(n.) Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not.

(n.) A kind of helmet.

(n.) See Burggrave.

(n.) One who works with the burin.

(a.) A comic operetta; a music farce.

(a.) Combustible.

(n.) Alt. of Burnous

(imp. & p. p.) of Burrow

(n.) One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a hole under ground and lives in it.

(n.) Inflammation of a bursa.

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

(a.) Free from bushes; bare.

(n.) A thicket; a cluster of bushes.

(n.) An ambuscade.

(n.) That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure.

(n.) Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession.

(n.) Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions.

(n.) That which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission.

(n.) Affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words.

(n.) The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.

(n.) Care; anxiety; diligence.

(a.) Wearing buskins.

(a.) Trodden by buskins; pertaining to tragedy.

(n.) of Bustle

(a.) Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd.

(n.) One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person.

(n.) The business of a butcher.

(n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter.

(n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Butter

(n.) A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses.

(imp. & p. p.) of Button

(n.) A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.

(n.) Anything which supports or strengthens.

(v. t.) To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.

(n.) Any one of three metameric hydrocarbons, C4H8, of the ethylene series. They are gaseous or easily liquefiable.

(n.) A salt of butyric acid.

(n.) A liquid ketone obtained by heating calcium butyrate.

(a.) Butyraceous.

(a.) Having two pairs, as of leaflets.

(a.) Bijugate.

(n.) A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland.

(n.) The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit.

(n.) Any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in America, the species Vaccinium myrtilloides, V. caespitosum and V. uliginosum.

(a.) Receivable at a bank.

(n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.

(n.) A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person.

(n.) A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.

(a.) Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.

(a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.

(a.) Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.

(a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess).

(v. t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.

(n.) A woman's ornament; habiliment.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coordinates.

(n.) The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city.

(a.) Furnished with, or bearing, banners.

(n.) Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.

(n.) A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.

(n.) A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.

(n.) A small banner.

(n.) A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.

(imp. & p. p.) of Banter

(imp. & p. p.) of Billet

(n.) A name applied to several distinct fishes

(n.) The garfish (Tylosurus, / Belone, longirostris) and allied species.

(n.) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus).

(n.) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish.

(n.) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).

(n.) A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the game of billiards.

(n.) One who banters or rallies.

(n.) A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.]

(n.) An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia.

(imp. & p. p.) of Baptize

(n.) One who baptizes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Billow

(n.) A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel.

(a.) Divided into two lobes or segments.

(a.) Having two hands; two-handed.

(a.) Applied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).

(a.) See Bimonthly, a.

(n.) See Barbican.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears.

(a.) Having barbed points.

(n.) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.

(n.) A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole.

(n.) A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.

(v. t.) To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron.

(v. t.) To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog.

(imp. & p. p.) of Barber

(n.) A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root.

(n.) Alt. of Barbacan

(n.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own.

(n.) An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.

(n.) One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.

(n.) An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.

(n.) A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed.

(n.) A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night.

(n.) An expression consisting of two terms connected by the sign plus (+) or minus (-); as, a + b, or 7 - 3.

(a.) Consisting of two terms; pertaining to binomials; as, a binomial root.

(a.) Having two names; -- used of the system by which every animal and plant receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the other the species, to which it belongs.

(n.) Same as Dioxide.

(n.) Same as Bioplast.

(n.) An inferior bard.

(n.) The state of being a bard.

(adv.) On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle; as, to ride bareback.

(n.) A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin.

(a.) Alt. of Biological

(n.) The destruction of life.

(a.) Relating to the destruction of life.

(n.) Measurement of life; calculation of the probable duration of human life.

(n.) A name suggested by Dr. Beale for the germinal matter supposed to be essential to the functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.

(n.) A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.

(a.) Bringing forth two at a birth.

(a. & adv.) Having the head uncovered; as, a bareheaded girl.

(n.) The state of being bare.

(n.) A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor.

(n.) The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.

(n.) A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune.

(a.) Having, or consisting of, two branches.

(a. & n.) See Barytone.

(a.) Destitute of bark.

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

(n.) A sound made in imitation of the note or cry of a bird for the purpose of decoying the bird or its mate.

(n.) An instrument of any kind, as a whistle, used in making the sound of a birdcall.

(n.) A young bird.

