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   badly
         adv 1: to a severe or serious degree; "fingers so badly frozen
                  they had to be amputated"; "badly injured"; "a severely
                  impaired heart"; "is gravely ill"; "was seriously ill"
                  [syn: {badly}, {severely}, {gravely}, {seriously}]
         2: (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or
            improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; "he was ill
            prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the
            car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team
            played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill-conceived
            plan" [syn: {ill}, {badly}, {poorly}] [ant: {good}, {well}]
         3: evilly or wickedly; "treated his parents badly"; "to steal is
            to act badly"
         4: in a disobedient or naughty way; "he behaved badly in
            school"; "he mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass
            his sister"; "behaved naughtily when they had guests and was
            sent to his room" [syn: {badly}, {mischievously},
            {naughtily}]
         5: with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for
            `badly'); "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were badly
            shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad" [syn: {badly},
            {bad}]
         6: very much; strongly; "I wanted it badly enough to work hard
            for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly in
            need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it"
            [syn: {badly}, {bad}]
         7: without skill or in a displeasing manner; "she writes badly";
            "I think he paints very badly" [ant: {well}]
         8: in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage; "the
            venture turned out badly for the investors"; "angry that the
            case was settled disadvantageously for them" [syn: {badly},
            {disadvantageously}] [ant: {advantageously}, {well}]
         9: unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of
            the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"
            [syn: {ill}, {badly}] [ant: {well}]
         10: with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional
               display; "they took their defeat badly"; "took her father's
               death badly"; "conducted himself very badly at the time of
               the earthquake" [ant: {well}]

English Dictionary: badly by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bath oil
n
  1. a scented oil added to your bath water
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bathyal
adj
  1. relating to ocean depths between 200 and 2000 meters (corresponds to the continental slope)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
battle
n
  1. a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"
    Synonym(s): battle, conflict, fight, engagement
  2. an energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for recognition"
    Synonym(s): struggle, battle
  3. an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"-- Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"
    Synonym(s): conflict, struggle, battle
v
  1. battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget"
    Synonym(s): battle, combat
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bawdily
adv
  1. in a bawdy manner
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
beadle
n
  1. a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function
  2. United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989)
    Synonym(s): Beadle, George Beadle, George Wells Beadle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
beau ideal
n
  1. an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept [syn: paragon, idol, perfection, beau ideal]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
beetle
adj
  1. jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows" [syn: beetle, beetling]
n
  1. insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
  2. a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
    Synonym(s): mallet, beetle
v
  1. be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"
    Synonym(s): overhang, beetle
  2. fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home"
  3. beat with a beetle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
betel
n
  1. Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians
    Synonym(s): betel, betel pepper, Piper betel
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bethel
n
  1. a house of worship (especially one for sailors)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Betula
n
  1. a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches)
    Synonym(s): Betula, genus Betula
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bodily
adv
  1. in bodily form; "he was translated bodily to heaven"
adj
  1. of or relating to or belonging to the body; "a bodily organ"; "bodily functions"
  2. affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect"; "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness"
    Synonym(s): bodily, corporal, corporeal, somatic
  3. having or relating to a physical material body; "bodily existence"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
boodle
n
  1. informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
  2. a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
    Synonym(s): Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stops
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bottle
n
  1. a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped
  2. the quantity contained in a bottle
    Synonym(s): bottle, bottleful
  3. a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children
    Synonym(s): bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle
v
  1. store (liquids or gases) in bottles
  2. put into bottles; "bottle the mineral water"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bouteloua
n
  1. forage grasses
    Synonym(s): Bouteloua, genus Bouteloua
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bowhead whale
n
  1. large-mouthed Arctic whale [syn: bowhead, {bowhead whale}, Greenland whale, Balaena mysticetus]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
buddleia
n
  1. tropical shrub having clusters of white or violet or yellow flowers
    Synonym(s): butterfly bush, buddleia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Buddy Holly
n
  1. United States rock star (1936-1959) [syn: Holly, {Buddy Holly}, Charles Hardin Holley]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
butyl
n
  1. a hydrocarbon radical (C4H9)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Badly \Bad"ly\, adv.
      In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly;
      unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably;
      seriously.
  
      Note: Badly is often used colloquially for very much or very
               greatly, with words signifying to want or need.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8B91tulus \[d8]B[91]"tu*lus\, n.; pl. {B[ae]tuli}. [L., fr. Gr.
      bai`tylos a sacred meteorite.] (Antiq.)
      A meteorite, or similar rude stone artificially shaped, held
      sacred or worshiped as of divine origin.
  
