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Holothurian \Hol`o*thu"ri*an\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Belonging to the Holothurioidea. -- n. One of the Holothurioidea. Note: Some of the species of Holothurians are called {sea cucumbers}, {sea slugs}, {trepang}, and {b[88]che de m[8a]r}. Many are used as food, esp. by the Chinese. See {Trepang}. | |
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Trepang \Tre*pang"\, n. [Malay tr[c6]pang.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in China; -- called also {b[88]che de mer}, {sea cucumber}, and {sea slug}. [Written also {tripang}.] Note: The edible trepangs are mostly large species of {Holothuria}, especially {H. edulis}. They are taken in vast quantities in the East Indies, where they are dried and smoked, and then shipped to China. They are used as an ingredient in certain kinds of soup. | |
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Backdown \Back"down`\, n. A receding or giving up; a complete surrender. [Colloq.] | |
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Bakemeat \Bake"meat`\ (b[amac]k"m[emac]t`), Baked-meat \Baked"-meat`\ (b[amac]kt"-), n. A pie; baked food. [Obs.] --Gen. xl. 17. --Shak. | |
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Fungi \Fun"gi\, n. pl. (Bot.) A group of thallophytic plants of low organization, destitute of chlorophyll, in which reproduction is mainly accomplished by means of asexual spores, which are produced in a great variety of ways, though sexual reproduction is known to occur in certain {Phycomycetes}, or so-called algal fungi. Note: The Fungi appear to have originated by degeneration from various alg[91], losing their chlorophyll on assuming a parasitic or saprophytic life. By some they are divided into the subclasses {Phycomycetes}, the lower or algal fungi; the {Mesomycetes}, or intermediate fungi; and the {Mycomycetes}, or the higher fungi; by others into the {Phycomycetes}; the {Ascomycetes}, or sac-spore fungi; and the {Basidiomycetes}, or basidial-spore fungi. | |
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Basset hound \Bas"set hound`\ [F. basset.] (Zo[94]l.) A small kind of hound with a long body and short legs, used as an earth dog. | |
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Basset \Bas"set\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Basseted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Basseting}.] (Geol.) To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets. | |
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Basseting \Bas"set*ing\, n. The upward direction of a vein in a mine; the emergence of a stratum at the surface. | |
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Bastinade \Bas`ti*nade"\, n. See {Bastinado}, n. | |
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Bastinade \Bas`ti*nade"\, v. t. To bastinado. [Archaic] | |
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Bastinado \Bas`ti*na"do\, n.; pl. {Bastinadoes}. [Sp. bastonada (cf. F. bastonnade), fr. baston (cf. F. b[?]ton) a stick or staff. See {Baston}.] 1. A blow with a stick or cudgel. 2. A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet. | |
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Bastinado \Bas`ti*na"do\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bastinadoes}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bastinadoing}.] To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet. | |
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Bastinado \Bas`ti*na"do\, n.; pl. {Bastinadoes}. [Sp. bastonada (cf. F. bastonnade), fr. baston (cf. F. b[?]ton) a stick or staff. See {Baston}.] 1. A blow with a stick or cudgel. 2. A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet. | |
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Bastinado \Bas`ti*na"do\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bastinadoes}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bastinadoing}.] To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet. | |
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Bastinado \Bas`ti*na"do\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bastinadoes}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bastinadoing}.] To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet. | |
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Baste \Baste\ (b[amac]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Basted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Basting}.] [Cf. Icel. beysta to strike, powder; Sw. basa to beat with a rod: perh. akin to E. beat.] 1. To beat with a stick; to cudgel. One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters. --Pepys. 2. (Cookery) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. 3. To mark with tar, as sheep. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Bastion \Bas"tion\, n. [F. bastion (cf. It. bastione), fr. LL. bastire to build (cf. F. b[?]tir, It. bastire), perh. from the idea of support for a weight, and akin to Gr. [?] to lift, carry, and to E. baston, baton.] (Fort.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See {Ravelin}. | |
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Bastioned \Bas"tioned\, a. Furnished with a bastion; having bastions. | |
