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Bob
  • (n.) A blow
  • (v. i.) To angle with a bob.

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

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

    Bobby
  • (n.) A nickname for a policeman

    Bobolink
  • (n.) An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white

    Bobsleigh
  • (n.) A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling

    Bobstay
  • (n.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater

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

    Bobwhite
  • (n.) The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus)

    Bode
  • (imp. & p. p.) Abode.
  • (n.) A bid
  • (p. p.) Bid or bidden.
  • (v. i.) To foreshow something
  • (v. t.) A messenger

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

    Bodiless
  • (a.) Having no body.

    Bodily
  • (a.) Having a body or material form
  • (adv.) Corporeally

    Bodkin
  • (n.) A dagger.

    Body
  • (n.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness
  • (v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, a body

    Boer
  • (n.) A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.

    Bog
  • (n.) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
  • (v. t.) To sink, as into a bog

    Bogey
  • (n.) A given score or number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete

    Boggle
  • (n.) To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.
  • (v. t.) To embarrass with difficulties

    Boggy
  • (a.) Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs

    Bogie
  • (n.) A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track

    Bogue
  • (n.) The boce
  • (v. i.) To fall off from the wind

    Bogus
  • (a.) Spurious
  • (n.) A liquor made of rum and molasses.

    Bohea
  • (n.) Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea.

    Bohemia
  • (n.) A country of central Europe.

    Boil
  • (n.) Act or state of boiling.
  • (v.) To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point
  • (v. t.) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation

    Boisterous
  • (a.) Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury

    Bold
  • (n.) Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger
  • (v. i.) To be or become bold.
  • (v. t.) To make bold or daring.

    Bole
  • (n.) A bolus

    Bolide
  • (n.) A kind of bright meteor

    Boll
  • (n.) A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels
  • (v. i.) To form a boll or seed vessel

    Bolo
  • (n.) A kind of large knife resembling a machete.

    Bolster
  • (n.) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation
  • (v. t.) To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort

    Bolt
  • (adv.) In the manner of a bolt
  • (n.) A bundle, as of oziers.
  • (v. i.) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected
  • (v. t.) To cause to start or spring forth

    Bolus
  • (n.) A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.

    Bomb
  • (n.) A bomb ketch.
  • (v. i.) To sound
  • (v. t.) To bombard.

    Bonanza
  • (n.) In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold

    Bonapartism
  • (n.) The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes.

    Bonbon
  • (n.) Sugar confectionery

    Bond
  • (a.) In a state of servitude or slavery
  • (n.) A binding force or influence
  • (v. t.) To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.

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

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

    Bongo
  • (n.) Either of two large antelopes (Boocercus eurycercus of West Africa, and B. isaaci of East Africa) of a reddish or chestnut-brown color with narrow white stripes on the body

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

    Bonnet
  • (n.) A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead
  • (v. i.) To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect

    Bonny
  • (a.) Gay
  • (n.) A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.

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

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

    Bonus
  • (n.) An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.

    Bon vivant
  • (p. pr.) A good fellow

    Bony
  • (a.) Consisting of bone, or of bones

    Bonze
  • (n.) A Buddhist or Fohist priest, monk, or nun.

    Booby
  • (a.) Having the characteristics of a booby
  • (n.) A dunce

    Boodle
  • (n.) Money given in payment for votes or political influence

    Boohoo
  • (n.) The sailfish

    Book
  • (n.) A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together
  • (v. t.) To enter, write, or register in a book or list.

    Boom
  • (n.) A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon
  • (v. i.) To cry with a hollow note
  • (v. t.) To cause to advance rapidly in price

    Boon
  • (n.) A prayer or petition.

    Boor
  • (n.) A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant

    Boost
  • (n.) A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb
  • (v. i.) To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb)

    Boot
  • (n.) A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.
  • (v. i.) To boot one's self
  • (v. t.) To enrich

    Booze
  • (n.) A carouse
  • (v. i.) To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor

    Boozy
  • (a.) A little intoxicated

    Boracic
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or produced from, borax

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

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

    Borax
  • (n.) A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap

    Bordello
  • (n.) A brothel

    Border
  • (n.) A boundary
  • (v. i.) To approach
  • (v. t.) To be, or to have, contiguous to

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

    Bore
  • (imp.) of Bear
  • (n.) A hole made by boring
  • (v. i.) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns
  • (v. t.) To befool

    Boric
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, boron.

