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Baaing \Baa"ing\, n. The bleating of a sheep. --Marryat. | |
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Banc \Banc\, d8Bancus \[d8]Ban"cus\, Bank \Bank\, n. [OF. banc, LL. bancus. See {Bank}, n.] A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court. {In banc}, {In banco} (the ablative of bancus), {In bank}, in full court, or with full judicial authority; as, sittings in banc (distinguished from sittings at {nisi prius}). | |
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Bang \Bang\, v. i. To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano. | |
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Bang \Bang\, n. 1. A blow as with a club; a heavy blow. Many a stiff thwack, many a bang. --Hudibras. 2. The sound produced by a sudden concussion. | |
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Bang \Bang\, v. t. To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair). His hair banged even with his eyebrows. --The Century Mag. | |
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Bang \Bang\, n. The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn. His hair cut in front like a young lady's bang. --W. D. Howells. | |
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Bang \Bang\, Bangue \Bangue\, n. See {Bhang}. | |
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Bang \Bang\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Banged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Banging}.] [Icel. banga to hammer; akin to Dan. banke to beat, Sw. b[86]ngas to be impetuous, G. bengel club, clapper of a bell.] 1. To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly. The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks. --Shak. 2. To beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it. | |
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Bang \Bang\, Bangue \Bangue\, n. See {Bhang}. | |
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Banish \Ban"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Banished}([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Banishing}.] [OF. banir, F. bannir, LL. bannire, fr. OHG. bannan to summon, fr. ban ban. See {Ban} an edict, and {Finish}, v. t.] 1. To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power. [bd]We banish you our territories.[b8] --Shak. 2. To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of. How the ancient Celtic tongue came to be banished from the Low Countries in Scotland. --Blair. 3. To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel. [bd]Banish all offense.[b8] --Shak. Syn: To {Banish}, {Exile}, {Expel}. Usage: The idea of a coercive removal from a place is common to these terms. A man is banished when he is forced by the government of a country (be he a foreigner or a native) to leave its borders. A man is exiled when he is driven into banishment from his native country and home. Thus to exile is to banish, but to banish is not always to exile. To expel is to eject or banish, summarily or authoritatively, and usually under circumstances of disgrace; as, to expel from a college; expelled from decent society. | |
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Bank \Bank\, n. A group or series of objects arranged near together; as, a bank of electric lamps, etc. | |
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Bank \Bank\, n. (A[89]ronautics) The lateral inclination of an a[89]roplane as it rounds a curve; as, a bank of 45[deg] is easy; a bank of 90[deg] is dangerous. | |
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Bank \Bank\, v. i. (A[89]ronautics) To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; -- said of a flying machine, an a[89]rocurve, or the like. | |
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Banc \Banc\, d8Bancus \[d8]Ban"cus\, Bank \Bank\, n. [OF. banc, LL. bancus. See {Bank}, n.] A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court. {In banc}, {In banco} (the ablative of bancus), {In bank}, in full court, or with full judicial authority; as, sittings in banc (distinguished from sittings at {nisi prius}). | |
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Bank \Bank\, n. [Prob. fr. F. banc. Of German origin, and akin to E. bench. See {Bench}.] 1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojan sweep Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep. --Waller. 2. (Law) (a) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit. (b) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See {Banc}. --Burrill. 3. (Printing) A sort of table used by printers. 4. (Music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. --Knight. | |
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Bank \Bank\ (b[acr][nsm]k), n. [OE. banke; akin to E. bench, and prob. of Scand. origin.; cf. Icel. bakki. See {Bench}.] 1. A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow. They cast up a bank against the city. --2 Sam. xx. 15. 2. A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine. 3. The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. Tiber trembled underneath her banks. --Shak. 4. An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland. 5. (Mining) (a) The face of the coal at which miners are working. (b) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. (c) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank. {Bank beaver} (Zo[94]l.), the otter. [Local, U.S.] {Bank swallow}, a small American and European swallow ({Clivicola riparia}) that nests in a hole which it excavates in a bank. | |