(a.) Resembling a bird.

(n.) A little bird; a nestling.

(n.) Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.

(n.) Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle.

(n.) A bernicle goose.

(n.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.

(sing.) Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers.

(n.) A yard belonging to a barn.

(n.) The science of weight or gravity.

(n.) The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also Scythian lamb.

(n.) The whole body of barons or peers.

(n.) The dignity or rank of a baron.

(n.) The land which gives title to a baron.

(n.) A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.

(n.) The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.

(n.) The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities.

(n.) The land of one's birth; one's inheritance.

(n.) Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.

(n.) A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit.

(a.) Pertaining to a baron or a barony.

(pl. ) of Barony

(n.) A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.

(n.) A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.

(n.) A ravine caused by heavy rains or a watercourse.

(v. i.) One guilty of barratry.

(n.) The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels.

(n.) A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo.

(n.) The crime of a judge who is influenced by bribery in pronouncing judgment.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bisect

(n.) One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle.

(a.) Alt. of Biseriate

(a.) Alt. of Bisetous

(a.) Having two bristles.

(a.) Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bishop

(imp. & p. p.) of Bishop

(imp. & p. p.) of Barrel

(a.) Alt. of Barrelled

(adv.) Unfruitfully; unproductively.

(n.) A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width.

(imp. & p. p.) of Barter

(n.) One who barters.

(n.) A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

(a.) Alt. of Baritone

(a.) Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice.

(a.) Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.

(n.) Alt. of Baritone

(n.) A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other.

(n.) A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface.

(n.) A person having a voice of such range.

(n.) The viola di gamba, now entirely disused.

(n.) A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.

(a.) Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava.

(n.) Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.

(n.) A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor.

(n.) Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism.

(adv.) In a biting manner.

(n.) A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.

(n.) A binnacle.

(adv.) In a bitter manner.

(n.) A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century.

(a.) Without a base; having no foundation or support.

(a.) The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively.

(p. pr.) Equivalent in combining or displacing power to two atoms of hydrogen; dyad.

(a.) Having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve.

(n.) The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.

(a.) Shameless; unblushing.

(n.) The quality or state of being a base.

(n.) The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid.

(n.) A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.

(n.) That which converts into a salifiable base.

(a.) Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted hyoid arch.

(n.) A term made up of the two parts / + /1 /-1, where / and /1 are vectors.

(a.) Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly.

(n.) A publication issued every two weeks.

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

(n.) Relating to, or situated at, the base.

(n.) Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action.

(n.) A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.

(n.) A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidae.

(n.) A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size.

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

(n.) A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.

(n.) An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee.

(n.) An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.

(n.) The black raspberry.

(n.) See Bluefin.

(n.) The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively.

(n.) Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.

(n.) The act or process of making black.

(a.) Somewhat black.

(imp. & p. p.) of Basset

(n.) A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in which young children are placed as in a cradle.

(n.) See Bascinet.

(n.) A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses.

(a.) Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.

(n.) The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.

(n.) The procreation of a bastard child.

(a.) Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy.

(a.) Faulty; meriting blame.

(a.) Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious.

(n.) A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blanch

(n.) One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose.

(n.) One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside.

(v. t.) To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.

(v. t.) To make agreeable and enticing.

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

(n.) Abatement; diminution.

(a.) Having the character of bathos.

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

(n.) The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.

(n.) A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.

(n.) A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause.

(n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts.

(n.) One of the Blastoidea.

(n.) That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.

(n.) Same as Blastula.

(n.) Blatant quality.

(n.) See Vital force.

(n.) A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.

(a.) Capable of cultivation; fertile; productive; fattening.

(n.) Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blazon

(n.) One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald.

(n.) Same as Blazon, 3.

(n.) A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings.

(n.) Artistic representation or display.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bleach

(n.) An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body.

(n.) Alt. of Battler

(imp. & p. p.) of Batten

(imp. & p. p.) of Batter

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

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

(a.) Whitened; make white.

(n.) One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching.

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

(n.) A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter.

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

(a.) Crying as a sheep does.

(n.) The cry of, or as of, a sheep.

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

(a.) Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion.

(n.) A running or issuing of blood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blench

(n.) One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher.

(n.) One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.

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

(n.) The act of mingling.

