow basal part of a feather.
+
barograph
n.
An instrument for recording automatically the variations of atmospheric pressure.
+
brimmed
imp.|p.p.
of Brim
+
bengalese
n.sing.|pl
A native or natives of Bengal.
+
braid
n.
A fancy; freak; caprice.
+
bacchanalia
n.pl.
Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler.
+
besot
v.t.
To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate.
+
beguile
v.t.
To cause the time of to pass without notice; to relieve the tedium or weariness of; to while away; to divert.
+
bespoke
imp.
of Bespeak
+
bavarian
n.
A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria.
+
buzzed
imp.|p.p.
of Buzz
+
blowy
a.
Windy; as, blowy weather; a blowy upland.
+
ballad
v.i.
To make or sing ballads.
+
bellygod
n.
One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.
+
buttonwood
n.
The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa.
+
binocular
a.
Adapted to the use of both eyes; as, a binocular microscope or telescope.
+
bat
v.i.
To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
+
belabor
v.t.
To ply diligently; to work carefully upon.
+
ballooned
a.
Swelled out like a balloon.
+
brabantine
a.
Pertaining to Brabant, an ancient province of the Netherlands.
+
bismillah
interj.
An adjuration or exclamation common among the Mohammedans.
+
beneficiate
v.t.
To reduce (ores).
+
block
v.t.
The pattern or shape of a hat.
+
buggy
n.
A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.
+
buskin
n.
A strong, protecting covering for the foot, coming some distance up the leg.
+
bondwoman
n.
A woman who is a slave, or in bondage.
+
blabber
n.
A tattler; a telltale.
+
booting
n.
A kind of torture. See Boot, n., 2.
+
bannock
n.
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.
+
band fish

A small red fish of the genus Cepola; the ribbon fish.
+
briery
n.
A place where briers grow.
+
beardie
n.
The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe.
+
boot
n.
A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
+
blackamoor
n.
A negro or negress.
+
beray
v.t.
To make foul; to soil; to defile.
+
basset horn
a.
An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.
+
brook
v.t.
To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint.
+
budge
a.
Lined with budge; hence, scholastic.
+
bladdering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bladder
+
baccare
interj.
Alt. of Backare
+
barren
a.
Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
+
bespotting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bespot
+
barometric
a.
Alt. of Barometrical
+
bilk
n.
A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
+
birdseed
n.
Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.
+
bob
n.
The refrain of a song.
+
bewitchery
n.
The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination.
+
bagpipe
v.t.
To make to look like a bagpipe.
+
bay window

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.
+
bulbel
n.
A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.
+
beclouded
imp.|p.p.
of Becloud
+
bell metal

A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells.
+
bucolic
a.
Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
+
bartender
n.
A barkeeper.
+
batmen
pl.
of Batman
+
billingsgate
n.
A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.
+
benedictory
a.
Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer.
+
besmoke
v.t.
To foul with smoke.
+
bowl
n.
The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
+
base
a.
To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower.
+
biserial
a.
Alt. of Biseriate
+
balmy
a.
Full of barm or froth; in a ferment.
+
brazenness
n.
The quality or state of being brazen.
+
braise
n.
Alt. of Braize
+
batton
n.
See Batten, and Baton.
+
bob
n.
A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
+
burgall
n.
A small marine fish; -- also called cunner.
+
butyrin
n.
A butyrate of glycerin; a fat contained in small quantity in milk, which helps to give to butter its peculiar flavor.
+
bobolink
n.
An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln.
+
barytic
a.
Of or pertaining to baryta.
+
balk
v.i.
To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
+
boom
n.
A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee.
+
blandness
n.
The state or quality of being bland.
+
bluntwitted
n.
Dull; stupid.
+
bleed
v.i.
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.
+
bridgeward
n.
The principal ward of a key.
+
baking
n.
The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.
+
brattice
n.
Planking to support a roof or wall.
+
bed
n.
The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.
+
broad
superl.
Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
+
brachypterous
a.
Having short wings.
+
betray
v.t.
To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.
+
brandnew
a.
Quite new; bright as if fresh from the forge.
+
babyism
n.
The state of being a baby.
+
blower
n.
One who, or that which, blows.
+
bargained
imp.|p.p.
of Bargain
+
barratrous

Tainter with, or constituting, barratry.
+
budge
a.
Austere or stiff, like scholastics.
+
beggarly
a.
Produced or occasioned by beggary.
+
beauxite
n.
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.
+
ban
n.
A curse or anathema.
+
beseeching
a.
Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look.
+
bicipital
a.
Having two heads or origins, as a muscle.
+
but
v.t.
A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
+
bluethroat
n.
A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia (Cyanecula Suecica), related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.
+
britt
n.
The young of the common herring; also, a small species of herring; the sprat.
+
baroko
n.
A form or mode of syllogism of which the first proposition is a universal affirmative, and the other two are particular negative.
+
belch
v.i.
To issue with spasmodic force or noise.
+
bibliophile
n.
A lover of books.
+
brainsickly
adv.
In a brainsick manner.
+
bewilderment
n.
The state of being bewildered.
+
brawl
v.i.
To complain loudly; to scold.
+
bar
n.
The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
+
benedictine
a.
Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet.
+
blameful
a.
Faulty; meriting blame.
+
bonasus
n.
Alt. of Bonassus
+
blinking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blink
+
bender
n.
A drunken spree.
+
bodily
a.
Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind.
+
bowmen
pl.
of Bowman
+
burse
n.
An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.
+
bifacial
a.
Having the opposite surfaces alike.
+
beady
a.
Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads.
+
basseted
imp.|p.p.
of Basset
+
brat
n.
A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.
+
bit

of Bite
+
brake

of Break
+
bullseye
n.
The center of a target.
+
botheration
n.
The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.
+
barbecue
n.
A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
+
brawn
n.
A muscle; flesh.
+
ban
n.
A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.
+
beath
v.t.
To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood.
+
biangular
a.
Having two angles or corners.
+
barbicanage
n.
Alt. of Barbacanage
+
beg
n.
A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.
+
borne
p.p.
Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.
+
bargain
n.
To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.
+
broadcloth
n.
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.
+
blot
v.t.
To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
+
bate
n.
An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.
+
bullion
n.
Uncoined gold or silver in the mass.
+
bark
v.i.
To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.
+
blame
v.t.
To bring reproach upon; to blemish.
+
barter
v.i.
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.
+
babbitt
v.t.
To line with Babbitt metal.
+
bawdiness
n.
Obscenity; lewdness.
+
bohemianism
n.
The characteristic conduct or methods of a Bohemian.
+
branding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brand
+
bulbiferous
n.
Producing bulbs.
+
brimstony
a.
Containing or resembling brimstone; sulphurous.
+
bankrupt
a.
Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.
+
bedward
adv.
Towards bed.
+
blink
v.i.
To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.
+
barbarously
adv.
In a barbarous manner.
+
brute
n.
An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.
+
broach
n.
To cause to begin or break out.
+
bridgey
a.
Full of bridges.
+
belt
n.
One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
+
bonder
n.
A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone.
+
bound
v.t.
To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.
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brace
v.t.
To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd.
+
backarack
n.
A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.
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bare
a.
Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of  (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture.
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brash
a.
Brittle, as wood or vegetables.
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breasted
a.
Having a breast; -- used in composition with qualifying words, in either a literal or a metaphorical sense; as, a single-breasted coat.
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bedpan
n.
A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed.
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barranca
n.
A ravine caused by heavy rains or a watercourse.
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barefaced
a.
Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless; audacious.
+
bard
v.t.
To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
+
boreas
n.
The north wind; -- usually a personification.
+
bathometer
n.
An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line.
+
beloved
n.
One greatly loved.
+
bluffness
n.
The quality or state of being bluff.
+
bus
n.
An omnibus.
+
burnishing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Burnish
+
bend
v.i.
To jut over; to overhang.
+
brininess
n.
The state or quality of being briny; saltness; brinishness.
+
bestial
a.
Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual.
+
bit

imp. & p. p. of Bite.
+
blast pipe

The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.
+
bashaw
n.
Fig.: A magnate or grandee.
+
beseen
a.
Seen; appearing.
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blastocarpous
a.
Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove.
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blind
a.
Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.
+
brandish
n.
To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms.
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binocular
a.
Pertaining to both eyes; employing both eyes at once; as, binocular vision.
+
beach
n.
Pebbles, collectively; shingle.
+
blanching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blanch
+
bob
n.
To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.
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bedded
a.
Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged in a bed or beds.
+
belt
n.
A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.
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brachiopod
n.
One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.
+
breakfast
v.t.
To furnish with breakfast.
+
blood
n.
The fleshy nature of man.
+
buhl
n.
Alt. of Buhlwork
+
barb
n.
A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
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bean trefoil

A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida).
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bayoneting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bayonet
+
brunion
n.
A nectarine.
+
bidet
n.
A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage.
+
beslubber
v.t.
To beslobber.
+
bibliopegist
n.
A bookbinder.
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beakiron
n.
A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.
+
backhand
a.
Backhanded; indirect; oblique.
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bourbon whisky

See under Whisky.
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butchering
n.
The business of a butcher.
+
bitume
n.
Bitumen.
+
barnyard
n.
A yard belonging to a barn.
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bossed
a.
Embossed; also, bossy.
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bordeaux
n.
A claret wine from Bordeaux.
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blindfold
a.
Having the eyes covered; blinded; having the mental eye darkened. Hence: Heedless; reckless; as, blindfold zeal; blindfold fury.
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bishopric
n.
The office of a spiritual overseer, as of an apostle, bishop, or presbyter.
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booby
n.
A swimming bird (Sula fiber or S. sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the red-footed booby.
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biwreye
v.t.
To bewray; to reveal.
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behaving
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Behave
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backgammon
n.
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.
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brachycatalectic
n.
A verse wanting two syllables at its termination.
+
bounded
imp.|p.p.
of Bound
+
brochure
v.t.
A printed and stitched book containing only a few leaves; a pamphlet.
+
breach
n.
A breaking out upon; an assault.
+
beggary
n.
Beggarly appearance.
+
brazened
imp.|p.p.
of Brazen
+
bestriding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bestride
+
bocardo
n.
A form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative.
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barked
imp.|p.p.
of Bark
+
bind
v.t.
To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service.
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benignity
n.
The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness.
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brevier
n.
A size of type between bourgeois and minion.
+
bawdry
n.
The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.
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bramble
n.
The brambling or bramble finch.
+
bojanus organ

A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney.
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band
v.t.
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.
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barton
n.
A farmyard.
+
boughten
a.
Purchased; not obtained or produced at home.
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beechnut
n.
The nut of the beech tree.
+
blastogenesis
n.
Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.
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bisulphide
n.
A sulphide having two atoms of sulphur in the molecule; a disulphide, as in iron pyrites, FeS2; -- less frequently called bisulphuret.
+
blessing
v.t.
A gift.
+
bickerer
n.
One who bickers.
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bait
v.i.
Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.
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bitake
v.t.
To commend; to commit.
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brine
n.
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.
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bruit
n.
Report; rumor; fame.
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blush
n.
A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
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breastknot
n.
A knot of ribbons worn on the breast.
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brutal
a.
Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners.
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betumbled
imp.|p.p.
of Betumble
+
bonibell
n.
See Bonnibel.
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becker
n.
A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.
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bolster
n.
The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.
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banksided
a.
Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; -- opposed to wall-sided.
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benthamic
a.
Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.
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bate
n.
See 2d Bath.
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babist
n.
A believer in Babism.
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brilliantness
n.
Brilliancy; splendor; glitter.
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bismuthyl
n.
Hydrous carbonate of bismuth, an earthy mineral of a dull white or yellowish color.
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bonspiel
n.
A cur/ing match between clubs.
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body
n.
The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.
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breath
n.
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.
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browspot
n.
A rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the interocular gland.
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budge
v.i.
To move off; to stir; to walk away.
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benign
a.
Of a mild type or character; as, a benign disease.
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bosom
n.
The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.
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banneret
n.
Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.
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birdsmouth
n.
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.
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black snake
n.
Alt. of Blacksnake
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bois durci

A hard, highly polishable composition, made of fine sawdust from hard wood (as rosewood) mixed with blood, and pressed.
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burrower
n.
One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a hole under ground and lives in it.
+
bastardize
v.t.
To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
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belched
imp.|p.p.
of Belch
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bournonite
n.
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.
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block tin

See under Tin.
+
birdbolt
n.
Anything which smites without penetrating.
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byssine
a.
Made of silk; having a silky or flaxlike appearance.
+
brayed
imp.|p.p.
of Bray
+
barber
v.t.
To shave and dress the beard or hair of.
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blooded
a.
Having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of approved breed; of the best stock.
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baccated
a.
Set or adorned with pearls.
+
bestead
v.t.
To serve; to assist; to profit; to avail.
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bernardine
n.
A Cistercian monk.
+
bar
n.
A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.
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boundaries
pl.
of Boundary
+
baseless
a.
Without a base; having no foundation or support.
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baldachin
n.
A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession.
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bin
n.
A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin.
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byssus
n.
A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk.
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broad
n.
The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.
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burro
n.
A donkey.
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bitterish
a.
Somewhat bitter.
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bedgown
n.
A nightgown.
+
bettered
imp.|p.p.
of Better
+
bounce
n.
An explosion, or the noise of one.
+
bilberry
n.
Any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in America, the species Vaccinium myrtilloides, V. caespitosum and V. uliginosum.
+
brand iron

A branding iron.
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blunt
n.
A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.
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boiled
a.
Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
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belch
n.
The act of belching; also, that which is belched; an eructation.
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bedighted

of Bedight
+
britt
n.
The minute marine animals (chiefly Entomostraca) upon which the right whales feed.
+
bastard
n.
An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings.
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bonassus
n.
The aurochs or European bison. See Aurochs.
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bond service