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Bank \Bank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Banked}(b[acr][nsm]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Banking}.] 1. To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. [bd]Banked well with earth.[b8] --Holland. 2. To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand. 3. To pass by the banks of. [Obs.] --Shak. {To bank a fire}, {To bank up a fire}, to cover the coals or embers with ashes or cinders, thus keeping the fire low but alive. | |
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Bank \Bank\, v. i. 1. To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker. | |
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Bank \Bank\, n. [F. banque, It. banca, orig. bench, table, counter, of German origin, and akin to E. bench; cf. G. bank bench, OHG. banch. See {Bench}, and cf. {Banco}, {Beach}.] 1. An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity. 2. The building or office used for banking purposes. 3. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital. [Obs.] Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money. --Bacon. 4. (Gaming) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses. 5. In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw. {Bank credit}, a credit by which a person who has given the required security to a bank has liberty to draw to a certain extent agreed upon. {Bank of deposit}, a bank which receives money for safe keeping. {Bank of issue}, a bank which issues its own notes payable to bearer. | |
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Bank \Bank\, v. t. To deposit in a bank. | |
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Bannock \Ban"nock\, n. [Gael. bonnach.] A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England. --Jamieson. {Bannock fluke}, the turbot. [Scot.] | |
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Banns \Banns\, n. pl. [See {Ban}.] Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place. | |
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Banshee \Ban"shee\, Banshie \Ban"shie\, n. [Gael. bean-shith fairy; Gael. & Ir. bean woman + Gael. sith fairy.] A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house. | |
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Bansshee \Bans"shee\, Banshie \Ban"shie\, n. [Gael. bean-shith fairy; Gael. & Ir. bean woman + Gael. sith fairy.] (Celtic Folklore) A supernatural being supposed to warn a family of the approaching death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice. | |
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Banshee \Ban"shee\, Banshie \Ban"shie\, n. [Gael. bean-shith fairy; Gael. & Ir. bean woman + Gael. sith fairy.] A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house. | |
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Bansshee \Bans"shee\, Banshie \Ban"shie\, n. [Gael. bean-shith fairy; Gael. & Ir. bean woman + Gael. sith fairy.] (Celtic Folklore) A supernatural being supposed to warn a family of the approaching death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice. | |
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Bay \Bay\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bayed} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Baying}.] [ OE. bayen, abayen, OF. abaier, F. aboyer, to bark; of uncertain origin.] To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game. The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bayed. --Dryden. | |
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Be \Be\, v. i. [imp. {Was}; p. p. {Been}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Being}.] [OE. been, beon, AS. be[a2]n to be, be[a2]m I am; akin to OHG. bim, pim, G. bin, I am, Gael. & Ir. bu was, W. bod to be, Lith. bu-ti, O. Slav. by-ti, to be, L. fu-i I have been, fu-turus about to be, fo-re to be about to be, and perh to fieri to become, Gr. [?] to be born, to be, Skr. bh[?] to be. This verb is defective, and the parts lacking are supplied by verbs from other roots, is, was, which have no radical connection with be. The various forms, am, are, is, was, were, etc., are considered grammatically as parts of the verb [bd]to be[b8], which, with its conjugational forms, is often called the substantive verb. [?]97. Cf. {Future}, {Physic}.] 1. To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex[?]stence. To be contents his natural desire. --Pope. To be, or not to be: that is the question. --Shak. 2. To exist in a certain manner or relation, -- whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, -- a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man. 3. To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday. 4. To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to. The field is the world. --Matt. xiii. 38. The seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. --Rev. i. 20. Note: The verb to be (including the forms is, was, etc.) is used in forming the passive voice of other verbs; as, John has been struck by James. It is also used with the past participle of many intransitive verbs to express a state of the subject. But have is now more commonly used as the auxiliary, though expressing a different sense; as, [bd]Ye have come too late -- but ye are come. [b8] [bd]The minstrel boy to the war is gone.