(n.) The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the blennies.

(pl. ) of Blenny

(n.) A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blight

(a.) See Bawbling.

(n.) The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad.

(n.) A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.

(n.) A belt. See Baldric.

(n.) Same as Bathorse.

(n.) See Bilimbi, etc.

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

(n.) A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.

(n.) A female dancer in the East Indies.

(a.) Blind; stupid.

(n.) The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis.

(n.) A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle (Pimenta acris).

(n.) The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree.

(n.) An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia.

(n.) A gum resin of reddish brown color, brought from India, Persia, and Africa.

(a.) Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.

(n.) A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.

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

(n.) One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes.

(n.) That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears.

(a.) Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Beacon

(a.) Full of blisters.

(adv.) In a blithe manner.

(n.) A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast.

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

(n.) Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.

(n.) Alt. of Bedesman

(n.) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.

(n.) Ornamental work in beads.

(n.) An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak.

(n.) A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew.

(n.) Same as Beak, 3.

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

(v. t.) The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.

(v. t.) An obstruction to passage.

(v. t. ) To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.

(n.) Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress.

(n.) To obstruct entrance to or egress from.

(n.) The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.

(n.) The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks.

(n.) Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.

(a.) Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.

(n.) A hydrous sulphate of magnesium and sodium.

(n.) A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building.

(a.) Not having a beam.

(a.) Not emitting light.

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

(adv.) In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed blood.

(a.) Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable.

(n.) The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).

(n.) A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bloody

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

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

(n.) A man who tends a bear.

(n.) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.

(a.) Opening in blossoms; flowering.

(a.) Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.

(a.) Full of blossoms; flowery.

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

(a.) Marked or covered with blotches.

(n.) The skin of a bear.

(n.) A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats.

(n.) A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers.

(n.) A keeper of bears. See Bearherd.

(a.) Without blot.

(n.) The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away.

(n.) A blowgun.

(n.) A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles.

(n.) A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of "metal" (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe.

(a.) Swollen; protuberant.

(a.) Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.

(n.) A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.

(n.) A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine.

(n.) A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and northward.

(n.) An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife.

(n.) A duck of the genus Fuligula. Two American species (F. marila and F. affinis) are common. See Scaup duck.

(n.) A small song bird (Sialia sialis), very common in the United States, and, in the north, one of the earliest to arrive in spring. The male is blue, with the breast reddish. It is related to the European robin.

(n.) One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc.

(n.) The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.

(n.) A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidae, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.

(n.) A West Indian fish (Platyglossus radiatus), of the family Labridae.

(n.) One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.

(n.) The quality of being blue; a blue color.

(n.) The blue-winged teal. See Teal.

(a.) Alt. of Beatifical

(n.) A father.

(n.) A companion.

(n.) The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau.

(p. a.) Beautiful; embellished.

(v. t.) To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

(v. i.) To become beautiful; to advance in beauty.

(n.) See Bauxite.

(a.) Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat.

(imp. & p. p.) of Becalm

(n.) A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream.

(adv.) By chance; by accident.

(v. t. & i.) To befall; to chance; to happen to.

(imp. & p. p.) of Beckon

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

(a.) Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting.

(n.) That which is becoming or appropriate.

(v. t.) To dabble; to sprinkle or wet.

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

(n.) The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger.

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

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

(n.) Babyhood.

(v. t.) To daggle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bedaub

(v. t.) To dazzle or make dim by a strong light.

(n.) A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bedeck

(n.) Alt. of Bedegar

(n.) Same as Beadsman.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Bedim

(n.) The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate.

(n.) A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.

(v. t.) To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak.

(n.) "A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side."

(n.) A framework for supporting a bed.

(n.) The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead.

(n.) Straw put into a bed.

(n.) A genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers.

(a.) Somewhat blunt.

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

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

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

(a.) Full of blushes.

(a.) Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate.

(n.) The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks.

(n.) A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.

(n.) The nut of the beech tree.

(n.) Sour beer.

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

(n.) The state or period of infancy.

(n.) The quality of being a baby; the personality of an infant.

(n.) A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.

(a.) Having many berries.

(a.) Set or adorned with pearls.

(n.) The second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee.

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

(n.) The common beet (Beta vulgaris).

