(a.) Belonging to a burgh.

(n.) A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.

(n.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.

(n.) One guilty of the crime of burglary.

(n.) The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep (Ovis burrhel).

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burke

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burl

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burn

(a.) That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.

(a.) Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal.

(n.) The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated.

(a.) To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper.

(v. i.) To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large.

(n.) The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster.

(n.) A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.

(n.) A combination cloak and hood worn by women.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burr

(n.) A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed.

(n.) The treasury of a college or monastery.

(n.) A scholarship or charitable foundation in a university, as in Scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies.

(n.) One that bursts.

(n. & v. t.) See Burden.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bury

(pl. ) of Busby

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bush

(n.) See Bushman.

(n.) The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc.

(n.) A bush or lining; -- sometimes called a thimble. See 4th Bush.

(pl. ) of Bushman

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buss

(n.) A bird of the genus Otis.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bustle

(n.) An active, stirring person.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Busy

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of But

(n.) A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.

(n.) The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butt

(a.) Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.

(n.) An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.

(n.) A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.

(n.) A cellar in which butts of wine are kept.

(n.) An abuttal; a boundary.

(n.) The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump.

(n.) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.

(n.) A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery.

(a.) Ornamented with a large number of buttons.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, butter.

(n.) A butyrate of glycerin; a fat contained in small quantity in milk, which helps to give to butter its peculiar flavor.

(a.) Belonging to the box tree.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buzz

() A circular saw; -- so called from the buzzing it makes when running at full speed.

(a.) superl. of Big.

(v. t.) A building.

(n.) The state or quality of being big; largeness; size; bulk.

(a.) Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion practice, or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others.

(n.) The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.

(n.) The practice or tenets of a bigot.

(pl. ) of Bilbo

(n.) The European water rail.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bilge

(a.) Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts.

(n.) Alt. of Bilimbing

(a.) Of or pertaining to the bile.

(a.) Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms.

(a.) Choleric; passionate; ill tempered.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bilk

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bill

(n.) A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.

(n.) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.

(v. t.) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.

(v. i.) To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.

(v. i.) To partake of a dessert after a feast.

(n.) Alt. of Banshie

(n.) A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.

(n.) The wild ox of Java (Bibos Banteng).

(n. / v. t. & i.) Same as Bilge.

(n.) An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish.

(n.) A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio.

(v. i.) The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.

(v. t.) To administer the sacrament of baptism to.

(v. t.) To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name.

(v. t.) To sanctify; to consecrate.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bar

(a. & n.) Caressing; kissing.

(n.) According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration.

(pl. ) of Billman

(n.) One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax.

(a.) Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.

(a.) Bilobate.

(n.) See Sweet gum.

(n.) Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Barb

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bin

() of Bind

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bind

(n.) A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.

(a.) That binds; obligatory.

(a.) Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.

(n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.

(n.) Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.

(pl.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.

(n.) A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double-barreled field glass or an opera glass.

(n.) A very minute barb or beard.

(n.) One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.

(a.) Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards.

(n.) The system of bards; the learning and maxims of bards.

(n.) A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- opposed to abiogenesis.

(n.) Life development generally.

(n.) The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.

(n.) Physiology.

(n.) A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.

(n.) The classification of living organisms according to their structural character; taxonomy.

(n.) Mica containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See Mica.

(n.) Same as Calico bass.

(n.) An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.

(n.) An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.

(n.) A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.

(n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap.

(n.) To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.

(v. t.) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.

(n.) A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.

(n.) The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes.

(n.) Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp.

(n.) Having two feet; biped.

(n.) Pertaining to a biped.

(a.) Doubly polar; having two poles; as, a bipolar cell or corpuscle.

(n.) A tanhouse.

(n.) A girl or woman who attends the customers of a bar, as in a tavern or beershop.

(imp. & p. p.) of Birch

(a.) Of or relating to birch.

(n.) Birdcatching or fowling.

(n.) A little bird; a nestling.

(n.) A fowler or birdcatcher.

(n.) Same as Berretta.

(n.) A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners.

(a.) See Baroque.

(n.) A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Birr

(n.) A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.

(n.) A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.

(n.) A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings.

(n.) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.

(v. t.) To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops.

(v. i.) To live or lodge in barracks.

(n.) An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.

(n.) A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.

(n.) Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.

(n.) A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.

(n.) A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.

(n.) A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach.

(n.) A fence or railing to mark the limits of a place, or to keep back a crowd.

(n.) An any obstruction; anything which hinders approach or attack.

(n.) Any limit or boundary; a line of separation.

(n.) Bismuth trioxide, or bismuth ocher.

(n.) One of the elements; a metal of a reddish white color, crystallizing in rhombohedrons. It is somewhat harder than lead, and rather brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. It melts at 507¡ Fahr., being easily fused in the flame of a candle. It is found in a native state, and as a constituent of some minerals. Specific gravity 9.8. Atomic weight 207.5. Symbol Bi.

(n.) A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.

(a.) Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field.

(adv.) Horizontally.

