(n.) A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen.

(n.) Alt. of Burrhel

(n.) A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture.

(n.) The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment.

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

(n.) The red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch.

(imp. & p. p.) of Burke

(imp. & p. p.) of Burl

(n.) A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc.

(n.) One who burls or dresses cloth.

(imp. & p. p.) of Burn

(p. p. & a.) See Burnt.

(p. p.) Burnished.

(imp. & p. p.) of Burr

(n.) A sort of pear, called also the red butter pear, from its smooth, delicious, soft pulp.

(n.) Same as Borrel.

(pl. ) of Bursa

(a.) Of or pertaining to a bursa or to bursae.

(n.) A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.

(n.) A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support.

(n.) A youth; especially, a student in a german university.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bury

(imp. & p. p.) of Bush

(n.) A small bush.

(adv.) In a busy manner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Busk

(a.) Wearing a busk.

(n.) A small bush; also, a sprig or bouquet.

(n.) A part of a garden devoted to shrubs.

(n.) A strong, protecting covering for the foot, coming some distance up the leg.

(n.) A similar covering for the foot and leg, made with very thick soles, to give an appearance of elevation to the stature; -- worn by tragic actors in ancient Greece and Rome. Used as a symbol of tragedy, or the tragic drama, as distinguished from comedy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Buss

(v. i.) To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.

(n.) Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.

(n.) A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.

(imp. & p. p.) of Busy

(imp. & p. p.) of But

(n.) An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.

(imp. & p. p.) of Butt

(n.) An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.

(n.) Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter.

(v. t.) To cover or spread with butter.

(v. t.) To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.

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

(n.) An alkaloid obtained from the Buxus sempervirens, or common box tree. It is identical with bebeerine; -- called also buxina.

(imp. & p. p.) of Buy

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Buzz

(n.) One who, or that which, buzzes; a whisperer; a talebearer.

(n.) A fish of the genus Priacanthus, remarkable for the large size of the eye.

(v. t. & i.) To make or become big; to enlarge.

(a.) compar. of Big.

(n.) A child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head.

(n.) A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor.

(v. t.) Alt. of Bigging

(a.) A person of consequence; as, the bigwigs of society.

(pl. ) of Bijou

(n.) A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay of Manila.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bank

(n.) A byland.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bilge

(n.) One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.

(n.) A money changer.

(n.) The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.

(n.) A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.

(n.) A ditcher; a drain digger.

(n.) The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bilk

(imp. & p. p.) of Bill

(v. t.) To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.

(v. t.) To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.

(v. t.) To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest.

(a.) Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in composition; as, broad-billed.

(n.) A small paper; a note; a short letter.

(n.) A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.

(v. t.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.

(n.) A small stick of wood, as for firewood.

(n.) A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.

(n.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.

(n.) A strap which enters a buckle.

(n.) A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.

(n.) A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.

(v. t.) To challenge or defy to a match.

(n.) The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.

(n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

(n.) A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bar

(n.) An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage.

(n.) Bullion in the bar or mass.

(n.) A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.

(n.) A great wave or flood of anything.

(v. i.) To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.

(imp. & p. p.) of Barb

(imp. & p. p.) of Bin

(a.) Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things).

(n.) That which is constituted of two figures, things, or parts; two; duality.

(a.) Double; growing in pairs or couples.

(n.) One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.

(n.) Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.

(a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.)

(a.) Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire.

(n.) A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished.

(n.) A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.

(n.) Barbs or paps under the tongued of horses and cattle. See 1st Barb, 3.

(n.) A variety of small dog, having long curly hair.

(n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.

(n.) A larva that feeds on aphides.

(a.) Same as Binate.

(n.) See Barbel.

(a.) Barbarian.

(p.a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse.

(p.a.) Wearing rich caparisons.

(a.) Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry.

(n.) A gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted.

(n.) Bioplasm.

(a.) Relating to life; as, the biotic principle.

(adv.) Without covering; nakedly.

(adv.) Without concealment or disguise.

(adv.) Merely; only.

(adv.) But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare ( of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.

(a.) Full of obstructions.

(n.) A bargeman.

(n.) Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins.

(n.) One of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a very high temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight, 137. Symbol, Ba. Its oxide called baryta.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bark

(n.) Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.

(n.) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

(a.) Made of bark.

(n.) A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky.

(n.) A birdcatcher.

(n.) An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.

(v. t.) To whip with a birch or rod.

(a.) Birchen; as, birken groves.

(n.) A form or mode of syllogism of which the first proposition is a universal affirmative, and the other two are particular negative.

(n.) A lively or mettlesome fellow.

(imp. & p. p.) of Birr

(n.) A coarse kind of thick woolen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages; also, a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or over the head.

(n.) The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.

(n.) In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner.

(n.) Same as 3d Bark, n.

(n.) A resin, called also galipot.

(n.) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.

(v. t.) To cut or divide into two parts.

(v. t.) To divide into two equal parts.

(n.) The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31/ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds.

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

(n.) A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.

(n.) A jar.

(n.) The hollow basal part of a feather.

(v. t.) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.

(n.) Shame; abuse.

(n.) A rule steelyard.

(n.) The fifteen-spined (Gasterosteus spinachia).

(n.) Unglazed white porcelain.

(n.) A point taken by the receiver of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet.

