English Dictionary: Basutoland | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Backsettler \Back"set"tler\, n. [Back, a. + settler.] One living in the back or outlying districts of a community. The English backsettlers of Leinster and Munster. --Macaulay. | |
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Basket \Bas"ket\, n. [Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English.] 1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. [bd]Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow.[b8] --Dyer. 2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches. 3. (Arch.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. [Improperly so used.] --Gwilt. 4. The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. [Eng.] --Goldsmith. {Basket fish} (Zo[94]l.), an ophiuran of the genus {Astrophyton}, having the arms much branched. See {Astrophyton}. {Basket hilt}, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. --Hudibras. Hence, {Baskethilted}, a. {Basket work}, work consisting of plaited osiers or twigs. {Basket worm} (Zo[94]l.), a lepidopterous insect of the genus {Thyridopteryx} and allied genera, esp. {T. ephemer[91]formis}. The larva makes and carries about a bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females. | |
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Basket \Bas"ket\, n. [Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English.] 1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. [bd]Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow.[b8] --Dyer. 2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches. 3. (Arch.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. [Improperly so used.] --Gwilt. 4. The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. [Eng.] --Goldsmith. {Basket fish} (Zo[94]l.), an ophiuran of the genus {Astrophyton}, having the arms much branched. See {Astrophyton}. {Basket hilt}, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. --Hudibras. Hence, {Baskethilted}, a. {Basket work}, work consisting of plaited osiers or twigs. {Basket worm} (Zo[94]l.), a lepidopterous insect of the genus {Thyridopteryx} and allied genera, esp. {T. ephemer[91]formis}. The larva makes and carries about a bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females. | |
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Bastile Bastille \Bas*tile" Bas*tille"\, n. [F. bastille fortress, OF. bastir to build, F. b[?]tir.] 1. (Feud. Fort.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place. The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls. --Holland. 2. [bd]The Bastille[b8], formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison. | |
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Beaked \Beaked\, a. 1. Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped. [bd]Each beaked promontory.[b8] --Milton. 2. (Biol.) Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate. {Beaked whale} (Zo[94]l.), a cetacean of the genus {Hyperoodon}; the bottlehead whale. | |
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Beastlihead \Beast"li*head\, n. [Beastly + -head state.] Beastliness. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Beastlike \Beast"like"\, a. Like a beast. | |
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Beastliness \Beast"li*ness\, n. The state or quality of being beastly. | |
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Beastly \Beast"ly\, a. 1. Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast. Beastly divinities and droves of gods. --Prior. 2. Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy. The beastly vice of drinking to excess. --Swift. 3. Abominable; as, beastly weather. [Colloq. Eng.] Syn: Bestial; brutish; irrational; sensual; degrading. | |
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Bequeathal \Be*queath"al\, n. The act of bequeathing; bequeathment; bequest. --Fuller. | |
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Bestial \Bes"tial\, a. [F. bestial, L. bestialis, fr. bestia beast. See {Beast}.] 1. Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts. Among the bestial herds to range. --Milton. 2. Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual. --Shak. Syn: Brutish; beastly; brutal; carnal; vile; low; depraved; sensual; filthy. | |
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Bestial \Bes"tial\, n. A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial. [Scot.] | |
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Bestiality \Bes*tial"i*ty\, n. [F. bestialit[82].] 1. The state or quality of being bestial. 2. Unnatural connection with a beast. | |
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Bestialize \Bes"tial*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bestialized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bestializing}.] To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize. The process of bestializing humanity. --Hare. | |
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Bestialize \Bes"tial*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bestialized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bestializing}.] To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize. The process of bestializing humanity. --Hare. | |
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Bestialize \Bes"tial*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bestialized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bestializing}.] To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize. The process of bestializing humanity. --Hare. | |
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Bestially \Bes"tial*ly\, adv. In a bestial manner. | |
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Bestill \Be*still"\, v. t. To make still. | |
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Bestowal \Be*stow"al\, n. The act of bestowing; disposal. | |
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Bicaudal \Bi*cau"dal\, a. [Pref. bi- + caudal.] Having, or terminating in, two tails. | |
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Buckler \Buc"kler\, n. [OE. bocler, OF. bocler, F. bouclier, a shield with a boss, from OF. bocle, boucle, boss. See {Buckle}, n.] 1. A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body. Note: In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used, not to cover the body, but to stop or parry blows. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes. (b) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites. 3. (Naut.) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches. {Blind buckler} (Naut.), a solid buckler. {Buckler mustard} (Bot.), a genus of plants ({Biscutella}) with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on bursting resembles two bucklers or shields. {Buckler thorn}, a plant with seed vessels shaped like a buckler. See {Christ's thorn}. {Riding buckler} (Naut.), a buckler with a hole for the passage of a cable. | |
