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Bacchante
A priestess of Bacchus.
Backset
To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring.
Bacterioscopy
The application of a knowledge of bacteria for their detection and identification, as in the examination of polluted water.
Bagwig
A wig, in use in the 18th century, with the hair at the back of the head in a bag.
Bald-faced
Having a white face or a white mark on the face, as a stag.
Bamboozle
To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug.
Band
To confederate for some common purpose; to unite; to conspire together.
Bankrupt
To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.
Barracan
A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.
battledoor
An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.
Beaconage
Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.
Beadroll
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.
Behoof
Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use.
Belk
To vomit.
Bellerophon
A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age.
Beloved
One greatly loved.
Bemonster
To make monstrous or like a monster.
Bendable
Capable of being bent.
Benefit
To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; .
Benefit society
A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called in Great Britain.
Bent
The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; .
Berylloid
A solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl.
Beshine
To shine upon; to illumine.
Betrothal
The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance.
bioflavinoid
a vitamin that maintains the resistance of cell and capillary walls to permeation; -- called also and .
bitching
complaining; griping.
Biuret
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, , formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.
Blackguard
The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the black guard; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army.
Blare
The harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing.
Blasphemer
One who blasphemes.
Blasted
Blighted; withered.
Blimp
any elderly pompous reactionary.
Blubber
To weep noisily, or so as to disfigure the face; to cry in a childish manner.
Bodkin
A dagger.
Boiler
One who boils.
Bolt
A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; .
Bonder
One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.
Bondsman
A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman.
boondocks
a remote and undeveloped area; -- sometimes used deprecatingly.
Bordereau
A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents.
Borel
See .
Bouche
Same as , to line.
Bouncing
Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.
bowdlerization
the deletion of all passages considered to be indecent.
Bowing
The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments.
Bowls
See , a ball, a game.
Bowman
The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat; the bow oar.
Brachiopod
One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.
Branchiomerism
The state of being made up of branchiate segments.
Bridebed
The marriage bed.
Brigantine
A practical vessel.
Brimstone
Sulphur; See .
Bromogelatin
Designating or pertaining to, a process of preparing dry plates with an emulsion of bromides and silver nitrate in gelatin.
Brown
To make brown or dusky.
Budger
One who budges.
buffered
containing a buffer{5}; -- of solutions, usually aqueous solutions.
Bullfaced
Having a large face.
Bunny
A great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or going out from it.
bunsen
same as ; a gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air.
Buttons
A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the on his livery.