[b8] The present and imperfect tenses form, with the infinitive, a particular future tense, which expresses necessity, duty, or purpose; as, government is to be supported; we are to pay our just debts; the deed is to be signed to-morrow. Note: Have or had been, followed by to, implies movement. [bd]I have been to Paris.[b8] --Sydney Smith. [bd]Have you been to Franchard ?[b8] --R. L. Stevenson. Note: Been, or ben, was anciently the plural of the indicative present. [bd]Ye ben light of the world.[b8] --Wyclif, Matt. v. 14. Afterwards be was used, as in our Bible: [bd]They that be with us are more than they that be with them.[b8] --2 Kings vi. 16. Ben was also the old infinitive: [bd]To ben of such power.[b8] --R. of Gloucester. Be is used as a form of the present subjunctive: [bd]But if it be a question of words and names.[b8] --Acts xviii. 15. But the indicative forms, is and are, with if, are more commonly used. {Be it so}, a phrase of supposition, equivalent to suppose it to be so; or of permission, signifying let it be so. --Shak. {If so be}, in case. {To be from}, to have come from; as, from what place are you ? I am from Chicago. {To let be}, to omit, or leave untouched; to let alone. [bd]Let be, therefore, my vengeance to dissuade.[b8] --Spenser. Syn: {To be}, {Exist}. Usage: The verb to be, except in a few rare case, like that of Shakespeare's [bd]To be, or not to be[b8], is used simply as a copula, to connect a subject with its predicate; as, man is mortal; the soul is immortal. The verb to exist is never properly used as a mere copula, but points to things that stand forth, or have a substantive being; as, when the soul is freed from all corporeal alliance, then it truly exists. It is not, therefore, properly synonymous with to be when used as a copula, though occasionally made so by some writers for the sake of variety; as in the phrase [bd]there exists [is] no reason for laying new taxes.[b8] We may, indeed, say, [bd]a friendship has long existed between them,[b8] instead of saying, [bd]there has long been a friendship between them;[b8] but in this case, exist is not a mere copula. It is used in its appropriate sense to mark the friendship as having been long in existence. | |
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Being \Be"ing\, adv. Since; inasmuch as. [Obs. or Colloq.] And being you have Declined his means, you have increased his malice. --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Being \Be"ing\, n. 1. Existence, as opposed to nonexistence; state or sphere of existence. In Him we live, and move, and have our being. --Acts xvii. 28. 2. That which exists in any form, whether it be material or spiritual, actual or ideal; living existence, as distinguished from a thing without life; as, a human being; spiritual beings. What a sweet being is an honest mind ! --Beau. & Fl. A Being of infinite benevolence and power. --Wordsworth. 3. Lifetime; mortal existence. [Obs.] Claudius, thou Wast follower of his fortunes in his being. --Webster (1654). 4. An abode; a cottage. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. It was a relief to dismiss them [Sir Roger's servants] into little beings within my manor. --Steele. | |
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Being \Be"ing\, p. pr. from {Be}. Existing. Note: Being was formerly used where we now use having. [bd]Being to go to a ball in a few days.[b8] --Miss Edgeworth. Note: In modern usage, is, are, was or were being, with a past participle following (as built, made, etc.) indicates the process toward the completed result expressed by the participle. The form is or was building, in this passive signification, is idiomatic, and, if free from ambiguity, is commonly preferable to the modern is or was being built. The last form of speech is, however, sufficiently authorized by approved writers. The older expression was is, or was, a-building or in building. A man who is being strangled. --Lamb. While the article on Burns was being written. --Froude. Fresh experience is always being gained. --Jowett (Thucyd. ) | |
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Bemask \Be*mask"\, v. t. To mask; to conceal. | |
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Bemaze \Be*maze\, v. t. [OE. bimasen; pref. be- + masen to maze.] To bewilder. Intellects bemazed in endless doubt. --Cowper. | |
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Bemock \Be*mock"\, v. t. To mock; to ridicule. Bemock the modest moon. --Shak. | |
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Bemuse \Be*muse"\, v. t. To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor. A parson much bemused in beer. --Pope. | |
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Bench \Bench\, v. i. To sit on a seat of justice. [R.] --Shak. | |