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Boastless \Boast"less\, a. Without boasting or ostentation. | |
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Book \Book\ (b[oocr]k), n. [OE. book, bok, AS. b[omac]c; akin to Goth. b[omac]ka a letter, in pl. book, writing, Icel. b[omac]k, Sw. bok, Dan. bog, OS. b[omac]k, D. boek, OHG. puoh, G. buch; and fr. AS. b[omac]c, b[emac]ce, beech; because the ancient Saxons and Germans in general wrote runes on pieces of beechen board. Cf. {Beech}.] 1. A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing. Note: When blank, it is called a blank book. When printed, the term often distinguishes a bound volume, or a volume of some size, from a pamphlet. Note: It has been held that, under the copyright law, a book is not necessarily a volume made of many sheets bound together; it may be printed on a single sheet, as music or a diagram of patterns. --Abbott. 2. A composition, written or printed; a treatise. A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. --Milton. 3. A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of [bd]Paradise Lost.[b8] 4. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc. 5. Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set. Note: Book is used adjectively or as a part of many compounds; as, book buyer, bookrack, book club, book lore, book sale, book trade, memorandum book, cashbook. {Book account}, an account or register of debt or credit in a book. {Book debt}, a debt for items charged to the debtor by the creditor in his book of accounts. {Book learning}, learning acquired from books, as distinguished from practical knowledge. [bd]Neither does it so much require book learning and scholarship, as good natural sense, to distinguish true and false.[b8] --Burnet. {Book louse} (Zo[94]l.), one of several species of minute, wingless insects injurious to books and papers. They belong to the {Pseudoneuroptera}. {Book moth} (Zo[94]l.), the name of several species of moths, the larv[91] of which eat books. {Book oath}, an oath made on {The Book}, or Bible. {The Book of Books}, the Bible. {Book post}, a system under which books, bulky manuscripts, etc., may be transmitted by mail. {Book scorpion} (Zo[94]l.), one of the false scorpions ({Chelifer cancroides}) found among books and papers. It can run sidewise and backward, and feeds on small insects. {Book stall}, a stand or stall, often in the open air, for retailing books. {Canonical books}. See {Canonical}. {In one's books}, in one's favor. [bd]I was so much in his books, that at his decease he left me his lamp.[b8] --Addison. {To bring to book}. (a) To compel to give an account. (b) To compare with an admitted authority. [bd]To bring it manifestly to book is impossible.[b8] --M. Arnold. {To curse by bell, book, and candle}. See under {Bell}. {To make a book} (Horse Racing), to lay bets (recorded in a pocket book) against the success of every horse, so that the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and loses only on the winning horse or horses. {To speak by the book}, to speak with minute exactness. {Without book}. (a) By memory. (b) Without authority. | |
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Bookstall \Book"stall`\, n. A stall or stand where books are sold. | |
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Box tail \Box tail\ (A[89]ronautics) In a flying machine, a tail or rudder, usually fixed, resembling a box kite. | |
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Buckstall \Buck"stall`\, n. A toil or net to take deer. | |
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Bustle \Bus"tle\ (b[ucr]s"s'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bustled} (-s'ld); p. pr. & vb.n. {Bustling} (-sl[icr]ng).] [Cf. OE. buskle, perh. fr. AS. bysig busy, bysg-ian to busy + the verbal termination -le; or Icel. bustla to splash, bustle.] To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd. And leave the world for me to bustle in. --Shak. | |
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Bustle \Bus"tle\, n. Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement. A strange bustle and disturbance in the world. --South. | |
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Bustle \Bus"tle\, n. A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also {bishop}, and {tournure}. | |
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Bustle \Bus"tle\ (b[ucr]s"s'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bustled} (-s'ld); p. pr. & vb.n. {Bustling} (-sl[icr]ng).] [Cf. OE. buskle, perh. fr. AS. bysig busy, bysg-ian to busy + the verbal termination -le; or Icel. bustla to splash, bustle.] To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd. And leave the world for me to bustle in. --Shak. | |
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Bustler \Bus"tler\ (b[ucr]s"sl[etil]r), n. An active, stirring person. | |
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Bustle \Bus"tle\ (b[ucr]s"s'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bustled} (-s'ld); p. pr. & vb.n. {Bustling} (-sl[icr]ng).] [Cf. OE. buskle, perh. fr. AS. bysig busy, bysg-ian to busy + the verbal termination -le; or Icel. bustla to splash, bustle.] To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd. And leave the world for me to bustle in. --Shak. | |
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Bustling \Bus"tling\ (b[ucr]s"sl[icr]ng), a. Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd. [bd]A bustling wharf.[b8] --Hawthorne. | |
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Bay St. Louis, MS (city, FIPS 3980) Location: 30.31015 N, 89.33002 W Population (1990): 8063 (3561 housing units) Area: 14.8 sq km (land), 26.3 sq km (water) | |
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Bechtelsville, PA (borough, FIPS 4896) Location: 40.37086 N, 75.63071 W Population (1990): 884 (318 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 19505 | |
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Big Delta, AK (CDP, FIPS 6850) Location: 64.13992 N, 145.76211 W Population (1990): 400 (179 housing units) Area: 48.1 sq km (land), 3.9 sq km (water) | |
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Boca Del Mar, FL (CDP, FIPS 7235) Location: 26.34460 N, 80.14682 W Population (1990): 17754 (10353 housing units) Area: 10.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Buchtel, OH (village, FIPS 9834) Location: 39.46277 N, 82.18249 W Population (1990): 640 (255 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) |