(n.) A white soup made of crayfish.

(a.) Purblind; blinding.

(n.) Alt. of Bistre

(n.) A dark brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood.

(v. i.) To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck.

(v. t.) To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor.

(n.) The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods.

(n.) The thing given in exchange.

(n.) A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.

(n.) An oxide of barium (or barytum); a heavy earth with a specific gravity above 4.

(n.) See Bister.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bit

(v. t.) To commend; to commit.

(p. p.) of Bite

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

(n.) A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated.

(n.) An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain.

(a.) That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic.

() p. p. of Bite.

(a.) Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.

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

(adv.) In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.

(adv.) Illegitimately; in bastardy.

(n.) Bitumen.

(n.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.

(n.) A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.

(n.) Fig.: A magnate or grandee.

(n.) A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat.

(v. t.) To convert into a salifiable base.

(a.) Of or relating to the bivium.

(n.) One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra.

(n.) The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bask

(n.) A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.

(n.) The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.

(n.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.

(n.) The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach.

(v. t.) To put into a basket.

(n.) Same as Bascinet.

(pl. ) of Bass

(n. pl.) The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.

(n. pl.) Soot flying in the air.

(n. pl.) Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.

(imp. & p. p.) of Baste

(n.) A staff or cudgel.

(n.) See Baton.

(n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bat

(a.) Having a blade or blades; as, a two-bladed knife.

(a.) Divested of blades; as, bladed corn.

(a.) Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife.

(n.) Mendacious boasting; falsehood; humbug.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blame

(n.) One who blames.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blare

(n.) An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas).

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

(n.) A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers.

(v. i.) Rich; fertile.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bathe

(n.) One who bathes.

(a.) Affected by blasts; gusty.

(a.) Causing blast or injury.

(n.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

(prep.) With the exception of; excepting.

(n.) A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff.

(pl. ) of Batman

(n.) See Baton, and Baston.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blaze

(n.) One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad.

(n.) A shield.

(n.) An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings.

(n.) The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner.

(n.) Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record.

(v. t.) To depict in colors; to display; to exhibit conspicuously; to publish or make public far and wide.

(v. t.) To deck; to embellish; to adorn.

(v. t.) To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon.

(v. i.) To shine; to be conspicuous.

(a.) To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.

(v. i.) To grow white or lose color; to whiten.

(n.) A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager.

(n.) Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively.

(v. i.) To be supplied with provisions from the buttery.

(v. i.) To make fertile.

(a.) Fertile; fruitful; productive.

(v. t.) To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.

(v. t.) To fertilize or enrich, as land.

(v. i.) To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self.

(n .) A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc.

(v. t.) To furnish or fasten with battens.

(v. t.) The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.

(v. t.) To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.

(v. t.) To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.

(v. t.) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

(v. t.) A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.

(v. t.) Paste of clay or loam.

(v. t.) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

(n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.

(v. i.) To slope gently backward.

(n.) One who wields a bat; a batsman.

(a.) Fertile. See Battel, a.

(v. t.) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.

(v. t.) A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.

(v. t.) A division of an army; a battalion.

(v. t.) The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.

(n.) To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.

(v. t.) To assail in battle; to fight.

(n.) See Batten, and Baton.

(v. t.) The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game.

(v. t.) The game itself.

(v. t.) The wanton slaughter of game.

(n.) A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also batule board.

(pl. ) of Batz

(a.) Bleak.

(a.) Somewhat blear.

(a.) Containing blebs, or characterized by blebs; as, blebby glass.

(v. i.) To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.

(v. i.) To fly off; to turn aside.

(v. t.) To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.

(v. t.) To draw back from; to deny from fear.

(n.) A looking aside or askance.

(v. i. & t.) To grow or make pale.

(n.) A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.

(n.) A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster.

(n.) A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniidae; -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous.

(n.) Same as Bawbee.

(n.) A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.

(n.) The fool's club.

(n.) A halfpenny.

(n.) A trinket. See Bauble.

(n.) The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.

(n.) Illicit intercourse; fornication.

(n.) Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bawl

(n.) One who bawls.

(n.) A kind of hawk.

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

(pl. ) of Bayou

(n.) Alt. of Bazar

(a.) Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly.

(n.) A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.

(n.) A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.

(n.) A high hill near the shore.

(n.) That which gives notice of danger.

(v. t.) To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.

(v. t.) To furnish with a beacon or beacons.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bead

(a.) Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.

(a.) Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate.

(n.) A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.

(n.) An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat.

(v. t.) Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion.

(n.) A person of very fair complexion, with light hair and light blue eyes.

(n.) A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk, now sometimes dyed; -- called also blond lace.

(n.) The whole; all that is to be.

(imp. & p. p.) of Beam

(a.) Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag.

(a.) Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.

(a.) Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.

(a.) Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.

(a.) Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.

(a.) Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet.

(v. t.) To stain with blood.

(n.) One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.

(n.) Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer.

(n.) A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant.

(n.) A tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer.

(n.) One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer.

(n.) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

(a.) Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray.

(a.) Covered with bloom, as fruit.

(n.) Bloom; a blossoming.

(a.) Blossomy.

(a.) A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.

(a.) A large pustule, or a coarse eruption.

() of Beat

(n.) A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.

