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   B-scan ultrasonography
         n 1: the use of ultrasonography to view structure in the back of
               the eye

English Dictionary: Bacchanalia by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bacchanal
adj
  1. used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity"
    Synonym(s): bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic
n
  1. someone who engages in drinking bouts [syn: {drunken reveler}, drunken reveller, bacchanal, bacchant]
  2. a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
    Synonym(s): bacchant, bacchanal
  3. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
    Synonym(s): orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bacchanalia
n
  1. an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus)
    Synonym(s): Dionysia, Bacchanalia
  2. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
    Synonym(s): orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bacchanalian
adj
  1. used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity"
    Synonym(s): bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
back channel
n
  1. an alternative to the regular channels of communication that is used when agreements must be made secretly (especially in diplomacy or government); "they negotiated via a back channel"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
back-channel
adj
  1. via a back channel; "the failure of back-channel negotiations"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich
n
  1. sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce
    Synonym(s): bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, BLT
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bahasa Malaysia
n
  1. the Malay language spoken in Malaysia [syn: Malaysian, Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Kebangsaan]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bahasa Melayu
n
  1. the Malay language spoken in Malaysia [syn: Malaysian, Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Kebangsaan]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
basinal
adj
  1. of or relating to a basin; "basinal deposits"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Basque Homeland and Freedom
n
  1. a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees; "in 1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials"
    Synonym(s): Basque Homeland and Freedom, Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Euskadi ta Askatasuna, ETA
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Beacon Hill
n
  1. a fashionable section of Boston; site of the Massachusetts capital building
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
beacon light
n
  1. a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships
    Synonym(s): beacon, lighthouse, beacon light, pharos
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bechamel
n
  1. milk thickened with a butter and flour roux [syn: {white sauce}, bechamel sauce, bechamel]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bechamel sauce
n
  1. milk thickened with a butter and flour roux [syn: {white sauce}, bechamel sauce, bechamel]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bizonal
adj
  1. relating to or concerned with the combined affairs of two administrative zones; "Bizonal currency was used in occupied Germany after World War II"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bokmaal
n
  1. book language; one of two official languages of Norway; closely related to Danish
    Synonym(s): Bokmal, Bokmaal, Dano- Norwegian
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bokmal
n
  1. book language; one of two official languages of Norway; closely related to Danish
    Synonym(s): Bokmal, Bokmaal, Dano- Norwegian
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Boykinia elata
n
  1. plant with leaves mostly at the base and openly branched clusters of small white flowers; western North America
    Synonym(s): coast boykinia, Boykinia elata, Boykinia occidentalis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Buchenwald
n
  1. a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in World War II that was located in central Germany
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bushnell
n
  1. American inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824)
    Synonym(s): Bushnell, David Bushnell, Father of the Submarine
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
buxomly
adv
  1. in a curvaceous way; "his date was curvaceously beguiling"
    Synonym(s): curvaceously, buxomly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
by small degrees
adv
  1. by a short distance; "they moved it by inches" [syn: {by inches}, little by little, by small degrees]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bacchanal \Bac"cha*nal\, a. [L. Bacchanalis. See {Bacchanalia}.]
      1. Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
  
      2. Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bacchanal \Bac"cha*nal\, n.
      1. A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels;
            one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser.
            [bd]Tipsy bacchanals.[b8] --Shak.
  
      2. pl. The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.
  
      3. Drunken revelry; an orgy.
  
      4. A song or dance in honor of Bacchus.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bacchanalian \Bac`cha*na"li*an\, a.
      Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or
      given to reveling and drunkenness.
  
               Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. --Cowper.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bacchanalian \Bac`cha*na"li*an\, n.
      A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bacchanalianism \Bac`cha*na"li*an*ism\, n.
      The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Beaconless \Bea"con*less\, a.
      Having no beacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Beseemly \Be*seem"ly\, a.
      Fit; suitable; becoming. [Archaic]
  
               In beseemly order sitten there.               --Shenstone.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Bismillah \[d8]Bis*mil"lah\, interj. [Arabic, in the name of
      God!]
      An adjuration or exclamation common among the Mohammedans.
      [Written also {Bizmillah}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Buccinal \Buc"ci*nal\, a. [L. bucina a crooked horn or trumpet.]
      Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Buxom \Bux"om\, a. [OE. buxum, boxom, buhsum, pliable, obedient,
      AS. b[d3]csum, b[d4]hsum (akin to D. buigzaam blexible, G.
      biegsam); b[d4]gan to bow, bend + -sum, E. -some. See {Bow}
      to bend, and {-some}.]
      1. Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient;
            tractable; docile; meek; humble. [Obs.]
  
                     So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be, And buxom to
                     his bands, is joy to see.                  --Spenser.
  
                     I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to
                     be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it.
                                                                              --Foxe.
  
      2. Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and
            comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and
            rosy; jolly; frolicsome.
  
                     A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
                     A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing,
                     singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long.
                                                                              --Tatler.
            -- {Bux"om*ly}, adv. -- {Bux"om*ness}, n.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bagnell, MO (town, FIPS 2962)
      Location: 38.22886 N, 92.60509 W
      Population (1990): 89 (41 housing units)
      Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bicknell, IN (city, FIPS 5176)
      Location: 38.77528 N, 87.30836 W
      Population (1990): 3357 (1584 housing units)
      Area: 3.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 47512
   Bicknell, UT (town, FIPS 5490)
      Location: 38.34140 N, 111.54473 W
      Population (1990): 327 (127 housing units)
      Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bushnell, FL (city, FIPS 9625)
      Location: 28.66437 N, 82.11436 W
      Population (1990): 1998 (998 housing units)
      Area: 5.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 33513
   Bushnell, IL (city, FIPS 10110)
      Location: 40.55155 N, 90.50455 W
      Population (1990): 3288 (1499 housing units)
      Area: 5.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 61422
   Bushnell, NE (village, FIPS 7415)
      Location: 41.23196 N, 103.89038 W
      Population (1990): 119 (82 housing units)
      Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 69128
   Bushnell, SD (town, FIPS 8820)
      Location: 44.32837 N, 96.64318 W
      Population (1990): 81 (30 housing units)
      Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   BC NELIAC
  
      Version of NELIAC, post 1962.   Sammet 1969, p.197.
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Bashan, Hill of
      (Ps. 68:15), probably another name for Hermon, which lies to the
      north of Bashan.
     
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