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Bad
  • (imp.) Bade.
  • (superl.) Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral

    Bade
  • (imp.) of Bid

    Badge
  • (n.) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one
  • (v. t.) To mark or distinguish with a badge.

    Badinage
  • (n.) Playful raillery

    Badly
  • (adv.) In a bad manner

    Badminton
  • (n.) A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.

    Baffle
  • (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns
  • (v. i.) To practice deceit.
  • (v. t.) To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

    Baffling
  • (a.) Frustrating

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

    Bagatelle
  • (n.) A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player

    Baggage
  • (n.) A man of bad character.

    Bagging
  • (n.) Cloth or other material for bags.

    Baggy
  • (a.) Resembling a bag

    Bagman
  • (n.) A commercial traveler

    Bagnio
  • (n.) A brothel

    Baguette
  • (n.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller

    Bagwig
  • (n.) A wig, in use in the 18th century, with the hair at the back of the head in a bag.

    Bah
  • (interj.) An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt.

    Bail
  • (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.
  • (v./t.) To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted
  • (v. t.) To dip or lade water from

    Bairam
  • (n.) Either of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one (the Lesser Bairam) is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other (the Greater Bairam) seventy days after the fast

    Bairn
  • (n.) A child.

    Bait
  • (v. i.) A light or hasty luncheon.
  • (v. t.) To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook.

    Baize
  • (n.) A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap

    Bake
  • (n.) The process, or result, of baking.
  • (v. i.) To be baked
  • (v. t.) To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks

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

    Balaam
  • (n.) A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column

    Balance
  • (n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock.
  • (v. i.) To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force

    Balata
  • (n.) A West Indian sapotaceous tree (Bumelia retusa).

    Balcony
  • (n.) A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet

    Bald
  • (a.) Destitute of a beard or awn

    Bale
  • (n.) A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation

    Balk
  • (v. i.) A deceptive gesture of the pitcher, as if to deliver the ball.
  • (v. t.) To disappoint

    Ballad
  • (n.) A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing
  • (v. i.) To make or sing ballads.
  • (v. t.) To make mention of in ballads.

    Ballast
  • (a.) Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.
  • (v. t.) To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid

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

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

    Ballistic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine

    Balloon
  • (n.) A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere
  • (v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
  • (v. t.) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.

    Ballot
  • (n.) Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting
  • (v. t.) To vote for or in opposition to.

    Ballroom
  • (n.) A room for balls or dancing.

    Balm
  • (n.) An aromatic plant of the genus Melissa.
  • (v. i.) To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal. Hence: To soothe

    Balneology
  • (n.) A treatise on baths

    Balneotherapy
  • (n.) The treatment of disease by baths.

    Balsa
  • (n.) A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.

    Baltic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the sea which separates Norway and Sweden from Jutland, Denmark, and Germany

    Baluster
  • (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

    Balustrade
  • (n.) A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building

    Bam
  • (n.) An imposition
  • (v. t.) To cheat

    Bambino
  • (n.) A child or baby

    Bamboo
  • (n.) A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries.
  • (v. t.) To flog with the bamboo.

    Ban
  • (n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service
  • (v. i.) To curse
  • (v. t.) To curse

    Banal
  • (a.) Commonplace

    Banana
  • (n.) A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum)

    Banco
  • (n.) A bank, especially that of Venice.

    Band
  • (v. i.) To confederate for some common purpose
  • (v. t.) A belt or strap.

    Bane
  • (n.) A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.
  • (v. t.) To be the bane of

    Bang
  • (n.) A blow as with a club
  • (v. i.) To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows
  • (v. t.) To beat, as with a club or cudgel

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

    Banister
  • (n.) A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine

    Bank
  • (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley
  • (v. i.) To deposit money in a bank
  • (v. t.) To deposit in a bank.

    Banner
  • (n.) A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle

    Bannock
  • (n.) A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle

    Banns
  • (n. pl.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place

    Banquet
  • (n.) A dessert
  • (v. i.) To partake of a dessert after a feast.
  • (v. t.) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food

    Bantam
  • (n.) A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java

    Banter
  • (n.) The act of bantering
  • (v. t.) To address playful good-natured ridicule to

    Bantu
  • (n.) A member of one of the great family of Negroid tribes occupying equatorial and southern Africa

    Banyan
  • (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

    Banzai
  • (interj.) Lit., May you live ten thousand years

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

    Baptism
  • (v. i.) The act of baptizing

    Baptist
  • (n.) One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion

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

    Bar
  • (n.) A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation

    Barathea
  • (n.) A soft fabric with a kind of basket weave and a diapered pattern.