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Bench \Bench\, n.; pl. {Benches}. [OE. bench, benk, AS. benc; akin to Sw. b[84]nk, Dan b[91]nk, Icel. bekkr, OS., D., & G. bank. Cf. {Bank}, {Beach}.] 1. A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length. Mossy benches supplied the place of chairs. --Sir W. Scott. 2. A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench. 3. The seat where judges sit in court. To pluck down justice from your awful bench. --Shak. 4. The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See {King's Bench}. 5. A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms. 6. A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river. {Bench mark} (Leveling), one of a number of marks along a line of survey, affixed to permanent objects, to show where leveling staffs were placed. {Bench of bishops}, the whole body of English prelates assembled in council. {Bench plane}, any plane used by carpenters and joiners for working a flat surface, as jack planes, long planes. {Bench show}, an exhibition of dogs. {Bench table} (Arch.), a projecting course at the base of a building, or round a pillar, sufficient to form a seat. | |
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Bench \Bench\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Benched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Benching}.] 1. To furnish with benches. 'T was benched with turf. --Dryden. Stately theaters benched crescentwise. --Tennyson. 2. To place on a bench or seat of honor. Whom I . . . have benched and reared to worship. --Shak. | |
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Benshee \Ben"shee\, n. See {Banshee}. | |
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Bhang \Bhang\, n. [Per. bang; cf. Skr. bhang[be] hemp.] An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp ({Cannabis Indica}), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See {Hasheesh}. | |
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Bing \Bing\, n. [Cf. Icel. bingr, Sw. binge, G. beige, beuge. Cf. Prov. E. bink bench, and bench coal the uppermost stratum of coal.] A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood. [bd]Potato bings.[b8] --Burns. [bd]A bing of corn.[b8] --Surrey. [Obs. or Dial. Eng. & Scot.] | |
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Bink \Bink\, n. A bench. [North of Eng. & Scot.] | |
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Binous \Bi"nous\, a. Same as {Binate}. | |
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Bonce \Bonce\, n. [Etymol. unknown.] A boy's game played with large marbles. | |
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Ash \Ash\, n., sing. of {Ashes}. Note: Ash is rarely used in the singular except in connection with chemical or geological products; as, soda ash, coal which yields a red ash, etc., or as a qualifying or combining word; as, ash bin, ash heap, ash hole, ash pan, ash pit, ash-grey, ash-colored, pearlash, potash. {Bone ash}, burnt powered; bone earth. {Volcanic ash}. See under {Ashes}. | |
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Bone \Bone\, n. [OE. bon, ban, AS. b[be]n; akin to Icel. bein, Sw. ben, Dan. & D. been, G. bein bone, leg; cf. Icel. beinn straight.] 1. (Anat.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone. Note: Even in the hardest parts of bone there are many minute cavities containing living matter and connected by minute canals, some of which connect with larger canals through which blood vessels ramify. 2. One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body. 3. Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. 4. pl. Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music. 5. pl. Dice. 6. Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset. 7. Fig.: The framework of anything. {A bone of contention}, a subject of contention or dispute. {A bone to pick}, something to investigate, or to busy one's self about; a dispute to be settled (with some one). {Bone ash}, the residue from calcined bones; -- used for making cupels, and for cleaning jewelry. {Bone black} (Chem.), the black, carbonaceous substance into which bones are converted by calcination in close vessels; -- called also {animal charcoal}. It is used as a decolorizing material in filtering sirups, extracts, etc., and as a black pigment. See {Ivory black}, under {Black}. {Bone cave}, a cave in which are found bones of extinct or recent animals, mingled sometimes with the works and bones of man. --Am. Cyc. {Bone dust}, ground or pulverized bones, used as a fertilizer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Boneache \Bone"ache`\, n. Pain in the bones. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Boneshaw \Bone"shaw\, n. (Med.) Sciatica. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bongo \Bon"go\ (b[ocr][nsm]"g[omac]), n. Either of two large antelopes ({Bo[94]cercus eurycercus} of West Africa, and {B. isaaci} of East Africa) of a reddish or chestnut-brown color with narrow white stripes on the body. Their flesh is especially esteemed as food. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bonnaz \Bon"naz\, n. A kind of embroidery made with a complicated sewing machine, said to have been originally invented by a Frenchman of the name of Bonnaz. The work is done either in freehand or by following a perforated design. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bonus \Bo"nus\, n.; pl. {Bonuses}. [L. bonus good. Cf. {Bonny}.] 1. (Law) A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter. --Bouvier. 2. An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits. 3. Money paid in addition to a stated compensation. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bonze \Bon"ze\ (b[ocr]n"z[esl]; 277), n. [Pg. bonzo, fr. Japan. b[d3]zu a Buddhist priest: cf. F. bonze.] A Buddhist or Fohist priest, monk, or nun. Note: The name was given by the Portuguese to the priests of Japan, and has since been applied to the priests of China, Cochin China, and the neighboring countries. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Boohoe \Boo`hoe"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Boohooed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Boohooing}.] [An imitative word.] To bawl; to cry loudly. [Low] --Bartlett. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bounce \Bounce\, adv. With a sudden leap; suddenly. This impudent puppy comes bounce in upon me. --Bickerstaff. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bounce \Bounce\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bounced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bouncing}.] [OE. bunsen; cf. D. bonzen to strike, bounce, bons blow, LG. bunsen to knock; all prob. of imitative origin.] 1. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly. Another bounces as hard as he can knock. --Swift. Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart. --Dryden. 2. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room. Out bounced the mastiff. --Swift. Bounced off his arm+chair. --Thackeray. 3. To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bounce \Bounce\, v. t. 1. To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump. --Swift. 2. To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss. 3. To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment. [Collog. U. S.] 4. To bully; to scold. [Collog.] --J. Fletcher. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bounce \Bounce\, n. 1. A sudden leap or bound; a rebound. 2. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump. The bounce burst open the door. --Dryden. 3. An explosion, or the noise of one. [Obs.] 4. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer. --Johnson. De Quincey.[?] 5. (Zo[94]l.) A dogfish of Europe ({Scyllium catulus}). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bow \Bow\ (bou), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bowing}.] [OE. bowen, bogen, bugen, AS. b[d4]gan (generally v. i.); akin to D. buigen, OHG. biogan, G. biegen, beugen, Icel. boginn bent, beygja to bend, Sw. b[94]ja, Dan. b[94]ie, bugne, Coth. biugan; also to L. fugere to flee, Gr. [?], and Skr. bhuj to bend. [root]88. Cf. {Fugitive}.] 1. To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved. We bow things the contrary way, to make them come to their natural straightness. --Milton. The whole nation bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny. --Prescott. 2. To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline. Adversities do more bow men's minds to religion. --Bacon. Not to bow and bias their opinions. --Fuller. 3. To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension. They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him. --2 Kings ii. 15. 4. To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;[?] to crush; to subdue. Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave. --Shak. 5. To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bow \Bow\ (b[d3]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bowing}.] To play (music) with a bow. -- v. i. To manage the bow. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bowing \Bow"ing\, n. (Mus.) 1. The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments. Bowing constitutes a principal part of the art of the violinist, the violist, etc. --J. W. Moore. 2. In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bunch \Bunch\, n. [Akin to OSw. & Dan. bunke heap, Icel. bunki heap, pile, bunga tumor, protuberance; cf. W. pwng cluster. Cf. {Bunk}.] 1. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump. They will carry . . . their treasures upon the bunches of camels. --Isa. xxx. 6. 2. A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys. 3. (Mining) A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein. --Page. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bunch \Bunch\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bunched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bunching}.] To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round. Bunching out into a large round knob at one end. --Woodward. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bunch \Bunch\, v. t. To form into a bunch or bunches. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bunchy \Bunch"y\, a. 1. Swelling out in bunches. An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled. --Phaer. 2. Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail. 3. (Mining) Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine. --Page. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bunko \Bun"ko\, n. [Sf. Sp. banco bank, banca a sort of game at cards. Cf. {Bank} (in the commercial sense).] A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery. [Written also {bunco}.] {Bunko steerer}, a person employed as a decoy in bunko. [Slang, U.S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bung \Bung\, n. [Cf. W. bwng orfice, bunghole, Ir. buinne tap, spout, OGael. buine.] 1. The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask. 2. The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole. 3. A sharper or pickpocket. [Obs. & Low] You filthy bung, away. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bung \Bung\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bunged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bunging}.] To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up. {To bung up}, to use up, as by bruising or over exertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action. [Low] He had bunged up his mouth that he should not have spoken these three years. --Shelton (Trans. Don Quixote). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bungo \Bun"go\, n. (Naut.) A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States. --Bartlett. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bunk \Bunk\, n. [Cf. OSw. bunke heap, also boaring, flooring. Cf. {Bunch}.] 1. A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night. [U.S.] 2. One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers. 3. A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers. [Local, U.S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bunk \Bunk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bunked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bunking}.] To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in. [Colloq. U.S.] --Bartlett. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bunko \Bun"ko\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bunkoed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bunkoing}.] To swindle by a bunko game or scheme; to cheat or victimize in any similar way, as by a confidence game, passing a bad check, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bunko \Bun"ko\, n. [Sf. Sp. banco bank, banca a sort of game at cards. Cf. {Bank} (in the commercial sense).] A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery. [Written also {bunco}.] {Bunko steerer}, a person employed as a decoy in bunko. [Slang, U.S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Turkey-trot \Tur"key-trot`\, n. An eccentric ragtime dance, danced with the feet well apart and with a characteristic rise on the ball of the foot, followed by a drop upon the heel. The original form, owning to the positions assumed by the dancers, is offensively suggestive. Similar dances are the {bunny hug} and {grizzly bear}, so called in allusion to the movements and the positions assumed by the partners in dancing. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Buoyance \Buoy"ance\, n. Buoyancy. [R.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Buoyancy \Buoy"an*cy\, n.; pl. {Buoyancies}. 1. The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water. 2. (Physics) The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced. Such are buoyancies or displacements of the different classes of her majesty's ships. --Eng. Cyc. 3. Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of {heaviness}; as, buoyancy of spirits. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Buoy \Buoy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Buoyed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Buoying}.] 1. To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up. 2. To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency. Those old prejudices, which buoy up the ponderous mass of his nobility, wealth, and title. --Burke. 3. To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel. Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed. --Darwin. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Buy \Buy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bought}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Buying}.] [OE. buggen, buggen, bien, AS. bycgan, akin to OS. buggean, Goth. bugjan.] 1. To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell. Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries. --B. Franklin. 2. To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain. Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. --Prov. xxiii. 23. {To buy again}. See {Againbuy}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {To buy off}. (a) To influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration; as, to buy off conscience. (b) To detach by a consideration given; as, to buy off one from a party. {To buy out} (a) To buy off, or detach from. --Shak. (b) To purchase the share or shares of in a stock, fund, or partnership, by which the seller is separated from the company, and the purchaser takes his place; as, A buys out B. (c) To purchase the entire stock in trade and the good will of a business. {To buy in}, to purchase stock in any fund or partnership. {To buy on credit}, to purchase, on a promise, in fact or in law, to make payment at a future day. {To buy the refusal} (of anything), to give a consideration for the right of purchasing, at a fixed price, at a future time. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Bains, LA Zip code(s): 70775 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Bangs, TX (city, FIPS 5552) Location: 31.71452 N, 99.13048 W Population (1990): 1555 (703 housing units) Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 76823 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Banks, AL (town, FIPS 3940) Location: 31.81428 N, 85.83834 W Population (1990): 195 (95 housing units) Area: 5.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 36005 Banks, AR (town, FIPS 3430) Location: 33.57593 N, 92.26824 W Population (1990): 88 (45 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71631 Banks, ID Zip code(s): 83602 Banks, OR (city, FIPS 3850) Location: 45.61543 N, 123.11001 W Population (1990): 563 (190 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 97106 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Bemis, SD Zip code(s): 57238 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Bemiss, GA Zip code(s): 31602 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Benge, WA Zip code(s): 99105 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Benicia, CA (city, FIPS 5290) Location: 38.07185 N, 122.15409 W Population (1990): 24437 (9587 housing units) Area: 33.1 sq km (land), 3.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 94510 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Bon Aqua, TN Zip code(s): 37025 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Bunch, OK Zip code(s): 74931 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Bunkie, LA (city, FIPS 10950) Location: 30.95356 N, 92.18670 W Population (1990): 5044 (1945 housing units) Area: 6.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Byng, OK (town, FIPS 10600) Location: 34.86942 N, 96.66358 W Population (1990): 755 (280 housing units) Area: 9.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
bang 1. n. Common spoken name for `!' (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in pronouncing a {bang path} in spoken hackish. In {elder days} this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring {excl} or {shriek}; but the spread of Unix has carried `bang' with it (esp. via the term {bang path}) and it is now certainly the most common spoken name for `!'. Note that it is used exclusively for non-emphatic written `!'; one would not say "Congratulations bang" (except possibly for humorous purposes), but if one wanted to specify the exact characters `foo!' one would speak "Eff oh oh bang". See {shriek}, {{ASCII}}. 2. interj. An exclamation signifying roughly "I have achieved enlightenment!", or "The dynamite has cleared out my brain!" Often used to acknowledge that one has perpetrated a {thinko} immediately after one has been called on it. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
beanie key n. [Mac users] See {command key}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
boink /boynk/ [Usenet: variously ascribed to the TV series "Cheers" "Moonlighting", and "Soap"] 1. v. To have sex with; compare {bounce}, sense 3. (This is mainstream slang.) In Commonwealth hackish the variant `bonk' is more common. 2. n. After the original Peter Korn `Boinkon' {Usenet} parties, used for almost any net social gathering, e.g., Miniboink, a small boink held by Nancy Gillett in 1988; Minniboink, a Boinkcon in Minnesota in 1989; Humpdayboinks, Wednesday get-togethers held in the San Francisco Bay Area. Compare {@-party}. 3. Var of `bonk'; see {bonk/oif}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
bounce v. 1. [common; perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check] An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification to the sender is said to `bounce'. See also {bounce message}. 2. [Stanford] To play volleyball. The now-demolished {D. C. Power Lab} building used by the Stanford AI Lab in the 1970s had a volleyball court on the front lawn. From 5 P.M. to 7 P.M. was the scheduled maintenance time for the computer, so every afternoon at 5 would come over the intercom the cry: "Now hear this: bounce, bounce!", followed by Brian McCune loudly bouncing a volleyball on the floor outside the offices of known volleyballers. 3. To engage in sexual intercourse; prob. from the expression `bouncing the mattress', but influenced by Roo's psychosexually loaded "Try bouncing me, Tigger!" from the "Winnie-the-Pooh" books. Compare {boink}. 4. To casually reboot a system in order to clear up a transient problem. Reported primarily among {VMS} and {Unix} users. 5. [VM/CMS programmers] _Automatic_ warm-start of a machine after an error. "I logged on this morning and found it had bounced 7 times during the night" 6. [IBM] To {power cycle} a peripheral in order to reset it. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
