INSERT INTO `entries` VALUES ('Babble','v. i.','To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water\n   running over stones.'),('Babble','v. i.','To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat,\n   as words, in a childish way without understanding.'),('Babble','v. i.','To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.'),('Babble','n.','Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.'),('Babble','n.','Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.'),('Babblement','n.','Babble.'),('Babbler','n.','An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets.'),('Babbler','n.','A hound too noisy on finding a good scent.'),('Babbler','n.','A name given to any one of family (Timalinae) of\n   thrushlike birds, having a chattering note.'),('Babblery','n.','Babble.'),('Babe','n.','An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.'),('Babe','n.','A doll for children.'),('Babehood','n.','Babyhood.'),('Babel','n.','The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the\n   confusion of languages took place.'),('Babel','n.','Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused\n   mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.'),('Babery','n.','Finery of a kind to please a child.'),('Babian','n.','Alt. of Babion'),('Babion','n.','A baboon.'),('Babillard','n.','The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also\n   babbling warbler.'),('Babingtonite','n.','A mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching\n   pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of\n   iron, manganese, and lime.'),('Babiroussa','n.','Alt. of Babirussa'),('Babirussa','n.','A large hoglike quadruped (Sus, / Porcus, babirussa) of\n   the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper\n   canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved.'),('Babish','a.','Like a babe; a childish; babyish.'),('Babism','n.','The doctrine of a modern religious sect, which originated\n   in Persia in 1843, being a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish and\n   Parsee elements.'),('Babist','n.','A believer in Babism.'),('Bablah','n.','The ring of the fruit of several East Indian species of\n   acacia; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for\n   dyeing drab.'),('Baboo','n.','Alt. of Babu'),('Babu','n.','A Hindoo gentleman; a native clerk who writes English; also,\n   a Hindoo title answering to Mr. or Esquire.'),('Baboon','n.','One of the Old World Quadrumana, of the genera Cynocephalus\n   and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large\n   canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the\n   buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill\n   an ape.'),('Baboonery','n.','Baboonish behavior.'),('Baboonish','a.','Like a baboon.'),('Babies','pl. ','of Baby'),('Baby','n.','An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.'),('Baby','n.','A small image of an infant; a doll.'),('Baby','a.','Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as,\n   baby swans.'),('Babied','imp. & p. p.','of Baby'),('Babying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Baby'),('Baby','v. i.','To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor;\n   to fondle.'),('Baby farm','','A place where the nourishment and care of babies are\n   offered for hire.'),('Baby farmer','','One who keeps a baby farm.'),('Baby farming','','The business of keeping a baby farm.'),('Babyhood','n.','The state or period of infancy.'),('Babyhouse','a.','A place for children\'s dolls and dolls\' furniture.'),('Babyish','a.','Like a baby; childish; puerile; simple.'),('Babyism','n.','The state of being a baby.'),('Babyism','n.','A babyish manner of acting or speaking.'),('Baby jumper','','A hoop suspended by an elastic strap, in which a young\n   child may be held secure while amusing itself by jumping on the floor.'),('Babylonian','a.','Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical\n   Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean.'),('Babylonian','n.','An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a\n   Chaldean.'),('Babylonian','n.','An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were\n   remarkable for the study of astrology.'),('Babylonic','a.','Alt. of Babylonical'),('Babylonical','a.','Pertaining to Babylon, or made there; as, Babylonic\n   garments, carpets, or hangings.'),('Babylonical','a.','Tumultuous; disorderly.'),('Babylonish','n.','Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia.'),('Babylonish','n.','Pertaining to the Babylon of Revelation xiv. 8.'),('Babylonish','n.','Pertaining to Rome and papal power.'),('Babylonish','n.','Confused; Babel-like.'),('Babyroussa','n.','Alt. of Babyrussa'),('Babyrussa','n.','See Babyroussa.'),('Babyship','n.','The quality of being a baby; the personality of an\n   infant.'),('Bac','n.','A broad, flatbottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.'),('Bac','n.','A vat or cistern. See 1st Back.'),('Baccalaureate','n.','The degree of bachelor of arts. (B.A. or A.B.), the\n   first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and\n   colleges.'),('Baccalaureate','n.','A baccalaureate sermon.'),('Baccalaureate','a.','Pertaining to a bachelor of arts.'),('Baccara','n.','Alt. of Baccarat'),('Baccarat','n.','A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.'),('Baccare','interj.','Alt. of Backare'),('Backare','interj.','Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the\n   Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended\n   to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess.'),('Baccate','a.','Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits.'),('Baccated','a.','Having many berries.'),('Baccated','a.','Set or adorned with pearls.'),('Bacchanal','a.','Relating to Bacchus or his festival.'),('Bacchanal','a.','Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.'),('Bacchanal','n.','A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken\n   revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser.'),('Bacchanal','n.','The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.'),('Bacchanal','n.','Drunken revelry; an orgy.'),('Bacchanal','n.','A song or dance in honor of Bacchus.'),('Bacchanalia','n. pl.','A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.'),('Bacchanalia','n. pl.','Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler.'),('Bacchanalian','a.','Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating\n   to or given to reveling and drunkenness.'),('Bacchanalian','n.','A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.'),('Bacchanalianism','n.','The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken\n   revelry.'),('Bacchants','pl. ','of Bacchant'),('Bacchantes','pl. ','of Bacchant'),('Bacchant','n.','A priest of Bacchus.'),('Bacchant','n.','A bacchanal; a reveler.'),('Bacchant','a.','Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving;\n   reveling; carousing.'),('Bacchantes','pl. ','of Bacchante'),('Bacchante','n.','A priestess of Bacchus.'),('Bacchante','n.','A female bacchanal.'),('Bacchantic','a.','Bacchanalian.'),('Bacchic','a.','Alt. of Bacchical'),('Bacchical','a.','Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or\n   riotous,with intoxication.'),('Bacchii','pl. ','of Bacchius'),('Bacchius','n.','A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long\n   ones; according to some, two long and a short.'),('Bacchus','n.','The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.'),('Bacciferous','a.','Producing berries.'),('Bacciform','a.','Having the form of a berry.'),('Baccivorous','a.','Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous\n   birds.'),('Bace','n., a., & v.','See Base.'),('Bacharach','n.','Alt. of Backarack'),('Backarack','n.','A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.'),('Bachelor','n.','A man of any age who has not been married.'),('Bachelor','n.','An unmarried woman.'),('Bachelor','n.','A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the\n   liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university;\n   as, a bachelor of arts.'),('Bachelor','n.','A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under\n   the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight.'),('Bachelor','n.','In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet\n   admitted to wear the livery; a junior member.'),('Bachelor','n.','A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys\n   annularis) of the southern United States.'),('Bachelordom','n.','The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of\n   bachelors.'),('Bachelorhood','n.','The state or condition of being a bachelor;\n   bachelorship.'),('Bachelorism','n.','Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging\n   to bachelors.'),('Bachelor\'s button','','A plant with flowers shaped like buttons;\n   especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower\n   (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena).'),('Bachelorship','n.','The state of being a bachelor.'),('Bachelry','n.','The body of young aspirants for knighthood.'),('Bacillar','a.','Shaped like a rod or staff.'),('Bacillariae','n. pl.','See Diatom.'),('Bacillary','a.','Of or pertaining to little rods; rod-shaped.'),('Bacilliform','a.','Rod-shaped.'),('Bacilli','pl. ','of Bacillus'),('Bacillus','n.','A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped\n   vegetable organism.'),('Back','n.','A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by\n   brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for\n   mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.'),('Back','n.','A ferryboat. See Bac, 1.'),('Back','n.','In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from\n   the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the\n   body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as,\n   the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.'),('Back','n.','An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge.'),('Back','n.','The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner\n   or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back\n   of a hand rail.'),('Back','n.','The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a\n   thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a\n   chimney.'),('Back','n.','The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts\n   the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen;\n   as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.'),('Back','n.','The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its\n   edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.'),('Back','n.','A support or resource in reserve.'),('Back','n.','The keel and keelson of a ship.'),('Back','n.','The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal\n   underground passage.'),('Back','n.','A garment for the back; hence, clothing.'),('Back','a.','Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the\n   back door; back settlements.'),('Back','a.','Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent.'),('Back','a.','Moving or operating backward; as, back action.'),('Backed','imp. & p. p.','of Back'),('Backing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Back'),('Back','v. i.','To get upon the back of; to mount.'),('Back','v. i.','To place or seat upon the back.'),('Back','v. i.','To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede;\n   as, to back oxen.'),('Back','v. i.','To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back\n   books.'),('Back','v. i.','To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.'),('Back','v. i.','To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to\n   indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.'),('Back','v. i.','To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or\n   influence; as, to back a friend.'),('Back','v. i.','To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.'),('Back','v. i.','To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.'),('Back','v. i.','To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite\n   to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.'),('Back','v. i.','To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; --\n   said of a dog.'),('Back','adv.','In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step\n   back.'),('Back','adv.','To the place from which one came; to the place or person\n   from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something\n   left behind; to go back to one\'s native place; to put a book back after\n   reading it.'),('Back','adv.','To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to\n   private life; to go back to barbarism.'),('Back','adv.','(Of time) In times past; ago.'),('Back','adv.','Away from contact; by reverse movement.'),('Back','adv.','In concealment or reserve; in one\'s own possession; as, to\n   keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.'),('Back','adv.','In a state of restraint or hindrance.'),('Back','adv.','In return, repayment, or requital.'),('Back','adv.','In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking;\n   as, he took back0 the offensive words.'),('Back','adv.','In arrear; as, to be back in one\'s rent.'),('Backarack','n.','See Bacharach.'),('Backare','interj.','Same as Baccare.'),('Backband','n.','The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds\n   up the shafts of a carriage.'),('Backbite','v. i.','To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly\n   or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one\n   absent).'),('Backbite','v. i.','To censure or revile the absent.'),('Backbiter','n.','One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.'),('Backbiting','n.','Secret slander; detraction.'),('Backboard','n.','A board which supports the back wen one is sitting;'),('Backboard','n.','A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a\n   wagon.'),('Backboard','n.','A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures,\n   mirrors, etc.'),('Backboard','n.','A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent\n   the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of\n   the wheel.'),('Backboard','n.','A board worn across the back to give erectness to the\n   figure.'),('Backbond','n.','An instrument which, in conjunction with another making\n   an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust.'),('Backbone','n.','The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives\n   firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.'),('Backbone','n.','Anything like , or serving the purpose of, a backbone.'),('Backbone','n.','Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness.'),('Backboned','a.','Vertebrate.'),('Backcast','n.','Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes\n   failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse.'),('Back door','','A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect\n   way.'),('Backdoor','a.','Acting from behind and in concealment; as, backdoor\n   intrigues.'),('Backdown','n.','A receding or giving up; a complete surrender.'),('Backed','a.','Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype\n   or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad-backed;\n   hump-backed.'),('Backer','n.','One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a\n   person or thing in a contest.'),('Backfall','n.','A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.'),('Backfriend','n.','A secret enemy.'),('Backgammon','n.','A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a\n   \"board\" marked off into twenty-four spaces called \"points\". Each player\n   has fifteen pieces, or \"men\", the movements of which from point to\n   point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables.'),('Backgammon','v. i.','In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the\n   game before the loser is clear of his first \"table\".'),('Background','n.','Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as\n   opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.'),('Background','n.','The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait\n   or group of figures.'),('Background','n.','Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had\n   a background of red hangings.'),('Background','n.','A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight.'),('Backhand','n.','A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the\n   letters is from left to right.'),('Backhand','a.','Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting.'),('Backhand','a.','Backhanded; indirect; oblique.'),('Backhanded','a.','With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow.'),('Backhanded','a.','Indirect; awkward; insincere; sarcastic; as, a\n   backhanded compliment.'),('Backhanded','a.','Turned back, or inclining to the left; as, a backhanded\n   letters.'),('Backhandedness','n.','State of being backhanded; the using of backhanded\n   or indirect methods.'),('Backhander','n.','A backhanded blow.'),('Backhouse','n.','A building behind the main building. Specifically: A\n   privy; a necessary.'),('Backing','n.','The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving\n   anything backward.'),('Backing','n.','That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything,\n   usually giving strength or stability.'),('Backing','n.','Support or aid given to a person or cause.'),('Backing','n.','The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc.,\n   before putting on the cover.'),('Backjoint','n.','A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent\n   slab or other filling.'),('Backlash','n.','The distance through which one part of connected\n   machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving\n   the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear;\n   also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by\n   irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.'),('Backless','a.','Without a back.'),('Backlog','n.','A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the\n   hearth.'),('Backpiece','n.','Alt. of Backplate'),('Backplate','n.','A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or\n   which covers the back; armor for the back.'),('Backrack','n.','Alt. of Backrag'),('Backrag','n.','See Bacharach.'),('Backs','n. pl.','Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned\n   hides.'),('Backsaw','n.','A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an\n   added metallic back.'),('Backset','n.','A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.'),('Backset','n.','Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water.'),('Backset','v. i.','To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land\n   broken up in the spring.'),('Backsettler','n.','One living in the back or outlying districts of a\n   community.'),('Backsheesh','n.','Alt. of Backshish'),('Backshish','n.','In Egypt and the Turkish empire, a gratuity; a \"tip\".'),('Backside','n.','The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or\n   animal.'),('Backsight','n.','The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged\n   position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position;\n   a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf.\n   Foresight, n., 3.'),('Backslid','imp.','of Backslide'),('Backslidden','p. p.','of Backslide'),('Backslid','','of Backslide'),('Backsliding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Backslide'),('Backslide','v. i.','To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon\n   gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.'),('Backslider','n.','One who backslides.'),('Backsliding','a.','Slipping back; falling back into sin or error;\n   sinning.'),('Backsliding','n.','The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or\n   duty.'),('Backstaff','n.','An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of\n   the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; --\n   so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed.'),('Back stairs','','Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished\n   from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.'),('Backstairs','a.','Alt. of Backstair'),('Backstair','a.','Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding\n   access by the back stairs.'),('Backstay','n.','A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of\n   a ship, slanting a little aft, to assist the shrouds in supporting the\n   mast.'),('Backstay','n.','A rope or strap used to prevent excessive forward motion.'),('Backster','n.','A backer.'),('Backstitch','n.','A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of\n   the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.'),('Backstitch','v. i.','To sew with backstitches; as, to backstitch a seam.'),('Backstress','n.','A female baker.'),('Backsword','n.','A sword with one sharp edge.'),('Backsword','n.','In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic\n   amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called\n   singlestick.'),('Backward','adv.','Alt. of Backwards'),('Backwards','adv.','With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride\n   backward.'),('Backwards','adv.','Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the\n   arms backward.'),('Backwards','adv.','On the back, or with the back downward.'),('Backwards','adv.','Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.'),('Backwards','adv.','By way of reflection; reflexively.'),('Backwards','adv.','From a better to a worse state, as from honor to\n   shame, from religion to sin.'),('Backwards','adv.','In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction;\n   contrarily; as, to read backwards.'),('Backward','a.','Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances.'),('Backward','a.','Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath.'),('Backward','a.','Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension;\n   dull; inapt; as, a backward child.'),('Backward','a.','Late or behindhand; as, a backward season.'),('Backward','a.','Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the\n   country or region is in a backward state.'),('Backward','a.','Already past or gone; bygone.'),('Backward','n.','The state behind or past.'),('Backward','v. i.','To keep back; to hinder.'),('Backwardation','n.','The seller\'s postponement of delivery of stock or\n   shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the\n   latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango.'),('Backwardly','adv.','Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.'),('Backwardly','adv.','Perversely; ill.'),('Backwardness','n.','The state of being backward.'),('Backwash','v. i.','To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.'),('Backwater','n.','Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an\n   opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river\n   channel, or across a river bar.'),('Backwater','n.','An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands,\n   caused by an obstruction.'),('Backwater','n.','Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by\n   the paddle wheels of a steamer.'),('Backwoods','n. pl.','The forests or partly cleared grounds on the\n   frontiers.'),('Backwoodsmen','pl. ','of Backwoodsman'),('Backwoodsman','n.','A man living in the forest in or beyond the new\n   settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions\n   of the United States.'),('Backworm','n.','A disease of hawks. See Filanders.'),('Bacon','n.','The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the\n   flesh of a pig salted or fresh.'),('Baconian','a.','Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of\n   philosophy.'),('Bacteria','n.p.','See Bacterium.'),('Bacterial','a.','Of or pertaining to bacteria.'),('Bactericidal','a.','Destructive of bacteria.'),('Bactericide','n.','Same as Germicide.'),('Bacteriological','a.','Of or pertaining to bacteriology; as,\n   bacteriological studies.'),('Bacteriologist','n.','One skilled in bacteriology.'),('Bacteriology','n.','The science relating to bacteria.'),('Bacterioscopic','a.','Relating to bacterioscopy; as, a bacterioscopic\n   examination.'),('Bacterioscopist','n.','One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations.'),('Bacterioscopy','n.','The application of a knowledge of bacteria for their\n   detection and identification, as in the examination of polluted water.'),('Bacteria','pl. ','of Bacterium'),('Bacterium','n.','A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class\n   Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in\n   putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll,\n   and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely\n   diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by\n   fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in\n   fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious\n   diseases. See Bacillus.'),('Bacteroid','a.','Alt. of Bacteroidal'),('Bacteroidal','a.','Resembling bacteria; as, bacteroid particles.'),('Bactrian','a.','Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia.'),('Bactrian','n.','A native of Bactria.'),('Bacule','n.','See Bascule.'),('Baculine','a.','Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod.'),('Baculite','n.','A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil\n   in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.'),('Baculometry','n.','Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff or\n   staffs.'),('Bad','imp.','Bade.'),('Bad','superl.','Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral;\n   injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or\n   defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the\n   opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad\n   health; bad crop; bad news.'),('Badder','','compar. of Bad, a.'),('Badderlocks','n.','A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes\n   eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.'),('Baddish','a.','Somewhat bad; inferior.'),('Bade','','A form of the pat tense of Bid.'),('Badge','n.','A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the\n   person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.'),('Badge','n.','Something characteristic; a mark; a token.'),('Badge','n.','A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a\n   window or the representation of one.'),('Badge','v. t.','To mark or distinguish with a badge.'),('Badgeless','a.','Having no badge.'),('Badger','n.','An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food;\n   a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought\n   grain in one place and sold it in another.'),('Badger','n.','A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied\n   genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws\n   on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock,\n   inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea\n   Americana / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America.\n   See Teledu.'),('Badger','n.','A brush made of badgers\' hair, used by artists.'),('Badgered','imp. & p. p.','of Badger'),('Badgering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Badger'),('Badger','v. t.','To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or\n   irritate persistently.'),('Badger','v. t.','To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.'),('Badgerer','n.','One who badgers.'),('Badgerer','n.','A kind of dog used in badger baiting.'),('Badgering','n.','The act of one who badgers.'),('Badgering','n.','The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in\n   one place and selling them in another for a profit.'),('Badger-legged','a.','Having legs of unequal length, as the badger was\n   thought to have.'),('Badiaga','n.','A fresh-water sponge (Spongilla), common in the north of\n   Europe, the powder of which is used to take away the livid marks of\n   bruises.'),('Badian','n.','An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium\n   anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise.'),('Badigeon','n.','A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of\n   sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in\n   wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.'),('Badinage','n.','Playful raillery; banter.'),('Bad lands','','Barren regions, especially in the western United States,\n   where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into\n   fantastic forms, and much intersected by caons, and where lack of wood,\n   water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country,\n   whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres\n   (bad lands).'),('Badly','adv.','In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully;\n   imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm;\n   disagreeably; seriously.'),('Badminton','n.','A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with\n   shuttlecocks.'),('Badminton','n.','A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.'),('Badness','n.','The state of being bad.'),('Baenomere','n.','One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax\n   of Arthropods.'),('Baenopod','n.','One of the thoracic legs of Arthropods.'),('Baenosome','n.','The thorax of Arthropods.'),('Baff','n.','A blow; a stroke.'),('Baffled','imp. & p. p.','of Baffle'),('Baffling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Baffle'),('Baffle','v. t.','To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a\n   recreant knight.'),('Baffle','v. t.','To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.'),('Baffle','v. t.','To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or\n   defeat; to thwart.'),('Baffle','v. i.','To practice deceit.'),('Baffle','v. i.','To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the\n   winds.'),('Baffle','n.','A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.'),('Bafflement','n.','The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled;\n   frustration; check.'),('Baffler','n.','One who, or that which, baffles.'),('Baffling','a.','Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling\n   currents, winds, tasks.'),('Baft','n.','Same as Bafta.'),('Bafta','n.','A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India.\n   Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.'),('Bag','n.','A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal\n   or of money.'),('Bag','n.','A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some\n   fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some\n   serpents; the bag of a cow.'),('Bag','n.','A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men\'s hair behind,\n   by way of ornament.'),('Bag','n.','The quantity of game bagged.'),('Bag','n.','A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to\n   carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of\n   coffee.'),('Bagged','imp. & p. p.','of Bag'),('Bagging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bag'),('Bag','v. t.','To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.'),('Bag','v. t.','To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag\n   game.'),('Bag','v. t.','To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.'),('Bag','v. i.','To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags\n   from containing morbid matter.'),('Bag','v. i.','To swell with arrogance.'),('Bag','v. i.','To become pregnant.'),('Bagasse','n.','Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. It is then\n   dried and used as fuel. Also extended to the refuse of beetroot sugar.'),('Bagatelle','n.','A trifle; a thing of no importance.'),('Bagatelle','n.','A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end,\n   cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod\n   held in the hand of the player.'),('Baggage','n.','The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.'),('Baggage','n.','The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler\n   carries with him on a journey; luggage.'),('Baggage','n.','Purulent matter.'),('Baggage','n.','Trashy talk.'),('Baggage','n.','A man of bad character.'),('Baggage','n.','A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.'),('Baggage','n.','A romping, saucy girl.'),('Baggage master','','One who has charge of the baggage at a railway\n   station or upon a line of public travel.'),('Baggager','n.','One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower.'),('Baggala','n.','A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian\n   Ocean.'),('Baggily','adv.','In a loose, baggy way.'),('Bagging','n.','Cloth or other material for bags.'),('Bagging','n.','The act of putting anything into, or as into, a bag.'),('Bagging','n.','The act of swelling; swelling.'),('Bagging','n.','Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke.'),('Baggy','a.','Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a\n   bag; flabby; as, baggy trousers; baggy cheeks.'),('Bagmen','pl. ','of Bagman'),('Bagman','n.','A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for\n   manufacturers and tradesmen.'),('Bag net','','A bag-shaped net for catching fish.'),('Bagnio','n.','A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a\n   prison for slaves.'),('Bagnio','n.','A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution.'),('Bagpipe','n.','A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the\n   Highlands of Scotland.'),('Bagpipe','v. t.','To make to look like a bagpipe.'),('Bagpiper','n.','One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper.'),('Bagreef','n.','The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef\n   of topsails.'),('Bague','n.','The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long\n   shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.'),('Baguet','n.','Alt. of Baguette'),('Baguette','n.','A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.'),('Baguette','n.','One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of\n   some Infusoria after conjugation.'),('Bagwig','n.','A wig, in use in the 18th century, with the hair at the\n   back of the head in a bag.'),('Bagworm','n.','One of several lepidopterous insects which construct, in\n   the larval state, a baglike case which they carry about for protection.\n   One species (Platoeceticus Gloveri) feeds on the orange tree. See\n   Basket worm.'),('Bah','interj.','An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt.'),('Bahar','n.','A weight used in certain parts of the East Indies, varying\n   considerably in different localities, the range being from 223 to 625\n   pounds.'),('Baigne','v. i.','To soak or drench.'),('Bail','n.','A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.'),('Bailed','imp. & p. p.','of Bail'),('Bailing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bail'),('Bail','v. t.','To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to\n   bail water out of a boat.'),('Bail','v. t.','To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express\n   completeness; as, to bail a boat.'),('Bail','v./t.','To deliver; to release.'),('Bail','v./t.','To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on\n   the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be\n   responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the\n   person bailed.'),('Bail','v./t.','To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or\n   purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be\n   faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as,\n   to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a\n   carrier.'),('Bail','n.','Custody; keeping.'),('Bail','n.','The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner\n   from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming\n   surely for his appearance in court.'),('Bail','n.','The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order\n   to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out\n   on bail; to go bail for any one.'),('Bail','n.','The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel,\n   usually movable.'),('Bail','n.','A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier\'s wagon,\n   awning of a boat, etc.'),('Bail','n.','A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.'),('Bail','n.','The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed\n   by it; the outer court.'),('Bail','n.','A certain limit within a forest.'),('Bail','n.','A division for the stalls of an open stable.'),('Bail','n.','The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces)\n   of the wicket.'),('Bailable','a.','Having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail,\n   upon bond with sureties; -- used of persons.'),('Bailable','a.','Admitting of bail; as, a bailable offense.'),('Bailable','a.','That can be delivered in trust; as, bailable goods.'),('Bail bond','','A bond or obligation given by a prisoner and his surety,\n   to insure the prisoner\'s appearance in court, at the return of the\n   writ.'),('Bail bond','','Special bail in court to abide the judgment.'),('Bailee','n.','The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who\n   has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the\n   purposes of the trust.'),('Bailer','n.','See Bailor.'),('Bailer','n.','One who bails or lades.'),('Bailer','n.','A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine\n   for bailing water out of a pit.'),('Bailey','n.','The outer wall of a feudal castle.'),('Bailey','n.','The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or\n   fortress.'),('Bailey','n.','A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper\n   names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester.'),('Bailie','n.','An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded\n   to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman.'),('Bailiff','n.','Originally, a person put in charge of something\n   especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county,\n   town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are\n   intrusted.'),('Bailiff','n.','A sheriff\'s deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect\n   fines, summon juries, etc.'),('Bailiff','n.','An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs\n   husbandry operations, collects rents, etc.'),('Bailiffwick','n.','See Bailiwick.'),('Bailiwick','n.','The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction;\n   the limits of a bailiff\'s authority.'),('Baillie','n.','Bailiff.'),('Baillie','n.','Same as Bailie.'),('Bailment','n.','The action of bailing a person accused.'),('Bailment','n.','A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in\n   trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied,\n   that the trust shall be faithfully executed.'),('Bailor','n.','One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.'),('Bailpiece','n.','A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a\n   recognizance or bail bond.'),('Bain','n.','A bath; a bagnio.'),('Bain-marie','n.','A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel\n   may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or\n   preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.'),('Bairam','n.','The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held\n   at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days\n   after the fast.'),('Bairn','n.','A child.'),('Baisemains','n. pl.','Respects; compliments.'),('Bait','v. i.','Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other\n   animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.'),('Bait','v. i.','Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.'),('Bait','v. i.','A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a\n   journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.'),('Bait','v. i.','A light or hasty luncheon.'),('Baited','imp. & p. p.','of Bait'),('Baiting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bait'),('Bait','v. t.','To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for\n   sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.'),('Bait','v. t.','To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as,\n   to bait horses.'),('Bait','v. t.','To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook.'),('Bait','v. i.','To stop to take a portion of food and drink for\n   refreshment of one\'s self or one\'s beasts, on a journey.'),('Bait','v. i.','To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover,\n   as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.'),('Baiter','n.','One who baits; a tormentor.'),('Baize','n.','A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in\n   plain colors.'),('Bajocco','n.','A small copper coin formerly current in the Roman States,\n   worth about a cent and a half.'),('Baked','imp. & p. p.','of Bake'),('Baking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bake'),('Bake','v. t.','To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in\n   an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread,\n   meat, apples.'),('Bake','v. t.','To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to\n   bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.'),('Bake','v. t.','To harden by cold.'),('Bake','v. i.','To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes,\n   and bakes.'),('Bake','v. i.','To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread\n   bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.'),('Bake','n.','The process, or result, of baking.'),('Bakehouse','v. t.','A house for baking; a bakery.'),('Bakemeat','n.','Alt. of Baked-meat'),('Baked-meat','n.','A pie; baked food.'),('Baken','','p. p. of Bake.'),('Baker','v. i.','One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.'),('Baker','v. i.','A portable oven in which baking is done.'),('Baker-legged','a.','Having legs that bend inward at the knees.'),('Bakery','n.','The trade of a baker.'),('Bakery','n.','The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.'),('Baking','n.','The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and\n   hardening by heat or cold.'),('Baking','n.','The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread.'),('Bakingly','adv.','In a hot or baking manner.'),('Bakistre','n.','A baker.'),('Baksheesh','n.','Alt. of Bakshish'),('Bakshish','n.','Same as Backsheesh.'),('Balaam','n.','A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill\n   out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam\'s ass\n   speaking.'),('Balachong','n.','A condiment formed of small fishes or shrimps, pounded\n   up with salt and spices, and then dried. It is much esteemed in China.'),('Balaenoidea','n.','A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale\n   and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen.'),('Balance','n.','An apparatus for weighing.'),('Balance','n.','Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.'),('Balance','n.','Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.'),('Balance','n.','The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even\n   adjustment; steadiness.'),('Balance','n.','An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an\n   account; as, to bring one\'s accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess\n   on either side; as, the balance of an account.'),('Balance','n.','A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance\n   wheel (in the Vocabulary).'),('Balance','n.','The constellation Libra.'),('Balance','n.','The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the\n   sun enters at the equinox in September.'),('Balance','n.','A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S.'),('Balanced','imp. & p. p.','of Balance'),('Balancing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Balance'),('Balance','n.','To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by\n   adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance.'),('Balance','n.','To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling;\n   as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one\'s self on a\n   tight rope.'),('Balance','n.','To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to\n   counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.'),('Balance','n.','To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to\n   estimate.'),('Balance','n.','To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts\n   equal by paying the difference between them.'),('Balance','n.','To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account\n   equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the\n   account.'),('Balance','n.','To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of\n   the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a\n   set of books.'),('Balance','n.','To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to\n   balance partners.'),('Balance','n.','To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to\n   balance the boom mainsail.'),('Balance','v. i.','To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise;\n   as, the scales balance.'),('Balance','v. i.','To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal\n   force; to waver; to hesitate.'),('Balance','v. i.','To move toward a person or couple, and then back.'),('Balanceable','a.','Such as can be balanced.'),('Balancement','n.','The act or result of balancing or adjusting;\n   equipoise; even adjustment of forces.'),('Balancer','n.','One who balances, or uses a balance.'),('Balancer','n.','In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing.'),('Balancereef','n.','The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady\n   the ship.'),('Balance wheel','','A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch\n   or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called\n   simply a balance.'),('Balance wheel','','A ratchet-shaped scape wheel, which in some watches is\n   acted upon by the axis of the balance wheel proper (in those watches\n   called a balance).'),('Balance wheel','','A wheel which imparts regularity to the movements of\n   any engine or machine; a fly wheel.'),('Balaniferous','a.','Bearing or producing acorns.'),('Balanite','n.','A fossil balanoid shell.'),('Balanoglossus','n.','A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and\n   Tornaria.'),('Balanoid','a.','Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles\n   having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle.'),('Balas ruby','','A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or\n   inclining to orange. See Spinel.'),('Balaustine','n.','The pomegranate tree (Punica granatum). The bark of the\n   root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally.'),('Balbutiate','v. i.','Alt. of Balbucinate'),('Balbucinate','v. i.','To stammer.'),('Balbuties','n.','The defect of stammering; also, a kind of incomplete\n   pronunciation.'),('Balcon','n.','A balcony.'),('Balconied','a.','Having balconies.'),('Balconies','pl. ','of Balcony'),('Balcony','n.','A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually\n   resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a\n   balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of\n   amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.'),('Balcony','n.','A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large\n   ships.'),('Bald','a.','Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or\n   top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a\n   bald oak.'),('Bald','a.','Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal.'),('Bald','a.','Undisguised.'),('Bald','a.','Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean.'),('Bald','a.','Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.'),('Bald','a.','Destitute of the natural covering.'),('Bald','a.','Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced.'),('Baldachin','n.','A rich brocade; baudekin.'),('Baldachin','n.','A structure in form of a canopy, sometimes supported by\n   columns, and sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from the\n   wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter\'s.'),('Baldachin','n.','A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in\n   procession.'),('Bald eagle','','The white-headed eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) of\n   America. The young, until several years old, lack the white feathers on\n   the head.'),('Balder','n.','The most beautiful and beloved of the gods; the god of\n   peace; the son of Odin and Freya.'),('Balderdash','n.','A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.'),('Balderdash','n.','Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.'),('Balderdash','v. t.','To mix or adulterate, as liquors.'),('Bald-faced','a.','Having a white face or a white mark on the face, as a\n   stag.'),('Baldhead','n.','A person whose head is bald.'),('Baldhead','n.','A white-headed variety of pigeon.'),('Baldheaded','a.','Having a bald head.'),('Baldly','adv.','Nakedly; without reserve; inelegantly.'),('Baldness','n.','The state or condition of being bald; as, baldness of the\n   head; baldness of style.'),('Baldpate','n.','A baldheaded person.'),('Baldpate','n.','The American widgeon (Anas Americana).'),('Baldpate','a.','Alt. of Baldpated'),('Baldpated','a.','Destitute of hair on the head; baldheaded.'),('Baldrib','n.','A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and\n   destitute of fat.'),('Baldric','n.','A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one\n   shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly,\n   any belt.'),('Baldwin','n.','A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple.'),('Bale','n.','A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for\n   storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw / hay, etc., put up\n   compactly for transportation.'),('Baled','imp. & p. p.','of Bale'),('Baling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bale'),('Bale','v. t.','To make up in a bale.'),('Bale','v. t.','See Bail, v. t., to lade.'),('Bale','n.','Misery; calamity; misfortune; sorrow.'),('Bale','n.','Evil; an evil, pernicious influence; something causing great\n   injury.'),('Balearic','a.','Of or pertaining to the isles of Majorca, Minorca, Ivica,\n   etc., in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Valencia.'),('Baleen','n.','Plates or blades of \"whalebone,\" from two to twelve feet\n   long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea)\n   are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike\n   sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.'),('Balefire','n.','A signal fire; an alarm fire.'),('Baleful','a.','Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.'),('Baleful','a.','Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad.'),('Balefully','adv.','In a baleful manner; perniciously.'),('Balefulness','n.','The quality or state of being baleful.'),('Balisaur','n.','A badgerlike animal of India (Arcionyx collaris).'),('Balister','n.','A crossbow.'),('Balistoid','a.','Like a fish of the genus Balistes; of the family\n   Balistidae. See Filefish.'),('Balistraria','n.','A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which\n   arrows might be discharged.'),('Balize','n.','A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark.'),('Balk','v. i.','A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the\n   end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside.'),('Balk','v. i.','A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a\n   house. The loft above was called \"the balks.\"'),('Balk','v. i.','One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a\n   trestle bridge or bateau bridge.'),('Balk','v. i.','A hindrance or disappointment; a check.'),('Balk','v. i.','A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.'),('Balk','v. i.','A deceptive gesture of the pitcher, as if to deliver the\n   ball.'),('Balked','imp. & p. p.','of Balk'),('Balking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Balk'),('Balk','v. t.','To leave or make balks in.'),('Balk','v. t.','To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.'),('Balk','v. t.','To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.'),('Balk','v. t.','To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to\n   let go by; to shirk.'),('Balk','v. t.','To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to\n   /hwart; as, to balk expectation.'),('Balk','v. i.','To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.'),('Balk','v. i.','To stop abruptly and stand still obstinately; to jib; to\n   stop short; to swerve; as, the horse balks.'),('Balk','v. i.','To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore,\n   the direction taken by the shoals of herring.'),('Balker','n.','One who, or that which balks.'),('Balker','n.','A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the\n   shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which\n   way they pass; a conder; a huer.'),('Balkingly','adv.','In a manner to balk or frustrate.'),('Balkish','a.','Uneven; ridgy.'),('Balky','a.','Apt to balk; as, a balky horse.'),('Ball','n.','Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a\n   ball of twine; a ball of snow.'),('Ball','n.','A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with,\n   as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.'),('Ball','n.','A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked,\n   or knocked. See Baseball, and Football.'),('Ball','n.','Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of\n   lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a\n   rifle ball; -- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical\n   balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets.'),('Ball','n.','A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled\n   with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to\n   produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball.'),('Ball','n.','A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a\n   ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now\n   superseded by the roller.'),('Ball','n.','A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as,\n   the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.'),('Ball','n.','A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to\n   horses; a bolus.'),('Ball','n.','The globe or earth.'),('Balled','imp. & p. p.','of Ball'),('Balling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ball'),('Ball','v. i.','To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow\n   or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls.'),('Ball','v. t.','To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.'),('Ball','v. t.','To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.'),('Ball','n.','A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.'),('Ballad','n.','A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or\n   singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic\n   poem in short stanzas.'),('Ballad','v. i.','To make or sing ballads.'),('Ballad','v. t.','To make mention of in ballads.'),('Ballade','n.','A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in\n   English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of\n   eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the\n   whole poem with an envoy.'),('Ballader','n.','A writer of ballads.'),('Ballad monger','','A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster.'),('Balladry','n.','Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads.'),('Ballahoo','n.','Alt. of Ballahou'),('Ballahou','n.','A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West\n   Indies.'),('Ballarag','v. i.','To bully; to threaten.'),('Ballast','a.','Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the\n   hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent\n   capsizing.'),('Ballast','a.','Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it\n   steadiness.'),('Ballast','a.','Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad\n   to make it firm and solid.'),('Ballast','a.','The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in\n   making concrete.'),('Ballast','a.','Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness,\n   steadiness, and security.'),('Ballasted','imp. & p. p.','of Ballast'),('Ballasting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ballast'),('Ballast','v. t.','To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in\n   the hold.'),('Ballast','v. t.','To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel,\n   stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.'),('Ballast','v. t.','To keep steady; to steady, morally.'),('Ballastage','n.','A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a\n   port or harbor.'),('Ballasting','n.','That which is used for steadying anything; ballast.'),('Ballatry','n.','See Balladry.'),('Ballet','n.','An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment,\n   or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a\n   scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.'),('Ballet','n.','The company of persons who perform the ballet.'),('Ballet','n.','A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or\n   chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.'),('Ballet','n.','A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls,\n   which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.'),('Ball-flower','n.','An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular\n   flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in\n   a hollow molding.'),('Ballist/','pl. ','of Ballista'),('Ballista','n.','An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow,\n   used for hurling large missiles.'),('Ballister','n.','A crossbow.'),('Ballistic','a.','Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of\n   hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.'),('Ballistic','a.','Pertaining to projection, or to a projectile.'),('Ballistics','n.','The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the\n   use of an engine.'),('Ballium','n.','See Bailey.'),('Balloon','n.','A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled\n   with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the\n   atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.'),('Balloon','n.','A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as\n   at St. Paul\'s, in London.'),('Balloon','n.','A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or\n   receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.'),('Balloon','n.','A bomb or shell.'),('Balloon','n.','A game played with a large inflated ball.'),('Balloon','n.','The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the\n   mouth of a pictured figure.'),('Balloon','v. t.','To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.'),('Balloon','v. i.','To go up or voyage in a balloon.'),('Balloon','v. i.','To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.'),('Ballooned','a.','Swelled out like a balloon.'),('Ballooner','n.','One who goes up in a balloon; an aeronaut.'),('Balloon fish','','A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon,\n   having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its\n   dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.'),('Ballooning','n.','The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in\n   them.'),('Ballooning','n.','The process of temporarily raising the value of a\n   stock, as by fictitious sales.'),('Ballooning spider','','A spider which has the habit of rising into the\n   air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by\n   ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries\n   the spider aloft.'),('Balloonist','n.','An aeronaut.'),('Balloonry','n.','The art or practice of ascending in a balloon;\n   aeronautics.'),('Ballot','n.','Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any\n   printed or written ticket used in voting.'),('Ballot','n.','The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or\n   tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.'),('Ballot','n.','The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a\n   given territory or electoral district.'),('Balloted','imp. & p. p.','of Ballot'),('Balloting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ballot'),('Ballot','n.','To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.'),('Ballot','v. t.','To vote for or in opposition to.'),('Ballotade','v. i.','A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a\n   straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only\n   the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out.'),('Ballotation','n.','Voting by ballot.'),('Balloter','n.','One who votes by ballot.'),('Ballotin','n.','An officer who has charge of a ballot box.'),('Ballow','n.','A cudgel.'),('Ballproof','a.','Incapable of being penetrated by balls from firearms.'),('Ballroom','n.','A room for balls or dancing.'),('Balm','n.','An aromatic plant of the genus Melissa.'),('Balm','n.','The resinous and aromatic exudation of certain trees or\n   shrubs.'),('Balm','n.','Any fragrant ointment.'),('Balm','n.','Anything that heals or that mitigates pain.'),('Balm','v. i.','To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal. Hence: To\n   soothe; to mitigate.'),('Balmify','v. t.','To render balmy.'),('Balmily','adv.','In a balmy manner.'),('Balmoral','n.','A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the\n   dress.'),('Balmoral','n.','A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front.'),('Balmy','a.','Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic;\n   assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild.'),('Balmy','a.','Producing balm.'),('Balneal','a.','Of or pertaining to a bath.'),('Balneary','n.','A bathing room.'),('Balneation','n.','The act of bathing.'),('Balneatory','a.','Belonging to a bath.'),('Balneography','n.','A description of baths.'),('Balneology','n.','A treatise on baths; the science of bathing.'),('Balneotherapy','n.','The treatment of disease by baths.'),('Balotade','n.','See Ballotade.'),('Balsa','n.','A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of\n   South America.'),('Balsam','n.','A resin containing more or less of an essential or volatile\n   oil.'),('Balsam','n.','A species of tree (Abies balsamea).'),('Balsam','n.','An annual garden plant (Impatiens balsamina) with beautiful\n   flowers; balsamine.'),('Balsam','n.','Anything that heals, soothes, or restores.'),('Balsam','v. t.','To treat or anoint with balsam; to relieve, as with\n   balsam; to render balsamic.'),('Balsamation','n.','The act of imparting balsamic properties.'),('Balsamation','n.','The art or process of embalming.'),('Balsamic','a.','Alt. of Balsamical'),('Balsamical','a.','Having the qualities of balsam; containing, or\n   resembling, balsam; soft; mitigative; soothing; restorative.'),('Balsamiferous','a.','Producing balsam.'),('Balsamine','n.','The Impatiens balsamina, or garden balsam.'),('Balsamous','a.','Having the quality of balsam; containing balsam.'),('Balter','v. t.','To stick together.'),('Baltic','a.','Of or pertaining to the sea which separates Norway and\n   Sweden from Jutland, Denmark, and Germany; situated on the Baltic Sea.'),('Baltimore bird','','Alt. of Baltimore oriole'),('Baltimore oriole','','A common American bird (Icterus galbula), named\n   after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are\n   like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin.'),('Baluster','n.','A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail\n   of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a\n   gallery. See Balustrade.'),('Balustered','a.','Having balusters.'),('Balustrade','n.','A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open\n   parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or\n   the eaves of a building.'),('Bam','n.','An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.'),('Bam','v. t.','To cheat; to wheedle.'),('Bambino','n.','A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the\n   infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.'),('Bambino','n.','Babe Ruth.'),('Bambocciade','n.','A representation of a grotesque scene from common or\n   rustic life.'),('Bamboo','n.','A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa,\n   growing in tropical countries.'),('Bamboo','v. t.','To flog with the bamboo.'),('Bamboozled','imp. & p. p.','of Bamboozle'),('Bamboozling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bamboozle'),('Bamboozle','v. t.','To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the\n   senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug.'),('Bamboozler','n.','A swindler; one who deceives by trickery.'),('Ban','n.','A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice,\n   mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.'),('Ban','n.','A calling together of the king\'s (esp. the French king\'s)\n   vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled\n   or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most\n   effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the\n   standing army.'),('Ban','n.','Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns\n   (the common spelling in this sense).'),('Ban','n.','An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription.'),('Ban','n.','A curse or anathema.'),('Ban','n.','A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for\n   offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of\n   sacrilege or other crimes.'),('Banned','imp. & p. p.','of Ban'),('Banning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ban'),('Ban','v. t.','To curse; to invoke evil upon.'),('Ban','v. t.','To forbid; to interdict.'),('Ban','v. i.','To curse; to swear.'),('Ban','n.','An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of\n   Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.'),('Banal','a.','Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.'),('Banalities','pl. ','of Banality'),('Banality','n.','Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the\n   commonplace, in speech.'),('Banana','n.','A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa\n   sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.'),('Banat','n.','The territory governed by a ban.'),('Banc','n.','Alt. of Bank'),('Bancus','n.','Alt. of Bank'),('Bank','n.','A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a\n   tribunal or court.'),('Banco','n.','A bank, especially that of Venice.'),('Band','v. t.','A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing\n   is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied,\n   bound together, or confined; a fetter.'),('Band','v. t.','A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of\n   carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc.'),('Band','v. t.','In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings,\n   which encircles the pillars and small shafts.'),('Band','v. t.','That which serves as the means of union or connection\n   between persons; a tie.'),('Band','v. t.','A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th\n   centuries.'),('Band','v. t.','Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part\n   of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.'),('Band','v. t.','A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article\n   of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it.'),('Band','v. t.','A company of persons united in any common design,\n   especially a body of armed men.'),('Band','v. t.','A number of musicians who play together upon portable\n   musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain\n   wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals.'),('Band','v. t.','A space between elevated lines or ribs, as of the fruits\n   of umbelliferous plants.'),('Band','v. t.','A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of\n   the body.'),('Band','v. t.','A belt or strap.'),('Band','v. t.','A bond'),('Band','v. t.','Pledge; security.'),('Banded','imp. & p. p.','of Band'),('Banding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Band'),('Band','v. t.','To bind or tie with a band.'),('Band','v. t.','To mark with a band.'),('Band','v. t.','To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy.'),('Band','v. i.','To confederate for some common purpose; to unite; to\n   conspire together.'),('Band','v. t.','To bandy; to drive away.'),('Band','','imp. of Bind.'),('Bandage','n.','A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and\n   binding up wounds, etc.'),('Bandage','n.','Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over\n   or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature.'),('Bandaged','imp. & p. p.','of Bandage'),('Bandaging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bandage'),('Bandage','v. t.','To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to\n   bandage the eyes.'),('Bandala','n.','A fabric made in Manilla from the older leaf sheaths of\n   the abaca (Musa textilis).'),('Bandanna','n.','Alt. of Bandana'),('Bandana','n.','A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a\n   uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow\n   figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.'),('Bandana','n.','A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots\n   are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color,\n   by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest\n   of the cloth is under pressure.'),('Bandbox','n.','A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually\n   cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century),\n   collars, caps, bonnets, etc.'),('Bandeaux','pl. ','of Bandeau'),('Bandeau','n.','A narrow band or fillet; a part of a head-dress.'),('Bandelet','n.','Alt. of Bandlet'),('Bandlet','n.','A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding,\n   compassing a column, like a ring.'),('Bander','n.','One banded with others.'),('Banderole','n.','Alt. of Bandrol'),('Bandrol','n.','A little banner, flag, or streamer.'),('Band fish','','A small red fish of the genus Cepola; the ribbon fish.'),('Bandicoot','n.','A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in\n   India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.'),('Bandicoot','n.','A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several\n   species, found in Australia and Tasmania.'),('Banding plane','','A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying\n   strings and bands in straight and circular work.'),('Bandits','pl. ','of Bandit'),('Banditti','pl. ','of Bandit'),('Bandit','n.','An outlaw; a brigand.'),('Bandle','n.','An Irish measure of two feet in length.'),('Bandlet','n.','Same as Bandelet.'),('Bandmaster','n.','The conductor of a musical band.'),('Bandog','n.','A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept\n   chained or tied up.'),('Bandoleer','n.','Alt. of Bandolier'),('Bandolier','n.','A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the\n   right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it\n   was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but\n   later only as a cartridge belt.'),('Bandolier','n.','One of the leather or wooden cases in which the charges\n   of powder were carried.'),('Bandoline','n.','A glutinous pomatum for the fair.'),('Bandon','n.','Disposal; control; license.'),('Bandore','n.','A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a\n   guitar; a pandore.'),('Bandrol','n.','Same as Banderole.'),('Bandy','n.','A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by\n   bullocks.'),('Bandies','pl. ','of Bandy'),('Bandy','n.','A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a\n   hockey stick.'),('Bandy','n.','The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy\n   ball.'),('Bandied','imp. & p. p.','of Bandy'),('Bandying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bandy'),('Bandy','v. t.','To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.'),('Bandy','v. t.','To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.'),('Bandy','v. t.','To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate.'),('Bandy','v. i.','To content, as at some game in which each strives to\n   drive the ball his own way.'),('Bandy','a.','Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side\n   outward; as, a bandy leg.'),('Bandy-legged','a.','Having crooked legs.'),('Bane','n.','That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.'),('Bane','n.','Destruction; death.'),('Bane','n.','Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.'),('Bane','n.','A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.'),('Bane','v. t.','To be the bane of; to ruin.'),('Baneberry','n.','A genus (Actaea) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceae,\n   native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are\n   poisonous.'),('Baneful','a.','Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive;\n   injurious; noxious; pernicious.'),('Banewort','n.','Deadly nightshade.'),('Banged','imp. & p. p.','of Bang'),('Banging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bang'),('Bang','v. t.','To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence;\n   to handle roughly.'),('Bang','v. t.','To beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or\n   strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise;\n   as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or\n   casing) in shutting it.'),('Bang','v. i.','To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of\n   blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the\n   piano.'),('Bang','n.','A blow as with a club; a heavy blow.'),('Bang','n.','The sound produced by a sudden concussion.'),('Bang','v. t.','To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the\n   forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair).'),('Bang','n.','The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp.\n   when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn.'),('Bang','n.','Alt. of Bangue'),('Bangue','n.','See Bhang.'),('Banging','a.','Huge; great in size.'),('Bangle','v. t.','To waste by little and little; to fritter away.'),('Bangle','n.','An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other\n   material, worn by women in India and Africa, and in some other\n   countries, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet.'),('Banian','n.','A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.'),('Banian','n.','A man\'s loose gown, like that worn by the Banians.'),('Banian','n.','The Indian fig. See Banyan.'),('Banished','imp. & p. p.','of Banish'),('Banishing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Banish'),('Banish','v. t.','To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one\'s country,\n   by authority of the ruling power.'),('Banish','v. t.','To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used\n   with from and out of.'),('Banish','v. t.','To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.'),('Banisher','n.','One who banishes.'),('Banishment','n.','The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.'),('Banister','n.','A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like\n   the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is\n   played with the fingers and hands.'),('Bank','n.','A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the\n   surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of\n   earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.'),('Bank','n.','A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a\n   ravine.'),('Bank','n.','The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a\n   lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.'),('Bank','n.','An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal,\n   shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.'),('Bank','n.','The face of the coal at which miners are working.'),('Bank','n.','A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water\n   level.'),('Bank','n.','The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to\n   bank.'),('Banked','imp. & p. p.','of Bank'),('Banking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bank'),('Bank','v. t.','To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or\n   fortify with a bank; to embank.'),('Bank','v. t.','To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.'),('Bank','v. t.','To pass by the banks of.'),('Bank','n.','A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.'),('Bank','n.','The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.'),('Bank','n.','The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting\n   to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a\n   sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc.'),('Bank','n.','A sort of table used by printers.'),('Bank','n.','A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an\n   organ.'),('Bank','n.','An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue,\n   of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or\n   bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or\n   more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives,\n   the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.'),('Bank','n.','The building or office used for banking purposes.'),('Bank','n.','A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in\n   transacting business; a joint stock or capital.'),('Bank','n.','The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has\n   as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.'),('Bank','n.','In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the\n   players are allowed to draw.'),('Bank','v. t.','To deposit in a bank.'),('Bank','v. i.','To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.'),('Bank','v. i.','To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a\n   banker.'),('Bankable','a.','Receivable at a bank.'),('Bank bill','','In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of\n   a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank\n   note.'),('Bank bill','','In England, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank,\n   payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills\n   are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of\n   the currency.'),('Bank book','','A book kept by a depositor, in which an officer of a bank\n   enters the debits and credits of the depositor\'s account with the bank.'),('Banker','n.','One who conducts the business of banking; one who,\n   individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for\n   the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of\n   exchange, etc.'),('Banker','n.','A money changer.'),('Banker','n.','The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.'),('Banker','n.','A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of\n   Newfoundland.'),('Banker','n.','A ditcher; a drain digger.'),('Banker','n.','The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work.'),('Bankeress','n.','A female banker.'),('Banking','n.','The business of a bank or of a banker.'),('Bank note','','A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company,\n   payable to bearer on demand.'),('Bank note','','Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking\n   company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; a bank bill.\n   See Bank bill, 2.'),('Bank note','','A promissory note payable at a bank.'),('Bankrupt','n.','A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts\n   tending to defraud his creditors.'),('Bankrupt','n.','A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an\n   insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts;\n   an insolvent person.'),('Bankrupt','n.','A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law\n   relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to\n   meet his liabilities.'),('Bankrupt','a.','Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable\n   to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one\'s debts; as, a bankrupt\n   merchant.'),('Bankrupt','a.','Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting\n   pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.'),('Bankrupt','a.','Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.'),('Bankrupt','a.','Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once\n   possessed, or something one should possess).'),('Bankrupted','imp. & p. p.','of Bankrupt'),('Bankrupting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bankrupt'),('Bankrupt','v. t.','To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to\n   impoverish.'),('Bankruptcies','pl. ','of Bankruptcy'),('Bankruptcy','n.','The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.'),('Bankruptcy','n.','The act or process of becoming a bankrupt.'),('Bankruptcy','n.','Complete loss; -- followed by of.'),('Bankside','n.','The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.'),('Bank-sided','a.','Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; -- opposed\n   to wall-sided.'),('Bank swallow','','See under 1st Bank, n.'),('Banlieue','n.','The territory without the walls, but within the legal\n   limits, of a town or city.'),('Banner','n.','A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece,\n   and used by a chief as his standard in battle.'),('Banner','n.','A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or\n   motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or\n   suspended in some conspicuous place.'),('Banner','n.','Any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner.'),('Bannered','a.','Furnished with, or bearing, banners.'),('Banneret','n.','Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field\n   under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.'),('Banneret','n.','A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence,\n   an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.'),('Banneret','n.','A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.'),('Banneret','n.','A small banner.'),('Bannerol','n.','A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral\n   procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.'),('Bannition','n.','The act of expulsion.'),('Bannock','n.','A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish,\n   commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or\n   griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England.'),('Banns','n. pl.','Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church,\n   or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object,\n   if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place.'),('Banquet','n.','A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking;\n   often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.'),('Banquet','n.','A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or\n   sweetmeats.'),('Banqueted','imp. & p. p.','of Banquet'),('Banqueting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Banquet'),('Banquet','v. t.','To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of\n   food; to feast.'),('Banquet','v. i.','To regale one\'s self with good eating and drinking; to\n   feast.'),('Banquet','v. i.','To partake of a dessert after a feast.'),('Banquetter','n.','One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts.'),('Banquette','n.','A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a\n   parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.'),('Banquette','n.','A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the\n   top of a buffet or dresser.'),('Banshee','n.','Alt. of Banshie'),('Banshie','n.','A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch\n   peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members,\n   by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the\n   house.'),('Banstickle','n.','A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.'),('Bantam','n.','A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs,\n   probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.'),('Bantam work','','Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware.'),('Banteng','n.','The wild ox of Java (Bibos Banteng).'),('Bantered','imp. & p. p.','of Banter'),('Bantering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Banter'),('Banter','v. t.','To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the\n   person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of\n   the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.'),('Banter','v. t.','To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some\n   trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.'),('Banter','v. t.','To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest.'),('Banter','v. t.','To challenge or defy to a match.'),('Banter','n.','The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or\n   good-humored raillery; pleasantry.'),('Banterer','n.','One who banters or rallies.'),('Bantingism','n.','A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food\n   containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called\n   from William Banting of London.'),('Bantling','n.','A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous\n   or depreciatory.]'),('Banxring','n.','An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia.'),('Banyan','n.','A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the\n   Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground,\n   which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree\n   covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.'),('Baobab','n.','A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also\n   naturalized in India. See Adansonia.'),('Baphomet','n.','An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were\n   accused of using in their mysterious rites.'),('Baptism','v. i.','The act of baptizing; the application of water to a\n   person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated\n   into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion,\n   sprinkling, or pouring.'),('Baptismal','a.','Pertaining to baptism; as, baptismal vows.'),('Baptismally','adv.','In a baptismal manner.'),('Baptist','n.','One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to\n   John, the forerunner of Christ.'),('Baptist','n.','One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity\n   of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should\n   be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See\n   Anabaptist.'),('Baptisteries','pl. ','of Baptistry'),('-tries','pl. ','of Baptistry'),('Baptistery','n.','Alt. of Baptistry'),('Baptistry','n.','In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal,\n   used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into\n   baptisteries when larger churches were built near.'),('Baptistry','n.','A part of a church containing a font and used for\n   baptismal services.'),('Baptistic','a.','Of or for baptism; baptismal.'),('Baptistical','a.','Baptistic.'),('Baptizable','a.','Capable of being baptized; fit to be baptized.'),('Baptization','n.','Baptism.'),('Baptized','imp. & p. p.','of Baptize'),('Baptizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Baptize'),('Baptize','v. t.','To administer the sacrament of baptism to.'),('Baptize','v. t.','To christen ( because a name is given to infants at\n   their baptism); to give a name to; to name.'),('Baptize','v. t.','To sanctify; to consecrate.'),('Baptizement','n.','The act of baptizing.'),('Baptizer','n.','One who baptizes.'),('Bar','n.','A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion\n   to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other\n   purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening;\n   as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.'),('Bar','n.','An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be\n   long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or\n   of lead; a bar of soap.'),('Bar','n.','Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an\n   obstruction; a barrier.'),('Bar','n.','A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of\n   a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.'),('Bar','n.','Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of\n   assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special\n   privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.'),('Bar','n.','The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in\n   courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies\n   in open court.'),('Bar','n.','The place in court where prisoners are stationed for\n   arraignment, trial, or sentence.'),('Bar','n.','The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the\n   legal profession.'),('Bar','n.','A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff\'s\n   action.'),('Bar','n.','Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.'),('Bar','n.','A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed\n   to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where\n   liquors for sale are kept.'),('Bar','n.','An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one\n   fifth part of the field.'),('Bar','n.','A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar\n   of color.'),('Bar','n.','A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into\n   spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.'),('Bar','n.','The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a\n   horse, in which the bit is placed.'),('Bar','n.','The part of the crust of a horse\'s hoof which is bent inwards\n   towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center\n   of the sole.'),('Bar','n.','A drilling or tamping rod.'),('Bar','n.','A vein or dike crossing a lode.'),('Bar','n.','A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.'),('Bar','n.','A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass\n   of a window; a sash bar.'),('Barred','imp. & p. p.','of Bar'),('Barring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bar'),('Bar','n.','To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.'),('Bar','n.','To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to\n   obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil;\n   distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is\n   barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff\'s recovery; -- sometimes\n   with up.'),('Bar','n.','To except; to exclude by exception.'),('Bar','n.','To cross with one or more stripes or lines.'),('Barb','n.','Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of\n   it.'),('Barb','n.','A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.'),('Barb','n.','Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which\n   mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses\n   and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and\n   swollen.'),('Barb','n.','The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc.,\n   to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands\n   out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.'),('Barb','n.','A bit for a horse.'),('Barb','n.','One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively\n   constitute the vane. See Feather.'),('Barb','n.','A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and\n   southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called\n   whiting.'),('Barb','n.','A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.'),('Barbed','imp. & p. p.','of Barb'),('Barbing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Barb'),('Barb','v. t.','To shave or dress the beard of.'),('Barb','v. t.','To clip; to mow.'),('Barb','v. t.','To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or\n   hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.'),('Barb','n.','The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary\n   into Spain by the Moors.'),('Barb','n.','A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought\n   from Barbary.'),('Barb','n.','Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n., 1.'),('Barbacan','n.','See Barbican.'),('Barbacanage','n.','See Barbicanage.'),('Barbadian','a.','Of or pertaining to Barbados.'),('Barbadian','n.','A native of Barbados.'),('Barbados','n.','Alt. of Barbadoes'),('Barbadoes','n.','A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a\n   cherry, etc.'),('Barbara','n.','The first word in certain mnemonic lines which represent\n   the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose\n   three propositions are universal affirmatives.'),('Barbaresque','a.','Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque\n   architecture.'),('Barbarian','n.','A foreigner.'),('Barbarian','n.','A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.'),('Barbarian','n.','A person destitute of culture.'),('Barbarian','n.','A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or\n   humanity.'),('Barbarian','a.','Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude;\n   uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.'),('Barbaic','a.','Of, or from, barbarian nations; foreign; -- often with\n   reference to barbarous nations of east.'),('Barbaic','a.','Of or pertaining to, or resembling, an uncivilized person\n   or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement.'),('Barbarism','n.','An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners;\n   ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.'),('Barbarism','n.','A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.'),('Barbarism','n.','An offense against purity of style or language; any form\n   of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See\n   Solecism.'),('Barbarities','pl. ','of Barbarity'),('Barbarity','n.','The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of\n   civilization.'),('Barbarity','n.','Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.'),('Barbarity','n.','A barbarous or cruel act.'),('Barbarity','n.','Barbarism; impurity of speech.'),('Barbarized','imp. & p. p.','of Barbarize'),('Barbarizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Barbarize'),('Barbarize','v. i.','To become barbarous.'),('Barbarize','v. i.','To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.'),('Barbarize','v. t.','To make barbarous.'),('Barbarous','a.','Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude;\n   peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.'),('Barbarous','a.','Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.'),('Barbarous','a.','Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.'),('Barbarous','a.','Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.'),('Barbarously','adv.','In a barbarous manner.'),('Barbarousness','n.','The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity;\n   barbarism.'),('Barbary','n.','The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to\n   the Atlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of\n   pigeon.'),('Barbastel','n.','A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips.'),('Barbate','a.','Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.'),('Barbated','a.','Having barbed points.'),('Barbecue','n.','A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole\n   for a feast.'),('Barbecue','n.','A social entertainment, where many people assemble,\n   usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted\n   or broiled whole.'),('Barbecue','n.','A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.'),('Barbecued','imp. & p. p.','of Barbecue'),('Barbecuing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Barbecue'),('Barbecue','v. t.','To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron.'),('Barbecue','v. t.','To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog.'),('Barbed','a.','Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See\n   Barded ( which is the proper form.)'),('Barbed','a.','Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed\n   wire.'),('Barbel','n.','A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished.'),('Barbel','n.','A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many\n   European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.'),('Barbel','n.','Barbs or paps under the tongued of horses and cattle. See\n   1st Barb, 3.'),('Barbellate','a.','Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point.'),('Barbellulate','a.','Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.'),('Barber','n.','One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and\n   to cut and dress the hair of his patrons.'),('Barbered','imp. & p. p.','of Barber'),('Barbering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Barber'),('Barber','v. t.','To shave and dress the beard or hair of.'),('Barber fish','','See Surgeon fish.'),('Barbermonger','n.','A fop.'),('Barberry','n.','A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and\n   in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong\n   red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed\n   efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the\n   bark of the root.'),('Barbet','n.','A variety of small dog, having long curly hair.'),('Barbet','n.','A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos,\n   having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five\n   bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America\n   and Africa.'),('Barbet','n.','A larva that feeds on aphides.'),('Barbette','n.','A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on\n   which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.'),('Barbican','n.','Alt. of Barbacan'),('Barbacan','n.','A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a\n   castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong,\n   having a ditch and drawbridge of its own.'),('Barbacan','n.','An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which\n   missiles were discharged upon an enemy.'),('Barbicanage','n.','Alt. of Barbacanage'),('Barbacanage','n.','Money paid for the support of a barbican.'),('Barbicel','n.','One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of\n   feathers.'),('Barbiers','n.','A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar\n   coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic\n   form.'),('Barbigerous','a.','Having a beard; bearded; hairy.'),('Barbiton','n.','An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.'),('Barbituric acid','','A white, crystalline substance, CH2(CO.NH)2.CO,\n   derived from alloxantin, also from malonic acid and urea, and regarded\n   as a substituted urea.'),('Barble','n.','See Barbel.'),('Barbotine','n.','A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in\n   relief.'),('Barbre','a.','Barbarian.'),('Barbule','n.','A very minute barb or beard.'),('Barbule','n.','One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a\n   feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.'),('Barcarolle','n.','A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers.'),('Barcarolle','n.','A piece of music composed in imitation of such a song.'),('Barcon','n.','A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean.'),('Bard','n.','A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts,\n   whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic\n   achievements of princes and brave men.'),('Bard','n.','Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.'),('Bard','n.','Alt. of Barde'),('Barde','n.','A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a\n   horse\'s neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.]'),('Barde','pl.','Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.'),('Barde','pl.','A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.'),('Bard','v. t.','To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.'),('Barded','p.a.','Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse.'),('Barded','p.a.','Wearing rich caparisons.'),('Bardic','a.','Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry.'),('Bardish','a.','Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards.'),('Bardism','n.','The system of bards; the learning and maxims of bards.'),('Bardling','n.','An inferior bard.'),('Bardship','n.','The state of being a bard.'),('Bare','a.','Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering;\n   naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.'),('Bare','a.','With head uncovered; bareheaded.'),('Bare','a.','Without anything to cover up or conceal one\'s thoughts or\n   actions; open to view; exposed.'),('Bare','a.','Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.'),('Bare','a.','Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily\n   furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or\n   taken away; as, a room bare of furniture.'),('Bare','a.','Threadbare; much worn.'),('Bare','a.','Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare\n   majority.'),('Bare','n.','Surface; body; substance.'),('Bare','n.','That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate,\n   which is exposed to the weather.'),('Bared','imp. & p. p.','of Bare'),('Baring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bare'),('Bare','a.','To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the\n   breast.'),('Bare','','Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.'),('Bareback','adv.','On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle;\n   as, to ride bareback.'),('Barebacked','a.','Having the back uncovered; as, a barebacked horse.'),('Barebone','n.','A very lean person; one whose bones show through the\n   skin.'),('Barefaced','a.','With the face uncovered; not masked.'),('Barefaced','a.','Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless;\n   audacious.'),('Barefacedly','adv.','Openly; shamelessly.'),('Barefacedness','n.','The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness;\n   assurance; audaciousness.'),('Barefoot','a. & adv.','With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.'),('Barefooted','a.','Having the feet bare.'),('Barege','n.','A gauzelike fabric for ladies\' dresses, veils, etc. of\n   worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted.'),('Barehanded','n.','Having bare hands.'),('Bareheaded','a. & adv.','Alt. of Barehead'),('Barehead','a. & adv.','Having the head uncovered; as, a bareheaded girl.'),('Barelegged','a.','Having the legs bare.'),('Barely','adv.','Without covering; nakedly.'),('Barely','adv.','Without concealment or disguise.'),('Barely','adv.','Merely; only.'),('Barely','adv.','But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare ( of\n   quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely\n   enough for all; he barely escaped.'),('Barenecked','a.','Having the neck bare.'),('Bareness','n.','The state of being bare.'),('Baresark','n.','A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor,\n   or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor.'),('Barfish','n.','Same as Calico bass.'),('Barful','a.','Full of obstructions.'),('Bargain','n.','An agreement between parties concerning the sale of\n   property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer\n   the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party\n   binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.'),('Bargain','n.','An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.'),('Bargain','n.','A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful\n   transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.'),('Bargain','n.','The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought\n   cheap.'),('Bargain','n.','To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of\n   property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with\n   a farmer for a cow.'),('Bargained','imp. & p. p.','of Bargain'),('Bargaining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bargain'),('Bargain','v. t.','To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade;\n   as, to bargain one horse for another.'),('Bargainee','v. i.','The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to\n   receive, the property sold.'),('Bargainer','n.','One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of\n   bargainor.'),('Bargainor','n.','One who makes a bargain, or contracts with another;\n   esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another.'),('Barge','n.','A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly\n   furnished and decorated.'),('Barge','n.','A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or\n   goods; as, a ship\'s barge; a charcoal barge.'),('Barge','n.','A large boat used by flag officers.'),('Barge','n.','A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a\n   steamboat.'),('Barge','n.','A large omnibus used for excursions.'),('Bargeboard','n.','A vergeboard.'),('Bargecourse','n.','A part of the tiling which projects beyond the\n   principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable.'),('Bargee','n.','A bargeman.'),('Bargeman','n.','The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a\n   barge.'),('Bargemastter','n.','The proprietor or manager of a barge, or one of the\n   crew of a barge.'),('Barger','n.','The manager of a barge.'),('Barghest','n.','A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending\n   misfortune.'),('Baria','n.','Baryta.'),('Baric','a.','Of or pertaining to barium; as, baric oxide.'),('Baric','a.','Of or pertaining to weight, esp. to the weight or pressure\n   of the atmosphere as measured by the barometer.'),('Barilla','n.','A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda\n   is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.'),('Barilla','n.','The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure\n   carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching\n   purposes.'),('Barilla','n.','Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant,\n   or kelp.'),('Barillet','n.','A little cask, or something resembling one.'),('Bar iron','','See under Iron.'),('Barite','n.','Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in\n   transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular),\n   also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble.\n   It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar.\n   It is a common mineral in metallic veins.'),('Baritone','a. & n.','See Barytone.'),('Barium','n.','One of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group;\n   a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a very high\n   temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the\n   facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight, 137.\n   Symbol, Ba. Its oxide called baryta.'),('Bard','n.','The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree;\n   the rind.'),('Bard','n.','Specifically, Peruvian bark.'),('Barked','imp. & p. p.','of Bark'),('Barking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bark'),('Bark','v. t.','To strip the bark from; to peel.'),('Bark','v. t.','To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark\n   one\'s heel.'),('Bark','v. t.','To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.'),('Bark','v. t.','To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to\n   bark the roof of a hut.'),('Bark','v. i.','To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal\n   organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.'),('Bark','v. i.','To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.'),('Bark','n.','The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar\n   sound made by some other animals.'),('Bark','n.','Alt. of Barque'),('Barque','n.','Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing\n   smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a\n   sailing vessel or boat of any kind.'),('Barque','n.','A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast\n   square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.'),('Barkantine','n.','Same as Barkentine.'),('Bark beetle','','A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidae),\n   which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often\n   doing great damage.'),('Barkbound','a.','Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or\n   close.'),('Barkeeper','n.','One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.'),('Barken','a.','Made of bark.'),('Barkentine','n.','A threemasted vessel, having the foremast\n   square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also\n   barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.'),('Barker','n.','An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors\n   unreasonably.'),('Barker','n.','One who stands at the doors of shops to urg/ passers by to\n   make purchases.'),('Barker','n.','A pistol.'),('Barker','n.','The spotted redshank.'),('Barker','n.','One who strips trees of their bark.'),('Barker\'s mill','','A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a\n   form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes\n   from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to\n   revolve on its axis.'),('Barkery','n.','A tanhouse.'),('Barking irons','','Instruments used in taking off the bark of trees.'),('Barking irons','','A pair of pistols.'),('Barkless','a.','Destitute of bark.'),('Bark louse','','An insect of the family Coccidae, which infests the bark\n   of trees and vines.'),('Barky','a.','Covered with, or containing, bark.'),('Barley','n.','A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum,\n   used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale,\n   and whisky.'),('Barleybrake','n.','Alt. of Barleybreak'),('Barleybreak','n.','An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of\n   barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch\n   others who run from a goal.'),('Barley-bree','n.','Liquor made from barley; strong ale.'),('Barleycorn','n.','A grain or \"corn\" of barley.'),('Barleycorn','n.','Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average\n   length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch.'),('Barm','n.','Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when\n   fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.'),('Barm','n.','The lap or bosom.'),('Barmaid','n.','A girl or woman who attends the customers of a bar, as in\n   a tavern or beershop.'),('Barmaster','n.','Formerly, a local judge among miners; now, an officer of\n   the barmote.'),('Barmcloth','n.','Apron.'),('Barmecidal','a.','Unreal; illusory.'),('Barmecide','n.','One who proffers some illusory advantage or benefit.\n   Also used as an adj.: Barmecidal.'),('Barmote','n.','A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding\n   controversies between miners.'),('Balmy','a.','Full of barm or froth; in a ferment.'),('Barn','n.','A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and\n   other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is\n   often used for stables.'),('Barn','v. t.','To lay up in a barn.'),('Barn','n.','A child. [Obs.] See Bairn.'),('Barnabite','n.','A member of a religious order, named from St. Barnabas.'),('Barnacle','n.','Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating\n   timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and\n   allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and\n   allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle.'),('Barnacle','n.','A bernicle goose.'),('Barnacle','n.','An instrument for pinching a horse\'s nose, and thus\n   restraining him.'),('Barnacle','sing.','Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the\n   barnacles used by farriers.'),('Barnyard','n.','A yard belonging to a barn.'),('Barocco','a.','See Baroque.'),('Barograph','n.','An instrument for recording automatically the variations\n   of atmospheric pressure.'),('Baroko','n.','A form or mode of syllogism of which the first proposition\n   is a universal affirmative, and the other two are particular negative.'),('Barology','n.','The science of weight or gravity.'),('Baromacrometer','n.','An instrument for ascertaining the weight and\n   length of a newborn infant.'),('Barometer','n.','An instrument for determining the weight or pressure of\n   the atmosphere, and hence for judging of the probable changes of\n   weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent.'),('Barometric','a.','Alt. of Barometrical'),('Barometrical','a.','Pertaining to the barometer; made or indicated by a\n   barometer; as, barometric changes; barometrical observations.'),('Barometrically','adv.','By means of a barometer, or according to\n   barometric observations.'),('Barometrograph','n.','A form of barometer so constructed as to inscribe\n   of itself upon paper a record of the variations of atmospheric\n   pressure.'),('Barometry','n.','The art or process of making barometrical measurements.'),('Barometz','n.','The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern\n   (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted,\n   somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also Scythian lamb.'),('Baron','n.','A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of\n   a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France\n   and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a\n   nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a\n   viscount.'),('Baron','n.','A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife.'),('Baronage','n.','The whole body of barons or peers.'),('Baronage','n.','The dignity or rank of a baron.'),('Baronage','n.','The land which gives title to a baron.'),('Baroness','n.','A baron\'s wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title\n   in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.'),('Baronet','n.','A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above\n   a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of\n   the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The\n   baronets are commoners.'),('Baronetage','n.','State or rank of a baronet.'),('Baronetage','n.','The collective body of baronets.'),('Baronetcy','n.','The rank or patent of a baronet.'),('Baronial','a.','Pertaining to a baron or a barony.'),('Baronies','pl. ','of Barony'),('Barony','n.','The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or\n   rank of a baron.'),('Barony','n.','In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to\n   the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district\n   of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an\n   extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner.'),('Baroque','a.','In bad taste; grotesque; odd.'),('Baroscope','n.','Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the\n   atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or\n   foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in\n   suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric\n   changes.'),('Baroscopic','a.','Alt. of Baroscopical'),('Baroscopical','a.','Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.'),('Barouche','n.','A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on\n   the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged\n   so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.'),('Barouchet','n.','A kind of light barouche.'),('Barpost','n.','A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a\n   passage into a field.'),('Barque','n.','Same as 3d Bark, n.'),('Barracan','n.','A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still\n   used for outer garments in the Levant.'),('Barrack','n.','A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison.\n   Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually\n   applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings.'),('Barrack','n.','A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw,\n   etc.'),('Barrack','v. t.','To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as,\n   to barrack troops.'),('Barrack','v. i.','To live or lodge in barracks.'),('Barraclade','n.','A home-made woolen blanket without nap.'),('Barracoon','n.','A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are\n   quartered temporarily.'),('Barracuda','n.','Alt. of Barracouata'),('Barracouata','n.','A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus\n   Sphyraena, sometimes used as food.'),('Barracouata','n.','A large edible fresh-water fish of Australia and New\n   Zealand (Thyrsites atun).'),('Barrage','n.','An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or\n   water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the\n   Nile.'),('Barranca','n.','A ravine caused by heavy rains or a watercourse.'),('Barras','n.','A resin, called also galipot.'),('Barrator','v. i.','One guilty of barratry.'),('Barratrous','/','Tainter with, or constituting, barratry.'),('Barratry','n.','The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and\n   quarrels.'),('Barratry','n.','A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known\n   illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of\n   master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or\n   cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust\n   committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship,\n   sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo.'),('Barratry','n.','The crime of a judge who is influenced by bribery in\n   pronouncing judgment.'),('Barred owl','','A large American owl (Syrnium nebulosum); -- so called\n   from the transverse bars of a dark brown color on the breast.'),('Barrel','n.','A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and\n   bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat\n   ends or heads.'),('Barrel','n.','The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies\n   for different articles and also in different places for the same\n   article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31/\n   gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds.'),('Barrel','n.','A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel\n   of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is\n   coiled.'),('Barrel','n.','A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is\n   discharged.'),('Barrel','n.','A jar.'),('Barrel','n.','The hollow basal part of a feather.'),('Barreled','imp. & p. p.','of Barrel'),('Barrelled','','of Barrel'),('Barreling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Barrel'),('Barrelling','','of Barrel'),('Barrel','v. t.','To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.'),('Barreled','a.','Alt. of Barrelled'),('Barrelled','a.','Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a\n   double-barreled gun.'),('Barren','a.','Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young;\n   sterile; -- said of women and female animals.'),('Barren','a.','Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile.'),('Barren','a.','Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.'),('Barren','a.','Mentally dull; stupid.'),('Barren','n.','A tract of barren land.'),('Barren','n.','Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not\n   timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily\n   sterile, and are often fertile.'),('Barrenly','adv.','Unfruitfully; unproductively.'),('Barrenness','n.','The condition of being barren; sterility;\n   unproductiveness.'),('Barrenwort','n.','An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium\n   alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.'),('Barret','n.','A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers; -- called also\n   barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics.'),('Barricade','n.','A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth,\n   palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or\n   attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to\n   block an enemy\'s access.'),('Barricade','n.','Any bar, obstruction, or means of defense.'),('Barricaded','imp. & p. p.','of Barricade'),('Barricading','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Barricade'),('Barricade','n.','To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades;\n   to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the\n   streets of Paris.'),('Barricader','n.','One who constructs barricades.'),('Barricado','n. & v. t.','See Barricade.'),('Barrier','n.','A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made\n   in a passage in order to stop an enemy.'),('Barrier','n.','A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a\n   country, commanding an avenue of approach.'),('Barrier','n.','A fence or railing to mark the limits of a place, or to\n   keep back a crowd.'),('Barrier','n.','An any obstruction; anything which hinders approach or\n   attack.'),('Barrier','n.','Any limit or boundary; a line of separation.'),('Barrigudo','n.','A large, dark-colored, South American monkey, of the\n   genus Lagothrix, having a long prehensile tail.'),('Barringout','n.','The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a\n   schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools.'),('Barrister','n.','Counselor at law; a counsel admitted to plead at the\n   bar, and undertake the public trial of causes, as distinguished from an\n   attorney or solicitor. See Attorney.'),('Barroom','n.','A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are\n   sold.'),('Barrow','n.','A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on\n   which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow,\n   and Wheelbarrow.'),('Barrow','n.','A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain.'),('Barrow','n.','A hog, esp. a male hog castrated.'),('Barrow','n.','A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the\n   dead; a tumulus.'),('Barrow','n.','A heap of rubbish, attle, etc.'),('Barrowist','n.','A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of\n   Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for\n   nonconformity in 1953.'),('Barrulet','n.','A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width.'),('Barruly','a.','Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the\n   field.'),('Barry','a.','Divided into bars; -- said of the field.'),('Barse','n.','The common perch. See 1st Bass.'),('Bartender','n.','A barkeeper.'),('Bartered','imp. & p. p.','of Barter'),('Bartering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Barter'),('Barter','v. i.','To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for\n   another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is\n   paid for the commodities transferred; to truck.'),('Barter','v. t.','To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange\n   (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; --\n   sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor.'),('Barter','n.','The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of\n   commodities; an exchange of goods.'),('Barter','n.','The thing given in exchange.'),('Barterer','n.','One who barters.'),('Bartery','n.','Barter.'),('Barth','n.','A place of shelter for cattle.'),('Bartholomew tide','','Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August\n   24th.'),('Bartizan','n.','A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense,\n   usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance\n   gateway.'),('Bartlett','n.','A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which\n   originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams\' Bonchretien.\n   It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of\n   Dorchester, Massachusetts.'),('Barton','n.','The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself.'),('Barton','n.','A farmyard.'),('Bartram','n.','See Bertram.'),('Barway','n.','A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take\n   out of the posts.'),('Barwise','adv.','Horizontally.'),('Barwood','n.','A red wood of a leguminous tree (Baphia nitida), from\n   Angola and the Gaboon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for\n   ramrods, violin bows and turner\'s work.'),('Barycentric','a.','Of or pertaining to the center of gravity. See\n   Barycentric calculus, under Calculus.'),('Baryphony','n.','Difficulty of speech.'),('Baryta','n.','An oxide of barium (or barytum); a heavy earth with a\n   specific gravity above 4.'),('Barytes','n.','Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite.\n   See Barite.'),('Barytic','a.','Of or pertaining to baryta.'),('Baryto-calcite','n.','A mineral of a white or gray color, occurring\n   massive or crystallized. It is a compound of the carbonates of barium\n   and calcium.'),('Barytone','a.','Alt. of Baritone'),('Baritone','a.','Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice.'),('Baritone','a.','Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave\n   accent being understood.'),('Barytone','n.','Alt. of Baritone'),('Baritone','n.','A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common\n   bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor\n   rise as high as the other.'),('Baritone','n.','A person having a voice of such range.'),('Baritone','n.','The viola di gamba, now entirely disused.'),('Baritone','n.','A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable,\n   the grave accent being understood.'),('Barytum','n.','The metal barium. See Barium.'),('Basal','a.','Relating to, or forming, the base.'),('Basal-nerved','a.','Having the nerves radiating from the base; -- said of\n   leaves.'),('Basalt','n.','A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and\n   triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also\n   bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated.'),('Basalt','n.','An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of\n   black porcelain.'),('Basaltic','a.','Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt;\n   as basaltic lava.'),('Basaltiform','a.','In the form of basalt; columnar.'),('Basaltoid','a.','Formed like basalt; basaltiform.'),('Basan','n.','Same as Basil, a sheepskin.'),('Basanite','n.','Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or\n   flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to\n   test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the\n   color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.'),('Basbleu','n.','A bluestocking; a literary woman.'),('Bascinet','n.','A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a\n   visor.'),('Bascule','n.','In mechanics an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw,\n   in which one end rises as the other falls.'),('Base','a.','Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as,\n   base shrubs.'),('Base','a.','Low in place or position.'),('Base','a.','Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean.'),('Base','a.','Illegitimate by birth; bastard.'),('Base','a.','Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and\n   silver, the precious metals.'),('Base','a.','Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base\n   bullion.'),('Base','a.','Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of\n   sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base\n   motives; base occupations.'),('Base','a.','Not classical or correct.'),('Base','a.','Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin.'),('Base','a.','Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by\n   services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called\n   base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant.'),('Base','n.','The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on\n   which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a\n   statue.'),('Base','n.','Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the\n   essential principle; a groundwork.'),('Base','n.','The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a\n   separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented.'),('Base','n.','The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a\n   monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or\n   decoration.'),('Base','n.','That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is\n   attached to its support.'),('Base','n.','The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance\n   which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt;\n   -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals,\n   and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of\n   forming salts with acids.'),('Base','n.','The chief ingredient in a compound.'),('Base','n.','A substance used as a mordant.'),('Base','n.','The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line\n   which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.'),('Base','n.','The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on\n   which it is supposed to stand.'),('Base','n.','The number from which a mathematical table is constructed;\n   as, the base of a system of logarithms.'),('Base','n.','A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the\n   deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays,\n   base.'),('Base','n.','A place or tract of country, protected by fortifications, or\n   by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed,\n   forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc.'),('Base','n.','The smallest kind of cannon.'),('Base','n.','That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more\n   central organ.'),('Base','n.','The basal plane of a crystal.'),('Base','n.','The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly\n   crystalline.'),('Base','n.','The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.'),('Base','n.','The housing of a horse.'),('Base','n.','A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes\n   of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or\n   lower.'),('Base','n.','The lower part of a robe or petticoat.'),('Base','n.','An apron.'),('Base','n.','The point or line from which a start is made; a starting\n   place or a goal in various games.'),('Base','n.','A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in\n   length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the\n   distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a\n   system of triangles.'),('Base','n.','A rustic play; -- called also prisoner\'s base, prison base,\n   or bars.'),('Base','n.','Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the\n   infield.'),('Based','imp. & p. p.','of Base'),('Basing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Base'),('Base','n.','To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to\n   found, as an argument or conclusion; -- used with on or upon.'),('Base','a.','To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower.'),('Base','a.','To reduce the value of; to debase.'),('Baseball','n.','A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four\n   in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor\n   to make after striking the ball.'),('Baseball','n.','The ball used in this game.'),('Baseboard','n.','A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a\n   room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering;\n   -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard.'),('Baseborn','a.','Born out of wedlock.'),('Baseborn','a.','Born of low parentage.'),('Baseborn','a.','Vile; mean.'),('Base-burner','n.','A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a\n   hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is\n   consumed.'),('Base-court','n.','The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large\n   house; the outer court of a castle.'),('Base-court','n.','An inferior court of law, not of record.'),('Based','a.','Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as,\n   broad-based.'),('Based','n.','Wearing, or protected by, bases.'),('Basedow\'s disease','','A disease characterized by enlargement of the\n   thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the\n   heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter.'),('Baselard','n.','A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century.'),('Baseless','a.','Without a base; having no foundation or support.'),('Basely','adv.','In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably;\n   shamefully.'),('Basely','adv.','Illegitimately; in bastardy.'),('Basement','a.','The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a\n   part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See\n   Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively.'),('Baseness','n.','The quality or condition of being base; degradation;\n   vileness.'),('Basenet','n.','See Bascinet.'),('Base viol','','See Bass viol.'),('Bash','v. t. & i.','To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out\n   of countenance.'),('Bashaw','n.','A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.'),('Bashaw','n.','Fig.: A magnate or grandee.'),('Bashaw','n.','A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the\n   Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat.'),('Bashful','a.','Abashed; daunted; dismayed.'),('Bashful','a.','Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed\n   to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty;\n   shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression.'),('Bashfully','adv.','In a bashful manner.'),('Bashfulness','n.','The quality of being bashful.'),('Bashi-bazouk','n.','A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the\n   Turkish army.'),('Bashless','a.','Shameless; unblushing.'),('Bashyle','n.','See Basyle.'),('Basi-','','A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical\n   words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a\n   base; as, basibranchials, the most ventral of the cartilages or bones\n   of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the\n   cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc.'),('Basic','a.','Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a\n   salt.'),('Basic','a.','Having the base in excess, or the amount of the base\n   atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion\n   that of the related neutral salt.'),('Basic','a.','Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit\n   alkaline reactions with test paper.'),('Basic','a.','Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low\n   percentage of silica, as basalt.'),('Basicerite','n.','The second joint of the antennae of crustaceans.'),('Basicity','n.','The quality or state of being a base.'),('Basicity','n.','The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or\n   equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable\n   hydrogen atoms contained in the acid.'),('Basidiospore','n.','A spore borne by a basidium.'),('Basidium','n.','A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches,\n   which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes,\n   of which the common mushroom is an example.'),('Basifier','n.','That which converts into a salifiable base.'),('Basifugal','n.','Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a\n   basifugal growth.'),('Basify','v. t.','To convert into a salifiable base.'),('Basigynium','n.','The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as\n   the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.'),('Basihyal','a.','Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted\n   hyoid arch.'),('Basihyoid','n.','The central tongue bone.'),('Basil','n.','The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a\n   plane, is ground.'),('Basiled','imp. & p. p.','of Basil'),('Basiling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Basil'),('Basil','v. t.','To grind or form the edge of to an angle.'),('Basil','n.','The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family,\n   but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the\n   bush basil, or lesser basil (O. minimum), the leaves of which are used\n   in cookery. The name is also given to several kinds of mountain mint\n   (Pycnanthemum).'),('Basil','n.','The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.'),('Basilar','n.','Alt. of Basilary'),('Basilary','n.','Relating to, or situated at, the base.'),('Basilary','n.','Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of\n   action.'),('Basilic','n.','Basilica.'),('Basilic','a.','Alt. of Basilical'),('Basilical','a.','Royal; kingly; also, basilican.'),('Basilical','a.','Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have\n   a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle\n   vein of the right arm.'),('Basilicas','pl. ','of Basilica'),('Basilic/','pl. ','of Basilica'),('Basilica','n.','Originally, the place of a king; but afterward, an\n   apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where\n   assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall\n   used for this purpose.'),('Basilica','n.','A building used by the Romans as a place of public\n   meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached.'),('Basilica','n.','A church building of the earlier centuries of\n   Christianity, the plan of which was taken from the basilica of the\n   Romans. The name is still applied to some churches by way of honorary\n   distinction.'),('Basilica','n.','A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the\n   original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century.'),('Basilican','a.','Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical.'),('Basilicok','n.','The basilisk.'),('Basilicon','n.','An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive\n   oil, lard, or other fatty substance.'),('Basilisk','n.','A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that\n   its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath,\n   and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.'),('Basilisk','n.','A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family\n   Iguanidae.'),('Basilisk','n.','A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed\n   resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size.'),('Basin','n.','A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for\n   various other uses.'),('Basin','n.','The quantity contained in a basin.'),('Basin','n.','A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the\n   arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming\n   concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.'),('Basin','n.','A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for\n   ships, a little bay.'),('Basin','n.','A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of\n   the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake,\n   or traversed by a river.'),('Basin','n.','The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping\n   towards a sea or lake.'),('Basin','n.','An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where\n   the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially\n   applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.'),('Basined','a.','Inclosed in a basin.'),('Basinet','n.','Same as Bascinet.'),('Basioccipital','a.','Of or pertaining to the bone in the base of the\n   cranium, frequently forming a part of the occipital in the adult, but\n   usually distinct in the young.'),('Basioccipital','n.','The basioccipital bone.'),('Basion','n.','The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of\n   the skull.'),('Basipodite','n.','The basal joint of the legs of Crustacea.'),('Basipterygium','n.','A bar of cartilage at the base of the embryonic fins\n   of some fishes. It develops into the metapterygium.'),('Basipterygoid','a. & n.','Applied to a protuberance of the base of the\n   sphenoid bone.'),('Bases','pl. ','of Basis'),('Basis','n.','The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.'),('Basis','n.','The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue.'),('Basis','n.','The ground work the first or fundamental principle; that\n   which supports.'),('Basis','n.','The principal component part of a thing.'),('Basisolute','a.','Prolonged at the base, as certain leaves.'),('Basisphenoid','a.','Alt. of Basisphenoidal'),('Basisphenoidal','a.','Of or pertaining to that part of the base of the\n   cranium between the basioccipital and the presphenoid, which usually\n   ossifies separately in the embryo or in the young, and becomes a part\n   of the sphenoid in the adult.'),('Basisphenoid','n.','The basisphenoid bone.'),('Basked','imp. & p. p.','of Bask'),('Basking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bask'),('Bask','v. t.','To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.'),('Bask','v. t.','To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial\n   heat.'),('Basket','n.','A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes,\n   splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.'),('Basket','n.','The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as,\n   a basket of peaches.'),('Basket','n.','The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.'),('Basket','n.','The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a\n   stagecoach.'),('Basket','v. t.','To put into a basket.'),('Basketfuls','pl. ','of Basketful'),('Basketful','n.','As much as a basket will contain.'),('Basketry','n.','The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken\n   collectively.'),('Basking shark','','One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus\n   maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver\n   shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and\n   America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a\n   harmless species.'),('Basnet','n.','Same as Bascinet.'),('Basommatophora','n. pl.','A group of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the\n   base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails.'),('Bason','n.','A basin.'),('Basque','a.','Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language.'),('Basque','n.','One of a race, of unknown origin, inhabiting a region on\n   the Bay of Biscay in Spain and France.'),('Basque','n.','The language spoken by the Basque people.'),('Basque','n.','A part of a lady\'s dress, resembling a jacket with a short\n   skirt; -- probably so called because this fashion of dress came from\n   the Basques.'),('Basquish','a.','Pertaining to the country, people, or language of Biscay;\n   Basque'),('Bas-relief','n.','Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project\n   less than half of their true proportions; -- called also bassrelief and\n   basso-rilievo. See Alto-rilievo.'),('Bass','pl. ','of Bass'),('Basses','pl. ','of Bass'),('Bass','n.','An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus,\n   Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.'),('Bass','n.','The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus\n   Micropterus). See Black bass.'),('Bass','n.','Species of Serranus, the sea bass and rock bass. See Sea\n   bass.'),('Bass','n.','The southern, red, or channel bass (Sciaena ocellata). See\n   Redfish.'),('Bass','n.','The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood;\n   also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See Bast.'),('Bass','n.','A hassock or thick mat.'),('Bass','a.','A bass, or deep, sound or tone.'),('Bass','a.','The lowest part in a musical composition.'),('Bass','a.','One who sings, or the instrument which plays, bass.'),('Bass','a.','Deep or grave in tone.'),('Bass','v. t.','To sound in a deep tone.'),('Bassa','n.','Alt. of Bassaw'),('Bassaw','n.','See Bashaw.'),('Bass drum','','The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two\n   heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a.'),('Basset','n.','A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have\n   been invented at Venice.'),('Basset','a.','Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata.'),('Basset','n.','The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the\n   ground; the outcrop.'),('Basseted','imp. & p. p.','of Basset'),('Basseting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Basset'),('Basset','v. i.','To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to\n   crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets.'),('Basset horn','a.','An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a\n   clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.'),('Basset hound','','A small kind of hound with a long body and short legs,\n   used as an earth dog.'),('Basseting','n.','The upward direction of a vein in a mine; the emergence\n   of a stratum at the surface.'),('Bassetto','n.','A tenor or small bass viol.'),('Bass horn','','A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone.'),('Bassinet','n.','A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in\n   which young children are placed as in a cradle.'),('Bassinet','n.','See Bascinet.'),('Basso','a.','The bass or lowest part; as, to sing basso.'),('Basso','a.','One who sings the lowest part.'),('Basso','a.','The double bass, or contrabasso.'),('Bassock','n.','A hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.'),('Bassoon','n.','A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with\n   holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It\n   forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.'),('Bassoonist','n.','A performer on the bassoon.'),('Basso-rilievo','n.','Alt. of Basso-relievo'),('Basso-relievo','n.','Same as Bas-relief.'),('Bassorin','n.','A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as\n   also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses.'),('Bass-relief','n.','Some as Bas-relief.'),('Bass viol','','A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing\n   bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello.'),('Basswood','n.','The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana.\n   See Bass, the lime tree.'),('Bast','n.','The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime\n   tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.'),('Bast','n.','A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.'),('Basta','interj.','Enough; stop.'),('Bastard','n.','A \"natural\" child; a child begotten and born out of\n   wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.'),('Bastard','n.','An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the\n   sirups that / already had several boilings.'),('Bastard','n.','A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.'),('Bastard','n.','A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.'),('Bastard','n.','A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.'),('Bastard','a.','Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate.\n   See Bastard, n., note.'),('Bastard','n.','Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; --\n   applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are\n   really not so.'),('Bastard','n.','Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a\n   bastard culverin.'),('Bastard','n.','Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the\n   full title page of a book.'),('Bastard','v. t.','To bastardize.'),('Bastardism','n.','The state of being a bastard; bastardy.'),('Bastardized','imp. & p. p.','of Bastardize'),('Bastardizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bastardize'),('Bastardize','v. t.','To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a\n   bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.'),('Bastardize','v. t.','To beget out of wedlock.'),('Bastardly','a.','Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt.'),('Bastardly','adv.','In the manner of a bastard; spuriously.'),('Bastardy','n.','The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.'),('Bastardy','n.','The procreation of a bastard child.'),('Basted','imp. & p. p.','of Baste'),('Basting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Baste'),('Baste','v. t.','To beat with a stick; to cudgel.'),('Baste','v. t.','To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as\n   on meat in roasting.'),('Baste','v. t.','To mark with tar, as sheep.'),('Baste','v. t.','To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that\n   the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.'),('Bastile Bastille','n.','A tower or an elevated work, used for the\n   defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place.'),('Bastile Bastille','n.','\"The Bastille\", formerly a castle or fortress in\n   Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a\n   rhetorical name for a prison.'),('Bastinade','n.','See Bastinado, n.'),('Bastinade','v. t.','To bastinado.'),('Bastinadoes','pl. ','of Bastinado'),('Bastinado','n.','A blow with a stick or cudgel.'),('Bastinado','n.','A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A\n   form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in\n   beating an offender on the soles of his feet.'),('Bastinadoes','imp. & p. p.','of Bastinado'),('Bastinadoing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bastinado'),('Bastinado','v. t.','To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the\n   soles of the feet.'),('Bastion','n.','A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a\n   fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so\n   constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent\n   curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two\n   adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank\n   of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the\n   flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached\n   bastion. See Ravelin.'),('Bastioned','a.','Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.'),('Basto','n.','The ace of clubs in quadrille and omber.'),('Baston','n.','A staff or cudgel.'),('Baston','n.','See Baton.'),('Baston','n.','An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in\n   attendance upon the king\'s court to take into custody persons committed\n   by the court.'),('Basyle','n.','A positive or nonacid constituent of compound, either\n   elementary, or, if compound, performing the functions of an element.'),('Basylous','a.','Pertaining to, or having the nature of, a basyle;\n   electro-positive; basic; -- opposed to chlorous.'),('Bat','n.','A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one\n   end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball,\n   cricket, etc.'),('Bat','n.','Shale or bituminous shale.'),('Bat','n.','A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables;\n   batting.'),('Bat','n.','A part of a brick with one whole end.'),('Batted','imp. & p. p.','of Bat'),('Batting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bat'),('Bat','v. t.','To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.'),('Bat','v. i.','To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.'),('Bat','n.','One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which\n   the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated\n   fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous.\n   See Cheiroptera and Vampire.'),('Batable','a.','Disputable.'),('Batailled','a.','Embattled.'),('Batardeau','n.','A cofferdam.'),('Batardeau','n.','A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a\n   sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides\n   of the wall.'),('Batatas','n.','Alt. of Batata'),('Batata','n.','An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomaea\n   batatas).'),('Batavian','a.','Of or pertaining to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic\n   tribe; or to (b) /atavia or Holland; as, a Batavian legion.'),('Batavian','n.','A native or inhabitant of Batavia or Holland.'),('Batch','v. t.','The quantity of bread baked at one time.'),('Batch','v. t.','A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group\n   or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of\n   letters; the next batch of business.'),('Bate','n.','Strife; contention.'),('Bated','imp. & p. p.','of Bate'),('Bating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bate'),('Bate','v. t.','To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to\n   abate; to beat down; to lower.'),('Bate','v. t.','To allow by way of abatement or deduction.'),('Bate','v. t.','To leave out; to except.'),('Bate','v. t.','To remove.'),('Bate','v. t.','To deprive of.'),('Bate','v. i.','To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.'),('Bate','v. i.','To waste away.'),('Bate','v. t.','To attack; to bait.'),('Bate','','imp. of Bite.'),('Bate','v. i.','To flutter as a hawk; to bait.'),('Bate','n.','See 2d Bath.'),('Bate','n.','An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain\n   animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.'),('Bate','v. t.','To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.'),('Bateaux','pl. ','of Bateau'),('Bateau','n.','A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the\n   Canadian lakes and rivers.'),('Bated','a.','Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated\n   breath.'),('Bateful','a.','Exciting contention; contentious.'),('Bateless','a.','Not to be abated.'),('Batement','n.','Abatement; diminution.'),('Batfish','n.','A name given to several species of fishes: (a) The Malthe\n   vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the\n   Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or\n   sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.)'),('Batfowler','n.','One who practices or finds sport in batfowling.'),('Batfowling','n.','A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch\n   or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The\n   birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise.'),('Batful','v. i.','Rich; fertile.'),('Baths','pl. ','of Bath'),('Bath','n.','The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for\n   purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot\n   air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam\n   bath; a hip bath.'),('Bath','n.','Water or other liquid for bathing.'),('Bath','n.','A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their\n   bodies in water.'),('Bath','n.','A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments\n   arranged for bathing.'),('Bath','n.','A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through\n   which heat is applied to a body.'),('Bath','n.','A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the\n   receptacle holding the solution.'),('Bath','n.','A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five\n   gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and\n   five quarts, as a dry measure.'),('Bath','n.','A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot\n   springs, which has given its name to various objects.'),('Bathed','imp. & p. p.','of Bathe'),('Bathing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bathe'),('Bathe','v. t.','To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.'),('Bathe','v. t.','To lave; to wet.'),('Bathe','v. t.','To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.'),('Bathe','v. t.','To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe\n   the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one\'s forehead with\n   camphor.'),('Bathe','v. t.','To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person\n   immersed.'),('Bathe','v. i.','To bathe one\'s self; to take a bath or baths.'),('Bathe','v. i.','To immerse or cover one\'s self, as in a bath.'),('Bathe','v. i.','To bask in the sun.'),('Bathe','n.','The immersion of the body in water; as to take one\'s usual\n   bathe.'),('Bather','n.','One who bathes.'),('Bathetic','a.','Having the character of bathos.'),('Bathing','n.','Act of taking a bath or baths.'),('Bathmism','n.','See Vital force.'),('Bathometer','n.','An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking\n   soundings without a sounding line.'),('Bathorse','n.','A horse which carries an officer\'s baggage during a\n   campaign.'),('Bathos','n.','A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in\n   writing or speech; anticlimax.'),('Bathybius','n.','A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance\n   found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He\n   supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of\n   the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not\n   of organic, origin.'),('Bathymetric','a.','Alt. of Bathymetrical'),('Bathymetrical','a.','Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the\n   measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea.'),('Bathymetry','n.','The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in\n   the sea.'),('Bating','prep.','With the exception of; excepting.'),('Batiste','n.','Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied\n   also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.'),('Batlet','n.','A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called\n   also batler, batling staff, batting staff.'),('Batman','n.','A weight used in the East, varying according to the\n   locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser\n   only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.'),('Batmen','pl. ','of Batman'),('Batman','n.','A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.'),('Batoidei','n. pl.','The division of fishes which includes the rays and\n   skates.'),('Baton','n.','A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the\n   baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical\n   performances.'),('Baton','n.','An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark\n   of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister;\n   -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.'),('Batoon','n.','See Baton, and Baston.'),('Bat printing','','A mode of printing on glazed ware.'),('Batrachia','n. pl.','The order of amphibians which includes the frogs and\n   toads; the Anura. Sometimes the word is used in a wider sense as\n   equivalent to Amphibia.'),('Batrachian','a.','Pertaining to the Batrachia.'),('Batrachian','n.','One of the Batrachia.'),('Batrachoid','a.','Froglike. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the\n   Batrachidae, a family of marine fishes, including the toadfish. Some\n   have poisonous dorsal spines.'),('Batrachomyomachy','n.','The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek\n   parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.'),('Batrachophagous','a.','Feeding on frogs.'),('Batsmen','pl. ','of Batsman'),('Batsman','n.','The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.'),('Bat\'s-wing','a.','Alt. of Batwing'),('Batwing','a.','Shaped like a bat\'s wing; as, a bat\'s-wing burner.'),('Batta','n.','Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer\n   serving in India.'),('Batta','n.','Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins.'),('Battable','a.','Capable of cultivation; fertile; productive; fattening.'),('Battailant','v. i.','Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike.'),('Battailant','n.','A combatant.'),('Battailous','n.','Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike.'),('Battalia','n.','Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops\n   (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for\n   action.'),('Battalia','n.','An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body.'),('Battalion','n.','A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in\n   battle array.'),('Battalion','n.','A regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp.\n   when assembled for drill or battle.'),('Battalion','v. t.','To form into battalions.'),('Battel','n.','A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel,\n   under Wager.'),('Battel','n.','Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for\n   them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively.'),('Battel','v. i.','To be supplied with provisions from the buttery.'),('Battel','v. i.','To make fertile.'),('Battel','a.','Fertile; fruitful; productive.'),('Batteler','n.','Alt. of Battler'),('Battler','n.','A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from\n   the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for,\n   answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge.'),('Battened','imp. & p. p.','of Batten'),('Battening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Batten'),('Batten','v. t.','To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.'),('Batten','v. t.','To fertilize or enrich, as land.'),('Batten','v. i.','To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut\n   one\'s self.'),('Batten','n .','A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com.\n   & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet\n   long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the\n   edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing.\n   (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack,\n   etc.'),('Batten','v. t.','To furnish or fasten with battens.'),('Batten','v. t.','The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes\n   the threads of a woof.'),('Battening','n.','Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the\n   wall.'),('Battered','imp. & p. p.','of Batter'),('Battering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Batter'),('Batter','v. t.','To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and\n   with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a\n   wall or rampart.'),('Batter','v. t.','To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.'),('Batter','v. t.','To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it\n   inwardly and spread it outwardly.'),('Batter','v. t.','A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour,\n   eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.'),('Batter','v. t.','Paste of clay or loam.'),('Batter','v. t.','A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.'),('Batter','n.','A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank;\n   receding slope.'),('Batter','v. i.','To slope gently backward.'),('Batter','n.','One who wields a bat; a batsman.'),('Batterer','n.','One who, or that which, batters.'),('Battering-ram','n.','An engine used in ancient times to beat down the\n   walls of besieged places.'),('Battering-ram','n.','A blacksmith\'s hammer, suspended, and worked\n   horizontally.'),('Battering train','','A train of artillery for siege operations.'),('Batteries','pl. ','of Battery'),('Battery','v. t.','The act of battering or beating.'),('Battery','v. t.','The unlawful beating of another. It includes every\n   willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another\'s person\n   or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him.'),('Battery','v. t.','Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for\n   attack or defense.'),('Battery','v. t.','Two or more pieces of artillery in the field.'),('Battery','v. t.','A company or division of artillery, including the\n   gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a\n   battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns.'),('Battery','v. t.','A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that\n   they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.'),('Battery','v. t.','An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.'),('Battery','v. t.','A number of similar machines or devices in position; an\n   apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of\n   boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc.'),('Battery','v. t.','A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for\n   crushing ores containing the precious metals.'),('Battery','v. t.','The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up\n   and down.'),('Battery','v. t.','The pitcher and catcher together.'),('Batting','n.','The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in\n   playing games of ball.'),('Batting','n.','Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.;\n   as, cotton batting.'),('Battle','a.','Fertile. See Battel, a.'),('Battle','v. t.','A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the\n   divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.'),('Battle','v. t.','A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.'),('Battle','v. t.','A division of an army; a battalion.'),('Battle','v. t.','The main body, as distinct from the van and rear;\n   battalia.'),('Battled','imp. & p. p.','of Battle'),('Battling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Battle'),('Battle','n.','To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over\n   theories.'),('Battle','v. t.','To assail in battle; to fight.'),('Battle-ax','n.','Alt. of Battle-axe'),('Battle-axe','n.','A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.'),('Battled','p. p.','Embattled.'),('Battledoor','n.','An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered\n   with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in\n   play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.'),('Battledoor','n.','A child\'s hornbook.'),('Battlement','n.','One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient\n   fortifications.'),('Battlement','n.','pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids\n   and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied\n   on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.'),('Battlemented','a.','Having battlements.'),('Battologist','n.','One who battologizes.'),('Battologize','v. t.','To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate.'),('Battology','n.','A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing.'),('Batton','n.','See Batten, and Baton.'),('Battue','v. t.','The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game.'),('Battue','v. t.','The game itself.'),('Battue','v. t.','The wanton slaughter of game.'),('Batture','n.','An elevated river bed or sea bed.'),('Battuta','n.','The measuring of time by beating.'),('Batty','a.','Belonging to, or resembling, a bat.'),('Batule','n.','A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also\n   batule board.'),('Batzen','pl. ','of Batz'),('Batz','n.','A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly\n   current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about\n   four cents.'),('Baubee','n.','Same as Bawbee.'),('Bauble','n.','A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and\n   showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.'),('Bauble','n.','The fool\'s club.'),('Baubling','a.','See Bawbling.'),('Baudekin','n.','The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle\n   Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made\n   originally at Bagdad.'),('Baudrick','n.','A belt. See Baldric.'),('Bauk','n. & v.','Alt. of Baulk'),('Baulk','n. & v.','See Balk.'),('Baunscheidtism','n.','A form of acupuncture, followed by the rubbing of\n   the part with a stimulating fluid.'),('Bauxite','n.','Alt. of Beauxite'),('Beauxite','n.','A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in\n   the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of\n   furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.'),('Bavarian','a.','Of or pertaining to Bavaria.'),('Bavarian','n.','A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria.'),('Bavaroy','n.','A kind of cloak or surtout.'),('Bavian','n.','A baboon.'),('Bavin','n.','A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for\n   kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.'),('Bavin','n.','Impure limestone.'),('Bawbee','n.','A halfpenny.'),('Bawble','n.','A trinket. See Bauble.'),('Bawbling','a.','Insignificant; contemptible.'),('Bawcock','n.','A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment.'),('Bawd','n.','A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women\n   for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually\n   applied to a woman.'),('Bawd','v. i.','To procure women for lewd purposes.'),('Bawdily','adv.','Obscenely; lewdly.'),('Bawdiness','n.','Obscenity; lewdness.'),('Bawdrick','n.','A belt. See Baldric.'),('Bawdry','n.','The practice of procuring women for the gratification of\n   lust.'),('Bawdry','n.','Illicit intercourse; fornication.'),('Bawdry','n.','Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language.'),('Bawdy','a.','Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes.'),('Bawdy','a.','Obscene; filthy; unchaste.'),('Bawdyhouse','n.','A house of prostitution; a house of ill fame; a\n   brothel.'),('Bawhorse','n.','Same as Bathorse.'),('Bawled','imp. & p. p.','of Bawl'),('Bawling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bawl'),('Bawl','v. i.','To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence,\n   as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.'),('Bawl','v. i.','To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation.'),('Bawl','v. t.','To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker\n   or town-crier does.'),('Bawl','n.','A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry.'),('Bawler','n.','One who bawls.'),('Bawn','n.','An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a\n   fortified inclosure.'),('Bawn','n.','A large house.'),('Bawrel','n.','A kind of hawk.'),('Bawsin','n.','Alt. of Bawson'),('Bawson','n.','A badger.'),('Bawson','n.','A large, unwieldy person.'),('Baxter','n.','A baker; originally, a female baker.'),('Bay','a.','Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the\n   color of horses.'),('Bay','n.','An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the\n   same general character.'),('Bay','n.','A small body of water set off from the main body; as a\n   compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just\n   outside of the gates of a lock, etc.'),('Bay','n.','A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.'),('Bay','n.','A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a\n   building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses,\n   vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any\n   structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.'),('Bay','n.','A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the\n   stalks.'),('Bay','n.','A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.'),('Bay','n.','A berry, particularly of the laurel.'),('Bay','n.','The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an\n   honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or\n   excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel.'),('Bay','n.','A tract covered with bay trees.'),('Bayed','imp. & p. p.','of Bay'),('Baying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bay'),('Bay','v. i.','To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.'),('Bay','v. t.','To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or\n   drive to bay; as, to bay the bear.'),('Bay','v. i.','Deep-toned, prolonged barking.'),('Bay','v. i.','A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a\n   difficulty, when escape has become impossible.'),('Bay','v. t.','To bathe.'),('Bay','n.','A bank or dam to keep back water.'),('Bay','v. t.','To dam, as water; -- with up or back.'),('Baya','n.','The East Indian weaver bird (Ploceus Philippinus).'),('Bayad','n.','Alt. of Bayatte'),('Bayatte','n.','A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species\n   (Bagrina bayad and B. docmac).'),('Bayadere','n.','A female dancer in the East Indies.'),('Bay-antler','n.','The second tine of a stag\'s horn. See under Antler.'),('Bayard','a.','Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the\n   phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse.'),('Bayard','a.','A stupid, clownish fellow.'),('Bayardly','a.','Blind; stupid.'),('Bayberry','n.','The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis.'),('Bayberry','n.','A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle (Pimenta\n   acris).'),('Bayberry','n.','The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub\n   itself; -- called also candleberry tree.'),('Baybolt','n.','A bolt with a barbed shank.'),('Bayed','a.','Having a bay or bays.'),('Bay ice','','See under Ice.'),('Bay leaf','','See under 3d Bay.'),('Bayonet','n.','A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the\n   muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means\n   of offense and defense.'),('Bayonet','n.','A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it,\n   and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.'),('Bayoneted','imp. & p. p.','of Bayonet'),('Bayoneting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bayonet'),('Bayonet','v. t.','To stab with a bayonet.'),('Bayonet','v. t.','To compel or drive by the bayonet.'),('Bayous','pl. ','of Bayou'),('Bayou','n.','An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a\n   large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement\n   except from tide and wind.'),('Bay rum','','A fragrant liquid, used for cosmetic and medicinal purposes.'),('Bays','n.','Alt. of Bayze'),('Bayze','n.','See Baize.'),('Bay salt','','Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation\n   in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large\n   crystalline salt of commerce.'),('Bay tree','','A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis).'),('Bay window','','A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and\n   projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal,\n   or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window.'),('Bay yarn','','Woolen yarn.'),('Bazaar','n.','Alt. of Bazar'),('Bazar','n.','In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of\n   shops where goods are exposed for sale.'),('Bazar','n.','A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods, as\n   at a fair.'),('Bazar','n.','A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly for\n   a charitable objects.'),('Bdellium','n.','An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen.\n   ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone,\n   or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia.'),('Bdellium','n.','A gum resin of reddish brown color, brought from India,\n   Persia, and Africa.'),('Bdelloidea','n. pl.','The order of Annulata which includes the leeches.\n   See Hirudinea.'),('Bdellometer','n.','A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator\n   and an exhausting syringe.'),('Bdellomorpha','n.','An order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike\n   worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams.'),('Was','imp.','of Be'),('Been','p. p.','of Be'),('Being','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Be'),('Be','v. i.','To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have\n   ex/stence.'),('Be','v. i.','To exist in a certain manner or relation, -- whether as a\n   reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a\n   certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as\n   belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, --\n   a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be\n   here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a\n   nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of\n   existence; that is the man.'),('Be','v. i.','To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday.'),('Be','v. i.','To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to.'),('Be-','','A prefix, originally the same word as by;'),('Be-','','To intensify the meaning; as, bespatter, bestir.'),('Be-','','To render an intransitive verb transitive; as, befall (to fall\n   upon); bespeak (to speak for).'),('Be-','','To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget\n   (to get as offspring); beset (to set around).'),('Beaches','pl. ','of Beach'),('Beach','n.','Pebbles, collectively; shingle.'),('Beach','n.','The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the\n   waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand.'),('Beached','imp. & p. p.','of Beach'),('Beaching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beach'),('Beach','v. t.','To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to\n   strand; as, to beach a ship.'),('Beach comber','','A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See\n   Comber.'),('Beached','p. p. & a.','Bordered by a beach.'),('Beached','p. p. & a.','Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach;\n   as, the ship is beached.'),('Beachy','a.','Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches;\n   shingly.'),('Beacon','n.','A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to\n   give any notice, commonly of warning.'),('Beacon','n.','A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near\n   the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.'),('Beacon','n.','A high hill near the shore.'),('Beacon','n.','That which gives notice of danger.'),('Beaconed','imp. & p. p.','of Beacon'),('Beaconing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beacon'),('Beacon','v. t.','To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.'),('Beacon','v. t.','To furnish with a beacon or beacons.'),('Beaconage','n.','Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also,\n   beacons, collectively.'),('Beaconless','a.','Having no beacon.'),('Bead','n.','A prayer.'),('Bead','n.','A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn\n   for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman\n   Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at\n   one\'s beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.'),('Bead','n.','Any small globular body'),('Bead','n.','A bubble in spirits.'),('Bead','n.','A drop of sweat or other liquid.'),('Bead','n.','A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim\n   (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).'),('Bead','n.','A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually\n   an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short\n   embossments.'),('Bead','n.','A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt,\n   used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides,\n   as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead;\n   the iron bead, etc.'),('Beaded','imp. & p. p.','of Bead'),('Beading','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bead'),('Bead','v. t.','To ornament with beads or beading.'),('Bead','v. i.','To form beadlike bubbles.'),('Beadhouse','n.','Alt. of Bedehouse'),('Bedehouse','n.','An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their\n   benefactors.'),('Beading','n.','Molding in imitation of beads.'),('Beading','n.','The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as,\n   the beading of a brand of whisky.'),('Beadle','v.','A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites\n   or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or\n   summoner.'),('Beadle','v.','An officer in a university, who precedes public processions\n   of officers and students.'),('Beadle','v.','An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of\n   duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the\n   chastisement of petty offenders, etc.'),('Beadlery','n.','Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.'),('Beadleship','n.','The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle.'),('Bead proof','','Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in\n   alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of\n   glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now\n   ascertained by more accurate meters.'),('Bead proof','','A degree of strength in alcoholic liquor as shown by\n   beads or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side of the\n   glass, when shaken.'),('Beadroll','n.','A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a\n   certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of\n   a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general.'),('-men','pl. ','of Bedesman'),('Beadsman','n.','Alt. of Bedesman'),('Bedesman','n.','A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to\n   pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.'),('Beadsnake','n.','A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps\n   fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black.'),('-women','pl. ','of Bedeswoman'),('Beadswoman','n.','Alt. of Bedeswoman'),('Bedeswoman','n.','Fem. of Beadsman.'),('Beadwork','n.','Ornamental work in beads.'),('Beady','a.','Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening.'),('Beady','a.','Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads.'),('Beady','a.','Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor.'),('Beagle','n.','A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches\n   high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in\n   Appendix.'),('Beagle','n.','Fig.: A spy or detective; a constable.'),('Beak','n.','The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath,\n   covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and\n   habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds.'),('Beak','n.','A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles.'),('Beak','n.','The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other\n   invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.'),('Beak','n.','The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of\n   a bivalve.'),('Beak','n.','The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the\n   canal.'),('Beak','n.','Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a\n   promontory of land.'),('Beak','n.','A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point,\n   and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce\n   the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.'),('Beak','n.','That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened\n   to the stem, and supported by the main knee.'),('Beak','n.','A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow\n   fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.'),('Beak','n.','Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the\n   fruit or other parts of a plant.'),('Beak','n.','A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.).'),('Beak','n.','A magistrate or policeman.'),('Beaked','a.','Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.'),('Beaked','a.','Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate.'),('Beaker','n.','A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a\n   foot or standard.'),('Beaker','n.','An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip\n   for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat.'),('Beakhead','n.','An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a\n   head with a beak.'),('Beakhead','n.','A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a\n   vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew.'),('Beakhead','n.','Same as Beak, 3.'),('Beakiron','n.','A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to\n   reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.'),('Bealed','imp. & p. p.','of Beal'),('Bealing','p. pr & vb. n.','of Beal'),('Beal','v. i.','To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a\n   pimple.'),('Be-all','n.','The whole; all that is to be.'),('Beam','n.','Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its\n   thickness, and prepared for use.'),('Beam','n.','One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or\n   ship.'),('Beam','n.','The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more\n   beam than another.'),('Beam','n.','The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are\n   suspended.'),('Beam','n.','The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which\n   bears the antlers, or branches.'),('Beam','n.','The pole of a carriage.'),('Beam','n.','A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers\n   wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is\n   rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the\n   back beam.'),('Beam','n.','The straight part or shank of an anchor.'),('Beam','n.','The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are\n   secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that\n   draw it.'),('Beam','n.','A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central\n   axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it\n   receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; --\n   called also working beam or walking beam.'),('Beam','n.','A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or\n   other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat.'),('Beam','n.','Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort.'),('Beam','n.','One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called\n   also beam feather.'),('Beamed','imp. & p. p.','of Beam'),('Beaming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beam'),('Beam','v. t.','To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth;\n   as, to beam forth light.'),('Beam','v. i.','To emit beams of light.'),('Beambird','n.','A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so\n   called because it often nests on a beam in a building.'),('Beamed','a.','Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag.'),('Beamful','a.','Beamy; radiant.'),('Beamily','adv.','In a beaming manner.'),('Beaminess','n.','The state of being beamy.'),('Beaming','a.','Emitting beams; radiant.'),('Beamingly','adv.','In a beaming manner; radiantly.'),('Beamless','a.','Not having a beam.'),('Beamless','a.','Not emitting light.'),('Beamlet','n.','A small beam of light.'),('Beam tree','','A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple.'),('Beamy','a.','Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining.'),('Beamy','a.','Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy.'),('Beamy','a.','Having horns, or antlers.'),('Bean','n.','A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly\n   of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.'),('Bean','n.','The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or\n   less resembling true beans.'),('Bean caper','','A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy\n   leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus\n   Zygophyllum.'),('Bean trefoil','','A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate\n   leaves (Anagyris foetida).'),('Bore','imp.','of Bear'),('Bare','','of Bear'),('Born','p. p.','of Bear'),('Borne','','of Bear'),('Bearing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bear'),('Bear','v. t.','To support or sustain; to hold up.'),('Bear','v. t.','To support and remove or carry; to convey.'),('Bear','v. t.','To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.'),('Bear','v. t.','To possess and use, as power; to exercise.'),('Bear','v. t.','To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a\n   mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.'),('Bear','v. t.','To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or\n   distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.'),('Bear','v. t.','To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to\n   entertain; to harbor'),('Bear','v. t.','To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.'),('Bear','v. t.','To gain or win.'),('Bear','v. t.','To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense,\n   responsibility, etc.'),('Bear','v. t.','To render or give; to bring forward.'),('Bear','v. t.','To carry on, or maintain; to have.'),('Bear','v. t.','To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain\n   without violence, injury, or change.'),('Bear','v. t.','To manage, wield, or direct.'),('Bear','v. t.','To behave; to conduct.'),('Bear','v. t.','To afford; to be to; to supply with.'),('Bear','v. t.','To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples;\n   to bear children; to bear interest.'),('Bear','v. i.','To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to\n   barrenness.'),('Bear','v. i.','To suffer, as in carrying a burden.'),('Bear','v. i.','To endure with patience; to be patient.'),('Bear','v. i.','To press; -- with on or upon, or against.'),('Bear','v. i.','To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring\n   matters to bear.'),('Bear','v. i.','To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this\n   bear on the question?'),('Bear','v. i.','To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.'),('Bear','v. i.','To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect\n   to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.'),('Bear','n.','A bier.'),('Bear','n.','Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied\n   genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit\n   and insects.'),('Bear','n.','An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or\n   habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water\n   bear; sea bear.'),('Bear','n.','One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called\n   respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa\n   Minor.'),('Bear','n.','Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.'),('Bear','n.','A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery\n   in expectation of a fall in the market.'),('Bear','n.','A portable punching machine.'),('Bear','n.','A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the\n   deck.'),('Bear','v. t.','To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to\n   bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.'),('Bear','n.','Alt. of Bere'),('Bere','n.','Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley,\n   commonly the former (Hord. vulgare).'),('Bearable','a.','Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable.'),('Bearberry','n.','A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos\n   uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red\n   berries of which bears are said to be fond.'),('Bearbind','n.','The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).'),('Beard','n.','The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of\n   the human face, chiefly of male adults.'),('Beard','n.','The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.'),('Beard','n.','The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in\n   some birds'),('Beard','n.','The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth\n   or jaws of some fishes.'),('Beard','n.','The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.'),('Beard','n.','The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.'),('Beard','n.','In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and\n   butterflies.'),('Beard','n.','Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of\n   grain.'),('Beard','n.','A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument,\n   projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.'),('Beard','n.','That part of the under side of a horse\'s lower jaw which is\n   above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.'),('Beard','n.','That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the\n   shank and the face.'),('Beard','n.','An imposition; a trick.'),('Bearded','imp. & p. p.','of Beard'),('Bearding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beard'),('Beard','v. t.','To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard\n   of (a man), in anger or contempt.'),('Beard','v. t.','To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.'),('Beard','v. t.','To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and\n   similar shellfish.'),('Bearded','a.','Having a beard.'),('Beardie','n.','The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe.'),('Beardless','a.','Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or\n   manhood; youthful.'),('Beardless','a.','Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.'),('Beardlessness','n.','The state or quality of being destitute of beard.'),('Bearer','n.','One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.'),('Bearer','n.','Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the\n   grave; a pallbearer.'),('Bearer','n.','A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant.'),('Bearer','n.','A tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer.'),('Bearer','n.','One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the\n   payment of money; as, pay to bearer.'),('Bearer','n.','A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the\n   impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal\n   interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.'),('Bearherd','n.','A man who tends a bear.'),('Bearhound','n.','A hound for baiting or hunting bears.'),('Bearing','n.','The manner in which one bears or conducts one\'s self;\n   mien; behavior; carriage.'),('Bearing','n.','Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.'),('Bearing','n.','The situation of one object, with respect to another, such\n   situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or\n   influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation;\n   connection.'),('Bearing','n.','Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.'),('Bearing','n.','The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as,\n   a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.'),('Bearing','n.','That part of any member of a building which rests upon its\n   supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the\n   wall.'),('Bearing','n.','The portion of a support on which anything rests.'),('Bearing','n.','Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty\n   feet of bearing between its supports.'),('Bearing','n.','The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support,\n   collar, or boxing; the journal.'),('Bearing','n.','The part of the support on which a journal rests and\n   rotates.'),('Bearing','n.','Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of\n   arms -- commonly in the pl.'),('Bearing','n.','The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship\'s\n   position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or\n   point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the\n   cape was W. N. W.'),('Bearing','n.','The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.'),('Bearing','n.','The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed\n   with cargo or ballast.'),('Bearing cloth','','A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to\n   be baptized.'),('Bearing rein','','A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to\n   keep the horse\'s head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.'),('Bearish','a.','Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in\n   temper or manners.'),('Bearishness','n.','Behavior like that of a bear.'),('Bearn','n.','See Bairn.'),('Bear\'s-breech','n.','See Acanthus, n., 1.'),('Bear\'s-breech','n.','The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium)'),('Bear\'s-ear','n.','A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from\n   the shape of the leaf.'),('Bear\'s-foot','n.','A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with\n   digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a\n   powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.'),('Bearskin','n.','The skin of a bear.'),('Bearskin','n.','A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats.'),('Bearskin','n.','A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers.'),('Bear\'s-paw','n.','A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus\n   maculatus), often used as an ornament.'),('Bearward','n.','A keeper of bears. See Bearherd.'),('Beast','n.','Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects,\n   etc.'),('Beast','n.','Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or\n   sport; as, a beast of burden.'),('Beast','n.','As opposed to man: Any irrational animal.'),('Beast','n.','Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.'),('Beast','n.','A game at cards similar to loo.'),('Beast','n.','A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be\n   beaten at beast, omber, etc.'),('Beasthood','n.','State or nature of a beast.'),('Beastings','n. pl.','See Biestings.'),('Beastlihead','n.','Beastliness.'),('Beastlike','a.','Like a beast.'),('Beastliness','n.','The state or quality of being beastly.'),('Beastly','a.','Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a\n   beast.'),('Beastly','a.','Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the\n   nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy.'),('Beastly','a.','Abominable; as, beastly weather.'),('Beat','imp.','of Beat'),('Beat','p. p.','of Beat'),('Beaten','','of Beat'),('Beating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beat'),('Beat','v. t.','To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to\n   beat one\'s breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in\n   order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.'),('Beat','v. t.','To punish by blows; to thrash.'),('Beat','v. t.','To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the\n   noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.'),('Beat','v. t.','To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.'),('Beat','v. t.','To tread, as a path.'),('Beat','v. t.','To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game,\n   etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.'),('Beat','v. t.','To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with\n   out.'),('Beat','v. t.','To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.'),('Beat','v. t.','To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat\n   of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat\n   the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.'),('Beat','v. i.','To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock\n   vigorously or loudly.'),('Beat','v. i.','To move with pulsation or throbbing.'),('Beat','v. i.','To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force;\n   to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.'),('Beat','v. i.','To be in agitation or doubt.'),('Beat','v. i.','To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag\n   line or traverse.'),('Beat','v. i.','To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.'),('Beat','v. i.','To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the\n   drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.'),('Beat','v. i.','To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater\n   and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of\n   instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.'),('Beat','n.','A stroke; a blow.'),('Beat','n.','A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the\n   heart; the beat of the pulse.'),('Beat','n.','The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions\n   of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music\n   the beat is the unit.'),('Beat','n.','A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it\n   is intended to ornament.'),('Beat','n.','A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at\n   regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of\n   slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to\n   other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the\n   vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i.,\n   8.'),('Beat','v. i.','A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a\n   watchman\'s beat.'),('Beat','v. i.','A place of habitual or frequent resort.'),('Beat','v. i.','A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often\n   emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.'),('Beat','a.','Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.'),('Beaten','a.','Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.'),('Beaten','a.','Vanquished; conquered; baffled.'),('Beaten','a.','Exhausted; tired out.'),('Beaten','a.','Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase.'),('Beaten','a.','Tried; practiced.'),('Beater','n.','One who, or that which, beats.'),('Beater','n.','A person who beats up game for the hunters.'),('Beath','v. t.','To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood.'),('Beatific','a.','Alt. of Beatifical'),('Beatifical','a.','Having the power to impart or complete blissful\n   enjoyment; blissful.'),('Beatificate','v. t.','To beatify.'),('Beatification','n.','The act of beatifying, or the state of being\n   beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of\n   ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of \"the\n   blessed,\" or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a\n   stage in the process of canonization.'),('Beatified','imp. & p. p.','of Beatify'),('Beatifying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beatify'),('Beatify','v. t.','To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed,\n   or as conferring happiness.'),('Beatify','v. t.','To make happy; to bless with the completion of\n   celestial enjoyment.'),('Beatify','v. t.','To ascertain and declare, by a public process and\n   decree, that a deceased person is one of \"the blessed\" and is to be\n   reverenced as such, though not canonized.'),('Beating','n.','The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or\n   chastisement by blows.'),('Beating','n.','Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.'),('Beating','n.','Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n.'),('Beating','n.','The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag\n   direction.'),('Beatitude','n.','Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.'),('Beatitude','n.','Any one of the nine declarations (called the\n   Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with\n   regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain\n   specified virtues.'),('Beatitude','n.','Beatification.'),('Beaux','pl. ','of Beau'),('Beaus','pl. ','of Beau'),('Beau','n.','A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a\n   dandy.'),('Beau','n.','A man who escorts, or pays attentions to, a lady; an escort;\n   a lover.'),('Beaucatcher','n.','A small flat curl worn on the temple by women.'),('Beaufet','n.','A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass,\n   etc.; a buffet.'),('Beaufin','n.','See Biffin.'),('Beau ideal','','A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or\n   physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects,\n   and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard\n   or model.'),('Beauish','n.','Like a beau; characteristic of a beau; foppish; fine.'),('Beau monde','','The fashionable world; people of fashion and gayety.'),('Beaupere','n.','A father.'),('Beaupere','n.','A companion.'),('Beauseant','n.','The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.'),('Beauship','n.','The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau.'),('Beauteous','a.','Full of beauty; beautiful; very handsome.'),('Beautied','p. a.','Beautiful; embellished.'),('Beautifier','n.','One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful.'),('Beautiful','a.','Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing\n   to the sight or the mind.'),('Beautified','imp. & p. p.','of Beautify'),('Beautifying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beautify'),('Beautify','v. t.','To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to\n   adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.'),('Beautify','v. i.','To become beautiful; to advance in beauty.'),('Beautiless','a.','Destitute of beauty.'),('Beautie','pl. ','of Beauty'),('Beauty','n.','An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye,\n   the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense.'),('Beauty','n.','A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence;\n   anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.'),('Beauty','n.','A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman.'),('Beauty','n.','Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.'),('Beaux','n.','pl. of Beau.'),('Beauxite','n.','See Bauxite.'),('Beaver','n.','An amphibious rodent, of the genus Castor.'),('Beaver','n.','The fur of the beaver.'),('Beaver','n.','A hat, formerly made of the fur of the beaver, but now\n   usually of silk.'),('Beaver','n.','Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woolen cloth, used chiefly for\n   making overcoats.'),('Beaver','n.','That piece of armor which protected the lower part of the\n   face, whether forming a part of the helmet or fixed to the breastplate.