(n.) Alt. of Blowess

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

(n.) A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.

(n.) A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

(n.) The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.

(n.) A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.

(n.) A braggart, or loud talker.

(n.) See Blowze.

(n.) A blossoming; a bloom.

(n.) A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench.

(a.) Coarse and ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored; frowzy.

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

(adv.) With a blue color.

(a.) A name given to several different species of plants having blue flowers, as the Houstonia coerulea, the Centaurea cyanus or bluebottle, and the Vaccinium angustifolium.

(a.) Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.

(a.) Vanquished; conquered; baffled.

(a.) Exhausted; tired out.

(a.) Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase.

(a.) Tried; practiced.

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

(n.) A person who beats up game for the hunters.

(n.) An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense.

(n.) A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.

(n.) A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman.

(n.) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.

(v. t.) To blot; to stain.

(v. t.) To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease.

(v. t.) To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.

() imp. of Become.

(n.) A South American bird of the flycatcher family. (Tityra inquisetor).

() Pertaining to, or relieving, a cough.

(n.) A medicine for relieving coughs.

(imp. & p. p.) of Beck

(v. t.) To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand.

(n.) A sign made without words; a beck.

(v. t.) To catch; to grasp; to insnare.

(v. t.) To embrace; to surround.

(imp.) of Become

(p. p.) of Become

(v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character.

(v. i.) To come; to get.

(v. t.) To suit or be suitable to; to be congruous with; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things.

(n.) A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyraena spet). See Barracuda.

(v. t.) To curl; to adorn with curls.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bed

(a.) Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks.

(a.) Inclined to bo bluff; brusque.

(n.) The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel.

(n.) Something to give a bluish tint, as indigo, or preparations used by washerwomen.

(a.) Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins.

(v. t.) To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay.

(n.) The bleating of a sheep.

(v. i.) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

(v. i.) To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.

(v. i.) To talk much; to chatter; to prate.

(v. i.) To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones.

(v. i.) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding.

(v. i.) To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.

(n.) Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.

(n.) Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.

(n.) Finery of a kind to please a child.

(n.) A baboon.

(a.) Like a babe; a childish; babyish.

(n.) The ring of the fruit of several East Indian species of acacia; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for dyeing drab.

(n.) One of the Old World Quadrumana, of the genera Cynocephalus and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape.

(pl. ) of Baby

(v. t.) To make a daff or fool of.

(v. t.) To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter.

(v. t.) To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty.

(n.) A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.

(a.) Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged in a bed or beds.

(v. t.) To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.

(n.) An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead.

(n.) A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.

(n.) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.

(n.) Any place where uproar and confusion prevail.

(a.) Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse.

(v. t.) To cause to dote; to deceive.

(n.) A pan for warming beds.

(n.) A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed.

(v. i.) Alt. of Bedridden

(v. t.) To sprinkle, as with drops.

(v. t.) To drug abundantly or excessively.

(v. t.) To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse.

(a.) Full of blurs; blurred.

(a.) Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy.

(v. t.) To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively.

(v. t.) To sprinkle, soil, or cover with dust.

(a.) Of or relating to beeches.

(imp. & p. p.) of Baby

(v. t.) A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

(v. t.) A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.

(v. t.) To beat with a heavy mallet.

(v. t.) To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.

(v. t.) Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera.

(v. i.) To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.

(n.) plural of Beef, the animal.

(imp.) of Befall

(v. t.) To happen to.

(v. i.) To come to pass; to happen.

(v. t.) To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive.

(v. t.) To cause to behave like a fool; to make foolish.

(prep.) In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house.

(imp. & p. p.) of Boat

(imp. & p. p.) of Back

(prep.) Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when; -- sometimes with the additional idea of purpose; in order that.

(prep.) An advance of; farther onward, in place or time.

(prep.) Prior or preceding in dignity, order, rank, right, or worth; rather than.

(prep.) In presence or sight of; face to face with; facing.

(prep.) Under the cognizance or jurisdiction of.

(prep.) Open for; free of access to; in the power of.

(adv.) On the fore part; in front, or in the direction of the front; -- opposed to in the rear.

(adv.) In advance.

(adv.) In time past; previously; already.

(adv.) Earlier; sooner than; until then.

(a.) To make foul; to soil.

(a.) To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.

(imp. & p. p.) of Beg

(n.) One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.

(n.) One who makes it his business to ask alms.

(n.) One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use.

(n.) One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.

(v. t.) To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.

(v. t.) To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.

(v. t.) To gild.

(imp.) of Begird

(p. p.) of Begird

(v. t.) To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.

(v. t.) To surround as with a band; to encompass.

(v. t.) To encompass; to begird.

(v. t.) To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode.

(interj.) Go away; depart; get you gone.

(p. p.) Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone).

(n.) Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication.

(v. t.) To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.

(v. t.) To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively.

(v. i.) To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill.

(v. t.) To sever the head from; to take off the head of.

() imp. & p. p. of Behold.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bob

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

(n.) A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.

(n.) A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.

(a.) Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad-backed; hump-backed.

(n.) That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.

(n.) A vow; a promise.

(v. t.) To vow.

(a.) On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill.

(a.) Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death.

(a.) Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement.

(adv.) At the back part; in the rear.

(adv.) Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind.

(adv.) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.

