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   B vitamin
         n 1: originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated
               into several B vitamins [syn: {B-complex vitamin}, {B
               complex}, {vitamin B complex}, {vitamin B}, {B vitamin},
               {B}]

English Dictionary: Butea monosperma by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bad manners
n
  1. impoliteness resulting from ignorance [syn: bad manners, ill-breeding]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bad-mannered
adj
  1. socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion"
    Synonym(s): ill-mannered, bad- mannered, rude, unmannered, unmannerly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
badminton
n
  1. a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
badminton court
n
  1. the court on which badminton is played
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
badminton equipment
n
  1. equipment for playing the game of badminton
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
badminton racket
n
  1. a light long-handled racket used by badminton players [syn: badminton racket, badminton racquet, battledore]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
badminton racquet
n
  1. a light long-handled racket used by badminton players [syn: badminton racket, badminton racquet, battledore]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
batman
n
  1. an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer
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Betty Naomi Friedan
n
  1. United States feminist who founded a national organization for women (born in 1921)
    Synonym(s): Friedan, Betty Friedan, Betty Naomi Friedan, Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan
n
  1. United States feminist who founded a national organization for women (born in 1921)
    Synonym(s): Friedan, Betty Friedan, Betty Naomi Friedan, Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bitumen
n
  1. any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bitumenoid
adj
  1. like bitumen
    Synonym(s): bituminoid, bitumenoid
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bituminise
v
  1. treat with bitumen
    Synonym(s): bituminize, bituminise
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bituminize
v
  1. treat with bitumen
    Synonym(s): bituminize, bituminise
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bituminoid
adj
  1. like bitumen
    Synonym(s): bituminoid, bitumenoid
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bituminous
adj
  1. resembling or containing bitumen; "bituminous coal"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bituminous coal
n
  1. rich in tarry hydrocarbons; burns readily with a smoky yellow flame
    Synonym(s): bituminous coal, soft coal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
boatman
n
  1. someone who drives or rides in a boat [syn: boatman, boater, waterman]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
boatmanship
n
  1. skill in handling boats
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
butanone
n
  1. colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid
    Synonym(s): butanone, methyl ethyl ketone
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Butea monosperma
n
  1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye
    Synonym(s): dhak, dak, palas, Butea frondosa, Butea monosperma
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
buteonine
adj
  1. relating to or resembling a hawk of the genus Buteo
n
  1. any hawk of the genus Buteo
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
button mangrove
n
  1. evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood
    Synonym(s): button tree, button mangrove, Conocarpus erectus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Badminton \Bad"min*ton\, n. [From the name of the seat of the
      Duke of Beaufort in England.]
      1. A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.
  
      2. A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Batement \Bate"ment\, n. [For {Abatement}. See 2d {Bate}.]
      Abatement; diminution. --Moxon.
  
      {Batement light} (Arch.), a window or one division of a
            window having vertical sides, but with the sill not
            horizontal, as where it follows the rake of a staircase.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Batement \Bate"ment\, n. [For {Abatement}. See 2d {Bate}.]
      Abatement; diminution. --Moxon.
  
      {Batement light} (Arch.), a window or one division of a
            window having vertical sides, but with the sill not
            horizontal, as where it follows the rake of a staircase.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Batman \Bat"man\, n.; pl. {Batmen}. [F. b[acir]t packsaddle + E.
      man. Cf. {Bathorse}.]
      A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load. --Macaulay.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Batman \Bat"man\, n.; pl. {Batmen}. [F. b[acir]t packsaddle + E.
      man. Cf. {Bathorse}.]
      A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load. --Macaulay.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Batten \Bat"ten\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Battened} ([?]); p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Battening}.] [See {Batful}.]
      1. To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten. [bd]Battening
            our flocks.[b8] --Milton.
  