    Boring
  • (n.) A hole made by boring.

    Born
  • (p. p.) of Bear
  • (v. t.) Brought forth, as an animal

    Boron
  • (n.) A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms

    Borosilicate
  • (n.) A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc

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

    Borrow
  • (n.) Something deposited as security
  • (v. t.) To copy or imitate

    Boscage
  • (n.) A growth of trees or shrubs

    Bosh
  • (n.) Empty talk

    Bosk
  • (n.) A thicket

    Bosom
  • (a.) Intimate
  • (n.) A depression round the eye of a millstone.
  • (v. t.) To conceal

    Boss
  • (n.) A head or reservoir of water.
  • (v. t.) To ornament with bosses

    Boston
  • (n.) A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each

    Botanical
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to botany

    Botanist
  • (n.) One skilled in botany

    Botanize
  • (v. i.) To seek after plants for botanical investigation
  • (v. t.) To explore for botanical purposes.

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

    Botch
  • (n.) A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.

    Botfly
  • (n.) A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs

    Both
  • (a. or pron.) The one and the other
  • (conj.) As well

    Botryoidal
  • (a.) Having the form of a bunch of grapes

    Bots
  • (n. pl.) The larvae of several species of botfly, especially those larvae which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments

    Bottle
  • (n.) A bundle, esp. of hay.
  • (v. t.) To put into bottles

    Bottom
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the bottom
  • (n.) A ball or skein of thread
  • (v. i.) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder
  • (v. t.) To found or build upon

    Boudoir
  • (n.) A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends

    Bouffe
  • (n.) Comic opera.

    Bough
  • (n.) A gallows.

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

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

    Boul
  • (n.) A curved handle.

    Bounce
  • (adv.) With a sudden leap
  • (n.) A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).
  • (v. i.) To boast
  • (v. t.) To bully

    Bouncing
  • (a.) Excessive

    Bound
  • (imp.) of Bind
  • (n.) A leap
  • (p. p.) of Bind
  • (p. p. & a.) Constipated
  • (v.) Ready or intending to go
  • (v. i.) To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps
  • (v. t.) To cause to rebound

    Bounteous
  • (a.) Liberal in charity

    Bountiful
  • (a.) Free in giving

    Bounty
  • (n.) A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service

    Bouquet
  • (n.) A nosegay

    Bourbon
  • (n.) A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France

    Bourdon
  • (n.) A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy.

    Bourgeois
  • (a.) Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.
  • (n.) A man of middle rank in society

    Bourse
  • (n.) An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours

    Bouse
  • (n.) Drink, esp. alcoholic drink
  • (v. i.) To drink immoderately

    Boustrophedon
  • (n.) An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite

    Bout
  • (n.) A conflict

    Bovid
  • (a.) Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.

    Bovine
  • (a.) Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows

    Bow
  • (n.) An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission
  • (sing. or pl.) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
  • (v. i.) To bend
  • (v. i. ) To manage the bow.
  • (v. i.) To play (music) with a bow.
  • (v. t.) An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument

    Bowdlerize
  • (v. t.) To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive.

    Bowel
  • (n.) Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything
  • (v. t.) To take out the bowels of

    Bower
  • (n.) Anciently, a chamber
  • (v. & n.) A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
  • (v. i.) To lodge.
  • (v. t.) To embower

    Bowfin
  • (n.) A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States

    Bowhead
  • (n.) The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balaena mysticetus).

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

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

    Bowl
  • (n.) A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play
  • (v. i.) To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball
  • (v. t.) To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

    Bowman
  • (n.) A man who uses a bow

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

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

    Bowstring
  • (n.) A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders.
  • (v. t.) To strangle with a bowstring.

    Bowyer
  • (n.) An archer

    Boxer
  • (n.) A member of a powerful Chinese organization which committed numerous outrages on Europeans and Christian converts in the uprising against foreigners in 1900

    Boxfish
  • (n.) The trunkfish.

