Bufo microscaphus : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

   Babinski
         n 1: extension upward of the toes when the sole of the foot is
               stroked firmly on the outer side from the heel to the
               front; normal in infants under the age of two years but a
               sign of brain or spinal cord injury in older persons [syn:
               {Babinski}, {Babinski reflex}, {Babinski sign}]

English Dictionary: Bufo microscaphus	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Babinski reflex n extension upward of the toes when the sole of the foot is stroked firmly on the outer side from the heel to the front; normal in infants under the age of two years but a sign of brain or spinal cord injury in older persons Synonym(s): Babinski, Babinski reflex, Babinski sign
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Babinski sign n extension upward of the toes when the sole of the foot is stroked firmly on the outer side from the heel to the front; normal in infants under the age of two years but a sign of brain or spinal cord injury in older persons Synonym(s): Babinski, Babinski reflex, Babinski sign
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
baboonish adj resembling a baboon
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Baffin Island n the 5th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada; lies between Greenland and Hudson Bay
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Bay of Bengal n an arm of the Indian Ocean to the east of India
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beef neck n a cut of beef from the neck of the animal
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Bouvines n in 1214 the French under Philip Augustus defeated a coalition formed against him in one of the greatest battles of the middle ages
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bovine spongiform encephalitis n a fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system; causes staggering and agitation Synonym(s): bovine spongiform encephalitis, BSE, mad cow disease
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bubonic adj of or evidencing buboes; "bubonic plague"
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bubonic plague n the most common form of the plague in humans; characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin; does not spread from person to person Synonym(s): bubonic plague, pestis bubonica, glandular plague
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
buffing wheel n a wheel that is covered with soft material
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buffoonish adj like a clown; "a buffoonish walk"; "a clownish face"; "a zany sense of humor" Synonym(s): buffoonish, clownish, clownlike, zany
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bufo microscaphus n a uniformly warty stocky toad of washes and streams of semiarid southwestern United States Synonym(s): southwestern toad, Bufo microscaphus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Babingtonite \Bab"ingtonite\, 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Baboonish \Bab*oon"ish\, a. Like a baboon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bepinch \Be*pinch"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bepinched}.] To pinch, or mark with pinches. --Chapman.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bepinch \Be*pinch"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bepinched}.] To pinch, or mark with pinches. --Chapman.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bipunctate \Bi*punc"tate\, a. [Pref. bi- + punctate.] Having two punctures, or spots.
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Bipunctual \Bipunc"tual\, a. Having two points.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bobance \Bo*bance"\, n. [OF. bobance, F. bombance, boasting, pageantry, fr. L. bombus a humming, buzzing.] A boasting. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bow-pencil \Bow"-pen`cil\, n. Bow-compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bubonic \Bubon"ic\ (b[usl]b[ocr]n"[icr]k), a. Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bubonocele \Bubon"ocele\ (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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Buffing apparatus \Buff"ing ap`pa*ra"tus\ See {Buffer}, 1.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Buffing apparatus \Buff"ing ap`pa*ra"tus\ See {Buffer}, 1.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Buffoonish \Buf*foon"ish\, a. Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures. --Blair.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Buffoonism \Buf*foon"ism\, n. The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery.
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
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'.