      2. To fertilize or enrich, as land.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Battening \Bat"ten*ing\, n. (Arch.)
      Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bedim \Be*dim"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bedimmed} ([?]); p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Bedimming}.]
      To make dim; to obscure or darken. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wind \Wind\ (w[icr]nd, in poetry and singing often w[imac]nd;
      277), n. [AS. wind; akin to OS., OFries., D., & G. wind, OHG.
      wint, Dan. & Sw. vind, Icel. vindr, Goth winds, W. gwynt, L.
      ventus, Skr. v[be]ta (cf. Gr. 'ah`ths a blast, gale, 'ah^nai
      to breathe hard, to blow, as the wind); originally a p. pr.
      from the verb seen in Skr. v[be] to blow, akin to AS.
      w[be]wan, D. waaijen, G. wehen, OHG. w[be]en, w[be]jen, Goth.
      waian. [root]131. Cf. {Air}, {Ventail}, {Ventilate},
      {Window}, {Winnow}.]
      1. Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a
            current of air.
  
                     Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill
                     wind that turns none to good.            --Tusser.
  
                     Winds were soft, and woods were green. --Longfellow.
  
      2. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as,
            the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.
  
      3. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or
            by an instrument.
  
                     Their instruments were various in their kind, Some
                     for the bow, and some for breathing wind. --Dryden.
  
      4. Power of respiration; breath.
  
                     If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I
                     would repent.                                    --Shak.
  
      5. Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence;
            as, to be troubled with wind.
  
      6. Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
  
                     A pack of dogfish had him in the wind. --Swift.
  
      7. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the
            compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are
            often called the four winds.
  
                     Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon
                     these slain.                                       --Ezek.
                                                                              xxxvii. 9.
  
      Note: This sense seems to have had its origin in the East.
               The Hebrews gave to each of the four cardinal points
               the name of wind.
  
      8. (Far.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are
            distended with air, or rather affected with a violent
            inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
  
      9. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
  
                     Nor think thou with wind Of airy threats to awe.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      10. (Zo[94]l.) The dotterel. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      Note: Wind is often used adjectively, or as the first part of
               compound words.
  
      {All in the wind}. (Naut.) See under {All}, n.
  
      {Before the wind}. (Naut.) See under {Before}.
  
      {Between wind and water} (Naut.), in that part of a ship's
            side or bottom which is frequently brought above water by
            the rolling of the ship, or fluctuation of the water's
            surface. Hence, colloquially, (as an injury to that part
            of a vessel, in an engagement, is particularly dangerous)
            the vulnerable part or point of anything.
  
      {Cardinal winds}. See under {Cardinal}, a.
  
      {Down the wind}.
            (a) In the direction of, and moving with, the wind; as,
                  birds fly swiftly down the wind.
            (b) Decaying; declining; in a state of decay. [Obs.]
                  [bd]He went down the wind still.[b8] --L'Estrange.
  
      {In the wind's eye} (Naut.), directly toward the point from
            which the wind blows.
  
      {Three sheets in the wind}, unsteady from drink. [Sailors'
            Slang]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Between \Be*tween"\, prep. [OE. bytwene, bitweonen, AS.
      betwe[a2]nan, betwe[a2]num; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS.
      tw[be] two, akin to Goth. tweihnai two apiece. See {Twain},
      and cf. {Atween}, {Betwixt}.]
      1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is
            between Boston and Philadelphia.
  
      2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to
            another; from one to another of two.
  
                     If things should go so between them.   --Bacon.
  
      3. Belonging in common to two; shared by both.
  
                     Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them.
                                                                              --Locke.
  
      4. Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving
            reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as,
            opposition between science and religion.
  
                     An intestine struggle, open or secret, between
                     authority and liberty.                        --Hume.
  
      5. With relation to two, as involved in an act or attribute
            of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge
            between or to choose between courses; to distinguish
            between you and me; to mediate between nations.
  
      6. In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity,
            or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock.
  
      {Between decks}, the space, or in the space, between the
            decks of a vessel.
  
      {Between ourselves}, {Between you and me}, {Between
      themselves}, in confidence; with the understanding that the
            matter is not to be communicated to others.
  
      Syn: {Between}, {Among}.
  
      Usage: Between etymologically indicates only two; as, a
                  quarrel between two men or two nations; to be between
                  two fires, etc. It is however extended to more than
                  two in expressing a certain relation.
  