               All the evidence goes to prove that these menhirs are
               b[91]tuli, i. e., traditional and elementary images of
               the deity.                                             --I. Gonino
                                                                              (Perrot &
                                                                              Chipiez).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Battalia \Bat*tal"ia\, n. [LL. battalia battle, a body of
      troops. See {Battle}, n.]
      1. Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops
            (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval
            force, for action.
  
                     A drawing up the armies in battalia.   --Jer. Taylor.
  
      2. An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body.
            [Obs.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Battel \Bat"tel\, n. [Obs. form. of {Battle}.] (Old Eng. Law)
      A single combat; as, trial by battel. See {Wager of battel},
      under {Wager}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Battel \Bat"tel\, n. [Of uncertain etymology.]
      Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for
      them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively.
      [Univ. of Oxford, Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Battel \Bat"tel\, v. i.
      To be supplied with provisions from the buttery. [Univ. of
      Oxford, Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Battel \Bat"tel\, v. t. [Cf. {Batful}, {Batten}, v. i.]
      To make fertile. [Obs.] [bd]To battel barren land.[b8] --Ray.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Battel \Bat"tel\, a.
      Fertile; fruitful; productive. [Obs.]
  
               A battel soil for grain, for pasture good. --Fairfax.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Drawn \Drawn\, p. p. & a.
      See {Draw}, v. t. & i.
  
      {Drawn butter}, butter melter and prepared to be used as a
            sort of gravy.
  
      {Drawn fowl}, an eviscerated fowl.
  
      {Drawn game} [or] {battle}, one in which neither party wins;
            one equally contested.
  
      {Drawn fox}, one driven from cover. --Shak.
  
      {Drawn work}, ornamental work made by drawing out threads
            from fine cloth, and uniting the cross threads, to form a
            pattern.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Battle \Bat"tle\, a.
      Fertile. See {Battel}, a. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Battle \Bat"tle\ (b[acr]t"t'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Battled}
      (-tl'd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Battling}.] [F. batailler, fr.
      bataille. See {Battle}, n.]
      To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over
      theories.
  
               To meet in arms, and battle in the plain. --Prior.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Battle \Bat"tle\, n. [OE. bataille, bataile, F. bataille battle,
      OF., battle, battalion, fr. L. battalia, battualia, the
      fighting and fencing exercises of soldiers and gladiators,
      fr. batuere to strike, beat. Cf. {Battalia}, 1st {Battel},
      and see {Batter}, v. t. ]
      1. A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the
            divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement;
            a combat.
  
      2. A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
  
                     The whole intellectual battle that had at its center
                     the best poem of the best poet of that day. --H.
                                                                              Morley.
  
      3. A division of an army; a battalion. [Obs.]
  
                     The king divided his army into three battles.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
                     The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called the
                     battle, and on it alone depended the fate of every
                     action.                                             --Robertson.
  
      4. The main body, as distinct from the van and rear;
            battalia. [Obs.] --Hayward.
  
      Note: Battle is used adjectively or as the first part of a
               self-explaining compound; as, battle brand, a
               [bd]brand[b8] or sword used in battle; battle cry;
               battlefield; battle ground; battlearray; battle song.
  
      {Battle piece}, a painting, or a musical composition,
            representing a battle.
  
      {Battle royal}.
            (a) A fight between several gamecocks, where the one that
                  stands longest is the victor. --Grose.
            (b) A contest with fists or cudgels in which more than two
                  are engaged; a m[88]l[82]e. --Thackeray.
  
      {Drawn battle}, one in which neither party gains the victory.
           
  
      {To give battle}, to attack an enemy.
  
      {To join battle}, to meet the attack; to engage in battle.
  
      {Pitched battle}, one in which the armies are previously
            drawn up in form, with a regular disposition of the
            forces.
  
      {Wager of battle}. See under {Wager}, n.
  
      Syn: Conflict; encounter; contest; action.
  
      Usage: {Battle}, {Combat}, {Fight}, {Engagement}. These words
                  agree in denoting a close encounter between contending
                  parties. Fight is a word of less dignity than the
                  others. Except in poetry, it is more naturally applied
                  to the encounter of a few individuals, and more
                  commonly an accidental one; as, a street fight. A
                  combat is a close encounter, whether between few or
                  many, and is usually premeditated. A battle is
                  commonly more general and prolonged. An engagement
                  supposes large numbers on each side, engaged or
                  intermingled in the conflict.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Battle \Bat"tle\, v. t.
      To assail in battle; to fight.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Drawn \Drawn\, p. p. & a.
      See {Draw}, v. t. & i.
  
      {Drawn butter}, butter melter and prepared to be used as a
            sort of gravy.
  
      {Drawn fowl}, an eviscerated fowl.
  
      {Drawn game} [or] {battle}, one in which neither party wins;
            one equally contested.
  
      {Drawn fox}, one driven from cover. --Shak.
  