(n.) A red wood of a leguminous tree (Baphia nitida), from Angola and the Gaboon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.

(n.) Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite. See Barite.

(a.) Of or pertaining to baryta.

(n.) An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bit

(n.) In mechanics an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls.

(a.) Not having a bit or bridle.

(n.) A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species.

(a.) The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.

(a.) A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer.

(n. pl.) A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.

(n.) A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance.

(a.) Smeared with bitumen.

(n.) Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt.

(n.) By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.

(n.) A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.

(n.) A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.

(a.) Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels.

(n.) See Bascinet.

(a.) Abashed; daunted; dismayed.

(a.) Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression.

(n.) See Basyle.

(a.) Having, or leading, two ways.

(n.) The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.

(n.) An encampment for the night without tents or covering.

(v. i.) To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army.

(v. i.) To encamp for the night without tents or covering.

(a.) Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blab

(n.) A tattler; a telltale.

(n.) Alt. of Basilary

(n.) Basilica.

(a.) Alt. of Basilical

(a.) Inclosed in a basin.

(n.) Same as Bascinet.

(imp. & p. p.) of Black

(v. t.) To make or render black.

(v. t.) To make dark; to darken; to cloud.

(v. t.) To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.

(v. i.) To grow black or dark.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bask

(adv.) In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously.

(n.) A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.

(n.) A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.

(n.) Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.

(n.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp.

(n.) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.

(v. t.) To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.

(v. t.) To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Baste

(n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bat

(a.) Disputable.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blame

(adv.) In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blank

(a.) A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.

(a.) A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.

(a.) A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

(v. t.) To cover with a blanket.

(v. t.) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.

(v. t.) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.

(adv.) In a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; as, to stare blankly.

(adv.) Directly; flatly; point blank.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blare

(n.) Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery.

(v. t.) To influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney.

(pl. ) of Bateau

(a.) Exciting contention; contentious.

(n.) A name given to several species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.)

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bathe

(imp. & p. p.) of Blast

(a.) Blighted; withered.

(a.) Confounded; accursed; detestable.

(a.) Rent open by an explosive.

(n.) One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.

(a.) Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.

(n.) Act of taking a bath or baths.

(n.) Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.

(pl. ) of Batsman

(n.) The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.

(a.) Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner.

(v. i.) To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter.

(n.) The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blaze

(a.) Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.

(n.) A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge.

(n.) The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball.

(n.) Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting.

(imp. & p. p.) of Battle

(p. p.) Embattled.

(n.) An elevated river bed or sea bed.

(n.) The measuring of time by beating.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blear

(a.) Dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bleat

(n.) One who bleats; a sheep.

(n.) One who, or that which, draws blood.

(n.) One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.

(v. t.) To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.

(v. t.) To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame.

(n.) Any mark of deformity or injury, whether physical or moral; anything that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which is otherwise well formed; that which impairs reputation.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blend

(n.) One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bless

(a.) Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy.

(a.) Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored.

(a.) Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful.

(a.) Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven.

(a.) Beatified.

(a.) Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.

(n.) One who blesses; one who bestows or invokes a blessing.

(n.) A tin dinner pail.

(n.) Alt. of Beauxite

(n.) A kind of cloak or surtout.

(n.) A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment.

(adv.) Obscenely; lewdly.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bawl

(imp. & p. p.) of Blind

(n.) One who, or that which, blinds.

(n.) A bolt with a barbed shank.

(n.) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.

(n.) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.

(v. t.) To stab with a bayonet.

(v. t.) To compel or drive by the bayonet.

(n.) One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker.

(adv.) Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blink

(n.) One who, or that which, blinks.

(n.) A blinder for horses; a flap of leather on a horse's bridle to prevent him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs sight or discernment.

(pl.) A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc.

(pl. ) of Bliss

(v. i.) To be lustful; to be lascivious.

(a.) Lascivious; also, in heat; -- said of ewes.

(n.) A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle.

(pl. ) of Beach

(imp. & p. p.) of Beach

(p. p. & a.) Bordered by a beach.

(p. p. & a.) Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bead

(n.) Molding in imitation of beads.

(n.) The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.

(n.) Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.

(n.) A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister.

(v. i.) To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on.

(v. t.) To raise a blister or blisters upon.

(v. t.) To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bloat

(p. a.) Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.

(n.) The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.

(n.) A bubble; blubber.

(n.) The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry.

(p. pr & vb. n.) of Beal

(imp. & p. p.) of Block

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beam

(a.) Beamy; radiant.

(adv.) In a beaming manner.

(a.) Emitting beams; radiant.

(n.) A small beam of light.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bear

(imp. & p. p.) of Blood

(a.) Having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of approved breed; of the best stock.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bloom

(imp. & p. p.) of Beard

(a.) Having a beard.

(n.) The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe.

(n.) The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.

(n.) Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.

(n.) The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection.

(n.) Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.

(n.) The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.

(n.) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.

(n.) The portion of a support on which anything rests.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blot

(a.) Having blotches.

(n.) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.

(n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.

(n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.

(n.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.

(n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W.

(n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.

(n.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.

(a.) Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners.