                           I . . . hope that between public business,
                           improving studies, and domestic pleasures,
                           neither melancholy nor caprice will find any
                           place for entrance.                     --Johnson.
                  Among implies a mass or collection of things or
                  persons, and always supposes more than two; as, the
                  prize money was equally divided among the ship's crew.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Biodynamic \Bi`o*dy*nam"ic\, Biodynamical \Bi`o*dy*nam"ic*al\,
      a.] (Biol.)
      Of or pertaining to biodynamics, or the doctrine of vital
      forces or energy.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Biodynamic \Bi`o*dy*nam"ic\, Biodynamical \Bi`o*dy*nam"ic*al\,
      a.] (Biol.)
      Of or pertaining to biodynamics, or the doctrine of vital
      forces or energy.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Biodynamics \Bi`o*dy*nam"ics\, n.
      The branch of biology which treats of the active vital
      phenomena of organisms; -- opposed to {biostatics}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Biodynamics \Bi`o*dy*nam"ics\, n. [Gr. [?] life + E. dynamics.]
      (Biol.)
      The doctrine of vital forces or energy.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bitumen \Bi*tu"men\, n. [L. bitumen: cf. F. bitume. Cf.
      {B[82]ton}.]
      1. Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a
            bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant
            natural product in many places, as on the shores of the
            Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the
            construction of pavements, etc. See {Asphalt}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bitumen process \Bi*tu"men proc"ess\ (Photog.)
      Any process in which advantage is taken of the fact that
      prepared bitumen is rendered insoluble by exposure to light,
      as in photolithography.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bituminate \Bi*tu"mi*nate\ (b[icr]*t[umac]"m[icr]*n[amac]t), v.
      t. [imp. & p. p. {Bituminated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Bituminating}.] [L. bituminatus, p. p. of bituminare to
      bituminate. See {Bitumen}.]
      To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen.
      [bd]Bituminated walls of Babylon.[b8] --Feltham.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bituminate \Bi*tu"mi*nate\ (b[icr]*t[umac]"m[icr]*n[amac]t), v.
      t. [imp. & p. p. {Bituminated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Bituminating}.] [L. bituminatus, p. p. of bituminare to
      bituminate. See {Bitumen}.]
      To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen.
      [bd]Bituminated walls of Babylon.[b8] --Feltham.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bituminate \Bi*tu"mi*nate\ (b[icr]*t[umac]"m[icr]*n[amac]t), v.
      t. [imp. & p. p. {Bituminated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Bituminating}.] [L. bituminatus, p. p. of bituminare to
      bituminate. See {Bitumen}.]
      To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen.
      [bd]Bituminated walls of Babylon.[b8] --Feltham.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bituminiferous \Bi*tu`mi*nif"er*ous\, a. [Bitumen + -ferous.]
      Producing bitumen. --Kirwan.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bituminization \Bi*tu`mi*ni*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F.
      bituminisation.]
      The process of bituminizing. --Mantell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bituminize \Bi*tu"mi*nize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bituminized};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Bituminizing}.] [Cf. F. bituminiser.]
      To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bituminize \Bi*tu"mi*nize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bituminized};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Bituminizing}.] [Cf. F. bituminiser.]
      To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bituminize \Bi*tu"mi*nize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bituminized};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Bituminizing}.] [Cf. F. bituminiser.]
      To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bituminous \Bi*tu"mi*nous\, a. [L. bituminosus: cf. F.
      bitumineux.]
      Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen;
      containing bitumen.
  
               Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed. --Milton.
  
      {Bituminous coal}, a kind of coal which yields, when heated,
            a considerable amount of volatile bituminous matter. It
            burns with a yellow smoky flame.
  
      {Bituminous limestone}, a mineral of a brown or black color,
            emitting an unpleasant smell when rubbed. That of Dalmatia
            is so charged with bitumen that it may be cut like soap.
           
  
      {Bituminous shale}, an argillaceous shale impregnated with
            bitumen, often accompanying coal.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bituminous \Bi*tu"mi*nous\, a. [L. bituminosus: cf. F.
      bitumineux.]
      Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen;
      containing bitumen.
  
               Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed. --Milton.
  