    Boxhaul
  • (v. t.) To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel

    Boxing
  • (n.) Any boxlike inclosure or recess

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

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

    Boy
  • (n.) A male child, from birth to the age of puberty
  • (v. t.) To act as a boy

    Boycott
  • (n.) The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting
  • (v. t.) To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations

    Boyhood
  • (n.) The state of being a boy

    Boyish
  • (a.) Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions

    Brabble
  • (n.) A broil
  • (v. i.) To clamor

    Brace
  • (n.) A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum
  • (v. i.) To get tone or vigor
  • (v. t.) To bind or tie closely

    Brachial
  • (a.) Of the nature of an arm

    Brachiate
  • (a.) Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac

    Brachiopod
  • (n.) One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.

    Brachium
  • (n.) The upper arm

    Brachylogy
  • (n.) Conciseness of expression

    Brachypterous
  • (a.) Having short wings.

    Bracing
  • (a.) Imparting strength or tone
  • (n.) Any system of braces

    Bracken
  • (n.) A brake or fern.

    Bracket
  • (n.) A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece
  • (v. t.) To place within brackets

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

    Bract
  • (n.) A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises

    Brad
  • (n.) A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head

    Brae
  • (n.) A hillside

    Brag
  • (adv.) Proudly
  • (n.) A boast or boasting
  • (v. i.) Brisk
  • (v. t.) To boast of.

    Brahma
  • (n.) A valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well feathered

    Brahmin
  • (n.) A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindoos.

    Braid
  • (n.) A fancy
  • (v. i.) To start
  • (v. t.) Deceitful.

    Braille
  • (n.) A system of printing or writing for the blind in which the characters are represented by tangible points or dots

    Brain
  • (n.) The affections
  • (v. t.) To conceive

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

    Brake
  • (n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches
  • (v. t.) A baker's kneading though.

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

    Brambling
  • (n.) The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla)

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

    Bran
  • (n.) The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting

    Brash
  • (a.) Brittle, as wood or vegetables.
  • (n.) A rash or eruption

    Brass
  • (n.) A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc

    Brat
  • (n.) A child

    Bravado
  • (n.) Boastful and threatening behavior

    Brave
  • (n.) A brave person
  • (superl.) Bold
  • (v. t.) To adorn

    Bravo
  • (a.) A daring villain
  • (interj.) Well done! excellent! an exclamation expressive of applause.

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

    Braw
  • (a.) Good

    Bray
  • (n.) A bank
  • (v. i.) To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.
  • (v. t.) To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.

    Braze
  • (v. i.) To harden.
  • (v. t.) To cover or ornament with brass.

    Brazier
  • (n.) An artificer who works in brass.

    Breach
  • (n.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel
  • (v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out
  • (v. t.) To make a breach or opening in

    Bread
  • (a.) To spread.
  • (n.) An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.
  • (v. t.) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking

    Break
  • (v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties
  • (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction.

    Bream
  • (n.) A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known
  • (v. t.) To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping

    Breast
  • (n.) Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom
  • (v. t.) To meet, with the breast

    Breath
  • (n.) A single respiration, or the time of making it

    Breccia
  • (n.) A rock composed of angular fragments either of the same mineral or of different minerals, etc

    Brede
  • (n.) A braid.

    Breech
  • (n.) Breeches.
  • (v. t.) To cover as with breeches.

    Breed
  • (n.) A number produced at once
  • (v. i.) To bear and nourish young
  • (v. t.) To educate

    Breeze
  • (n.) A light, gentle wind
  • (v. i.) To blow gently.

    Breezy
  • (a.) Characterized by, or having, breezes

    Bregma
  • (n.) The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull.

    Brethren
  • (n.) pl. of Brother.

    Breton
  • (a.) Of or relating to Brittany, or Bretagne, in France.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Brittany, or Bretagne, in France

    Breve
  • (n.) A curved mark

    Breviary
  • (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

    Brevity
  • (n.) Contraction into few words

    Brew
  • (n.) The mixture formed by brewing
  • (v. i.) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
  • (v. t.) To boil or seethe

    Briar
  • (n.) A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles

    Bribe
  • (n.) A gift begged
  • (v. i.) To commit robbery or theft.
  • (v. t.) To gain by a bribe

    Brick
  • (n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp
  • (v. t.) To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them

    Bricole
  • (n.) A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used

    Bridal
  • (n.) A nuptial festival or ceremony

    Bride
  • (n.) A woman newly married, or about to be married.
  • (v. t.) To make a bride of.