(a.) Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.

(a.) Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy.

(a.) Abominable; as, beastly weather.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beat

(n.) One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.

(n.) A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blow

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blow

(n.) A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet.

(n.) A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan.

(a.) Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered.

(n.) A bubble.

(n.) The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.

(n.) A large sea nettle or medusa.

(v. i.) To weep noisily, or so as to disfigure the face; to cry in a childish manner.

(v. t.) To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.

(v. t.) To give vent to (tears) or utter (broken words or cries); -- with forth or out.

(n.) A species of whitefish (Coregonus nigripinnis) found in Lake Michigan.

(v. t.) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.

(v. t.) To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.

(v. t.) To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of "the blessed" and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized.

(n.) The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.

(n.) Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.

(n.) Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n.

(n.) The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.

(n.) A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet.

(n.) See Biffin.

(n.) Like a beau; characteristic of a beau; foppish; fine.

(v. t.) To make bloody; to stain with blood.

(v. t.) Alt. of Bebloody

(conj.) By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that.

(conj.) In order that; that.

(v. t.) To charm; to captivate.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beck

(v. t.) To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud.

(a.) Proper; decorous.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bed

(imp. & p. p.) of Bluff

(n.) One who bluffs.

(v. i.) To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.

(v. i.) To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble.

(v. t.) To cause to blunder.

(v. t.) To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.

(n.) Confusion; disturbance.

(n.) A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.

(n.) A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi/ing the clay in potteries; a plunger.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blunt

(imp. & p. p.) of Babble

(n.) An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets.

(n.) A hound too noisy on finding a good scent.

(n.) A name given to any one of family (Timalinae) of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note.

(n.) A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed.

(n.) A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.

(n.) The state or position of beds and layers.

(n.) A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosae). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.

(v. t.) To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.

(v. t.) To spoil; to corrupt.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bedew

(n.) One who, or that which, bedews.

(n.) A nightgown.

(p. p.) of Bedight

(v. t.) To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn.

(v. t.) To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste.

(n.) One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead.

(n.) Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff.

(n.) A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.

(n.) Room in a bed.

(n.) The side of a bed.

(n.) A recess in a room for a bed.

(n.) A sore on the back or hips caused by lying for a long time in bed.

(n.) A tick or bag made of cloth, used for inclosing the materials of a bed.

(n.) The time to go to bed.

(adv.) In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blur

(imp. & p. p.) of Blurt

(imp. & p. p.) of Blush

(n.) One that blushes.

(n.) A modest girl.

(v. i.) To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.

(v. i.) To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage.

(adv.) Towards bed.

(v. t.) To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf.

(pl. ) of Beech

(a.) Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech.

(v. t.) To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.

(n.) Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.

(n.) Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.

(imp. & p. p.) of Board

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Baby

(a.) Like a baby; childish; puerile; simple.

(n.) The state of being a baby.

(n.) A babyish manner of acting or speaking.

(n.) Alt. of Baccarat

(interj.) Alt. of Backare

(interj.) Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess.

(a.) Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits.

(imp. & p. p.) of Beetle

(n.) One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.

(n.) One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship.

(a.) Swinish; brutal; cruel.

(imp. & p. p.) of Boast

(n.) One who boasts; a braggart.

(n.) A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boat

(n.) Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance.

(pl. ) of Bacchius

(pl. ) of Bacillus

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Back

(interj.) Same as Baccare.

(v. t.) To furnish or deck with a frill.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beg

(n.) The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.

(n.) Beggarly appearance.

(a.) Beggarly.

(n.) One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins.

() of Begnaw

(n.) A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.

(v. t.) To bury; also, to engrave.

(v. t.) To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.

(v. t.) To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.

(v. t.) To elude, or evade by craft; to foil.

(v. t.) To cause the time of to pass without notice; to relieve the tedium or weariness of; to while away; to divert.

(imp. & p. p.) of Behave

(n.) The quantity or amount that fills a boat.

(n.) The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.

(n.) In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

(n.) A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation.

(pl. ) of Boatman

(n.) A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.

(n.) A boat bug. See Boat bug.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bob

(n.) A boasting.

(n.) A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery.

(n.) The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward.

(n.) That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually giving strength or stability.

(n.) Support or aid given to a person or cause.

(n.) The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover.

(n.) A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.

(imp.) of Behight

(p. p.) of Behight

(v.) To promise; to vow.

(v.) To give in trust; to commit; to intrust.

(v.) To adjudge; to assign by authority.

(v.) To mean, or intend.

(v.) To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.

(v.) To call; to name; to address.

(v.) To command; to order.

(n.) A vow; a promise.

(v. t.) To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.

(v. i.) To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due.

(n.) Advantage; behoof.

(v. t.) To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle.

(v. t.) To call knave.

(v. t.) To ply diligently; to work carefully upon.

(v. t.) To beat soundly; to cudgel.

(imp. & p. p.) of Belace

(imp. & p. p.) of Belate

(a.) Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted.

() of Belay

(imp. & p. p.) of Belch

(n.) Grandmother; -- corresponding to belsire.