(p. p.) of Befall

(imp. & p. p.) of Befit

(v. t.) To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers.

(imp. & p. p.) of Befog

(imp. & p. p.) of Befool

(n.) The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose.

(n.) The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.

(n.) The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay.

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

(a.) Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising.

(n.) The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.

(a.) Presumptuous.

(a.) Such as can be transported in a boat.

(a.) Navigable for boats, or small river craft.

(n.) A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.

(n.) A priest of Bacchus.

(n.) A bacchanal; a reveler.

(a.) Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.

(n.) A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.

(n.) A man of any age who has not been married.

(n.) An unmarried woman.

(n.) A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts.

(n.) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight.

(n.) In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member.

(n.) A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.

(n.) The body of young aspirants for knighthood.

(a.) Shaped like a rod or staff.

(n.) A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.

(n.) The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.

(v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).

(v. i.) To censure or revile the absent.

(n.) The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

(n.) Anything like , or serving the purpose of, a backbone.

(n.) Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness.

(n.) Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Befoul

(v. t.) To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance.

(v. t.) To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe.

(v. t.) To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.

(imp. & p. p.) of Begem

() of Beget

(n.) One who begets; a father.

(a.) Capable of being begged.

(imp. & p. p.) of Beggar

(a.) In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.

(a.) Produced or occasioned by beggary.

(adv.) In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.

(n.) One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro.

() of Begird

(v. t.) To surround as with a girdle.

(p. p.) of Begnaw

() p. p. of Beget.

(v. t.) To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.

(imp. & p. p.) of Begrime

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

(v. t.) To grudge; to envy the possession of.

(imp. & p. p.) of Beguile

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

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

(n.) Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Behead

(n.) Beheading.

(n.) An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24.

(n.) A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus.

(n.) A boatman.

(a.) Acting from behind and in concealment; as, backdoor intrigues.

(n.) A receding or giving up; a complete surrender.

(n.) A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.

(a.) Without a back.

(n.) The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.

(imp.) of Backslide

() of Backslide

(prep.) On this side of.

(p. p.) of Behold

(p. a.) Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted.

(n.) One who beholds; a spectator.

(imp. & p. p.) of Behoove

(a. & adv.) Useful, or usefully.

(v. t.) To jumble together.

(n.) A lover.

(n.) A flower, but of what kind is unknown.

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

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

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

(n.) A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand.

(n.) An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln.

(n.) A sort of fine buckram.

(n.) An omen; a prognostic.

(n.) A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship, slanting a little aft, to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast.

(n.) A rope or strap used to prevent excessive forward motion.

(n.) A backer.

(v. i.) To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.

(n.) A disease of hawks. See Filanders.

(n.p.) See Bacterium.

(pl. ) of Bacterium

(imp. & p. p.) of Believe

(n.) One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.

(n.) One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel.

(n.) One who was admitted to all the rights of divine worship and instructed in all the mysteries of the Christian religion, in distinction from a catechumen, or one yet under instruction.

(v. t.) To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.

(a.) Having no body.

(a.) Without material form; incorporeal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod.

(n.) A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.

(imp. & p. p.) of Badger

(n.) One who badgers.

(n.) A kind of dog used in badger baiting.

(n.) A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.

(n.) Playful raillery; banter.

(a.) Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bellow

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

(a.) Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal.

(n.) A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.

(n.) The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places.

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

(a.) Doubtful; skittish.

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

(a.) Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks.

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

(n.) As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough.

(imp. & p. p.) of Belong

(n.) Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.

(n.) One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower.

(n.) One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper.

(n.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.

(n.) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.

(v. t.) To mangle; to tear asunder.

(v. t.) To master thoroughly.

(v. t.) To mingle; to mix.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Bemoan

(n.) One who bemoans.

(a.) Rough or rude; coarse; strong; violent; boisterous; noisy.

(n.) The state or quality of being bold.

(a.) Having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail, upon bond with sureties; -- used of persons.

(a.) Admitting of bail; as, a bailable offense.

(a.) That can be delivered in trust; as, bailable goods.

(n.) The action of bailing a person accused.

(n.) A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed.

(v. t.) To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.

(v. t.) To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up.

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

(n.) The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops.

(adv.) In a hot or baking manner.

(n.) Same as Backsheesh.