(adv.) Backward in time or order of succession; past.

(adv.) After the departure of another; as, to stay behind.

(n.) The backside; the rump.

(imp. & p. p.) of Behold

(v. t.) To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes.

(v. i.) To direct the eyes to, or fix them upon, an object; to look; to see.

(v. t.) Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use.

(v.) and derivatives. See Behoove, &c.

(v. t.) To howl at.

(v. t.) To jade or tire.

(v. t.) To jape; to laugh at; to deceive.

(v. t.) To confess; to acknowledge.

(v. t.) To fasten, as with a lace or cord.

(v. t.) To cover or adorn with lace.

(v. t.) To beat with a strap. See Lace.

(v. t.) To retard or make too late.

(v. t.) To laud or praise greatly.

(n.) Alt. of Beldame

(imp. & p. p.) of Beleave

(n.) A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.

(n.) A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.

(n.) A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose.

(n.) The framing on which a bell is suspended.

(imp. & p. p.) of Belie

(n.) Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.

(n.) The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.

(n.) A fine cord or narrow braid.

(n.) A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current.

(n.) The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.

(n.) A bowl or vessel made from a gourd.

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

(n.) A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.

(n.) A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it.

(n.) A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.

(n.) The thing believed; the object of belief.

(n.) A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.

(adv.) It is likely or probably; perhaps.

(v. t.) To besmear or insnare with birdlime.

(a.) Forthwith; speedily; quickly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bell

(a.) Hung with a bell or bells.

(a.) Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied.

(a.) Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind.

(a.) Real; actual; put in execution.

(adv.) Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body.

(adv.) In respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as, to carry away bodily. "Leapt bodily below."

(a.) Foreshowing; presaging; ominous.

(n.) A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.

(n.) The Osage orange.

(pl. ) of Body

(n.) See Bascule.

() compar. of Bad, a.

(n.) An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise.

(a.) Alt. of Bellical

(n.) Lead colic.

(imp. & p. p.) of Body

(imp. & p. p.) of Bog

(n.) To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.

(n.) To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.

(n.) To play fast and loose; to dissemble.

(v. t.) To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.

(pl. ) of Bogy

(v. t.) To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

(v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

(v. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.

(v. i.) To practice deceit.

(v. i.) To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.

(n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bag

(v. t.) To lock, or fasten as with a lock.

(v. i.) To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.

(v. i.) To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service.

(v. i.) To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to.

(v. i.) To be suitable for; to be due to.

(v. i.) To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town.

(v. t.) To be deserved by.

(v. t.) To act the lord over.

(v. t.) To address by the title of "lord".

(v. t.) To love.

(imp. & p. p.) of Boil

(a.) Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.

(n.) One who boils.

(n.) A vessel in which any thing is boiled.

(n.) A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.

(pl. ) of Bagman

(n.) A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen.

(n.) A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves.

(n.) A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution.

(n.) Alt. of Baguette

(imp. & p. p.) of Bail

(imp. & p. p.) of Belt

(a.) Encircled by, or secured with, a belt; as, a belted plaid; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; as, a belted knight; a belted earl.

(a.) Marked with a band or circle; as, a belted stalk.

(a.) Worn in, or suspended from, the belt.

(n.) A cetacean allied to the dolphins.

(v. t.) To bespatter, as with mud.

(v. t.) To mask; to conceal.

(v. t.) To maul or beat severely; to bruise.

(v. t.) To make mean; to lower.

(v. t.) To meet.

(v. t.) To mete.

(v. t.) To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.

(v. t.) To envelop in mist.

(v. t.) To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with.

(v. t.) To mock; to ridicule.

(v. t.) To soil or encumber with mire and dirt.

(v. t.) To make bold; to encourage; to embolden.

(adv.) In a bold manner.

(n.) A Spanish dance, or the lively music which accompanies it.

(n.) any fungus of the family Boletaceae.

(n.) A kind of bright meteor; a bolis.

(n.) The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust.

(n.) See Bailor.

(n.) One who bails or lades.

(n.) A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit.

(n.) One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.

(v. t.) To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor.

(v. t.) To promise; to name.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bend

(imp. & p. p.) of Boll

(imp. & p. p.) of Bait

(n.) One who baits; a tormentor.

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

(n.) The trade of a baker.

(n.) The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.

(n.) The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

(n.) The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bolt

(imp. & p. p.) of Bolt

(n.) See Boultel.

(n.) One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.

(n.) One who sifts flour or meal.

(n.) An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.

(n.) A balcony.

(n.) A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.

(adv.) Nakedly; without reserve; inelegantly.

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

(n.) Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

(n.) A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark.

(v. t.) To deprive (of), or take away (from).

(a.) Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant.

(a.) Exhibiting or manifesting kindness, gentleness, favor, etc.; mild; kindly; salutary; wholesome.

(a.) Of a mild type or character; as, a benign disease.

(a.) To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.

(n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CH, of the aromatic series, related to benzyl and benzoyl; -- used adjectively or in combination.

(n.) An impure benzene, used in the arts as a solvent, and for various other purposes. See Benzene.

(n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CH2, related to toluene and benzoic acid; -- commonly used adjectively.

(v. t.) To pelt roundly.

(v. t.) To rain upon; to wet with rain.

(v. t.) To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.