\n   It was so constructed (with joints or otherwise) that the wearer could\n   raise or lower it to eat and drink.'),('Beavered','a.','Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat.'),('Beaverteen','n.','A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn\n   after dyeing.'),('Bebeerine','n.','Alt. of Bebirine'),('Bebirine','n.','An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green\n   heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodioei). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and\n   febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine.'),('Bebleed','v. t.','To make bloody; to stain with blood.'),('Beblood','v. t.','Alt. of Bebloody'),('Bebloody','v. t.','To make bloody; to stain with blood.'),('Beblot','v. t.','To blot; to stain.'),('Beblubber','v. t.','To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping;\n   as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.'),('Becalmed','imp. & p. p.','of Becalm'),('Becalming','n.','of Becalm'),('Becalm','v. t.','To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease.'),('Becalm','v. t.','To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the\n   stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.'),('Became','','imp. of Become.'),('Becard','n.','A South American bird of the flycatcher family. (Tityra\n   inquisetor).'),('Because','conj.','By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the\n   reason that.'),('Because','conj.','In order that; that.'),('Beccabunga','n.','See Brooklime.'),('Beccaficos','pl. ','of Beccafico'),('Beccafico','n.','A small bird. (Silvia hortensis), which is highly prized\n   by the Italians for the delicacy of its flesh in the autumn, when it\n   has fed on figs, grapes, etc.'),('Bechamel','n.','A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream.'),('Bechance','adv.','By chance; by accident.'),('Bechance','v. t. & i.','To befall; to chance; to happen to.'),('Becharm','v. t.','To charm; to captivate.'),('Beche de mer','','The trepang.'),('Bechic','','Pertaining to, or relieving, a cough.'),('Bechic','n.','A medicine for relieving coughs.'),('Beck','n.','See Beak.'),('Beck','n.','A small brook.'),('Beck','n.','A vat. See Back.'),('Becked','imp. & p. p.','of Beck'),('Becking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beck'),('Beck','v. i.','To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand.'),('Beck','v. t.','To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or\n   hand; to intimate a command to.'),('Beck','n.','A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a\n   call or command.'),('Becker','n.','A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or\n   braise.'),('Becket','n.','A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for\n   holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a\n   pocket, or a handle made of rope.'),('Becket','n.','A spade for digging turf.'),('Beckoned','imp. & p. p.','of Beckon'),('Beckoning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beckon'),('Beckon','v. t.','To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a\n   motion of the hand.'),('Beckon','n.','A sign made without words; a beck.'),('Beclap','v. t.','To catch; to grasp; to insnare.'),('Beclipped','imp. & p. p.','of Beclip'),('Beclip','v. t.','To embrace; to surround.'),('Beclouded','imp. & p. p.','of Becloud'),('Beclouding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Becloud'),('Becloud','v. t.','To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud.'),('Became','imp.','of Become'),('Become','p. p.','of Become'),('Becoming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Become'),('Become','v. i.','To pass from one state to another; to enter into some\n   state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or\n   receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new\n   character.'),('Become','v. i.','To come; to get.'),('Become','v. t.','To suit or be suitable to; to be congruous with; to\n   befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of,\n   or proper for; to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things.'),('Becomed','a.','Proper; decorous.'),('Becoming','a.','Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful;\n   befitting.'),('Becoming','n.','That which is becoming or appropriate.'),('Becomingly','adv.','In a becoming manner.'),('Becomingness','n.','The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit;\n   congruity; fitness.'),('Becripple','v. t.','To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame.'),('Becuna','n.','A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyraena spet). See\n   Barracuda.'),('Becurl','v. t.','To curl; to adorn with curls.'),('Bed','n.','An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a\n   couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft\n   material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a\n   feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense,\n   any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a\n   quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.'),('Bed','n.','(Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.'),('Bed','n.','A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little\n   raised above the adjoining ground.'),('Bed','n.','A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of\n   ashes or coals.'),('Bed','n.','The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the\n   bed of a river.'),('Bed','n.','A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a\n   bed of coal, iron, etc.'),('Bed','n.','See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.'),('Bed','n.','The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and\n   lower beds.'),('Bed','n.','A course of stone or brick in a wall.'),('Bed','n.','The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.'),('Bed','n.','The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.'),('Bed','n.','The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of\n   a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the\n   bed of an engine.'),('Bed','n.','The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.'),('Bed','n.','The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.'),('Bedded','imp. & p. p.','of Bed'),('Bedding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bed'),('Bed','v. t.','To place in a bed.'),('Bed','v. t.','To make partaker of one\'s bed; to cohabit with.'),('Bed','v. t.','To furnish with a bed or bedding.'),('Bed','v. t.','To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed\n   of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold.'),('Bed','v. t.','To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and\n   security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place\n   upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock.'),('Bed','v. t.','To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as\n   a bed.'),('Bed','v. t.','To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or\n   recumbent position.'),('Bed','v. i.','To go to bed; to cohabit.'),('Bedabbled','imp. & p. p.','of Bedabble'),('Bedabbling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bedabble'),('Bedabble','v. t.','To dabble; to sprinkle or wet.'),('Bedaff','v. t.','To make a daff or fool of.'),('Bedagat','n.','The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah.'),('Bedaggle','v. t.','To daggle.'),('Bedashed','imp. & p. p.','of Bedash'),('Bedashing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bedash'),('Bedash','v. t.','To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid\n   upon; to bespatter.'),('Bedaubed','imp. & p. p.','of Bedaub'),('Bedaubing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bedaub'),('Bedaub','v. t.','To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and\n   dirty.'),('Bedazzled','imp. & p. p.','of Bedazzle'),('Bedazzling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bedazzle'),('Bedazzle','v. t.','To dazzle or make dim by a strong light.'),('Bedbug','n.','A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex\n   Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See\n   Illustration in Appendix.'),('Bedchair','n.','A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support\n   them while sitting up in bed.'),('Bedchamber','n.','A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in.'),('Bedclothes','n. pl.','Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.'),('Bedcord','n.','A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support\n   the bed.'),('Bedded','a.','Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or\n   arranged in a bed or beds.'),('Bedding','n.','A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether\n   for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.'),('Bedding','n.','The state or position of beds and layers.'),('Bede','v. t.','To pray; also, to offer; to proffer.'),('Bede','n.','A kind of pickax.'),('Bedecked','imp. & p. p.','of Bedeck'),('Bedecking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bedeck'),('Bedeck','v. t.','To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.'),('Bedeguar','n.','Alt. of Bedegar'),('Bedegar','n.','A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or\n   eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites\n   rosae). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.'),('Bedehouse','n.','Same as Beadhouse.'),('Bedel','n.','Alt. of Bedell'),('Bedell','n.','Same as Beadle.'),('Bedelry','n.','Beadleship.'),('Beden','n.','The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is\n   probably the wild goat of the Bible.'),('Bedesman','n.','Same as Beadsman.'),('Bedevilled','imp. & p. p.','of Bedevil'),('Bedeviling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bedevil'),('Bedevilling','','of Bedevil'),('Bedevil','v. t.','To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by\n   the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to\n   torment.'),('Bedevil','v. t.','To spoil; to corrupt.'),('Bedevilment','n.','The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion;\n   vexatious trouble.'),('Bedewed','imp. & p. p.','of Bedew'),('Bedewing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bedew'),('Bedew','v. t.','To moisten with dew, or as with dew.'),('Bedewer','n.','One who, or that which, bedews.'),('Bedewy','a.','Moist with dew; dewy.'),('Bedfellow','n.','One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who\n   shares one\'s couch.'),('Bedfere Bedphere','n.','A bedfellow.'),('Bedgown','n.','A nightgown.'),('Bedight','p. p.','of Bedight'),('Bedighted','','of Bedight'),('Bedight','v. t.','To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn.'),('Bedimmed','imp. & p. p.','of Bedim'),('Bedimming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bedim'),('Bedim','v. t.','To make dim; to obscure or darken.'),('Bedizen','v. t.','To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste.'),('Bedizenment','n.','That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state\n   of being dressed, tawdrily.'),('Bedkey','n.','An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead.'),('Bedlam','n.','A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the\n   insane; a madhouse.'),('Bedlam','n.','An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.'),('Bedlam','n.','Any place where uproar and confusion prevail.'),('Bedlam','a.','Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse.'),('Bedlamite','n.','An inhabitant of a madhouse; a madman.'),('Bedmaker','n.','One who makes beds.'),('Bed-molding','n.','Alt. of Bed-moulding'),('Bed-moulding','n.','The molding of a cornice immediately below the\n   corona.'),('Bedote','v. t.','To cause to dote; to deceive.'),('Bedouin','n.','One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are\n   scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts.'),('Bedouin','a.','Pertaining to the Bedouins; nomad.'),('Bedpan','n.','A pan for warming beds.'),('Bedpan','n.','A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be\n   used by a sick person in bed.'),('Bedphere','n.','See Bedfere.'),('Bedpiece','n.','Alt. of Bedplate'),('Bedplate','n.','The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts\n   are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and\n   soleplate.'),('Bedpost','n.','One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the\n   canopy over a bedstead.'),('Bedpost','n.','Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep\n   the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff.'),('Bedquilt','n.','A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.'),('Bedrabble','v. t.','To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble.'),('Bedraggled','imp. & p. p.','of Bedraggle'),('Bedraggling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bedraggle'),('Bedraggle','v. t.','To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking,\n   are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc.'),('Bedrenched','imp. & p. p.','of Bedrench'),('Bedrenching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bedrench'),('Bedrench','v. t.','To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak.'),('Bedribble','v. t.','To dribble upon.'),('Bedrid','v. i.','Alt. of Bedridden'),('Bedridden','v. i.','Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity.'),('Bedright Bedrite','n.','The duty or privilege of the marriage bed.'),('Bedrizzle','v. t.','To drizzle upon.'),('Bed rock','','The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig.'),('Bedroom','n.','A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging\n   room.'),('Bedroom','n.','Room in a bed.'),('Bedrop','v. t.','To sprinkle, as with drops.'),('Bedrug','v. t.','To drug abundantly or excessively.'),('Bed screw','','A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and\n   assisting in launching.'),('Bed screw','','A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of\n   the adjacent side pieces.'),('Bedside','n.','The side of a bed.'),('Bedsite','n.','A recess in a room for a bed.'),('Bedsore','n.','A sore on the back or hips caused by lying for a long time\n   in bed.'),('Bedspread','n.','A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.'),('Bedstaves','pl. ','of Bedstaff'),('Bedstaff','n.','\"A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the\n   bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side.\"'),('Bedstead','n.','A framework for supporting a bed.'),('Bed steps','','Steps for mounting a bed of unusual height.'),('Bedstock','n.','The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead.'),('Bedstraw','n.','Straw put into a bed.'),('Bedstraw','n.','A genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems,\n   whorled leaves, and small white flowers.'),('Bedswerver','n.','One who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage\n   vow.'),('Bedtick','n.','A tick or bag made of cloth, used for inclosing the\n   materials of a bed.'),('Bedtime','n.','The time to go to bed.'),('Beducked','imp. & p. p.','of Beduck'),('Beduck','v. t.','To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse.'),('Beduin','n.','See Bedouin.'),('Bedunged','imp. & p. p.','of Bedung'),('Bedung','v. t.','To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or\n   defile, literally or figuratively.'),('Bedust','v. t.','To sprinkle, soil, or cover with dust.'),('Bedward','adv.','Towards bed.'),('Bedwarfed','imp. & p. p.','of Bedwarf'),('Bedwarf','v. t.','To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of;\n   to dwarf.'),('Bedyed','imp. & p. p.','of Bedye'),('Bedyeing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bedye'),('Bedye','v. t.','To dye or stain.'),('Bee','','p. p. of Be; -- used for been.'),('Bee','n.','An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidae (the\n   honeybees), or family Andrenidae (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee.'),('Bee','n.','A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor\n   for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a\n   husking bee; a raising bee.'),('Bee','n.','Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to\n   reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks.'),('Beebread','n.','A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of\n   honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is\n   collected by bees as food for their young.'),('Beeches','pl. ','of Beech'),('Beech','n.','A tree of the genus Fagus.'),('Beechen','a.','Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech;\n   belonging to the beech.'),('Beechnut','n.','The nut of the beech tree.'),('Beech tree','','The beech.'),('Beechy','a.','Of or relating to beeches.'),('Bee-eater','n.','A bird of the genus Merops, that feeds on bees. The\n   European species (M. apiaster) is remarkable for its brilliant colors.'),('Bee-eater','n.','An African bird of the genus Rhinopomastes.'),('Beef','n.','An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B.\n   taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state;\n   esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.'),('Beef','n.','The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal,\n   when slaughtered for food.'),('Beef','n.','Applied colloquially to human flesh.'),('Beef','a.','Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.'),('Beefeater','n.','One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person.'),('Beefeater','n.','One of the yeomen of the guard, in England.'),('Beefeater','n.','An African bird of the genus Buphaga, which feeds on the\n   larvae of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two\n   species are known.'),('Beefsteak','n.','A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for\n   broiling.'),('Beef-witted','n.','Stupid; dull.'),('Beefwood','n.','An Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used\n   for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South\n   Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland.'),('Beefy','a.','Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef;\n   fleshy.'),('Beehive','n.','A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively.'),('Beehouse','n.','A house for bees; an apiary.'),('Bee larkspur','','(Bot.) See Larkspur.'),('Beeld','n.','Same as Beild.'),('Bee line','','The shortest line from one place to another, like that of a\n   bee to its hive when loaded with honey; an air line.'),('Beelzebub','n.','The title of a heathen deity to whom the Jews ascribed\n   the sovereignty of the evil spirits; hence, the Devil or a devil. See\n   Baal.'),('Beem','n.','A trumpet.'),('Beemaster','n.','One who keeps bees.'),('Been','','The past participle of Be. In old authors it is also the pr.\n   tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee.'),('Beer','n.','A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly\n   from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter\n   flavor.'),('Beer','n.','A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various\n   plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.'),('Beeregar','n.','Sour beer.'),('Beerhouse','n.','A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse.'),('Beeriness','n.','Beery condition.'),('Beery','a.','Of or resembling beer; affected by beer; maudlin.'),('Beestings','n.','Same as Biestings.'),('Beeswax','n.','The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are\n   constructed.'),('Beeswing','n.','The second crust formed in port and some other wines\n   after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar,\n   supposed to resemble the wing of a bee.'),('Beet','n.','A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible\n   root the first year and seed the second year.'),('Beet','n.','The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and\n   varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in\n   making sugar.'),('Beete','v. t.','Alt. of Bete'),('Bete','v. t.','To mend; to repair.'),('Bete','v. t.','To renew or enkindle (a fire).'),('Beetle','v. t.','A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements,\n   etc.'),('Beetle','v. t.','A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering\n   process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also\n   beetling machine.'),('Beetled','imp. & p. p.','of Beetle'),('Beetling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beetle'),('Beetle','v. t.','To beat with a heavy mallet.'),('Beetle','v. t.','To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a\n   beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.'),('Beetle','v. t.','Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings,\n   the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are\n   folded up. See Coleoptera.'),('Beetle','v. i.','To extend over and beyond the base or support; to\n   overhang; to jut.'),('Beetle brow','','An overhanging brow.'),('Beetle-browed','','Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering\n   or sullen.'),('Beetlehead','n.','A stupid fellow; a blockhead.'),('Beetlehead','n.','The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Squatarola\n   helvetica). See Plover.'),('Beetle-headed','a.','Dull; stupid.'),('Beetlestock','n.','The handle of a beetle.'),('Beet radish','','Same as Beetrave.'),('Beetrave','n.','The common beet (Beta vulgaris).'),('Beeve','n.','A beef; a beef creature.'),('Beeves','n.','plural of Beef, the animal.'),('Befell','imp.','of Befall'),('Befallen','p. p.','of Befall'),('Befalling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Befall'),('Befall','v. t.','To happen to.'),('Befall','v. i.','To come to pass; to happen.'),('Befitted','imp. & p. p.','of Befit'),('Befitting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Befit'),('Befit','v. t.','To be suitable to; to suit; to become.'),('Befitting','a.','Suitable; proper; becoming; fitting.'),('Befittingly','adv.','In a befitting manner; suitably.'),('Beflatter','v. t.','To flatter excessively.'),('Beflower','v. t.','To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with,\n   flowers.'),('Befogged','imp. & p. p.','of Befog'),('Befogging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Befog'),('Befog','v. t.','To involve in a fog; -- mostly as a participle or part.\n   adj.'),('Befog','v. t.','Hence: To confuse; to mystify.'),('Befooled','imp. & p. p.','of Befool'),('Befooling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Befool'),('Befool','v. t.','To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to\n   deceive.'),('Befool','v. t.','To cause to behave like a fool; to make foolish.'),('Before','prep.','In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand\n   before the fire; before the house.'),('Before','prep.','Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior\n   to the time when; -- sometimes with the additional idea of purpose; in\n   order that.'),('Before','prep.','An advance of; farther onward, in place or time.'),('Before','prep.','Prior or preceding in dignity, order, rank, right, or\n   worth; rather than.'),('Before','prep.','In presence or sight of; face to face with; facing.'),('Before','prep.','Under the cognizance or jurisdiction of.'),('Before','prep.','Open for; free of access to; in the power of.'),('Before','adv.','On the fore part; in front, or in the direction of the\n   front; -- opposed to in the rear.'),('Before','adv.','In advance.'),('Before','adv.','In time past; previously; already.'),('Before','adv.','Earlier; sooner than; until then.'),('Beforehand','adv.','In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in\n   advance; -- often followed by with.'),('Beforehand','adv.','By way of preparation, or preliminary; previously;\n   aforetime.'),('Beforehand','a.','In comfortable circumstances as regards property;\n   forehanded.'),('Beforetime','adv.','Formerly; aforetime.'),('Befortune','v. t.','To befall.'),('Befouled','imp. & p. p.','of Befoul'),('Befouling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Befoul'),('Befoul','a.','To make foul; to soil.'),('Befoul','a.','To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.'),('Befriended','imp. & p. p.','of Befriend'),('Befriending','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Befriend'),('Befriend','v. t.','To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or\n   countenance.'),('Befriendment','n.','Act of befriending.'),('Befrill','v. t.','To furnish or deck with a frill.'),('Befringe','v. t.','To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to\n   adorn as with fringe.'),('Befuddled','imp. & p. p.','of Befuddle'),('Befuddle','v. t.','To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.'),('Beg','n.','A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the\n   East; a bey.'),('Begged','imp. & p. p.','of Beg'),('Begging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beg'),('Beg','v. t.','To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to\n   beseech.'),('Beg','v. t.','To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from\n   house to house.'),('Beg','v. t.','To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to\n   grant a favor.'),('Beg','v. t.','To take for granted; to assume without proof.'),('Beg','v. t.','To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a\n   guardian appointed for.'),('Beg','v. i.','To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the\n   wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.'),('Bega','n.','See Bigha.'),('Begemmed','imp. & p. p.','of Begem'),('Begemming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Begem'),('Begem','v. t.','To adorn with gems, or as with gems.'),('Begot','imp.','of Beget'),('Begat','','of Beget'),('Begot','p. p.','of Beget'),('Begotten','','of Beget'),('Begetting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beget'),('Beget','v. t.','To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; --\n   commonly said of the father.'),('Beget','v. t.','To get (with child.)'),('Beget','v. t.','To produce as an effect; to cause to exist.'),('Begetter','n.','One who begets; a father.'),('Beggable','a.','Capable of being begged.'),('Beggar','n.','One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with\n   humility; a petitioner.'),('Beggar','n.','One who makes it his business to ask alms.'),('Beggar','n.','One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a\n   contemptuous or sarcastic use.'),('Beggar','n.','One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.'),('Beggared','imp. & p. p.','of Beggar'),('Beggaring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beggar'),('Beggar','v. t.','To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared\n   himself.'),('Beggar','v. t.','To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.'),('Beggarhood','n.','The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of\n   beggars.'),('Beggarism','n.','Beggary.'),('Beggarliness','n.','The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.'),('Beggarly','a.','In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a\n   beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.'),('Beggarly','a.','Produced or occasioned by beggary.'),('Beggarly','adv.','In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the\n   manner of a beggar.'),('Beggar\'s lice','','The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some\n   species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing\n   of those who brush by them.'),('Beggar\'s ticks','','The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are\n   armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with\n   unpleasant tenacity.'),('Beggary','n.','The act of begging; the state of being a beggar;\n   mendicancy; extreme poverty.'),('Beggary','n.','Beggarly appearance.'),('Beggary','a.','Beggarly.'),('Beggestere','n.','A beggar.'),('Beghard','n.','Alt. of Beguard'),('Beguard','n.','One of an association of religious laymen living in\n   imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were\n   afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by\n   Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins.'),('Begilded','imp. & p. p.','of Begild'),('Begilt','','of Begild'),('Begild','v. t.','To gild.'),('Began','imp. & p. p.','of Begin'),('Begun','','of Begin'),('Beginning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Begin'),('Begin','v. i.','To have or commence an independent or first existence; to\n   take rise; to commence.'),('Begin','v. i.','To do the first act or the first part of an action; to\n   enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being,\n   or course of action; to take the first step; to start.'),('Begin','v. t.','To enter on; to commence.'),('Begin','v. t.','To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a\n   beginning of.'),('Begin','n.','Beginning.'),('Beginner','n.','One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A\n   young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro.'),('Beginning','n.','The act of doing that which begins anything;\n   commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being\n   or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of\n   acts or states.'),('Beginning','n.','That which begins or originates something; the first\n   cause; origin; source.'),('Beginning','n.','That which is begun; a rudiment or element.'),('Beginning','n.','Enterprise.'),('Begirt','imp.','of Begird'),('Begirded','','of Begird'),('Begirt','p. p.','of Begird'),('Begirding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Begird'),('Begird','v. t.','To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.'),('Begird','v. t.','To surround as with a band; to encompass.'),('Begirdle','v. t.','To surround as with a girdle.'),('Begirt','v. t.','To encompass; to begird.'),('Beglerbeg','n.','The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next\n   in dignity to the grand vizier.'),('Begnawed','p. p.','of Begnaw'),('Begnawn','','of Begnaw'),('Begnaw','v. t.','To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode.'),('Begodded','imp. & p. p.','of Begod'),('Begod','v. t.','To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify.'),('Begone','interj.','Go away; depart; get you gone.'),('Begone','p. p.','Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in\n   woe-begone).'),('Begonia','n.','A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many\n   species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are\n   curiously one-sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.'),('Begore','v. t.','To besmear with gore.'),('Begot','','imp. & p. p. of Beget.'),('Begotten','','p. p. of Beget.'),('Begrave','v. t.','To bury; also, to engrave.'),('Begrease','v. t.','To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.'),('Begrimed','imp. & p. p.','of Begrime'),('Begriming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Begrime'),('Begrime','v. t.','To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed\n   in.'),('Begrimer','n.','One who, or that which, begrimes.'),('Begrudged','imp. & p. p.','of Begrudge'),('Begrudging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Begrudge'),('Begrudge','v. t.','To grudge; to envy the possession of.'),('Beguiled','imp. & p. p.','of Beguile'),('Beguiling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beguile'),('Beguile','v. t.','To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or\n   impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.'),('Beguile','v. t.','To elude, or evade by craft; to foil.'),('Beguile','v. t.','To cause the time of to pass without notice; to relieve\n   the tedium or weariness of; to while away; to divert.'),('Beguilement','n.','The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled.'),('Beguiler','n.','One who, or that which, beguiles.'),('Beguiling','a.','Alluring by guile; deluding; misleading; diverting.'),('Beguin','n.','See Beghard.'),('Beguinage','n.','A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and\n   occupied by a community of Beguines.'),('Beguine','n.','A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable\n   associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose\n   members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.'),('Begum','n.','In the East Indies, a princess or lady of high rank.'),('Begun','','p. p. of Begin.'),('Behalf','n.','Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit;\n   support; defense; vindication.'),('Behappen','v. t.','To happen to.'),('Behaved','imp. & p. p.','of Behave'),('Behaving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Behave'),('Behave','v. t.','To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline;\n   to handle; to restrain.'),('Behave','v. t.','To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; --\n   used reflexively.'),('Behave','v. i.','To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one\'s self; as, to\n   behave well or ill.'),('Behavior','n.','Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of\n   conducting one\'s self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of\n   inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior\n   of the magnetic needle.'),('Beheaded','imp. & p. p.','of Behead'),('Beheading','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Behead'),('Behead','v. t.','To sever the head from; to take off the head of.'),('Beheadal','n.','Beheading.'),('Beheld','','imp. & p. p. of Behold.'),('Behemoth','n.','An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job\n   xl. 15-24.'),('Behen','n.','Alt. of Behn'),('Behn','n.','The Centaurea behen, or saw-leaved centaury.'),('Behn','n.','The Cucubalus behen, or bladder campion, now called Silene\n   inflata.'),('Behn','n.','The Statice limonium, or sea lavender.'),('Behest','n.','That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an\n   injunction.'),('Behest','n.','A vow; a promise.'),('Behest','v. t.','To vow.'),('Behete','v. t.','See Behight.'),('Behight','imp.','of Behight'),('Behight','p. p.','of Behight'),('Behoten','','of Behight'),('Behight','v.','To promise; to vow.'),('Behight','v.','To give in trust; to commit; to intrust.'),('Behight','v.','To adjudge; to assign by authority.'),('Behight','v.','To mean, or intend.'),('Behight','v.','To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.'),('Behight','v.','To call; to name; to address.'),('Behight','v.','To command; to order.'),('Behight','n.','A vow; a promise.'),('Behind','a.','On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back\n   side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door;\n   behind a hill.'),('Behind','a.','Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to\n   a distance or by death.'),('Behind','a.','Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence:\n   Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any\n   achievement.'),('Behind','adv.','At the back part; in the rear.'),('Behind','adv.','Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look\n   behind.'),('Behind','adv.','Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view;\n   out of sight; remaining.'),('Behind','adv.','Backward in time or order of succession; past.'),('Behind','adv.','After the departure of another; as, to stay behind.'),('Behind','n.','The backside; the rump.'),('Behindhand','adv. & a.','In arrears financially; in a state where\n   expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.'),('Behindhand','adv. & a.','In a state of backwardness, in respect to what\n   is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been\n   accomplished; not equally forward with some other person or thing;\n   dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work.'),('Behither','prep.','On this side of.'),('Beheld','imp. & p. p.','of Behold'),('Beholden','p. p.','of Behold'),('Beholding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Behold'),('Behold','v. t.','To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard\n   with the eyes.'),('Behold','v. i.','To direct the eyes to, or fix them upon, an object; to\n   look; to see.'),('Beholden','p. a.','Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted.'),('Beholder','n.','One who beholds; a spectator.'),('Beholding','a.','Obliged; beholden.'),('Beholding','n.','The act of seeing; sight; also, that which is beheld.'),('Beholdingness','n.','The state of being obliged or beholden.'),('Behoof','v. t.','Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use.'),('Behoovable','a.','Supplying need; profitable; advantageous.'),('Behooved','imp. & p. p.','of Behoove'),('Behooving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Behoove'),('Behoove','v. t.','To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for,\n   with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used\n   impersonally.'),('Behoove','v. i.','To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong\n   as due.'),('Behoove','n.','Advantage; behoof.'),('Behooveful','a.','Advantageous; useful; profitable.'),('Behove','v.','and derivatives. See Behoove, &c.'),('Behovely','a. & adv.','Useful, or usefully.'),('Behowl','v. t.','To howl at.'),('Beige','n.','Debeige.'),('Beild','n.','A place of shelter; protection; refuge.'),('Being','p. pr.','Existing.'),('Being','n.','Existence, as opposed to nonexistence; state or sphere of\n   existence.'),('Being','n.','That which exists in any form, whether it be material or\n   spiritual, actual or ideal; living existence, as distinguished from a\n   thing without life; as, a human being; spiritual beings.'),('Being','n.','Lifetime; mortal existence.'),('Being','n.','An abode; a cottage.'),('Being','adv.','Since; inasmuch as.'),('Bejade','v. t.','To jade or tire.'),('Bejape','v. t.','To jape; to laugh at; to deceive.'),('Bejaundice','v. t.','To infect with jaundice.'),('Bejeweled','imp. & p. p.','of Bejewel'),('Bejewelled','','of Bejewel'),('Bejeweling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bejewel'),('Bejewelling','','of Bejewel'),('Bejewel','v. t.','To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle.'),('Bejumble','v. t.','To jumble together.'),('Bekah','n.','Half a shekel.'),('Beknave','v. t.','To call knave.'),('Beknow','v. t.','To confess; to acknowledge.'),('Bel','n.','The Babylonian name of the god known among the Hebrews as\n   Baal. See Baal.'),('Belabored','imp. & p. p.','of Belabor'),('Belaboring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Belabor'),('Belabor','v. t.','To ply diligently; to work carefully upon.'),('Belabor','v. t.','To beat soundly; to cudgel.'),('Bel-accoyle','n.','A kind or favorable reception or salutation.'),('Belaced','imp. & p. p.','of Belace'),('Belace','v. t.','To fasten, as with a lace or cord.'),('Belace','v. t.','To cover or adorn with lace.'),('Belace','v. t.','To beat with a strap. See Lace.'),('Belam','v. t.','To beat or bang.'),('Belamour','n.','A lover.'),('Belamour','n.','A flower, but of what kind is unknown.'),('Belamy','n.','Good friend; dear friend.'),('Belated','imp. & p. p.','of Belate'),('Belating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Belate'),('Belate','v. t.','To retard or make too late.'),('Belated','a.','Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by\n   night; benighted.'),('Belaud','v. t.','To laud or praise greatly.'),('Belaid','imp. & p. p.','of Belay'),('Belayed','','of Belay'),('Belaying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Belay'),('Belay','v. t.','To lay on or cover; to adorn.'),('Belay','v. t.','To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it\n   round a pin, cleat, or kevel.'),('Belay','v. t.','To lie in wait for with a view to assault. Hence: to\n   block up or obstruct.'),('Belaying pin','','A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast,\n   round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed.'),('Belched','imp. & p. p.','of Belch'),('Belching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Belch'),('Belch','v. i.','To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to\n   eruct.'),('Belch','v. i.','To eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit;\n   to give vent to; to vent.'),('Belch','v. i.','To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to\n   eructate.'),('Belch','v. i.','To issue with spasmodic force or noise.'),('Belch','n.','The act of belching; also, that which is belched; an\n   eructation.'),('Belch','n.','Malt liquor; -- vulgarly so called as causing eructation.'),('Belcher','n.','One who, or that which, belches.'),('Beldam','n.','Alt. of Beldame'),('Beldame','n.','Grandmother; -- corresponding to belsire.'),('Beldame','n.','An old woman in general; especially, an ugly old woman; a\n   hag.'),('Beleaguered','imp. & p. p.','of Beleaguer'),('Beleaguering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beleaguer'),('Beleaguer','v. t.','To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to\n   besiege; to blockade.'),('Beleaguerer','n.','One who beleaguers.'),('Beleft','imp. & p. p.','of Beleave'),('Beleave','v. t. & i.','To leave or to be left.'),('Belectured','imp. & p. p.','of Belecture'),('Belecturing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Belecture'),('Belecture','v. t.','To vex with lectures; to lecture frequently.'),('Belee','v. t.','To place under the lee, or unfavorably to the wind.'),('Belemnite','n.','A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the\n   lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is\n   ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone,\n   called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave\n   blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod\n   related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The\n   belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages.'),('Belepered','imp. & p. p.','of Beleper'),('Beleper','v. t.','To infect with leprosy.'),('Beaux','pl. ','of Bel-esprit'),('-esprits','pl. ','of Bel-esprit'),('Bel-esprit','n.','A fine genius, or man of wit.'),('Belfry','n.','A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack\n   and defense.'),('Belfry','n.','A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other\n   building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.'),('Belfry','n.','A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a\n   cupola or turret for the same purpose.'),('Belfry','n.','The framing on which a bell is suspended.'),('Belgard','n.','A sweet or loving look.'),('Belgian','a.','Of or pertaining to Belgium.'),('Belgian','n.','A native or inhabitant of Belgium.'),('Belgic','a.','Of or pertaining to the Belgae, a German tribe who\n   anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the\n   ocean.'),('Belgic','a.','Of or pertaining to the Netherlands or to Belgium.'),('Belgravian','a.','Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of\n   London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.'),('Belial','n.','An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the\n   personification of evil.'),('Belibel','v. t.','To libel or traduce; to calumniate.'),('Belied','imp. & p. p.','of Belie'),('Belying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Belie'),('Belie','n.','To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with,\n   falsehood.'),('Belie','n.','To give a false representation or account of.'),('Belie','n.','To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander.'),('Belie','n.','To mimic; to counterfeit.'),('Belie','n.','To fill with lies.'),('Belief','n.','Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance\n   of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate\n   personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full\n   assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion;\n   conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our\n   senses.'),('Belief','n.','A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.'),('Belief','n.','The thing believed; the object of belief.'),('Belief','n.','A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of\n   any class of views; doctrine; creed.'),('Beliefful','a.','Having belief or faith.'),('Believable','a.','Capable of being believed; credible.'),('Believed','imp. & p. p.','of Believe'),('Believing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Believe'),('Believe','n.','To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or\n   testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence\n   furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by\n   circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as\n   true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a\n   person, a statement, or a doctrine.'),('Believe','v. i.','To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of\n   religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise\n   belief or faith.'),('Believe','v. i.','To think; to suppose.'),('Believer','n.','One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or\n   reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.'),('Believer','n.','One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a\n   revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one\n   who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation\n   unfolded in the gospel.'),('Believer','n.','One who was admitted to all the rights of divine worship\n   and instructed in all the mysteries of the Christian religion, in\n   distinction from a catechumen, or one yet under instruction.'),('Believing','a.','That believes; having belief.'),('Belight','v. t.','To illuminate.'),('Belike','adv.','It is likely or probably; perhaps.'),('Belimed','imp. & p. p.','of Belime'),('Belime','v. t.','To besmear or insnare with birdlime.'),('Belittled','imp. & p. p.','of Belittle'),('Belittling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Belittle'),('Belittle','v. t.','To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of\n   in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.'),('Belive','a.','Forthwith; speedily; quickly.'),('Belk','v. t.','To vomit.'),('Bell','n.','A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup\n   with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth\n   a ringing sound on being struck.'),('Bell','n.','A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball\n   which causes it to sound when moved.'),('Bell','n.','Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a\n   flower.'),('Bell','n.','That part of the capital of a column included between the\n   abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly\n   cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.'),('Bell','n.','The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so\n   designated.'),('Belled','imp. & p. p.','of Bell'),('Belling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bell'),('Bell','v. t.','To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.'),('Bell','v. t.','To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.'),('Bell','v. i.','To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell;\n   to blossom; as, hops bell.'),('Bell','v. t.','To utter by bellowing.'),('Bell','v. i.','To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a\n   bellowing sound; to roar.'),('Belladonna','n.','An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with\n   reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant\n   and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as\n   powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the\n   alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade.'),('Belladonna','n.','A species of Amaryllis (A. belladonna); the belladonna\n   lily.'),('Bell animalcule','','An infusorian of the family Vorticellidae, common in\n   fresh-water ponds.'),('Bell bearer','','A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum),\n   remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.'),('Bellbird','n.','A South American bird of the genus Casmarhincos, and\n   family Cotingidae, of several species; the campanero.'),('Bellbird','n.','The Myzantha melanophrys of Australia.'),('Bell crank','','A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a\n   right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in\n   bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of\n   rooms, etc., and also in machinery.'),('Belle','n.','A young lady of superior beauty and attractions; a handsome\n   lady, or one who attracts notice in society; a fair lady.'),('Belled','a.','Hung with a bell or bells.'),('Belle-lettrist','n.','One versed in belles-lettres.'),('Bellerophon','n.','A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong\n   to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age.'),('Belles-lettres','n. pl.','Polite or elegant literature; the humanities;\n   -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and\n   taste are predominant.'),('Belletristic','a.','Alt. of Belletristical'),('Belletristical','a.','Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres.'),('Bell-faced','a.','Having the striking surface convex; -- said of hammers.'),('Bellflower','n.','A plant of the genus Campanula; -- so named from its\n   bell-shaped flowers.'),('Bellflower','n.','A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large,\n   yellow winter apple.'),('Bellibone','n.','A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair\n   maid.'),('Bellic','a.','Alt. of Bellical'),('Bellical','a.','Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial.'),('Bellicose','a.','Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.'),('Bellicosely','adv.','In a bellicose manner.'),('Bellicous','a.','Bellicose.'),('Bellied','a.','Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition;\n   as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.'),('Belligerence','n.','Alt. of Belligerency'),('Belligerency','n.','The quality of being belligerent; act or state of\n   making war; warfare.'),('Belligerent','p. pr.','Waging war; carrying on war.'),('Belligerent','p. pr.','Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to\n   belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights.'),('Belligerent','n.','A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a\n   person engaged in warfare.'),('Belligerently','adv.','In a belligerent manner; hostilely.'),('Belling','n.','A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time.'),('Bellipotent','p. pr.','Mighty in war; armipotent.'),('Bell jar','','A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and\n   closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top\n   for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with\n   the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from\n   articles exposed to view.'),('Bellman','n.','A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of\n   anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called\n   the hours.'),('Bell metal','','A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three\n   parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells.'),('Bell-mouthed','a.','Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun.'),('Bellon','n.','Lead colic.'),('Bellona','n.','The goddess of war.'),('Bellowed','imp. & p. p.','of Bellow'),('Bellowing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bellow'),('Bellow','v.','To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.'),('Bellow','v.','To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor.'),('Bellow','v.','To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when\n   violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound.'),('Bellow','v. t.','To emit with a loud voice; to shout; -- used with out.'),('Bellow','n.','A loud resounding outcry or noise, as of an enraged bull; a\n   roar.'),('Bellower','n.','One who, or that which, bellows.'),('Bellows','n. sing. & pl.','An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by\n   alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top,\n   draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various\n   purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of\n   an organ with wind.'),('Bellows fish','','A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by\n   a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also\n   trumpet fish, and snipe fish.'),('Bell pepper','','A species of Capsicum, or Guinea pepper (C. annuum). It\n   is the red pepper of the gardens.'),('Bell-shaped','a.','Having the shape of a wide-mouthed bell; campanulate.'),('Belluine','a.','Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal.'),('Bellwether','n.','A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell\n   on his neck.'),('Bellwether','n.','Hence: A leader.'),('Bellwort','n.','A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped\n   flowers.'),('Bellies','pl. ','of Belly'),('Belly','n.','That part of the human body which extends downward from the\n   breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the\n   abdomen.'),('Belly','n.','The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the\n   human belly.'),('Belly','n.','The womb.'),('Belly','n.','The part of anything which resembles the human belly in\n   protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a\n   flask, muscle, sail, ship.'),('Belly','n.','The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part\n   of which is the back.'),('Bellied','imp. & p. p.','of Belly'),('Bellying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Belly'),('Belly','v. t.','To cause to swell out; to fill.'),('Belly','v. i.','To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to\n   bulge.'),('Bellyache','n.','Pain in the bowels; colic.'),('Bellyband','n.','A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds\n   the saddle or harness in place; a girth.'),('Bellyband','n.','A band of flannel or other cloth about the belly.'),('Bellyband','n.','A band of canvas, to strengthen a sail.'),('Bellybound','a.','Costive; constipated.'),('Bellycheat','n.','An apron or covering for the front of the person.'),('Bellycheer','n.','Good cheer; viands.'),('Bellycheer','v. i.','To revel; to feast.'),('Bellyful','n.','As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great\n   abundance; more than enough.'),('Belly-god','n.','One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite;\n   a glutton; an epicure.'),('Belly-pinched','a.','Pinched with hunger; starved.'),('Belocked','imp. & p. p.','of Belock'),('Belock','v. t.','To lock, or fasten as with a lock.'),('Belomancy','n.','A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of\n   marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the\n   arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future.'),('Belonged','imp. & p. p.','of Belong'),('Belonging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Belong'),('Belong','v. i.','To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great\n   Britain.'),('Belong','v. i.','To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or\n   related; to owe allegiance or service.'),('Belong','v. i.','To be the concern or proper business or function of; to\n   appertain to.'),('Belong','v. i.','To be suitable for; to be due to.'),('Belong','v. i.','To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a\n   legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or\n   operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or\n   town.'),('Belong','v. t.','To be deserved by.'),('Belonging','n.','That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one;\n   hence, goods or effects.'),('Belonging','n.','That which is connected with a principal or greater\n   thing; an appendage; an appurtenance.'),('Belonging','n.','Family; relations; household.'),('Belonite','n.','Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes\n   observed in glassy volcanic rocks.'),('Belooche Beloochee','a.','Of or pertaining to Beloochistan, or to its\n   inhabitants.'),('Belooche Beloochee','n.','A native or an inhabitant of Beloochistan.'),('Belord','v. t.','To act the lord over.'),('Belord','v. t.','To address by the title of \"lord\".'),('Beloved','imp. & p. p.','of Belove'),('Belove','v. t.','To love.'),('Beloved','p. p. & a.','Greatly loved; dear to the heart.'),('Beloved','n.','One greatly loved.'),('Below','prep.','Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below\n   the moon; below the knee.'),('Below','prep.','Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount,\n   price, etc.; lower in quality.'),('Below','prep.','Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath.'),('Below','adv.','In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower\n   room; beneath.'),('Below','adv.','On the earth, as opposed to the heavens.'),('Below','adv.','In hell, or the regions of the dead.'),('Below','adv.','In court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the\n   trial below.'),('Below','adv.','In some part or page following.'),('Belowt','v. t.','To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to.'),('Belsire','n.','A grandfather, or ancestor.'),('Belswagger','n.','A lewd man; also, a bully.'),('Belt','n.','That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as,\n   a lady\'s belt; a sword belt.'),('Belt','n.','That which restrains or confines as a girdle.'),('Belt','n.','Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses\n   like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.'),('Belt','n.','Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly\n   termed a belt.'),('Belt','n.','One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets\n   Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.'),('Belt','n.','A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser\n   Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.'),('Belt','n.','A token or badge of knightly rank.'),('Belt','n.','A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing\n   around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.'),('Belt','n.','A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any\n   circular ridge or series of ridges.'),('Belted','imp. & p. p.','of Belt'),('Belting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Belt'),('Belt','v. t.','To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to\n   surround.'),('Belt','v. t.','To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep.'),('Beltane','n.','The first day of May (Old Style).'),('Beltane','n.','A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May,\n   in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists\n   in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland.'),('Belted','a.','Encircled by, or secured with, a belt; as, a belted plaid;\n   girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; as, a belted knight; a\n   belted earl.'),('Belted','a.','Marked with a band or circle; as, a belted stalk.'),('Belted','a.','Worn in, or suspended from, the belt.'),('Beltein','n.','Alt. of Beltin'),('Beltin','n.','See Beltane.'),('Belting','n.','The material of which belts for machinery are made; also,\n   belts, taken collectively.'),('Beluga','n.','A cetacean allied to the dolphins.'),('Beluted','imp. & p. p.','of Belute'),('Beluting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Belute'),('Belute','v. t.','To bespatter, as with mud.'),('Belvedere','n.','A small building, or a part of a building, more or less\n   open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect.'),('Belzebuth','n.','A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Brazil.'),('Bema','n.','A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.'),('Bema','n.','That part of an early Christian church which was reserved for\n   the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel.'),('Bema','n.','Erroneously: A pulpit.'),('Bemad','v. t.','To make mad.'),('Bemangle','v. t.','To mangle; to tear asunder.'),('Bemask','v. t.','To mask; to conceal.'),('Bemaster','v. t.','To master thoroughly.'),('Bemaul','v. t.','To maul or beat severely; to bruise.'),('Bemaze','v. t.','To bewilder.'),('Bemean','v. t.','To make mean; to lower.'),('Bemet','imp. & p. p.','of Bemeet'),('Bemeeting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bemeet'),('Bemeet','v. t.','To meet.'),('Bemete','v. t.','To mete.'),('Bemingle','v. t.','To mingle; to mix.'),('Bemired','imp. & p. p.','of Bemire'),('Bemiring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bemire'),('Bemire','v. t.','To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to\n   soil by passing through mud or dirt.'),('Bemist','v. t.','To envelop in mist.'),('Bemoaned','imp. & p. p.','of Bemoan'),('Bemoaning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bemoan'),('Bemoan','v. t.','To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow\n   for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with.'),('Bemoaner','n.','One who bemoans.'),('Bemock','v. t.','To mock; to ridicule.'),('Bemoil','v. t.','To soil or encumber with mire and dirt.'),('Bemol','n.','The sign /; the same as B flat.'),('Bemonster','v. t.','To make monstrous or like a monster.'),('Bemourn','v. t.','To mourn over.'),('Bemuddle','v. t.','To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.'),('Bemuffle','v. t.','To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up.'),('Bemuse','v. t.','To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor.'),('Ben','','Alt. of Ben nut'),('Ben nut','','The seed of one or more species of moringa; as, oil of ben.\n   See Moringa.'),('Ben','adv. & prep.','Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the\n   inner apartment.'),('Ben','adv.','The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms;\n   -- opposed to but, the outer apartment.'),('Ben','','An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be.'),('Benamed','p. p.','of Bename'),('Benempt','','of Bename'),('Bename','v. t.','To promise; to name.'),('Benches','pl. ','of Bench'),('Bench','n.','A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.'),('Bench','n.','A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a\n   carpenter\'s bench.'),('Bench','n.','The seat where judges sit in court.'),('Bench','n.','The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of\n   the full bench. See King\'s Bench.'),('Bench','n.','A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so\n   named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised\n   platforms.'),('Bench','n.','A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground,\n   or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river.'),('Benched','imp. & p. p.','of Bench'),('Benching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bench'),('Bench','v. t.','To furnish with benches.'),('Bench','v. t.','To place on a bench or seat of honor.'),('Bench','v. i.','To sit on a seat of justice.'),('Bencher','n.','One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of\n   Court.'),('Bencher','n.','An alderman of a corporation.'),('Bencher','n.','A member of a court or council.'),('Bencher','n.','One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.'),('Bench warrant','','A process issued by a presiding judge or by a court\n   against a person guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime;\n   -- so called in distinction from a justice\'s warrant.'),('Bended','imp. & p. p.','of Bend'),('Bent','','of Bend'),('Bending','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bend'),('Bend','v. t.','To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by\n   straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing\n   into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.'),('Bend','v. t.','To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.'),('Bend','v. t.','To apply closely or with interest; to direct.'),('Bend','v. t.','To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.'),('Bend','v. t.','To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its\n   yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.'),('Bend','v. i.','To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook\n   or be curving; to bow.'),('Bend','v. i.','To jut over; to overhang.'),('Bend','v. i.','To be inclined; to be directed.'),('Bend','v. i.','To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.'),('Bend','n.','A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper\n   direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of\n   the body; a bend in a road.'),('Bend','n.','Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.'),('Bend','n.','A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an\n   anchor, spar, or post.'),('Bend','n.','The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.'),('Bend','n.','Hard, indurated clay; bind.'),('Bend','n.','same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.'),('Bend','n.','A band.'),('Bend','n.','One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a\n   fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the\n   dexter chief to the sinister base.'),('Bendable','a.','Capable of being bent.'),('Bender','n.','One who, or that which, bends.'),('Bender','n.','An instrument used for bending.'),('Bender','n.','A drunken spree.'),('Bender','n.','A sixpence.'),('Bending','n.','The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal\n   bands.'),('Bendlet','n.','A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.'),('Bendwise','adv.','Diagonally.'),('Bendy','a.','Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or\n   its charge.'),('Bene','n.','See Benne.'),('Bene','n.','A prayer; boon.'),('Bene','n.','Alt. of Ben'),('Ben','n.','A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).'),('Beneaped','a.','See Neaped.'),('Beneath','prep.','Lower in place, with something directly over or on;\n   under; underneath; hence, at the foot of.'),('Beneath','prep.','Under, in relation to something that is superior, or\n   that oppresses or burdens.'),('Beneath','prep.','Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes\n   are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence:\n   Unworthy of; unbecoming.'),('Beneath','adv.','In a lower place; underneath.'),('Beneath','adv.','Below, as opposed to heaven, or to any superior region\n   or position; as, in earth beneath.'),('Benedicite','n.','A canticle (the Latin version of which begins with this\n   word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church\n   of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third\n   chapter of Daniel.'),('Benedicite','n.','An exclamation corresponding to Bless you !.'),('Benedict','n.','Alt. of Benedick'),('Benedick','n.','A married man, or a man newly married.'),('Benedict','a.','Having mild and salubrious qualities.'),('Benedictine','a.','Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet.'),('Benedictine','n.','One of a famous order of monks, established by St.