The condition of a bond servant; service without wages; slavery.
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brew
v.i.
To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
+
blindness
n.
State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively.
+
bosporian
a.
Of or pertaining to the Thracian or the Cimmerian Bosporus.
+
base
a.
Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion.
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badge
n.
A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.
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balneography
n.
A description of baths.
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berserk
n.
Alt. of Berserker
+
balk
v.t.
To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to /hwart; as, to balk expectation.
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betty
n.
A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask.
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bat
v.t.
To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
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brim
a.
Fierce; sharp; cold. See Breme.
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birl
v.t.|i.
To revolve or cause to revolve; to spin.
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balancing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Balance
+
brain
n.
The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.
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blundering
a.
Characterized by blunders.
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benevolent
a.
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.
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branglement
n.
Wrangle; brangle.
+
bissextile
a.
Pertaining to leap year.
+
burden
v.t.
To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.
+
braid
v.i.
To start; to awake.
+
barratry
n.
The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels.
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balance
n.
To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.
+
badgering
n.
The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.
+
burnet
n.
A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet.
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ball
n.
A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball.
+
beggar
v.t.
To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
+
boke
v.t.|i.
To poke; to thrust.
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baton
n.
An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.
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beading
n.
The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.
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beating
n.
Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.
+
beslave
v.t.
To enslave.
+
biscayan
n.
A native or inhabitant of Biscay.
+
basommatophora
n.pl.
A group of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails.
+
beset
v.t.
To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects.
+
brontozoum
n.
An extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone.
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bergylt
n.
The Norway haddock. See Rosefish.
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blackbird
n.
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.
+
blacken
v.t.
To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.
+
boweries
pl.
of Bowery
+
balloted
imp.|p.p.
of Ballot
+
beer
n.
A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.
+
bellypinched
a.
Pinched with hunger; starved.
+
bowel
n.
One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.
+
brackishness
n.
The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.
+
butt
v.t.
To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.
+
besmut
v.t.
To blacken with smut; to foul with soot.
+
bitterweed
n.
A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiaefolia); Roman worm wood.
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binous
a.
Same as Binate.
+
base
n.
That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ.
+
basilica
n.
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.
+
biogenesis
n.
Alt. of Biogeny
+
bullfly
n.
Any large fly troublesome to cattle, as the gadflies and breeze flies.
+
broiler
n.
A gridiron or other utensil used in broiling.
+
brail
v.t.
To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.
+
backwash
v.i.
To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.
+
beam
n.
Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort.
+
beautied
p.a.
Beautiful; embellished.
+
bede
v.t.
To pray; also, to offer; to proffer.
+
brush wheel

A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference.
+
base
a.
Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations.
+
betrothed
imp.|p.p.
of Betroth
+
beetle
v.t.
Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera.
+
beatify
v.t.
To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
+
bugginess
a.
The state of being infested with bugs.
+
buddhist
n.
One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.
+
basset
n.
A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice.
+
begrime
v.t.
To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.
+
bergeret
n.
A pastoral song.
+
blast
v.t.
To confound by a loud blast or din.
+
bistre
n.
See Bister.
+
bacterioscopic
a.
Relating   to   bacterioscopy; as, a bacterioscopic examination.
+
belled
imp.|p.p.
of Bell
+
babylonish
n.
Pertaining to the Babylon of Revelation xiv. 8.
+
bind
v.t.
To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part.
+
benzene
n.
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.
+
bailey
n.
A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester.
+
blinded
imp.|p.p.
of Blind
+
brack
n.
An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.
+
begnawn

of Begnaw
+
bonnet
n.
A headdress for men and boys; a cap.
+
bestad

of Bestead
+
behight
n.
A vow; a promise.
+
battlement
n.
One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
+
bluestone
n.
Blue vitriol.
+
boln
v.i.
To swell; to puff.
+
barbellate
a.
Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point.
+
brave
n.
A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
+
bletting
n.
A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit.
+
bow
v.i.
To play (music) with a bow.
+
bowl
n.
A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.
+
bribe
n.
A gift begged; a present.
+
bracing
n.
The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.
+
barren
a.
Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
+
boulevard
n.
Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.
+
battery
v.t.
The pitcher and catcher together.
+
bandeau
n.
A narrow band or fillet; a part of a head-dress.
+
born
p.p.
of Bear
+
blanketing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blanket
+
bicker
v.i.
To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.
+
brent
imp.|p.p.
of Brenne
+
brunette
a.
A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion.
+
backward
a.
Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child.
+
basilisk
n.
A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidae.
+
blench
v.i.|t.
To grow or make pale.
+
blank
n.
Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.
+
backing
n.
That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually giving strength or stability.
+
beroe
n.
A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.
+
bokadam
n.
See Cerberus.
+
boastingly
adv.
Boastfully; with boasting.
+
beau
n.
A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy.
+
bussing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Buss
+
benetted
imp.|p.p.
of Benet
+
bombace
n.
Cotton; padding.
+
buggery
n.
Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.
+
bartholomew tide

Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th.
+
butterfish
n.
A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.
+
birthwort
n.
A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties.
+
bristly
a.
Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.
+
breeding
n.
Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society.
+
biffin
n.
A sort of apple peculiar to Norfolk, Eng.
+
bluebottle
n.
A plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.
+
broken
v.t.
Not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law.
+
broadside
n.
A discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a ship, at the same time.
+
bainmarie
n.
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.
+
bulbul
n.
The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliidae. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera.
+
bordelais
a.
Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux.
+
bouse
n.
Drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze.
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bark louse

An insect of the family Coccidae, which infests the bark of trees and vines.
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bergmeal
n.
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.
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bottom
n.
Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
+
bolometer
n.
An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; -- called also actinic balance, thermic balance.
+
breathe
v.t.
To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper; as, to breathe a vow.
+
bipont
a.
Alt. of Bipontine
+
ballast
a.
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.
+
below
adv.
In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath.
+
baroscope
n.
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.
+
beg
v.t.
To take for granted; to assume without proof.
+
battening
n.
Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.
+
beamful
a.
Beamy; radiant.
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bufonite
n.
An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oolite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.
+
bolster
v.t.
To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort; -- often with up.
+
batailled
a.
Embattled.
+
bellflower
n.
A plant of the genus Campanula; -- so named from its bell-shaped flowers.
+
bled
imp.|p.p.
of Bleed
+
bunch
n.
A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.
+
bower
n.
A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
+
better
a.
Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the patient is better.
+
bone
n.
Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
+
blet
n.
A form of decay in fruit which is overripe.
+
barricado
n.|v.t.
See Barricade.
+
barbarities
pl.
of Barbarity
+
blueprint

See under Print.
+
boss
n.
A projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations.
+
bevel
a.
Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.
+
breech
v.t.
To fasten with breeching.
+
bossed
imp.|p.p.
of Boss
+
backwoods
n.pl.
The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.
+
bystreet
n.
A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street.
+
bothering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bother
+
bouquet
n.
A nosegay; a bunch of flowers.
+
behindhand
adv.|a.
In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some other person or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work.
+
beak
n.
The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
+
boyishness
n.
The manners or behavior of a boy.
+
butted
imp.|p.p.
of Butt
+
bold
v.t.
To make bold or daring.
+
brigantine
n.
See Brigandine.
+
bylander
n.
See Bilander.
+
bonesetter
n.
One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones.
+
bar
n.
An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.
+
basic
a.
Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
+
bascule
n.
In mechanics an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls.
+
blended
imp.|p.p.
of Blend
+
beretta
n.
Same as Berretta.
+
batfowling
n.
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.
+
bushet
n.
A small bush.
+
batter
v.t.
Paste of clay or loam.
+
beneficential
a.
Relating to beneficence.
+
bend
v.i.
To be inclined; to be directed.
+
beard
v.t.
To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.
+
bottom
v.t.
To reach or get to the bottom of.
+
bywalk
n.
A secluded or private walk.
+
black monday

The first Monday after the holidays; -- so called by English schoolboys.
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bonne bouche

A delicious morsel or mouthful; a tidbit.
+
braving
n.
A bravado; a boast.
+
bottle
n.
Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.
+
bullary
n.
A place for boiling or preparing salt; a boilery.
+
barrel
n.
The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31/ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds.
+
basilary
n.
Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action.
+
bowcompass
n.
An arcograph.
+
bracket
n.
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.
+
berylloid
n.
A solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl.
+
benison
n.
Blessing; beatitude; benediction.
+
blowhole
n.
An air hole in a casting.
+
bibliographer
n.
One who writes, or is versed in, bibliography.
+
broke

of Break
+
banner
n.
A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.
+
bench
n.
A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.
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blacklist
v.t.
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.
+
better
compar.
More correctly or thoroughly.
+
brookweed
n.
A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.
+
bilboes
pl.
of Bilbo
+
birrus
n.
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.
+
bossage
n.
Rustic work, consisting of stones which seem to advance beyond the level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings.
+
bullae
pl.
of Bulla
+
budding
n.
A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.
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binucleolate
a.
Having two nucleoli.
+
beggarliness
n.
The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.
+
bravade
n.
Bravado.
+
batsman
n.
The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.
+
breeder
n.
One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc.
+
beat
n.
A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.
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begin
v.t.
To enter on; to commence.
+
belk
v.t.
To vomit.
+
biochemistry
n.
The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.
+
buckwheat
n.
The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc.
+
bind
v.i.
To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.
+
bipalmate
a.
Palmately branched, with the branches again palmated.
+
bog
n.
A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
+
backhanded
a.
With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow.
+
beverage
v.t.
A treat, or drink money.
+
break
v.i.
To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop.
+
buckler
n.
A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.
+
breton
a.
Of or relating to Brittany, or Bretagne, in France.
+
bushhammer
n.
A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone.
+
bield
n.
A shelter. Same as Beild.
+
benevolence
n.
A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity.
+
bosom
n.
Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth.
+
boa
n.
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).
+
blooth
n.
Bloom; a blossoming.
+
beat
n.
The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
+
bijugous
a.
Bijugate.
+
burial
n.
The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment.
+
bob
n.
A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
+
beaked
a.
Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate.
+
broadbill
n.
The shoveler. See Shoveler.
+
benefic
a.
Favorable; beneficent.
+
bore
v.t.
To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
+
borneol
n.
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.
+
barrulet
n.
A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width.
+
balaam
n.
A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking.
+
bluster
v.i.
To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
+
burin
n.
The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool used by workers in marble.
+
bote
n.
Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.
+
besant
n.
See Bezant.
+
benzamide
n.
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.
+
bent

of Bend
+
bait
v.t.
To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as, to bait horses.
+
bracer
n.
A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart.
+
buckram
n.
A plant. See Ramson.
+
backplate
n.
A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
+
bald
a.
Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean.
+
bath
n.
A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.
+
bull
a.
Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.
+
benefited
imp.|p.p.
of Benefit
+
browbeat
imp.
of Browbeat
+
behave
v.t.
To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively.
+
baffler
n.
One who, or that which, baffles.
+
belonging
n.
That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance.
+
breastwork
n.
A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.
+
bignonia
n.
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.
+
bite
v.
A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
+
bebirine
n.
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.
+
browbeaten
p.p.
of Browbeat
+
bombylious
a.
Buzzing, like a bumblebee; as, the bombylious noise of the horse fly.
+
bookmen
pl.
of Bookman
+
belied
imp.|p.p.
of Belie
+
basque
n.
The language spoken by the Basque people.
+
bodge
n.
A botch; a patch.
+
bestirring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bestir
+
butcherliness
n.
Butchery quality.
+
bound
n.
Spring from one foot to the other.
+
bioplastic
a.
Bioplasmic.
+
both
conj.
As well; not only; equally.
+
bespatter
v.t.
To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.
+
befrill
v.t.
To furnish or deck with a frill.
+
bedazzled
imp.|p.p.
of Bedazzle
+
branchia
n.
A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.
+
baptistery
n.
Alt. of Baptistry
+
belt
n.
A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.
+
bullheaded
a.
Having a head like that of a bull. Fig.: Headstrong; obstinate; dogged.
+
bow hand

The hand that holds the bow, i. e., the left hand.
+
blackjack
n.
The ensign of a pirate.
+
beautie
pl.
of Beauty
+
brotherhood
n.
An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
+
barracan
n.
A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.
+
beseeming
n.
Comeliness.
+
bathe
v.t.
To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.
+
back
adv.
To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it.
+
belle
n.
A young lady of superior beauty and attractions; a handsome lady, or one who attracts notice in society; a fair lady.
+
beginning
n.
Enterprise.
+
burgomaster
n.
An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull (Larus glaucus), common in arctic regions.
+
blustering
a.
Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous.
+
brazil wood

A very heavy wood of a reddish color, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing. The best is the heartwood of Caesalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree; but other trees also yield it. An inferior sort comes from Jamaica, the timber of C. Braziliensis and C. crista. This is often distinguished as Braziletto , but the better kind is also frequently so named.
+
bye
n.
A dwelling.
+
black
a.
Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.
+
batter
v.t.
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.
+
bacteroidal
a.
Resembling bacteria; as, bacteroid particles.
+
bouncer
n.
A bold lie; also, a liar.
+
behn
n.
The Centaurea behen, or saw-leaved centaury.
+
bouche
n.
Same as Bush, a lining.
+
brevity
n.
Contraction into few words; conciseness.
+
beshine
v.t.
To shine upon; to illumine.
+
bower
n.
A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
+
bank
n.
A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
+
benedight
a.
Blessed.
+
bath
n.
A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.
+
bescumber
v.t.
Alt. of Bescummer
+
beam
n.
A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam.
+
baronage
n.
The land which gives title to a baron.
+
breathed
imp.|p.p.
of Breathe
+
botching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Botch
+
boose
v.i.
To drink excessively. See Booze.
+
boun
v.t.
To make or get ready.
+
beast
n.
A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.
+
bird
n.
Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).
+
battery
v.t.
A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns.
+
beestings
n.pl.
The first milk given by a cow after calving.
+
bon ton

The height of the fashion; fashionable society.
+
breadcorn

Corn of grain of which bread is made, as wheat, rye, etc.
+
beslime
v.t.
To daub with slime; to soil.
+
blackthorn
n.
A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.
+
breakup
n.
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.
+
baldrib
n.
A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat.
+
bloodletting
n.
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.
+
brobdingnagian
a.
Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic.
+
brasses
pl.
of Brass
+
bed
v.t.
To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.
+
bacterium
n.
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.
+
bubble
n.
To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.
+
bewet
v.t.
To wet or moisten.
+
bezel
n.
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.
+
balefire
n.
A signal fire; an alarm fire.
+
bullfice
n.
A kind of fungus. See Puffball.
+
branching
a.
Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches.
+
bathe
v.t.
To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.
+
baying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bay
+
benefit
v.i.
To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.
+
bestow
v.t.
To expend, as money.
+
borrow
v.t.
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.
+
bilberries
pl.
of Bilberry
+
breed
v.i.
To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
+
barratry
n.
The crime of a judge who is influenced by bribery in pronouncing judgment.
+
blessed
a.
Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy.
+
brillance
n.
Brilliancy.
+
brand iron

A trivet to set a pot on.
+
barb
n.
Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.
+
bookplate
n.
A label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership or its position in a library.
+
boric
a.
Of, pertaining to, or containing, boron.
+
bolter
n.
One who sifts flour or meal.
+
blister
v.t.
To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.
+
buoyant
v.t.|i.
Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury.
+
burr
n.
A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.
+
buckling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Buckle
+
begnawed
p.p.
of Begnaw
+
band
v.t.
A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it.
+
breeze fly
n.
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.
+
botryose
a.
Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence.
+
breech
v.t.
To whip on the breech.
+
botanomancy
n.
An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves.
+
bewitchment
n.
The act of bewitching, or the state of being bewitched.
+
brain
v.t.
To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.
+
bise
n.
See Bice.
+
blacks
n.pl.
Soot flying in the air.
+
brand
v.t.
To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict).
+
botocudos
n.pl.
A Brazilian tribe of Indians, noted for their use of poisons; -- also called Aymbores.
+
brangle
v.i.
To wrangle; to dispute contentiously; to squabble.
+
baggage
n.
A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.
+
bantering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Banter
+
bin
v.t.
To put into a bin; as, to bin wine.
+
breech pin