      {Bituminous coal}, a kind of coal which yields, when heated,
            a considerable amount of volatile bituminous matter. It
            burns with a yellow smoky flame.
  
      {Bituminous limestone}, a mineral of a brown or black color,
            emitting an unpleasant smell when rubbed. That of Dalmatia
            is so charged with bitumen that it may be cut like soap.
           
  
      {Bituminous shale}, an argillaceous shale impregnated with
            bitumen, often accompanying coal.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coal \Coal\, n. [AS. col; akin to D. kool, OHG. chol, cholo, G.
      kohle, Icel. kol, pl., Sw. kol, Dan. kul; cf. Skr. jval to
      burn. Cf. {Kiln}, {Collier}.]
      1. A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited,
            fragment from wood or other combustible substance;
            charcoal.
  
      2. (Min.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible
            substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used
            for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon,
            but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a
            large amount of volatile matter.
  
      Note: This word is often used adjectively, or as the first
               part of self-explaining compounds; as, coal-black; coal
               formation; coal scuttle; coal ship. etc.
  
      Note: In England the plural coals is used, for the broken
               mineral coal burned in grates, etc.; as, to put coals
               on the fire. In the United States the singular in a
               collective sense is the customary usage; as, a hod of
               coal.
  
      {Age of coal plants}. See {Age of Acrogens}, under {Acrogen}.
           
  
      {Anthracite} or {Glance coal}. See {Anthracite}.
  
      {Bituminous coal}. See under {Bituminous}.
  
      {Blind coal}. See under {Blind}.
  
      {Brown coal}, [or] {Lignite}. See {Lignite}.
  
      {Caking coal}, a bituminous coal, which softens and becomes
            pasty or semi-viscid when heated. On increasing the heat,
            the volatile products are driven off, and a coherent,
            grayish black, cellular mass of coke is left.
  
      {Cannel coal}, a very compact bituminous coal, of fine
            texture and dull luster. See {Cannel coal}.
  
      {Coal bed} (Geol.), a layer or stratum of mineral coal.
  
      {Coal breaker}, a structure including machines and machinery
            adapted for crushing, cleansing, and assorting coal.
  
      {Coal field} (Geol.), a region in which deposits of coal
            occur. Such regions have often a basinlike structure, and
            are hence called {coal basins}. See {Basin}.
  
      {Coal gas}, a variety of carbureted hydrogen, procured from
            bituminous coal, used in lighting streets, houses, etc.,
            and for cooking and heating.
  
      {Coal heaver}, a man employed in carrying coal, and esp. in
            putting it in, and discharging it from, ships.
  
      {Coal measures}. (Geol.)
            (a) Strata of coal with the attendant rocks.
            (b) A subdivision of the carboniferous formation, between
                  the millstone grit below and the Permian formation
                  above, and including nearly all the workable coal beds
                  of the world.
  
      {Coal oil}, a general name for mineral oils; petroleum.
  
      {Coal plant} (Geol.), one of the remains or impressions of
            plants found in the strata of the coal formation.
  
      {Coal tar}. See in the Vocabulary.
  
      {To haul over the coals}, to call to account; to scold or
            censure. [Colloq.]
  
      {Wood coal}. See {Lignite}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bituminous \Bi*tu"mi*nous\, a. [L. bituminosus: cf. F.
      bitumineux.]
      Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen;
      containing bitumen.
  
               Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed. --Milton.
  
      {Bituminous coal}, a kind of coal which yields, when heated,
            a considerable amount of volatile bituminous matter. It
            burns with a yellow smoky flame.
  
      {Bituminous limestone}, a mineral of a brown or black color,
            emitting an unpleasant smell when rubbed. That of Dalmatia
            is so charged with bitumen that it may be cut like soap.
           
  
      {Bituminous shale}, an argillaceous shale impregnated with
            bitumen, often accompanying coal.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shale \Shale\, n. [AS. scealy, scalu. See {Scalme}, and cf.
      {Shell}.]
      1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod. [bd]The green shales of a
            bean.[b8] --Chapman.
  