\n   Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into\n   the United States in 1846.'),('Benediction','n.','The act of blessing.'),('Benediction','n.','A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind\n   wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate\n   invocation of happiness.'),('Benediction','n.','The short prayer which closes public worship; as, to\n   give the benediction.'),('Benediction','n.','The form of instituting an abbot, answering to the\n   consecration of a bishop.'),('Benediction','n.','A solemn rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc.,\n   are blessed with holy water, and formally dedicated to God.'),('Benedictional','n.','A book of benedictions.'),('Benedictionary','n.','A collected series of benedictions.'),('Benedictive','a.','Tending to bless.'),('Benedictory','a.','Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer.'),('Benedictus','a.','The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist\n   (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version.'),('Benedight','a.','Blessed.'),('Benefaction','n.','The act of conferring a benefit.'),('Benefaction','n.','A benefit conferred; esp. a charitable donation.'),('Benefactor','n.','One who confers a benefit or benefits.'),('Benefactress','n.','A woman who confers a benefit.'),('Benefic','a.','Favorable; beneficent.'),('Benefice','n.','A favor or benefit.'),('Benefice','n.','An estate in lands; a fief.'),('Benefice','n.','An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the\n   Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance\n   of divine service. See Advowson.'),('Beneficed','imp. & p. p.','of Benefice'),('Benefice','v. t.','To endow with a benefice.'),('Beneficed','a.','Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.'),('Beneficeless','a.','Having no benefice.'),('Beneficence','n.','The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness,\n   or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.'),('Beneficent','a.','Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness\n   and charity; characterized by beneficence.'),('Beneficential','a.','Relating to beneficence.'),('Beneficently','adv.','In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.'),('Beneficial','a.','Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful;\n   advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed\n   by to.'),('Beneficial','a.','Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage,\n   use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate.'),('Beneficial','a.','King.'),('Beneficially','adv.','In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably;\n   helpfully.'),('Beneficialness','n.','The quality of being beneficial; profitableness.'),('Beneficiary','a.','Holding some office or valuable possession, in\n   subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior;\n   having a dependent and secondary possession.'),('Beneficiary','a.','Bestowed as a gratuity; as, beneficiary gifts.'),('Beneficiaries','pl. ','of Beneficiary'),('Beneficiary','n.','A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice\n   and uses its proceeds.'),('Beneficiary','n.','One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives\n   a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an\n   educational fund or a trust estate.'),('Beneficiate','v. t.','To reduce (ores).'),('Beneficient','a.','Beneficent.'),('Benefit','n.','An act of kindness; a favor conferred.'),('Benefit','n.','Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or\n   adds value to property; advantage; profit.'),('Benefit','n.','A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the\n   proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the\n   company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.'),('Benefit','n.','Beneficence; liberality.'),('Benefit','n.','Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.'),('Benefited','imp. & p. p.','of Benefit'),('Benefitting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Benefit'),('Benefit','v. t.','To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to\n   advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.'),('Benefit','v. i.','To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as,\n   he will benefit by the change.'),('Benefiter','n.','One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a\n   benefit.'),('Beneme','v. t.','To deprive (of), or take away (from).'),('Benempt','p. p.','Promised; vowed.'),('Benempt','p. p.','Named; styled.'),('Bene placito','','At or during pleasure.'),('Bene placito','','At pleasure; ad libitum.'),('Benetted','imp. & p. p.','of Benet'),('Benet','v. t.','To catch in a net; to insnare.'),('Benevolence','n.','The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness;\n   love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.'),('Benevolence','n.','An act of kindness; good done; charity given.'),('Benevolence','n.','A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has\n   sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and\n   falsely represented as a gratuity.'),('Benevolent','a.','Having a disposition to do good; possessing or\n   manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity\n   and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable.'),('Benevolous','a.','Kind; benevolent.'),('Bengal','n.','A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs,\n   animals, etc.'),('Bengal','n.','A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought\n   from Bengal.'),('Bengal','n.','Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal\n   stripes.'),('Bengalee','n.','Alt. of Bengali'),('Bengali','n.','The language spoken in Bengal.'),('Bengalese','a.','Of or pertaining to Bengal.'),('Bengalese','n. sing. & pl','A native or natives of Bengal.'),('Bengola','n.','A Bengal light.'),('Benighted','imp. & p. p.','of Benight'),('Benighting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Benight'),('Benight','v. t.','To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of\n   night; to obscure.'),('Benight','v. t.','To overtake with night or darkness, especially before\n   the end of a day\'s journey or task.'),('Benight','v. t.','To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar\n   from intellectual light.'),('Benightment','n.','The condition of being benighted.'),('Benign','a.','Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous;\n   favorable; benignant.'),('Benign','a.','Exhibiting or manifesting kindness, gentleness, favor,\n   etc.; mild; kindly; salutary; wholesome.'),('Benign','a.','Of a mild type or character; as, a benign disease.'),('Benignancy','n.','Benignant quality; kindliness.'),('Benignant','a.','Kind; gracious; favorable.'),('Benignity','n.','The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness;\n   graciousness.'),('Benignity','n.','Mildness; gentleness.'),('Benignity','n.','Salubrity; wholesome quality.'),('Benignly','adv.','In a benign manner.'),('Benim','v. t.','To take away.'),('Benison','n.','Blessing; beatitude; benediction.'),('Benitier','n.','A holy-water stoup.'),('Benjamin','n.','See Benzoin.'),('Benjamin','n.','A kind of upper coat for men.'),('Benjamite','n.','A descendant of Benjamin; one of the tribe of Benjamin.'),('Benne','n.','The name of two plants (Sesamum orientale and S. indicum),\n   originally Asiatic; -- also called oil plant. From their seeds an oil\n   is expressed, called benne oil, used mostly for making soap. In the\n   southern United States the seeds are used in candy.'),('Bennet','a.','The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum);\n   herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the\n   hemlock, valerian, etc.'),('Benshee','n.','See Banshee.'),('Bent','','imp. & p. p. of Bend.'),('Bent','a. & p. p.','Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight;\n   crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.'),('Bent','a. & p. p.','Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be\n   resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character,\n   disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going\n   to college; he is bent on mischief.'),('Bent','v.','The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a\n   straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.'),('Bent','v.','A declivity or slope, as of a hill.'),('Bent','v.','A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination;\n   disposition; purpose; aim.'),('Bent','v.','Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.'),('Bent','v.','A transverse frame of a framed structure.'),('Bent','v.','Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.'),('Bent','n.','A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.'),('Bent','n.','A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or\n   redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.'),('Bent','n.','Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.'),('Bent grass','','Same as Bent, a kind of grass.'),('Benthal','a.','Relating to the deepest zone or region of the ocean.'),('Benthamic','a.','Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.'),('Benthamism','n.','That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by\n   Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated\n   and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility\n   to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which\n   influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient\n   explanation of ethical and jural conceptions.'),('Benthamite','n.','One who believes in Benthamism.'),('Benting time','','The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents,\n   before peas are ripe.'),('Benty','a.','A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff,\n   withered grass; as, benty fields.'),('Benty','a.','Resembling bent.'),('Benumbed','imp. & p. p.','of Benumb'),('Benumbing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Benumb'),('Benumb','a.','To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to\n   stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.'),('Benumbed','a.','Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed\n   body and mind.'),('Benumbment','n.','Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor.'),('Benzal','n.','A compound radical, C6H5.CH, of the aromatic series,\n   related to benzyl and benzoyl; -- used adjectively or in combination.'),('Benzamide','n.','A transparent crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.NH2,\n   obtained by the action of ammonia upon chloride of benzoyl, as also by\n   several other reactions with benzoyl compounds.'),('Benzene','n.','A volatile, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in\n   the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from\n   which it is separated by fractional distillation. The name is sometimes\n   applied also to the impure commercial product or benzole, and also, but\n   rarely, to a similar mixed product of petroleum.'),('Benzile','n.','A yellowish crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.CO.C6H5, formed\n   from benzoin by the action of oxidizing agents, and consisting of a\n   doubled benzoyl radical.'),('Benzine','n.','A liquid consisting mainly of the lighter and more\n   volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil, used as a solvent\n   and for cleansing soiled fabrics; -- called also petroleum spirit,\n   petroleum benzine. Varieties or similar products are gasoline, naphtha,\n   rhigolene, ligroin, etc.'),('Benzine','n.','Same as Benzene.'),('Benzoate','n.','A salt formed by the union of benzoic acid with any\n   salifiable base.'),('Benzoic','a.','Pertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin.'),('Benzoin','n.','A resinous substance, dry and brittle, obtained from the\n   Styrax benzoin, a tree of Sumatra, Java, etc., having a fragrant odor,\n   and slightly aromatic taste. It is used in the preparation of benzoic\n   acid, in medicine, and as a perfume.'),('Benzoin','n.','A white crystalline substance, C14H12O2, obtained from\n   benzoic aldehyde and some other sources.'),('Benzoin','n.','The spicebush (Lindera benzoin).'),('Benzoinated','a.','Containing or impregnated with benzoin; as,\n   benzoinated lard.'),('Benzole','n.','Alt. of Benzol'),('Benzol','n.','An impure benzene, used in the arts as a solvent, and for\n   various other purposes. See Benzene.'),('Benzoline','n.','Same as Benzole.'),('Benzoline','n.','Same as Amarine.'),('Benzoyl','n.','A compound radical, C6H5.CO; the base of benzoic acid, of\n   the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds.'),('Benzyl','n.','A compound radical, C6H5.CH2, related to toluene and\n   benzoic acid; -- commonly used adjectively.'),('Bepaint','v. t.','To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint.'),('Bepelt','v. t.','To pelt roundly.'),('Bepinched','imp. & p. p.','of Bepinch'),('Bepinch','v. t.','To pinch, or mark with pinches.'),('Beplastered','imp. & p. p.','of Beplaster'),('Beplastering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beplaster'),('Beplaster','v. t.','To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to\n   bedaub.'),('Beplumed','a.','Decked with feathers.'),('Bepommeled','imp. & p. p.','of Bepommel'),('Bepommeling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bepommel'),('Bepommel','v. t.','To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to\n   assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing.'),('Bepowder','v. t.','To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.'),('Bepraise','v. t.','To praise greatly or extravagantly.'),('Beprose','v. t.','To reduce to prose.'),('Bepuffed','a.','Puffed; praised.'),('Bepurple','v. t.','To tinge or dye with a purple color.'),('Bequeathed','imp. & p. p.','of Bequeath'),('Bequeathing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bequeath'),('Bequeath','v. t.','To give or leave by will; to give by testament; --\n   said especially of personal property.'),('Bequeath','v. t.','To hand down; to transmit.'),('Bequeath','v. t.','To give; to offer; to commit.'),('Bequeathable','a.','Capable of being bequeathed.'),('Bequeathal','n.','The act of bequeathing; bequeathment; bequest.'),('Bequeathment','n.','The act of bequeathing, or the state of being\n   bequeathed; a bequest.'),('Bequest','n.','The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest\n   of property by A. to B.'),('Bequest','n.','That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a\n   legacy; also, a gift.'),('Bequest','v. t.','To bequeath, or leave as a legacy.'),('Bequethen','','old p. p. of Bequeath.'),('Bequote','v. t.','To quote constantly or with great frequency.'),('Berained','imp. & p. p.','of Berain'),('Beraining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Berain'),('Berain','v. t.','To rain upon; to wet with rain.'),('Berated','imp. & p. p.','of Berate'),('Berating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Berate'),('Berate','v. t.','To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.'),('Berattle','v. t.','To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down.'),('Beray','v. t.','To make foul; to soil; to defile.'),('Berbe','n.','An African genet (Genetta pardina). See Genet.'),('Berber','n.','A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often\n   classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of\n   North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who\n   still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also,\n   the language spoken by this people.'),('Berberine','n.','An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance,\n   from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.'),('Berberry','n.','See Barberry.'),('Berdash','n.','A kind of neckcloth.'),('Bere','v. t.','To pierce.'),('Bere','n.','See Bear, barley.'),('Bereaved','imp. & p. p.','of Bereave'),('Bereft','','of Bereave'),('Bereaving.','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bereave'),('Bereave','v. t.','To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of\n   before the person or thing taken away.'),('Bereave','v. t.','To take away from.'),('Bereave','v. t.','To take away.'),('Bereavement','n.','The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the\n   loss of a relative by death.'),('Bereaver','n.','One who bereaves.'),('Bereft','','imp. & p. p. of Bereave.'),('Beretta','n.','Same as Berretta.'),('Berg','n.','A large mass or hill, as of ice.'),('Bergamot','n.','A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a\n   roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil\n   of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the\n   fruit.'),('Bergamot','n.','A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata).'),('Bergamot','n.','The essence or perfume made from the fruit.'),('Bergamot','n.','A variety of pear.'),('Bergamot','n.','A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.'),('Bergamot','n.','A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or\n   hemp, mixed with ox\'s or goat\'s hair; -- said to have been invented at\n   Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit.'),('Bergander','n.','A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake.'),('Bergeret','n.','A pastoral song.'),('Bergh','n.','A hill.'),('Bergmaster','n.','See Barmaster.'),('Bergmeal','n.','An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is\n   composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is\n   sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of\n   scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of\n   calcite.'),('Bergmote','n.','See Barmote.'),('Bergomask','n.','A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of\n   Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.'),('Bergylt','n.','The Norway haddock. See Rosefish.'),('Berhymed','imp. & p. p.','of Berhyme'),('Berhyming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Berhyme'),('Berhyme','v. t.','To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about.'),('Beriberi','n.','An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by\n   multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular\n   debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.'),('Berime','v. t.','To berhyme.'),('Berkeleian','a.','Of or relating to Bishop Berkeley or his system of\n   idealism; as, Berkeleian philosophy.'),('Berlin','n.','A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the\n   body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.'),('Berlin','n.','Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also\n   Berlin wool.'),('Berm','n.','Alt. of Berme'),('Berme','n.','A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and\n   the ditch.'),('Berme','n.','A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth\n   that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank.'),('Bermuda grass','','A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for\n   pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern\n   Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch\n   grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.'),('Bernacle','n.','See Barnacle.'),('Berna fly','','A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta, which\n   lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the\n   larvae do great injury.'),('Bernardine','a.','Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the\n   Cistercian monks.'),('Bernardine','n.','A Cistercian monk.'),('Bernese','a.','Pertaining to the city or canton of Bern, in Switzerland,\n   or to its inhabitants.'),('Bernese','n. sing. & pl.','A native or natives of Bern.'),('Bernicle','n.','A bernicle goose.'),('Bernouse','n.','Same as Burnoose.'),('Berob','v. t.','To rob; to plunder.'),('Beroe','n.','A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the\n   Ctenophora.'),('Berretta','n.','A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic\n   Church. A cardinal\'s berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is\n   black, except that a bishop\'s is lined with green.'),('Berried','a.','Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate;\n   as, a berried shrub.'),('Berries','pl. ','of Berry'),('Berry','n.','Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry,\n   huckleberry, etc.'),('Berry','n.','A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having\n   seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.'),('Berry','n.','The coffee bean.'),('Berry','n.','One of the ova or eggs of a fish.'),('Berried','imp. & p. p.','of Berry'),('Berrying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Berry'),('Berry','v. i.','To bear or produce berries.'),('Berry','n.','A mound; a hillock.'),('Berrying','n.','A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as\n   grow wild.'),('Berserk','n.','Alt. of Berserker'),('Berserker','n.','One of a class of legendary heroes, who fought frenzied\n   by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds.'),('Berserker','n.','One who fights as if frenzied, like a Berserker.'),('Berstle','n.','See Bristle.'),('Berth','n.','Convenient sea room.'),('Berth','n.','A room in which a number of the officers or ship\'s company\n   mess and reside.'),('Berth','n.','The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a\n   wharf.'),('Berth','n.','An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment.'),('Berth','n.','A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the\n   side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.'),('Berthed','imp. & p. p.','of Berth'),('Berthing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Berth'),('Berth','v. t.','To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place\n   in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.'),('Berth','v. t.','To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth\n   a ship\'s company.'),('Bertha','n.','A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.'),('Berthage','n.','A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.'),('Berthierite','n.','A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark\n   steel-gray color.'),('Berthing','n.','The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake.'),('Bertram','n.','Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum).'),('Berycoid','a.','Of or pertaining to the Berycidae, a family of marine\n   fishes.'),('Beryl','n.','A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much\n   beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish\n   green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of\n   aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent,\n   sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly\n   prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is\n   probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium.'),('Berylline','a.','Like a beryl; of a light or bluish green color.'),('Beryllium','n.','A metallic element found in the beryl. See Glucinum.'),('Berylloid','n.','A solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid; --\n   so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl.'),('Besaiel','n.','Alt. of Besayle'),('Besaile','n.','Alt. of Besayle'),('Besayle','n.','A great-grandfather.'),('Besayle','n.','A kind of writ which formerly lay where a\n   great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of\n   his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is\n   now abolished.'),('Besaint','v. t.','To make a saint of.'),('Besant','n.','See Bezant.'),('Bes-antler','n.','Same as Bez-antler.'),('Bescatter','v. t.','To scatter over.'),('Bescatter','v. t.','To cover sparsely by scattering (something); to\n   strew.'),('Bescorn','v. t.','To treat with scorn.'),('Bescratch','v. t.','To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.'),('Bescrawl','v. t.','To cover with scrawls; to scribble over.'),('Bescreen','v. t.','To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to\n   shelter; to conceal.'),('Bescribble','v. t.','To scribble over.'),('Bescumber','v. t.','Alt. of Bescummer'),('Bescummer','v. t.','To discharge ordure or dung upon.'),('Besee','v. t. & i.','To see; to look; to mind.'),('Besought','imp. & p. p.','of Beseech'),('Beseeching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beseech'),('Beseech','v. t.','To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to\n   implore.'),('Beseech','n.','Solicitation; supplication.'),('Beseecher','n.','One who beseeches.'),('Beseeching','a.','Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look.'),('Beseechment','n.','The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly.'),('Beseek','v. t.','To beseech.'),('Beseemed','imp. & p. p.','of Beseem'),('Beseeming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beseem'),('Beseem','v. t.','Literally: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for\n   (one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or\n   worthy of; to become; to befit.'),('Beseem','v. i.','To seem; to appear; to be fitting.'),('Beseeming','n.','Appearance; look; garb.'),('Beseeming','n.','Comeliness.'),('Beseeming','a.','Becoming; suitable.'),('Beseemly','a.','Fit; suitable; becoming.'),('Beseen','a.','Seen; appearing.'),('Beseen','a.','Decked or adorned; clad.'),('Beseen','a.','Accomplished; versed.'),('Beset','imp. & p. p.','of Beset'),('Besetting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beset'),('Beset','v. t.','To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent\n   objects.'),('Beset','v. t.','To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to\n   blockade.'),('Beset','v. t.','To set upon on all sides; to perplex; to harass; -- said\n   of dangers, obstacles, etc.'),('Beset','v. t.','To occupy; to employ; to use up.'),('Besetment','n.','The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also,\n   that which besets one, as a sin.'),('Besetter','n.','One who, or that which, besets.'),('Besetting','a.','Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or\n   about; as, a besetting sin.'),('Beshone','imp. & p. p.','of Beshine'),('Beshining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beshine'),('Beshine','v. t.','To shine upon; to illumine.'),('Beshow','n.','A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific\n   coast; -- called also candlefish.'),('Beshrew','v. t.','To curse; to execrate.'),('Beshroud','v. t.','To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen.'),('Beshut','v. t.','To shut up or out.'),('Beside','n.','At the side of; on one side of.'),('Beside','n.','Aside from; out of the regular course or order of; in a\n   state of deviation from; out of.'),('Beside','n.','Over and above; distinct from; in addition to.'),('Besides','adv.','Alt. of Beside'),('Beside','adv.','On one side.'),('Beside','adv.','More than that; over and above; not included in the\n   number, or in what has been mentioned; moreover; in addition.'),('Besides','prep.','Over and above; separate or distinct from; in addition\n   to; other than; else than. See Beside, prep., 3, and Syn. under Beside.'),('Besieged','imp. & p. p.','of Besiege'),('Besieging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Besiege'),('Besiege','v. t.','To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose\n   of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.'),('Besiegement','n.','The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged.'),('Besieger','n.','One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.'),('Besieging','a.','That besieges; laying siege to.'),('Besit','v. t.','To suit; to fit; to become.'),('Beslabber','v. t.','To beslobber.'),('Beslave','v. t.','To enslave.'),('Beslavered','imp. & p. p.','of Beslaver'),('Beslavering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beslaver'),('Beslaver','v. t.','To defile with slaver; to beslobber.'),('Beslime','v. t.','To daub with slime; to soil.'),('Beslobber','v. t.','To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the\n   mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise.'),('Beslubber','v. t.','To beslobber.'),('Besmeared','imp. & p. p.','of Besmear'),('Besmearing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Besmear'),('Besmear','v. t.','To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub;\n   to soil.'),('Besmearer','n.','One that besmears.'),('Besmirched','imp. & p. p.','of Besmirch'),('Besmirching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Besmirch'),('Besmirch','v. t.','To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To\n   dishonor; to sully.'),('Besmoke','v. t.','To foul with smoke.'),('Besmoke','v. t.','To harden or dry in smoke.'),('Besmutted','imp. & p. p.','of Besmut'),('Besmutting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Besmut'),('Besmut','v. t.','To blacken with smut; to foul with soot.'),('Besnowed','imp. & p. p.','of Besnow'),('Besnow','v. t.','To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow\n   flakes.'),('Besnow','v. t.','To cover with snow; to whiten with snow, or as with\n   snow.'),('Besnuff','v. t.','To befoul with snuff.'),('Besogne','n.','A worthless fellow; a bezonian.'),('Besom','n.','A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which\n   sweeps away or destroys.'),('Besomed','imp. & p. p.','of Besom'),('Besom','v. t.','To sweep, as with a besom.'),('Besomer','n.','One who uses a besom.'),('Besort','v. t.','To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become.'),('Besort','n.','Befitting associates or attendants.'),('Besotted','imp. & p. p.','of Besot'),('Besotting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Besot'),('Besot','v. t.','To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to\n   infatuate.'),('Besotted','a.','Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by\n   drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied.'),('Besottingly','adv.','In a besotting manner.'),('Besought','','p. p. of Beseech.'),('Bespangled','imp. & p. p.','of Bespangle'),('Bespangling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bespangle'),('Bespangle','v. t.','To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with\n   something brilliant or glittering.'),('Bespattered','imp. & p. p.','of Bespatter'),('Bespattering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bespatter'),('Bespatter','v. t.','To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty\n   water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.'),('Bespatter','v. t.','To asperse with calumny or reproach.'),('Bespawl','v. t.','To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle.'),('Bespoke','imp.','of Bespeak'),('Bespake','','of Bespeak'),('Bespoke','p. p.','of Bespeak'),('Bespoken','','of Bespeak'),('Bespeaking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bespeak'),('Bespeak','v. t.','To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage\n   against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.'),('Bespeak','v. t.','To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate.'),('Bespeak','v. t.','To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or\n   appearances.'),('Bespeak','v. t.','To speak to; to address.'),('Bespeak','v. i.','To speak.'),('Bespeak','n.','A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular\n   play is bespoken.)'),('Bespeaker','n.','One who bespeaks.'),('Bespeckled','imp. & p. p.','of Bespeckle'),('Bespeckling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bespeckle'),('Bespeckle','v. t.','To mark with speckles or spots.'),('Bespew','v. t.','To soil or daub with spew; to vomit on.'),('Bespice','v. t.','To season with spice, or with some spicy drug.'),('Bespirt','v. t.','Same as Bespurt.'),('Bespit','imp.','of Bespit'),('Bespit','p. p.','of Bespit'),('Bespitten','','of Bespit'),('Bespitting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bespit'),('Bespit','v. t.','To daub or soil with spittle.'),('Bespoke','','imp. & p. p. of Bespeak.'),('Bespotted','imp. & p. p.','of Bespot'),('Bespotting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bespot'),('Bespot','v. t.','To mark with spots, or as with spots.'),('Bespread','imp. & p. p.','of Bespread'),('Bespreading','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bespread'),('Bespread','v. t.','To spread or cover over.'),('Besprent','p. p.','Sprinkled over; strewed.'),('Besprinkled','imp. & p. p.','of Besprinkle'),('Besprinkling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Besprinkle'),('Besprinkle','v. t.','To sprinkle over; to scatter over.'),('Besprinkler','n.','One who, or that which, besprinkles.'),('Besprinkling','n.','The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.'),('Bespurt','v. t.','To spurt on or over; to asperse.'),('Bessemer steel','','Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a\n   portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains,\n   through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten\n   metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the\n   inventor of the process.'),('Best','a.','Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind,\n   desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best\n   road; the best cloth; the best abilities.'),('Best','a.','Most advanced; most correct or complete; as, the best\n   scholar; the best view of a subject.'),('Best','a.','Most; largest; as, the best part of a week.'),('Best','n.','Utmost; highest endeavor or state; most nearly perfect thing,\n   or being, or action; as, to do one\'s best; to the best of our ability.'),('Best','superl.','In the highest degree; beyond all others.'),('Best','superl.','To the most advantage; with the most success, case,\n   profit, benefit, or propriety.'),('Best','superl.','Most intimately; most thoroughly or correctly; as, what\n   is expedient is best known to himself.'),('Best','v. t.','To get the better of.'),('Bestad','imp. & p. p.','Beset; put in peril.'),('Bestain','v. t.','To stain.'),('Bestarred','imp. & p. p.','of Bestar'),('Bestar','v. t.','To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with,\n   or as with, stars; to bestud.'),('Bestead','imp. & p. p.','of Bestead'),('Bested','','of Bestead'),('Bestad','','of Bestead'),('Besteaded','','of Bestead'),('Bestead','v. t.','To put in a certain situation or condition; to\n   circumstance; to place.'),('Bestead','v. t.','To put in peril; to beset.'),('Bestead','v. t.','To serve; to assist; to profit; to avail.'),('Bestial','a.','Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.'),('Bestial','a.','Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity\n   of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual.'),('Bestial','n.','A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other\n   kinds of bestial.'),('Bestiality','n.','The state or quality of being bestial.'),('Bestiality','n.','Unnatural connection with a beast.'),('Bestialized','imp. & p. p.','of Bestialize'),('Bestializing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bestialize'),('Bestialize','v. t.','To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to\n   brutalize.'),('Bestially','adv.','In a bestial manner.'),('Bestuck','imp. & p. p.','of Bestick'),('Besticking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bestick'),('Bestick','v. t.','To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark\n   by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce.'),('Bestill','v. t.','To make still.'),('Bestirred','imp. & p. p.','of Bestir'),('Bestirring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bestir'),('Bestir','v. t.','To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life\n   and vigor; -- usually with the reciprocal pronoun.'),('Bestorm','v. i. & t.','To storm.'),('Bestowed','imp. & p. p.','of Bestow'),('Bestowing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bestow'),('Bestow','v. t.','To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to\n   stow; to place; to put.'),('Bestow','v. t.','To use; to apply; to devote, as time or strength in some\n   occupation.'),('Bestow','v. t.','To expend, as money.'),('Bestow','v. t.','To give or confer; to impart; -- with on or upon.'),('Bestow','v. t.','To give in marriage.'),('Bestow','v. t.','To demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by a\n   reflexive pronoun.'),('Bestowal','n.','The act of bestowing; disposal.'),('Bestower','n.','One that bestows.'),('Bestowment','n.','The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or\n   bestowal.'),('Bestowment','n.','That which is given or bestowed.'),('Bestraddle','v. t.','To bestride.'),('Bestraught','a.','Out of one\'s senses; distracted; mad.'),('Bestreak','v. t.','To streak.'),('Bestrewed','imp.','of Bestrew'),('Bestrewed','p. p.','of Bestrew'),('Bestrown','','of Bestrew'),('Bestrewing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bestrew'),('Bestrew','v. t.','To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle.'),('Bestrode','imp.','of Bestride'),('Bestrid','','of Bestride'),('Bestridden','p. p.','of Bestride'),('Bestrid','','of Bestride'),('Bestrode','','of Bestride'),('Bestriding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bestride'),('Bestride','v. t.','To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or\n   with the legs astride; to stand over'),('Bestride','v. t.','To step over; to stride over or across; as, to\n   bestride a threshold.'),('Bestrode','','imp. & p. p. of Bestride.'),('Bestrown','','p. p. of Bestrew.'),('Bestuck','','imp. & p. p. Bestick.'),('Bestudded','imp. & p. p.','of Bestud'),('Bestudding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bestud'),('Bestud','v. t.','To set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set\n   thickly; to stud; as, to bestud with stars.'),('Beswike','v. t.','To lure; to cheat.'),('Bet','n.','That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two\n   parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act\n   of giving such a pledge; a wager.'),('Bet','imp. & p. p.','of Bet'),('Betted','','of Bet'),('Betting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bet'),('Bet','v. t.','To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to\n   wager.'),('Bet','','imp. & p. p. of Beat.'),('Bet','a. & adv.','An early form of Better.'),('Betaine','n.','A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and\n   also occurring naturally in beet-root molasses and its residues, from\n   which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also\n   lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.'),('Betook','imp.','of Betake'),('Betaken','p. p.','of Betake'),('Betaking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Betake'),('Betake','v. t.','To take or seize.'),('Betake','v. t.','To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with\n   a reflexive pronoun.'),('Betake','v. t.','To commend or intrust to; to commit to.'),('Betaught','a.','Delivered; committed in trust.'),('Bete','v. t.','To better; to mend. See Beete.'),('Beteela','n.','An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils,\n   etc.'),('Beteem','a.','To give ; to bestow; to grant; to accord; to consent.'),('Beteem','a.','To allow; to permit; to suffer.'),('Betel','n.','A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are\n   chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the\n   inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber with ovate\n   many-nerved leaves.'),('Betelguese','n.','A bright star of the first magnitude, near one shoulder\n   of Orion.'),('Betel nut','','The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East\n   with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime.'),('Bete noire','','Something especially hated or dreaded; a bugbear.'),('Bethabara wood','','A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc.\n   The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian.'),('Bethel','n.','A place of worship; a hallowed spot.'),('Bethel','n.','A chapel for dissenters.'),('Bethel','n.','A house of worship for seamen.'),('Bethought','imp. & p. p.','of Bethink'),('Bethinking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bethink'),('Bethink','v. t.','To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection,\n   reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally\n   followed by a reflexive pronoun, often with of or that before the\n   subject of thought.'),('Bethink','v. i.','To think; to recollect; to consider.'),('Bethlehem','n.','A hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam.'),('Bethlehem','n.','In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a\n   church edifice, in which the bread for the eucharist is made.'),('Bethlehemite','n.','Alt. of Bethlemite'),('Bethlemite','n.','An inhabitant of Bethlehem in Judea.'),('Bethlemite','n.','An insane person; a madman; a bedlamite.'),('Bethlemite','n.','One of an extinct English order of monks.'),('Bethought','','imp. & p. p. of Bethink.'),('Bethrall','v. t.','To reduce to thralldom; to inthrall.'),('Bethumb','v. t.','To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books.'),('Bethumped','imp. & p. p.','of Bethump'),('Bethumpt','','of Bethump'),('Bethumping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bethump'),('Bethump','v. t.','To beat or thump soundly.'),('Betided','imp. & p. p.','of Betide'),('Betid','Obs','of Betide'),('Betiding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Betide'),('Betide','v. t.','To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the\n   wanderer.'),('Betide','v. i.','To come to pass; to happen; to occur.'),('Betime','adv.','Alt. of Betimes'),('Betimes','adv.','In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably;\n   early.'),('Betimes','adv.','In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with.'),('Betitle','v. t.','To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle.'),('Betokened','imp. & p. p.','of Betoken'),('Betokening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Betoken'),('Betoken','v. t.','To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or\n   tokens.'),('Betoken','v. t.','To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something\n   future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens\n   a storm.'),('Beton','n.','The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the\n   French fashion.'),('Betongue','v. t.','To attack with the tongue; to abuse; to insult.'),('Betonies','pl. ','of Betony'),('Betony','n.','A plant of the genus Betonica (Linn.).'),('Betook','','imp. of Betake.'),('Betorn','a.','Torn in pieces; tattered.'),('Betossed','imp. & p. p.','of Betoss'),('Betoss','v. t.','To put in violent motion; to agitate; to disturb; to\n   toss.'),('Betrapped','imp. & p. p.','of Betrap'),('Betrap','v. t.','To draw into, or catch in, a trap; to insnare; to\n   circumvent.'),('Betrap','v. t.','To put trappings on; to clothe; to deck.'),('Betrayed','imp. & p. p.','of Betray'),('Betraying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Betray'),('Betray','v. t.','To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or\n   fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly;\n   as, an officer betrayed the city.'),('Betray','v. t.','To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or\n   one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a\n   cause.'),('Betray','v. t.','To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or\n   that which one is bound in honor not to make known.'),('Betray','v. t.','To disclose or discover, as something which prudence\n   would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.'),('Betray','v. t.','To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to\n   lead into error or sin.'),('Betray','v. t.','To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise\n   of marriage) and then abandon.'),('Betray','v. t.','To show or to indicate; -- said of what is not obvious\n   at first, or would otherwise be concealed.'),('Betrayal','n.','The act or the result of betraying.'),('Betrayer','n.','One who, or that which, betrays.'),('Betrayment','n.','Betrayal.'),('Betrimmed','imp. & p. p.','of Betrim'),('Betrimming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Betrim'),('Betrim','v. t.','To set in order; to adorn; to deck, to embellish; to\n   trim.'),('Betrothed','imp. & p. p.','of Betroth'),('Betrothing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Betroth'),('Betroth','v. t.','To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or\n   promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.'),('Betroth','v. t.','To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight\n   one\'s troth to.'),('Betroth','v. t.','To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration.'),('Betrothal','n.','The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a\n   mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between\n   the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance.'),('Betrothment','n.','The act of betrothing, or the state of being\n   betrothed; betrothal.'),('Betrust','v. t.','To trust or intrust.'),('Betrustment','n.','The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted.'),('Betso','n.','A small brass Venetian coin.'),('Better','a.','Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as,\n   a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.'),('Better','a.','Preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness,\n   acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect.'),('Better','a.','Greater in amount; larger; more.'),('Better','a.','Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the\n   patient is better.'),('Better','a.','More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance;\n   a better knowledge of the subject.'),('Better','n.','Advantage, superiority, or victory; -- usually with of; as,\n   to get the better of an enemy.'),('Better','n.','One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit,\n   social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural.'),('Better','compar.','In a superior or more excellent manner; with more\n   skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry\n   writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits.'),('Better','compar.','More correctly or thoroughly.'),('Better','compar.','In a higher or greater degree; more; as, to love one\n   better than another.'),('Better','compar.','More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as,\n   ten miles and better.'),('Bettered','imp. & p. p.','of Better'),('Bettering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Better'),('Better','a.','To improve or ameliorate; to increase the good qualities\n   of.'),('Better','a.','To improve the condition of, morally, physically,\n   financially, socially, or otherwise.'),('Better','a.','To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.'),('Better','a.','To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest\n   of.'),('Better','v. i.','To become better; to improve.'),('Better','n.','One who bets or lays a wager.'),('Betterment','n.','A making better; amendment; improvement.'),('Betterment','n.','An improvement of an estate which renders it better\n   than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural.'),('Bettermost','a.','Best.'),('Betterness','n.','The quality of being better or superior; superiority.'),('Betterness','n.','The difference by which fine gold or silver exceeds in\n   fineness the standard.'),('Bettong','n.','A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus\n   Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.'),('Bettor','n.','One who bets; a better.'),('Betty','n.','A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.'),('Betty','n.','A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the\n   duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish\n   matters.'),('Betty','n.','A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which\n   olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a\n   Florence flask.'),('Betulin','n.','A substance of a resinous nature, obtained from the outer\n   bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar\n   prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor.'),('Betumbled','imp. & p. p.','of Betumble'),('Betumble','v. t.','To throw into disorder; to tumble.'),('Betutored','imp. & p. p.','of Betutor'),('Betutor','v. t.','To tutor; to instruct.'),('Between','prep.','In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is\n   between Boston and Philadelphia.'),('Between','prep.','Used in expressing motion from one body or place to\n   another; from one to another of two.'),('Between','prep.','Belonging in common to two; shared by both.'),('Between','prep.','Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving\n   reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition\n   between science and religion.'),('Between','prep.','With relation to two, as involved in an act or\n   attribute of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge\n   between or to choose between courses; to distinguish between you and\n   me; to mediate between nations.'),('Between','prep.','In intermediate relation to, in respect to time,\n   quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o\'clock.'),('Between','n.','Intermediate time or space; interval.'),('Betwixt','prep.','In the space which separates; between.'),('Betwixt','prep.','From one to another of; mutually affecting.'),('Beurre','n.','A beurre (or buttery) pear, one with the meat soft and\n   melting; -- used with a distinguishing word; as, Beurre d\'Anjou; Beurre\n   Clairgeau.'),('Bevel','n.','Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one\n   surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant\n   or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a\n   table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.'),('Bevel','n.','An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed\n   together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the\n   surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a\n   bevel square.'),('Bevel','a.','Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.'),('Bevel','a.','Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.'),('Beveled','imp. & p. p.','of Bevel'),('Bevelled','','of Bevel'),('Beveling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bevel'),('Bevelling','','of Bevel'),('Bevel','v. t.','To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.'),('Bevel','v. i.','To deviate or incline from an angle of 90¡, as a surface;\n   to slant.'),('Beveled','a.','Alt. of Bevelled'),('Bevelled','a.','Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of\n   a table.'),('Bevelled','a.','Replaced by two planes inclining equally upon the\n   adjacent planes, as an edge; having its edges replaced by sloping\n   planes, as a cube or other solid.'),('Bevel gear','','A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together\n   lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to\n   the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where\n   the axes of the wheels would meet.'),('Bevelment','n.','The replacement of an edge by two similar planes,\n   equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.'),('Bever','n.','A light repast between meals; a lunch.'),('Bevered','imp. & p. p.','of Bever'),('Bever','v. i.','To take a light repast between meals.'),('Beverage','v. t.','Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to\n   drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an\n   intoxicating beverage.'),('Beverage','v. t.','Specifically, a name applied to various kinds of\n   drink.'),('Beverage','v. t.','A treat, or drink money.'),('Bevile','n.','A chief broken or opening like a carpenter\'s bevel.'),('Beviled','a.','Alt. of Bevilled'),('Bevilled','a.','Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter\'s\n   bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.'),('Bevies','pl. ','of Bevy'),('Bevy','n.','A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially\n   of ladies.'),('Bevy','n.','A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of\n   roes.'),('Bewailed','imp. & p. p.','of Bewail'),('Bewailing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bewail'),('Bewail','v. t.','To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to\n   wail over.'),('Bewail','v. i.','To express grief; to lament.'),('Bewailable','a.','Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.'),('Bewailer','n.','One who bewails or laments.'),('Bewailing','a.','Wailing over; lamenting.'),('Bewailment','n.','The act of bewailing.'),('Bewake','v. t. & i.','To keep watch over; to keep awake.'),('Beware','v. i.','To be on one\'s guard; to be cautious; to take care; --\n   commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided.'),('Beware','v. i.','To have a special regard; to heed.'),('Beware','v. t.','To avoid; to take care of; to have a care for.'),('Bewash','v. t.','To drench or souse with water.'),('Bewept','imp. & p. p.','of Beweep'),('Beweeping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Beweep'),('Beweep','v. t.','To weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears.'),('Beweep','v. i.','To weep.'),('Bewet','imp. & p. p.','of Bewet'),('Bewetted','','of Bewet'),('Bewet','v. t.','To wet or moisten.'),('Bewhore','v. t.','To corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of.'),('Bewhore','v. t.','To pronounce or characterize as a whore.'),('Bewigged','imp. & p. p.','of Bewig'),('Bewig','v. t.','To cover (the head) with a wig.'),('Bewildered','imp. & p. p.','of Bewilder'),('Bewildering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bewilder'),('Bewilder','v. t.','To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a\n   plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse\n   greatly.'),('Bewildered','a.','Greatly perplexed; as, a bewildered mind.'),('Bewilderedness','n.','The state of being bewildered; bewilderment.'),('Bewildering','a.','Causing bewilderment or great perplexity; as,\n   bewildering difficulties.'),('Bewilderment','n.','The state of being bewildered.'),('Bewilderment','n.','A bewildering tangle or confusion.'),('Bewinter','v. t.','To make wintry.'),('Bewit','n.','A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a\n   hawk\'s legs.'),('Bewitched','imp. & p. p.','of Bewitch'),('Bewitching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bewitch'),('Bewitch','v. t.','To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations;\n   to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.'),('Bewitch','v. t.','To charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as\n   to take away the power of resistance; to enchant.'),('Bewitchedness','n.','The state of being bewitched.'),('Bewitcher','n.','One who bewitches.'),('Bewitchery','n.','The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment;\n   charm; fascination.'),('Bewitching','a.','Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting;\n   captivating; charming.'),('Bewitchment','n.','The act of bewitching, or the state of being\n   bewitched.'),('Bewitchment','n.','The power of bewitching or charming.'),('Bewondered','imp. & p. p.','of Bewonder'),('Bewonder','v. t.','To fill with wonder.'),('Bewonder','v. t.','To wonder at; to admire.'),('Bewrapped','imp. & p. p.','of Bewrap'),('Bewrap','v. t.','To wrap up; to cover.'),('Bewray','v. t.','To soil. See Beray.'),('Bewrayed','imp. & p. p.','of Bewray'),('Bewraying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bewray'),('Bewray','v. t.','To expose; to reveal; to disclose; to betray.'),('Bewrayer','n.','One who, or that which, bewrays; a revealer.'),('Bewrayment','n.','Betrayal.'),('Bewreck','v. t.','To wreck.'),('Bewreke','v. t.','To wreak; to avenge.'),('Bewrought','a.','Embroidered.'),('Bey','n.','A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions;\n   also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of\n   Tunis.'),('Beylic','n.','The territory ruled by a bey.'),('Beyond','prep.','On the further side of; in the same direction as, and\n   further on or away than.'),('Beyond','prep.','At a place or time not yet reached; before.'),('Beyond','prep.','Past, out of the reach or sphere of; further than;\n   greater than; as, the patient was beyond medical aid; beyond one\'s\n   strength.'),('Beyond','prep.','In a degree or amount exceeding or surpassing;\n   proceeding to a greater degree than; above, as in dignity, excellence,\n   or quality of any kind.'),('Beyond','adv.','Further away; at a distance; yonder.'),('Bezant','n.','A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in\n   weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a\n   sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver\n   bezants.'),('Bezant','n.','A circle in or, i. e., gold, representing the gold coin\n   called bezant.'),('Bezant','n.','A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt,\n   representing circular disks lapping one upon another.'),('Bez-antler','n.','The second branch of a stag\'s horn.'),('Bezel','n.','The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other\n   object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.'),('Bezique','n.','A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in\n   the hand, when declared, score points.'),('Bezoar','n.','A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain\n   ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian\n   llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a\n   certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence:\n   Any antidote or panacea.'),('Bezoardic','a.','Pertaining to, or compounded with, bezoar.'),('Bezoardic','n.','A medicine containing bezoar.'),('Bezoartic','a.','Alt. of Bezoartical'),('Bezoartical','a.','Having the qualities of an antidote, or of bezoar;\n   healing.'),('Bezonian','n.','A low fellow or scoundrel; a beggar.'),('Bezzled','imp. & p. p.','of Bezzle'),('Bezzling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bezzle'),('Bezzle','v. t.','To plunder; to waste in riot.'),('Bezzle','v. i.','To drink to excess; to revel.'),('Bhang','n.','An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves\n   and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked\n   in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.'),('Bhunder','n.','An Indian monkey (Macacus Rhesus), protected by the\n   Hindoos as sacred. See Rhesus.'),('Bi-','','In most branches of science bi- in composition denotes two,\n   twice, or doubly; as, bidentate, two-toothed; biternate, doubly\n   ternate, etc.'),('Bi-','','In the composition of chemical names bi- denotes two atoms,\n   parts, or equivalents of that constituent to the name of which it is\n   prefixed, to one of the other component, or that such constituent is\n   present in double the ordinary proportion; as, bichromate, bisulphide.\n   Be- and di- are often used interchangeably.'),('Biacid','a.','Having two hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by negative\n   atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of bases. See Diacid.'),('Biacuminate','a.','Having points in two directions.'),('Biangular','a.','Having two angles or corners.'),('Biangulate','a.','Alt. of Biangulated'),('Biangulated','a.','Biangular.'),('Biangulous','a.','Biangular.'),('Biantheriferous','a.','Having two anthers.'),('Biarticulate','a.','Having, or consisting of, tow joints.'),('Biases','pl. ','of Bias'),('Bias','n.','A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls,\n   or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight\n   line.'),('Bias','n.','A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an\n   object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.'),('Bias','n.','A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the\n   waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.'),('Bias','n.','A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.'),('Bias','a.','Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.'),('Bias','a.','Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.'),('Bias','adv.','In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as,\n   to cut cloth bias.'),('Biased','imp. & p. p.','of Bias'),('Biasing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bias'),('Bias','v. t.','To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to;\n   to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.'),('Biauriculate','a.','Having two auricles, as the heart of mammals, birds,\n   and reptiles.'),('Biauriculate','a.','Having two earlike projections at its base, as a\n   leaf.'),('Biaxal','a.','Alt. of Biaxial'),('Biaxial','a.','Having two axes; as, biaxial polarization.'),('Bib','n.','A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to\n   protect the clothes.'),('Bib','n.','An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called\n   also pout and whiting pout.'),('Bib','n.','A bibcock.'),('Bib','v. t.','Alt. of Bibbe'),('Bibbe','v. t.','To drink; to tipple.'),('Bib','v. i.','To drink; to sip; to tipple.'),('Bibacious','a.','Addicted to drinking.'),('Bibacity','n.','The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling.'),('Bibasic','a.','Having to hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by positive\n   or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of acids. See\n   Dibasic.'),('Bibb','n.','A bibcock. See Bib, n., 3.'),('Bibber','n.','One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a\n   tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.'),('Bibble-babble','n.','Idle talk; babble.'),('Bibbs','n. pl.','Pieces of timber bolted to certain parts of a mast to\n   support the trestletrees.'),('Bibcock','n.','A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle.'),('Bibirine','n.','See Bebeerine.'),('Bibitory','a.','Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling.'),('Bible','n.','A book.'),('Bible','n.','The Book by way of eminence, -- that is, the book which is\n   made up of the writings accepted by Christians as of divine origin and\n   authority, whether such writings be in the original language, or\n   translated; the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; -- sometimes\n   in a restricted sense, the Old Testament; as, King James\'s Bible; Douay\n   Bible; Luther\'s Bible. Also, the book which is made up of writings\n   similarly accepted by the Jews; as, a rabbinical Bible.'),('Bible','n.','A book containing the sacred writings belonging to any\n   religion; as, the Koran is often called the Mohammedan Bible.'),('Bible','n.','A book with an authoritative exposition of some topic,\n   respected by many who are experts in the field.'),('Bibler','v. t.','A great drinker; a tippler.'),('Biblical','a.','Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical\n   learning; biblical authority.'),('Biblicality','n.','The quality of being biblical; a biblical subject.'),('Biblically','adv.','According to the Bible.'),('Biblicism','n.','Learning or literature relating to the Bible.'),('Biblicist','n.','One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a\n   demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.'),('Bibliograph','n.','Bibliographer.'),('Bibliographer','n.','One who writes, or is versed in, bibliography.'),('Bibliographic','a.','Alt. of Bibliographical'),('Bibliographical','a.','Pertaining to bibliography, or the history of\n   books.'),('Bibliographies','pl. ','of Bibliography'),('Bibliography','n.','A history or description of books and manuscripts,\n   with notices of the different editions, the times when they were\n   printed, etc.'),('Bibliolater','n.','Alt. of Bibliolatrist'),('Bibliolatrist','n.','A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the\n   Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration.'),('Bibliolatry','n.','Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman\n   Catholic divines to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over\n   that of the pope or the church, and by Protestants to an excessive\n   regard to the letter of the Scriptures.'),('Bibliological','a.','Relating to bibliology.'),('Bibliology','n.','An account of books; book lore; bibliography.'),('Bibliology','n.','The literature or doctrine of the Bible.'),('Bibliomancy','n.','A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages\n   of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning\n   future events.'),('Bibliomania','n.','A mania for acquiring books.'),('Bibliomaniac','n.','One who has a mania for books.'),('Bibliomaniac','a.','Relating to a bibliomaniac.'),('Bibliomaniacal','a.','Pertaining to a passion for books; relating to a\n   bibliomaniac.'),('Bibliopegic','a.','Relating to the binding of books.'),('Bibliopegist','n.','A bookbinder.'),('Bibliopegistic','a.','Pertaining to the art of binding books.'),('Bibliopegy','n.','The art of binding books.'),('Bibliophile','n.','A lover of books.'),('Bibliophilism','n.','Love of books.'),('Bibliophilist','n.','A lover of books.'),('Bibliophobia','n.','A dread of books.'),('Bibliopole','n.','One who sells books.'),('Bibliopolic','a.','Alt. of Bibliopolar'),('Bibliopolar','a.','Of or pertaining to the sale of books.'),('Bibliopolism','n.','The trade or business of selling books.'),('Bibliopolist','n.','Same as Bibliopole.'),('Bibliopolistic','a.','Of or pertaining to bibliopolism.'),('Bibliotaph','n.','Alt. of Bibliotaphist'),('Bibliotaphist','n.','One who hides away books, as in a tomb.'),('Bibliothec','n.','A librarian.'),('Bibliotheca','n.','A library.'),('Bibliothecal','a.','Belonging to a library.'),('Bibliothecary','n.','A librarian.'),('Bibliotheke','n.','A library.'),('Biblist','n.','One who makes the Bible the sole rule of faith.'),('Biblist','n.','A biblical scholar; a biblicist.'),('Bibracteate','a.','Furnished with, or having, two bracts.'),('Bibulous','v. t.','Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as,\n   bibulous blotting paper.'),('Bibulous','v. t.','Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.'),('Bibulously','adv.','In a bibulous manner; with profuse imbibition or\n   absorption.'),('Bicalcarate','a.','Having two spurs, as the wing or leg of a bird.'),('Bicallose','a.','Alt. of Bicallous'),('Bicallous','a.','Having two callosities or hard spots.'),('Bicameral','a.','Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or\n   legislative branches.'),('Bicapsular','a.','Having two capsules; as, a bicapsular pericarp.'),('Bicarbonate','n.','A carbonate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid\n   is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the\n   proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it\n   is in the normal carbonates; an acid carbonate; -- sometimes called\n   supercarbonate.'),('Bicarbureted','a.','Alt. of -retted'),('-retted','a.','Containing two atoms or equivalents of carbon in the\n   molecule.'),('Bicarinate','a.','Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of\n   grasses.'),('Bicaudal','a.','Having, or terminating in, two tails.'),('Bicaudate','a.','Two-tailed; bicaudal.'),('Bicched','a.','Pecked; pitted; notched.'),('Bice','n.','Alt. of Bise'),('Bise','n.','A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate\n   of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice.'),('Bicentenary','a.','Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred\n   years; as, a bicentenary celebration.'),('Bicentenary','n.','The two hundredth anniversary, or its celebration.'),('Bicentennial','a.','Consisting of two hundred years.'),('Bicentennial','a.','Occurring every two hundred years.'),('Bicentennial','n.','The two hundredth year or anniversary, or its\n   celebration.'),('Bicephalous','a.','Having two heads.'),('Biceps','n.','A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied\n   particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.'),('Bichir','n.','A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the\n   Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei.'),('Bichloride','n.','A compound consisting of two atoms of chlorine with one\n   or more atoms of another element; -- called also dichloride.'),('Bicho','n.','See Jigger.'),('Bichromate','n.','A salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of\n   the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; -- called also\n   dichromate.'),('Bichromatize','v. t.','To combine or treat with a bichromate, esp. with\n   bichromate of potassium; as, bichromatized gelatine.'),('Bicipital','a.','Having two heads or origins, as a muscle.'),('Bicipital','a.','Pertaining to a biceps muscle; as, bicipital furrows,\n   the depressions on either side of the biceps of the arm.'),('Bicipital','a.','Dividing into two parts at one extremity; having two\n   heads or two supports; as, a bicipital tree.'),('Bicipitous','a.','Having two heads; bicipital.'),('Bicker','n.','A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.'),('Bickered','imp. & p. p.','of Bicker'),('Bickering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bicker'),('Bicker','v. i.','To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.'),('Bicker','v. i.','To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.'),('Bicker','v. i.','To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering\n   noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.'),('Bicker','n.','A skirmish; an encounter.'),('Bicker','n.','A fight with stones between two parties of boys.'),('Bicker','n.','A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.'),('Bickerer','n.','One who bickers.'),('Bickering','n.','A skirmishing.'),('Bickering','n.','Altercation; wrangling.'),('Bickerment','n.','Contention.'),('Bickern','n.','An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks);\n   also, the beak or horn itself.'),('Bicolligate','v. t.','Having the anterior toes connected by a basal web.'),('Bicolor','a.','Alt. of Bicolored'),('Bicolored','a.','Of two colors.'),('Biconcave','a.','Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebrae.'),('Biconjugate','a.','Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice.'),('Biconvex','a.','Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens.'),('Bicorn','a.','Alt. of Bicornous'),('Bicorned','a.','Alt. of Bicornous'),('Bicornous','a.','Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.'),('Bicorporal','a.','Having two bodies.'),('Bicorporate','a.','Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two\n   bodies.'),('Bicostate','a.','Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a\n   leaf.'),('Bicrenate','a.','Twice crenated, as in the case of leaves whose\n   crenatures are themselves crenate.'),('Bicrescentic','a.','Having the form of a double crescent.'),('Bicrural','a.','Having two legs.'),('Bicuspid','a.','Alt. of Bicuspidate'),('Bicuspidate','a.','Having two points or prominences; ending in two\n   points; -- said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc.'),('Bicuspid','n.','One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene\n   between the canines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw.\n   See Tooth, n.'),('Bicyanide','n.','See Dicyanide.'),('Bicycle','n.','A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It\n   has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider\'s feet acting on cranks\n   or levers.'),('Bicycler','n.','One who rides a bicycle.'),('Bicyclic','a.','Relating to bicycles.'),('Bicycling','n.','The use of a bicycle; the act or practice of riding a\n   bicycle.'),('Bicyclism','n.','The art of riding a bicycle.'),('Bicyclist','n.','A bicycler.'),('Bicycular','a.','Relating to bicycling.'),('Bade','imp.','of Bid'),('Bid','','of Bid'),('Bad','','of Bid'),('Bidden','p. p.','of Bid'),('Bid','','of Bid'),('Bidding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bid'),('Bid','v. t.','To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to\n   pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a\n   certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).'),('Bid','v. t.','To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a\n   threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning,\n   farewell, etc.'),('Bid','v. t.','To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known.'),('Bid','v. t.','To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.'),('Bid','v. t.','To invite; to call in; to request to come.'),('Bid','','imp. & p. p. of Bid.'),('Bid','n.','An offer of a price, especially at auctions; a statement of a\n   sum which one will give for something to be received, or will take for\n   something to be done or furnished; that which is offered.'),('Bid','v. t.','To pray.'),('Bid','v. t.','To make a bid; to state what one will pay or take.'),('Bidale','n.','An invitation of friends to drink ale at some poor man\'s\n   house, and there to contribute in charity for his relief.'),('Biddable','a.','Obedient; docile.'),('Bidden','','p. p. of Bid.'),('Bidder','n.','One who bids or offers a price.'),('Biddery ware','','A kind of metallic ware made in India. The material is\n   a composition of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and\n   silver are inlaid or damascened.'),('Bidding','n.','Command; order; a proclamation or notifying.'),('Bidding','n.','The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of\n   a price, as at an auction.'),('Bidding prayer','','The prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before\n   the sermon.'),('Bidding prayer','','The prayer before the sermon, with petitions for\n   various specified classes of persons.'),('Biddy','n.','A name used in calling a hen or chicken.'),('Biddy','n.','An Irish serving woman or girl.'),('Bided','imp. & p. p.','of Bide'),('Biding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bide'),('Bide','v. t.','To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay.'),('Bide','v. t.','To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or\n   state; to continue to be.'),('Bide','v. t.','To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to\n   endure; to suffer; to undergo.'),('Bide','v. t.','To wait for; as, I bide my time. See Abide.'),('Bident','n.','An instrument or weapon with two prongs.'),('Bidental','a.','Having two teeth.'),('Bidentate','a.','Having two teeth or two toothlike processes;\n   two-toothed.'),('Bidet','n.','A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon\n   for carrying his baggage.'),('Bidet','n.','A kind of bath tub for sitting baths; a sitz bath.'),('Bidigitate','a.','Having two fingers or fingerlike projections.'),('Biding','n.','Residence; habitation.'),('Bield','n.','A shelter. Same as Beild.'),('Bield','v. t.','To shelter.'),('Biennial','a.','Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a\n   biennial election.'),('Biennial','a.','Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants\n   which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the\n   second.'),('Biennial','n.','Something which takes place or appears once in two years;\n   esp. a biennial examination.'),('Biennial','n.','A plant which exists or lasts for two years.'),('Biennially','adv.','Once in two years.'),('Bier','n.','A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or\n   borne to the grave.'),('Bier','n.','A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen\n   cloth.'),('Bierbalk','n.','A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals.'),('Biestings','n. pl.','Alt. of Beestings'),('Beestings','n. pl.','The first milk given by a cow after calving.'),('Bifacial','a.','Having the opposite surfaces alike.'),('Bifarious','a.','Twofold; arranged in two rows.'),('Bifarious','a.','Pointing two ways, as leaves that grow only on opposite\n   sides of a branch; in two vertical rows.'),('Bifariously','adv.','In a bifarious manner.'),('Biferous','a.','Bearing fruit twice a year.'),('Biffin','n.','A sort of apple peculiar to Norfolk, Eng.'),('Biffin','n.','A baked apple pressed down into a flat, round cake; a dried\n   apple.'),('Bifid','a.','Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening\n   with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.'),('Bifidate','a.','See Bifid.'),('Bifilar','a.','Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as,\n   bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance.'),('Biflabellate','a.','Flabellate on both sides.'),('Biflagellate','a.','Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.'),('Biflorate','a.','Alt. of Biflorous'),('Biflorous','a.','Bearing two flowers; two-flowered.'),('Bifold','a.','Twofold; double; of two kinds, degrees, etc.'),('Bifoliate','a.','Having two leaves; two-leaved.'),('Bifoliolate','a.','Having two leaflets, as some compound leaves.'),('Biforate','a.','Having two perforations.'),('Biforine','n.','An oval sac or cell, found in the leaves of certain\n   plants of the order Araceae. It has an opening at each end through\n   which raphides, generated inside, are discharged.'),('Biforked','a.','Bifurcate.'),('Biform','a.','Having two forms, bodies, or shapes.'),('Biformed','a.','Having two forms.'),('Biformity','n.','A double form.'),('Biforn','prep. & adv.','Before.'),('Biforous','a.','See Biforate.'),('Bifronted','a.','Having two fronts.'),('Bifurcate','a.','Alt. of Bifurcated'),('Bifurcated','a.','Two-pronged; forked.'),('Bifurcate','v. i.','To divide into two branches.'),('Bifurcation','n.','A forking, or division into two branches.'),('Bifurcous','a.','See Bifurcate, a.'),('Big','superl.','Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of\n   great size; large.'),('Big','superl.','Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth\n   or produce; -- often figuratively.'),('Big','superl.','Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation,\n   distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a\n   big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates\n   haughtiness or pride.'),('Big','n.','Alt. of Bigg'),('Bigg','n.','Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.'),('Big','v. t.','Alt. of Bigg'),('Bigg','v. t.','To build.'),('Biga','n.','A two-horse chariot.'),('Bigam','n.','A bigamist.'),('Bigamist','n.','One who is guilty of bigamy.'),('Bigamous','a.','Guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy; as, a bigamous\n   marriage.'),('Bigamy','n.','The offense of marrying one person when already legally\n   married to another.'),('Bigarreau','n.','Alt. of Bigaroon'),('Bigaroon','n.','The large white-heart cherry.'),('Big-bellied','a.','Having a great belly; as, a big-bellied man or flagon;\n   advanced in pregnancy.'),('Bigeminate','a.','Having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the\n   end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; -- said of a\n   decompound leaf.'),('Bigential','a.','Including two tribes or races of men.'),('Bigeye','n.','A fish of the genus Priacanthus, remarkable for the large\n   size of the eye.'),('Bigg','n. & v.','See Big, n. & v.'),('Biggen','v. t. & i.','To make or become big; to enlarge.'),('Bigger','a.','compar. of Big.'),('Biggest','a.','superl. of Big.'),('Biggin','n.','A child\'s cap; a hood, or something worn on the head.'),('Biggin','n.','A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel\n   for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured;\n   -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor.'),('Biggin','v. t.','Alt. of Bigging'),('Bigging','v. t.','A building.'),('Biggon','n.','Alt. of Biggonnet'),('Biggonnet','n.','A cap or hood with pieces covering the ears.'),('Bigha','n.','A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre\n   to an acre.'),('Bighorn','n.','The Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis / Caprovis montana).'),('Bight','v.','A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a\n   horse\'s knee; the bight of an elbow.'),('Bight','v.','A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of\n   Benin.'),('Bight','v.','The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from\n   the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a\n   loop.'),('Biglandular','a.','Having two glands, as a plant.'),('Bigly','a.','In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily;\n   violently.'),('Bigness','n.','The state or quality of being big; largeness; size; bulk.'),('Bignonia','n.','A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing\n   shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B.\n   capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet\n   creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.'),('Bignoniaceous','a.','Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of\n   plants of which the trumpet flower is an example.'),('Bigot','n.','A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite.'),('Bigot','n.','A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of\n   religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to\n   or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense,\n   a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as\n   in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own\n   church, party, belief, or opinion.'),('Bigot','a.','Bigoted.'),('Bigoted','a.','Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion\n   practice, or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and\n   illiberal toward the opinions of others.'),('Bigotedly','adv.','In the manner of a bigot.'),('Bigotry','n.','The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning\n   attachment of one\'s own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded\n   intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.'),('Bigotry','n.','The practice or tenets of a bigot.'),('Bigwig','a.','A person of consequence; as, the bigwigs of society.'),('Big-wigged','a.','characterized by pomposity of manner.'),('Bihydroguret','n.','A compound of two atoms of hydrogen with some other\n   substance.'),('Bijoux','pl. ','of Bijou'),('Bijou','n.','A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and\n   of elegant workmanship.'),('Bijoutry','n.','Small articles of virtu, as jewelry, trinkets, etc.'),('Bijugate','a.','Having two pairs, as of leaflets.'),('Bijugous','a.','Bijugate.'),('Bike','n.','A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm.'),('Bikh','n.','The East Indian name of a virulent poison extracted from\n   Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.'),('Bilabiate','a.','Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.'),('Bilaciniate','a.','Doubly fringed.'),('Bilalo','n.','A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the\n   bay of Manila.'),('Bilamellate','a.','Alt. of Bilamellated'),('Bilamellated','a.','Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus;\n   also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers.'),('Bilaminar','a.','Alt. of Bilaminate'),('Bilaminate','a.','Formed of, or having, two laminae, or thin plates.'),('Biland','n.','A byland.'),('Bilander','n.','A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for\n   coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland.'),('Bilateral','a.','Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two\n   sides or two parties.'),('Bilateral','a.','Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or\n   organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where\n   there is a similarity of parts on the right and left sides of the body.'),('Bilaterality','n.','State of being bilateral.'),('Bilberries','pl. ','of Bilberry'),('Bilberry','n.','The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also,\n   its edible bluish black fruit.'),('Bilberry','n.','Any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in America, the\n   species Vaccinium myrtilloides, V. caespitosum and V. uliginosum.'),('Bilboes','pl. ','of Bilbo'),('Bilbo','n.','A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain.'),('Bilbo','n.','A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock\n   at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on\n   board of ships.'),('Bilboquet','n.','The toy called cup and ball.'),('Bilcock','n.','The European water rail.'),('Bildstein','n.','Same as Agalmatolite.'),('Bile','n.','A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in\n   reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where\n   it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are\n   the bile salts, and coloring matters.'),('Bile','n.','Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir\n   one\'s bile.'),('Bile','n.','A boil.'),('Bilection','n.','That portion of a group of moldings which projects\n   beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection.'),('Bilestone','n.','A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary.'),('Bilge','n.','The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the\n   middle.'),('Bilge','n.','That part of a ship\'s hull or bottom which is broadest and\n   most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.'),('Bilge','n.','Bilge water.'),('Bilged','imp. & p. p.','of Bilge'),('Bilging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bilge'),('Bilge','v. i.','To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a\n   fracture in the bilge.'),('Bilge','v. i.','To bulge.'),('Bilge','v. t.','To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a\n   ship or other vessel).'),('Bilge','v. t.','To cause to bulge.'),('Bilgy','a.','Having the smell of bilge water.'),('Biliary','a.','Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary\n   acids; biliary ducts.'),('Biliation','n.','The production and excretion of bile.'),('Biliferous','a.','Generating bile.'),('Bilifuscin','n.','A brownish green pigment found in human gallstones and\n   in old bile. It is a derivative of bilirubin.'),('Bilimbi','n.','Alt. of Bilimbing'),('Bilimbing','n.','The berries of two East Indian species of Averrhoa, of\n   the Oxalideae or Sorrel family. They are very acid, and highly esteemed\n   when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin\n   diseases.'),('Biliment','n.','A woman\'s ornament; habiliment.'),('Bilin','n.','A name applied to the amorphous or crystalline mass obtained\n   from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a\n   mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids.'),('Bilinear','a.','Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as,\n   bilinear coordinates.'),('Bilingual','a.','Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed\n   in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary.'),('Bilingualism','n.','Quality of being bilingual.'),('Bilinguar','a.','See Bilingual.'),('Bilinguist','n.','One versed in two languages.'),('Bilinguous','a.','Having two tongues, or speaking two languages.'),('Bilious','a.','Of or pertaining to the bile.'),('Bilious','a.','Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess\n   of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an\n   excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms.'),('Bilious','a.','Choleric; passionate; ill tempered.'),('Biliousness','n.','The state of being bilious.'),('Biliprasin','n.','A dark green pigment found in small quantity in human\n   gallstones.'),('Bilirubin','n.','A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in\n   that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary\n   pigment.'),('Biliteral','a.','Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a\n   Sanskrit verb.'),('Biliteral','n.','A word, syllable, or root, consisting of two letters.'),('Biliteralism','n.','The property or state of being biliteral.'),('Biliverdin','n.','A green pigment present in the bile, formed from\n   bilirubin by oxidation.'),('Bilked','imp. & p. p.','of Bilk'),('Bilking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bilk'),('Bilk','v. t.','To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by\n   nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip\n   to; as, to bilk a creditor.'),('Bilk','n.','A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a\n   balk.'),('Bilk','n.','A cheat; a trick; a hoax.'),('Bilk','n.','Nonsense; vain words.'),('Bilk','n.','A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky\n   person.'),('Bill','n.','A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other\n   animal.'),('Billed','imp. & p. p.','of Bill'),('Billing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bill'),('Bill','v. i.','To strike; to peck.'),('Bill','v. i.','To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.'),('Bill','n.','The bell, or boom, of the bittern'),('Bill','n.','A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with\n   a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a\n   hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.'),('Bill','n.','A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A\n   common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged,\n   hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the\n   top, and attached to the end of a long staff.'),('Bill','n.','One who wields a bill; a billman.'),('Bill','n.','A pickax, or mattock.'),('Bill','n.','The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond\n   the fluke.'),('Bill','v. t.','To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything)\n   with a bill.'),('Bill','n.','A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the\n   complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by\n   some person against a law.'),('Bill','n.','A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum\n   at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be\n   stated in the document.'),('Bill','n.','A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for\n   enactment; a proposed or projected law.'),('Bill','n.','A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to\n   advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a\n   placard; a poster; a handbill.'),('Bill','n.','An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done,\n   with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor\'s claim, in gross\n   or by items; as, a grocer\'s bill.'),('Bill','n.','Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill\n   of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare,\n   etc.'),('Bill','v. t.','To advertise by a bill or public notice.'),('Bill','v. t.','To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.'),('Billage','n. / v. t. & i.','Same as Bilge.'),('Billard','n.','An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish.'),('Billbeetle','n.','Alt. of Billbug'),('Billbug','n.','A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn\n   weevil. See Curculio.'),('Billboard','n.','A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and\n   fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of\n   the anchor to rest on.'),('Billboard','n.','A flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which\n   bills are posted; a bulletin board.'),('Bill book','','A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes,\n   bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and\n   receives.'),('Bill broker','','One who negotiates the discount of bills.'),('Billed','a.','Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in\n   composition; as, broad-billed.'),('Billet','n.','A small paper; a note; a short letter.'),('Billet','n.','A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what\n   house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.'),('Billeted','imp. & p. p.','of Billet'),('Billeting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Billet'),('Billet','v. t.','To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence:\n   To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.'),('Billet','n.','A small stick of wood, as for firewood.'),('Billet','n.','A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.'),('Billet','n.','An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood\n   either square or round.'),('Billet','n.','A strap which enters a buckle.'),('Billet','n.','A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.'),('Billet','n.','A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.'),('Billets-doux','pl. ','of Billet-doux'),('Billet-doux','n.','A love letter or note.'),('Billethead','n.','A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a\n   whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale\n   darts off.'),('Billfish','n.','A name applied to several distinct fishes'),('Billfish','n.','The garfish (Tylosurus, / Belone, longirostris) and\n   allied species.'),('Billfish','n.','The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast\n   (Scomberesox saurus).'),('Billfish','n.','The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related\n   to the swordfish; the spearfish.'),('Billfish','n.','The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).'),('Billhead','n.','A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or\n   rendering accounts.'),('Bill holder','','A person who holds a bill or acceptance.'),('Bill holder','','A device by means of which bills, etc., are held.'),('Billhook','n.','A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning\n   hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand\n   bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.'),('Billiard','a.','Of or pertaining to the game of billiards.'),('Billiards','n.','A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered,\n   rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to\n   impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon)\n   two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with\n   which the table sometimes is furnished.'),('Billing','a. & n.','Caressing; kissing.'),('Billingsgate','n.','A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated\n   for fish and foul language.'),('Billingsgate','n.','Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language;\n   vituperation; ribaldry.'),('Billion','n.','According to the French and American method of numeration,\n   a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method,\n   a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration.'),('Billmen','pl. ','of Billman'),('Billman','n.','One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax.'),('Billon','n.','An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of\n   copper or other base metal, used in coinage.'),('Billot','n.','Bullion in the bar or mass.'),('Billow','n.','A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused\n   usually by violent wind.'),('Billow','n.','A great wave or flood of anything.'),('Billowed','imp. & p. p.','of Billow'),('Billowing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Billow'),('Billow','v. i.','To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to\n   undulate.'),('Billowy','a.','Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into\n   large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.'),('Billposter','n.','Alt. of Billsticker'),('Billsticker','n.','One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters\n   in public places.'),('Billy','n.','A club; esp., a policeman\'s club.'),('Billy','n.','A slubbing or roving machine.'),('Billyboy','n.','A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel.'),('Billy goat','','A male goat.'),('Bilobate','a.','Divided into two lobes or segments.'),('Bilobed','a.','Bilobate.'),('Bilocation','n.','Double location; the state or power of being in two\n   places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of\n   the saints.'),('Bilocular','a.','Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular\n   pericarp.'),('Bilsted','n.','See Sweet gum.'),('Biltong','n.','Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried.'),('Bimaculate','a.','Having, or marked with, two spots.'),('Bimana','n. pl.','Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier\n   to man as a special order of Mammalia.'),('Bimanous','a.','Having two hands; two-handed.'),('Bimarginate','a.','Having a double margin, as certain shells.'),('Bimastism','n.','The condition of having two mammae or teats.'),('Bimedial','a.','Applied to a line which is the sum of two lines\n   commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).'),('Bimembral','a.','Having two members; as, a bimembral sentence.'),('Bimensal','a.','See Bimonthly, a.'),('Bimestrial','a.','Continuing two months.'),('Bimetallic','a.','Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard\n   (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.'),('Bimetallism','n.','The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver)\n   in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in\n   opposition to monometallism.'),('Bimetallist','n.','An advocate of bimetallism.'),('Bimonthly','a.','Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as,\n   bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications.'),('Bimonthly','n.','A bimonthly publication.'),('Bimonthly','adv.','Once in two months.'),('Bimuscular','a.','Having two adductor muscles, as a bivalve mollusk.'),('Bin','n.','A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle\n   for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin.'),('Binned','imp. & p. p.','of Bin'),('Binning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bin'),('Bin','v. t.','To put into a bin; as, to bin wine.'),('Bin','','An old form of Be and Been.'),('Bin-','','A euphonic form of the prefix Bi-.'),('Binal','a.','Twofold; double.'),('Binarseniate','n.','A salt having two equivalents of arsenic acid to one\n   of the base.'),('Binary','a.','Compounded or consisting of two things or parts;\n   characterized by two (things).'),('Binary','n.','That which is constituted of two figures, things, or parts;\n   two; duality.'),('Binate','a.','Double; growing in pairs or couples.'),('Binaural','a.','Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears.'),('Bound','imp.','of Bind'),('Bound','p. p.','of Bind'),('Bounden','','of Bind'),('Binding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bind'),('Bind','v. t.','To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain,\n   etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a\n   prisoner.'),('Bind','v. t.','To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or\n   influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun;\n   frost binds the earth, or the streams.'),('Bind','v. t.','To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; --\n   sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.'),('Bind','v. t.','To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by\n   tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to\n   bind a compress upon a part.'),('Bind','v. t.','To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action;\n   as, certain drugs bind the bowels.'),('Bind','v. t.','To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge\n   of a carpet or garment.'),('Bind','v. t.','To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to\n   bind a book.'),('Bind','v. t.','Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law,\n   duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the\n   conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds\n   nations to each other.'),('Bind','v. t.','To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp.\n   under the obligation of a bond or covenant.'),('Bind','v. t.','To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture;\n   as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to\n   service.'),('Bind','v. i.','To tie; to confine by any ligature.'),('Bind','v. i.','To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick\n   together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.'),('Bind','v. i.','To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural\n   action, as by friction.'),('Bind','v. i.','To exert a binding or restraining influence.'),('Bind','n.','That which binds or ties.'),('Bind','n.','Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a\n   bine.'),('Bind','n.','Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron.'),('Bind','n.','A ligature or tie for grouping notes.'),('Binder','n.','One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is\n   to bind; as, a binder of books.'),('Binder','n.','Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a\n   bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind\n   together any building.'),('Bindery','n.','A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a\n   bookbinder\'s establishment.'),('Bindheimite','n.','An amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the\n   alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite.'),('Binding','a.','That binds; obligatory.'),('Binding','n.','The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.'),('Binding','n.','Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or\n   the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of\n   cloth from raveling.'),('Binding','pl.','The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief\n   timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.'),('Bindingly','adv.','So as to bind.'),('Bindingness','n.','The condition or property of being binding; obligatory\n   quality.'),('Bindweed','n.','A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed\n   (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the\n   Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed,\n   and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed.'),('Bine','n.','The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing\n   plant.'),('Binervate','a.','Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two\n   longitudinal ribs or nerves.'),('Binervate','a.','Having only two nerves, as the wings of some insects.'),('Bing','n.','A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood.'),('Biniodide','n.','Same as Diiodide.'),('Bink','n.','A bench.'),('Binnacle','n.','A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the\n   compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night.'),('Binny','n.','A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile,\n   and much esteemed for food.'),('Binocle','n.','A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as\n   to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a\n   double-barreled field glass or an opera glass.'),('Binocular','a.','Having two eyes.'),('Binocular','a.','Pertaining to both eyes; employing both eyes at once;\n   as, binocular vision.'),('Binocular','a.','Adapted to the use of both eyes; as, a binocular\n   microscope or telescope.'),('Binocular','n.','A binocular glass, whether opera glass, telescope, or\n   microscope.'),('Binocularly','adv.','In a binocular manner.'),('Binoculate','a.','Having two eyes.'),('Binomial','n.','An expression consisting of two terms connected by the\n   sign plus (+) or minus (-); as, a + b, or 7 - 3.'),('Binomial','a.','Consisting of two terms; pertaining to binomials; as, a\n   binomial root.'),('Binomial','a.','Having two names; -- used of the system by which every\n   animal and plant receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the\n   other the species, to which it belongs.'),('Binominal','a.','Of or pertaining to two names; binomial.'),('Binominous','a.','Binominal.'),('Binotonous','a.','Consisting of two notes; as, a binotonous cry.'),('Binous','a.','Same as Binate.'),('Binoxalate','n.','A salt having two equivalents of oxalic acid to one of\n   the base; an acid oxalate.'),('Binoxide','n.','Same as Dioxide.'),('Binturong','n.','A small Asiatic civet of the genus Arctilis.'),('Binuclear','a.','Alt. of Binucleate'),('Binucleate','a.','Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells.'),('Binucleolate','a.','Having two nucleoli.'),('Bioblast','n.','Same as Bioplast.'),('Biocellate','a.','Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); -- said of a wing,\n   etc.'),('Biochemistry','n.','The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of\n   the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.'),('Biodynamics','n.','The doctrine of vital forces or energy.'),('Biogen','n.','Bioplasm.'),('Biogenesis','n.','Alt. of Biogeny'),('Biogeny','n.','A doctrine that the genesis or production of living\n   organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or\n   parents; -- opposed to abiogenesis.'),('Biogeny','n.','Life development generally.'),('Biogenetic','a.','Pertaining to biogenesis.'),('Biogenist','n.','A believer in the theory of biogenesis.'),('Biognosis','n.','The investigation of life.'),('Biographer','n.','One who writes an account or history of the life of a\n   particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.'),('Biographic','a.','Alt. of Biographical'),('Biographical','a.','Of or pertaining to biography; containing biography.'),('Biographize','v. t.','To write a history of the life of.'),('Biographies','pl. ','of Biography'),('Biography','n.','The written history of a person\'s life.'),('Biography','n.','Biographical writings in general.'),('Biologic','a.','Alt. of Biological'),('Biological','a.','Of or relating to biology.'),('Biologist','n.','A student of biology; one versed in the science of\n   biology.'),('Biology','n.','The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats\n   of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study\n   of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development,\n   function, and distribution of animals and plants.'),('Biolysis','n.','The destruction of life.'),('Biolytic','a.','Relating to the destruction of life.'),('Biomagnetic','a.','Relating to biomagnetism.'),('Biomagnetism','n.','Animal magnetism.'),('Biometry','n.','Measurement of life; calculation of the probable duration\n   of human life.'),('Bion','p. pr.','The physiological individual, characterized by\n   definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the\n   morphological individual or morphon.'),('Bionomy','n.','Physiology.'),('Biophor Biophore','n.','One of the smaller vital units of a cell, the\n   bearer of vitality and heredity. See Pangen, in Supplement.'),('Bioplasm','n.','A name suggested by Dr. Beale for the germinal matter\n   supposed to be essential to the functions of all living beings; the\n   material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered\n   protoplasm.'),('Bioplasmic','a.','Pertaining to, or consisting of, bioplasm.'),('Bioplast','n.','A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and\n   having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.'),('Bioplastic','a.','Bioplasmic.'),('Biorgan','n.','A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed\n   with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.'),('Biostatics','n.','The physical phenomena of organized bodies, in\n   opposition to their organic or vital phenomena.'),('Biostatistics','n.','Vital statistics.'),('Biotaxy','n.','The classification of living organisms according to their\n   structural character; taxonomy.'),('Biotic','a.','Relating to life; as, the biotic principle.'),('Biotite','n.','Mica containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or\n   dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See\n   Mica.'),('Bipalmate','a.','Palmately branched, with the branches again palmated.'),('Biparietal','a.','Of or pertaining to the diameter of the cranium, from\n   one parietal fossa to the other.'),('Biparous','a.','Bringing forth two at a birth.'),('Bipartible','a.','Capable of being divided into two parts.'),('Bipartient','p. pr.','Dividing into two parts.'),('Bipartient','n.','A number that divides another into two equal parts\n   without a remainder.'),('Bipartile','a.','Divisible into two parts.'),('Bipartite','a.','Being in two parts; having two correspondent parts, as a\n   legal contract or writing, one for each party; shared by two; as, a\n   bipartite treaty.'),('Bipartite','a.','Divided into two parts almost to the base, as a leaf;\n   consisting of two parts or subdivisions.'),('Bipartition','n.','The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two\n   correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.'),('Bipectinate','a.','Alt. of Bipectinated'),('Bipectinated','a.','Having two margins toothed like a comb.'),('Biped','n.','A two-footed animal, as man.'),('Biped','a.','Having two feet; two-footed.'),('Bipedal','n.','Having two feet; biped.'),('Bipedal','n.','Pertaining to a biped.'),('Bipeltate','a.','Having a shell or covering like a double shield.'),('Bipennate','a.','Alt. of Bipennated'),('Bipennated','a.','Having two wings.'),('Bipennis','n.','An ax with an edge or blade on each side of the handle.'),('Bipetalous','a.','Having two petals.'),('Bipinnaria','n.','The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the\n   free-swimming stage.'),('Bipinnate','a.','Alt. of Bipinnated'),('Bipinnated','a.','Twice pinnate.'),('Bipinnatifid','a.','Doubly pinnatifid.'),('Biplicate','a.','Twice folded together.'),('Biplicity','n.','The state of being twice folded; reduplication.'),('Bipolar','a.','Doubly polar; having two poles; as, a bipolar cell or\n   corpuscle.'),('Bipolarity','n.','Bipolar quality.'),('Bipont','a.','Alt. of Bipontine'),('Bipontine','a.','Relating to books printed at Deuxponts, or Bipontium\n   (Zweibrucken), in Bavaria.'),('Bipunctate','a.','Having two punctures, or spots.'),('Bipunctual','a.','Having two points.'),('Bipupillate','a.','Having an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots\n   within it of a different color, as in some butterflies.'),('Bipyramidal','a.','Consisting of two pyramids placed base to base; having\n   a pyramid at each of the extremities of a prism, as in quartz crystals.'),('Biquadrate','n.','The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus\n   4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.'),('Biquadratic','a.','Of or pertaining to the biquadrate, or fourth power.'),('Biquadratic','n.','A biquadrate.'),('Biquadratic','n.','A biquadratic equation.'),('Biquintile','n.','An aspect of the planets when they are distant from\n   each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle -- that is, twice\n   72 degrees.'),('Biradiate','a.','Alt. of Biradiated'),('Biradiated','a.','Having two rays; as, a biradiate fin.'),('Biramous','a.','Having, or consisting of, two branches.'),('Birches','pl. ','of Birch'),('Birch','n.','A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula;\n   as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and\n   lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch\n   (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch\n   (B. lenta).'),('Birch','n.','The wood or timber of the birch.'),('Birch','n.','A birch twig or birch twigs, used for flogging.'),('Birch','n.','A birch-bark canoe.'),('Birch','a.','Of or pertaining to the birch; birchen.'),('Birched','imp. & p. p.','of Birch'),('Birching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Birch'),('Birch','v. t.','To whip with a birch rod or twig; to flog.'),('Birchen','a.','Of or relating to birch.'),('Bird','n.','Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a\n   nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).'),('Bird','n.','A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See\n   Aves.'),('Bird','n.','Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird.'),('Bird','n.','Fig.: A girl; a maiden.'),('Bird','v. i.','To catch or shoot birds.'),('Bird','v. i.','Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.'),('Birdbolt','n.','A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing\n   them.'),('Birdbolt','n.','Anything which smites without penetrating.'),('Bird cage','n.','Alt. of Birdcage'),('Birdcage','n.','A cage for confining birds.'),('Birdcall','n.','A sound made in imitation of the note or cry of a bird\n   for the purpose of decoying the bird or its mate.'),('Birdcall','n.','An instrument of any kind, as a whistle, used in making\n   the sound of a birdcall.'),('Birdcatcher','n.','One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler.'),('Birdcatching','n.','The art, act, or occupation or catching birds or wild\n   fowls.'),('Bird cherry','','A shrub (Prunus Padus ) found in Northern and Central\n   Europe. It bears small black cherries.'),('Birder','n.','A birdcatcher.'),('Bird-eyed','a.','Quick-sighted; catching a glance as one goes.'),('Bird fancier','','One who takes pleasure in rearing or collecting rare or\n   curious birds.'),('Bird fancier','','One who has for sale the various kinds of birds which\n   are kept in cages.'),('Birdie','n.','A pretty or dear little bird; -- a pet name.'),('Birdikin','n.','A young bird.'),('Birding','n.','Birdcatching or fowling.'),('Birdlet','n.','A little bird; a nestling.'),('Birdlike','a.','Resembling a bird.'),('Birdlime','n.','An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of\n   the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it.\n   When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds\n   which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares.'),('Birdlime','v. t.','To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to\n   insnare.'),('Birdling','n.','A little bird; a nestling.'),('Birdman','n.','A fowler or birdcatcher.'),('Bird of paradise','','The name of several very beautiful birds of the\n   genus Paradisea and allied genera, inhabiting New Guinea and the\n   adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and\n   often remarkable tail feathers.'),('Bird pepper','','A species of capsicum (Capsicum baccatum), whose small,\n   conical, coral-red fruit is among the most piquant of all red peppers.'),('Bird\'s-beak','n.','A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak.'),('Birdseed','n.','Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for\n   feeding caged birds.'),('Bird\'s-eye','a.','Seen from above, as if by a flying bird; embraced at a\n   glance; hence, general; not minute, or entering into details; as, a\n   bird\'s-eye view.'),('Bird\'s-eye','a.','Marked with spots resembling bird\'s eyes; as,\n   bird\'s-eye diaper; bird\'s-eye maple.'),('Bird\'s-eye','n.','A plant with a small bright flower, as the Adonis or\n   pheasant\'s eye, the mealy primrose (Primula farinosa), and species of\n   Veronica, Geranium, etc.'),('Bird\'s-eye maple','','See under Maple.'),('Bird\'s-foot','n.','A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a\n   curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point.'),('Bird\'s-mouth','n.','An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of\n   timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter\n   to be laid on a plate; -- commonly called crow\'s-foot in the United\n   States.'),('Bird\'s nest','n.','Alt. of Bird\'s-nest'),('Bird\'s-nest','n.','The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her\n   young.'),('Bird\'s-nest','n.','The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and\n   several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which\n   is mixed with soups.'),('Bird\'s-nest','n.','An orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus\n   Neottia (N. nidus-avis.)'),('Bird\'s-nesting','n.','Hunting for, or taking, birds\' nests or their\n   contents.'),('Bird\'s-tongue','n.','The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare).'),('Bird-witted','a.','Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another;\n   not having the faculty of attention.'),('Birectangular','a.','Containing or having two right angles; as, a\n   birectangular spherical triangle.'),('Bireme','n.','An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of\n   oars.'),('Biretta','n.','Same as Berretta.'),('Birgander','n.','See Bergander.'),('Birk','n.','A birch tree.'),('Birk','n.','A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus).'),('Birken','v. t.','To whip with a birch or rod.'),('Birken','a.','Birchen; as, birken groves.'),('Birkie','n.','A lively or mettlesome fellow.'),('Birl','v. t. & i.','To revolve or cause to revolve; to spin.'),('Birl','v. t. & i.','To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink;\n   to carouse.'),('Birlaw','n.','A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic\n   or local law or by-law.'),('Birostrate','a.','Alt. of Birostrated'),('Birostrated','a.','Having a double beak, or two processes resembling\n   beaks.'),('Birred','imp. & p. p.','of Birr'),('Birring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Birr'),('Birr','v. i.','To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in\n   motion.'),('Birr','n.','A whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel.'),('Birr','n.','A rush or impetus; force.'),('Birrus','n.','A coarse kind of thick woolen cloth, worn by the poor in\n   the Middle Ages; also, a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or\n   over the head.'),('Birse','n.','A bristle or bristles.'),('Birt','n.','A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.'),('Birth','n.','The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; --\n   generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.'),('Birth','n.','Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble\n   extraction.'),('Birth','n.','The condition to which a person is born; natural state or\n   position; inherited disposition or tendency.'),('Birth','n.','The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a\n   birth.'),('Birth','n.','That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal\n   or vegetable.'),('Birth','n.','Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.'),('Birth','n.','See Berth.'),('Birthday','n.','The day in which any person is born; day of origin or\n   commencement.'),('Birthday','n.','The day of the month in which a person was born, in\n   whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one\'s birth.'),('Birthday','a.','Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary;\n   as, birthday gifts or festivities.'),('Birthdom','n.','The land of one\'s birth; one\'s inheritance.'),('Birthing','n.','Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.'),('Birthless','a.','Of mean extraction.'),('Birthmark','n.','Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth.'),('Birthnight','n.','The night in which a person is born; the anniversary of\n   that night in succeeding years.'),('Birthplace','n.','The town, city, or country, where a person is born;\n   place of origin or birth, in its more general sense.'),('Birthright','n.','Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person\n   is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir,\n   or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or\n   inheritance of the first born.'),('Birthroot','n.','An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its\n   astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.'),('Birthwort','n.','A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to\n   have medicinal properties.'),('Bis','adv.','Twice; -- a word showing that something is, or is to be,\n   repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.'),('Bis-','pref.','A form of Bi-, sometimes used before s, c, or a vowel.'),('Bisa antelope','','See Oryx.'),('Bisaccate','a.','Having two little bags, sacs, or pouches.'),('Biscayan','a.','Of or pertaining to Biscay in Spain.'),('Biscayan','n.','A native or inhabitant of Biscay.'),('Biscotin','n.','A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a\n   sweet biscuit.'),('Biscuit','n.','A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet,\n   or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.'),('Biscuit','n.','A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or\n   made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in\n   the same pan, forming a sheet or card.'),('Biscuit','n.','Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first\n   baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.'),('Biscuit','n.','A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases,\n   figures, and groups are formed in miniature.'),('Biscutate','a.','Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.'),('Bise','n.','A cold north wind which prevails on the northern coasts of\n   the Mediterranean and in Switzerland, etc.; -- nearly the same as the\n   mistral.'),('Bise','n.','See Bice.'),('Bisected','imp. & p. p.','of Bisect'),('Bisecting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bisect'),('Bisect','v. t.','To cut or divide into two parts.'),('Bisect','v. t.','To divide into two equal parts.'),('Bisection','n.','Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts.'),('Bisector','n.','One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight\n   line which bisects an angle.'),('Bisectrix','n.','The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a\n   biaxial crystal.'),('Bisegment','n.','One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude.'),('Biseptate','a.','With two partitions or septa.'),('Biserial','a.','Alt. of Biseriate'),('Biseriate','a.','In two rows or series.'),('Biserrate','a.','Doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in\n   some leaves.'),('Biserrate','a.','Serrate on both sides, as some antennae.'),('Bisetose','a.','Alt. of Bisetous'),('Bisetous','a.','Having two bristles.'),('Bisexous','a.','Bisexual.'),('Bisexual','a.','Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens\n   and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.'),('Bisexuous','a.','Bisexual.'),('Biseye','','p. p. of Besee.'),('Bish','n.','Same as Bikh.'),('Bishop','n.','A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.'),('Bishop','n.','In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant\n   Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry,\n   superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of\n   the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a\n   diocese, bishopric, or see.'),('Bishop','n.','In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of\n   the highest church officers or superintendents.'),('Bishop','n.','A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation\n   of a bishop\'s miter; -- formerly called archer.'),('Bishop','n.','A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and\n   sugar.'),('Bishop','n.','An old name for a woman\'s bustle.'),('Bishoped','imp. & p. p.','of Bishop'),('Bishoping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bishop'),('Bishop','v. t.','To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm;\n   hence, to receive formally to favor.'),('Bishoped','imp. & p. p.','of Bishop'),('Bishoping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bishop'),('Bishop','v. t.','To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to\n   bishop an old horse or his teeth.'),('Bishopdom','n.','Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate.'),('Bishoplike','a.','Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop.'),('Bishoply','a.','Bishoplike; episcopal.'),('Bishoply','adv.','In the manner of a bishop.'),('Bishopric','n.','A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a\n   bishop extends.'),('Bishopric','n.','The office of a spiritual overseer, as of an apostle,\n   bishop, or presbyter.'),('Bishop\'s cap','','A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort.'),('Bishop sleeve','','A wide sleeve, once worn by women.'),('Bishop\'s length','','A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches.\n   The half bishop measures 45 by 56.'),('Bishop-stool','n.','A bishop\'s seat or see.'),('Bishop\'s-weed','n.','An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi.'),('Bishop\'s-weed','n.','Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria).'),('Bishop\'s-wort','n.','Wood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant\n   called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush.'),('Bisie','v. t.','To busy; to employ.'),('Bisilicate','n.','A salt of metasilicic acid; -- so called because the\n   ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two\n   to one. The bisilicates include many of the most common and important\n   minerals.'),('Bisk','n.','Soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh\n   together.'),('Bisk','n.','See Bisque.'),('Bismare','n.','Alt. of Bismer'),('Bismer','n.','Shame; abuse.'),('Bismer','n.','A rule steelyard.'),('Bismer','n.','The fifteen-spined (Gasterosteus spinachia).'),('Bismillah','interj.','An adjuration or exclamation common among the\n   Mohammedans.'),('Bismite','n.','Bismuth trioxide, or bismuth ocher.'),('Bismuth','n.','One of the elements; a metal of a reddish white color,\n   crystallizing in rhombohedrons. It is somewhat harder than lead, and\n   rather brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across.\n   It melts at 507¡ Fahr., being easily fused in the flame of a candle. It\n   is found in a native state, and as a constituent of some minerals.\n   Specific gravity 9.8. Atomic weight 207.5. Symbol Bi.'),('Bismuthal','a.','Containing bismuth.'),('Bismuthic','a.','Of or pertaining to bismuth; containing bismuth, when\n   this element has its higher valence; as, bismuthic oxide.'),('Bismuthiferous','a.','Containing bismuth.'),('Bismuthine','n.','Alt. of Bismuthinite'),('Bismuthinite','n.','Native bismuth sulphide; -- sometimes called\n   bismuthite.'),('Bismuthous','a.','Of, or containing, bismuth, when this element has its\n   lower valence.'),('Bismuthyl','n.','Hydrous carbonate of bismuth, an earthy mineral of a\n   dull white or yellowish color.'),('Bison','n.','The aurochs or European bison.'),('Bison','n.','The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large,\n   gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns,\n   which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of\n   North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the\n   region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.'),('Bispinose','a.','Having two spines.'),('Bisque','n.','Unglazed white porcelain.'),('Bisque','n.','A point taken by the receiver of odds in the game of\n   tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet.'),('Bisque','n.','A white soup made of crayfish.'),('Bissextile','n.','Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added\n   to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year\n   (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four\n   years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more\n   than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress\n   the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible\n   by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by\n   400.'),('Bissextile','a.','Pertaining to leap year.'),('Bisson','a.','Purblind; blinding.'),('Bister','n.','Alt. of Bistre'),('Bistre','n.','A dark brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood.'),('Bistipuled','a.','Having two stipules.'),('Bistort','n.','An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section\n   Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an\n   astringent.'),('Bistouries','pl. ','of Bistoury'),('Bistoury','n.','A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife,\n   either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the\n   part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface.'),('Bistre','n.','See Bister.'),('Bisulcate','a.','Having two grooves or furrows.'),('Bisulcate','a.','Cloven; said of a foot or hoof.'),('Bisulcous','a.','Bisulcate.'),('Bisulphate','n.','A sulphate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid\n   is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the\n   proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it\n   is in the normal sulphates; an acid sulphate.'),('Bisulphide','n.','A sulphide having two atoms of sulphur in the molecule;\n   a disulphide, as in iron pyrites, FeS2; -- less frequently called\n   bisulphuret.'),('Bisulphite','n.','A salt of sulphurous acid in which the base replaces\n   but half the hydrogen of the acid; an acid sulphite.'),('Bisulphuret','n.','See Bisulphide.'),('Bit','v.','The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in\n   the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are\n   fastened.'),('Bit','v.','Fig.: Anything which curbs or restrains.'),('Bitted','imp. & p. p.','of Bit'),('Bitting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bit'),('Bit','v. t.','To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of.'),('Bit','','imp. & p. p. of Bite.'),('Bit','v.','A part of anything, such as may be bitten off or taken into\n   the mouth; a morsel; a bite. Hence: A small piece of anything; a\n   little; a mite.'),('Bit','v.','Somewhat; something, but not very great.'),('Bit','v.','A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned\n   by means of a brace or bitstock. See Bitstock.'),('Bit','v.','The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt\n   and tumblers.'),('Bit','v.','The cutting iron of a plane.'),('Bit','v.','In the Southern and Southwestern States, a small silver coin\n   (as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12 1/2 cents;\n   also, the sum of 12 1/2 cents.'),('Bit','','3d sing. pr. of Bid, for biddeth.'),('Bitake','v. t.','To commend; to commit.'),('Bitangent','a.','Possessing the property of touching at two points.'),('Bitangent','n.','A line that touches a curve in two points.'),('Bitartrate','n.','A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but\n   half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.'),('Bitch','n.','The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.'),('Bitch','n.','An opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman.'),('Bit','imp.','of Bite'),('Bitten','p. p.','of Bite'),('Bit','','of Bite'),('Biting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bite'),('Bite','v. t.','To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the\n   thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite\n   an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.'),('Bite','v. t.','To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some\n   insects) used in taking food.'),('Bite','v. t.','To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure,\n   in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.'),('Bite','v. t.','To cheat; to trick; to take in.'),('Bite','v. t.','To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the\n   anchor bites the ground.'),('Bite','v. i.','To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with\n   the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?'),('Bite','v. i.','To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which\n   causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or\n   mustard.'),('Bite','v. i.','To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or\n   injure; to have the property of so doing.'),('Bite','v. i.','To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to\n   take a tempting offer.'),('Bite','v. i.','To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.'),('Bite','v.','The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of\n   wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the\n   teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.'),('Bite','v.','The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking\n   food, as is done by some insects.'),('Bite','v.','The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog\'s or snake\'s\n   bite; the bite of a mosquito.'),('Bite','v.','A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.'),('Bite','v.','The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to\n   be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.'),('Bite','v.','A cheat; a trick; a fraud.'),('Bite','v.','A sharper; one who cheats.'),('Bite','v.','A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion\n   of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and\n   paper.'),('Biter','n.','One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is\n   inclined to bite, as a dog or fish.'),('Biter','n.','One who cheats; a sharper.'),('Biternate','a.','Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate\n   leaflets.'),('Bitheism','n.','Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism.'),('Biting','a.','That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic.'),('Biting in','','The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates,\n   by means of an acid. See Etch.'),('Bitingly','adv.','In a biting manner.'),('Bitless','a.','Not having a bit or bridle.'),('Bitstock','n.','A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a\n   brace.'),('Bitt','n.','See Bitts.'),('Bitt','v. t.','To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to\n   fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away.'),('Bittacle','n.','A binnacle.'),('Bitten','','p. p. of Bite.'),('Bitten','a.','Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.'),('Bitter','n.','AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.'),('Bitter','v. t.','Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of\n   wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as\n   aloes.'),('Bitter','v. t.','Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe;\n   as, a bitter cold day.'),('Bitter','v. t.','Causing, or fitted to cause, pain or distress to the\n   mind; calamitous; poignant.'),('Bitter','v. t.','Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh;\n   stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach.'),('Bitter','v. t.','Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable.'),('Bitter','n.','Any substance that is bitter. See Bitters.'),('Bitter','v. t.','To make bitter.'),('Bitterbump','n.','the butterbump or bittern.'),('Bitterful','a.','Full of bitterness.'),('Bittering','n.','A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern.'),('Bitterish','a.','Somewhat bitter.'),('Bitterling','n.','A roachlike European fish (Rhodima amarus).'),('Bitterly','adv.','In a bitter manner.'),('Bittern','n.','A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons,\n   of various species.'),('Bittern','a.','The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is\n   concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which\n   it contains.'),('Bittern','a.','A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc.,\n   used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer.'),('Bitterness','n.','The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid,\n   in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness;\n   severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or\n   vexation of mind.'),('Bitterness','n.','A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God.'),('Bitterness','n.','Dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to\n   apostasy.'),('Bitternut','n.','The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts\n   are bitter.'),('Bitterroot','n.','A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but\n   with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho,\n   Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river.