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Front \Front\, n. [F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh. akin to E. brow.] 1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue. --Pope. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. --Shak. His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. --Prior. 2. The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front. With smiling fronts encountering. --Shak. The inhabitants showed a bold front. --Macaulay. 3. The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army. Had he his hurts before? Ay, on the front. --Shak. 4. A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house. 5. The most conspicuous part. The very head and front of my offending. --Shak. 6. That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women. Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front. --Mrs. Browning. 7. The beginning. [bd]Summer's front.[b8] --Shak. {Bastioned front} (Mil.), a curtain connerting two half bastions. {Front door}, the door in the front wall of a building, usually the principal entrance. {Front of fortification}, the works constructed upon any one side of a polygon. --Farrow. {Front of operations}, all that part of the field of operations in front of the successive positions occupied by the army as it moves forward. --Farrow. {To come to the front}, to attain prominence or leadership. | |
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Baston \Bas"ton\, n. [OF. baston, F. b[acir]ton, LL. basto. See {Bastion}, and cf. {Baton}, and 3d {Batten}.] 1. A staff or cudgel. [Obs.] [bd]To fight with blunt bastons.[b8] --Holland. 2. (Her.) See {Baton}. 3. An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court. --Mozley & W. | |
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Beastings \Beast"ings\, n. pl. See {Biestings}. | |
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Biestings \Biest"ings\, Beestings \Beest"ings\, n. pl. [OE. bestynge, AS. b[ymac]sting, fr. b[ymac]st, beost; akin to D. biest, OHG. biost, G. biest; of unknown origin.] The first milk given by a cow after calving. --B. Jonson. The thick and curdy milk . . . commonly called biestings. --Newton. (1574). | |
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Beestings \Beest"ings\, n. Same as {Biestings}. | |
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Beget \Be*get"\, v. t. [imp. {Begot}, (Archaic) {Begat}; p. p. {Begot}, {Begotten}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Begetting}.] [OE. bigiten, bigeten, to get, beget, AS. begitan to get; pref. be- + gitan. See {Get}, v. t. ] 1. To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father. Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget. --Milton. 2. To get (with child.) [Obs.] --Shak. 3. To produce as an effect; to cause to exist. Love is begot by fancy. --Granville. | |
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Beget \Be*get"\, v. t. [imp. {Begot}, (Archaic) {Begat}; p. p. {Begot}, {Begotten}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Begetting}.] [OE. bigiten, bigeten, to get, beget, AS. begitan to get; pref. be- + gitan. See {Get}, v. t. ] 1. To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father. Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget. --Milton. 2. To get (with child.) [Obs.] --Shak. 3. To produce as an effect; to cause to exist. Love is begot by fancy. --Granville. | |
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Begotten \Be*got"ten\, p. p. of {Beget}. | |
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Bequeath \Be*queath"\ (b[esl]*kw[emac][th]"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bequeathed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bequeathing}.] [OE. biquethen, AS. becwe[edh]an to say, affirm, bequeath; pref. be- + cwe[edh]an to say, speak. See {Quoth}.] 1. To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property. My heritage, which my dead father did bequeath to me. --Shak. 2. To hand down; to transmit. To bequeath posterity somewhat to remember it. --Glanvill. 3. To give; to offer; to commit. [Obs.] To whom, with all submission, on my knee I do bequeath my faithful services And true subjection everlastingly. --Shak. Syn: To {Bequeath}, {Devise}. Usage: Both these words denote the giving or disposing of property by will. Devise, in legal usage, is property used to denote a gift by will of real property, and he to whom it is given is called the devisee. Bequeath is properly applied to a gift by will or legacy; i. e., of personal property; the gift is called a legacy, and he who receives it is called a legatee. In popular usage the word bequeath is sometimes enlarged so as to embrace devise; and it is sometimes so construed by courts. | |
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Bequeathment \Be*queath"ment\, n. The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest. | |
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Bequethen \Be*queth"en\, old p. p. of {Bequeath}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Besetment \Be*set"ment\, n. The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin. [bd]Fearing a besetment.[b8] --Kane. | |