(n.) An old woman in general; especially, an ugly old woman; a hag.

(v. t. & i.) To leave or to be left.

(v. t.) To infect with leprosy.

(n.) A sweet or loving look.

(v. t.) To libel or traduce; to calumniate.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Belie

(a.) Hearty; in good spirits.

(n.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.

(n.) A form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative.

(n.) A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison.

(n.) A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.

(a.) Portentous; ominous.

(v. t.) To illuminate.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bell

(a.) Wearing a bodice.

(n.) A raid.

(a.) Somewhat bad; inferior.

(n.) A fresh-water sponge (Spongilla), common in the north of Europe, the powder of which is used to take away the livid marks of bruises.

(a.) Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.

(n.) A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time.

(n.) A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours.

(pl. ) of Belly

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Body

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bog

(n.) A bogey.

(imp. & p. p.) of Boggle

(n.) One who boggles.

(n.) The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.

(n.) The state of being bad.

(imp. & p. p.) of Baffle

(n.) One who, or that which, baffles.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bag

(n.) Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. It is then dried and used as fuel. Also extended to the refuse of beetroot sugar.

(n.) The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.

(n.) The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage.

(n.) Purulent matter.

(n.) Trashy talk.

(n.) A man of bad character.

(n.) A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.

(n.) A romping, saucy girl.

(imp. & p. p.) of Belly

(imp. & p. p.) of Belove

(p. p. & a.) Greatly loved; dear to the heart.

(n.) One greatly loved.

(n.) A grandfather, or ancestor.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boil

(n.) A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.

(a.) Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion.

(n.) The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.

(n.) Exposure to the action of a hot liquid.

(n.) A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian Ocean.

(adv.) In a loose, baggy way.

(n.) Cloth or other material for bags.

(n.) The act of putting anything into, or as into, a bag.

(n.) The act of swelling; swelling.

(n.) Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke.

(n.) A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.

(v. t.) To make to look like a bagpipe.

(n.) One of several lepidopterous insects which construct, in the larval state, a baglike case which they carry about for protection. One species (Platoeceticus Gloveri) feeds on the orange tree. See Basket worm.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bail

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Belt

(n.) The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bemire

(n.) See Cerberus.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the Boletus.

(n.) Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted.

(n.) A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.

(n.) An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc.

(v. t.) To mourn over.

(p. p.) of Bename

() of Bename

(pl. ) of Bench

(imp. & p. p.) of Bench

(n.) One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.

(n.) An alderman of a corporation.

(n.) A member of a court or council.

(n.) One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bend

(n.) An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes.

(n.) A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows.

(n.) A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.

(n.) Anything arranged to act as a support, as in various forms of mechanism, etc.

(n.) A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle.

(n.) A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing.

(n.) Anything used to prevent chafing.

(n.) A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment.

(n.) A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests.

(n.) The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.

(n.) the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.

(n.) That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle.

(n.) The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.

(n.) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.

(n.) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.

(v. t.) To support with a bolster or pillow.

(v. t.) To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort; -- often with up.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bait

(n.) A small copper coin formerly current in the Roman States, worth about a cent and a half.

(n.) The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.

(n.) A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.

(prep.) Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of.

(prep.) Under, in relation to something that is superior, or that oppresses or burdens.

(prep.) Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming.

(adv.) In a lower place; underneath.

(adv.) Below, as opposed to heaven, or to any superior region or position; as, in earth beneath.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bolt

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bolt

(n.) A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.

(n.) A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.

(a.) Favorable; beneficent.

(n.) An act of kindness; a favor conferred.

(n.) Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit.

(n.) A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.

(n.) Beneficence; liberality.

(n.) Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.

(v. t.) To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.

(v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.

(n.) A darting away; a starting off or aside.

(n.) A sifting, as of flour or meal.

(n.) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.

(pl. ) of Bolus

(n.) Cotton; padding.

(n.) A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.

(n.) A bombardment.

(n.) A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer.

(n.) Padded breeches.

(n.) See Bombardo.

(v. t.) To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially, to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.

(n.) Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.

(n.) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.

(n.) Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.

(a.) High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.

(v. t.) To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

(n.) A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat.

(n.) A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt.

(a.) Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.

(a.) Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad.

(p. p.) Promised; vowed.

(p. p.) Named; styled.

(v. t.) To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.

(v. t.) To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.

(v. t.) To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.

(n.) Blessing; beatitude; benediction.

(n.) See Banshee.

(a.) Relating to the deepest zone or region of the ocean.

(n.) A volatile, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from which it is separated by fractional distillation. The name is sometimes applied also to the impure commercial product or benzole, and also, but rarely, to a similar mixed product of petroleum.

(n.) A liquid consisting mainly of the lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil, used as a solvent and for cleansing soiled fabrics; -- called also petroleum spirit, petroleum benzine. Varieties or similar products are gasoline, naphtha, rhigolene, ligroin, etc.

(n.) Same as Benzene.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin.