(imp. & p. p.) of Balk

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

(n.) A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ball

(n.) A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.

(v. i.) To make or sing ballads.

(v. t.) To make mention of in ballads.

(n.) An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.

(n.) The company of persons who perform the ballet.

(n.) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.

(n.) A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

() of Bereave

() imp. & p. p. of Bereave.

(v. t.) To berhyme.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the silkworm; as, bombic acid.

(n.) Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.

(n.) The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.

(n.) The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district.

(n.) To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.

(v. t.) To vote for or in opposition to.

(n.) A cudgel.

(n.) Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage.

(a.) Past; gone by.

(n.) Something gone by or past; a past event.

(n.) A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own government.

(n.) A law that is less important than a general law or constitutional provision, and subsidiary to it; a rule relating to a matter of detail; as, civic societies often adopt a constitution and by-laws for the government of their members. In this sense the word has probably been influenced by by, meaning secondary or aside.

(n.) A private path; an obscure way; indirect means.

(n.) See Byssus, n., 1.

(n.) A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk.

(n.) A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusks, as the Pinna and Mytilus, by which they attach themselves to rocks, etc.

(n.) An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads.

(n.) Asbestus.

(n.) A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency.

(n.) The object of a contemptuous saying.

(n.) Work aside from regular work; subordinate or secondary business.

(n.) Alt. of Byzantine

(v. t.) To stick together.

(n.) A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries.

(v. t.) To flog with the bamboo.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ban

(v. t.) To beseech.

(v. t.) Literally: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for (one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit.

(v. i.) To seem; to appear; to be fitting.

(a.) Seen; appearing.

(a.) Decked or adorned; clad.

(a.) Accomplished; versed.

(n.) A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.

(n.) At the side of; on one side of.

(n.) Aside from; out of the regular course or order of; in a state of deviation from; out of.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bond

(n.) A small quadruped of Bengal (Paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet; -- called also musk cat.

(a.) Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to certain regulations.

(n.) One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.

(n.) A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone.

(n.) A freeholder on a small scale.

(n.) See Nicker tree.

(n.) A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.

(n.) Alt. of Bank

(imp. & p. p.) of Band

(n.) Over and above; distinct from; in addition to.

(adv.) On one side.

(adv.) More than that; over and above; not included in the number, or in what has been mentioned; moreover; in addition.

(v. t.) To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes.

(v. t.) To cover with snow; to whiten with snow, or as with snow.

(v. t.) To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become.

(n.) Befitting associates or attendants.

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

(v. t.) To convert into, or make, good.

(n.) The clearing of bones from fish or meat.

(n.) The manuring of land with bones.

(n.) A method of leveling a line or surface by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles. See 3d Bone, v. t.

(n.) A large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast.

(n.) The skipjack (Sarda Mediterranea) of the Atlantic, an important and abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and (S. Chilensis) of the Pacific, and other related species. They are large and active fishes, of a blue color with black oblique stripes.

(n.) The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern of the United States and the West Indies.

(n.) The cobia or crab eater (Elacate canada), an edible fish of the Middle and Southern United States.

(n.) An outlaw; a brigand.

(n.) An Irish measure of two feet in length.

(n.) A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up.

(v. t.) To soil or daub with spew; to vomit on.

(imp.) of Bespit

(p. p.) of Bespit

(v. t.) To daub or soil with spittle.

(v. t.) To mark with spots, or as with spots.

(imp. & p. p.) Beset; put in peril.

(v. t.) To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or as with, stars; to bestud.

() of Bestead

() of Bestead

(v. t.) To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor; -- usually with the reciprocal pronoun.

(v. t.) To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put.

(v. t.) To use; to apply; to devote, as time or strength in some occupation.

(v. t.) To expend, as money.

(v. t.) To give or confer; to impart; -- with on or upon.

(v. t.) To give in marriage.

(v. t.) To demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by a reflexive pronoun.

(n.) The whole collection or lot; caboodle.

(n.) Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag.

(n.) The sailfish; -- called also woohoo.

(imp. & p. p.) of Book

(a.) Registered.

(a.) On the way; destined.

(imp. & p. p.) of Boom

(imp. & p. p.) of Boot

(imp. & p. p.) of Boot

(a.) Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire.

(a.) Having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; -- said of the tarsus of some birds.

(n.) A half boot or short boot.

(imp. & p. p.) of Booze

(n.) One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.

(n.) A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.

(n.) A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.

(n.) A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier.

(n.) Alt. of Bordello

(n.) The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).

(n.) A binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical; -- formerly called boruret.

(n.) Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment.

(n.) A kind of light stuff, of silk and wool.

(n.) Ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bang

(v. t.) To waste by little and little; to fritter away.

(n.) An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn by women in India and Africa, and in some other countries, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet.

(n.) A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.

(n.) A man's loose gown, like that worn by the Banians.

(n.) The Indian fig. See Banyan.

(v. t.) To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.

(v. t.) To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of.

(v. t.) To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.

(v. t.) To set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set thickly; to stud; as, to bestud with stars.

() of Bet

(imp.) of Betake

(v. t.) To take or seize.

(v. t.) To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun.

(v. t.) To commend or intrust to; to commit to.

(a.) To give ; to bestow; to grant; to accord; to consent.

(a.) To allow; to permit; to suffer.

