English Dictionary: bubonic plague | by the DICT Development Group |
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Babingtonite \Bab"ing*ton*ite\, n. [From Dr. Babbington.] (Min.) A mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, manganese, and lime. | |
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Baboonish \Bab*oon"ish\, a. Like a baboon. | |
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Baby \Ba"by\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Babied} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n.{Babying}.] To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor; to fondle. --Young. | |
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Behave \Be*have"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Behaved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Behaving}.] [AS. behabban to surround, restrain, detain (akin to G. gehaben (obs.) to have, sich gehaben to behave or carry one's self); pref. be- + habban to have. See {Have}, v. t. ] 1. To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain. [Obs.] He did behave his anger ere 't was spent. --Shak. 2. To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively. Those that behaved themselves manfully. --2 Macc. ii. 21. | |
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Behoove \Be*hoove"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Behooved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Behooving}.] [OE. bihoven, behoven, AS. beh[?]fian to have need of, fr. beh[?]f. See {Behoof}.] To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally. And thus it behooved Christ to suffer. --Luke xxiv. 46. [Also written {behove}.] | |
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Bepinch \Be*pinch"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bepinched}.] To pinch, or mark with pinches. --Chapman. | |
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Bepinch \Be*pinch"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bepinched}.] To pinch, or mark with pinches. --Chapman. | |
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Beweep \Be*weep"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bewept}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beweeping}.] [AS. bew[?]pan; pref. be- + weep.] To weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears. [bd]His timeless death beweeping.[b8] --Drayton. | |
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Bipunctate \Bi*punc"tate\, a. [Pref. bi- + punctate.] Having two punctures, or spots. | |
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Bipunctual \Bi*punc"tu*al\, a. Having two points. | |
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Bobance \Bo*bance"\, n. [OF. bobance, F. bombance, boasting, pageantry, fr. L. bombus a humming, buzzing.] A boasting. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Bob \Bob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bobbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bobbing}.] [OE. bobben. See {Bob}, n.] 1. To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob. [bd]He bobbed his head.[b8] --W. Irving. 2. To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap. If any man happened by long sitting to sleep . . . he was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants. --Elyot. 3. To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch. Gold and jewels that I bobbed from him. --Shak. 4. To mock or delude; to cheat. To play her pranks, and bob the fool, The shrewish wife began. --Turbervile. 5. To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail. | |
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Bow-pencil \Bow"-pen`cil\, n. Bow-compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil. | |
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{Grand cross}. (a) The highest rank of knighthood in the Order of the Bath. (b) A knight grand cross. {Grand cordon}, the cordon or broad ribbon, identified with the highest grade in certain honorary orders; hence, a person who holds that grade. {Grand days} (Eng. Law), certain days in the terms which are observed as holidays in the inns of court and chancery (Candlemas, Ascension, St. John Baptist's, and All Saints' Days); called also {Dies non juridici}. {Grand duchess}. (a) The wife or widow of a grand duke. (b) A lady having the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right. (c) In Russia, a daughter of the Czar. {Grand duke}. (a) A sovereign duke, inferior in rank to a king; as, the Grand Duke of Tuscany. (b) In Russia, a son of the Czar. (c) (Zo[94]l.) The European great horned owl or eagle owl ({Bubo maximas}). {Grand-guard}, [or] {Grandegarde}, a piece of plate armor used in tournaments as an extra protection for the left shoulder and breast. {Grand juror}, a member of a grand jury. {Grand jury} (Law), a jury of not less than twelve men, and not more than twenty-three, whose duty it is, in private session, to examine into accusations against persons charged with crime, and if they see just cause, then to find bills of indictment against them, to be presented to the court; -- called also {grand inquest}. {Grand juryman}, a grand juror. {Grand larceny}. (Law) See under {Larceny}. {Grand lodge}, the chief lodge, or governing body, among Freemasons and other secret orders. {Grand master}. (a) The head of one of the military orders of knighthood, as the Templars, Hospitallers, etc. (b) The head of the order of Freemasons or of Good Templars, etc. | |
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Galban \Gal"ban\, Galbanum \Gal"ba*num\, n. [L. galbanum, Gr. [?], prob. from Heb. klekb'n[?]h: cf. F. galbanum.] A gum resin exuding from the stems of certain Asiatic umbelliferous plants, mostly species of {Ferula}. The {Bubon Galbanum} of South Africa furnishes an inferior kind of galbanum. It has an acrid, bitter taste, a strong, unpleasant smell, and is used for medical purposes, also in the arts, as in the manufacture of varnish. | |
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Bubonic \Bu*bon"ic\ (b[usl]*b[ocr]n"[icr]k), a. Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes. | |
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Bubonocele \Bu*bon"o*cele\ (b[usl]*b[ocr]n"[osl]*s[emac]l), n. [Gr. boubw`n groin + [?] tumor: cf. F. bubonoc[8a]le.] (Med.) An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo. | |
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Buffer \Buff"er\ (b[ucr]f"[etil]r), n. [Prop a striker. See {Buffet} a blow.] 1. (Mech.) (a) An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car. (b) A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; -- sometimes called {buffing apparatus}. 2. One who polishes with a buff. 3. A wheel for buffing; a buff. 4. A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an elderly man. [Colloq.] --Dickens. | |
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Buffing apparatus \Buff"ing ap`pa*ra"tus\ See {Buffer}, 1. | |
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Buffer \Buff"er\ (b[ucr]f"[etil]r), n. [Prop a striker. See {Buffet} a blow.] 1. (Mech.) (a) An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car. (b) A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; -- sometimes called {buffing apparatus}. 2. One who polishes with a buff. 3. A wheel for buffing; a buff. 4. A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an elderly man. [Colloq.] --Dickens. | |
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Buffing apparatus \Buff"ing ap`pa*ra"tus\ See {Buffer}, 1. | |
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Disappearing \Dis`ap*pear"ing\, p. pr. & vb. n. of {Disappear}. {Disappearing carriage} (Ordnance), a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing carriage in the coast artillery of the United States army is the {Buffington-Crozier carriage}, in which the gun trunnions are secured at the upper and after ends of a pair of heavy levers, at the lower ends of which is attached a counterweight of lead. The levers are pivoted at their middle points, which are, with the top carriage, permitted restrained motion along the slightly inclined chassis rails. The counterweight is held in place by a pawl and ratchet. When the gun is loaded the pawl is released and the counterweight sinks, raising the gun to the firing position above the parapet. The recoil following the discharge returns the gun to the loading position, the counterweight rising until the pawl engages the ratchet. | |
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Buffoonish \Buf*foon"ish\, a. Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures. --Blair. | |
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Buffoonism \Buf*foon"ism\, n. The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery. | |
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Befunge n. A worthy companion to {INTERCAL}; a computer language family which escapes the quotidian limitation of linear control flow and embraces program counters flying through multiple dimensions with exotic topologies. Sadly, the Befunge home page has vanished, but a Befunge version of the {hello world} program is at `http://www.latech.edu/~acm/helloworld/befunge.html'. |