(a.) Capable of being bent.

(adv.) Diagonally.

(a.) See Neaped.

(imp. & p. p.) of Balance

(n.) One who balances, or uses a balance.

(n.) In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing.

(n.) A fossil balanoid shell.

(a.) Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle.

(n.) A favor or benefit.

(n.) An estate in lands; a fief.

(n.) An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson.

(v. t.) To endow with a benefice.

(n.) Alt. of Bombardon

(n.) A person whose head is bald.

(n.) A white-headed variety of pigeon.

(n.) The state or condition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style.

(n.) A baldheaded person.

(n.) The American widgeon (Anas Americana).

(a.) Alt. of Baldpated

(n.) A badgerlike animal of India (Arcionyx collaris).

(n.) A crossbow.

(imp. & p. p.) of Benet

(adv.) In a benign manner.

(n.) A holy-water stoup.

(imp. & p. p.) of Benumb

(a.) Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind.

(n.) A salt formed by the union of benzoic acid with any salifiable base.

(a.) Decked with feathers.

(v. t.) To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing.

(v. t.) To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.

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

(a.) Puffed; praised.

(v. t.) To tinge or dye with a purple color.

(v. t.) To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property.

(v. t.) To hand down; to transmit.

(v. t.) To give; to offer; to commit.

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

(v. t.) To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down.

(n.) A writer of ballads.

(n.) Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads.

(n.) Alt. of Ballahou

(n.) A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies.

(v. i.) To bully; to threaten.

(n.) An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.

(n.) See Barberry.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bereave

(n.) One who bereaves.

(n.) A pastoral song.

(imp. & p. p.) of Berhyme

(n.) An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.

(n.) See Barnacle.

(n.) A bernicle goose.

(a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, or the family Bombycidae.

(n.) The aurochs or European bison. See Aurochs.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ballot

(n.) One who votes by ballot.

(n.) A room for balls or dancing.

(n.) A bathing room.

(n.) See Ballotade.

(n.) A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green.

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

(n.) A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild.

(n.) See Bilander.

(n.) A retired or private place.

(pl. ) of Byssus

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

(n.) A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.

(n.) The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Berycidae, a family of marine fishes.

(a.) Alt. of Balsamical

(n.) A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade.

(v. t.) To cover with scrawls; to scribble over.

(v. t.) To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal.

(imp. & p. p.) of Beseech

(imp. & p. p.) of Beseem

(a.) Fit; suitable; becoming.

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

(v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen.

(n.) A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field.

(n.) A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.

(pl. ) of Bondsman

(n.) A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman.

(n.) A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another.

(n.) Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bandage

(imp. & p. p.) of Besiege

(n.) One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.

(v. t.) To defile with slaver; to beslobber.

(v. t.) To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully.

(imp. & p. p.) of Besnow

(imp. & p. p.) of Besot

(a.) Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied.

() p. p. of Beseech.

(n.) Pain in the bones.

(n.) See Ladyfish.

(a.) Without bones.

(n.) Sciatica.

(n.) A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat.

(n.) Alt. of Bonhommie

(a.) Sensitive or responsive to moral excellence.

(n.) The condition or quality of being bony.

(a.) Beneficial, as opposed to statutory or civil; as, bonitary dominion of land.

(pl. ) of Bonito

(n.) Alt. of Bandana

(pl. ) of Bandeau

(n.) Alt. of Bandlet

(pl. ) of Bandit

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

() of Bespeak

(imp. & p. p.) of Bespread

(v. t.) To spread or cover over.

(p. p.) Sprinkled over; strewed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bestow

(n.) The act of bestowing; disposal.

(n.) One that bestows.

(v. t.) To streak.

() of Bestrew

(imp.) of Bestride

() of Bestride

(v. t.) To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over

(a.) Wearing a bonnet.

(a.) Protected by a bonnet. See Bonnet, 4 (a).

(n.) A handsome girl.

(n.) A cur/ing match between clubs.

(n.) The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga). Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni.

(a.) Stupid; dull.

(imp. & p. p.) of Boohoe

(n.) Alt. of Bockland

(a.) Without books; unlearned.

(n.) Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

(n.) A schoolfellow; an associate in study.

(n.) A bookseller's shop.

(n.) Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work.

(n.) Study; application to books.