Alt. of Breech screw
+
benignant
a.
Kind; gracious; favorable.
+
bandeaux
pl.
of Bandeau
+
beacon
n.
A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.
+
breeding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Breed
+
bilateral
a.
Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is a similarity of parts on the right and left sides of the body.
+
bour
n.
A chamber or a cottage.
+
bumboat
n.
A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc., for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore.
+
burgomaster
n.
A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.
+
baalism
n.
Worship of Baal; idolatry.
+
basi

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.
+
breast
n.
The face of a coal working.
+
behight
v.
To command; to order.
+
baobab
n.
A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.
+
brat
n.
A coarse garment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general.
+
backsword
n.
In   England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used.  Also called singlestick.
+
boulder
n.
A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift.
+
bobbin
n.
A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.
+
blacks
n.pl.
Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.
+
bounce
v.i.
To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.
+
bode
imp.|p.p.
Abode.
+
boastless
a.
Without boasting or ostentation.
+
breeze
n.
A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.
+
breeding
n.
The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
+
blight
n.
A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects.
+
bouche
v.t.
Same as Bush, to line.
+
belamy
n.
Good friend; dear friend.
+
booze
n.
A carouse; a drinking.
+
botanize
v.t.
To explore for botanical purposes.
+
burying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bury
+
bittern
n.
A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species.
+
bar
n.
An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.
+
blood vessel

Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.
+
bennet
a.
The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc.
+
burrock
n.
A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed.
+
bondstone
n.
A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.
+
balmily
adv.
In a balmy manner.
+
bedroom
n.
Room in a bed.
+
bufo
n.
A genus of Amphibia including various species of toads.
+
brocket
n.
A small South American deer, of several species (Coassus superciliaris, C. rufus, and C. auritus).
+
balcony
n.
A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.
+
bewildered
imp.|p.p.
of Bewilder
+
bonny
a.
Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful.
+
bedfellow
n.
One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
+
bicker
n.
A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
+
blade
n.
The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
+
braize
n.
Braised meat.
+
blackjack
n.
A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; -- called also false galena. See Blende.
+
bald
a.
Destitute of the natural covering.
+
batteler
n.
Alt. of Battler
+
bagwig
n.
A wig, in use in the 18th century, with the hair at the back of the head in a bag.
+
bechance
adv.
By chance; by accident.
+
break
v.i.
To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking.
+
barbarize
v.i.
To become barbarous.
+
boat
v.t.
To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.
+
bed
n.
A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
+
blobber
n.
A bubble; blubber.
+
barker
n.
The spotted redshank.
+
but
v.t.
The thicker end of anything. See But.
+
blackhearted
a.
Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.
+
bulldoze
v.t.
To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana.
+
brusten
p.p.
of Breste
+
baroness
n.
A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
+
bespeak
v.t.
To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate.
+
buoying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Buoy
+
blest
a.
Blessed.
+
bibler
v.t.
A great drinker; a tippler.
+
baas
pl.
of Baa
+
besprinkling
n.
The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.
+
bereft

imp. & p. p. of Bereave.
+
bogtrotter
n.
One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish.
+
beard
n.
That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
+
bandana
n.
A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure.
+
beach comber

A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber.
+
burr
n.
The sweetbread.
+
boozing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Booze
+
barely
adv.
Without covering; nakedly.
+
band
v.t.
A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals.
+
bar
n.
The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence.
+
bicentennial
a.
Occurring every two hundred years.
+
brank
v.i.
To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit.
+
bastardize
v.t.
To beget out of wedlock.
+
bromic
a.
Of, pertaining to, or containing, bromine; -- said of those compounds of bromine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, bromic acid.
+
bead
v.i.
To form beadlike bubbles.
+
bird cherry

A shrub (Prunus Padus ) found in Northern and Central Europe. It bears small black cherries.
+
bengal
n.
A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc.
+
biostatics
n.
The physical phenomena of organized bodies, in opposition to their organic or vital phenomena.
+
bilge
v.t.
To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).
+
battlemented
a.
Having battlements.
+
beflower
v.t.
To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers.
+
buskin
n.
A similar covering for the foot and leg, made with very thick soles, to give an appearance of elevation to the stature; -- worn by tragic actors in ancient Greece and Rome. Used as a symbol of tragedy, or the tragic drama, as distinguished from comedy.
+
bleared
imp.|p.p.
of Blear
+
bedribble
v.t.
To dribble upon.
+
barb
n.
A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.
+
beast
n.
Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.
+
black salts

Crude potash.
+
barleybree
n.
Liquor made from barley; strong ale.
+
burnstickle
n.
A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
+
broadax broadaxe
n.
An ax with a broad edge, for hewing timber.
+
berg
n.
A large mass or hill, as of ice.
+
bungler
n.
A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles.
+
bachelors button

A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena).
+
barger
n.
The manager of a barge.
+
bellyband
n.
A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth.
+
basrelief
n.
Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; -- called also bassrelief and basso-rilievo. See Alto-rilievo.
+
beseeming
n.
Appearance; look; garb.
+
bullhead
n.
The golden plover.
+
byelection
n.
An election held by itself, not at the time of a general election.
+
backwater
n.
Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by the paddle wheels of a steamer.
+
brown
v.t.
To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
+
blight
v.t.
Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
+
build
n.
Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.
+
byzantine
a.
Of or pertaining to Byzantium.
+
burgess
n.
An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers.
+
brew
n.
The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.
+
beating
n.
Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n.
+
boarfish
n.
A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproidae; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout.
+
bed
v.i.
To go to bed; to cohabit.
+
blubbering
n.
The act of weeping noisily.
+
budding
n.
The act or process of producing buds.
+
belfry
n.
A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose.
+
brahmanist
n.
Alt. of Brahminist
+
bounding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bound
+
bedstraw
n.
A genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers.
+
burnie
n.
A small brook.
+
bespreading
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bespread
+
bacchantic
a.
Bacchanalian.
+
botanist
n.
One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.
+
bat
n.
A part of a brick with one whole end.
+
bureaucracy
n.
A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.
+
back
adv.
In a state of restraint or hindrance.
+
bleater
n.
One who bleats; a sheep.
+
bemol
n.
The sign /; the same as B flat.
+
birthmark
n.
Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth.
+
bare

Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
+
bidding
n.
The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction.
+
buffet
v.i.
To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.
+
bespeckle
v.t.
To mark with speckles or spots.
+
breathing
n.
Air in gentle motion.
+
barrier
n.
A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach.
+
barren
n.
A tract of barren land.
+
breaching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Breach
+
ballet
n.
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.
+
babe
n.
An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.
+
bigot
n.
A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite.
+
beyond
prep.
On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than.
+
beg
v.t.
To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
+
brigade
v.t.
To form into a brigade, or into brigades.
+
bating
prep.
With the exception of; excepting.
+
blasty
a.
Affected by blasts; gusty.
+
bereft

of Bereave
+
beyond
prep.
Past, out of the reach or sphere of; further than; greater than; as, the patient was beyond medical aid; beyond one's strength.
+
behind
a.
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.
+
bedclothes
n.pl.
Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.
+
beamily
adv.
In a beaming manner.
+
bimonthly
adv.
Once in two months.
+
bleed
v.i.
To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause.
+
baseburner
n.
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.
+
bulchin
n.
A little bull.
+
bishoping
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bishop
+
baths
pl.
of Bath
+
blustered
imp.|p.p.
of Bluster
+
bathos
n.
A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
+
bordlode
n.
The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house.
+
butter
n.
One who, or that which, butts.
+
bucket
n.
A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
+
brained
p.a.
Supplied with brains.
+
blush
v.i.
To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
+
birth
n.
The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.
+
bomb
n.
A great noise; a hollow sound.
+
buzz
n.
A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones, or of a general expression of surprise or approbation.
+
bisque
n.
Unglazed white porcelain.
+
bounty
n.
Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth.
+
box
v.i.
To fight with the fist; to combat with, or as with, the hand or fist; to spar.
+
beacon
n.
That which gives notice of danger.
+
bore
n.
A hole made by boring; a perforation.
+
bridebed
n.
The marriage bed.
+
belzebuth
n.
A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Brazil.
+
berth
n.
An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment.
+
bettering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Better
+
bankside
n.
The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.
+
bladed
a.
Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife.
+
brace
n.
A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
+
bedding
n.
The state or position of beds and layers.
+
bega
n.
See Bigha.
+
banewort
n.
Deadly nightshade.
+
budger
n.
One who budges.
+
baton
n.
A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.
+
bunged
imp.|p.p.
of Bung
+
boycott
n.
The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion.
+
backjoint
n.
A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.
+
blushed
imp.|p.p.
of Blush
+
blurred
imp.|p.p.
of Blur
+
blazon
v.t.
To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon.
+
birthless
a.
Of mean extraction.
+
burlesqued
imp.|p.p.
of Burlesque
+
brutalism
n.
Brutish quality; brutality.
+
burn
v.t.
To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
+
batten
v.i.
To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self.
+
breakdown
n.
The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
+
backhouse
n.
A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.
+
bowldery
a.
Characterized by bowlders.
+
belimed
imp.|p.p.
of Belime
+
blanket
v.t.
To cover with a blanket.
+
blur
v.t.
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.
+
bulwark
n.
That which secures against an enemy, or defends from attack; any means of defense or protection.
+
bestrewing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bestrew
+
bunchberry
n.
The dwarf cornel (Cornus Canadensis), which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.
+
biding
n.
Residence; habitation.
+
bijou
n.
A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.
+
butyric
a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, butter.
+
battue
v.t.
The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game.
+
bellelettrist
n.
One versed in belles-lettres.
+
beastlihead
n.
Beastliness.
+
blockade
n.
To obstruct entrance to or egress from.
+
behind
a.
Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement.
+
beginning
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Begin
+
bartram
n.
See Bertram.
+
battailant
n.
A combatant.
+
blue jay

The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue.
+
banker
n.
A money changer.
+
bear
n.
A portable punching machine.
+
brief
a.
Concise; terse; succinct.
+
barefacedly
adv.
Openly; shamelessly.
+
bewigged
imp.|p.p.
of Bewig
+
bred

imp. & p. p. of Breed.
+
breach
n.
A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture.
+
barilla
n.
Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp.
+
brokenhearted
a.
Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair.
+
barkless
a.
Destitute of bark.
+
benefiter
n.
One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit.
+
billy
n.
A slubbing or roving machine.
+
blooming
a.
Opening in blossoms; flowering.
+
bob wig

A short wig with bobs or short curls; -- called also bobtail wig.
+
bootblack
n.
One who blacks boots.
+
bearer
n.
Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer.
+
bemiring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bemire
+
bake
v.i.
To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes.
+
backhanded
a.
Indirect; awkward; insincere; sarcastic; as, a backhanded compliment.
+
befooling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Befool
+
badger
n.
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.
+
bailment
n.
The action of bailing a person accused.
+
briery
a.
Full of briers; thorny.
+
berserker
n.
One of a class of legendary heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds.
+
bathe
v.t.
To lave; to wet.
+
bounce
v.t.
To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
+
box
n.
A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.
+
brigade
n.
Any body of persons organized for acting or marching together under authority; as, a fire brigade.
+
barracouata
n.
A large edible fresh-water fish of Australia and New Zealand (Thyrsites atun).
+
beneficiary
n.
One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate.
+
basify
v.t.
To convert into a salifiable base.
+
bottled
imp.|p.p.
of Bottle
+
brim
n.
The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border.
+
barbigerous
a.
Having a beard; bearded; hairy.
+
betwixt
prep.
In the space which separates; between.
+
braid
v.t.
To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations.
+
brewage
n.
Malt liquor; drink brewed.
+
browsing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Browse
+
beat
v.t.
To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
+
behither
prep.
On this side of.
+
butterbump
n.
The European bittern.
+
belted
a.
Worn in, or suspended from, the belt.
+
bombarding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bombard
+
black vomit

A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.
+
brevirostrate
a.
Short-billed; having a short beak.
+
breastdeep
a.
Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast.
+
branchiferous
a.
Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.
+
breast
n.
The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart.
+
bucking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Buck
+
brabbler
n.
A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler.
+
bottoming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bottom
+
benighted
imp.|p.p.
of Benight
+
bride
n.
A woman newly married, or about to be married.
+
bubbler
v.t.
To cheat; to deceive.
+
barb
v.t.
To clip; to mow.
+
bogtrotting
a.
Living among bogs.
+
buffaloes
pl.
of Buffalo
+
break
v.t.
To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax.
+
better
a.
Greater in amount; larger; more.
+
bisexuous
a.
Bisexual.
+
biennial
a.
Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.
+
bucolic
n.
A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.
+
blink
v.i.
The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.
+
biting in

The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. See Etch.
+
biblicality
n.
The quality of being biblical; a biblical subject.
+
baybolt
n.
A bolt with a barbed shank.
+
birdcatching
n.
The art, act, or occupation or catching birds or wild fowls.
+
bruteness
n.
Insensibility.
+
belt
n.
Same as Band, n., 2.   A very broad band is more properly termed a belt.
+
body
n.
Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aeriform body.
+
bath
n.
A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects.
+
benedictionary
n.
A collected series of benedictions.
+
blackfish
n.
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.
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brassvisaged
a.
Impudent; bold.
+
barbarity
n.
Barbarism; impurity of speech.
+
buck
n.
A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
+
biseye

p. p. of Besee.
+
bed
v.t.
To place in a bed.
+
blunted
imp.|p.p.
of Blunt
+
bacchants
pl.
of Bacchant
+
bewailing
a.
Wailing over; lamenting.
+
biconcave
a.
Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebrae.
+
brills
n.pl.
The hair on the eyelids of a horse.
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balneatory
a.
Belonging to a bath.
+
boatbill
n.
A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus.
+
blickey
n.
A tin dinner pail.
+
break
v.t.
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.
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blot
n.
A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.
+
balderdash
v.t.
To mix or adulterate, as liquors.
+
blench
v.t.
To draw back from; to deny from fear.
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breastplate
n.
A strap that runs across a horse's breast.
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babylonic
a.
Alt. of Babylonical
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becking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beck
+
bilobate
a.
Divided into two lobes or segments.
+
burst
imp.|p.p.
of Burst
+
batter
n.
One who wields a bat; a batsman.
+
bag
n.
The quantity of game bagged.
+
bludgeon
n.
A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.
+
bolt
v.t.
To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.
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bituminized
imp.|p.p.
of Bituminize
+
bumbeloes
pl.
of Bumbelo
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bemaster
v.t.
To master thoroughly.
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billet
v.t.
To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.
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billethead
n.
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.
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black
n.
Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
+
brouded
p.a.
Braided; broidered.
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brazen
a.
Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance.
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bleach
v.i.
To grow white or lose color; to whiten.
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bilestone
n.
A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary.
+
brand
v.t.
Fig.: To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon.
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bell
n.
That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
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bought
imp.|p.p.
of Buy
+
bel
n.
The Babylonian name of the god known among the Hebrews as Baal. See Baal.
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bogus
a.
Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.
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bitumed
a.
Smeared with bitumen.
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bounce
n.
A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).
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basinet
n.
Same as Bascinet.
+
bertha
n.
A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.
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beacon
n.
A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
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bewailing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bewail
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burr
n.
Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs.
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bitter
v.t.
Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe; as, a bitter cold day.
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boot
n.
A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.
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bolthead
n.
A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver.
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bacchii
pl.
of Bacchius
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blusteringly
adv.
In a blustering manner.
+
batten
v.t.
To fertilize or enrich, as land.
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breed
v.t.
To produce or obtain by any natural process.
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billowing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Billow
+
burn
n.
A small stream.
+
broil
v.t.
To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.
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balisaur
n.
A badgerlike animal of India (Arcionyx collaris).
+
basilicas
pl.
of Basilica
+
bodyguard
n.
Retinue; attendance; following.
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boat
n.
Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc.  The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.
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brook mint

