English Dictionary: befouled | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Letterwood \Let"ter*wood`\ (-w[oocr]d`), n. (Bot.) The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus {Brosimum} ({B. Aubletii}), found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called {snakewood}, and {leopardwood}. It is much used for bows and for walking sticks. | |
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Babble \Bab"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Babbled} ([?]);p. pr. & vb. n. {Babbling}.] [Cf.LG. babbeln, D. babbelen, G. bappeln, bappern, F. babiller, It. babbolare; prob. orig., to keep saying ba, imitative of a child learning to talk.] 1. To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles. 2. To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words. 3. To talk much; to chatter; to prate. 4. To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones. In every babbling he finds a friend. --Wordsworth. Note: Hounds are said to babble, or to be babbling, when they are too noisy after having found a good scent. Syn: To prate; prattle; chatter; gossip. | |
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Baffle \Baf"fle\ (b[acr]f"f'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Baffled} (-f'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Baffling} (-fl[icr]ng).] [Cf. Lowland Scotch bauchle to treat contemptuously, bauch tasteless, abashed, jaded, Icel. b[be]gr uneasy, poor, or b[be]gr, n., struggle, b[91]gja to push, treat harshly, OF. beffler, beffer, to mock, deceive, dial. G. b[84]ppe mouth, beffen to bark, chide.] 1. To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight. [Obs.] He by the heels him hung upon a tree, And baffled so, that all which passed by The picture of his punishment might see. --Spenser. 2. To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil. The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim. --Cowper. 3. To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart. [bd]A baffled purpose.[b8] --De Quincey. A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all. --South. Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations. --Prescott. The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us. --Locke. {Baffling wind} (Naut.), one that frequently shifts from one point to another. Syn: To balk; thwart; foil; frustrate; defeat. | |
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Baybolt \Bay"bolt`\, n. A bolt with a barbed shank. | |
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Bebleed \Be*bleed"\, v. t. To make bloody; to stain with blood. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Beblood \Be*blood"\, Bebloody \Be*blood"y\, v. t. To make bloody; to stain with blood. [Obs.] --Sheldon. | |
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Beblood \Be*blood"\, Bebloody \Be*blood"y\, v. t. To make bloody; to stain with blood. [Obs.] --Sheldon. | |
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Beblot \Be*blot"\, v. t. To blot; to stain. --Chaucer. | |
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Beflatter \Be*flat"ter\, v. t. To flatter excessively. | |
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Befool \Be*fool"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Befooled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Befooling}.] [OE. befolen; pref. be- + fol fool.] 1. To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive. This story . . . contrived to befool credulous men. --Fuller. 2. To cause to behave like a fool; to make foolish. [bd]Some befooling drug.[b8] --G. Eliot. | |
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Befoul \Be*foul"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Befouled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Befouling}.] [Cf. AS. bef[?]lan; pref. be- + f[?]lan to foul. See {Foul}, a.] 1. To make foul; to soil. 2. To entangle or run against so as to impede motion. | |
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Bepelt \Be*pelt"\, v. t. To pelt roundly. | |
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Beveled \Bev"eled\, Bevelled \Bev"elled\, a. 1. Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table. 2. (Min.) Replaced by two planes inclining equally upon the adjacent planes, as an edge; having its edges replaced by sloping planes, as a cube or other solid. | |
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Bevel \Bev"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beveled} ([?]) or {Bevelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beveling} or {Bevelling}.] To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of. | |
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Beveled \Bev"eled\, Bevelled \Bev"elled\, a. 1. Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table. 2. (Min.) Replaced by two planes inclining equally upon the adjacent planes, as an edge; having its edges replaced by sloping planes, as a cube or other solid. | |
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Bevel \Bev"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beveled} ([?]) or {Bevelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beveling} or {Bevelling}.] To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of. | |
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Beviled \Bev"iled\, Bevilled \Bev"illed\, a. (Her.) Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield. | |
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Beviled \Bev"iled\, Bevilled \Bev"illed\, a. (Her.) Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield. | |
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Bibliotaph \Bib"li*o*taph\, Bibliotaphist \Bib`li*ot"a*phist\, n. [Gr. [?] book + [?] a burial.] One who hides away books, as in a tomb. [R.] --Crabb. | |
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Bibliotaph \Bib"li*o*taph\, Bibliotaphist \Bib`li*ot"a*phist\, n. [Gr. [?] book + [?] a burial.] One who hides away books, as in a tomb. [R.] --Crabb. | |
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Bibliothec \Bib"li*o*thec\, n. A librarian. | |
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Bibliothecal \Bib`li*o*the"cal\, a. [L. bibliothecalis. See {Bibliotheke}.] Belonging to a library. --Byrom. | |