(v. t.) To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.

(v. i.) To come to pass; to happen; to occur.

(adv.) Alt. of Betimes

(n.) A plant of the genus Betonica (Linn.).

() imp. of Betake.

(a.) Torn in pieces; tattered.

(v. t.) To put in violent motion; to agitate; to disturb; to toss.

(v. t.) To draw into, or catch in, a trap; to insnare; to circumvent.

(v. t.) To put trappings on; to clothe; to deck.

(v. t.) To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city.

(v. t.) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause.

(v. t.) To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.

(v. t.) To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.

(v. t.) To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.

(v. t.) To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

(v. t.) To show or to indicate; -- said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.

(v. t.) To set in order; to adorn; to deck, to embellish; to trim.

(a.) Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

(a.) Preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness, acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect.

(a.) Greater in amount; larger; more.

(a.) Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the patient is better.

(a.) More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance; a better knowledge of the subject.

(n.) Advantage, superiority, or victory; -- usually with of; as, to get the better of an enemy.

(n.) One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural.

(compar.) In a superior or more excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits.

(compar.) More correctly or thoroughly.

(compar.) In a higher or greater degree; more; as, to love one better than another.

(compar.) More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and better.

(a.) To improve or ameliorate; to increase the good qualities of.

(a.) To improve the condition of, morally, physically, financially, socially, or otherwise.

(a.) To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.

(a.) To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.

(v. i.) To become better; to improve.

(n.) One who bets or lays a wager.

(n.) One who bets; a better.

(n.) A toper; a boozer.

(n.) An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.

(a.) Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament.

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

(pl. ) of Bosh

(n.) Alt. of Bosquet

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

(n.) A beurre (or buttery) pear, one with the meat soft and melting; -- used with a distinguishing word; as, Beurre d'Anjou; Beurre Clairgeau.

(pl. ) of Bevy

(n.) Same as Bower.

(n.) A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.

(n.) The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments.

(n.) In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bowl

(v. t.) To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over.

(v. i.) To express grief; to lament.

(v. t. & i.) To keep watch over; to keep awake.

(v. i.) To be on one's guard; to be cautious; to take care; -- commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided.

(v. i.) To have a special regard; to heed.

(v. t.) To avoid; to take care of; to have a care for.

(v. t.) To drench or souse with water.

(imp. & p. p.) of Beweep

(v. t.) To weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears.

(v. i.) To weep.

(v. t.) To wrap up; to cover.

(v. t.) To soil. See Beray.

(v. t.) To expose; to reveal; to disclose; to betray.

(prep.) On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than.

(prep.) At a place or time not yet reached; before.

(prep.) Past, out of the reach or sphere of; further than; greater than; as, the patient was beyond medical aid; beyond one's strength.

(prep.) In a degree or amount exceeding or surpassing; proceeding to a greater degree than; above, as in dignity, excellence, or quality of any kind.

(adv.) Further away; at a distance; yonder.

(n.) A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants.

(n.) A circle in or, i. e., gold, representing the gold coin called bezant.

(n.) A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.

(n.) A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea.

(v. t.) To plunder; to waste in riot.

(v. i.) To drink to excess; to revel.

(a.) Having two hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by negative atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of bases. See Diacid.

(pl. ) of Bias

(imp. & p. p.) of Bias

(a.) Alt. of Biaxial

(n.) One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.

(n.) A crooked leg.

(pl. ) of Bowman

(n.) See Boultel.

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

(n.) The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.

(n.) Material used in making boxes or casings.

(n.) Any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing.

(n.) The external case of thin material used to bring any member to a required form.

(n.) The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring.

(n.) A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.

(pl. ) of Boyau

(pl. ) of Boyau

(a.) Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile.

(n.) Boyhood.

(n.) The nature of a boy; childishness.

(a.) Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.

(pl. ) of Boss

(imp. & p. p.) of Boss

(a.) Embossed; also, bossy.

(n.) A rudimental antler of a young male of the red deer.

(n.) A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei.

(n.) A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.

(v. i.) To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.

(v. i.) To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.

(v. i.) To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.

(n.) A skirmish; an encounter.

(n.) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.

(n.) A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.

(a. & n.) The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See Plant.

(a. & n.) A book which treats of the science of botany.

(a.) Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done.

(n.) A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvae of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.

(v. t.) To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

(v. i.) To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.

(n.) One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.

(imp. & p. p.) of Brace

(n.) That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.

(n.) A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart.

(n.) A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body.

(p. p.) of Bid

() p. p. of Bid.

(n.) One who bids or offers a price.

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

(a.) Brackish.

(n.) An instrument or weapon with two prongs.

(n.) Residence; habitation.

(n.) A sort of apple peculiar to Norfolk, Eng.

(n.) A baked apple pressed down into a flat, round cake; a dried apple.

(a.) Twofold; double; of two kinds, degrees, etc.

(a.) Having two forms, bodies, or shapes.

(n.) Same as Bothy.

(n.) A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.

(n.) The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.

(n.) Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.

(v. t.) To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.

(n.) A bundle, esp. of hay.

(n.) The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.

(n.) The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.

(n.) That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.

(n.) The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.

(n.) The fundament; the buttocks.

(n.) An abyss.

(n.) Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.

(n.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.

