(v. t.) To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell.

(v. t.) To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain.

(v. i.) To negotiate or treat about a purchase.

(v. & n.) See Buzz.

(n.) A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin.

(v. t.) To put into a bin; as, to bin wine.

() An old form of Be and Been.

() A prefix, originally the same word as by;

() To intensify the meaning; as, bespatter, bestir.

() To render an intransitive verb transitive; as, befall (to fall upon); bespeak (to speak for).

() To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around).

(n.) A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques).

(n.) A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor.

(n.) A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

(v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.

(v. t.) To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.

(v. t.) To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.

(v. t.) To take for granted; to assume without proof.

(v. t.) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.

(v. i.) To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.

(imp.) Bade.

(superl.) Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news.

(n.) A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.

(n.) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.

(v. t.) To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.

(interj.) An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt.

(n.) A thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, etc.; as in on or upon the bye, i. e., in passing; indirectly; by implication.

(n.) A run made upon a missed ball; as, to steal a bye.

(n.) A dwelling.

(n.) In certain games, a station or place of an individual player.

(n.) That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bet

(v. t.) To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager.

() imp. & p. p. of Beat.

(a. & adv.) An early form of Better.

(n.) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis.

() of Bid

(superl.) Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.

(superl.) Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively.

(superl.) Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.

(n.) Alt. of Bigg

(v. t.) Alt. of Bigg

(n.) Alt. of Bunn

() In most branches of science bi- in composition denotes two, twice, or doubly; as, bidentate, two-toothed; biternate, doubly ternate, etc.

() In the composition of chemical names bi- denotes two atoms, parts, or equivalents of that constituent to the name of which it is prefixed, to one of the other component, or that such constituent is present in double the ordinary proportion; as, bichromate, bisulphide. Be- and di- are often used interchangeably.