(n.) A resinous substance, dry and brittle, obtained from the Styrax benzoin, a tree of Sumatra, Java, etc., having a fragrant odor, and slightly aromatic taste. It is used in the preparation of benzoic acid, in medicine, and as a perfume.

(n.) A white crystalline substance, C14H12O2, obtained from benzoic aldehyde and some other sources.

(n.) The spicebush (Lindera benzoin).

(n.) Alt. of Benzol

(n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CO; the base of benzoic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds.

(v. t.) To pinch, or mark with pinches.

(v. t.) To reduce to prose.

(n.) The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B.

(n.) That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift.

(v. t.) To bequeath, or leave as a legacy.

(v. t.) To quote constantly or with great frequency.

(imp. & p. p.) of Berate

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Balk

(a.) Uneven; ridgy.

(n.) A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.

(a.) Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.

(a.) Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.

(a.) Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.

(a.) The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete.

(a.) Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.

(v. t.) To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.

(v. t.) To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.

(v. t.) To keep steady; to steady, morally.

(n.) See Bailey.

(n.) A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.

(n.) A kind of neckcloth.

(v. t.) To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.

(v. t.) To take away from.

(v. t.) To take away.

(n.) The Norway haddock. See Rosefish.

(v. t.) To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about.

(n.) In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income.

(n.) Alt. of Bonassus

(n.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.

(n.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.

(n.) A bomb or shell.

(n.) A game played with a large inflated ball.

(n.) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.

(v. t.) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.

(v. i.) To go up or voyage in a balloon.

(v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.

(adv.) In a balmy manner.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a bath.

(a.) Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate; as, a berried shrub.

(pl. ) of Berry

(imp. & p. p.) of Berry

(n.) Alt. of Berserker

(n.) A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow.

(n.) An illegitimate child; a bastard.

(n.) A private lane, or one opening out of the usual road.

(n.) A nickname.

(n.) A by-passage, for a pipe, or other channel, to divert circulation from the usual course.

(a.) Past; gone by.

(n.) A private room or apartment.

(a.) Made of silk; having a silky or flaxlike appearance.

(a.) Byssaceous.

(n.) A private or selfish view; self-interested aim or purpose.

(n.) A secluded or private walk.

(n.) The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water.

(n.) A secret or side stroke, as of raillery or sarcasm.

(imp. & p. p.) of Berth

(n.) A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.

(n.) Babe Ruth.

(n.) Alt. of Besayle

(n.) Alt. of Besayle

(n.) A great-grandfather.

(n.) A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished.

(v. t.) To make a saint of.

(v. t.) To treat with scorn.

(v. t.) To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.

(n.) Solicitation; supplication.

(v. t.) To shine upon; to illumine.

(v. t.) To curse; to execrate.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bond

(a.) The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.

(a.) Obligation; tie of duty.

(a.) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.

(pl. ) of Bondman

(n.) A man slave, or one bound to service without wages.

(n.) A villain, or tenant in villenage.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Band

(n.) A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.

(n.) Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature.

(v. t.) To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes.

(n.) A fabric made in Manilla from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis).

(adv.) Alt. of Beside

(prep.) Over and above; separate or distinct from; in addition to; other than; else than. See Beside, prep., 3, and Syn. under Beside.

(v. t.) To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.

(v. t.) To enslave.

(v. t.) To daub with slime; to soil.

(v. t.) To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil.

(v. t.) To foul with smoke.

(v. t.) To harden or dry in smoke.

(v. t.) To befoul with snuff.

(n.) A worthless fellow; a bezonian.

(n.) One who uses a besom.

(n.) The spiny dogfish.

(n.) A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.

(n.) See Bonito.

(n.) A large fire built in the open air, as an expression of public joy and exultation, or for amusement.

(n.) A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.

(n.) A narrow band or fillet; a part of a head-dress.

(n.) A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring.

(n.) A little banner, flag, or streamer.

(n.) Same as Bandelet.

(n.) A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore.

(n.) Same as Banderole.

(pl. ) of Bandy

(imp. & p. p.) of Bandy

(v. t.) To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle.

(imp.) of Bespeak

() of Bespeak

(p. p.) of Bespeak

(v. t.) To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.

(v. t.) To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate.

(v. t.) To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances.

(v. t.) To speak to; to address.

(v. i.) To speak.

(n.) A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.)

(v. t.) To season with spice, or with some spicy drug.

() imp. & p. p. of Bespeak.

(v. t.) To spurt on or over; to asperse.

(v. t.) To stain.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bestead

(v. t.) To put in a certain situation or condition; to circumstance; to place.

(v. t.) To put in peril; to beset.

(v. t.) To serve; to assist; to profit; to avail.

(a.) Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.

(a.) Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual.

(n.) A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bestick

(v. t.) To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce.

(v. t.) To make still.

(v. i. & t.) To storm.

(v. t.) To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle.

() of Bestride

() of Bestride

(adv.) Gayly; handsomely.

(pl. ) of Bonus

(pl. ) of Booby

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Book

(n.) As much as will fill a book; a book full.

(a.) Filled with book learning.

(a.) Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.

(a.) Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences.

(n.) A little book.