    Barb
  • (n.) A bit for a horse.
  • (v. t.) To clip

    Bard
  • (v. t.) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

    Bare
  • (a.) Destitute
  • (n.) Surface

    Bargain
  • (n.) An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property
  • (v. t.) To transfer for a consideration

    Barge
  • (n.) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.

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

    Baric
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to barium

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

    Barite
  • (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

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

    Barium
  • (n.) One of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group

    Bark
  • (v. i.) To make a clamor
  • (v. t.) To abrade or rub off any outer covering from

    Barley
  • (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

    Barm
  • (n.) Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing

    Barn
  • (n.) A child.
  • (v. t.) To lay up in a barn.

    Barogram
  • (n.) A tracing, usually made by the barograph, showing graphically the variations of atmospheric pressure for a given time

    Barograph
  • (n.) An instrument for recording automatically the variations of atmospheric pressure.

    Barometer
  • (n.) An instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, and hence for judging of the probable changes of weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent

    Baron
  • (n.) A husband

    Baroque
  • (a.) In bad taste

    Barothermograph
  • (n.) An instrument for recording both pressure and temperature, as of the atmosphere.

    Barouche
  • (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

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

    Barrack
  • (n.) A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings
  • (v. i.) To live or lodge in barracks.
  • (v. t.) To supply with barracks

    Barracoon
  • (n.) A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily.

    Barrage
  • (n.) An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water

    Barramundi
  • (n.) An Australian river fish (Osteoglossum Leichhardtii).

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

    Barratry
  • (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

    Barrel
  • (n.) A jar.
  • (v. t.) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.

    Barren
  • (a.) Incapable of producing offspring
  • (n.) A tract of barren land.

    Barret
  • (n.) A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers

    Barricade
  • (n.) A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy

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

    Barrio
  • (n.) In Spain and countries colonized by Spain, a village, ward, or district outside a town or city to whose jurisdiction it belongs

    Barrister
  • (n.) Counselor at law

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

    Barrow
  • (n.) A heap of rubbish, attle, etc.

    Bartender
  • (n.) A barkeeper.

    Barter
  • (n.) The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities
  • (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
  • (v. t.) To trade or exchange in the way of barter

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

    Barton
  • (n.) A farmyard.

    Barysphere
  • (n.) The heavy interior portion of the earth, within the lithosphere.

    Baryta
  • (n.) An oxide of barium (or barytum)

    Barytes
  • (n.) Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite.

    Basal
  • (a.) Relating to, or forming, the base.

    Basanite
  • (n.) Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color

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

    Base
  • (a.) Alloyed with inferior metal
  • (n.) A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower

    Bash
  • (v. t.) To strike heavily
  • (v. t. & i.) To abash

    Basic
  • (a.) Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper

    Basidium
  • (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

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

    Basil
  • (n.) The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush basil, or lesser basil (O
  • (v. t.) To grind or form the edge of to an angle.

    Basin
  • (n.) A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river

    Basis
  • (n.) The foundation of anything

    Bask
  • (v. t.) To lie in warmth

    Basque
  • (a.) Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language.
  • (n.) A part of a lady's dress, resembling a jacket with a short skirt

    Bass
  • (a.) A bass, or deep, sound or tone.
  • (n.) A hassock or thick mat.
  • (v. t.) To sound in a deep tone.

    Bast
  • (n.) A thick mat or hassock.

    Bat
  • (n.) A large stick
  • (v. i.) To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
  • (v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole
  • (v. t. & i.) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.

    Batch
  • (v. t.) A quantity of anything produced at one operation

    Bate
  • (n.) An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals
  • (v. i.) To flutter as a hawk
  • (v. t.) To allow by way of abatement or deduction.

    Batfish
  • (n.) A name given to several species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast

    Bath
  • (n.) A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing.

    Batiste
  • (n.) Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen

    Baton
  • (n.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister

    Batrachian
  • (a.) Pertaining to the Batrachia.
  • (n.) One of the Batrachia.

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

    Battalion
  • (n.) A body of troops
  • (v. t.) To form into battalions.

    Batten
  • (n .) A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling
  • (v. i.) To grow fat
  • (v. t.) The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.

    Batter
  • (n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank
  • (v. i.) To slope gently backward.
  • (v. t.) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

    Batting
  • (n.) Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.

    Battle
  • (a.) Fertile.
  • (n.) To join in battle
  • (v. t.) A division of an army

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

    Batty
  • (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat.

    Bauble
  • (n.) A trifling piece of finery

    Bavarian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Bavaria.
  • (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria.

    Bawd
  • (n.) A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose
  • (v. i.) To procure women for lewd purposes.

    Bawl
  • (n.) A loud, prolonged cry
  • (v. i.) To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation.
  • (v. t.) To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does.