(n.) A small West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus), resembling the musk deer.

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

(v. t. & i.) To forage for booty; to plunder.

(n.) Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots.

(n.) Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback.

(n.) A little boot, legging, or gaiter.

(n.) A covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the gout.

(n.) A device for pulling off boots.

(a.) Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.

(n.) A toady.

(n.) A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with magnesium chloride.

(a.) Relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax.

(n.) A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution.

(imp. & p. p.) of Border

(n.) One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region.

(n.) A brassicaceous plant of many varieties, cultivated for its leaves, which are not formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale.

(imp. & p. p.) of Borrow

(n.) Deadly nightshade.

(imp. & p. p.) of Banish

(n.) One who banishes.

(n.) A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.

(v. t.) To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold.

() imp. & p. p. of Bestride.

() p. p. of Bestrew.

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

(v. t.) To reduce to thralldom; to inthrall.

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

(v. t.) To attack with the tongue; to abuse; to insult.

(pl. ) of Betony

(imp. & p. p.) of Betray

(n.) The act or the result of betraying.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Better

(v. i.) To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch.

(n.) See Burnoose.

(n.) An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels.

(a.) Resembling an ox in form; ox-shaped.

(n.) One who borrows.

(n.) The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket.

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

() of Bowel

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

(n.) A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.

() of Bevel

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

(a.) Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.

(a.) Replaced by two planes inclining equally upon the adjacent planes, as an edge; having its edges replaced by sloping planes, as a cube or other solid.

(v. t.) Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage.

(v. t.) Specifically, a name applied to various kinds of drink.

(v. t.) A treat, or drink money.

(a.) Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bewail

(pl. ) of Bowery

(n.) A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice.

(adv.) In a bending manner.

(n.) One who bewails or laments.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bewig

(v. t.) To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.

(v. t.) To make wintry.

(v. t.) To fill with wonder.

(v. t.) To wonder at; to admire.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bewray

(n.) One who, or that which, bewrays; a revealer.

(n.) A low fellow or scoundrel; a beggar.

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

(n.) The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling.

(a.) Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling.

(v. t.) Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.

(v. t.) Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.

(a.) Characterized by bowlders.

(n.) A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward.

(n.) The wintergreen. (Gaultheria procumbens).

(n.) A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum.

(adv.) In a boyish manner; like a boy.

(n.) One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.

(v. i.) To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.

(v. t.) To explore for botanical purposes.

(a.) Having, or terminating in, two tails.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bicker

(n.) One who bickers.

(pl. ) of Botany

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

(n.) A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bother

(n.) A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler.

(a.) Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.

(n.) An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls.

(n.) A piece of defensive armor for the arm.

(a.) Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.

(a.) Of the nature of an arm; resembling an arm.

(n.) The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.

(n.) See Brahman.

(a.) Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens.

(a.) Alt. of Bicornous

(a.) Having two legs.

(a.) Alt. of Bicuspidate

(n.) One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.

(n.) One who rides a bicycle.

(a.) Relating to bicycles.

(a.) Obedient; docile.

(a.) Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.

(a.) Having the nature or appearance of a bract.

(n.) A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers.

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

(a.) Having two teeth.

(a.) Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.

(a.) Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second.

(n.) Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.

(n.) A plant which exists or lasts for two years.

(n.) A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals.

(a.) Having the opposite surfaces alike.

(a.) Bearing fruit twice a year.

(a.) See Bifid.

(a.) Having two perforations.

(n.) An oval sac or cell, found in the leaves of certain plants of the order Araceae. It has an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged.

(a.) Bifurcate.

(a.) Having two forms.

(n.) One who bothers.

(a.) Alt. of Botryoidal

(a.) Having the form of a cluster of grapes.

(a.) Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence.

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

(n.) The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bottom

(a.) Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed.

(n.) A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and usually does, exceed the legal rate of interest. See Hypothecation.

(n. pl.) Small patties.

(a.) Purchased; not obtained or produced at home.

(n.) A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth.

(n.) An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.

(a.) Characterized by bowlders.

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

(v. i.) A boaster.

(a.) Boastful.

(a.) Without bragging.

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

(n.) The act of making or using braids.

(n.) Braids, collectively; trimming.

(a.) Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.

(a.) Excessive; big.

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

(n.) That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit.