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Bibliothecary \Bib`li*oth"e*ca*ry\, n. [L. bibliothecarius: cf. F. biblioth[82]caire.] A librarian. [Obs.] --Evelin. | |
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Bibliotheke \Bib"li*o*theke\, n. [L. bibliotheca, Gr. [?]; [?] book + [?] a case, box, fr. [?] to place: cf. F. biblioth[8a]que.] A library. [Obs.] --Bale. | |
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Bifold \Bi"fold\, a. [Pref. bi- + fold.] Twofold; double; of two kinds, degrees, etc. --Shak. | |
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Bifoliate \Bi*fo"li*ate\, a. [Pref. bi- + foliate.] (Bot.) Having two leaves; two-leaved. | |
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Bipeltate \Bi*pel"tate\, a. [Pref. bi- + peltate.] Having a shell or covering like a double shield. | |
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Bivaulted \Bi*vault"ed\, a. [Pref. bi- + vault.] Having two vaults or arches. | |
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Bubble \Bub"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bubbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bubbling}.] [Cf. D. bobbelen, Dan. boble. See {Bubble}, n.] 1. To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles. The milk that bubbled in the pail. --Tennyson. 2. To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream. --Pope. 3. To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound. At mine ear Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not. --Tennyson. | |
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Duck \Duck\, n. [OE. duke, doke. See {Duck}, v. t. ] 1. (Zool.) Any bird of the subfamily {Anatin[91]}, family {Anatid[91]}. Note: The genera and species are numerous. They are divided into {river ducks} and {sea ducks}. Among the former are the common domestic duck ({Anas boschas}); the wood duck ({Aix sponsa}); the beautiful mandarin duck of China ({Dendronessa galeriliculata}); the Muscovy duck, originally of South America ({Cairina moschata}). Among the sea ducks are the eider, canvasback, scoter, etc. 2. A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water. Here be, without duck or nod, Other trippings to be trod. --Milton. {Bombay duck} (Zo[94]l.), a fish. See {Bummalo}. {Buffel duck}, [or] {Spirit duck}. See {Buffel duck}. {Duck ant} (Zo[94]l.), a species of white ant in Jamaica which builds large nests in trees. {Duck barnacle}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Goose barnacle}. {Duck hawk}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) In the United States: The peregrine falcon. (b) In England: The marsh harrier or moor buzzard. {Duck mole} (Zo[94]l.), a small aquatic mammal of Australia, having webbed feet and a bill resembling that of a duck ({Ornithorhynchus anatinus}). It belongs the subclass Monotremata and is remarkable for laying eggs like a bird or reptile; -- called also {duckbill}, {platypus}, {mallangong}, {mullingong}, {tambreet}, and {water mole}. {To make ducks and drakes}, to throw a flat stone obliquely, so as to make it rebound repeatedly from the surface of the water, raising a succession of jets | |
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Buffel duck \Buf"fel duck\ (b[ucr]f"f[ecr]l d[ucr]k`). [See {Buffalo}.] (Zo[94]l.) A small duck ({Charitonetta albeola}); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also {bufflehead}. | |
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Buffel duck \Buf"fel duck\ (b[ucr]f"f[ecr]l d[ucr]k`). [See {Buffalo}.] (Zo[94]l.) A small duck ({Charitonetta albeola}); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also {bufflehead}. | |
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Bufflehead \Buf"fle*head`\, n. [Buffle + head.] 1. One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow. [Obs.] What makes you stare so, bufflehead? --Plautus (trans. 1694). 2. (Zo[94]l.) The buffel duck. See {Buffel duck}. | |
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Buffel duck \Buf"fel duck\ (b[ucr]f"f[ecr]l d[ucr]k`). [See {Buffalo}.] (Zo[94]l.) A small duck ({Charitonetta albeola}); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also {bufflehead}. | |
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Bufflehead \Buf"fle*head`\, n. [Buffle + head.] 1. One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow. [Obs.] What makes you stare so, bufflehead? --Plautus (trans. 1694). 2. (Zo[94]l.) The buffel duck. See {Buffel duck}. | |
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Buffle-headed \Buf"fle-head`ed\, a. Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering. [Obs.] So fell this buffle-headed giant. --Gayton. | |
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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Babel, tower of the name given to the tower which the primitive fathers of our race built in the land of Shinar after the Deluge (Gen. 11:1-9). Their object in building this tower was probably that it might be seen as a rallying-point in the extensive plain of Shinar, to which they had emigrated from the uplands of Armenia, and so prevent their being scattered abroad. But God interposed and defeated their design by condounding their language, and hence the name Babel, meaning "confusion." In the Babylonian tablets there is an account of this event, and also of the creation and the deluge. (See {CHALDEA}.) The Temple of Belus, which is supposed to occupy its site, is described by the Greek historian Herodotus as a temple of great extent and magnificence, erected by the Babylonians for their god Belus. The treasures Nebuchadnezzar brought from Jerusalem were laid up in this temple (2 Chr. 36:7). The Birs Nimrud, at ancient Borsippa, about 7 miles south-west of Hillah, the modern town which occupies a part of the site of ancient Babylon, and 6 miles from the Euphrates, is an immense mass of broken and fire-blasted fragments, of about 2,300 feet in circumference, rising suddenly to the height of 235 feet above the desert-plain, and is with probability regarded as the ruins of the tower of Babel. This is "one of the most imposing ruins in the country." Others think it to be the ruins of the Temple of Belus. |