See Water mint.
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boracite
n.
A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.
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boroughmongering
n.
Alt. of Boroughmongery
+
bury
n.
A manor house; a castle.
+
bear
v.t.
To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
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bleeding
n.
A running or issuing of blood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant.
+
bitted
imp.|p.p.
of Bit
+
bandore
n.
A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore.
+
backpiece
n.
Alt. of Backplate
+
bordman
n.
A bordar; a tenant in bordage.
+
breather
n.
One who breathes. Hence: (a) One who lives.(b) One who utters. (c) One who animates or inspires.
+
brogan
n.
A stout, coarse shoe; a brogue.
+
bdellometer
n.
A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and an exhausting syringe.
+
bounder
n.
One who, or that which, limits; a boundary.
+
bible
n.
The Book by way of eminence, -- that is, the book which is made up of the writings accepted by Christians as of divine origin and authority, whether such writings be in the original language, or translated; the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; -- sometimes in a restricted sense, the Old Testament; as, King James's Bible; Douay Bible; Luther's Bible. Also, the book which is made up of writings similarly accepted by the Jews; as, a rabbinical Bible.
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boddice
n.
See Bodick.
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breathing
n.
A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See Rough breathing, Smooth breathing, below.
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basely
adv.
In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.
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besmirch
v.t.
To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully.
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bail
n.
Custody; keeping.
+
bouge
v.t.
To stave in; to bilge.
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belonging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Belong
+
bait
v.i.
A light or hasty luncheon.
+
bypath
n.
A private path; an obscure way; indirect means.
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buggy
a.
Infested or abounding with bugs.
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brutish
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.
+
body
n.
Amount; quantity; extent.
+
bit
v.
The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
+
bolye
n.
Same as Booly.
+
bilge
v.t.
To cause to bulge.
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bouncingly
adv.
With a bounce.
+
brake
v.t.
An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine.
+
bottom
v.t.
To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
+
ben

An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be.
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briefly
adv.
Concisely; in few words.
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base
a.
Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin.
+
brachypteres
n.pl.
A group of birds, including auks, divers, and penguins.
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binocular
a.
Having two eyes.
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blackthorn
n.
A species of Crataegus or hawthorn (C. tomentosa). Both are used for hedges.
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bagman
n.
A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen.
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besetting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beset
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brood
a.
Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
+
botch
n.
Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.
+
broach
n.
The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
+
bare
a.
To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
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ballader
n.
A writer of ballads.
+
brine
n.
The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake.
+
broach
n.
To spit; to pierce as with a spit.
+
beset
imp.|p.p.
of Beset
+
bob
n.
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.
+
bimensal
a.
See Bimonthly, a.
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bastardism
n.
The state of being a bastard; bastardy.
+
breach
v.i.
To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.
+
bombycid
a.
Like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, or the family Bombycidae.
+
bootikin
n.
A little boot, legging, or gaiter.
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branchiopoda
n.pl.
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.
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babish
a.
Like a babe; a childish; babyish.
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bombast
n.
Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
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bonitary
a.
Beneficial, as opposed to statutory or civil; as, bonitary dominion of land.
+
blazon
v.t.
To deck; to embellish; to adorn.
+
buck
n.
The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
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bloodshot
a.
Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated.
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bonus
n.
Money paid in addition to a stated compensation.
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bilge
v.i.
To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.
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boasting
n.
The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.
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blank
a.
Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.
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brite
v.t.
Alt. of Bright
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bloedite
n.
A hydrous sulphate of magnesium and sodium.
+
bundling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bundle
+
bisk
n.
Soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh together.
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bethabara wood

A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian.
+
botcher
n.
One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler.
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brushy
a.
Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.
+
belted
imp.|p.p.
of Belt
+
batlet
n.
A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff.
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besotted
a.
Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied.
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boneset
n.
A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
+
baya
n.
The East Indian weaver bird (Ploceus Philippinus).
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backslider
n.
One who backslides.
+
buffoon
a.
Characteristic of, or like, a buffoon.
+
burghbote
n.
A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.
+
brewer
n.
One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
+
brocket
n.
A male red deer two years old; -- sometimes called brock.
+
beraining
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Berain
+
broaden
a.
To grow broad; to become broader or wider.
+
baken

p. p. of Bake.
+
befitting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Befit
+
bagging
n.
The act of swelling; swelling.
+
body
n.
Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.
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bombard
v.t.
To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.
+
beauship
n.
The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau.
+
bubble
n.
The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
+
biographic
a.
Alt. of Biographical
+
busket
n.
A part of a garden devoted to shrubs.
+
bower
v.t.
To embower; to inclose.
+
bolting
n.
A sifting, as of flour or meal.
+
barky
a.
Covered with, or containing, bark.
+
booker
n.
One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper.
+
bollen
a.
Swollen; puffed out.
+
buzzsaw

A circular saw; -- so called from the buzzing it makes when running at full speed.
+
blockage
n.
The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.
+
boce
n.
A European fish (Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue.
+
betterment
n.
An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural.
+
bisaccate
a.
Having two little bags, sacs, or pouches.
+
beneme
v.t.
To deprive (of), or take away (from).
+
buckler
n.
The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
+
bestialized
imp.|p.p.
of Bestialize
+
beeches
pl.
of Beech
+
branchery
n.
A system of branches.
+
bandy
n.
The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.
+
bulbar
a.
Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis.
+
bar
n.
A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.
+
bladebone
n.
The scapula. See Blade, 4.
+
breech
v.t.
To cover as with breeches.
+
bullirag
n.
To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger.
+
base
a.
Illegitimate by birth; bastard.
+
biter
n.
One who cheats; a sharper.
+
backster
n.
A backer.
+
bindery
n.
A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.
+
brae
n.
A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.
+
burn
v.i.
In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
+
bruiser
n.
A boxer; a pugilist.
+
branchiostoma
n.
The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
+
bridge
v.t.
To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river.
+
balk
v.t.
To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
+
burton
n.
A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part.
+
bismuthine
n.
Alt. of Bismuthinite
+
beat
v.t.
To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
+
basilicon
n.
An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.
+
bocal
n.
A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.
+
benefactor
n.
One who confers a benefit or benefits.
+
bibliomancy
n.
A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events.
+
brachioganoidei
n.pl.
An order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of Africa is a living example. See Crossopterygii.
+
barmaster
n.
Formerly, a local judge among miners; now, an officer of the barmote.
+
bydrinking
n.
A drinking between meals.
+
bless
v.t.
To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.
+
broidered
imp.|p.p.
of Broider
+
bounden

of Bind
+
brayer
n.
One that brays like an ass.
+
brocage
n.
See Brokkerage.
+
blazonry
n.
A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings.
+
bolas
n.sing.|pl.
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.
+
besomed
imp.|p.p.
of Besom
+
back
v.i.
To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.
+
bloomer
n.
A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.
+
berme
n.
A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.
+
bank
n.
A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
+
boom
v.t.
To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a "boom" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator.
+
blaze
n.
A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.
+
berbe
n.
An African genet (Genetta pardina). See Genet.
+
bore
v.t.
To befool; to trick.
+
break
v.t.
To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend.
+
break
v.t.
An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship.
+
browse
n.
The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food.
+
break
v.t.
To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
+
branlin
n.
A young salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron.
+
belay
v.t.
To lie in wait for with a view to assault. Hence: to block up or obstruct.
+
breech screw

A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.
+
bibliomaniac
n.
One who has a mania for books.
+
balsamical
a.
Having the qualities of balsam; containing, or resembling, balsam; soft; mitigative; soothing; restorative.
+
breath
n.
The power of respiration, and hence, life.
+
boulevard
n.
A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.
+
broche
n.
See Broach, n.
+
baldheaded
a.
Having a bald head.
+
blot
v.t.
To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
+
barometrically
adv.
By means of a barometer, or according to barometric observations.
+
brewing
n.
A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds.
+
boomdas
n.
A small African hyracoid mammal (Dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman.
+
bedchair
n.
A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.
+
bibulously
adv.
In a bibulous manner; with profuse imbibition or absorption.
+
bore
n.
The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
+
bogwood
n.
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.
+
bank
n.
A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.
+
bloodybones
n.
A terrible bugbear.
+
brickle
a.
Brittle; easily broken.
+
bigness
n.
The state or quality of being big; largeness; size; bulk.
+
backstitch
v.i.
To sew with backstitches; as, to backstitch a seam.
+
because
conj.
In order that; that.
+
barb
n.
Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
+
by
pref.
In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from; close to; along with; as, come and sit by me.
+
bluey
a.
Bluish.
+
babylonian
n.
An inhabitant of Babylonia  (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.
+
backslid
imp.
of Backslide
+
blessing
v.t.
A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift.
+
bawdyhouse
n.
A house of prostitution; a house of ill fame; a brothel.
+
brained
imp.|p.p.
of Brain
+
burggrave
n.
Originally, one appointed to the command of a burg (fortress or castle); but the title afterward became hereditary, with a domain attached.
+
betoken
v.t.
To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.
+
bail
n.
A division for the stalls of an open stable.
+
boiler
n.
A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.
+
bristled
imp.|p.p.
of Bristle
+
bunging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bung
+
ballad monger

A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster.
+
balker
n.
One who, or that which balks.
+
biaxal
a.
Alt. of Biaxial
+
buck
v.i.
To copulate, as bucks and does.
+
bubble
n.
A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aerated waters.
+
bearsfoot
n.
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.
+
bite
v.i.
To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?
+
biblist
n.
A biblical scholar; a biblicist.
+
bromize
v.t.
To prepare or treat with bromine; as, to bromize a silvered plate.
+
bituminating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bituminate
+
bewilderment
n.
A bewildering tangle or confusion.
+
brief
a.
A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words.
+
bray
v.i.
To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass.
+
bactrian
a.
Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia.
+
braided
imp.|.p.p.
of Braid
+
broche
a.
Woven with a figure; as, broche goods.
+
bewailable
a.
Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.
+
blady
a.
Consisting of blades.
+
boisterously
adv.
In a boisterous manner.
+
boom
n.
A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming.
+
bazar
n.
In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale.
+
billowy
a.
Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
+
bepowder
v.t.
To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.
+
bogies
pl.
of Bogy
+
bucentaur
n.
The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic.
+
break
v.t.
The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn.
+
bureaucratical
a.
Of, relating to, or resembling, a bureaucracy.
+
bronchi
pl.
of Bronchus
+
bet
imp.|p.p.
of Bet
+
black lead

Plumbago; graphite. It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
+
bywash
n.
The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water.
+
bestowal
n.
The act of bestowing; disposal.
+
badge
v.t.
To mark or distinguish with a badge.
+
boozer
n.
One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.
+
basset
n.
The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
+
behind
adv.
Backward in time or order of succession; past.
+
brazed
imp.|p.p.
of Braze
+
bergomask
n.
A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.
+
backward
a.
Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath.
+
boniness
n.
The condition or quality of being bony.
+
barge
n.
A large omnibus used for excursions.
+
botch
n.
To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
+
bulkhead
n.
A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck.
+
burliness
n.
Quality of being burly.
+
babblery
n.
Babble.
+
bowel
n.
The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.
+
bow
v.i.
To manage the bow.
+
bluntly
adv.
In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
+
blenny
n.
A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniidae; -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous.
+
bigoted
a.
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.
+
bastard
n.
Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.
+
betrimmed
imp.|p.p.
of Betrim
+
bilamellated
a.
Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers.
+
bristle
v.i.
To show defiance or indignation.
+
becked
imp.|p.p.
of Beck
+
brooch
imp.|p.p.
To adorn as with a brooch.
+
bell
v.t.
To utter by bellowing.
+
bend
n.
Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
+
burgoo
n.
A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen.
+
bulkiness
n.
Greatness in bulk; size.
+
beast
n.
As opposed to man: Any irrational animal.
+
basket
n.
A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.
+
bituminize
v.t.
To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.
+
busby
n.
A military headdress or cap, used in the British army. It is of fur, with a bag, of the same color as the facings of the regiment, hanging from the top over the right shoulder.
+
baseball
n.
The ball used in this game.
+
berdash
n.
A kind of neckcloth.
+
bronchi
n.pl.
See Bronchus.
+
break
v.t.
To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow.
+
boat
n.
A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
+
bemonster
v.t.
To make monstrous or like a monster.
+
brown
v.t.
To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.
+
bolivian
n.
A native of Bolivia.
+
beswike
v.t.
To lure; to cheat.
+
bay
n.
The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel.
+
borosilicate
n.
A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc.
+
bulla
n.
The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla.
+
boodh
n.
Same as Buddha.
+
brevetcy
n.
The rank or condition of a brevet officer.
+
bedded
imp.|p.p.
of Bed
+
bolection
n.
A projecting molding round a panel. Same as Bilection.
+
birthday
a.
Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities.
+
bacterioscopy
n.
The application of a knowledge of bacteria for their detection and identification, as in the examination of polluted water.
+
botanology
n.
The science of botany.
+
baillie
n.
Bailiff.
+
brand
v.t.
A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc., of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership; -- also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour.
+
botanized
imp.|p.p.
of Botanize
+
bevelled

of Bevel
+
balsamous
a.
Having the quality of balsam; containing balsam.
+
bicorned
a.
Alt. of Bicornous
+
burn
v.i.
To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.
+
bear
v.t.
To carry on, or maintain; to have.
+
buck
n.
The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
+
burr
n.
A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4.
+
bailor
n.
One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.
+
bolt
n.
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.
+
butt
n.
A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.
+
bassaw
n.
See Bashaw.
+
barred owl