(a.) Moving with a bound or bounds.

(pl. ) of Bounty

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

(a.) Hot-headed; furious.

(n.) The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.

(pl. ) of Brakeman

(n.) A man in charge of a brake or brakes.

(n.) The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.

(a.) Overgrown with brambles.

(n.) A litter on which a person may be carried.

(pl. ) of Branch

(imp. & p. p.) of Branch

(n.) That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.

(n.) A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches.

(n.) A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.

(a.) See Biforate.

(n.) One who is guilty of bigamy.

(a.) Guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy; as, a bigamous marriage.

(n.) The large white-heart cherry.

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

(a.) Mingled with brandy; made stronger by the addition of brandy; flavored or treated with brandy; as, brandied peaches.

(n.) To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish.

(n.) To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms.

(n.) A flourish, as with a weapon, whip, etc.

(pl. ) of Brandy

(imp. & p. p.) of Brangle

(n.) A quarrelsome person.

(a.) See Brand-new.

(n.) The European redstart; -- so called from the red color of its tail.

(a.) Relating to the brain; cerebral.

(n.) A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; -- now called seigniorage.

(n.) Armor for the arm; -- generally used for the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th centuries, of many parts.

(n.) A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.

(n.) Planking to support a roof or wall.

(n.) A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha.

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

(a.) Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy.

(a.) Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3.

(n.) A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.

(n.) A cage for confining birds.

(n.) An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares.

(v. t.) To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.

(n.) A notorious gambler.

(n.) A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck.

(n.) A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.

(n.) A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.

(n.) A hole in the ice to which whales, seals, etc., come to breathe.

(n.) An air hole in a casting.

(n.) A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object.

(n.) A blowgun; a blowtube.

(n.) A nickname for a Nova Scotian.

(n.) A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproidae; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout.

(n.) An Australian percoid fish (Histiopterus recurvirostris), valued as a food fish.

(n.) A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver.

(n.) The head of a bolt.

(n.) A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.

(n.) A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.

(n.) Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.

(n.) A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation.

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Brigade

(a.) To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to.

(a.) To make illustrious, or more distinguished; to add luster or splendor to.

(a.) To improve or relieve by dispelling gloom or removing that which obscures and darkens; to shed light upon; to make cheerful; as, to brighten one's prospects.

(a.) To make acute or witty; to enliven.

(v. i.) To grow bright, or more bright; to become less dark or gloomy; to clear up; to become bright or cheerful.

(adv.) Brilliantly; splendidly; with luster; as, brightly shining armor.

(adv.) With lively intelligence; intelligently.

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

(a.) Having no brim; as, brimless caps.

(a.) Full to the brim; overflowing.

(a.) Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded.

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Bristle

(n.) A long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey.

(imp. & p. p.) of Broach

(n.) A spit; a broach.

(n.) One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter.

(a.) Rather broad; moderately broad.

(a.) Woven or worked, as brocade, with gold and silver, or with raised flowers, etc.

(a.) Dressed in brocade.

(n.) A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.

(n.) A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble, from its locality.

(n.) A plant of the Cabbage species (Brassica oleracea) of many varieties, resembling the cauliflower. The "curd," or flowering head, is the part used for food.

(v. t.) A printed and stitched book containing only a few leaves; a pamphlet.

(a.) Beastly; brutal.

(n.) A buskin or half-boot.

(n.) Embroidery.

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

(a.) Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun.

(n.) The act of causing anything to broil.

(adv.) In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language.

(a.) Mean; servile.

(n.) See Bromide.

(n. pl.) The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi.

(n.) One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions.

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

(n.) A metal so prepared as to have the appearance of bronze.

(a.) Made of bronzine; resembling bronze; bronzelike.

(n.) The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes.

(n.) A material for bronzing.

(n.) A variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. It is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family.

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

(n.) A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.

(pl. ) of Brother

(pl. ) of Brother

(n.) A light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short.

(imp.) of Browbeat

(v. t.) To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses.

(a.) Without shame.

(a.) Somewhat brown.

(n.) A beam that goes across a building.

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

(n.) Browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse.

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

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

(a.) A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion.

(a.) Having a dark tint.

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

(a.) Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine.

(a.) Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop.

(n.) A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.