(n.) Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.

(n.) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.

(v. t.) To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.

(v. t.) To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.

(v. t.) To reach or get to the bottom of.

(v. i.) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.

(v. i.) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.

(n.) A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

(v. t.) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.

(n.) Comic opera. See Opera Bouffe.

(n.) A charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water; -- also called water bouget.

(n.) A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent.

(n.) The part of a sling that contains the stone.

() imp. & p. p. of Buy.

(p. a.) Purchased; bribed.

(n.) A long, flexible instrument, that is

(n.) A long slender rod consisting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.

(v. i.) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.

(v. i.) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.

(v. i.) To boast; to talk big; to bluster.

(v. t.) To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.

(v. t.) To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.

(v. t.) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.

(v. t.) To bully; to scold.

(n.) A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.

(n.) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.

(n.) An explosion, or the noise of one.

(n.) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.

(n.) A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).

(adv.) With a sudden leap; suddenly.

(adv.) In a manner to be bragged of; finely; proudly.

(a.) Having an active or vigorous mind.

(n.) Alt. of Braize

(n.) A European marine fish (Pagrus vulgaris) allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.

(n.) Alt. of Braize

(n.) Charcoal powder; breeze.

(n.) Braised meat.

(v. t.) To stew or broil in a covered kettle or pan.

(n.) See Braise.

(n.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

(n.) Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.

(n.) Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.

(n.) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.

(n.) A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family.

(n.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.

(a.) Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.

(v. i.) To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.

(v. i.) To divide into separate parts or subdivision.

(v. t.) To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.

(v. t.) To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.

(n.) The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another.

(n.) A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.

(n.) A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold.

(a.) Having the appearance of bran; consisting of or containing bran.

(a.) Same as Brazen.

(n.) A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch.

(a.) Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.

(a.) Impudent; impudently bold.

(imp. & p. p.) of Brave

(a.) Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bray

(n.) AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.

(v. t.) Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes.

(v. t.) Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe; as, a bitter cold day.

(v. t.) Causing, or fitted to cause, pain or distress to the mind; calamitous; poignant.

(v. t.) Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach.

(v. t.) Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable.

(n.) Any substance that is bitter. See Bitters.

(v. t.) To make bitter.

(n.) Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.

(n.) The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages.

(n.) A restraint; a curb; a check.

(n.) The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the tumbler, sear, etc.

(n.) A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle.

(n.) A mooring hawser.

(v. t.) To put a bridle upon; to equip with a bridle; as, to bridle a horse.

(v. t.) To restrain, guide, or govern, with, or as with, a bridle; to check, curb, or control; as, to bridle the passions; to bridle a muse.

(v. i.) To hold up the head, and draw in the chin, as an expression of pride, scorn, or resentment; to assume a lofty manner; -- usually with up.

(a.) Full of briers; thorny.

(n.) A place where briers grow.

(n.) A cabal, intrigue, faction, contention, strife, or quarrel.

(n.) To contend for; to canvass; to solicit.

(n. pl.) The hair on the eyelids of a horse.

(n.) See Bryony.

(n.) A spit.

(n.) An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.

(n.) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.

(n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.

(n.) A broad chisel for stonecutting.

(n.) A spire rising from a tower.

(n.) A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.

(n.) A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.

(n.) The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.

(n.) The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.

(n.) To spit; to pierce as with a spit.

(n.) To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.

(n.) To open for the first time, as stores.

(n.) To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.

(n.) To cause to begin or break out.

(n.) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.

(n.) To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.

(a.) Woven with a figure; as, broche goods.

(n.) See Broach, n.

(v. t.) Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish.

(v. t.) Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface.

(v. t.) Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship.

(v. t.) Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships.

(v. t.) Subdued; humbled; contrite.

(v. t.) Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse.

(v. t.) Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted.

(v. t.) Not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law.

(v. t.) Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman.

(v. t.) Imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken English; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at parting.

(v. t.) One who transacts business for another; an agent.

(v. t.) An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own.

(v. t.) A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc.

(v. t.) A dealer in secondhand goods.

(v. t.) A pimp or procurer.

(n.) An oily, colorless fluid, CBr3.COH, related to bromoform, as chloral is to chloroform, and obtained by the action of bromine on alcohol.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, bromine; -- said of those compounds of bromine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, bromic acid.

(n.) Same as Broncho.

(a.) An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.

(a.) A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.

(a.) A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.

(a.) Boldness; impudence; "brass."

(n.) To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.

(n.) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.

(a.) Like bronze.

(n.) An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat.

(n.) A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting.

(imp. & p. p.) To adorn as with a brooch.

(a.) Inclined to brood.

(a.) Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom.

(a.) Brittle.

(a.) Having (such) a brow; -- used in composition; as, dark-browed, stern-browed.

(a.) Brown or, somewhat brown.

(n.) The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food.

(n.) To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; -- said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals.

(n.) To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.

(v. i.) To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer.

(v. i.) To pasture; to feed; to nibble.

(n.) The Malayan sun bear.

(v. t.) To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.

(v. t.) To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.

(v. i.) To fight with the fists; to box.

(n.) An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.

(a.) Of or pertaining to winter.

(a.) Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature.

(a.) Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners.

(n.) The common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia. The root of B. alba (rough or white bryony) and of B. dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic.

(n.) A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible.