    Bridge
  • (n.) A card game resembling whist.
  • (v. t.) To build a bridge or bridges on or over

    Bridle
  • (n.) A mooring hawser.
  • (v. i.) To hold up the head, and draw in the chin, as an expression of pride, scorn, or resentment
  • (v. t.) To put a bridle upon

    Brief
  • (a.) An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law
  • (adv.) Briefly.
  • (n.) A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose
  • (v. t.) To make an abstract or abridgment of

    Brig
  • (n.) A bridge.

    Brill
  • (n.) A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food

    Brim
  • (a.) Fierce
  • (n.) The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it
  • (v. i.) To be full to the brim.
  • (v. t.) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.

    Brindle
  • (a.) Brindled.
  • (n.) A brindled color

    Brine
  • (n.) Tears
  • (v. t.) To sprinkle with salt or brine

    Bring
  • (v. t.) To cause the accession or obtaining of

    Brink
  • (n.) The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice

    Briny
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea

    Brioche
  • (n.) A knitted foot cushion.

    Briolette
  • (n.) An oval or pearshaped diamond having its entire surface cut in triangular facets.

    Briquette
  • (n.) A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving

    Brisk
  • (a.) Full of liveliness and activity
  • (v. t. & i.) To make or become lively

    Bristle
  • (n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
  • (v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles
  • (v. t.) To erect the bristles of

    Bristly
  • (a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles

    Britannia
  • (n.) A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and is used for table ware

    Britannic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Great Britain

    Briticism
  • (n.) A word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to Great Britain

    British
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inhabitants
  • (n. pl.) People of Great Britain.

    Briton
  • (a.) British.
  • (n.) A native of Great Britain.

    Brittle
  • (a.) Easily broken

    Broach
  • (n.) A broad chisel for stonecutting.

    Broadbill
  • (n.) A wild duck (Aythya, / Fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn

    Broadcast
  • (a.) Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing
  • (adv.) So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions
  • (n.) A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

    Broadcloth
  • (n.) A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half)

    Broaden
  • (a.) To grow broad
  • (v. t.) To make broad or broader

    Broadleaf
  • (n.) A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc

    Broadly
  • (adv.) In a broad manner.

    Broadside
  • (n.) A discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a ship, at the same time.

    Broadsword
  • (n.) A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge

    Brobdingnagian
  • (a.) Colossal
  • (n.) A giant.

    Brocade
  • (n.) Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc

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

    Broccoli
  • (n.) A plant of the Cabbage species (Brassica oleracea) of many varieties, resembling the cauliflower

    Brochette
  • (n.) A small spit or skewer.

    Brochure
  • (v. t.) A printed and stitched book containing only a few leaves

    Brogan
  • (n.) A stout, coarse shoe

    Brogue
  • (n.) A stout, coarse shoe
  • (v. t.) A dialectic pronunciation

    Broider
  • (v. t.) To embroider.

    Broil
  • (n.) A tumult
  • (v. i.) To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire
  • (v. t.) To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.

    broke
  • (imp.) of Break
  • (v. i.) To act as procurer in love matters

    Bromate
  • (n.) A salt of bromic acid.
  • (v. t.) To combine or impregnate with bromine

    Bromic
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, bromine

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

    Bromine
  • (n.) One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79

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

    Bronchial
  • (a.) Belonging to the bronchi and their ramifications in the lungs.

    Bronchiole
  • (n.) A minute bronchial tube.

    Bronchitis
  • (n.) Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.

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

    Bronchus
  • (n.) One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe

    Brontosaurus
  • (n.) A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles

    Bronze
  • (a.) An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added
  • (n.) To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means

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

    Brooch
  • (imp. & p. p.) To adorn as with a brooch.
  • (n.) An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment

    Brood
  • (a.) Kept for breeding from
  • (v. i.) To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject
  • (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

    Brook
  • (v. t.) A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.

    Broom
  • (n.) An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle

    Broth
  • (n.) Liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled

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

    Brought
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Bring

    Brow
  • (n.) The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place
  • (v. t.) To bound to limit


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