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Backster
A baker.
Balbuties
The defect of stammering; also, a kind of incomplete pronunciation.
balkline
line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game.
Bantu
Of or pertaining to the Bantu language group Bantu (definition 2); .
barbarise
same as .
Barnyard
A yard belonging to a barn.
Barograph
An instrument for recording automatically the variations of atmospheric pressure.
baryon
any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1.
Battle range
The range within which the fire of small arms is very destructive. With the magazine rifle, this is six hundred yards.
Batz
A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about four cents.
Baunscheidtism
A form of acupuncture, followed by the rubbing of the part with a stimulating fluid.
Bay yarn
Woolen yarn.
Beastings
See .
Beastliness
The state or quality of being beastly.
Beeves
plural of , the animal.
Begone
Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-).
Benempt
Promised; vowed.
Bengali
Of or pertaining to the Bengali language; .
Benumbed
Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; .
Bescorn
To treat with scorn.
Besides
Over and above; separate or distinct from; in addition to; other than; else than. See , ., 3, and Syn. under .
beth
the 2nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
Biannual
Occurring twice a year; half-yearly; semiannual.
Biblical
Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; .
Bigamous
Guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy; .
Bijugate
Having two pairs, as of leaflets.
Biliteral
Consisting of two letters; .
Billot
Bullion in the bar or mass.
Bin
A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; .
Biolysis
The destruction of life.
Bioscope
A view of life; that which gives such a view.
Bishop's cap
A plant of the genus ; miterwort.
Bitterness
The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind.
Black-browed
Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
bladderlike
similar to a bladder.
Blas
Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence; used up.
Bloodletting
The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.
Bluepoll
A kind of salmon () found in Wales.
Blusher
One that blushes.
Body
To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.
Boiling
The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.
Boke
To poke; to thrust.
bolshevism
a form of communism based on the writings of Marx and Lenin.
Bom
A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes.
Borax
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. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of . Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O.
borscht
a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation, and often served with sour cream. Also, as used in the U.S., a sour cabbage soup, called in Russian .
Bowge
To swell out. See .
Bowing
The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments.
Bracky
Brackish.
Branch pilot
A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation.
Brand
To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict).
Brie cheese
A kind of soft French cream cheese; -- so called from the district in France where it is made; it is milder than Camembert; -- called also , and (uncapitalized).
Brigandine
A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages.
Brisure
Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.
Broiderer
One who embroiders.
Broken-bellied
Having a ruptured belly.
Brome grass
A genus of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.
Brownism
The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists.
Brown race
The Malay or Polynesian race; -- loosely so called.
bryophytic
of or pertaining to bryophytes.
Budge
Lined with budge; hence, scholastic.
Bufferhead
The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.
buffeted
struck repeatedly; -- used especially of impact from winds, and sometimes metaphorically; .
Bunch
To form into a bunch or bunches.
Bunsen cell
A zinc-carbon cell in which the zinc (amalgamated) is surrounded by dilute sulphuric acid, and the carbon by nitric acid or a chromic acid mixture, the two plates being separated by a porous cup.
burp
to same as ; .
Buskined
Wearing buskins.