\n   The Indians call both the plant and the river Spaet\'lum.'),('Bitters','n. pl.','A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb,\n   leaf, or root is steeped.'),('Bitter spar','','A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it\n   contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.'),('Bittersweet','a.','Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp.\n   sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.'),('Bittersweet','n.','Anything which is bittersweet.'),('Bittersweet','n.','A kind of apple so called.'),('Bittersweet','n.','A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum\n   dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a\n   taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal\n   dulcamara.'),('Bittersweet','n.','An American woody climber (Celastrus scandens), whose\n   yellow capsules open late in autumn, and disclose the red aril which\n   covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork.'),('Bitterweed','n.','A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiaefolia); Roman worm\n   wood.'),('Bitterwood','n.','A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of\n   which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.'),('Bitterwort','n.','The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very\n   bitter taste.'),('Bittock','n.','A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a\n   short distance.'),('Bittor Bittour','n.','The bittern.'),('Bitts','n. pl.','A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in\n   the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship\n   rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying\n   (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch\n   bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl\n   bitts) etc.'),('Bitume','n.','Bitumen.'),('Bitumed','a.','Smeared with bitumen.'),('Bitumen','n.','Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a\n   bright flame; Jew\'s pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in\n   many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used\n   in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt.'),('Bitumen','n.','By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons,\n   including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the\n   semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the\n   light, volatile naphthas.'),('Bituminated','imp. & p. p.','of Bituminate'),('Bituminating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bituminate'),('Bituminate','v. t.','To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with\n   bitumen.'),('Bituminiferous','a.','Producing bitumen.'),('Bituminization','n.','The process of bituminizing.'),('Bituminized','imp. & p. p.','of Bituminize'),('Bituminizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bituminize'),('Bituminize','v. t.','To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.'),('Bituminous','a.','Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with\n   bitumen; containing bitumen.'),('Biuret','n.','A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5,\n   formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric\n   acid.'),('Bivalency','n.','The quality of being bivalent.'),('Bivalent','p. pr.','Equivalent in combining or displacing power to two\n   atoms of hydrogen; dyad.'),('Bivalve','n.','A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates\n   or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is\n   usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed\n   by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner\n   surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.'),('Bivalve','n.','A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two\n   parts or valves.'),('Bivalve','a.','Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the\n   oyster and certain seed vessels.'),('Bivalved','a.','Having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods;\n   bivalve.'),('Bivalvous','a.','Bivalvular.'),('Bivalvular','a.','Having two valves.'),('Bivaulted','a.','Having two vaults or arches.'),('Bivector','n.','A term made up of the two parts / + /1 /-1, where / and\n   /1 are vectors.'),('Biventral','a.','Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or\n   digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.'),('Bivial','a.','Of or relating to the bivium.'),('Bivious','a.','Having, or leading, two ways.'),('Bivium','n.','One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra,\n   in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three\n   ambulacra.'),('Bivouac','n.','The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of\n   surprise or attack.'),('Bivouac','n.','An encampment for the night without tents or covering.'),('Bivouacked','imp. & p. p.','of Bivouac'),('Bivouacking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bivouac'),('Bivouac','v. i.','To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army.'),('Bivouac','v. i.','To encamp for the night without tents or covering.'),('Biweekly','a.','Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly.'),('Biweekly','n.','A publication issued every two weeks.'),('Biwreye','v. t.','To bewray; to reveal.'),('Bizantine','','See Byzantine.'),('Bizarre','a.','Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical;\n   extravagant; grotesque.'),('Bizet','n.','The upper faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which\n   projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and\n   the table. See Brilliant, n.'),('Blabbed','imp. & p. p.','of Blab'),('Blabbing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blab'),('Blab','v.','To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner;\n   to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.'),('Blab','v. i.','To talk thoughtlessly or without discretion; to tattle; to\n   tell tales.'),('Blab','n.','One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale.'),('Blabber','n.','A tattler; a telltale.'),('Black','a.','Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the\n   color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the\n   opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth;\n   black hair or eyes.'),('Black','a.','In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness;\n   very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.'),('Black','a.','Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness;\n   destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel;\n   mournful; calamitous; horrible.'),('Black','a.','Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen;\n   foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.'),('Black','adv.','Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce\n   blackness.'),('Black','n.','That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest\n   color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good\n   black.'),('Black','n.','A black pigment or dye.'),('Black','n.','A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded\n   with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.'),('Black','n.','A black garment or dress; as, she wears black'),('Black','n.','Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.'),('Black','n.','The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by\n   being black.'),('Black','n.','A stain; a spot; a smooch.'),('Blacked','imp. & p. p.','of Black'),('Blacking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Black'),('Black','a.','To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.'),('Black','a.','To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying\n   blacking and then polishing with a brush.'),('Blackamoor','n.','A negro or negress.'),('Black art','','The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy;\n   conjuration; magic.'),('Black-a-vised','a.','Dark-visaged; swart.'),('Blackball','n.','A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one\n   for taking impressions of engraved work.'),('Blackball','n.','A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in\n   voting; -- in this sense usually two words.'),('Blackballed','imp. & p. p.','of Blackball'),('Blackballing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blackball'),('Blackball','v. t.','To vote against, by putting a black ball into a\n   ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black\n   balls; to ostracize.'),('Blackball','v. t.','To blacken (leather, shoes, etc.) with blacking.'),('Blackband','n.','An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable\n   carbonaceous matter; -- valuable as an iron ore.'),('Black bass','','An edible, fresh-water fish of the United States, of the\n   genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei; the\n   large-mouthed is M. salmoides.'),('Black bass','','The sea bass. See Blackfish, 3.'),('Blackberry','n.','The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also,\n   the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R.\n   villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry\n   of the United States. There are also other kinds.'),('Blackbird','n.','In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a\n   singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given\n   to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the\n   Agelaeus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty\n   grackle, etc. See Redwing.'),('Blackboard','n.','A broad board painted black, or any black surface on\n   which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be\n   done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools.'),('Black book','','One of several books of a political character, published\n   at different times and for different purposes; -- so called either from\n   the color of the binding, or from the character of the contents.'),('Black book','','A book compiled in the twelfth century, containing a\n   description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement\n   of the revenues of the crown, etc.'),('Black book','','A book containing details of the enormities practiced in\n   the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of\n   their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution.'),('Black book','','A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority,\n   compiled in the reign of Edw. III.'),('Black book','','A book kept for the purpose of registering the names of\n   persons liable to censure or punishment, as in the English\n   universities, or the English armies.'),('Black book','','Any book which treats of necromancy.'),('Black-browed','a.','Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal;\n   threatening; forbidding.'),('Blackburnian warbler','','A beautiful warbler of the United States\n   (Dendroica Blackburniae). The male is strongly marked with orange,\n   yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow\n   breast.'),('Blackcap','n.','A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a\n   black crown; the mock nightingale.'),('Blackcap','n.','An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee.'),('Blackcap','n.','An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of\n   boiled custard.'),('Blackcap','n.','The black raspberry.'),('Blackcoat','n.','A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is\n   sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat.'),('Blackcock','n.','The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix,\n   Linn.); -- so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See\n   Heath grouse.'),('Black death','','A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the\n   fourteenth century.'),('Blackened','imp. & p. p.','of Blacken'),('Blackening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blacken'),('Blacken','v. t.','To make or render black.'),('Blacken','v. t.','To make dark; to darken; to cloud.'),('Blacken','v. t.','To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous;\n   as, vice blackens the character.'),('Blacken','v. i.','To grow black or dark.'),('Blackener','n.','One who blackens.'),('Black-eyed','a.','Having black eyes.'),('Black-faced','a.','Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.'),('Blackfeet','n. pl.','A tribe of North American Indians formerly\n   inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the\n   Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.'),('Blackfin','n.','See Bluefin.'),('Blackfish','n.','A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of\n   several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to\n   other whales of larger size.'),('Blackfish','n.','The tautog of New England (Tautoga).'),('Blackfish','n.','The black sea bass (Centropristis atrarius) of the\n   Atlantic coast. It is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black\n   Harry.'),('Blackfish','n.','A fish of southern Europe (Centrolophus pompilus) of the\n   Mackerel family.'),('Blackfish','n.','The female salmon in the spawning season.'),('Blackfoot','a.','Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot\n   Indian.'),('Blackfoot','n.','A Blackfoot Indian.'),('Black friar','','A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant\n   and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a\n   Benedictine.'),('Blackguard','n.','The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a\n   nobleman\'s household, who, in a removal from one residence to another,\n   had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were\n   jocularly called the \"black guard\"; also, the servants and hangers-on\n   of an army.'),('Blackguard','n.','The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or\n   community, collectively.'),('Blackguard','n.','A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses\n   scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a\n   rough.'),('Blackguard','n.','A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.'),('Blackguarded','imp. & p. p.','of Blackguard'),('Blackguarding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blackguard'),('Blackguard','v. t.','To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.'),('Blackguard','a.','Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as,\n   blackguard language.'),('Blackguardism','n.','The conduct or language of a blackguard; ruffianism.'),('Blackguardly','adv. & a.','In the manner of or resembling a blackguard;\n   abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.'),('Blackhead','n.','The scaup duck.'),('Blackheart','n.','A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin.'),('Black-hearted','a.','Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.'),('Black hole','','A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or\n   guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole)\n   in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by\n   the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123\n   of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air.'),('Blacking','n.','Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for\n   giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.'),('Blacking','n.','The act or process of making black.'),('Blackish','a.','Somewhat black.'),('Black-jack','n.','A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc\n   blende; -- called also false galena. See Blende.'),('Black-jack','n.','Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits,\n   ground coffee, etc.'),('Black-jack','n.','A large leather vessel for beer, etc.'),('Black-jack','n.','The Quercus nigra, or barren oak.'),('Black-jack','n.','The ensign of a pirate.'),('Black lead','','Plumbago; graphite. It leaves a blackish mark somewhat\n   like lead. See Graphite.'),('Blacklead','v. t.','To coat or to polish with black lead.'),('Blackleg','n.','A notorious gambler.'),('Blackleg','n.','A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a\n   settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck.'),('Black letter','','The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early\n   English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were\n   printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.'),('Black-letter','a.','Written or printed in black letter; as, a\n   black-letter manuscript or book.'),('Black-letter','a.','Given to the study of books in black letter; that is,\n   of old books; out of date.'),('Black-letter','a.','Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar not\n   marked with red letters as saints\' days. Hence: Unlucky; inauspicious.'),('Blacklist','v. t.','To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion,\n   censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as\n   insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual\n   protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See\n   Black list, under Black, a.'),('Blackly','adv.','In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily;\n   threateningly; atrociously.'),('Blackmail','n.','A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing,\n   anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to\n   certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them\n   protected from pillage.'),('Blackmail','n.','Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also,\n   extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation,\n   exposure, or censure.'),('Blackmail','n.','Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest\n   coin, a opposed to \"white rent\", which paid in silver.'),('Blackmailed','imp. & p. p.','of Blackmail'),('Blackmailing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blackmail'),('Blackmail','v. t.','To extort money from by exciting fears of injury\n   other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind,\n   etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged\n   fraud.'),('Blackmailer','n.','One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by\n   black mailing.'),('Blackmailing','n.','The act or practice of extorting money by exciting\n   fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.'),('Black Monday','','Easter Monday, so called from the severity of that day\n   in 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.\'s soldiers, then\n   before Paris, died from the cold.'),('Black Monday','','The first Monday after the holidays; -- so called by\n   English schoolboys.'),('Black monk','','A Benedictine monk.'),('Blackmoor','n.','See Blackamoor.'),('Black-mouthed','a.','Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.'),('Blackness','n.','The quality or state of being black; black color;\n   atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.'),('Blackpoll','n.','A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata).'),('Black pudding','','A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened\n   with meal.'),('Black Rod','','the usher to the Chapter of the Garter, so called from the\n   black rod which he carries. He is of the king\'s chamber, and also usher\n   to the House of Lords.'),('Black Rod','','An usher in the legislature of British colonies.'),('Blackroot','n.','See Colicroot.'),('Blacks','n. pl.','The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing,\n   prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine\n   press.'),('Blacks','n. pl.','Soot flying in the air.'),('Blacks','n. pl.','Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.'),('Blacksalter','n.','One who makes crude potash, or black salts.'),('Black salts','','Crude potash.'),('Blacksmith','n.','A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron\n   utensils, horseshoes, etc.'),('Blacksmith','n.','A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, / Heliastes,\n   punctipinnis), of a blackish color.'),('Black snake','n.','Alt. of Blacksnake'),('Blacksnake','n.','A snake of a black color, of which two species are\n   common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer,\n   sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or\n   eight feet long.'),('Blackstrap','n.','A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and\n   molasses.'),('Blackstrap','n.','Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean; --\n   so called by sailors.'),('Blacktail','n.','A fish; the ruff or pope.'),('Blacktail','n.','The black-tailed deer (Cervus / Cariacus Columbianus) of\n   California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See\n   Mule deer.'),('Blackthorn','n.','A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus\n   spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are\n   called sloes; the sloe.'),('Blackthorn','n.','A species of Crataegus or hawthorn (C. tomentosa). Both\n   are used for hedges.'),('Black vomit','','A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the\n   substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow\n   fever.'),('Black wash','n.','Alt. of Blackwash'),('Blackwash','n.','A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.'),('Blackwash','n.','A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence,\n   figuratively, calumny.'),('Blackwood','n.','A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East\n   Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.'),('Blackwork','n.','Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction\n   from that wrought by whitesmiths.'),('Bladder','n.','A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of\n   some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied\n   especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when\n   taken out and inflated with air.'),('Bladder','n.','Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or\n   a thin, watery fluid.'),('Bladder','n.','A distended, membranaceous pericarp.'),('Bladder','n.','Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.'),('Bladdered','imp. & p. p.','of Bladder'),('Bladdering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bladder'),('Bladder','v. t.','To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.'),('Bladder','v. t.','To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.'),('Bladderwort','n.','A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants,\n   which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves.\n   These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.'),('Bladdery','a.','Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.'),('Blade','n.','Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant,\n   especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the\n   spire of grasses.'),('Blade','n.','The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife\n   or a sword.'),('Blade','n.','The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms\n   of a screw propeller.'),('Blade','n.','The scapula or shoulder blade.'),('Blade','n.','The principal rafters of a roof.'),('Blade','n.','The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large\n   ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the\n   best tortoise shell.'),('Blade','n.','A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a\n   word of somewhat indefinite meaning.'),('Blade','v. t.','To furnish with a blade.'),('Blade','v. i.','To put forth or have a blade.'),('Bladebone','n.','The scapula. See Blade, 4.'),('Bladed','a.','Having a blade or blades; as, a two-bladed knife.'),('Bladed','a.','Divested of blades; as, bladed corn.'),('Bladed','a.','Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade\n   of a knife.'),('Bladefish','n.','A long, thin, marine fish of Europe (Trichiurus\n   lepturus); the ribbon fish.'),('Bladesmith','n.','A sword cutler.'),('Blady','a.','Consisting of blades.'),('Blae','a.','Dark blue or bluish gray; lead-colored.'),('Blaeberry','n.','The bilberry.'),('Blague','n.','Mendacious boasting; falsehood; humbug.'),('Blain','n.','An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or\n   blister.'),('Blain','n.','A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse,\n   against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.'),('Blamable','a.','Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible;\n   censurable; blameworthy.'),('Blamed','imp. & p. p.','of Blame'),('Blaming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blame'),('Blame','v. t.','To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault\n   with; to reproach.'),('Blame','v. t.','To bring reproach upon; to blemish.'),('Blame','v.','An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be\n   wrong; imputation of fault; censure.'),('Blame','v.','That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation;\n   culpability; fault; crime; sin.'),('Blame','v.','Hurt; injury.'),('Blameful','a.','Faulty; meriting blame.'),('Blameful','a.','Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying\n   censure; faultfinding; censorious.'),('Blameless','a.','Free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; --\n   sometimes followed by of.'),('Blamelessly','adv.','In a blameless manner.'),('Blamelessness','n.','The quality or state of being blameless; innocence.'),('Blamer','n.','One who blames.'),('Blameworthy','a.','Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible.'),('Blancard','n.','A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of\n   which is partly blanches before it is woven.'),('Blanched','imp. & p. p.','of Blanch'),('Blanching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blanch'),('Blanch','a.','To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to\n   blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.'),('Blanch','a.','To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves\n   of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.'),('Blanch','a.','To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as,\n   to blanch almonds.'),('Blanch','a.','To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling\n   water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain\n   the juices.'),('Blanch','a.','To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the\n   process of coining.).'),('Blanch','a.','To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.'),('Blanch','a.','Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to\n   whitewash; to palliate.'),('Blanch','v. i.','To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with\n   fear; the rose blanches in the sun.'),('Blanch','v. t.','To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.'),('Blanch','v. t.','To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.'),('Blanch','v. i.','To use evasion.'),('Blanch','n.','Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.'),('Blancher','n.','One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one\n   who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this\n   purpose.'),('Blancher','n.','One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside.'),('Blanch holding','','A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in\n   white rent (silver) or otherwise.'),('Blanchimeter','n.','An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of\n   chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer.'),('Blancmange','n.','A preparation for desserts, etc., made from isinglass,\n   sea moss, cornstarch, or other gelatinous or starchy substance, with\n   mild, usually sweetened and flavored, and shaped in a mold.'),('Blancmanger','n.','A sort of fricassee with white sauce, variously made\n   of capon, fish, etc.'),('Bland','a.','Mild; soft; gentle; smooth and soothing in manner; suave;\n   as, a bland temper; bland persuasion; a bland sycophant.'),('Bland','a.','Having soft and soothing qualities; not drastic or\n   irritating; not stimulating; as, a bland oil; a bland diet.'),('Blandation','n.','Flattery.'),('Blandiloquence','n.','Mild, flattering speech.'),('Blandiloquous','a.','Alt. of Blandiloquious'),('Blandiloquious','a.','Fair-spoken; flattering.'),('Blandise','v. i.','To blandish any one.'),('Blandished','imp. & p. p.','of Blandish'),('Blandishing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blandish'),('Blandish','v. t.','To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to\n   caress; to cajole.'),('Blandish','v. t.','To make agreeable and enticing.'),('Blandisher','n.','One who uses blandishments.'),('Blandishment','n.','The act of blandishing; a word or act expressive of\n   affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and\n   artful caresses; cajolery; allurement.'),('Blandly','adv.','In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.'),('Blandness','n.','The state or quality of being bland.'),('Blank','a.','Of a white or pale color; without color.'),('Blank','a.','Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space\n   to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official\n   documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.'),('Blank','a.','Utterly confounded or discomfited.'),('Blank','a.','Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a\n   blank day.'),('Blank','a.','Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank\n   desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.;\n   as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank\n   unconsciousness.'),('Blank','a.','Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated\n   characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless;\n   vacant.'),('Blank','a.','Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.'),('Blank','n.','Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written\n   instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a\n   void.'),('Blank','n.','A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on\n   which no prize is indicated.'),('Blank','n.','A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a\n   blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted\n   designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a\n   bland form.'),('Blank','n.','A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a\n   deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with\n   names, date, descriptions, etc.'),('Blank','n.','The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot;\n   hence, the object to which anything is directed.'),('Blank','n.','Aim; shot; range.'),('Blank','n.','A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by\n   Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the\n   seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence.'),('Blank','n.','A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a\n   further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.'),('Blank','n.','A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the\n   \"double blank\"; the \"six blank.\"'),('Blanked','imp. & p. p.','of Blank'),('Blanking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blank'),('Blank','v. t.','To make void; to annul.'),('Blank','v. t.','To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to\n   dispirit or confuse.'),('Blanket','a.','A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having\n   a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or\n   any fabric used as a cover for a horse.'),('Blanket','a.','A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the\n   tympan to make it soft and elastic.'),('Blanket','a.','A streak or layer of blubber in whales.'),('Blanketed','imp. & p. p.','of Blanket'),('Blanketing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blanket'),('Blanket','v. t.','To cover with a blanket.'),('Blanket','v. t.','To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.'),('Blanket','v. t.','To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel)\n   by sailing to windward of her.'),('Blanketing','n.','Cloth for blankets.'),('Blanketing','n.','The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.'),('Blankly','adv.','In a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; as, to\n   stare blankly.'),('Blankly','adv.','Directly; flatly; point blank.'),('Blankness','n.','The state of being blank.'),('Blanquette','n.','A white fricassee.'),('Blanquillo','n.','A large fish of Florida and the W. Indies (Caulolatilus\n   chrysops). It is red, marked with yellow.'),('Blared','imp. & p. p.','of Blare'),('Blaring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blare'),('Blare','v. i.','To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.'),('Blare','v. t.','To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to\n   proclaim loudly.'),('Blare','n.','The harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh\n   noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing.'),('Blarney','n.','Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery.'),('Blarneyed','imp. & p. p.','of Blarney'),('Blarneying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blarney'),('Blarney','v. t.','To influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk;\n   to make or accomplish by blarney.'),('Blase','a.','Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of\n   enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.'),('Blasphemed','imp. & p. p.','of Blaspheme'),('Blaspheming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blaspheme'),('Blaspheme','v.','To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to\n   revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.'),('Blaspheme','v.','Figuratively, of persons and things not religiously\n   sacred, but held in high honor: To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.'),('Blaspheme','v. i.','To utter blasphemy.'),('Blasphemer','n.','One who blasphemes.'),('Blasphemous','a.','Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting\n   anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person;\n   containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature.'),('Blasphemously','adv.','In a blasphemous manner.'),('Blasphemy','n.','An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs;\n   impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference\n   to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes\n   or prerogatives of deity.'),('Blasphemy','n.','Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny;\n   abuse; vilification.'),('-blast','','A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in\n   biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast,\n   epiblast, mesoblast, etc.'),('Blast','n.','A violent gust of wind.'),('Blast','n.','A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows,\n   the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of\n   ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of\n   iron at a blast.'),('Blast','n.','The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air\n   out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through\n   the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.'),('Blast','n.','The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the\n   sound produces at one breath.'),('Blast','n.','A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind,\n   especially on animals and plants; a blight.'),('Blast','n.','The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of\n   rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also,\n   the charge used for this purpose.'),('Blast','n.','A flatulent disease of sheep.'),('Blasted','imp. & p. p.','of Blast'),('Blasting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blast'),('Blast','v. t.','To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to\n   stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some\n   pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel.'),('Blast','v. t.','Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague,\n   calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to\n   visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or\n   character.'),('Blast','v. t.','To confound by a loud blast or din.'),('Blast','v. t.','To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder,\n   dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.'),('Blast','v. i.','To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the\n   blossom.'),('Blast','v. i.','To blow; to blow on a trumpet.'),('Blasted','a.','Blighted; withered.'),('Blasted','a.','Confounded; accursed; detestable.'),('Blasted','a.','Rent open by an explosive.'),('Blastemata','pl. ','of Blastema'),('Blastema','n.','The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the\n   primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.'),('Blastemal','a.','Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.'),('Blastematic','a.','Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema;\n   blastemal.'),('Blaster','n.','One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.'),('Blastide','n.','A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the\n   precursor of the nucleus.'),('Blasting','n.','A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious\n   cause.'),('Blasting','n.','The act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the\n   business of one who blasts.'),('Blastment','n.','A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive\n   cause.'),('Blastocarpous','a.','Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove.'),('Blastocoele','n.','The cavity of the blastosphere, or segmentation\n   cavity.'),('Blastocyst','n.','The germinal vesicle.'),('Blastoderm','n.','The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo\n   is developed.'),('Blastodermatic','a.','Alt. of Blastodermic'),('Blastodermic','a.','Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.'),('Blastogenesis','n.','Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.'),('Blastoid','n.','One of the Blastoidea.'),('Blastoidea','n. pl.','One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in\n   paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their\n   budlike form.'),('Blastomere','n.','One of the segments first formed by the division of the\n   ovum.'),('Blastophoral','a.','Alt. of Blastophoric'),('Blastophoric','a.','Relating to the blastophore.'),('Blastophore','n.','That portion of the spermatospore which is not\n   converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.'),('Blastopore','n.','The pore or opening leading into the cavity of\n   invagination, or archenteron.'),('Blastosphere','n.','The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement\n   of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.'),('Blastostyle','n.','In certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special\n   function is to produce medusoid buds. See Hydroidea, and Athecata.'),('Blast pipe','','The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe\n   delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.'),('Blastula','n.','That stage in the development of the ovum in which the\n   outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.'),('Blastule','n.','Same as Blastula.'),('Blasty','a.','Affected by blasts; gusty.'),('Blasty','a.','Causing blast or injury.'),('Blat','v. i.','To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless\n   noise; to talk inconsiderately.'),('Blat','v. t.','To utter inconsiderately.'),('Blatancy','n.','Blatant quality.'),('Blatant','a.','Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring;\n   disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.'),('Blatantly','adv.','In a blatant manner.'),('Blatherskite','n.','A blustering, talkative fellow.'),('Blattered','imp. & p. p.','of Blatter'),('Blatter','v. i.','To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless\n   noise; to patter.'),('Blatteration','n.','Blattering.'),('Blatterer','n.','One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering\n   boaster.'),('Blattering','n.','Senseless babble or boasting.'),('Blatteroon','n.','A senseless babbler or boaster.'),('Blaubok','n.','The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue.'),('Blay','a.','A fish. See Bleak, n.'),('Blaze','n.','A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the\n   process of combustion; a bright flame.'),('Blaze','n.','Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek\n   shelter from the blaze of the sun.'),('Blaze','n.','A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an\n   outburst; a brilliant display.'),('Blaze','n.','A white spot on the forehead of a horse.'),('Blaze','n.','A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark,\n   usually as a surveyor\'s mark.'),('Blazed','imp. & p. p.','of Blaze'),('Blazing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blaze'),('Blaze','v. i.','To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire\n   blazes.'),('Blaze','v. i.','To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to\n   show a blaze.'),('Blaze','v. i.','To be resplendent.'),('Blaze','v. t.','To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.'),('Blaze','v. t.','To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees;\n   as, to blaze a line or path.'),('Blaze','v. i.','To make public far and wide; to make known; to render\n   conspicuous.'),('Blaze','v. i.','To blazon.'),('Blazer','n.','One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad.'),('Blazing','a.','Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.'),('Blazon','n.','A shield.'),('Blazon','n.','An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat\n   of arms; armorial bearings.'),('Blazon','n.','The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings\n   in the proper language or manner.'),('Blazon','n.','Ostentatious display, either by words or other means;\n   publication; show; description; record.'),('Blazoned','imp. & p. p.','of Blazon'),('Blazoning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blazon'),('Blazon','v. t.','To depict in colors; to display; to exhibit\n   conspicuously; to publish or make public far and wide.'),('Blazon','v. t.','To deck; to embellish; to adorn.'),('Blazon','v. t.','To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic\n   devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon.'),('Blazon','v. i.','To shine; to be conspicuous.'),('Blazoner','n.','One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one\n   who blazons coats of arms; a herald.'),('Blazonment','n.','The act of blazoning; blazoning; emblazonment.'),('Blazonry','n.','Same as Blazon, 3.'),('Blazonry','n.','A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings.'),('Blazonry','n.','Artistic representation or display.'),('Blea','n.','The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the\n   alburnum or sapwood.'),('Bleaberry','n.','See Blaeberry.'),('Bleached','imp. & p. p.','of Bleach'),('Bleaching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bleach'),('Bleach','a.','To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains,\n   from; to blanch; to whiten.'),('Bleach','v. i.','To grow white or lose color; to whiten.'),('Bleached','a.','Whitened; make white.'),('Bleacher','n.','One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by\n   bleaching.'),('Bleacheries','pl. ','of Bleachery'),('Bleachery','n.','A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.'),('Bleaching','n.','The act or process of whitening, by removing color or\n   stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents.'),('Bleak','a.','Without color; pale; pallid.'),('Bleak','a.','Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.'),('Bleak','a.','Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.'),('Bleak','a.','A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the\n   family Cyprinidae; the blay.'),('Bleaky','a.','Bleak.'),('Blear','v.','Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes.'),('Blear','v.','Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim.'),('Bleared','imp. & p. p.','of Blear'),('Blearing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blear'),('Blear','v. t.','To make somewhat sore or watery, as the eyes; to dim, or\n   blur, as the sight. Figuratively: To obscure (mental or moral\n   perception); to blind; to hoodwink.'),('Bleared','a.','Dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum.'),('Bleareye','n.','A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic\n   inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous\n   matter.'),('Blear-eyed','a.','Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum;\n   dim-sighted.'),('Blear-eyed','a.','Lacking in perception or penetration; short-sighted;\n   as, a blear-eyed bigot.'),('Bleareyedness','n.','The state of being blear-eyed.'),('Bleary','a.','Somewhat blear.'),('Bleated','imp. & p. p.','of Bleat'),('Bleating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bleat'),('Bleat','v. i.','To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to\n   cry like a sheep or calf.'),('Bleat','n.','A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep.'),('Bleater','n.','One who bleats; a sheep.'),('Bleating','a.','Crying as a sheep does.'),('Bleating','n.','The cry of, or as of, a sheep.'),('Bleb','n.','A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid;\n   a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc.'),('Blebby','a.','Containing blebs, or characterized by blebs; as, blebby\n   glass.'),('Bleck','v. t.','Alt. of Blek'),('Blek','v. t.','To blacken; also, to defile.'),('Bled','','imp. & p. p. of Bleed.'),('Blee','n.','Complexion; color; hue; likeness; form.'),('Bled','imp. & p. p.','of Bleed'),('Bleeding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bleed'),('Bleed','v. i.','To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by\n   whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at\n   the nose.'),('Bleed','v. i.','To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A.\n   bleeds in fevers.'),('Bleed','v. i.','To lose or shed one\'s blood, as in case of a violent\n   death or severe wounds; to die by violence.'),('Bleed','v. i.','To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision.'),('Bleed','v. i.','To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds\n   when tapped or wounded.'),('Bleed','v. i.','To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted;\n   as, to bleed freely for a cause.'),('Bleed','v. t.','To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by\n   opening a vein.'),('Bleed','v. t.','To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap.'),('Bleed','v. t.','To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled\n   him freely for this fund.'),('Bleeder','n.','One who, or that which, draws blood.'),('Bleeder','n.','One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or\n   uncontrollable bleeding.'),('Bleeding','a.','Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also,\n   expressing anguish or compassion.'),('Bleeding','n.','A running or issuing of blood, as from the nose or a\n   wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a\n   drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant.'),('Blemished','imp. & p. p.','of Blemish'),('Blemishing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blemish'),('Blemish','v. t.','To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as\n   anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective,\n   either the body or mind.'),('Blemish','v. t.','To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame.'),('Blemishes','pl. ','of Blemish'),('Blemish','n.','Any mark of deformity or injury, whether physical or\n   moral; anything that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which\n   is otherwise well formed; that which impairs reputation.'),('Blemishless','a.','Without blemish; spotless.'),('Blemishment','n.','The state of being blemished; blemish; disgrace;\n   damage; impairment.'),('Blenched','imp. & p. p.','of Blench'),('Blenching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blench'),('Blench','v. i.','To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of\n   courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.'),('Blench','v. i.','To fly off; to turn aside.'),('Blench','v. t.','To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to\n   obstruct; to hinder.'),('Blench','v. t.','To draw back from; to deny from fear.'),('Blench','n.','A looking aside or askance.'),('Blench','v. i. & t.','To grow or make pale.'),('Blencher','n.','One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a\n   person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See\n   Blancher.'),('Blencher','n.','One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.'),('Blench holding','','See Blanch holding.'),('Blended','imp. & p. p.','of Blend'),('Blent','','of Blend'),('Blending','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blend'),('Blend','v. t.','To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or\n   associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of\n   demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound.'),('Blend','v. t.','To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or\n   corrupt; to blot; to stain.'),('Blend','v. i.','To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade\n   insensibly into each other, as colors.'),('Blend','n.','A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color,\n   tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or\n   the other begins.'),('Blend','a.','To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to\n   deceive.'),('Blende','n.','A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead,\n   false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains\n   some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster\n   resinous.'),('Blende','n.','A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic\n   sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster.'),('Blender','n.','One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush,\n   used in blending.'),('Blending','n.','The act of mingling.'),('Blending','n.','The method of laying on different tints so that they may\n   mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly.'),('Blendous','a.','Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, blende.'),('Blendwater','n.','A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers\n   are affected.'),('Blenheim spaniel','','A small variety of spaniel, kept as a pet.'),('Blenk','v. i.','To blink; to shine; to look.'),('Blennioid','a.','Alt. of Blenniid'),('Blenniid','a.','Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the blennies.'),('Blennogenous','a.','Generating mucus.'),('Blennorrhea','n.','An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus.'),('Blennorrhea','n.','Gonorrhea.'),('Blennies','pl. ','of Blenny'),('Blenny','n.','A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniidae;\n   -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous.'),('Blent','imp. & p. p.','Mingled; mixed; blended; also, polluted; stained.'),('Blent','imp. & p. p.','Blinded. Also (Chaucer), 3d sing. pres. Blindeth.'),('Blesbok','n.','A South African antelope (Alcelaphus albifrons), having a\n   large white spot on the forehead.'),('Blessed','imp. & p. p.','of Bless'),('Blest','','of Bless'),('Blessing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bless'),('Bless','v. t.','To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate'),('Bless','v. t.','To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer\n   prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.'),('Bless','v. t.','To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to\n   invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.'),('Bless','v. t.','To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities\n   upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food.'),('Bless','v. t.','To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one\'s\n   self).'),('Bless','v. t.','To guard; to keep; to protect.'),('Bless','v. t.','To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences.'),('Bless','v. t.','To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.'),('Bless','v. t.','To wave; to brandish.'),('Blessed','a.','Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration;\n   heavenly; holy.'),('Blessed','a.','Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings;\n   happy; highly favored.'),('Blessed','a.','Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness;\n   blissful; joyful.'),('Blessed','a.','Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or\n   heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven.'),('Blessed','a.','Beatified.'),('Blessed','a.','Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.'),('Blessedly','adv.','Happily; fortunately; joyfully.'),('Blessedness','n.','The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity;\n   bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God.'),('Blessed thistle','','See under Thistle.'),('Blesser','n.','One who blesses; one who bestows or invokes a blessing.'),('Blessing','v. t.','The act of one who blesses.'),('Blessing','v. t.','A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation\n   imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of\n   happiness pronounces.'),('Blessing','v. t.','A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity\n   and welfare; a beneficent gift.'),('Blessing','v. t.','A gift.'),('Blessing','v. t.','Grateful praise or worship.'),('Blest','a.','Blessed.'),('Blet','n.','A form of decay in fruit which is overripe.'),('Bletonism','n.','The supposed faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs\n   and currents by sensation; -- so called from one Bleton, of France.'),('Bletting','n.','A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit.'),('Blew','','imp. of Blow.'),('Bleyme','n.','An inflammation in the foot of a horse, between the sole\n   and the bone.'),('Bleynte','','imp. of Blench.'),('Blickey','n.','A tin dinner pail.'),('Blighted','imp. & p. p.','of Blight'),('Blighting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blight'),('Blight','v. t.','To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth\n   and fertility of.'),('Blight','v. t.','Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar\n   essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one\'s prospects.'),('Blight','v. i.','To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never\n   blights.'),('Blight','n.','Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as\n   a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the\n   whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or\n   atmospheric influences.'),('Blight','n.','The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a\n   withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part\n   of a plant, etc.'),('Blight','n.','That which frustrates one\'s plans or withers one\'s hopes;\n   that which impairs or destroys.'),('Blight','n.','A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to\n   fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to\n   several other injurious insects.'),('Blight','n.','A rashlike eruption on the human skin.'),('Blighting','a.','Causing blight.'),('Blightingly','adv.','So as to cause blight.'),('Blimbi','n.','Alt. of Blimbing'),('Blimbing','n.','See Bilimbi, etc.'),('Blin','v. t. & i.','To stop; to cease; to desist.'),('Blin','n.','Cessation; end.'),('Blind','a.','Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect\n   or by deprivation; without sight.'),('Blind','a.','Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of\n   intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as,\n   authors are blind to their own defects.'),('Blind','a.','Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.'),('Blind','a.','Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a\n   person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden;\n   unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.'),('Blind','a.','Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.'),('Blind','a.','Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall;\n   open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.'),('Blind','a.','Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind\n   passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.'),('Blind','a.','Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind\n   buds; blind flowers.'),('Blinded','imp. & p. p.','of Blind'),('Blinding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blind'),('Blind','v. t.','To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.'),('Blind','v. t.','To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult\n   for and painful to; to dazzle.'),('Blind','v. t.','To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to\n   conceal; to deceive.'),('Blind','v. t.','To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as\n   a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be\n   filled.'),('Blind','n.','Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a\n   cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a\n   horse.'),('Blind','n.','Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to\n   conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.'),('Blind','n.','A blindage. See Blindage.'),('Blind','n.','A halting place.'),('Blind','n.','Alt. of Blinde'),('Blinde','n.','See Blende.'),('Blindage','n.','A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach,\n   formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.'),('Blinder','n.','One who, or that which, blinds.'),('Blinder','n.','One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse\n   from seeing objects at the side; a blinker.'),('Blindfish','n.','A small fish (Amblyopsis spelaeus) destitute of eyes,\n   found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes\n   from other caves take the same name.'),('Blindfolded','imp. & p. p.','of Blindfold'),('Blindfolding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blindfold'),('Blindfold','v. t.','To cover the eyes of, as with a bandage; to hinder\n   from seeing.'),('Blindfold','a.','Having the eyes covered; blinded; having the mental eye\n   darkened. Hence: Heedless; reckless; as, blindfold zeal; blindfold\n   fury.'),('Blinding','a.','Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of\n   understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.'),('Blinding','n.','A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved\n   road. See Blind, v. t., 4.'),('Blindly','adv.','Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without\n   thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one\'s own.'),('Blindman\'s buff','','A play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries\n   to catch some one of the company and tell who it is.'),('Blindman\'s holiday','','The time between daylight and candle light.'),('Blindness','n.','State or condition of being blind, literally or\n   figuratively.'),('Blindstory','n.','The triforium as opposed to the clearstory.'),('Blindworm','n.','A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis\n   fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the\n   slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder.'),('Blinked','imp. & p. p.','of Blink'),('Blinking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blink'),('Blink','v. i.','To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.'),('Blink','v. i.','To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with\n   frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.'),('Blink','v. i.','To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to\n   flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.'),('Blink','v. i.','To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.'),('Blink','v. t.','To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to\n   shirk; as, to blink the question.'),('Blink','v. t.','To trick; to deceive.'),('Blink','v. i.','A glimpse or glance.'),('Blink','v. i.','Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.'),('Blink','v. i.','The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the\n   reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.'),('Blink','pl.','Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them.'),('Blinkard','n.','One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes.'),('Blinkard','n.','That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which\n   appears and disappears.'),('Blink beer','','Beer kept unbroached until it is sharp.'),('Blinker','n.','One who, or that which, blinks.'),('Blinker','n.','A blinder for horses; a flap of leather on a horse\'s\n   bridle to prevent him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever\n   obstructs sight or discernment.'),('Blinker','pl.','A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare,\n   etc.'),('Blink-eyed','a.','Habitually winking.'),('Blirt','n.','A gust of wind and rain.'),('Blisses','pl. ','of Bliss'),('Bliss','n.','Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of\n   happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy.'),('Blissful','a.','Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity;\n   happy in the highest degree.'),('Blissless','a.','Destitute of bliss.'),('Blissom','v. i.','To be lustful; to be lascivious.'),('Blissom','a.','Lascivious; also, in heat; -- said of ewes.'),('Blister','n.','A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum,\n   whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a\n   collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the\n   cuticle.'),('Blister','n.','Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin,\n   as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on\n   steel.'),('Blister','n.','A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter,\n   applied to raise a blister.'),('Blistered','imp. & p. p.','of Blister'),('Blistering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blister'),('Blister','v. i.','To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a\n   blister form on.'),('Blister','v. t.','To raise a blister or blisters upon.'),('Blister','v. t.','To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.'),('Blistery','a.','Full of blisters.'),('Blite','n.','A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum\n   capitatum is the strawberry blite.'),('Blithe','a.','Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe\n   spirit.'),('Blitheful','a.','Gay; full of gayety; joyous.'),('Blithely','adv.','In a blithe manner.'),('Blitheness','n.','The state of being blithe.'),('Blithesome','a.','Cheery; gay; merry.'),('Blive','adv.','Quickly; forthwith.'),('Blizzard','n.','A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with\n   fine and blinding snow; a furious blast.'),('Bloated','imp. & p. p.','of Bloat'),('Bloating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bloat'),('Bloat','v. t.','To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling\n   of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue,\n   producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.'),('Bloat','v. t.','To inflate; to puff up; to make vain.'),('Bloat','v. i.','To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular\n   tissue; to puff out; to swell.'),('Bloat','a.','Bloated.'),('Bloat','n.','A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow.'),('Bloat','v. t.','To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.'),('Bloated','p. a.','Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the\n   presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face.\n   Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.'),('Bloatedness','n.','The state of being bloated.'),('Bloater','n.','The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and\n   half dried; -- called also bloat herring.'),('Blob','n.','Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something\n   viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.'),('Blob','n.','A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller\'s\n   thumb.'),('Blobber','n.','A bubble; blubber.'),('Blobber-lipped','a.','Having thick lips.'),('Blocage','n.','The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry.'),('Block','v. t.','A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood,\n   stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane,\n   faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which\n   to mount a horse; children\'s playing blocks, etc.'),('Block','v. t.','The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay\n   their necks when they are beheaded.'),('Block','v. t.','The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.'),('Block','v. t.','The pattern or shape of a hat.'),('Block','v. t.','A large or long building divided into separate houses or\n   shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other\n   so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops.'),('Block','v. t.','A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets,\n   whether occupied by buildings or not.'),('Block','v. t.','A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell\n   which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be\n   attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as\n   in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and\n   also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate\n   of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the\n   rigging of ships, and in tackles.'),('Block','v. t.','The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.'),('Block','v. t.','Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a\n   hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way.'),('Block','v. t.','A piece of box or other wood for engravers\' work.'),('Block','v. t.','A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a\n   stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.'),('Block','v. t.','A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.'),('Block','v. t.','A section of a railroad where the block system is used.