    Bay
  • (a.) Reddish brown
  • (n.) A bank or dam to keep back water.
  • (v. i.) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible
  • (v. t.) To bark at

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

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

    Bayonet
  • (n.) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery
  • (v. t.) To compel or drive by the bayonet.

    Bayou
  • (n.) An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind

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

    Be
  • (v. i.) To exist actually, or in the world of fact

    Beach
  • (n.) Pebbles, collectively
  • (v. t.) To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach

    Beacon
  • (n.) A high hill near the shore.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a beacon or beacons.

    Bead
  • (n.) A bubble in spirits.
  • (v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles.
  • (v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading.

    Beagle
  • (n.) A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game

    Beak
  • (n.) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy

    Beam
  • (n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving
  • (v. i.) To emit beams of light.
  • (v. t.) To send forth

    Bean
  • (n.) A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos

    Bear
  • (n.) A bier.
  • (v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else
  • (v. t.) To admit or be capable of

    Beast
  • (n.) A game at cards similar to loo.

    Beat
  • (a.) Weary
  • (imp.) of Beat
  • (n.) A recurring stroke
  • (p. p.) of Beat
  • (v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade
  • (v. t.) To cheat

    Beau
  • (n.) A man who escorts, or pays attentions to, a lady

    Bebeeru
  • (n.) A tropical South American tree (Nectandra Rodioei), the bark of which yields the alkaloid bebeerine, and the wood of which is known as green heart

    Becalm
  • (v. t.) To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind

    Became
  • (imp.) of Become

    Because
  • (conj.) By or for the cause that

    Beccafico
  • (n.) A small bird. (Silvia hortensis), which is highly prized by the Italians for the delicacy of its flesh in the autumn, when it has fed on figs, grapes, etc

    Beck
  • (n.) A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command.
  • (v. i.) To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand.
  • (v. t.) To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand

    Becloud
  • (v. t.) To cause obscurity or dimness to

    Become
  • (p. p.) of Become
  • (v. i.) To come
  • (v. t.) To suit or be suitable to

    Becoming
  • (a.) Appropriate or fit
  • (n.) That which is becoming or appropriate.

    Bed
  • (n.) (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
  • (v. i.) To go to bed
  • (v. t.) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.

    Bedaub
  • (v. t.) To daub over

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

    Bedbug
  • (n.) A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds

    Bedclothes
  • (n. pl.) Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.

    Bedding
  • (n.) A bed and its furniture

    Bedeck
  • (v. t.) To deck, ornament, or adorn

    Bedevil
  • (v. t.) To spoil

    Bedew
  • (v. t.) To moisten with dew, or as with dew.

    Bedfellow
  • (n.) One who lies with another in the same bed

    Bedim
  • (v. t.) To make dim

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

    Bedlam
  • (a.) Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse.
  • (n.) An insane person

    Bedouin
  • (a.) Pertaining to the Bedouins
  • (n.) One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp

    Bedpan
  • (n.) A pan for warming beds.

    Bedplate
  • (n.) The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place

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

    Bedridden
  • (v. i.) Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity.

    Bedroom
  • (n.) A room or apartment intended or used for a bed

    Bedside
  • (n.) The side of a bed.

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

    Bedspread
  • (n.) A bedquilt

    Bedstead
  • (n.) A framework for supporting a bed.

    Bedtime
  • (n.) The time to go to bed.

    Bee
  • (n.) A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family

    Beebread
  • (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

    Beech
  • (n.) A tree of the genus Fagus.

    Beef
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
  • (n.) An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state

    Beehive
  • (n.) A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively.

    Beelzebub
  • (n.) The title of a heathen deity to whom the Jews ascribed the sovereignty of the evil spirits

    Been
  • (p. p.) of Be

    Beer
  • (n.) A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc

    Beestings
  • (n. pl.) The first milk given by a cow after calving.

    Beeswax
  • (n.) The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed.

    Beeswing
  • (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

    Beet
  • (n.) A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year

    Beeves
  • (n.) plural of Beef, the animal.

    Befall
  • (v. i.) To come to pass
  • (v. t.) To happen to.

    Befit
  • (v. t.) To be suitable to

    Befog
  • (v. t.) Hence: To confuse

    Before
  • (adv.) Earlier
  • (prep.) An advance of

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

    Befriend
  • (v. t.) To act as a friend to

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

    Beg
  • (n.) A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East
  • (v. i.) To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house
  • (v. t.) To ask earnestly for

    Began
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Begin

    Beget
  • (v. t.) To get (with child.)

    Beggar
  • (n.) One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.
  • (v. t.) To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.