(pl. ) of Bookman

(pl. ) of Booly

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boom

(n.) A small African hyracoid mammal (Dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman.

(a.) Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.

(a.) Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity.

(n.) The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep, hollow sound; as, the booming of bitterns.

(n.) Same as Bumkin.

(a.) Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Boost

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boot

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boot

(n.) Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.

(n.) A kind of torture. See Boot, n., 2.

(n.) A kicking, as with a booted foot.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Booze

(a.) Capable of being bored.

(a.) Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron; boric; as, boracic acid.

(n.) The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

(n.) A bordar; a tenant in bordage.

(n.) Alt. of Bordraging

(n.) A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.

(n.) The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.

(n.) The realm of bores; bores, collectively.

(n.) A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, and camphol.

(n.) A valuable ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur; -- also called purple copper ore (or erubescite), in allusion to the colors shown upon the slightly tarnished surface.

(n.) In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

(n.) The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.

(n.) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.

(n.) The pledge or surety thus given.

(a.) Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bang

(a.) Huge; great in size.

() imp. & p. p. Bestick.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bet

(n.) A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beet-root molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.

(p. p.) of Betake

(n.) An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc.

(v. t.) To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronoun, often with of or that before the subject of thought.

(v. i.) To think; to recollect; to consider.

(v. t.) To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books.

(v. t.) To beat or thump soundly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Betide

(adv.) In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early.

(adv.) In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with.

(v. t.) To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle.

(v. t.) To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.

(v. t.) To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm.

(v. t.) To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.

(v. t.) To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.

(v. t.) To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration.

(v. t.) To trust or intrust.

(n.) A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.

(n.) A substance of a resinous nature, obtained from the outer bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor.

(v. t.) To tutor; to instruct.

(prep.) In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.

(n.) An old French dance tune in common time.

(n.) An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.

(n.) A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.

(n.) Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.

(n.) A kind of antelope. See Bush buck.

(n.) Same as Boscage.

(n.) A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bosom

(a.) Capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; easily influenced; yielding.

(a.) Bent, like a bow.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bowel

(a.) Having bowels; hollow.

(prep.) Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two.

(prep.) Belonging in common to two; shared by both.

(prep.) Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion.

(prep.) With relation to two, as involved in an act or attribute of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge between or to choose between courses; to distinguish between you and me; to mediate between nations.

(prep.) In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock.

(n.) Intermediate time or space; interval.

(prep.) In the space which separates; between.

(prep.) From one to another of; mutually affecting.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bevel

(a.) Alt. of Bevelled

(n.) The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balaena mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.

(n.) A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bowl

(n.) Alt. of Boulder

(v. t.) To corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of.

(v. t.) To pronounce or characterize as a whore.

(v. t.) To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.

(v. t.) To charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance; to enchant.

(v. t.) To wreck.

(n.) A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bezzle

(n.) An Indian monkey (Macacus Rhesus), protected by the Hindoos as sacred. See Rhesus.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bias

(a.) Having two axes; as, biaxial polarization.

(a.) Having to hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by positive or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of acids. See Dibasic.

(n.) A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle.

(n.) A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled.

(n.) The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.

(n.) The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.

(v. t.) To drench; to soak; especially, to immerse (in water believed to have curative properties).

(n.) The trunkfish.

(n.) The wood of the box (Buxus).

(v. t.) To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.

(n.) The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion.

(n.) The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy.

(a.) Having, or resembling, bosom; kept in the bosom; hidden.

(n.) See Bosket.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boss

(n.) A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape.

(n.) Rustic work, consisting of stones which seem to advance beyond the level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings.

(n.) The rule or practices of bosses, esp. political bosses.

(a.) Alt. of Botanical

(a.) Pecked; pitted; notched.

(n.) An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.

(a.) Alt. of Bicolored

(n.) A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.

(pl. ) of Botch

(imp. & p. p.) of Botch

(n.) One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler.

(n.) A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.

(n.) A young salmon; a grilse.

(v. i.) To clamor; to contest noisily.

(n.) A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brace

(n. pl.) See Brachium.

(a.) Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind.

(n.) The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.

(n.) Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss.

(n.) A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bid

(n.) Command; order; a proclamation or notifying.

(n.) The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction.

(n.) A brake or fern.

(n.) An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.

(n.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.

(n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.

(n.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.

(n.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.

(n.) A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.

(v. t.) To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.

(n.) A bract.

(a.) Furnished with bracts.

(n.) Same as Bridoon.

(imp. & p. p.) of Brag

(a.) Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance.

(n.) A small boot; a lady's boot.

(n.) An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bottle

(a.) Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle.

(a.) Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant.

(n.) One who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc.

(n.) A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room.

(n.) Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made.

(n.) Alt. of Boultin

(n.) A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bounce

(n.) One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.

(n.) One who brags; a boaster.

(n.) A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc.

(imp. &. p. p.) of Braid

(n.) A boaster; a bully.

(n.) A bold lie; also, a liar.

(n.) Something big; a good stout example of the kind.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bound

(p. p & a.) Bound; fastened by bonds.