(imp. & p. p.) of Brustle

(adv.) In a brutal manner; cruelly.

(n.) That part of botany which relates to mosses.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Bryozoa.

(n.) One of the Bryozoa.

(n.) An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zooecia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.).

(a.) Resembling a buffalo.

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

(a.) Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.

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

(a.) Wavy; curling, as hair.

(n.) The skin of a buck.

(n.) A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.

(n.) A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.

(n.) Breeches made of buckskin.

(pl. ) of Bucranium

(n.) A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.

(imp. & p. p.) of Buffet

(n.) One who buffets; a boxer.

(n.) An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oolite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.

(n.) Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc.

(n.) See Bulbul.

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

(n.) The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.

(n.) The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.

(n.) That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.

(n.) A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck.

(n.) A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front.

(v. t.) To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana.

(n.) A brief statement of facts respecting some passing event, as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority for the information of the public.

(n.) Any public notice or announcement, especially of news recently received.

(n.) A periodical publication, especially one containing the proceeding of a society.

(n.) Alt. of Bullfice

(n.) A kind of fungus. See Puffball.

(n.) A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's thumb.

(n.) In America, several species of Amiurus; -- called also catfish, horned pout, and bullpout.

(n.) A marine fish of the genus Cottus; the sculpin.

(n.) The black-bellied plover (Squatarola helvetica); -- called also beetlehead.

(n.) The golden plover.

(n.) A stupid fellow; a lubber.

(n.) A small black water insect.

(n.) See Bullhead, 1 (b).

(n.) Knapweed.

(n.) See Bishop's-weed.

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

(v. t.) Same as Bullirag.

(n.) See Bumboat.

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

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

(n.) A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda.

(n.) A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood.

(n.) See Bung, n., 2.

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

(a.) Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman.

(n.) One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.

(n.) Buoyancy.

(n.) The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water.

(n.) The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced.

(n.) Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits.

(imp. & p. p.) of Burden

(n.) One who loads; an oppressor.

(n.) See Bergamot.

(n.) See Burgonet.

(n.) A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.

(n.) A very large species of frog (Rana Catesbiana), found in North America; -- so named from its loud bellowing in spring.

(imp. & p. p.) of Brazen

(adv.) In a bold, impudent manner.

(n.) A substance contained in both Brazil wood and Sapan wood, from which it is extracted as a yellow crystalline substance which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies.

(imp. & p. p.) of Breach

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

(n.) The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.

(n.) An allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use.

(n.) Disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break-up of an assembly or dinner party; a break-up of the government.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Breathe

(n.) One who breathes. Hence: (a) One who lives.(b) One who utters. (c) One who animates or inspires.

(n.) That which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise.

(imp. & p. p.) of Breech

(n. pl.) A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.

(n. pl.) Trousers; pantaloons.

(n.) A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.

(n.) pl. of Brother.

(n.) The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.

(n.) The rank or condition of a brevet officer.

(n.) An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary.

(n.) A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal.

(n.) A short compend; a summary; a brief statement.

(n.) A lawyer's brief.

(v. t.) To abbreviate.

(a.) Having short legs.

(n.) A breviped bird.

(n.) A brevipennate bird.

(a.) Capable of being bribed.

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

(n.) A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4.

(n.) Celebration of the nuptial feast.

(n.) The marriage bed.

(n.) See Bridesmaid, Bridesman.

(n.) A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.

(a.) Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting.

(a.) Backhanded; indirect; oblique.

(n.) The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

(adv.) Alt. of Backwards

(a.) Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances.

(a.) Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath.

(a.) Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child.

(a.) Late or behindhand; as, a backward season.

(a.) Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state.

(a.) Already past or gone; bygone.

(n.) The state behind or past.

(v. i.) To keep back; to hinder.

(n.) Alt. of Baked-meat

(n.) A signal fire; an alarm fire.

(n.) A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball.

(n.) The ball used in this game.

(a.) Born out of wedlock.

(a.) Born of low parentage.

(a.) Vile; mean.

(n.) The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree.

(n.) A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general.

(n.) A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.

(n.) One who makes beds.

(n.) An Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland.

(n.) A South American bird of the genus Casmarhincos, and family Cotingidae, of several species; the campanero.

(n.) The Myzantha melanophrys of Australia.