    Begin
  • (n.) Beginning.
  • (v. i.) To do the first act or the first part of an action
  • (v. t.) To enter on

    Begone
  • (interj.) Go away
  • (p. p.) Surrounded

    Begonia
  • (n.) A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants

    Begot
  • (imp.) of Beget
  • (p. p.) of Beget

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

    Begrudge
  • (v. t.) To grudge

    Beguile
  • (v. t.) To cause the time of to pass without notice

    Beguiling
  • (a.) Alluring by guile

    Beguine
  • (n.) A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows

    Begum
  • (n.) In the East Indies, a princess or lady of high rank.

    Behalf
  • (n.) Advantage

    Behave
  • (v. i.) To act
  • (v. t.) To carry

    Behavior
  • (n.) Manner of behaving, whether good or bad

    Behead
  • (v. t.) To sever the head from

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

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

    Behest
  • (n.) A vow
  • (v. t.) To vow.

    Behind
  • (a.) Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement
  • (adv.) After the departure of another
  • (n.) The backside

    Behold
  • (v. i.) To direct the eyes to, or fix them upon, an object
  • (v. t.) To have in sight

    Behoove
  • (n.) Advantage
  • (v. i.) To be necessary, fit, or suitable
  • (v. t.) To be necessary for

    Behove
  • (v.) and derivatives.

    Beige
  • (n.) Debeige.

    Being
  • (adv.) Since
  • (n.) An abode
  • (p. pr.) Existing.

    Bejewel
  • (v. t.) To ornament with a jewel or with jewels

    Bel
  • (n.) A thorny rutaceous tree (Aegle marmelos) of India, and its aromatic, orange-like fruit

    Belabor
  • (v. t.) To beat soundly

    Belated
  • (a.) Delayed beyond the usual time

    Belay
  • (v. t.) To lay on or cover

    Belch
  • (n.) Malt liquor
  • (v. i.) To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence

    Beleaguer
  • (v. t.) To surround with an army so as to preclude escape

    Belemnite
  • (n.) A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken

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

    Belgian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Belgium.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Belgium.

    Belial
  • (n.) An evil spirit

    Belie
  • (n.) To fill with lies.

    Belike
  • (adv.) It is likely or probably

    Belittle
  • (v. t.) To make little or less in a moral sense

    Bell
  • (n.) A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck
  • (v. i.) To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time
  • (v. t.) To make bell-mouthed

    Belong
  • (v. i.) To be a part of, or connected with
  • (v. t.) To be deserved by.

    Beloved
  • (n.) One greatly loved.
  • (p. p. & a.) Greatly loved

    Below
  • (adv.) In a lower place, with respect to any object
  • (prep.) Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.

    Belt
  • (n.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other
  • (v. t.) To encircle with, or as with, a belt

    Beluga
  • (n.) A cetacean allied to the dolphins.

    Belvedere
  • (n.) A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect

    Bema
  • (n.) A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.

    Bemire
  • (v. t.) To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire

    Bemoan
  • (v. t.) To express deep grief for by moaning

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

    Bench
  • (n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public
  • (v. i.) To sit on a seat of justice.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with benches.

    Bend
  • (n.) A band.
  • (v. i.) To be inclined
  • (v. t.) To apply closely or with interest

    Beneath
  • (adv.) Below, as opposed to heaven, or to any superior region or position
  • (prep.) Lower in place, with something directly over or on

    Benedicite
  • (n.) A canticle (the Latin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England

    Benedict
  • (a.) Having mild and salubrious qualities.

    Benefaction
  • (n.) A benefit conferred

    Benefactor
  • (n.) One who confers a benefit or benefits.

    Benefactress
  • (n.) A woman who confers a benefit.

    Benefic
  • (a.) Favorable

    Benefit
  • (n.) An act of kindness
  • (v. i.) To gain advantage
  • (v. t.) To be beneficial to

    Benevolence
  • (n.) An act of kindness

    Benevolent
  • (a.) Having a disposition to do good

    Bengali
  • (n.) The language spoken in Bengal.

    Benign
  • (a.) Exhibiting or manifesting kindness, gentleness, favor, etc.

    Benison
  • (n.) Blessing

    Benjamin
  • (n.) A kind of upper coat for men.

    Benne
  • (n.) The name of two plants (Sesamum orientale and S. indicum), originally Asiatic

    Bent
  • (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight
  • (n.) A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp
  • (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill.

    Benumb
  • (a.) To make torpid

    Benzene
  • (n.) A volatile, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from which it is separated by fractional distillation

    Benzine
  • (n.) A liquid consisting mainly of the lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil, used as a solvent and for cleansing soiled fabrics

    Benzoin
  • (n.) A resinous substance, dry and brittle, obtained from the Styrax benzoin, a tree of Sumatra, Java, etc

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

    Benzoyl
  • (n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CO

    Benzyl
  • (n.) A compound radical, C6H5.CH2, related to toluene and benzoic acid


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