(n.) A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.

(n.) A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aerated waters.

(n.) A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.

(n.) A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.

(n.) The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.

(n.) Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble.

(n.) A person deceived by an empty project; a gull.

(n.) To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.

(n.) To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.

(n.) To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.

(a.) Abounding in bubbles; bubbling.

(pl. ) of Bubo

(a.) Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.

(imp. & p. p.) of Buck

(n.) One who bucks ore.

(n.) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.

(n.) A horse or mule that bucks.

(n.) A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.

(n.) A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.

(n.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel.

(n.) The valved piston of a lifting pump.

(n.) A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc.

(a.) White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bud

(n.) An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions.

(v. i.) To wash ore in a buddle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Budge

(n.) One who budges.

(n.) A little bud springing from a parent bud.

(n.) An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.

(n.) A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; -- sometimes called buffing apparatus.

(n.) One who polishes with a buff.

(n.) A wheel for buffing; a buff.

(n.) A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an elderly man.

(n.) A sort of coarse stuff; as, buffin gowns.

(n.) The buffalo.

(v. i.) To puzzle; to be at a loss.

(n.) One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.

(n.) A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement.

(a.) Ornamented with bugles.

(n.) One who plays on a bugle.

(a.) Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis.

(a.) Having a bulb; round-headed.

(n.) A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.

(n.) The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliidae. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bulge

(n.) A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bulk

(n.) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.

(pl. ) of Bulla

(a.) Swollen.

(n.) A small ball.

(n.) A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.

(n.) A cannon ball.

(n.) The fetlock of a horse.

(n.) A trawl; a boulter; the mode of fishing with a boulter or spiller.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bum

(n.) The bittern.

(v. i.) To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern.

(n.) A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen.

(n.) An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bump

(n.) A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast.

(n.) A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer.

(n.) That which bumps or causes a bump.

(n.) Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a buffer.

(a.) Swelling out in bunches.

(a.) Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail.

(a.) Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine.

(n.) Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show.

(n.) A number of things bound together, as by a cord or envelope, into a mass or package convenient for handling or conveyance; a loose package; a roll; as, a bundle of straw or of paper; a bundle of old clothes.

(v. t.) To tie or bind in a bundle or roll.

(v. t.) To send off abruptly or without ceremony.

(v. i.) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.

(v. i.) To sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bung

(v. i.) To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.

(v. t.) To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up.

(n.) A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.

(n.) Same as Bunyon.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bunk

(n.) See Buncombe.

(n.) An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the bursae muscosae), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.

(imp. & p. p.) of Buoy

(n.) A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin.

(n.) That which is borne or carried; a load.

(n.) That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.

(n.) The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.

(n.) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.

(n.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.

(n.) A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.

(n.) A birth.

(v. t.) To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.

(v. t.) To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.

(v. t.) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).

(n.) The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer.

(n.) The drone of a bagpipe.

(n.) A club.

(n.) A pilgrim's staff.

(n.) Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.

(n.) The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.

(n.) Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief.

(n.) A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture.

(n.) A kind of small coat.

(n.) A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels.

(n.) An implement for braying and spreading ink in hand printing.

(n.) One that brays like an ass.

(imp. & p. p.) of Braze

(a.) Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.

(a.) Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.

(a.) Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance.

(v. t.) To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through.

(n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

(n.) Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.

(n.) A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture.

(n.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.

(n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.

(n.) A bruise; a wound.

(n.) A hernia; a rupture.

(n.) A breaking out upon; an assault.

(v. t.) To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.

(v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.

(p. p.) of Break

(n.) The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.

(n.) Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat.

(n.) Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill.

(n.) The face of a coal working.

(n.) The front of a furnace.

(n.) The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart.

(n.) The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast.

(v. t.) To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.

(n.) The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc.

(n.) The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath.

(n.) The power of respiration, and hence, life.

(n.) Time to breathe; respite; pause.

(n.) A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant.

(n.) Fig.: That which gives or strengthens life.

(n.) A single word; the slightest effort; a trifle.

(n.) A very slight breeze; air in gentle motion.

(n.) Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.

(n.) Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration.

(a.) Characterized by, or having, breezes; airy.

(a.) Fresh; brisk; full of life.

(n.) The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull.

(n.) An ancient Irish or Scotch judge.

(n.) A torus.

(n.) A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [French usage].

(n.) A commission giving an officer higher rank than that for which he receives pay; an honorary promotion of an officer.

(v. t.) To confer rank upon by brevet.

(a.) Taking or conferring rank by brevet; as, a brevet colonel; a brevet commission.

(imp. & p. p.) of Brew

(n.) Broth or pottage.

(n.) Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bribe

(n.) A thief.

(n.) One who bribes, or pays for corrupt practices.

(n.) That which bribes; a bribe.

(a.) Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust.

(n.) Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.

(n.) A nuptial festival or ceremony; a marriage.

(n.) A wig, in use in the 18th century, with the hair at the back of the head in a bag.

(n.) An onomatopoetic name for a dog or its bark.

(a.) Onomatopoetic; as, the bowwow theory of language; a bowwow word.

(n.) A peninsula.

(v. t.) To give a nickname to.

(n.) Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds.

(n.) A private or obscure road.

(v. t.) To blacken with smut; to foul with soot.

(n.) A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.