(p. p & a.) Under obligation; bound by some favor rendered; obliged; beholden.

(p. p & a.) Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding.

(n.) One who, or that which, limits; a boundary.

(imp. & p. p.) of Brain

(p.a.) Supplied with brains.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.

(n.) The brambling or bramble finch.

(a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles.

(n.) A nosegay; a bunch of flowers.

(n.) A perfume; an aroma; as, the bouquet of wine.

(n.) A jester.

(n.) A pilgrim's staff.

(n.) A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.)

(n.) A kind of organ stop.

(a.) Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches.

(imp. & p. p.) of Brand

(v. t. & i.) To shake; to totter.

(n.) A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute.

(v. i.) To wrangle; to dispute contentiously; to squabble.

(n.) A brawl or dance.

(n.) Alt. of Brazier

(n.) An artificer who works in brass.

(n.) Alt. of Brazier

(n.) A pan for holding burning coals.

(pl. ) of Brass

(n.) Bravado.

(n.) Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brave

(adv.) In a brave manner; courageously; gallantly; valiantly; splendidly; nobly.

(adv.) Finely; gaudily; gayly; showily.

(adv.) Well; thrivingly; prosperously.

(n.) The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity.

(n.) The act of braving; defiance; bravado.

(n.) Splendor; magnificence; showy appearance; ostentation; fine dress.

(n.) A showy person; a fine gentleman; a beau.

(n.) A bravado; a boast.

(pl. ) of Bravo

(n.) A florid, brilliant style of music, written for effect, to show the range and flexibility of a singer's voice, or the technical force and skill of a performer; virtuoso music.

(imp. & p. p.) of Brawl

(n.) One that brawls; wrangler.

(a.) Brawny; strong; muscular.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bray

(n.) A South African antelope (Alcelaphus albifrons), having a large white spot on the forehead.

(n.) Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvae (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other animal products.

(n.) The bluepoll.

(n.) The blue bonnet or blue titmouse.

(n.) A Scot; a Scotchman; -- so named from wearing a blue bonnet.

(n.) Alt. of Bobsleigh

(n.) An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail.

(a.) Bobtailed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bridge

(imp. & p. p.) of Bridle

(n.) One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle.

(n.) The snaffle and rein of a military bridle, which acts independently of the bit, at the pleasure of the rider. It is used in connection with a curb bit, which has its own rein.

(adv.) Concisely; in few words.

(a.) Set with briers.

(n.) A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general.

(n.) Any body of persons organized for acting or marching together under authority; as, a fire brigade.

(v. t.) To form into a brigade, or into brigades.

(n.) A light-armed, irregular foot soldier.

(n.) A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter.

(imp. & p. p.) of Brim

(a.) Full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow.

(a.) Having a brim; -- usually in composition.

(a.) Full to, or level with, the brim.

(n.) A brimful bowl; a bumper.

(a.) Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bring

(n.) One who brings.

(a.) Like brine; somewhat salt; saltish.

(imp. & p. p.) of Brisk

(n.) That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.

(adv.) In a brisk manner; nimbly.

(n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.

(n.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.

(v. t.) To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up.

(v. t.) To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.

(v. i.) To rise or stand erect, like bristles.

(v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.

(v. i.) To show defiance or indignation.

(a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.

(n.) Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.

(n.) A mark of cadency or difference.

(a.) Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.

(a.) To grow broad; to become broader or wider.

(v. t.) To make broad or broader; to render more broad or comprehensive.

(adv.) In a broad manner.

(n.) Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched.

(n.) See Brokkerage.

(n.) An elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics.

(n.) To sniggle, or fish with a brog.

(n. pl.) Breeches.

(v. t.) To embroider.

(imp. & p. p.) of Broil

(n.) One who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels.

(n.) One who broils, or cooks by broiling.

(n.) A gridiron or other utensil used in broiling.

(n.) A chicken or other bird fit for broiling.

(n.) See Brokerage.

(n.) The business of a broker.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage.

(n.) A salt of bromic acid.

(v. t.) To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor.

(n.) A compound of bromine with a positive radical.

(n.) One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite.

(n.) A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness.

(v. t.) To prepare or treat with bromine; as, to bromize a silvered plate.

(n. pl.) See Bronchus.

(pl. ) of Bronchus

(imp. & p. p.) of Bronze

(imp. & p. p.) of Brood

(imp. & p. p.) of Brook

(n.) A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Brown

(imp. & p. p.) of Browse

(n.) An animal that browses.

(n.) A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nux vomica. It is less powerful than strychnine. Called also brucia and brucina.

(n.) A white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like talc, and also fibrous; a native magnesium hydrate.

(n.) The mineral chondrodite.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bruise

(n.) One who, or that which, bruises.

(n.) A boxer; a pugilist.

(n.) A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bruit

(a.) Foggy; misty.

(n.) A nectarine.

(imp. & p. p.) of Brush

(n.) One who, or that which, brushes.

(a.) Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; bluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style.

(v. i.) To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment.

(v. i.) To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.

(n.) A bristle.