\n   See Block system, below.'),('Blocked','imp. & p. p.','of Block'),('Blocking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Block'),('Block','n.','To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent\n   passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of\n   persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or\n   harbor.'),('Block','n.','To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two\n   boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to\n   each.'),('Block','n.','To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat.'),('Blockade','v. t.','The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with\n   the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of\n   supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.'),('Blockade','v. t.','An obstruction to passage.'),('Blockaded','imp. & p. p.','of Blockade'),('Blockading','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blockade'),('Blockade','v. t. ','To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it\n   with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or\n   egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.'),('Blockade','n.','Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress.'),('Blockade','n.','To obstruct entrance to or egress from.'),('Blockader','n.','One who blockades.'),('Blockader','n.','A vessel employed in blockading.'),('Blockage','n.','The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.'),('Block book','','A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of\n   movable types.'),('Blockhead','n.','A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in\n   understanding.'),('Blockheaded','a.','Stupid; dull.'),('Blockheadism','n.','That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity.'),('Blockhouse','n.','An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for\n   military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an\n   upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have\n   its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling\n   the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much\n   used in America and Germany.'),('Blockhouse','n.','A house of squared logs.'),('Blocking','n.','The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping\n   with a block or blocks.'),('Blocking','n.','Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.'),('Blocking course','','The finishing course of a wall showing above a\n   cornice.'),('Blockish','a.','Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.'),('Blocklike','a.','Like a block; stupid.'),('Block tin','','See under Tin.'),('Bloedite','n.','A hydrous sulphate of magnesium and sodium.'),('Blomary','n.','See Bloomery.'),('Bloncket','a.','Alt. of Blonket'),('Blonket','a.','Gray; bluish gray.'),('Blond','v. t.','Alt. of Blonde'),('Blonde','v. t.','Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond\n   complexion.'),('Blonde','n.','A person of very fair complexion, with light hair and light\n   blue eyes.'),('Blonde','n.','A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk,\n   now sometimes dyed; -- called also blond lace.'),('Blond metal','','A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England,\n   used for making tools.'),('Blondness','n.','The state of being blond.'),('Blood','n.','The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system\n   of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing\n   away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.'),('Blood','n.','Relationship by descent from a common ancestor;\n   consanguinity; kinship.'),('Blood','n.','Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest\n   royal lineage.'),('Blood','n.','Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or\n   purity of breed.'),('Blood','n.','The fleshy nature of man.'),('Blood','n.','The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder;\n   manslaughter; destruction.'),('Blood','n.','A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.'),('Blood','n.','Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if\n   the blood were the seat of emotions.'),('Blood','n.','A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a\n   rake.'),('Blood','n.','The juice of anything, especially if red.'),('Blooded','imp. & p. p.','of Blood'),('Blooding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blood'),('Blood','v. t.','To bleed.'),('Blood','v. t.','To stain, smear or wet, with blood.'),('Blood','v. t.','To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of\n   blood, as in hunting or war.'),('Blood','v. t.','To heat the blood of; to exasperate.'),('Bloodbird','n.','An Australian honeysucker (Myzomela sanguineolata); --\n   so called from the bright red color of the male bird.'),('Blood-boltered','a.','Having the hair matted with clotted blood.'),('Blooded','a.','Having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of\n   approved breed; of the best stock.'),('Bloodflower','n.','A genus of bulbous plants, natives of Southern Africa,\n   named Haemanthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of H. toxicarius\n   is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows.'),('Bloodguilty','a.','Guilty of murder or bloodshed.'),('Bloodhound','n.','A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth,\n   and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is\n   employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a\n   hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing\n   runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same\n   purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a\n   variety of the mastiff.'),('Bloodily','adv.','In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed\n   blood.'),('Bloodiness','n.','The state of being bloody.'),('Bloodiness','n.','Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness.'),('Bloodless','a.','Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless\n   cheeks; lifeless; dead.'),('Bloodless','a.','Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a\n   bloodless victory.'),('Bloodless','a.','Without spirit or activity.'),('Bloodlet','v. t. ','bleed; to let blood.'),('Bloodletter','n.','One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist.'),('Bloodletting','n.','The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as\n   by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied\n   to venesection.'),('Blood money','','Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been\n   killed by another.'),('Blood money','','Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of\n   another\'s life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of\n   money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of\n   money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser.'),('Bloodroot','n.','A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and\n   red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called\n   also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian\n   paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a\n   stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria.'),('Bloodshed','n.','The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of\n   shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.'),('Bloodshedder','n.','One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.'),('Bloodshedding','n.','Bloodshed.'),('Bloodshot','a.','Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the\n   vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or\n   irritated.'),('Blood-shotten','a.','Bloodshot.'),('Bloodstick','n.','A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and\n   used to strike the fleam into the vein.'),('Bloodstone','n.','A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as\n   if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.'),('Bloodstone','n.','Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or\n   \"streak.\"'),('Bloodstroke','n.','Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or\n   congestion in the brain.'),('Bloodsucker','n.','Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo\n   medicinalis), and related species.'),('Bloodsucker','n.','One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one\n   guilty of bloodshed; a murderer.'),('Bloodsucker','n.','A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender;\n   an extortioner.'),('Bloodthirsty','a.','Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous.'),('Bloodulf','n.','The European bullfinch.'),('Blood vessel','','Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an\n   animal, as an artery or vein.'),('Bloodwite','n.','Alt. of Bloodwit'),('Bloodwit','n.','A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the\n   shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.'),('Bloodwood','n.','A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.'),('Bloodwort','n.','A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The\n   name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an\n   extensive order of plants (Haemodoraceae), the roots of many species of\n   which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.'),('Bloody','a.','Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as,\n   bloody excretions; bloody sweat.'),('Bloody','a.','Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody\n   handkerchief.'),('Bloody','a.','Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a\n   cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.'),('Bloody','a.','Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp.,\n   marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.'),('Bloody','a.','Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis\n   or as a low epithet.'),('Bloodied','imp. & p. p.','of Bloody'),('Bloodying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bloody'),('Bloody','v. t.','To stain with blood.'),('Bloodybones','n.','A terrible bugbear.'),('Bloody flux','','The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge\n   from the bowels has a mixture of blood.'),('Bloody hand','','A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the\n   old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man\'s trespass\n   in the forest against venison.'),('Bloody hand','','A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the\n   distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom.'),('Bloody-minded','a.','Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty.'),('Bloody sweat','','A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease,\n   called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other\n   countries.'),('Bloom','n.','A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers,\n   collectively.'),('Bloom','n.','The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming\n   or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom.'),('Bloom','n.','A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening\n   to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the\n   bloom of youth.'),('Bloom','n.','The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or\n   newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence:\n   Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow.'),('Bloom','n.','The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon\n   the surface of a picture.'),('Bloom','n.','A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on\n   well-tanned leather.'),('Bloom','n.','A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals;\n   as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.'),('Bloomed','imp. & p. p.','of Bloom'),('Blooming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bloom'),('Bloom','v. i.','To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be\n   in flower.'),('Bloom','v. i.','To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor;\n   to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or\n   with flowers.'),('Bloom','v. t.','To cause to blossom; to make flourish.'),('Bloom','v. t.','To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.'),('Bloom','n.','A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the\n   puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form\n   of an oblong block by shingling.'),('Bloom','n.','A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by\n   hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.'),('Bloomary','n.','See Bloomery.'),('Bloomer','n.','A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with\n   loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed\n   hat.'),('Bloomer','n.','A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.'),('Bloomery','n.','A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of\n   blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron.'),('Blooming','n.','The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast\n   iron.'),('Blooming','a.','Opening in blossoms; flowering.'),('Blooming','a.','Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the\n   freshness and beauties of youth or health.'),('Bloomingly','adv.','In a blooming manner.'),('Bloomingness','n.','A blooming condition.'),('Bloomless','a.','Without bloom or flowers.'),('Bloomy','a.','Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of\n   youth; as, a bloomy spray.'),('Bloomy','a.','Covered with bloom, as fruit.'),('Blooth','n.','Bloom; a blossoming.'),('Blore','n.','The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.'),('Blosmy','a.','Blossomy.'),('Blossom','n.','The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of\n   reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of\n   a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple\n   tree in blossom.'),('Blossom','n.','A blooming period or stage of development; something\n   lovely that gives rich promise.'),('Blossom','n.','The color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with\n   sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color.'),('Blossomed','imp. & p. p.','of Blossom'),('Blossoming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blossom'),('Blossom','n.','To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to\n   flower.'),('Blossom','n.','To flourish and prosper.'),('Blossomless','a.','Without blossoms.'),('Blossomy','a.','Full of blossoms; flowery.'),('Blotted','imp. & p. p.','of Blot'),('Blotting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blot'),('Blot','v. t.','To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.'),('Blot','v. t.','To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.'),('Blot','v. t.','To stain with infamy; to disgrace.'),('Blot','v. t.','To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface;\n   -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often\n   figuratively; as, to blot out offenses.'),('Blot','v. t.','To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.'),('Blot','v. t.','To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.'),('Blot','v. i.','To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.'),('Blot','n.','A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.'),('Blot','n.','An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.'),('Blot','n.','A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a\n   blemish.'),('Blot','n.','An exposure of a single man to be taken up.'),('Blot','n.','A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.'),('Blot','n.','A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.'),('Blotch','a.','A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large\n   or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.'),('Blotch','a.','A large pustule, or a coarse eruption.'),('Blotched','a.','Marked or covered with blotches.'),('Blotchy','a.','Having blotches.'),('Bloted','imp. & p. p.','of Blote'),('Bloting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blote'),('Blote','v. t.','To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to\n   bloat.'),('Blotless','a.','Without blot.'),('Blotter','n.','One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing\n   superfluous ink.'),('Blotter','n.','A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as\n   they take place.'),('Blottesque','a.','Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely\n   depicted; wanting in delineation.'),('Blotting paper','','A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to\n   absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus\n   prevent blots.'),('Blouse','n.','A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn\n   especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material,\n   as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.'),('Blew','imp.','of Blow'),('Blown','p. p.','of Blow'),('Blowing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blow'),('Blow','v. i.','To flower; to blossom; to bloom.'),('Blow','v. t.','To cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers).'),('Blow','n.','A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of\n   blossoms.'),('Blow','n.','A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as\n   a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword.'),('Blow','n.','A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.'),('Blow','n.','The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which\n   produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when\n   sudden); a buffet.'),('Blew','imp.','of Blow'),('Blown','p. p.','of Blow'),('Blowing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blow'),('Blow','v. i.','To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move\n   rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows.'),('Blow','v. i.','To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth\n   or from a pair of bellows.'),('Blow','v. i.','To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.'),('Blow','v. i.','To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet.'),('Blow','v. i.','To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.'),('Blow','v. i.','To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in\n   from the street.'),('Blow','v. i.','To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.'),('Blow','v. t.','To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other\n   means; as, to blow the fire.'),('Blow','v. t.','To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew\n   the ship ashore.'),('Blow','v. t.','To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth,\n   or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to blow a\n   trumpet; to blow an organ.'),('Blow','v. t.','To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow\n   an egg; to blow one\'s nose.'),('Blow','v. t.','To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually\n   with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.'),('Blow','v. t.','To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.'),('Blow','v. t.','To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to\n   blow bubbles; to blow glass.'),('Blow','v. t.','To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.'),('Blow','v. t.','To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as,\n   to blow a horse.'),('Blow','v. t.','To deposit eggs or larvae upon, or in (meat, etc.).'),('Blow','n.','A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a\n   heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.'),('Blow','n.','The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from\n   some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give\n   the fire a blow with the bellows.'),('Blow','n.','The spouting of a whale.'),('Blow','n.','A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter.'),('Blow','n.','An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the\n   act of depositing it.'),('Blowball','n.','The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children\n   delight to blow away.'),('Blowen','n.','Alt. of Blowess'),('Blowess','n.','A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet.'),('Blower','n.','One who, or that which, blows.'),('Blower','n.','A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal\n   plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire.\n   (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by\n   pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a\n   building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.'),('Blower','n.','A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or\n   fissure in a mine.'),('Blower','n.','The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of\n   its spouting up a column of water.'),('Blower','n.','A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the\n   puffer.'),('Blower','n.','A braggart, or loud talker.'),('Blowfly','n.','Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its\n   eggs or young larvae (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other\n   animal products.'),('Blowgun','n.','A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long,\n   through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force\n   of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America\n   and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See\n   Sumpitan.'),('Blowhole','n.','A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the\n   air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each\n   surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.'),('Blowhole','n.','A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale\n   or other cetacean.'),('Blowhole','n.','A hole in the ice to which whales, seals, etc., come to\n   breathe.'),('Blowhole','n.','An air hole in a casting.'),('Blown','p. p. & a.','Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle\n   when gorged with green food which develops gas.'),('Blown','p. p. & a.','Stale; worthless.'),('Blown','p. p. & a.','Out of breath; tired; exhausted.'),('Blown','p. p. & a.','Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; fly\n   blown.'),('Blown','p. p. & a.','Opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower.'),('Blow-off','n.','A blowing off steam, water, etc.;'),('Blow-off','adj.','as, a blow-off cock or pipe.'),('Blow-off','adj.','An outburst of temper or excitement.'),('Blow-out','n.','The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc.,\n   by a blast of steam.'),('Blowpipe','n.','A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the\n   flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some\n   object.'),('Blowpipe','n.','A blowgun; a blowtube.'),('Blowpoint','n.','A child\'s game.'),('Blowse','n.','See Blowze.'),('Blowth','n.','A blossoming; a bloom.'),('Blowtube','n.','A blowgun.'),('Blowtube','n.','A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for\n   discharging paper wads and other light missiles.'),('Blowtube','n.','A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman\n   gathers a quantity of \"metal\" (melted glass), and through which he\n   blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe.'),('Blow valve','','See Snifting valve.'),('Blowy','a.','Windy; as, blowy weather; a blowy upland.'),('Blowze','n.','A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench.'),('Blowzed','a.','Having high color from exposure to the weather;\n   ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered.'),('Blowzy','a.','Coarse and ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored;\n   frowzy.'),('Blub','v. t. & i.','To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.'),('Blubber','n.','A bubble.'),('Blubber','n.','The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which\n   oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the\n   muscular flesh.'),('Blubber','n.','A large sea nettle or medusa.'),('Blubbered','imp. & p. p.','of Blubber'),('Blubbering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blubber'),('Blubber','v. i.','To weep noisily, or so as to disfigure the face; to cry\n   in a childish manner.'),('Blubber','v. t.','To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet\n   with tears.'),('Blubber','v. t.','To give vent to (tears) or utter (broken words or\n   cries); -- with forth or out.'),('Blubbered','p. p. & a.','Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip.'),('Blubbering','n.','The act of weeping noisily.'),('Blubbery','a.','Swollen; protuberant.'),('Blubbery','a.','Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery\n   mass.'),('Blucher','n.','A kind of half boot, named from the Prussian general\n   Blucher.'),('Bludgeon','n.','A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and\n   heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.'),('Blue','superl.','Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling\n   it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a\n   sapphire; blue violets.'),('Blue','superl.','Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame;\n   hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of\n   ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with\n   oaths.'),('Blue','superl.','Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.'),('Blue','superl.','Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as,\n   thongs looked blue.'),('Blue','superl.','Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and\n   sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals;\n   inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue\n   laws.'),('Blue','superl.','Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of\n   bluestocking.'),('Blue','n.','One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide\n   themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the\n   clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a\n   pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky.'),('Blue','n.','A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.'),('Blue','pl.','Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.'),('Blued','imp. & p. p.','of Blue'),('Bluing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blue'),('Blue','v. t.','To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by\n   heating, as metals, etc.'),('Blueback','n.','A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of\n   Maine.'),('Blueback','n.','A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and\n   northward.'),('Blueback','n.','An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely\n   allied to the alewife.'),('Bluebeard','n.','The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who,\n   leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his\n   castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former\n   wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to\n   investigate.'),('Bluebell','n.','A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula\n   rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell.'),('Bluebell','n.','A plant of the genus Scilla (Scilla nutans).'),('Blueberry','n.','The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous\n   genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous\n   minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are V.\n   Pennsylvanicum and V. vacillans. V. corymbosum is the tall blueberry.'),('Bluebill','n.','A duck of the genus Fuligula. Two American species (F.\n   marila and F. affinis) are common. See Scaup duck.'),('Bluebird','n.','A small song bird (Sialia sialis), very common in the\n   United States, and, in the north, one of the earliest to arrive in\n   spring. The male is blue, with the breast reddish. It is related to the\n   European robin.'),('Blue bonnet','n.','Alt. of Blue-bonnet'),('Blue-bonnet','n.','A broad, flat Scottish cap of blue woolen, or one\n   wearing such cap; a Scotchman.'),('Blue-bonnet','n.','A plant. Same as Bluebottle.'),('Blue-bonnet','n.','The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus); the\n   bluecap.'),('Blue book','','A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper\n   covers.'),('Blue book','','The United States official \"Biennial Register.\"'),('Bluebottle','n.','A plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields.\n   It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.'),('Bluebottle','n.','A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca\n   vomitoria). Its body is steel blue.'),('Bluebreast','n.','A small European bird; the blue-throated warbler.'),('Bluecap','n.','The bluepoll.'),('Bluecap','n.','The blue bonnet or blue titmouse.'),('Bluecap','n.','A Scot; a Scotchman; -- so named from wearing a blue\n   bonnet.'),('Bluecoat','n.','One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle,\n   etc.'),('Blue-eye','n.','The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.'),('Blue-eyed','a.','Having blue eyes.'),('Blue-eyed grass','','a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small\n   flowers of a delicate blue color.'),('Bluefin','n.','A species of whitefish (Coregonus nigripinnis) found in\n   Lake Michigan.'),('Bluefish','n.','A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the\n   family Carangidae, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the\n   American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called\n   the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.'),('Bluefish','n.','A West Indian fish (Platyglossus radiatus), of the family\n   Labridae.'),('Bluegown','n.','One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed\n   beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king\'s birthday were\n   distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.'),('Blue grass','','A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green\n   stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass.'),('Blue jay','','The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or\n   Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue.'),('Blue-john','n.','A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is\n   used for ornamental purposes.'),('Bluely','adv.','With a blue color.'),('Blueness','n.','The quality of being blue; a blue color.'),('Bluenose','n.','A nickname for a Nova Scotian.'),('Bluepoll','n.','A kind of salmon (Salmo Cambricus) found in Wales.'),('Blueprint','','See under Print.'),('Bluestocking','n.','A literary lady; a female pedant.'),('Bluestocking','n.','The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana).'),('Bluestockingism','n.','The character or manner of a bluestocking; female\n   pedantry.'),('Bluestone','n.','Blue vitriol.'),('Bluestone','n.','A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in\n   the eastern United States.'),('Bluethroat','n.','A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia (Cyanecula\n   Suecica), related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated\n   robin and blue-throated warbler.'),('Bluets','a.','A name given to several different species of plants having\n   blue flowers, as the Houstonia coerulea, the Centaurea cyanus or\n   bluebottle, and the Vaccinium angustifolium.'),('Blue-veined','a.','Having blue veins or blue streaks.'),('Bluewing','n.','The blue-winged teal. See Teal.'),('Bluey','a.','Bluish.'),('Bluff','a.','Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a\n   ship.'),('Bluff','a.','Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front.'),('Bluff','a.','Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.'),('Bluff','a.','Abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque; as, a\n   bluff answer; a bluff manner of talking; a bluff sea captain.'),('Bluff','n.','A high, steep bank, as by a river or the sea, or beside a\n   ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.'),('Bluff','n.','An act of bluffing; an expression of self-confidence for the\n   purpose of intimidation; braggadocio; as, that is only bluff, or a\n   bluff.'),('Bluff','n.','A game at cards; poker.'),('Bluffed','imp. & p. p.','of Bluff'),('Bluffing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bluff'),('Bluff','v. t.','To deter (an opponent) from taking the risk of betting on\n   his hand of cards, as the bluffer does by betting heavily on his own\n   hand although it may be of less value.'),('Bluff','v. t.','To frighten or deter from accomplishing a purpose by\n   making a show of confidence in one\'s strength or resources; as, he\n   bluffed me off.'),('Bluff','v. i.','To act as in the game of bluff.'),('Bluff-bowed','a.','Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.'),('Bluffer','n.','One who bluffs.'),('Bluff-headed','a.','Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.'),('Bluffness','n.','The quality or state of being bluff.'),('Bluffy','a.','Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks.'),('Bluffy','a.','Inclined to bo bluff; brusque.'),('Bluing','n.','The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel.'),('Bluing','n.','Something to give a bluish tint, as indigo, or preparations\n   used by washerwomen.'),('Bluish','a.','Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins.'),('Blundered','imp. & p. p.','of Blunder'),('Blundering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blunder'),('Blunder','v. i.','To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in\n   writing or preparing a medical prescription.'),('Blunder','v. i.','To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and\n   stumble.'),('Blunder','v. t.','To cause to blunder.'),('Blunder','v. t.','To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.'),('Blunder','n.','Confusion; disturbance.'),('Blunder','n.','A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness,\n   stupidity, or culpable ignorance.'),('Blunderbuss','n.','A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of\n   holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact\n   aim.'),('Blunderbuss','n.','A stupid, blundering fellow.'),('Blunderer','n.','One who is apt to blunder.'),('Blunderhead','n.','A stupid, blundering fellow.'),('Blundering','a.','Characterized by blunders.'),('Blunderingly','adv.','In a blundering manner.'),('Blunge','v. t.','To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as\n   clay.'),('Blunger','n.','A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi/ing the\n   clay in potteries; a plunger.'),('Blunging','n.','The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger.'),('Blunt','a.','Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not\n   sharp.'),('Blunt','a.','Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; --\n   opposed to acute.'),('Blunt','a.','Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms\n   of civility; rough in manners or speech.'),('Blunt','a.','Hard to impress or penetrate.'),('Blunted','imp. & p. p.','of Blunt'),('Blunting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blunt'),('Blunt','v. t.','To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to\n   make blunt.'),('Blunt','v. t.','To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power\n   of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as,\n   to blunt the feelings.'),('Blunt','n.','A fencer\'s foil.'),('Blunt','n.','A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.'),('Blunt','n.','Money.'),('Bluntish','a.','Somewhat blunt.'),('Bluntly','adv.','In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without\n   delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.'),('Bluntness','n.','Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of\n   sharpness.'),('Bluntness','n.','Abruptness of address; rude plainness.'),('Blunt-witted','n.','Dull; stupid.'),('Blurred','imp. & p. p.','of Blur'),('Blurring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blur'),('Blur','v. t.','To render obscure by making the form or outline of\n   confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and\n   confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the\n   impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink.'),('Blur','v. t.','To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.'),('Blur','v. t.','To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.'),('Blur','n.','That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as\n   upon paper or other substance.'),('Blur','n.','A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to\n   see things with a blur; it was all blur.'),('Blur','n.','A moral stain or blot.'),('Blurry','a.','Full of blurs; blurred.'),('Blurted','imp. & p. p.','of Blurt'),('Blurting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blurt'),('Blurt','v. t.','To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge\n   inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out.'),('Blushed','imp. & p. p.','of Blush'),('Blushing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Blush'),('Blush','v. i.','To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a\n   sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause,\n   as the cheeks or face.'),('Blush','v. i.','To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.'),('Blush','v. i.','To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and\n   other flowers.'),('Blush','v. t.','To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.'),('Blush','v. t.','To express or make known by blushing.'),('Blush','n.','A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense\n   of shame, confusion, or modesty.'),('Blush','n.','A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.'),('Blusher','n.','One that blushes.'),('Blushet','n.','A modest girl.'),('Blushful','a.','Full of blushes.'),('Blushing','a.','Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate\n   color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate.'),('Blushing','n.','The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color\n   or flush upon the cheeks.'),('Blushingly','adv.','In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to\n   answer or confess blushingly.'),('Blushless','a.','Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless;\n   impudent.'),('Blushy','a.','Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy.'),('Blustered','imp. & p. p.','of Bluster'),('Blustering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bluster'),('Bluster','v. i.','To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to\n   be windy and boisterous, as the weather.'),('Bluster','v. i.','To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent\n   or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the\n   bully; to storm; to rage.'),('Bluster','v. t.','To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by\n   blustering; to bully.'),('Bluster','n.','Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds;\n   boisterousness.'),('Bluster','n.','Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful\n   language.'),('Blusterer','n.','One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.'),('Blustering','a.','Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy;\n   tumultuous.'),('Blustering','a.','Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering;\n   boisterous.'),('Blusteringly','adv.','In a blustering manner.'),('Blusterous','a.','Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering.'),('Blustrous','a.','Blusterous.'),('Bo','interj.','An exclamation used to startle or frighten.'),('Boas','pl. ','of Boa'),('Boa','n.','A genus of large American serpents, including the boa\n   constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the\n   chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques).'),('Boa','n.','A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in\n   shape to the boa constrictor.'),('Boa constrictor','','A large and powerful serpent of tropical America,\n   sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.'),('Boanerges','','Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator.'),('Boar','n.','The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.'),('Board','n.','A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and\n   breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.'),('Board','n.','A table to put food upon.'),('Board','n.','Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals;\n   provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work\n   for one\'s board; the price of board.'),('Board','n.','A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A\n   council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting,\n   public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in\n   council for the management or direction of some public or private\n   business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a\n   board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc.'),('Board','n.','A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used\n   for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface\n   painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.'),('Board','n.','Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers,\n   etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.'),('Board','n.','The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter\n   upon the theatrical profession.'),('Board','n.','The border or side of anything.'),('Board','n.','The side of a ship.'),('Board','n.','The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.'),('Boarded','imp. & p. p.','of Board'),('Boarding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Board'),('Board','v. t.','To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.'),('Board','n.','To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile\n   or a friendly way.'),('Board','n.','To enter, as a railway car.'),('Board','n.','To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings,\n   for compensation; to supply with daily meals.'),('Board','n.','To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one\'s\n   horse at a livery stable.'),('Board','v. i.','To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for\n   compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.'),('Board','v. t.','To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.'),('Boardable','a.','That can be boarded, as a ship.'),('Boarder','n.','One who has food statedly at another\'s table, or meals and\n   lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.'),('Boarder','n.','One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy\'s\n   ship.'),('Boarding','n.','The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a\n   friendly purpose.'),('Boarding','n.','The act of covering with boards; also, boards,\n   collectively; or a covering made of boards.'),('Boarding','n.','The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied,\n   with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay.'),('Boarfish','n.','A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family\n   Caproidae; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a\n   hog\'s snout.'),('Boarfish','n.','An Australian percoid fish (Histiopterus recurvirostris),\n   valued as a food fish.'),('Boarish','a.','Swinish; brutal; cruel.'),('Boasted','imp. & p. p.','of Boast'),('Boasting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Boast'),('Boast','v. i.','To vaunt one\'s self; to brag; to say or tell things which\n   are intended to give others a high opinion of one\'s self or of things\n   belonging to one\'s self; as, to boast of one\'s exploits courage,\n   descent, wealth.'),('Boast','v. i.','To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to\n   exult.'),('Boast','v. t.','To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with\n   pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to\n   extol.'),('Boast','v. t.','To display vaingloriously.'),('Boast','v. t.','To possess or have; as, to boast a name.'),('Boast','v. t.','To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.'),('Boast','v. t.','To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to\n   follow; to cut to the general form required.'),('Boast','n.','Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.'),('Boast','n.','The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, --\n   sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.'),('Boastance','n.','Boasting.'),('Boaster','n.','One who boasts; a braggart.'),('Boaster','n.','A stone mason\'s broad-faced chisel.'),('Boastful','a.','Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast;\n   vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising.'),('Boasting','n.','The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking;\n   ostentatious display.'),('Boastingly','adv.','Boastfully; with boasting.'),('Boastive','a.','Presumptuous.'),('Boastless','a.','Without boasting or ostentation.'),('Boat','n.','A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or\n   paddles, but often by a sail.'),('Boat','n.','Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of\n   its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage\n   boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels,\n   even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.'),('Boat','n.','A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in\n   shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.'),('Boated','imp. & p. p.','of Boat'),('Boating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Boat'),('Boat','v. t.','To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.'),('Boat','v. t.','To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.'),('Boat','v. i.','To go or row in a boat.'),('Boatable','a.','Such as can be transported in a boat.'),('Boatable','a.','Navigable for boats, or small river craft.'),('Boatage','n.','Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance.'),('Boatbill','n.','A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts\n   of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel\n   uppermost.'),('Boatbill','n.','A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus.'),('Boat bug','','An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so\n   called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a\n   little boat. Called also boat fly, boat insect, boatman, and water\n   boatman.'),('Boatfuls','pl. ','of Boatful'),('Boatful','n.','The quantity or amount that fills a boat.'),('Boathouse','n.','A house for sheltering boats.'),('Boating','n.','The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an\n   amusement; carriage in boats.'),('Boating','n.','In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying\n   them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.'),('Boation','n.','A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation.'),('Boatmen','pl. ','of Boatman'),('Boatman','n.','A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.'),('Boatman','n.','A boat bug. See Boat bug.'),('Boatmanship','n.','The art of managing a boat.'),('Boat-shaped','a.','See Cymbiform.'),('Boat shell','','A marine gastropod of the genus Crepidula. The species\n   are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck.'),('Boat shell','','A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba.'),('Boatsman','n.','A boatman.'),('Boatswain','n.','An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging,\n   colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons\n   the crew, and performs other duties.'),('Boatswain','n.','The jager gull.'),('Boatswain','n.','The tropic bird.'),('Boat-tail','n.','A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in\n   the Southern United States.'),('Boatwomen','pl. ','of Boatwoman'),('Boatwoman','n.','A woman who manages a boat.'),('Bob','n.','Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short\n   abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the\n   end of a kite\'s tail.'),('Bob','n.','A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as\n   for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.'),('Bob','n.','A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line\n   to show when a fish is biting; a float.'),('Bob','n.','The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight\n   at the end of a plumb line.'),('Bob','n.','A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in\n   polishing spoons, etc.'),('Bob','n.','A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the\n   head.'),('Bob','n.','A working beam.'),('Bob','n.','A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.'),('Bob','n.','A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.'),('Bob','n.','The refrain of a song.'),('Bob','n.','A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.'),('Bob','n.','A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.'),('Bob','n.','A shilling.'),('Bobbed','imp. & p. p.','of Bob'),('Bobbing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bob'),('Bob','n.','To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing)\n   with a bob.'),('Bob','n.','To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.'),('Bob','n.','To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.'),('Bob','n.','To mock or delude; to cheat.'),('Bob','n.','To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse\'s tail.'),('Bob','v. i.','To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up\n   and down; to play loosely against anything.'),('Bob','v. i.','To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3.'),('Bobac','n.','The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac).'),('Bobance','n.','A boasting.'),('Bobber','n.','One who, or that which, bobs.'),('Bobbery','n.','A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a\n   bobbery.'),('Bobbin','n.','A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most\n   commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is\n   wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a\n   slight tension.'),('Bobbin','n.','A spool or reel of various material and construction, with\n   a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its\n   length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to\n   hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing\n   machines, etc.'),('Bobbin','n.','The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch\n   string, which is pulled to raise the latch.'),('Bobbin','n.','A fine cord or narrow braid.'),('Bobbin','n.','A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire,\n   usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the\n   wire is traversed by an electrical current.'),('Bobbinet','n.','A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and\n   not by hand.'),('Bobbinwork','n.','Work woven with bobbins.'),('Bobbish','a.','Hearty; in good spirits.'),('Bobby','n.','A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who\n   remodeled the police force. See Peeler.'),('Bob-cherry','n.','A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to\n   bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.'),('Bobfly','n.','The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.'),('Bobolink','n.','An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The\n   male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird,\n   reedbird, and Boblincoln.'),('Bobsled','n.','Alt. of Bobsleigh'),('Bobsleigh','n.','A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by\n   a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed.'),('Bobstay','n.','A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward\n   to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.'),('Bobtail','n.','An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail.'),('Bobtail','a.','Bobtailed.'),('Bobtailed','a.','Having the tail cut short, or naturally short;\n   curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.'),('Bobwhite','n.','The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx,\n   Virginianus); -- so called from its note.'),('Bob wig','','A short wig with bobs or short curls; -- called also bobtail\n   wig.'),('Bocal','n.','A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.'),('Bocardo','n.','A form of syllogism of which the first and third\n   propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal\n   affirmative.'),('Bocardo','n.','A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in\n   Oxford, which was used as a prison.'),('Bocasine','n.','A sort of fine buckram.'),('Bocca','n.','The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through\n   which the fused glass is taken out.'),('Boce','n.','A European fish (Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and\n   bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue.'),('Bock beer','','A strong beer, originally made in Bavaria.'),('Bockelet','n.','A kind of long-winged hawk; -- called also bockerel, and\n   bockeret.'),('Bockey','n.','A bowl or vessel made from a gourd.'),('Bocking','n.','A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover\n   carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where\n   it was first made.'),('Bockland','n.','See Bookland.'),('Boddice','n.','See Bodick.'),('Boded','imp. & p. p.','of Bode'),('Boding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bode'),('Bode','v. t.','To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of;\n   to portend to presage; to foreshow.'),('Bode','v. i.','To foreshow something; to augur.'),('Bode','n.','An omen; a foreshadowing.'),('Bode','n.','A bid; an offer.'),('Bode','v. t.','A messenger; a herald.'),('Bode','n.','A stop; a halting; delay.'),('Bode','imp. & p. p.','Abode.'),('Bode','p. p.','Bid or bidden.'),('Bodeful','a.','Portentous; ominous.'),('Bodement','n.','An omen; a prognostic.'),('Bodge','n.','A botch; a patch.'),('Bodged','imp. & p. p.','of Bodge'),('Bodge','v. t.','To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch.'),('Bodge','v. i.','See Budge.'),('Bodian','n.','A large food fish (Diagramma lineatum), native of the East\n   Indies.'),('Bodice','n.','A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn\n   esp. by women; a corset; stays.'),('Bodice','n.','A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part\n   of a woman\'s dress, or a portion of it.'),('Bodiced','a.','Wearing a bodice.'),('Bodied','a.','Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied.'),('Bodiless','a.','Having no body.'),('Bodiless','a.','Without material form; incorporeal.'),('Bodiliness','n.','Corporeality.'),('Bodily','a.','Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal;\n   consisting of matter.'),('Bodily','a.','Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind.'),('Bodily','a.','Real; actual; put in execution.'),('Bodily','adv.','Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or\n   matter; in the body.'),('Bodily','adv.','In respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or\n   mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as, to carry away bodily.\n   \"Leapt bodily below.\"'),('Boding','a.','Foreshowing; presaging; ominous.'),('Boding','n.','A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.'),('Bodkin','n.','A dagger.'),('Bodkin','n.','An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp\n   point, for making holes by piercing; a /tiletto; an eyeleteer.'),('Bodkin','n.','A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking /ut letters\n   from a column or page in making corrections.'),('Bodkin','n.','A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for\n   drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle.'),('Bodkin','n.','A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair.'),('Bodkin','n.','See Baudekin.'),('Bodle','n.','A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English\n   penny.'),('Bodleian','a.','Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the\n   celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.'),('Bodock','n.','The Osage orange.'),('Bodrage','n.','A raid.'),('Bodies','pl. ','of Body'),('Body','n.','The material organized substance of an animal, whether living\n   or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the\n   physical person.'),('Body','n.','The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as\n   distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal\n   part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.'),('Body','n.','The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as\n   opposed to the shadow.'),('Body','n.','A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as,\n   anybody, nobody.'),('Body','n.','A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as\n   united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a\n   collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a\n   clerical body.'),('Body','n.','A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a\n   general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of\n   divinity.'),('Body','n.','Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from\n   others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aeriform body.'),('Body','n.','Amount; quantity; extent.'),('Body','n.','That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished\n   from the parts covering the limbs.'),('Body','n.','The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is\n   placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.'),('Body','n.','The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the\n   size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.'),('Body','n.','A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid\n   figure.'),('Body','n.','Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color\n   has body; wine of a good body.'),('Bodied','imp. & p. p.','of Body'),('Bodying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Body'),('Body','v. t.','To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in\n   definite shape; to embody.'),('Bodyguard','n.','A guard to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.'),('Bodyguard','n.','Retinue; attendance; following.'),('Boeotian','a.','Of or pertaining to Boeotia; hence, stupid; dull; obtuse.'),('Boeotian','n.','A native of Boeotia; also, one who is dull and ignorant.'),('Boer','n.','A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.'),('Boes','3d sing. pr.','Behoves or behooves.'),('Bog','n.','A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable\n   matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a\n   morass.'),('Bog','n.','A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in\n   a marsh or swamp.'),('Bogged','imp. & p. p.','of Bog'),('Bogging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bog'),('Bog','v. t.','To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to\n   sink and stick, as in mud and mire.'),('Bogberry','n.','The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in\n   boggy places.'),('Bogey','n.','A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.'),('Boggard','n.','A bogey.'),('Boggled','imp. & p. p.','of Boggle'),('Boggling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Boggle'),('Boggle','n.','To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt,\n   or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit\n   hesitancy and indecision.'),('Boggle','n.','To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.'),('Boggle','n.','To play fast and loose; to dissemble.'),('Boggle','v. t.','To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or\n   botch of.'),('Boggler','n.','One who boggles.'),('Bogglish','a.','Doubtful; skittish.'),('Boggy','a.','Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature\n   of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.'),('Bogie','n.','A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around\n   a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway\n   track.'),('Bogle','n.','A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.'),('Bogsucker','n.','The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding\n   among the bogs.'),('Bogtrotter','n.','One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in\n   derision to the lowest class of Irish.'),('Bogtrotting','a.','Living among bogs.'),('Bogue','v. i.','To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; --\n   said only of inferior craft.'),('Bogue','n.','The boce; -- called also bogue bream. See Boce.'),('Bogus','a.','Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally\n   applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.'),('Bogus','n.','A liquor made of rum and molasses.'),('Bogwood','n.','The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It\n   is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making\n   ornaments.'),('Bogies','pl. ','of Bogy'),('Bogy','n.','A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear.'),('Bohea','n.','Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea.'),('Bohemia','n.','A country of central Europe.'),('Bohemia','n.','Fig.: The region or community of social Bohemians. See\n   Bohemian, n., 3.'),('Bohemian','a.','Of or pertaining to Bohemia, or to the language of its\n   ancient inhabitants or their descendants. See Bohemian, n., 2.'),('Bohemian','n.','Of or pertaining to a social gypsy or \"Bohemian\" (see\n   Bohemian, n., 3); vagabond; unconventional; free and easy.'),('Bohemian','n.','A native of Bohemia.'),('Bohemian','n.','The language of the Czechs (the ancient inhabitants of\n   Bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the Slavic\n   family.'),('Bohemian','n.','A restless vagabond; -- originally, an idle stroller or\n   gypsy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times\n   often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular,\n   unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals.'),('Bohemianism','n.','The characteristic conduct or methods of a Bohemian.'),('Bohun upas','','See Upas.'),('Boiar','n.','See Boyar.'),('Boiled','imp. & p. p.','of Boil'),('Boiling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Boil'),('Boil','v.','To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the\n   generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents\n   produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of\n   ebullition; as, the water boils.'),('Boil','v.','To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than\n   heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.'),('Boil','v.','To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when\n   heated; as, the water boils away.'),('Boil','v.','To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as,\n   his blood boils with anger.'),('Boil','v.','To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are\n   boiling.'),('Boil','v. t.','To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause\n   ebullition; as, to boil water.'),('Boil','v. t.','To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to\n   boil sugar or salt.'),('Boil','v. t.','To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as\n   to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to\n   boil meat; to boil clothes.'),('Boil','v. t.','To steep or soak in warm water.'),('Boil','n.','Act or state of boiling.'),('Boil','n.','A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration,\n   discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of\n   dead tissue, called the core.'),('Boilary','n.','See Boilery.'),('Boiled','a.','Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a\n   boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.'),('Boiler','n.','One who boils.'),('Boiler','n.','A vessel in which any thing is boiled.'),('Boiler','n.','A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates\n   riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which\n   steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or\n   other purposes.'),('Boilery','n.','A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating\n   brine in salt making.'),('Boiling','a.','Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in\n   tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling\n   with heat, ardor, or passion.'),('Boiling','n.','The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.'),('Boiling','n.','Exposure to the action of a hot liquid.'),('Boilingly','adv.','With boiling or ebullition.'),('Bois d\'arc','','The Osage orange (Maclura aurantiaca).'),('Bois durci','','A hard, highly polishable composition, made of fine\n   sawdust from hard wood (as rosewood) mixed with blood, and pressed.'),('Boist','n.','A box.'),('Boisterous','a.','Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful.'),('Boisterous','a.','Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with\n   noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy.'),('Boisterous','a.','Noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth;\n   boisterous behavior.'),('Boisterous','a.','Vehement; excessive.'),('Boisterously','adv.','In a boisterous manner.'),('Boisterousness','n.','The state or quality of being boisterous;\n   turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.'),('Boistous','a.','Rough or rude; coarse; strong; violent; boisterous;\n   noisy.'),('Bojanus organ','','A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part\n   as a kidney.'),('Bokadam','n.','See Cerberus.'),('Boke','v. t. & i.','To poke; to thrust.'),('Bolar','a.','Of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature\n   and qualities of bole; clayey.'),('Bolas','n. sing. & pl.','A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two,\n   or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends\n   of a leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America, and others,\n   for hurling at and entangling an animal.'),('Bold','n.','Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or\n   shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.'),('Bold','n.','Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger;\n   planned with courage; daring; vigorous.'),('Bold','n.','In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over\n   assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude;\n   impudent.'),('Bold','n.','Somewhat overstepping usual bounds, or conventional rules, as\n   in art, literature, etc.; taking liberties in composition or\n   expression; as, the figures of an author are bold.'),('Bold','n.','Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous;\n   striking the eye; in high relief.'),('Bold','n.','Steep; abrupt; prominent.'),('Bold eagle','','an Australian eagle (Aquila audax), which destroys lambs\n   and even the kangaroo.'),('Bold','v. t.','To make bold or daring.'),('Bold','v. i.','To be or become bold.'),('Boldened','imp. & p. p.','of Bolden'),