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Besetting \Be*set"ting\, a. Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin. | |
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Beset \Be*set"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beset}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Besetting}.] [AS. besettan (akin to OHG. bisazjan, G. besetzen, D. bezetten); pref. be- + settan to set. See {Set}.] 1. To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects. A robe of azure beset with drops of gold. --Spectator. The garden is so beset with all manner of sweet shrubs that it perfumes the air. --Evelyn. 2. To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade. [bd]Beset with foes.[b8] --Milton. Let thy troops beset our gates. --Addison. 3. To set upon on all sides; to perplex; to harass; -- said of dangers, obstacles, etc. [bd]Adam, sore beset, replied.[b8] --Milton. [bd]Beset with ills.[b8] --Addison. [bd]Incommodities which beset old age.[b8] --Burke. 4. To occupy; to employ; to use up. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Syn: To surround; inclose; environ; hem in; besiege; encircle; encompass; embarrass; urge; press. | |
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Besot \Be*sot"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Besotted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Besotting}.] To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate. Fools besotted with their crimes. --Hudibras. | |
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Besottingly \Be*sot"ting*ly\, adv. In a besotting manner. | |
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Best \Best\ (b[ecr]st), a.; superl. of Good. [AS. besta, best, contr. from betest, betst, betsta; akin to Goth. batists, OHG. pezzisto, G. best, beste, D. best, Icel. beztr, Dan. best, Sw. b[84]st. This word has no connection in origin with good. See {Better}.] 1. Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cloth; the best abilities. When he is best, he is a little worse than a man. --Shak. Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight. --Milton. 2. Most advanced; most correct or complete; as, the best scholar; the best view of a subject. 3. Most; largest; as, the best part of a week. {Best man}, the only or principal groomsman at a wedding ceremony. | |
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Bestain \Be*stain"\, v. t. To stain. | |
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Bestow \Be*stow"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bestowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bestowing}.] [OE. bestowen; pref. be- + stow a place. See {Stow}.] 1. To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put. [bd]He bestowed it in a pouch.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. See that the women are bestowed in safety. --Byron. 2. To use; to apply; to devote, as time or strength in some occupation. 3. To expend, as money. [Obs.] 4. To give or confer; to impart; -- with on or upon. Empire is on us bestowed. --Cowper. Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor. --1 Cor. xiii. 3. 5. To give in marriage. I could have bestowed her upon a fine gentleman. --Tatler. 6. To demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by a reflexive pronoun. [Obs.] How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night in his true colors, and not ourselves be seen ? --Shak. Syn: To give; grant; present; confer; accord. | |
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Bestowment \Be*stow"ment\, n. 1. The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or bestowal. If we consider this bestowment of gifts in this view. --Chauncy. 2. That which is given or bestowed. They almost refuse to give due praise and credit to God's own bestowments. --I. Taylor. | |
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Biestings \Biest"ings\, Beestings \Beest"ings\, n. pl. [OE. bestynge, AS. b[ymac]sting, fr. b[ymac]st, beost; akin to D. biest, OHG. biost, G. biest; of unknown origin.] The first milk given by a cow after calving. --B. Jonson. The thick and curdy milk . . . commonly called biestings. --Newton. (1574). | |
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Spanish \Span"ish\, a. Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards. {Spanish bayonet} (Bot.), a liliaceous plant ({Yucca alorifolia}) with rigid spine-tipped leaves. The name is also applied to other similar plants of the Southwestern United States and mexico. Called also {Spanish daggers}. {Spanish bean} (Bot.) See the Note under {Bean}. {Spanish black}, a black pigment obtained by charring cork. --Ure. {Spanish broom} (Bot.), a leguminous shrub ({Spartium junceum}) having many green flexible rushlike twigs. {Spanish brown}, a species of earth used in painting, having a dark reddish brown color, due to the presence of sesquioxide of iron. {Spanish buckeye} (Bot.), a small tree ({Ungnadia speciosa}) of Texas, New Mexico, etc., related to the buckeye, but having pinnate leaves and a three-seeded fruit. {Spanish burton} (Naut.), a purchase composed of two single blocks. A double Spanish burton has one double and two single blocks. --Luce (Textbook of Seamanship). {Spanish