(adv.) In a rude or violent manner.

(v. t.) To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.

(n.) The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.

(n.) Browsing.

(n.) A bitter principle obtained from the root of the bryony (Bryonia alba and B. dioica). It is a white, or slightly colored, substance, and is emetic and cathartic.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bubble

(v. t.) To cheat; to deceive.

(n.) One who cheats.

(n.) A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.

(n.) A red pimple.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buck

(n.) Paste used by weavers to dress their webs.

(n.) The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.

(n.) A washing.

(n.) The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.

(a.) Dandified; foppish.

(imp. & p. p.) of Buckle

(n.) A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.

(n.) A plant. See Ramson.

(a.) Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit.

(a.) Stiff; precise.

(v. t.) To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.

(n.) A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Budge

(n.) A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew.

(a.) Characteristic of, or like, a buffoon.

(v. i.) To act the part of a buffoon.

(v. t.) To treat with buffoonery.

(n.) Alt. of Bugbear

(n.) Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc.

(n.) A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceae and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.

(n.) Same as Bugaboo.

(a.) Causing needless fright.

(v. t.) To alarm with idle phantoms.

(n.) The menhaden.

(n.) Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.

(pl. ) of Buggy

(n.) A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue.

(n.) Bugbane.

(imp. & p. p.) of Build

(n.) One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.

(n.) A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aerial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion.

(a.) Bulbous.

(n.) Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.

(n.) A small bulb; a bulblet.

(n.) A little bull.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bulge

(n.) Alt. of Bulimy

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bulk

(n.) A small European plum (Prunus communis, var. insitita). See Plum.

(n.) The bully tree.

(n.) A collection of papal bulls.

(n.) A place for boiling or preparing salt; a boilery.

(a.) Appearing as if blistered; inflated; puckered.

(a.) Partaking of the nature of a bull, or a blunder.

(pl. ) of Bully

(imp. & p. p.) of Bully

(n.) A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water.

(n.) A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.

(n.) That which secures against an enemy, or defends from attack; any means of defense or protection.

(n.) The sides of a ship above the upper deck.

(v. t.) To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect.

(n.) of Bum

() See Bombard.

(n.) A glass used in subliming camphor.

(n.) A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc., for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore.

(n.) A small marine Asiatic fish (Saurus ophidon) used in India as a relish; -- called also Bombay duck.

(n.) See Bottomery.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bump

(n.) An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bunch

(imp. & p. p.) of Bundle

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bung

(imp. & p. p.) of Bungle

(n.) A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bunk

(n.) A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buoy

(n.) Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.

(v. t. & i.) Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury.

(v. t. & i.) Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier.

(v. t. & i.) Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits.

(n.) A birdbolt.

(n.) A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.

(pl. ) of Bureau

(n.) An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.

(n.) A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft.

(n.) A small marine fish; -- also called cunner.

(v. i.) To bud. See Bourgeon.

(n.) A native or a Mexican horse of small size.

(n.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut.

(n.) A cant name for a native in Ohio.

(n.) A variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity, courage, and tenacity of grip; -- so named, probably, from being formerly employed in baiting bulls.

(n.) A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.

(a.) Characteristic of, or like, a bulldog; stubborn; as, bulldog courage; bulldog tenacity.

(pl. ) of Bureau

(a.) Making a harsh noise; blaring.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Braze

(n.) Same as Brasier.

(a.) Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.

(a.) Braided

(a.) Made of bread.

(a.) Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

(n.) One who, or that which, breaks.

(n.) Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.

(n.) A small water cask.

(n.) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bream

(v. i.) To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.

(v. i.) To take breath; to rest from action.

(v. i.) To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently.

(v. t.) To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire.

(v. t.) To inject by breathing; to infuse; -- with into.

(v. t.) To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper; as, to breathe a vow.

(v. t.) To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes.

(v. t.) To express; to manifest; to give forth.

(v. t.) To act upon by the breath; to cause to sound by breathing.

(v. t.) To promote free respiration in; to exercise.

(v. t.) To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse.

(v. t.) To put out of breath; to exhaust.

(v. t.) To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants.

(n.) A rock composed of angular fragments either of the same mineral or of different minerals, etc., united by a cement, and commonly presenting a variety of colors.

(n.) One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc.

(n.) A cause.

(n.) A size of type between bourgeois and minion.

(n.) Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life.

(n.) Contraction into few words; conciseness.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brew

(n.) Malt liquor; drink brewed.

(n.) A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.

(n.) The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale.

(n.) The quantity brewed at once.

(n.) A mixing together.

(n.) A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bribe

(n.) Robbery; extortion.

(n.) The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements.

(imp. & p. p.) of Brick

(a.) Brittle; easily broken.

(n.) A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.

(n.) A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth.

(n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.

(n.) Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water.

(v. i.) To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring.

(n.) The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails.

(pl. ) of Bandit

(a.) Destitute of a bow.

(v. t.) To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind).

(pl. ) of Bypath

(n.) The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed.

(n.) To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine.

(v. i.) To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith.

(v. i.) To think; to suppose.