bang 1. A common spoken name for "!" (ASCII 33), especially when used in pronouncing a {bang path} in spoken hackish. In {elder days} this was considered a {CMU}ish usage, with {MIT} and {Stanford} hackers preferring {excl} or {shriek}; but the spread of {Unix} has carried "bang" with it (especially via the term {bang path}) and it is now certainly the most common spoken name for "!". Note that it is used exclusively for non-emphatic written "!"; one would not say "Congratulations bang" (except possibly for humorous purposes), but if one wanted to specify the exact characters "foo!" one would speak "Eff oh oh bang". See {pling}, {shriek}, {ASCII}. 2. An exclamation signifying roughly "I have achieved enlightenment!", or "The dynamite has cleared out my brain!" Often used to acknowledge that one has perpetrated a {thinko} immediately after one has been called on it. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-31) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Be Inc Jean-Louis Gassee, former product chief at {Apple}. (1996-10-05) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
beanie key {feature key} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
BinHex file} using only {printable character}s. The file is converted to lines of letters, numbers and punctuation. Because BinHex files are simply text they can be sent through most {electronic mail} systems and stored on most computers. However the conversion to text makes the file larger, so it takes longer to transmit a file in BinHex format than if the file was represented some other way. {Filename extension}: .hqx. See also {BinHex 4.0}, {uuencode}. [Encoding algorithm?] (1994-11-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Binhex 4.0 file with {CRC} error checking. Binhex 4.0 files are designed for communication of Mac files over long distance, possibly noisy, seven bit wide paths. [Difference from other binhex formats?] (1996-09-17) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
BNC for some video connections and {RG58} "{cheapernet}" connections. A BNC connector has a bayonet-type shell with two small knobs on the female connector which lock into spiral slots in the male connector when it is twisted on. Different sources expand BNC as Bayonet Navy Connector, British Naval Connector, Bayonet Neill Concelman, or Bayonet Nut Connection. (1995-09-18) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
BOEING Early system on IBM 1103 or 1103A. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
boink /boynk/ [{Usenet}: variously ascribed to the TV series "Cheers" "Moonlighting", and "Soap"] 1. To have sex with; compare {bounce}. (This is mainstream slang.) In Commonwealth hackish the variant "bonk" is more common. 2. After the original Peter Korn "Boinkon" {Usenet} parties, used for almost any net social gathering, e.g. Miniboink, a small boink held by Nancy Gillett in 1988; Minniboink, a Boinkcon in Minnesota in 1989; Humpdayboinks, Wednesday get-togethers held in the San Francisco Bay Area. Compare {@-party}. 3. Variant of "bonk"; see {bonk/oif}. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
bounce 1. (Perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check) An {electronic mail} message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification (a "{bounce message}") to the sender is said to "bounce". 2. To play volleyball. The now-demolished {D. C. Power Lab} building used by the {Stanford AI Lab} in the 1970s had a volleyball court on the front lawn. From 5 PM to 7 PM was the scheduled maintenance time for the computer, so every afternoon at 5 would come over the intercom the cry: "Now hear this: bounce, bounce!", followed by Brian McCune loudly bouncing a volleyball on the floor outside the offices of known volleyballers. 3. To engage in sexual intercourse; probably from the expression "bouncing the mattress", but influenced by Roo's psychosexually loaded "Try bouncing me, Tigger!" from the "Winnie-the-Pooh" books. Compare {boink}. 4. To casually reboot a system in order to clear up a transient problem. Reported primarily among {VMS} users. 5. (VM/CMS programmers) Automatic warm-start of a computer after an error. "I logged on this morning and found it had bounced 7 times during the night" 6. (IBM) To {power cycle} a peripheral in order to reset it. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-29) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
bpmake {Aspirin} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Beans mentioned in 2 Sam. 17:28 as having been brought to David when flying from Absalom. They formed a constituent in the bread Ezekiel (4:9) was commanded to make, as they were in general much used as an article of diet. They are extensively cultivated in Egypt and Arabia and Syria. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Bench deck of a Tyrian ship, described by Ezekiel (27:6) as overlaid with box-wood. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Bowing a mode of showing respect. Abraham "bowed himself to the people of the land" (Gen. 23:7); so Jacob to Esau (Gen. 33:3); and the brethren of Joseph before him as the governor of the land (Gen. 43:28). Bowing is also frequently mentioned as an act of adoration to idols (Josh. 23:7; 2 Kings 5:18; Judg. 2:19; Isa. 44:15), and to God (Josh. 5:14; Ps. 22:29; 72:9; Micah 6:6; Ps. 95:6; Eph. 3:14). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Bunch (1.) A bundle of twigs (Ex. 12:22). (2.) Bunch or cake of raisins (2 Sam. 16:1). (3.) The "bunch of a camel" (Isa. 30:6). |