chalk} (Min.), a kind of steatite; -- so called because obtained from Aragon in Spain. {Spanish cress} (Bot.), a cruciferous plant ({lepidium Cadamines}), a species of peppergrass. {Spanish curiew} (Zo[94]l.), the long-billed curlew. [U.S.] {Spanish daggers} (Bot.) See {Spanish bayonet}. {Spanish elm} (Bot.), a large West Indian tree ({Cordia Gerascanthus}) furnishing hard and useful timber. {Spanish feretto}, a rich reddish brown pigment obtained by calcining copper and sulphur together in closed crucibles. {Spanish flag} (Zo[94]l.), the California rockfish ({Sebastichthys rubrivinctus}). It is conspicuously colored with bands of red and white. {Spanish fly} (Zo[94]l.), a brilliant green beetle, common in the south of Europe, used for raising blisters. See {Blister beetle} under {Blister}, and {Cantharis}. {Spanish fox} (Naut.), a yarn twisted against its lay. {Spanish grass}. (Bot.) See {Esparto}. {Spanish juice} (Bot.), licorice. {Spanish leather}. See {Cordwain}. {Spanish mackerel}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A species of mackerel ({Scomber colias}) found both in Europe and America. In America called {chub mackerel}, {big-eyed mackerel}, and {bull mackerel}. (b) In the United States, a handsome mackerel having bright yellow round spots ({Scomberomorus maculatus}), highly esteemed as a food fish. The name is sometimes erroneously applied to other species. See Illust. under Mackerel. {Spanish main}, the name formerly given to the southern portion of the Caribbean Sea, together with the contiguous coast, embracing the route traversed by Spanish treasure ships from the New to the Old World. {Spanish moss}. (Bot.) See {Tillandsia}. {Spanish needles} (Bot.), a composite weed ({Bidens bipinnata}) having achenia armed with needlelike awns. {Spanish nut} (Bot.), a bulbous plant ({Iris Sisyrinchium}) of the south of Europe. {Spanish potato} (Bot.), the sweet potato. See under {Potato}. {Spanish red}, an ocherous red pigment resembling Venetian red, but slightly yellower and warmer. --Fairholt. {Spanish reef} (Naut.), a knot tied in the head of a jib-headed sail. {Spanish sheep} (Zo[94]l.), a merino. {Spanish white}, an impalpable powder prepared from chalk by pulverizing and repeated washings, -- used as a white pigment. {Spanish windlass} (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a rope wound about it, into which a marline spike is thrust to serve as a lever. | |
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Biscotin \Bis"co*tin\, n. [F. biscotin. See {Biscuit}.] A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit. | |
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Pepper \Pep"per\, n. [OE. peper, AS. pipor, L. piper, fr. Gr. [?], [?], akin to Skr. pippala, pippali.] 1. A well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the {Piper nigrum}. Note: Common, or black, pepper is made from the whole berry, dried just before maturity; white pepper is made from the ripe berry after the outer skin has been removed by maceration and friction. It has less of the peculiar properties of the plant than the black pepper. Pepper is used in medicine as a carminative stimulant. 2. (Bot.) The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber ({Piper nigrum}), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus {Piper}, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth. 3. Any plant of the genus Capsicum, and its fruit; red pepper; as, the bell pepper. Note: The term pepper has been extended to various other fruits and plants, more or less closely resembling the true pepper, esp. to the common varieties of {Capsicum}. See {Capsicum}, and the Phrases, below. {African pepper}, the Guinea pepper. See under {Guinea}. {Cayenne pepper}. See under {Cayenne}. {Chinese pepper}, the spicy berries of the {Xanthoxylum piperitum}, a species of prickly ash found in China and Japan. {Guinea pepper}. See under {Guinea}, and {Capsicum}. {Jamaica pepper}. See {Allspice}. {Long pepper}. (a) The spike of berries of {Piper longum}, an East Indian shrub. (b) The root of {Piper, [or] Macropiper, methysticum}. See {Kava}. {Malaguetta}, [or] {Meleguetta}, {pepper}, the aromatic seeds of the {Amomum Melegueta}, an African plant of the Ginger family. They are sometimes used to flavor beer, etc., under the name of {grains of Paradise}. {Red pepper}. See {Capsicum}. {Sweet pepper bush} (Bot.), an American shrub ({Clethra alnifolia}), with racemes of fragrant white flowers; -- called also {white alder}. {Pepper box} [or] {caster}, a small box or bottle, with a perforated lid, used for sprinkling ground pepper on food, etc. {Pepper corn}. See in the Vocabulary. {Pepper elder} (Bot.), a West Indian name of several plants of the Pepper family, species of {Piper} and {Peperomia}. {Pepper moth} (Zo[94]l.), a European moth ({Biston betularia}) having white wings covered with small black specks. {Pepper pot}, a mucilaginous soup or stew of vegetables and cassareep, much esteemed in the West Indies. {Pepper root}. (Bot.). See {Coralwort}. {pepper sauce}, a condiment for the table, made of small red peppers steeped in vinegar. {Pepper tree} (Bot.), an aromatic tree ({Drimys axillaris}) of the Magnolia family, common in New Zealand. See {Peruvian