      2. [G. shale.] (Geol.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a
            thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
  
      {Bituminous shale}. See under {Bituminous}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bituminous \Bi*tu"mi*nous\, a. [L. bituminosus: cf. F.
      bitumineux.]
      Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen;
      containing bitumen.
  
               Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed. --Milton.
  
      {Bituminous coal}, a kind of coal which yields, when heated,
            a considerable amount of volatile bituminous matter. It
            burns with a yellow smoky flame.
  
      {Bituminous limestone}, a mineral of a brown or black color,
            emitting an unpleasant smell when rubbed. That of Dalmatia
            is so charged with bitumen that it may be cut like soap.
           
  
      {Bituminous shale}, an argillaceous shale impregnated with
            bitumen, often accompanying coal.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Slate \Slate\, n. [OE. slat, OF. esclat a shiver, splinter, F.
      [82]clat, fr. OF. esclater to shiver, to chip, F. [82]clater,
      fr. OHG. sliezen to tear, slit, split, fr. sl[c6]zan to slit,
      G. schleissen. See {Slit}, v. t., and cf. {Eclat}.]
      1. (Min.) An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin
            plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.
  
      2. Any rock or stone having a slaty structure.
  
      3. A prepared piece of such stone. Especially:
            (a) A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses,
                  etc.
            (b) A tablet for writing upon.
  
      4. An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the
            above purposes.
  
      5. A thin plate of any material; a flake. [Obs.]
  
      6. (Politics) A list of candidates, prepared for nomination
            or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of
            action, devised beforehand. [Cant, U.S.] --Bartlett.
  
      {Adhesive slate} (Min.), a kind of slate of a greenish gray
            color, which absorbs water rapidly, and adheres to the
            tongue; whence the name.
  
      {Aluminous slate}, [or] {Alum slate} (Min.), a kind of slate
            containing sulphate of alumina, -- used in the manufacture
            of alum.
  
      {Bituminous slate} (Min.), a soft species of sectile clay
            slate, impregnated with bitumen.
  
      {Hornblende slate} (Min.), a slaty rock, consisting
            essentially of hornblende and feldspar, useful for
            flagging on account of its toughness.
  
      {Slate ax} [or] {axe}, a mattock with an ax end, used in
            shaping slates for roofs, and making holes in them for the
            nails.
  
      {Slate clay} (Geol.), an indurated clay, forming one of the
            alternating beds of the coal measures, consisting of an
            infusible compound of alumina and silica, and often used
            for making fire bricks. --Tomlinson.
  
      {Slate globe}, a globe the surface of which is made of an
            artificial slatelike material.
  
      {Slate pencil}, a pencil of slate, or of soapstone, used for
            writing on a slate.
  
      {Slate rocks} (Min.), rocks which split into thin lamin[91],
            not necessarily parallel to the stratification; foliated
            rocks.
  
      {Slate spar} (Min.), a variety of calcite of silvery white
            luster and of a slaty structure.
  
      {Transparent slate}, a plate of translucent material, as
            ground glass, upon which a copy of a picture, placed
            beneath it, can be made by tracing.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Boatman \Boat"man\, n.; pl. {Boatmen}.
      1. A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.
  
                     As late the boatman hies him home.      --Percival.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) A boat bug. See {Boat bug}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Boat bug \Boat" bug`\ (Zo[94]l.)
      An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus {Notonecta}; -- so
      called from swimming on its back, which gives it the
      appearance of a little boat. Called also {boat fly}, {boat
      insect}, {boatman}, and {water boatman}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Boatman \Boat"man\, n.; pl. {Boatmen}.
      1. A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.
  
                     As late the boatman hies him home.      --Percival.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) A boat bug. See {Boat bug}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Boat bug \Boat" bug`\ (Zo[94]l.)
      An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus {Notonecta}; -- so
      called from swimming on its back, which gives it the
      appearance of a little boat. Called also {boat fly}, {boat
      insect}, {boatman}, and {water boatman}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Boatmanship \Boat"man*ship\, n.
      The art of managing a boat.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Boatman \Boat"man\, n.; pl. {Boatmen}.
      1. A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.
  