A large American owl (Syrnium nebulosum); -- so called from the transverse bars of a dark brown color on the breast.
+
below
prep.
Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality.
+
brothers
pl.
of Brother
+
basis
n.
The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue.
+
blazon
n.
Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record.
+
bluebonnet
n.
The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus); the bluecap.
+
backboned
a.
Vertebrate.
+
benshee
n.
See Banshee.
+
butler
n.
An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house.
+
blower
n.
A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.
+
balance
v.i.
To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate.
+
bickered
imp.|p.p.
of Bicker
+
bate
v.i.
To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.
+
blunt
v.t.
To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
+
ballooning
n.
The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales.
+
befriending
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Befriend
+
blunt
a.
Hard to impress or penetrate.
+
bodkin
n.
A dagger.
+
brim
n.
The rim of a hat.
+
breve
n.
The great ant thrush of Sumatra (Pitta gigas), which has a very short tail.
+
belief
n.
The thing believed; the object of belief.
+
brow
n.
The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit.
+
bee larkspur

(Bot.) See Larkspur.
+
bedehouse
n.
Same as Beadhouse.
+
buttock
n.
The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
+
bifarious
a.
Twofold; arranged in two rows.
+
botryose
a.
Having the form of a cluster of grapes.
+
bridgehead
n.
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.
+
bullweed
n.
Knapweed.
+
blinding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blind
+
basilary
n.
Relating to, or situated at, the base.
+
buffet
v.i.
A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.
+
bearing
n.
The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
+
brute
a.
Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.
+
bind
n.
Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.
+
bump
n.
One of the protuberances on the cranium which are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind; as, the bump of "veneration;"  the bump of  "acquisitiveness."
+
britisher
n.
An Englishman; a subject or inhabitant of Great Britain, esp. one in the British military or naval service.
+
bonny
n.
A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.
+
breast
n.
A torus.
+
bail
n.
A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.
+
blear
v.
Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim.
+
braining
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brain
+
bill
n.
A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill.
+
breeching
n.
A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech.
+
besmearer
n.
One that besmears.
+
bald
a.
Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced.
+
billetdoux
n.
A love letter or note.
+
blunge
v.t.
To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay.
+
batman
n.
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.
+
bren
v.t.|i.
Alt. of Brenne
+
baggage
n.
The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage.
+
blancard
n.
A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven.
+
brandling
n.
Alt. of Brandlin
+
basic
a.
Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
+
bethlemite
n.
One of an extinct English order of monks.
+
brominate
v.t.
See Bromate, v. t.
+
broadside
n.
A volley of abuse or denunciation.
+
bloom
n.
The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow.
+
bottomed
a.
Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed.
+
bloom
n.
A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.
+
beard
n.
That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
+
bronzing
n.
The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes.
+
boarder
n.
One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
+
booting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Boot
+
bydependence
n.
An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory.
+
bridle
n.
A restraint; a curb; a check.
+
balked
imp.|p.p.
of Balk
+
browning
n.
A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.
+
bark
v.t.
To strip the bark from; to peel.
+
blabbed
imp.|p.p.
of Blab
+
belamour
n.
A flower, but of what kind is unknown.
+
book
n.
A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."
+
belove
v.t.
To love.
+
bridgeing
n.
The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight.
+
blindmans holiday

The time between daylight and candle light.
+
beshining
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beshine
+
bourdon
n.
A pilgrim's staff.
+
bind
v.t.
To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
+
birkie
n.
A lively or mettlesome fellow.
+
brute
a.
Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
+
barrigudo
n.
A large, dark-colored, South American monkey, of the genus Lagothrix, having a long prehensile tail.
+
beaconing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beacon
+
bunny
n.
A great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or going out from it.
+
besort
n.
Befitting associates or attendants.
+
baling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bale
+
blade
v.i.
To put forth or have a blade.
+
brent
n.
A brant. See Brant.
+
berm
n.
Alt. of Berme
+
befitting
a.
Suitable; proper; becoming; fitting.
+
bushranger
n.
One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush.
+
barbarous
a.
Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.
+
blench
v.t.
To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.
+
bateau
n.
A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers.
+
bursiform
a.
Shaped like a purse.
+
building
n.
That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.
+
being
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Be
+
brigue
n.
To contend for; to canvass; to solicit.
+
basting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Baste
+
burlesque
n.
An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.
+
boodle
n.
Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag.
+
brave
n.
A brave person; one who is daring.
+
breeching
n.
A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged.
+
basketry
n.
The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively.
+
buccal
a.
Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.
+
bivious
a.
Having, or leading, two ways.
+
blowoff
n.
A blowing off steam, water, etc.;
+
bastinade
v.t.
To bastinado.
+
blade
n.
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.
+
briefness
n.
The quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in discourse or writing.
+
bidental
a.
Having two teeth.
+
bait
v.t.
To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook.
+
bouri
n.
A mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of Southern Europe and in Africa.
+
browbeating
n.
The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions.
+
beardlessness
n.
The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
+
belecture
v.t.
To vex with lectures; to lecture frequently.
+
breed
n.
Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
+
bandelet
n.
Alt. of Bandlet
+
betray
v.t.
To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
+
bandala
n.
A fabric made in Manilla from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis).
+
benight
v.t.
To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.
+
boat shell

A marine gastropod of the genus Crepidula. The species are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck.
+
browbeating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Browbeat
+
blacking
n.
Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.
+
bloody
a.
Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.
+
bernese
a.
Pertaining to the city or canton of Bern, in Switzerland, or to its inhabitants.
+
broom
v.t.
See Bream.
+
bullion
n.
Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.
+
bolty
n.
An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis).
+
bob
n.
A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.
+
bibliotaphist
n.
One who hides away books, as in a tomb.
+
blanket
a.
A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.
+
bohemian
n.
Of or pertaining to a social gypsy or "Bohemian" (see Bohemian, n., 3); vagabond; unconventional; free and easy.
+
burly
a.
Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky.
+
barbotine
n.
A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.
+
beggaring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beggar
+
bilaminate
a.
Formed of, or having, two laminae, or thin plates.
+
blackleg
n.
A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck.
+
brakeman
n.
A man in charge of a brake or brakes.
+
bloom
v.t.
To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
+
beware
v.t.
To avoid; to take care of; to have a care for.
+
bolt
v.i.
To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.
+
balize
n.
A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark.
+
bejade
v.t.
To jade or tire.
+
breaker
n.
A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.
+
bosom
n.
The breast, considered as the seat of the passions, affections, and operations of the mind; consciousness; secret thoughts.
+
bay
a.
Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.
+
bet
n.
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.
+
beat
p.p.
of Beat
+
babylonish
n.
Pertaining to Rome and papal power.
+
blow
v.t.
To deposit eggs or larvae upon, or in (meat, etc.).
+
blamed
imp.|p.p.
of Blame
+
beak
n.
The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
+
banality
n.
Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.
+
bandolier
n.
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.
+
bauble
n.
A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
+
bickering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bicker
+
basioccipital
a.
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.
+
bargainor
n.
One who makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another.
+
benempt

of Bename
+
brake
v.t.
A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
+
brast
v.t.|i.
To burst.
+
burr
n.
The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting.
+
bowse
n.
A carouse; a drinking bout; a booze.
+
bugleweed
n.
A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage.
+
bidigitate
a.
Having two fingers or fingerlike projections.
+
bleareyed
a.
Lacking in perception or penetration; short-sighted; as, a blear-eyed bigot.
+
batful
v.i.
Rich; fertile.
+
bust
n.
The portion of the human figure included between the head and waist, whether in statuary or in the person; the chest or thorax; the upper part of the trunk of the body.
+
brize
n.
The breeze fly. See Breeze.
+
brawny
a.
Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong.
+
bdellomorpha
n.
An order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams.
+
barbre
a.
Barbarian.
+
bubbled
imp.|p.p.
of Bubble
+
bourree
n.
An old French dance tune in common time.
+
bumping
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bump
+
bussed
imp.|p.p.
of Buss
+
bilingual
a.
Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary.
+
bridle
v.t.
To put a bridle upon; to equip with a bridle; as, to bridle a horse.
+
braiding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Braid
+
basisphenoidal
a.
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.
+
beryl
n.
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.
+
braize
n.
See Braise.
+
biophor biophore
n.
One of the smaller vital units of a cell, the bearer of vitality and heredity. See Pangen, in Supplement.
+
bewhore
v.t.
To corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of.
+
butterine
n.
A substance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter.
+
breathing
n.
Stop; pause; delay.
+
backhand
n.
A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.
+
bayberry
n.
The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis.
+
butte
n.
A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.
+
bleat
n.
A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep.
+
bulk
n.
The cargo of a vessel when stowed.
+
bound

imp. & p. p. of Bind.
+
brachyptera
n.pl.
A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.
+
bond
v.t.
To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.
+
beaked
a.
Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.
+
barb
v.t.
To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
+
baptize
v.t.
To sanctify; to consecrate.
+
brazilian
n.
A native or an inhabitant of Brazil.
+
buckler
n.
One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
+
burdon
n.
A pilgrim's staff.
+
biggin
v.t.
Alt. of Bigging
+
bractea
n.
A bract.
+
behind
n.
The backside; the rump.
+
bays
n.
Alt. of Bayze
+
broad seal

The great seal of England; the public seal of a country or state.
+
biflabellate
a.
Flabellate on both sides.
+
boulter
n.
A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.
+
belting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Belt
+
bassorilievo
n.
Alt. of Basso-relievo
+
beatification
n.
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.
+
biggin
n.
A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor.
+
being
n.
That which exists in any form, whether it be material or spiritual, actual or ideal; living existence, as distinguished from a thing without life; as, a human being; spiritual beings.
+
banquet
n.
A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.
+
bullseye
n.
A thick knob or protuberance left on glass by the end of the pipe through which it was blown.
+
bounce
v.i.
To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
+
bayonet
n.
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.
+
brighten
a.
To make illustrious, or more distinguished; to add luster or splendor to.
+
beard
n.
The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
+
black
n.
That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black.
+
basilicok
n.
The basilisk.
+
book
n.
A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.
+
blenk
v.i.
To blink; to shine; to look.
+
borough
n.
The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.
+
beggarly
adv.
In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.
+
blockade
n.
Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress.
+
bobance
n.
A boasting.
+
burse
n.
An ornamental case of hold the corporal when not in use.
+
blooding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blood
+
broadside
n.
The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter.
+
bunkum
n.
Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show.
+
basis
n.
The ground work the first or fundamental principle; that which supports.
+
bavin
n.
Impure limestone.
+
box
n.
A receptacle or case of any firm material and of various shapes.
+
bimetallic
a.
Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.
+
bewitching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bewitch
+
boatwoman
n.
A woman who manages a boat.
+
brim
n.
The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything.
+
billfish
n.
A name applied to several distinct fishes
+
bedeck
v.t.
To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.
+
burstwort
n.
A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture.
+
bedstead
n.
A framework for supporting a bed.
+
bond
n.
A vassal or serf; a slave.
+
bonny
a.
Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe.
+
benight
v.t.
To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.
+
boded
imp.|p.p.
of Bode
+
borrowed
imp.|p.p.
of Borrow
+
braving
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brave
+
bilocular
a.
Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp.
+
black monk

A Benedictine monk.
+
bare
n.
Surface; body; substance.
+
bulbotuber
n.
A corm.
+
batting
n.
The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball.
+
butteris
n.
A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses.
+
binoculate
a.
Having two eyes.
+
bride
n.
Fig.: An object ardently loved.
+
better
compar.
In a superior or more excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits.
+
becloud
v.t.
To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud.
+
brightening
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brighten
+
brass
n.
Impudence; a brazen face.
+
brinjaree
n.
A rough-haired East Indian variety of the greyhound.
+
biocellate
a.
Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); -- said of a wing, etc.
+
bace
n.a.|v.
See Base.
+
bedaggle
v.t.
To daggle.
+
benet
v.t.
To catch in a net; to insnare.
+
boding
a.
Foreshowing; presaging; ominous.
+
brachypinacoid
n.
A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.
+
bandlet
n.
A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring.
+
bead
n.
A bubble in spirits.
+
billed
imp.|p.p.
of Bill
+
bonair
a.
Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding.
+
boer
n.
A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.
+
brigand
n.
A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter.
+
begirt
imp.
of Begird
+
bend
n.
One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.
+
biglandular
a.
Having two glands, as a plant.
+
bullcomber
n.
A scaraboid beetle; esp. the Typhaeus vulgaris of Europe.
+
buckle
n.
To join in marriage.
+
basin
n.
A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.
+
bellying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Belly
+
buckle
v.i.
To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
+
brucine
n.
A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nux vomica. It is less powerful than strychnine. Called also brucia and brucina.
+
boracic
a.
Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid.
+
breech
n.
The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.
+
button
n.
A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
+
basilic
a.
Alt. of Basilical
+
bitter
v.t.
Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes.
+
butlership
n.
The office of a butler.
+
brachyurous
a.
Of or pertaining to the Brachyura.
+
bread
n.
Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
+
blent
imp.|p.p.
Mingled; mixed; blended; also, polluted; stained.
+
bassinet
n.
A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in which young children are placed as in a cradle.
+
better
a.
To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.
+
betake
v.t.
To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun.
+
bethump
v.t.
To beat or thump soundly.
+
bellfaced
a.
Having the striking surface convex; -- said of hammers.
+
blanket
a.
A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
+
blackmouthed
a.
Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.
+
broiling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Broil
+
bare
a.
Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
+
brewed
imp.|p.p.
of Brew
+
byblow
n.
A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow.
+
believer
n.
One who was admitted to all the rights of divine worship and instructed in all the mysteries of the Christian religion, in distinction from a catechumen, or one yet under instruction.
+
bulbous
n.
Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.
+
bow
n.
The bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or prow.
+
buckwheat
n.
A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food.
+
broiled
imp.|p.p.
of Broil
+
berain
v.t.
To rain upon; to wet with rain.
+
breeziness
n.
State of being breezy.
+
bookmate
n.
A schoolfellow; an associate in study.
+
betting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bet
+
bestrewed
p.p.
of Bestrew
+
bluffy
a.
Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks.
+
base
n.
The housing of a horse.
+
becomingness
n.
The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness.
+
burmese
n.sing.|pl.
A native or the natives of Burmah. Also (sing.), the language of the Burmans.
+
bacchanalia
n.pl.
A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.
+
bacchantes
pl.
of Bacchant
+
bound
n.
Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.
+
but
n.
The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt.
+
blameful
a.
Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious.
+
butternut
n.
An American tree (Juglans cinerea) of the Walnut family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil contained in the latter. Sometimes called oil nut and white walnut.
+
bream
n.
A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
+
beneficed
a.
Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.
+
brownness
n.
The quality or state of being brown.
+
bordland
n.
Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table.
+
babylonian
n.
An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
+
birdikin
n.
A young bird.
+
bow
v.t.
Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
+
bleeder
n.
One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.
+
beforehand
adv.
In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with.
+
bretzel
n.
See Pretzel.
+
bailiwick
n.
The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.
+
bank note

A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand.
+
battuta
n.
The measuring of time by beating.
+
bribe
n.
That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
+
bassorelievo
n.
Same as Bas-relief.
+
bicycler
n.
One who rides a bicycle.
+
budged
imp.|p.p.
of Budge
+
bilbo
n.
A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain.
+
beauty
n.
Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
+
bismuthic
a.
Of or pertaining to bismuth; containing bismuth, when this element has its higher valence; as, bismuthic oxide.
+
breviary
n.
A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal.
+
bodies
pl.
of Body
+
brewsterite
n.
A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and strontia.
+
blazonry
n.
Same as Blazon, 3.
+
breathe
v.t.
To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire.
+
bay ice