mastic tree}, under {Mastic}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Silky, [or] Silk-bark}, {oak}, an Australian tree ({Grevillea robusta}). {Green oak}, oak wood colored green by the growth of the mycelium of certain fungi. {Oak apple}, a large, smooth, round gall produced on the leaves of the American red oak by a gallfly ({Cynips confluens}). It is green and pulpy when young. {Oak beauty} (Zo[94]l.), a British geometrid moth ({Biston prodromaria}) whose larva feeds on the oak. {Oak gall}, a gall found on the oak. See 2d {Gall}. {Oak leather} (Bot.), the mycelium of a fungus which forms leatherlike patches in the fissures of oak wood. {Oak pruner}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pruner}, the insect. {Oak spangle}, a kind of gall produced on the oak by the insect {Diplolepis lenticularis}. {Oak wart}, a wartlike gall on the twigs of an oak. {The Oaks}, one of the three great annual English horse races (the Derby and St. Leger being the others). It was instituted in 1779 by the Earl of Derby, and so called from his estate. {To sport one's oak}, to be [bd]not at home to visitors,[b8] signified by closing the outer (oaken) door of one's rooms. [Cant, Eng. Univ.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Boastance \Boast"ance\, n. Boasting. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Boast \Boast\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Boasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Boasting}.] [OE. bosten, boosten, v., bost, boost, n., noise, boasting; cf. G. bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten, Dan. puste, Sw. pusta, to blow, Sw. p[94]sa to swell; or W. bostio to boast, bost boast, Gael. bosd. But these last may be from English.] 1. To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth. By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: . . not of works, lest any man should boast. --Eph. ii. 8, 9. 2. To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult. In God we boast all the day long. --Ps. xliv. 8 Syn: To brag; bluster; vapor; crow; talk big. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Boasting \Boast"ing\, n. The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. --Young. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Boastingly \Boast"ing*ly\, adv. Boastfully; with boasting. [bd]He boastingly tells you.[b8] --Burke. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bell bearer \Bell" bear`er\ (Zo[94]l.) A Brazilian leaf hopper ({Bocydium tintinnabuliferum}), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bokadam \Bo"ka*dam`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Cerberus}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bookstand \Book"stand`\, n. 1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Boost \Boost\ (b[oomac]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Boosted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Boosting}.] [Cf. {Boast}, v. i.] To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up; hence, to assist in overcoming obstacles, or in making advancement. [Colloq. U. S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Boston \Bos"ton\, n. A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Marrow \Mar"row\, n. [OE. marou, mary, maruh, AS. mearg, mearh; akin to OS. marg, D. merg, G. Mark, OHG. marg, marag, Icel. mergr, Sw. merg, Dan. marv, Skr. majjan; cf. Skr. majj to sink, L. mergere. [root]274 Cf. {Merge}.] 1. (Anat.) The tissue which fills the cavities of most bones; the medulla. In the larger cavities it is commonly very fatty, but in the smaller cavities it is much less fatty, and red or reddish in color. 2. The essence; the best part. It takes from our achievements . . . The pith and marrow of our attribute. --Shak. 3. [OE. maru, maro; -- perh. a different word; cf. Gael. maraon together.] One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate. [Scot.] Chopping and changing I can not commend, With thief or his marrow, for fear of ill end. --Tusser. {Marrow squash} (Bot.), a name given to several varieties of squash, esp. to the {Boston marrow}, an ovoid fruit, pointed at both ends, and with reddish yellow flesh, and to the {vegetable marrow}, a variety of an ovoid form, and having a soft texture and fine grain resembling marrow. {Spinal marrow}. (Anat.) See {Spinal cord}, under {Spinal}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Boughten \Bought"en\, a. Purchased; not obtained or produced at home. --Coleridge. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Boycott \Boy"cott`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Boycotted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Boycotting}.] [From Captain Boycott, a land agent in Mayo, Ireland, so treated in 1880.] To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bucket \Buck"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bucketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bucketing}.] 1. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water. 2. To pour over from a bucket; to drench. 3. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly. 4. (Rowing) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. [Eng.