                     As late the boatman hies him home.      --Percival.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) A boat bug. See {Boat bug}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Boatwoman \Boat"wom`an\, n.; pl. {Boatwomen}.
      A woman who manages a boat.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Boatwoman \Boat"wom`an\, n.; pl. {Boatwomen}.
      A woman who manages a boat.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bodement \Bode"ment\, n.
      An omen; a prognostic. [Obs.]
  
               This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl Makes all
               these bodements.                                    --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Botanomancy \Bot"a*no*man`cy\, n. [Botany + -mancy: cf. F.
      botanomantie.]
      An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp.
      sage and fig leaves.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bothnian \Both"ni*an\, Bothnic \Both"nic\, a.
      Of or pertaining to Bothnia, a country of northern Europe, or
      to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of
      the Baltic sea.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bottom \Bot"tom\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bottomed} ([?]); p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Bottoming}.]
      1. To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; --
            followed by on or upon.
  
                     Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle.
                                                                              --Atterbury.
  
                     Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many
                     bottom their eternal state].               --South.
  
      2. To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
  
      3. To reach or get to the bottom of. --Smiles.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Butment \But"ment\, n. [Abbreviation of {Abutment}.]
      1. (Arch.) A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part
            which joins it to the upright pier.
  
      2. (Masonry) The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a
            bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by
            which the end of a bridge without arches is supported.
  
      {Butment cheek} (Carp.), the part of a mortised timber
            surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders
            of the tenon bear. --Knight.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Butment \But"ment\, n. [Abbreviation of {Abutment}.]
      1. (Arch.) A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part
            which joins it to the upright pier.
  
      2. (Masonry) The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a
            bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by
            which the end of a bridge without arches is supported.
  
      {Butment cheek} (Carp.), the part of a mortised timber
            surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders
            of the tenon bear. --Knight.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cheek \Cheek\ (ch[emac]k), n. [OE. cheke, cheoke, AS.
      ce[agrave]ce, ce[ograve]ce; cf. Goth. kukjan to kiss, D. kaak
      cheek; perh. akin to E. chew, jaw.]
      1. The side of the face below the eye.
  
      2. The cheek bone. [Obs.] --Caucer.
  
      3. pl. (Mech.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber,
            or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which
            are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise;
            the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.
  
      4. pl. The branches of a bridle bit. --Knight.
  
      5. (Founding) A section of a flask, so made that it can be
            moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from
            the mold; the middle part of a flask.
  
      6. Cool confidence; assurance; impudence. [Slang]
  
      {Cheek of beef}. See Illust. of {Beef}.
  
      {Cheek bone} (Anat.) the bone of the side of the face; esp.,
            the malar bone.
  
      {Cheek by jowl}, side by side; very intimate.
  
      {Cheek pouch} (Zo[94]l.), a sacklike dilation of the cheeks
            of certain monkeys and rodents, used for holding food.
  
      {Cheeks of a block}, the two sides of the shell of a tackle
            block.
  
      {Cheeks of a mast}, the projection on each side of a mast,
            upon which the trestletrees rest.
  
      {Cheek tooth} (Anat.), a hinder or molar tooth.
  
      {Butment cheek}. See under {Butment}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Button \But"ton\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Buttoned}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Buttoning}.] [OE. botonen, OF. botoner, F. boutonner. See
      {Button}, n.]
      1. To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make
            secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
  
                     He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to
                     the throat in a tight green coat.      --Dickens.
  
      2. To dress or clothe. [Obs.] --Shak.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bedminster, NJ
      Zip code(s): 07921

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bowdoinham, ME
      Zip code(s): 04008

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   bottom-unique
  
      In {domain theory}, a function f is bottom-unique if
  
      f x = bottom   <=>   x = bottom
  
      A bottom-unique function is also {strict}.
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Bitumen
      Gen. 11:3, R.V., margin, rendered in the A.V. "slime"), a
      mineral pitch. With this the ark was pitched (6:14. See also Ex.
      2:3.) (See {SLIME}.)
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Beth-meon, house of the dwelling-place
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Beth-nimrah, house of rebellion
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Betonim, bellies
  
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