English Dictionary: BW defense | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Batavian \Ba*ta"vi*an\, a. Of or pertaining to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe; or to (b) [?]atavia or Holland; as, a Batavian legion. {Batavian Republic}, the name given to Holland by the French after its conquest in 1795. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Batavian \Ba*ta"vi*an\, n. A native or inhabitant of Batavia or Holland. [R.] --Bancroft. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Batavian \Ba*ta"vi*an\, a. Of or pertaining to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe; or to (b) [?]atavia or Holland; as, a Batavian legion. {Batavian Republic}, the name given to Holland by the French after its conquest in 1795. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Beatify \Be*at"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beatified} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Beatifying}.] [L. beatificare; beatus happy (fr. beare to bless, akin to bonus good) + facere to make: cf. F. b[82]atifier. See {Bounty}.] 1. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness. The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth. --Barrow. 2. To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment. [bd]Beatified spirits.[b8] --Dryden. 3. (R. C. Ch.) To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of [bd]the blessed[b8] and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Beautify \Beau"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beautified} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Beautifying}.] [Beauty + -fy.] To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish. The arts that beautify and polish life. --Burke. Syn: To adorn; grace; ornament; deck; decorate. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bedaub \Be*daub"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bedaubed} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bedaubing}.] To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty. Bedaub foul designs with a fair varnish. --Barrow. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bedpan \Bed"pan`\, n. 1. A pan for warming beds. --Nares. 2. A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Boottopping \Boot"top`ping\, n. 1. (Naut.) The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off. 2. (Naut.) Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
By-dependence \By"-de*pend`ence\, n. An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory. --Shak. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
bit bang n. Transmission of data on a serial line, when accomplished by rapidly tweaking a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times. The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte. Input is more interesting. And full duplex (doing input and output at the same time) is one way to separate the real hackers from the {wannabee}s. Bit bang was used on certain early models of Prime computers, presumably when UARTs were too expensive, and on archaic Z80 micros with a Zilog PIO but no SIO. In an interesting instance of the {cycle of reincarnation}, this technique returned to use in the early 1990s on some RISC architectures because it consumes such an infinitesimal part of the processor that it actually makes sense not to have a UART. Compare {cycle of reincarnation}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
bit bang Transmission of data on a {serial line} accomplished by rapidly changing a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times. The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte. Input is more interesting. And {full-duplex} (doing input and output at the same time) is one way to separate the real hackers from the {wannabee}s. Bit bang was used on certain early models of {Prime} computers, presumably when {UART}s were too expensive, and on archaic {Zilog Z80} micros with a {Zilog} PIO but no SIO. In an interesting instance of the {cycle of reincarnation}, this technique is now (1991) coming back into use on some {RISC} architectures because it consumes such an infinitesimal part of the processor that it actually makes sense not to have a {UART}. [{Jargon File}] | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Beth-aven house of nothingness; i.e., "of idols", a place in the mountains of Benjamin, east of Bethel (Josh. 7:2; 18:12; 1 Sam. 13:5). In Hos. 4:15; 5:8; 10:5 it stands for "Bethel" (q.v.), and it is so called because it was no longer the "house of God," but "the house of idols," referring to the calves there worshipped. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Beth-aven, the house of vanity; of iniquity of trouble |