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Furnace \Fur"nace\, n. [OE. fornais, forneis, OF. fornaise, F. fournaise, from L. fornax; akin to furnus oven, and prob. to E. forceps.] 1. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc. Note: Furnaces are classified as wind or air. furnaces when the fire is urged only by the natural draught; as blast furnaces, when the fire is urged by the injection artificially of a forcible current of air; and as reverberatory furnaces, when the flame, in passing to the chimney, is thrown down by a low arched roof upon the materials operated upon. 2. A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline. --Deut. iv. 20. {Bustamente furnace}, a shaft furnace for roasting quicksilver ores. {Furnace bridge}, Same as {Bridge wall}. See {Bridge}, n., 5. {Furnace} {cadmiam [or] cadmia}, the oxide of zinc which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting zinciferous ores. --Raymond. {Furnace hoist} (Iron Manuf.), a lift for raising ore, coal, etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bystander \By"stand`er\, n. [By + stander, equiv. to stander-by; cf. AS. big-standan to stand by or near.] One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. --Palfrey. Syn: Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Baisden, WV Zip code(s): 25608 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Bastian, VA Zip code(s): 24314 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Big Stone City, SD (city, FIPS 5540) Location: 45.29516 N, 96.46437 W Population (1990): 669 (323 housing units) Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57216 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Big Stone County, MN (county, FIPS 11) Location: 45.42682 N, 96.41312 W Population (1990): 6285 (3192 housing units) Area: 1287.2 sq km (land), 80.1 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Big Stone Gap, VA (town, FIPS 7480) Location: 36.86003 N, 82.77792 W Population (1990): 4748 (1993 housing units) Area: 12.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 24219 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Big Timber, MT (city, FIPS 6475) Location: 45.83410 N, 109.95061 W Population (1990): 1557 (771 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 59011 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Boggstown, IN Zip code(s): 46110 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Boston, GA (city, FIPS 9460) Location: 30.79170 N, 83.79084 W Population (1990): 1395 (569 housing units) Area: 5.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31626 Boston, IN (town, FIPS 6652) Location: 39.74152 N, 84.85114 W Population (1990): 159 (69 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Boston, KY Zip code(s): 40107 Boston, MA (city, FIPS 7000) Location: 42.33603 N, 71.01789 W Population (1990): 574283 (250863 housing units) Area: 125.4 sq km (land), 106.7 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 02108, 02109, 02110, 02111, 02113, 02114, 02115, 02116, 02199, 02210, 02215 Boston, NY Zip code(s): 14025 Boston, PA Zip code(s): 15135 Boston, TX Zip code(s): 75570 Boston, VA Zip code(s): 22713 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Boston College, MA Zip code(s): 02167 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Boston Heights, OH (village, FIPS 7790) Location: 41.25566 N, 81.50456 W Population (1990): 733 (266 housing units) Area: 17.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Bostonia, CA (CDP, FIPS 7624) Location: 32.81976 N, 116.94573 W Population (1990): 13670 (5445 housing units) Area: 5.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Boys Town, NE (village, FIPS 6015) Location: 41.25945 N, 96.13116 W Population (1990): 794 (18 housing units) Area: 5.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Buckatunna, MS Zip code(s): 39322 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Bushton, KS (city, FIPS 9700) Location: 38.51284 N, 98.39473 W Population (1990): 341 (185 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67427 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Bustins Island, ME Zip code(s): 04013 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Buxton, ND (city, FIPS 11340) Location: 47.60217 N, 97.09919 W Population (1990): 343 (143 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58218 Buxton, OR Zip code(s): 97109 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
bastion host {proxy gateway} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
BISDN Broadband {Integrated Services Digital Network}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
BSD Unix {Berkeley Software Distribution} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Bastinado beating, a mode of punishment common in the East. It is referred to by "the rod of correction" (Prov. 22:15), "scourging" (Lev. 19:20), "chastising" (Deut. 22:18). The number of blows could not exceed forty (Deut. 25:2, 3). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Bigthan one of the eunuchs who "kept the door" in the court of Ahasuerus. With Teresh he conspired against the king's life. Mordecai detected the conspiracy, and the culprits were hanged (Esther 2:21-23; 6:1-3). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Bigthan, in the press; giving meat |