See under Ice.
+
bail
v.t.
To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed.
+
bruh
n.
The rhesus monkey. See Rhesus.
+
bougie
n.
A long, flexible instrument, that is
+
bottom
n.
The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
+
bolt
v.i.
A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
+
bubonic
a.
Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.
+
brickleness
n.
Brittleness.
+
bunk
n.
A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
+
bibliothec
n.
A librarian.
+
burning
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Burn
+
buckskin
n.
A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
+
boanerges

Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator.
+
bombination
n.
A humming or buzzing.
+
balk
v.i.
A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
+
border
v.t.
To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest.
+
byname
n.
A nickname.
+
bellwether
n.
Hence: A leader.
+
buffalo
n.
A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.
+
backboard
n.
A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure.
+
brun
n.
Same as Brun, a brook.
+
biblical
a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority.
+
bracelet
n.
A piece of defensive armor for the arm.
+
balefully
adv.
In a baleful manner; perniciously.
+
bedlamite
n.
An inhabitant of a madhouse; a madman.
+
ban
n.
A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.
+
boltrope
n.
A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.
+
bald
a.
Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.
+
barbed
a.
Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire.
+
bounty
n.
A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures.
+
briered
a.
Set with briers.
+
brash
n.
Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.
+
backslid

of Backslide
+
bemock
v.t.
To mock; to ridicule.
+
bewrought
a.
Embroidered.
+
bitternut
n.
The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.
+
bucking
n.
The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
+
baleful
a.
Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad.
+
bestain
v.t.
To stain.
+
banal
a.
Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.
+
bitter
v.t.
Causing, or fitted to cause, pain or distress to the mind; calamitous; poignant.
+
brow
v.t.
To bound to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
+
boragewort
n.
Plant of the Borage family.
+
bloodshed
n.
The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
+
barwise
adv.
Horizontally.
+
betokening
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Betoken
+
badgerer
n.
One who badgers.
+
blockaded
imp.|p.p.
of Blockade
+
bowelling

of Bowel
+
broker
v.t.
A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc.
+
broadened
imp.|p.p.
of Broaden
+
bruang
n.
The Malayan sun bear.
+
bore
imp.
of Bear
+
bear
v.i.
To press; -- with on or upon, or against.
+
broccoli
n.
A plant of the Cabbage species (Brassica oleracea) of many varieties, resembling the cauliflower. The "curd," or flowering head, is the part used for food.
+
billhook
n.
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.
+
bosh
n.
In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.
+
bugle
n.
A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.
+
bar
n.
The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.
+
barful
a.
Full of obstructions.
+
bucktooth
n.
Any tooth that juts out.
+
bubble
n.
A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.
+
brief
adv.
Briefly.
+
bow
v.i.
To stop.
+
bug
n.
An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug.
+
buhrstone
n.
A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones.
+
brachyuran
n.
One of the Brachyura.
+
brahmoism
n.
The religious system of Brahmo-somaj.
+
bipartite
a.
Divided into two parts almost to the base, as a leaf; consisting of two parts or subdivisions.
+
baldachin
n.
A rich brocade; baudekin.
+
build
v.i.
To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.
+
behind
adv.
Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.
+
bestridden
p.p.
of Bestride
+
berry
v.i.
To bear or produce berries.
+
bangle
n.
An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn by women in India and Africa, and in some other countries, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet.
+
bloom
n.
The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom.
+
backward
a.
Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state.
+
bunodonta
n.pl.
Alt. of Bunodonts
+
brightly
adv.
With lively intelligence; intelligently.
+
bicker
n.
A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
+
bronchopneumonia
n.
Inflammation of the bronchi and lungs; catarrhal pneumonia.
+
burlap
n.
A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc.
+
bishop
n.
A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.
+
batteringram
n.
A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally.
+
booking office

An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.
+
blistery
a.
Full of blisters.
+
brancher
n.
That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.
+
ballot
n.
The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.
+
bedridden
v.i.
Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity.
+
bunker
n.
A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat.
+
beautify
v.t.
To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.
+
brachiolaria
n.pl.
A peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia.
+
bouncer
n.
Something big; a good stout example of the kind.
+
botts
n.pl.
See Bots.
+
buffoon
v.i.
To act the part of a buffoon.
+
be
v.i.
To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.
+
bunghole
n.
See Bung, n., 2.
+
bossy
a.
Ornamented with bosses; studded.
+
beware
v.i.
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.
+
blackband
n.
An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter; -- valuable as an iron ore.
+
bouilli
n.
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.
+
burglar
n.
One guilty of the crime of burglary.
+
butyraceous
a.
Having the qualities of butter; resembling butter.
+
brant
a.
Steep; high.
+
balance
n.
An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account.
+
batter
v.t.
A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
+
brillante
a.
In a gay, showy, and sparkling style.
+
baby farmer

One who keeps a baby farm.
+
bonedog
n.
The spiny dogfish.
+
balcony
n.
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.
+
bag
v.i.
To become pregnant.
+
brachydiagonal
a.
Pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism.
+
breeze
n.
An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze.
+
baseborn
a.
Born of low parentage.
+
barbacanage
n.
See Barbicanage.
+
begun

p. p. of Begin.
+
braggadocio
n.
A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer.
+
borrower
n.
One who borrows.
+
broom corn

A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.
+
by
a.
Out of the common path; aside; -- used in composition, giving the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by-design, by-interest, etc.
+
bow
v.i.
To bend; to curve.
+
be
v.i.
To exist in a certain manner or relation, -- whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, -- a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man.
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bill broker

One who negotiates the discount of bills.
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boobies
pl.
of Booby
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biangulate
a.
Alt. of Biangulated
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barruly
a.
Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field.
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burlesquing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Burlesque
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bloom
n.
A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.
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bevered
imp.|p.p.
of Bever
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break
v.i.
To burst forth violently, as a storm.
+
bylaw
n.
A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own government.
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brigue
n.
A cabal, intrigue, faction, contention, strife, or quarrel.
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baste
v.t.
To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.
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block
v.t.
Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way.
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bang
n.
The sound produced by a sudden concussion.
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bever
v.i.
To take a light repast between meals.
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buff
v.t.
To polish with a buff. See Buff, n., 5.
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broach
n.
A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.
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batata
n.
An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas).
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beguinage
n.
A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines.
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bearded
a.
Having a beard.
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bobcherry
n.
A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.
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bicker
n.
A skirmish; an encounter.
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breechblock
n.
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.
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bold
n.
Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous.
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brocatello
n.
Same as Brocatel.
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breeding
n.
Nurture; education; formation of manners.
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bill holder

A person who holds a bill or acceptance.
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bakedmeat
n.
A pie; baked food.
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blind
n.
Alt. of Blinde
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bath
n.
A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.
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bishop
n.
In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.
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bloodiness
n.
The state of being bloody.
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bumper
n.
Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a buffer.
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binocularly
adv.
In a binocular manner.
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barnacle
n.
A bernicle goose.
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butcher
n.
A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.
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blameworthy
a.
Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible.
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broking
a.
Of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage.
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byway
n.
A secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one.
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bespot
v.t.
To mark with spots, or as with spots.
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bow
v.t.
A weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an arrow is propelled.
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bound
p.p.|a.
Constipated; costive.
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byname
v.t.
To give a nickname to.
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bespoken

of Bespeak
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backset
n.
A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
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bedding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bed
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bitts
n.pl.
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.
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bodily
adv.
Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body.
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baculometry
n.
Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff or staffs.
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brigantine
n.
A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig in that she does not carry a square mainsail.
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belime
v.t.
To besmear or insnare with birdlime.
+
broadbrim
n.
A member of the society of Friends; a Quaker.
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bug
n.
A bugbear; anything which terrifies.
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butthorn
n.
The common European starfish (Asterias rubens).
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bellycheer
v.i.
To revel; to feast.
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bewailer
n.
One who bewails or laments.
+
band
v.t.
To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy.
+
bird fancier

One who takes pleasure in rearing or collecting rare or curious birds.
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brain
n.
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.
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bearsear
n.
A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf.
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bullhead
n.
A marine fish of the genus Cottus; the sculpin.
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beducked
imp.|p.p.
of Beduck
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breeze
n.
Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
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bridgeboard
n.
A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened.
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blackletter
a.
Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.
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burbolt
n.
A birdbolt.
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browned
imp.|p.p.
of Brown
+
bullseye
n.
A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm.
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boxkeeper
n.
An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.
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bowl
v.t.
To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
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bottle
v.t.
To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.
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breve
n.
A curved mark [/] used commonly to indicate the short quantity of a vowel.
+
boggle
n.
To play fast and loose; to dissemble.
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bloodsucker
n.
A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner.
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blending
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blend
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bolster
n.
A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment.
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brush turkey

A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidae. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea.
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blood
n.
A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake.
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brontotherium
n.
A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.
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boteless
a.
Unavailing; in vain. See Bootless.
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buttercup
n.
A plant of the genus Ranunculus, or crowfoot, particularly R. bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare.
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board
v.t.
To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.
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bend
v.t.
To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
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batch
v.t.
The quantity of bread baked at one time.
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blackmail
v.t.
To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.
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bigha
n.
A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre.
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blackball
v.t.
To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize.
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bounce
v.i.
To boast; to talk big; to bluster.
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buffet
n.
A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.
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bazaar
n.
Alt. of Bazar
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broom rape

A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand A. Ludovicianum.
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bractlet
n.
A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers.
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bit
v.
Fig.: Anything which curbs or restrains.
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bloody flux

The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood.
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buckram
a.
Stiff; precise.
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barret
n.
A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers; -- called also barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics.
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believer
n.
One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.
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bellowing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bellow
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beadwork
n.
Ornamental work in beads.
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bigot
n.
A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.
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boltonite
n.
A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.
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bowstring
n.
The string of a bow.
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because
conj.
By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that.
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bulk
n.
The body.
+
banking
n.
The business of a bank or of a banker.
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british
a.
Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inhabitants; -- sometimes restricted to the original inhabitants.
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brabble
n.
A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle.
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bub
n.
A young brother; a little boy; -- a familiar term of address of a small boy.
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body
n.
That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.
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billet
n.
A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.
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besottingly
adv.
In a besotting manner.
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bronchitis
n.
Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.
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belay
v.t.
To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel.
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brought
imp.|p.p.
of Bring
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bacchant
n.
A priest of Bacchus.
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balanoid
a.
Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle.
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bomb
n.
A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.
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bespeak
v.i.
To speak.
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blinked
imp.|p.p.
of Blink
+
bruising
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bruise
+
bisect
v.t.
To divide into two equal parts.
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belittled
imp.|p.p.
of Belittle
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brick
v.t.
To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.
+
bolt
v.t.
To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
+
border
n.
A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
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betray
v.t.
To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause.
+
braxy
n.
A diseased sheep, or its mutton.
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balaniferous
a.
Bearing or producing acorns.
+
beck
n.
A vat. See Back.
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retted
a.
Containing two atoms or equivalents of carbon in the molecule.
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bite
v.t.
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.
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blow
v.t.
To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose.
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beguiling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beguile
+
bullhead
n.
The black-bellied plover (Squatarola helvetica); -- called also beetlehead.
+
barrel
n.
A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
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blowze
n.
A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench.
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bah
interj.
An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt.
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bunch grass

A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.
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basilica
n.
A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century.
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behoten

of Behight
+
brush
n.
A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy.
+
balancer
n.
In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing.
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biquintile
n.
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.
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betray
v.t.
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.
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beche de mer

The trepang.
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bultel
n.
A bolter or bolting cloth; also, bran.
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blackfoot
n.
A Blackfoot Indian.
+
blowhole
n.
A hole in the ice to which whales, seals, etc., come to breathe.
+
badger
n.
A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.
+
benzyl
n.
A compound radical, C6H5.CH2, related to toluene and benzoic acid; -- commonly used adjectively.
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broken
v.t.
Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship.
+
bearing
n.
The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection.
+
buffeting
n.
A striking with the hand.
+
bone
n.
Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
+
better
n.
Advantage, superiority, or victory; -- usually with of; as, to get the better of an enemy.
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brilliantly
adv.
In a brilliant manner.
+
bowl
n.
An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.
+
babion
n.
A baboon.
+
baggage
n.
Purulent matter.
+
befog
v.t.
Hence: To confuse; to mystify.
+
bimetallism
n.
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.
+
blasting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blast
+
butt
v.i.
To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.]
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bordel
n.
Alt. of Bordello
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battledoor
n.
A child's hornbook.
+
bowery
a.
Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.
+
befool
v.t.
To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive.
+
birdsnest
n.
The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young.
+
bryozoa
n.pl.
A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa.
+
box
n.
The driver's seat on a carriage or coach.
+
belaced
imp.|p.p.
of Belace
+
blossomed
imp.|p.p.
of Blossom
+
bridged
imp.|p.p.
of Bridge
+
bayantler
n.
The second tine of a stag's horn. See under Antler.
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bonnyclabber
n.
Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber.
+
berth
v.t.
To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company.
+
bluff
a.
Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship.
+
brangling
n.
A quarrel.
+
barehead
a.|adv.
Having the head uncovered; as, a bareheaded girl.
+
blancmanger
n.
A sort of fricassee with white sauce, variously made of capon, fish, etc.
+
bona fide

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.
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bittersweet
n.
An American woody climber (Celastrus scandens), whose yellow capsules open late in autumn, and disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork.
+
bullhead
n.
A stupid fellow; a lubber.
+
bruisewort
n.
A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
+
berberine
n.
An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.
+
bumper
n.
That which bumps or causes a bump.
+
becket
n.
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.
+
bumpkin
n.
An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout.
+
balsam
n.
Anything that heals, soothes, or restores.
+
beguiler
n.
One who, or that which, beguiles.
+
bathe
v.t.
To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed.
+
beetleheaded
a.
Dull; stupid.
+
blive
adv.
Quickly; forthwith.
+
biennial
n.
A plant which exists or lasts for two years.
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belamour
n.
A lover.
+
balaustine
n.
The pomegranate tree (Punica granatum). The bark of the root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally.
+
birds nest
n.
Alt. of Bird's-nest
+
bombastical
a.
Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.
+
barker
n.
A pistol.
+
bell
n.
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.
+
barkeeper
n.
One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.
+
bemete
v.t.
To mete.
+
begrave
v.t.
To bury; also, to engrave.
+
betutored
imp.|p.p.
of Betutor
+
brownie
n.
An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
+
brachium
n.
The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.
+
bone
v.t.
To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying.
+
benumb
a.
To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.
+
brockish
a.
Beastly; brutal.
+
biognosis
n.
The investigation of life.
+
ballasting
n.
That which is used for steadying anything; ballast.
+
brucite
n.
A white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like talc, and also fibrous; a native magnesium hydrate.
+
blandiloquence
n.
Mild, flattering speech.
+
brennage
n.
A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.
+
bested

of Bestead
+
bitheism
n.
Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism.
+
bear
n.
Alt. of Bere
+
backbiter
n.
One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
+
bad lands

Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by caņons, 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).
+
batule
n.
A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also batule board.
+
ban
v.t.
To forbid; to interdict.
+
bitterness
n.
A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God.
+
bemeeting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bemeet
+
beatify
v.t.
To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of "the blessed" and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized.
+
borage
n.
A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.
+
browpost
n.
A beam that goes across a building.
+
blennorrhea
n.
Gonorrhea.
+
benjamin
n.
A kind of upper coat for men.
+
bromate
n.
A salt of bromic acid.
+
boston
n.
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.
+
black
a.
To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.
+
ical
a.
Alt. of ical
+
benzoate
n.
A salt formed by the union of benzoic acid with any salifiable base.
+
bag
n.
A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee.
+
bedrug
v.t.
To drug abundantly or excessively.
+
barely
adv.
But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare ( of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.
+
beguiled
imp.|p.p.
of Beguile
+
bleacher
n.
One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching.
+
botryoid
a.
Alt. of Botryoidal
+
beeeater
n.
An African bird of the genus Rhinopomastes.
+
bawson
n.
A badger.
+
bicuspid
n.
One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.
+
bac
n.
A vat or cistern. See 1st Back.
+
barytone
a.
Alt. of Baritone
+
be

To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around).
+
bowshot
n.
The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.
+
bullfinch
n.
A bird of the genus Pyrrhula and other related genera, especially the P. vulgaris / rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red.
+
blunderhead
n.
A stupid, blundering fellow.
+
bosom
n.
Inclination; desire.
+
bloodied
imp.|p.p.
of Bloody
+
bronze
n.
To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.
+
bring
v.t.
To convey; to move; to carry or conduct.
+
betrustment
n.
The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted.
+
blood
n.
The juice of anything, especially if red.
+
bitt
v.t.
To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away.
+
barbarian
n.
A person destitute of culture.
+
believe
v.i.
To think; to suppose.
+
barbadian
n.
A native of Barbados.
+
baritone
a.
Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.
+
bed rock

The solid rock underlying superficial formations.  Also Fig.
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branlin
n.
A small red worm or larva, used as bait for small fresh-water fish; -- so called from its red color.
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burning
a.
That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.
+
butter
v.t.
To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.
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burgher
n.
A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.
+
but
adv.|conj.
Except with; unless with; without.
+
backward
v.i.
To keep back; to hinder.
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butchery
n.
Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter.
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barbaic
a.
Of or pertaining to, or resembling, an uncivilized person or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement.
+
beatificate
v.t.
To beatify.
+
bleacheries
pl.
of Bleachery
+
bombproof
a.
Secure against the explosive force of bombs.
+
blessed
a.
Beatified.
+
bound
v.t.
To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.
+
buoy
v.i.
To float; to rise like a buoy.
+
beggarism
n.
Beggary.
+
belgian
n.
A native or inhabitant of Belgium.
+
bespeak
v.t.
To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances.
+
break
v.t.
To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set.
+
barcarolle
n.
A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers.
+
backing
n.
The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward.
+
bisegment
n.
One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude.
+
boggle
n.
To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.
+
beltein
n.
Alt. of Beltin
+
bishoping
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bishop
+
bargainee
v.i.
The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold.
+
bathing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bathe
+
bequeathment
n.
The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest.
+
base
n.
The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue.
+
breasted
imp.|p.p.
of Breast
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brazilin
n.
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.
+
burner
n.
One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.
+
blossom
n.
A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
+
breton
n.
A native or inhabitant of Brittany, or Bretagne, in France; also, the ancient language of Brittany; Armorican.
+
bedrench
v.t.
To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak.
+
bonnily
adv.
Gayly; handsomely.
+
beetlehead
n.
A stupid fellow; a blockhead.
+
bungo
n.
A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States.
+
beclouding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Becloud
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break
v.t.
To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill.
+
beat
v.i.
A place of habitual or frequent resort.
+
brumal
a.
Of or pertaining to winter.
+
belletristic
a.
Alt. of Belletristical
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blubber
v.i.
To weep noisily, or so as to disfigure the face; to cry in a childish manner.
+
bluestockingism
n.
The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
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before
prep.
Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when; -- sometimes with the additional idea of purpose; in order that.
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bescratch
v.t.
To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
+
burrel shot

A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, etc., fired from a cannon at short range, in an emergency.
+
belligerently
adv.
In a belligerent manner; hostilely.
+
bioplast
n.
A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.
+
browse
v.i.
To pasture; to feed; to nibble.
+
bite
v.
A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
+
brights disease

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.
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borough
n.
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.
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blame
v.t.
To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.
+
bereaved
imp.|p.p.
of Bereave
+
ban
n.
An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription.
+
burglaries
pl.
of Burglary
+
barocco
a.
See Baroque.
+
burse
n.
A kind of bazaar.
+
bolete
n.
any fungus of the family Boletaceae.
+
bollandists
n.pl.
The Jesuit editors of the "Acta Sanctorum", or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work.
+
blood
v.t.
To bleed.
+
blindfolding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Blindfold
+
basketful
n.
As much as a basket will contain.
+
baboon
n.
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.
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bureaucracy
n.
Government officials, collectively.
+
broiler
n.
A chicken or other bird fit for broiling.
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boom
v.t.
To extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as, to boom out a sail; to boom off a boat.
+
backbite
v.i.
To censure or revile the absent.
+
blowoff
adj.
as, a blow-off cock or pipe.
+
baiter
n.
One who baits; a tormentor.
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barking irons

Instruments used in taking off the bark of trees.
+
blight
v.i.
To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.
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bermuda grass

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.
+
bicorporate
a.
Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.
+
burgage
n.
A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft.
+
board
n.
Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.
+
buttermilk
n.
The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.
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beard
n.
The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
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bow
v.t.
The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
+
barometer
n.
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.
+
befortune
v.t.
To befall.
+
brotheler
n.
One who frequents brothels.
+
blemishless
a.
Without blemish; spotless.
+
brassart
n.
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.
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bastion
n.
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.
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back
adv.
In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.
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bleyme
n.
An inflammation in the foot of a horse, between the sole and the bone.
+
bar
n.
Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.
+
butyl
n.
A compound radical, regarded as butane, less one atom of hydrogen.
+
beefeater
n.
One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person.
+
bargeboard
n.
A vergeboard.
+
burrow
n.
A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5.
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breste
v.t.|i.
To burst.
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balustrade
n.
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.
+
bayou
n.
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.
+
beadsman
n.
Alt. of Bedesman
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bush
v.t.
To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.
+
bottle
n.
A bundle, esp. of hay.
+
bedplate
n.
The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate.
+
boldly
adv.
In a bold manner.
+
baulk
n.|v.
See Balk.
+
bug
n.
A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.
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burglarious
a.
Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary.
+
boorish
a.
Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly.
+
bespitten

of Bespit
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bloodless
a.
Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead.
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bang
v.t.
To beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.
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bide
v.t.
To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo.
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bark
v.t.
To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.
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backbiting
n.
Secret slander; detraction.
+
bolus
n.
A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.
+
blackball
v.t.
To blacken (leather, shoes, etc.) with blacking.
+
bracket
v.t.
To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.
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blissless
a.
Destitute of bliss.
+
brightness
n.
The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness.
+
bond
n.
An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.
+
banter
v.t.
To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.
+
bedunged
imp.|p.p.
of Bedung
+
bracket
n.
A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.
+
bultow
n.
A trawl; a boulter; the mode of fishing with a boulter or spiller.
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brecciated
a.
Consisting of angular fragments cemented together; resembling breccia in appearance.
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bleed
v.i.
To lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence.
+
butterball
n.
The buffel duck.
+
bottle
n.
The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.
+
binny
n.
A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile, and much esteemed for food.
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brahmanism
n.
Alt. of Brahminism
+
bohea
n.
Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea.
+
bishoply
a.
Bishoplike; episcopal.
+
bulkhead
n.
A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front.
+
bicuspid
a.
Alt. of Bicuspidate
+
bibliolater
n.
Alt. of Bibliolatrist
+
beaded
imp.|p.p.
of Bead
+
blur
n.
That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.
+
benjamite
n.
A descendant of Benjamin; one of the tribe of Benjamin.
+
bruise
v.t.
To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
+
bastard
n.
A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
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bass
a.
Deep or grave in tone.
+
broaden
v.t.
To make broad or broader; to render more broad or comprehensive.
+
ballast
v.t.
To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.
+
blatter
v.i.
To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter.
+
broadax broadaxe
n.
An ancient military weapon; a battle-ax.
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bridle
n.
A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle.
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bevel
a.
Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
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brindled
a.
Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded.
+
balk
v.t.
To leave or make balks in.
+
bonnet
n.
The second stomach of a ruminating animal.
+
bandage
n.
Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature.
+
bluffed
imp.|p.p.
of Bluff
+
boniface
n.
An innkeeper.
+
bargecourse
n.
A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable.
+
bombycinous
a.
Silken; made of silk.
+
butterflies
pl.
of Butterfly
+
beggestere
n.
A beggar.
+
babe
n.
A doll for children.
+
bucker
n.
One who bucks ore.
+
behead
v.t.
To sever the head from; to take off the head of.
+
bridge
n.
Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
+
brat
n.
A child; an offspring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense.
+
blest

of Bless
+
bogsucker
n.
The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.
+
belonging
n.
Family; relations; household.
+
barpost
n.
A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.
+
bushed
imp.|p.p.
of Bush
+
berth
n.
The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.
+
bibliomaniac
a.
Relating to a bibliomaniac.
+
bethlehem
n.
A hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam.
+
brethren
pl.
of Brother
+
burn
v.i.
To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever.
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bring
v.t.
To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
+
black rod

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.
+
beaver
n.
The fur of the beaver.
+
bull
v.i.
To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
+
breathing
n.
Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air.
+
bind
v.t.
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.
+
bulletin
n.
Any public notice or announcement, especially of news recently received.
+
bicker
n.
A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.
+
beaux
pl.
of Bel-esprit
+
biquadratic
a.
Of or pertaining to the biquadrate, or fourth power.
+
browsewood
n.
Shrubs and bushes upon which animals browse.
+
beck
n.
A small brook.
+
bichromatize
v.t.
To combine or treat with a bichromate, esp. with bichromate of potassium; as, bichromatized gelatine.
+
bad
imp.
Bade.
+
bowknot
n.
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.
+
benzoin
n.
The spicebush (Lindera benzoin).
+
boxing
n.
Any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing.
+
befit
v.t.
To be suitable to; to suit; to become.
+
burning
a.
Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal.
+
birdseye
a.
Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple.
+
biforous
a.
See Biforate.
+
bidden

p. p. of Bid.
+
beneficently
adv.
In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
+
buckram
v.t.
To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.
+
beechy
a.
Of or relating to beeches.
+
biparietal
a.
Of or pertaining to the diameter of the cranium, from one parietal fossa to the other.
+
blancmange
n.
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.
+
bon vivant
p.pr.
A good fellow; a jovial companion; a free liver.
+
broth
n.
Liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup.
+
basque
a.
Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language.
+
ballroom
n.
A room for balls or dancing.
+
behold
v.t.
To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes.
+
buttonbush
n.
A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; -- so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.
+
by
adv.
Aside; as, to lay by; to put by.
+
bank
n.
In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
+
bumper
n.
A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer.
+
brassicaceous
a.
Related to, or resembling, the cabbage, or plants of the Cabbage family.
+
browse
v.i.
To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer.
+
blighted
imp.|p.p.
of Blight
+
bookholder
n.
A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.
+
brickwork
n.
Anything made of bricks.
+
bandrol
n.
A little banner, flag, or streamer.
+
behind
a.
Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death.
+
betray
v.t.
To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
+
big
superl.
Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.
+
beleaguering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Beleaguer
+
barmecide
n.
One who proffers some illusory advantage or benefit. Also used as an adj.: Barmecidal.
+
bedpiece
n.
Alt. of Bedplate
+
beneficiary
a.
Bestowed as a gratuity; as, beneficiary gifts.
+
broad
superl.
Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.
+
bothersome
a.
Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.
+
battalion
n.
A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.
+
bear
v.t.
To gain or win.
+
breastrope
n.
See Breastband.
+
burrowed
imp.|p.p.
of Burrow
+
bleated
imp.|p.p.
of Bleat
+
beblot
v.t.
To blot; to stain.
+
bifurcate
v.i.
To divide into two branches.
+
blatteration
n.
Blattering.
+
bishoped
imp.|p.p.
of Bishop
+
bernicle
n.
A bernicle goose.
+
bore
n.
A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.
+
boon
n.
Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage.
+
behight
v.
To adjudge; to assign by authority.
+
barb
n.
A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
+
backstress
n.
A female baker.
+
bayardly
a.
Blind; stupid.
+
bede
n.
A kind of pickax.
+
baptizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Baptize
+
boatmanship
n.
The art of managing a boat.
+
bepommeling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bepommel
+
bookholder
n.
A prompter at a theater.
+
branded
imp.|p.p.
of Brand
+
bite
v.t.
To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.
+
bimana
n.pl.
Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia.
+
brayer
n.
An implement for braying and spreading ink in hand printing.
+
brokenbellied
a.
Having a ruptured belly.
+
buttweld
v.t.
To unite by a butt weld.
+
bespeaking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bespeak
+
bracket
n.
One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.
+
becomingly
adv.
In a becoming manner.
+
blotless
a.
Without blot.
+
burst
v.i.
To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of force, or to pressure from within; to explode; as, the boiler had burst; the buds will burst in spring.
+
bringer
n.
One who brings.
+
bahar
n.
A weight used in certain parts of the East Indies, varying considerably in different localities, the range being from 223 to 625 pounds.
+
bag
v.i.
To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.
+
blown
p.p.|a.
Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; fly blown.
+
bigeye
n.
A fish of the genus Priacanthus, remarkable for the large size of the eye.
+
bonmot
n.
A witty repartee; a jest.
+
bespattering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bespatter
+
beau ideal

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.
+
biscuit
n.
Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.
+
backrag
n.
See Bacharach.
+
bow
n.
One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar.
+
bite
v.
The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.
+
burthen
n.|v.t.
See Burden.
+
brast
imp.
of Breste
+
back stairs

Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.
+
bulse
n.
A purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc.
+
bourgeois
n.
A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.
+
brothered
imp.|p.p.
of Brother
+
bifurcated
a.
Two-pronged; forked.
+
base
n.
The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline.
+
boroughhead
n.
See Headborough.
+
braggart
v.i.
A boaster.
+
brokerly
a.
Mean; servile.
+
beamlet
n.
A small beam of light.
+
banquette
n.
A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.
+
brute
a.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.
+
begirdle
v.t.
To surround as with a girdle.
+
billbeetle
n.
Alt. of Billbug
+
biotaxy
n.
The classification of living organisms according to their structural character; taxonomy.
+
bar
n.
To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up.
+
betossed
imp.|p.p.
of Betoss
+
broody
a.
Inclined to brood.
+
briefless
a.
Having no brief; without clients; as, a briefless barrister.
+
burst
v.t.
To break or rend by violence, as by an overcharge or by strain or pressure, esp. from within; to force open suddenly; as, to burst a cannon; to burst a blood vessel; to burst open the doors.
+
buffet
v.t.
To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.
+
biliteral
n.
A word, syllable, or root, consisting of two letters.
+
biased
imp.|p.p.
of Bias
+
bladder
n.
Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
+
blight
n.
That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
+
besieging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Besiege
+
boutade
n.
An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.
+
bedote
v.t.
To cause to dote; to deceive.
+
behn
n.
The Statice limonium, or sea lavender.
+
boutsrimes
n.pl.
Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.
+
borer
n.
Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.
+
bright
a.
Manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear; evident; plain.
+
bore
v.i.
To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.
+
banterer
n.
One who banters or rallies.
+
beam
n.
The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
+
brutified
imp.|p.p.
of Brutify
+
best
superl.
To the most advantage; with the most success, case, profit, benefit, or propriety.
+
barometry
n.
The art or process of making barometrical measurements.
+
bestow
v.t.
To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put.
+
bucket shop

An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc.
+
bank
n.
A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
+
boohoo
n.
The sailfish; -- called also woohoo.
+
battologize
v.t.
To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate.
+
bitterwort
n.
The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste.
+
bound
n.
The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.
+
blowess
n.
A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet.
+
bookworm
n.
A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation.
+
boule
n.
Alt. of Boulework
+
break
v.t.
An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation.
+
bugfish
n.
The menhaden.
+
both
a.orpron.
The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either.
+
bordering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Border
+
bord
n.
See Bourd.
+
brideknot
n.
A knot of ribbons worn by a guest at a wedding; a wedding favor.
+
buttress
n.
Anything which supports or strengthens.
+
bending
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bend
+
blanch
a.
To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
+
bedevilment
n.
The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble.
+
bask
v.t.
To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat.
+
burgher
n.
A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.
+
bocasine
n.
A sort of fine buckram.
+
beggar
n.
One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use.
+
bonnet
n.
In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.
+
buckle
v.i.
To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.
+
breach
n.
A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
+
bitartrate
n.
A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.
+
blemishment
n.
The state of being blemished; blemish; disgrace; damage; impairment.
+
bandana
n.
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.
+
bandy
v.t.
To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate.
+
bethinking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bethink
+
bribed
imp.|p.p.
of Bribe
+
bosh
n.
Figure; outline; show.
+
bonchretien
n.
A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett.
+
bottlenose
n.
A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe.
+
bottom
n.
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.
+
baccarat
n.
A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.
+
barrenwort
n.
An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.
+
buzz
n.
A whisper; a report spread secretly or cautiously.
+
buttering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Butter
+
baby
v.i.
To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor; to fondle.
+
borable
a.
Capable of being bored.
+
banana
n.
A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.
+
bust
n.
A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.
+
biantheriferous
a.
Having two anthers.
+
busy
a.
Constantly at work; diligent; active.
+
birk
n.
A birch tree.
+
bunsens burner

See under Battery, and Burner.
+
breviate
n.
A lawyer's brief.
+
bismuthal
a.
Containing bismuth.
+
bothy
n.
Alt. of Boothy
+
burletta
a.
A comic operetta; a music farce.
+
boatfuls
pl.
of Boatful
+
bibliographic
a.
Alt. of Bibliographical
+
blanket
v.t.
To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.
+
bioblast
n.
Same as Bioplast.
+
blender
n.
One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending.
+
bevel
n.
An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square.
+
bridgetree
n.
The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill.
+
beechen
a.
Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech.
+
binominal
a.
Of or pertaining to two names; binomial.
+
barbing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Barb
+
beneficeless
a.
Having no benefice.
+
bordrag
n.
Alt. of Bordraging
+
beatifical
a.
Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful.
+
befalling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Befall
+
babbled
imp.|p.p.
of Babble
+
backwards
adv.
With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.
+
based
imp.|p.p.
of Base
+
but
adv.|conj.
Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that.
+
bam
n.
An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
+
bestar
v.t.
To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or as with, stars; to bestud.
+
borer
n.
A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo.
+
bloodwite
n.
Alt. of Bloodwit
+
brawl
v.i.
To quarrel noisily and outrageously.
+
bay
v.i.
A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
+
bracket
n.
A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.
+
back
v.i.
To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog.
+
boyer
n.
A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.
+
burden
n.
The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer.
+
bounty
n.
Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence.
+
blessing
v.t.
Grateful praise or worship.
+
buoy
v.t.
To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
+
busto
n.
A bust; a statue.
+
bongrace
n.
A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat.
+
bullition
v.i.
The action of boiling; boiling. [Obs.] See Ebullition.
+
billfish
n.
The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish.
+
block
n.
To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor.
+
bibliothecal
a.
Belonging to a library.
+
baromacrometer
n.
An instrument for ascertaining the weight and length of a newborn infant.
+
burnous
n.
A combination cloak and hood worn by women.
+
bipunctate
a.
Having two punctures, or spots.
+
broiling
a.
Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun.
+
bedight
v.t.
To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn.
+
breve
n.
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.
+
bye
n.
In certain games, a station or place of an individual player.
+
beamy
a.
Having horns, or antlers.
+
blot
n.
A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
+
bezoardic
a.
Pertaining to, or compounded with, bezoar.
+
bulb
n.
An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, curved, etc.
+
bombast
n.
Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.
+
bower
n.
One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
+
burgess
n.
A magistrate of a borough.
+
bribery
n.
The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements.
+
but
v.t.
A thrust in fencing.
+
battery
v.t.
A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.
+
buckler
n.
A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
+
banter
n.
The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.
+
backshish
n.
In Egypt and the Turkish empire, a gratuity; a "tip".
+
bailment
n.
A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed.
+
bescummer
v.t.
To discharge ordure or dung upon.
+
bedyed
imp.|p.p.
of Bedye
+
baring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Bare
+
blink
v.i.
A glimpse or glance.
+
blind
a.
Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.
+
belly
v.t.
To cause to swell out; to fill.
+
bloater
n.
The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.
+
borrow
n.
Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.
+
blench holding

See Blanch holding.
+
bast
n.
The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.
+
burden
n.
The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
+
boastance
n.
Boasting.
+
blank
n.
A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank."
+
bullenbullen
n.
The lyre bird.
+
blenheim spaniel

A small variety of spaniel, kept as a pet.
+
but
adv.|conj.
Only; solely; merely.
+
banquet
v.i.
To partake of a dessert after a feast.
+
bow net

A net for catching birds.
+
button
v.i.
To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
+
biscayan
a.
Of or pertaining to Biscay in Spain.
+
bill
n.
A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
+
butterbur
n.
A broad-leaved plant (Petasites vulgaris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter.
+
bunch
v.t.
To form into a bunch or bunches.
+
bound
p.p.|a.
Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.
+
bold
n.
In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent.
+
besmirched
imp.|p.p.
of Besmirch
+
blare
v.i.
To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.
+
bartlett
n.
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.
+
barege
n.
A gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted.
+
balladry
n.
Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads.
+
babble
n.
Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.
+
beggar
v.t.
To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.
+
baric
a.
Of or pertaining to weight, esp. to the weight or pressure of the atmosphere as measured by the barometer.
+
burr
n.
The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5.
+
brant
a.
Smooth; unwrinkled.
+
bedrid
v.i.
Alt. of Bedridden
+
break
v.i.
To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag.
+
bayonet
v.t.
To stab with a bayonet.
+
bulky
a.
Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes.
+
belladonna
n.
A species of Amaryllis (A. belladonna); the belladonna lily.
+
bosses
pl.
of Boss
+
bowl
v.i.
To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.
+
batted
imp.|p.p.
of Bat
+
brume
n.
Mist; fog; vapors.
+
befell
imp.
of Befall
+
balanceable
a.
Such as can be balanced.
+
bedlam
n.
Any place where uproar and confusion prevail.
+
brahmans
pl.
of Brahmin
+
bastinadoes
pl.
of Bastinado
+
bonuses
pl.
of Bonus
+
buffet
v.t.
To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
+
bob
v.i.
To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.
+
brad awl

A straight awl with chisel edge, used to make holes for brads, etc.
+
byard
n.
A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.
+
bevy
n.
A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.
+
breviped
n.
A breviped bird.
+
bandbox
n.
A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.
+
bathymetry
n.
The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea.
+
bowbell
n.
One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney.
+
bib
n.
A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.
+
berkeleian
a.
Of or relating to Bishop Berkeley or his system of idealism; as, Berkeleian philosophy.
+
bladder
v.t.
To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.
+
buyer
n.
One who buys; a purchaser.
+
buttonhole
v.t.
To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour.
+
bowse
v.i.
To carouse; to bouse; to booze.
+
brond
n.
A sword.
+
boy
n.
A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.
+
bearish
a.
Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners.
+
betake
v.t.
To take or seize.
+
blemish
v.t.
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.
+
basanite
n.
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.
+
bethel
n.
A house of worship for seamen.
+
backhandedness
n.
State   of being backhanded; the using of backhanded or indirect methods.
+
battleaxe
n.
A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.
+
bawble
n.
A trinket. See Bauble.
+
bickerment
n.
Contention.
+
broomy
a.
Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom.
+
broken wind

The heaves.
+
book
v.t.
To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory.
+
bonniness
n.
The quality of being bonny; gayety; handsomeness.
+
betterness
n.
The difference by which fine gold or silver exceeds in fineness the standard.
+
berate
v.t.
To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
+
bearbind
n.
The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).
+
boll
n.
The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
+
baptistry
n.
A part of a church containing a font and used for baptismal services.
+
butylene
n.
Any one of three metameric hydrocarbons, C4H8, of the ethylene series. They are gaseous or easily liquefiable.
+
bummery
n.
See Bottomery.
+
brush
n.
To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off.
+
bedecked
imp.|p.p.
of Bedeck
+
back
v.i.
To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend.
+
brownish
a.
Somewhat brown.
+
bilinguar
a.
See Bilingual.
+
beak
n.
That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
+
buy
v.t.
To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell.
+
backbite
v.i.
To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
+
blank
v.t.
To make void; to annul.
+
breadfruit
n.
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.
+
booming
n.
The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep, hollow sound; as, the booming of bitterns.
+
bonbon
n.
Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.
+
board
n.
To enter, as a railway car.
+
breech sight

A device attached to the breech of a firearm, to guide the eye, in conjunction with the front sight, in taking aim.
+
bout
n.
A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.
+
bargemastter
n.
The proprietor or manager of a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.
+
bookless
a.
Without books; unlearned.
+
broach
n.
The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
+
bicrenate
a.
Twice crenated, as in the case of leaves whose crenatures are themselves crenate.
+
balbutiate
v.i.
Alt. of Balbucinate
+
ball
n.
Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle ball; -- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets.
+
boxing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Box
+
betaken
p.p.
of Betake
+
busy
a.
Careful; anxious.
+
bowhead
n.
The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balaena mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.
+
bullbeggar
n.
Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear.
+
benighting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Benight
+
better
a.
More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance; a better knowledge of the subject.
+
bonce
n.
A boy's game played with large marbles.
+
bockland
n.
Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.
+
baptist
n.
One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ.
+
but
v.t.
The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
+
borer
n.
One that bores; an instrument for boring.
+
bullet
n.
A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.
+
by
adv.
Near; in the neighborhood; present; as, there was no person by at the time.
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bifoliate
a.
Having two leaves; two-leaved.
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bubonocele
n.
An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.
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bandmaster
n.
The conductor of a musical band.
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bright
n.
Splendor; brightness.
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bay
v.t.
To bathe.
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biotic
a.
Relating to life; as, the biotic principle.
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barbel
n.
A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished.
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bollard
n.
An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes.
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bower
v.|n.
One who bows or bends.
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blackwork
n.
Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths.
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brevet
n.
A commission giving an officer higher rank than that for which he receives pay; an honorary promotion of an officer.
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bawn
n.
A large house.
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bowbent
a.
Bent, like a bow.
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backboard
n.
A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel.
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bannition
n.
The act of expulsion.
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bar
n.
A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.
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blastocoele
n.
The cavity of the blastosphere, or segmentation cavity.
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bat
n.
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.
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bonnie
a.
See Bonny, a.
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befoul
a.
To make foul; to soil.
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breastplow
n.
Alt. of Breastplough
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belock
v.t.
To lock, or fasten as with a lock.
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broggle
n.
To sniggle, or fish with a brog.
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byroom
n.
A private room or apartment.
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blossom
n.
To flourish and prosper.
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bicorn
a.
Alt. of Bicornous
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bulimia
n.
Alt. of Bulimy
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bind
v.t.
To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
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butt shaft

An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow.
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baritone
n.
The viola di gamba, now entirely disused.
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bribe
v.i.
To commit robbery or theft.
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bipyramidal
a.
Consisting of two pyramids placed base to base; having a pyramid at each of the extremities of a prism, as in quartz crystals.
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battalion
n.
A regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp. when assembled for drill or battle.
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bid
v.t.
To make a bid; to state what one will pay or take.
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betterment
n.
A making better; amendment; improvement.
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bragging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Brag
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beneficiary
a.
Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession.
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bestride
v.t.
To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold.
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byssi
pl.
of Byssus
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boll
v.i.
To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
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buccaneerish
a.
Like a buccaneer; piratical.
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brimmed
a.
Having a brim; -- usually in composition.
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burgessship
n.
The state of privilege of a burgess.
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brushwood
n.
Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.
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brick
n.
A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.
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buskined
a.
Trodden by buskins; pertaining to tragedy.
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bear
v.i.
To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
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bottony
a.
Alt. of Bottone
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byssolite
n.
An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende.
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belittle
v.t.
To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.
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beamless
a.
Not emitting light.
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backslide
v.i.
To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
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bricked
imp.|p.p.
of Brick
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bubble shell

A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.
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belibel
v.t.
To libel or traduce; to calumniate.
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blockheaded
a.
Stupid; dull.
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blemish
n.
Any mark of deformity or injury, whether physical or moral; anything that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which is otherwise well formed; that which impairs reputation.
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breath
n.
A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant.
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beduck
v.t.
To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse.
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boil
v.t.
To steep or soak in warm water.
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bubbly
a.
Abounding in bubbles; bubbling.
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biflagellate
a.
Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.
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bite
v.i.
To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.
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burnish
a.
To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper.
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bank
n.
The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank.
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body
n.
The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.
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bonefish
n.
See Ladyfish.
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bearing
n.
The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
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battering train

A train of artillery for siege operations.
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brace
v.t.
To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves.
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besetter
n.
One who, or that which, besets.
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bourne
v.
A stream or rivulet; a burn.
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