      {Drawn work}, ornamental work made by drawing out threads
            from fine cloth, and uniting the cross threads, to form a
            pattern.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Battle \Bat"tle\, a.
      Fertile. See {Battel}, a. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Battle \Bat"tle\ (b[acr]t"t'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Battled}
      (-tl'd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Battling}.] [F. batailler, fr.
      bataille. See {Battle}, n.]
      To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over
      theories.
  
               To meet in arms, and battle in the plain. --Prior.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Battle \Bat"tle\, n. [OE. bataille, bataile, F. bataille battle,
      OF., battle, battalion, fr. L. battalia, battualia, the
      fighting and fencing exercises of soldiers and gladiators,
      fr. batuere to strike, beat. Cf. {Battalia}, 1st {Battel},
      and see {Batter}, v. t. ]
      1. A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the
            divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement;
            a combat.
  
      2. A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
  
                     The whole intellectual battle that had at its center
                     the best poem of the best poet of that day. --H.
                                                                              Morley.
  
      3. A division of an army; a battalion. [Obs.]
  
                     The king divided his army into three battles.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
                     The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called the
                     battle, and on it alone depended the fate of every
                     action.                                             --Robertson.
  
      4. The main body, as distinct from the van and rear;
            battalia. [Obs.] --Hayward.
  
      Note: Battle is used adjectively or as the first part of a
               self-explaining compound; as, battle brand, a
               [bd]brand[b8] or sword used in battle; battle cry;
               battlefield; battle ground; battlearray; battle song.
  
      {Battle piece}, a painting, or a musical composition,
            representing a battle.
  
      {Battle royal}.
            (a) A fight between several gamecocks, where the one that
                  stands longest is the victor. --Grose.
            (b) A contest with fists or cudgels in which more than two
                  are engaged; a m[88]l[82]e. --Thackeray.
  
      {Drawn battle}, one in which neither party gains the victory.
           
  
      {To give battle}, to attack an enemy.
  
      {To join battle}, to meet the attack; to engage in battle.
  
      {Pitched battle}, one in which the armies are previously
            drawn up in form, with a regular disposition of the
            forces.
  
      {Wager of battle}. See under {Wager}, n.
  
      Syn: Conflict; encounter; contest; action.
  
      Usage: {Battle}, {Combat}, {Fight}, {Engagement}. These words
                  agree in denoting a close encounter between contending
                  parties. Fight is a word of less dignity than the
                  others. Except in poetry, it is more naturally applied
                  to the encounter of a few individuals, and more
                  commonly an accidental one; as, a street fight. A
                  combat is a close encounter, whether between few or
                  many, and is usually premeditated. A battle is
                  commonly more general and prolonged. An engagement
                  supposes large numbers on each side, engaged or
                  intermingled in the conflict.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Battle \Bat"tle\, v. t.
      To assail in battle; to fight.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Batule \Bat"ule\, n.
      A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also
      {batule board}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bawdily \Bawd"i*ly\, adv.
      Obscenely; lewdly.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bead \Bead\, n. [OE. bede prayer, prayer bead, AS. bed, gebed,
      prayer; akin to D. bede, G. bitte, AS. biddan, to ask, bid,
      G. bitten to ask, and perh. to Gr. [?] to persuade, L. fidere
      to trust. Beads are used by the Roman Catholics to count
      their prayers, one bead being dropped down a string every
      time a prayer is said. Cf. Sp. cuenta bead, fr. contar to
      count. See {Bid}, in to bid beads, and {Bide}.]
      1. A prayer. [Obs.]
  
      2. A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and
            worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting
            prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the
            phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads,
            etc., meaning, to be at prayer.
  
      3. Any small globular body; as,
            (a) A bubble in spirits.
            (b) A drop of sweat or other liquid. [bd]Cold beads of
                  midnight dew.[b8] --Wordsworth.
            (c) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking
                  aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to
                  take aim).
            (d) (Arch.) A small molding of rounded surface, the
                  section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be
                  continuous, or broken into short embossments.
            (e) (Chem.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or
                  microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for
                  several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron,
                  manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax
                  bead; the iron bead, etc.
  
      {Bead and butt} (Carp.), framing in which the panels are
            flush, having beads stuck or run upon the two edges.
            --Knight.
  
      {Beat mold}, a species of fungus or mold, the stems of which
            consist of single cells loosely jointed together so as to
            resemble a string of beads. [Written also {bead mould}.]
           
  
      {Bead tool}, a cutting tool, having an edge curved so as to
            make beads or beading.
  
      {Bead tree} (Bot.), a tree of the genus {Melia}, the best
            known species of which ({M. azedarach}), has blue flowers
            which are very fragrant, and berries which are poisonous.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Beadle \Bea"dle\, n. [OE. bedel, bidel, budel, OF. bedel, F.
      bedeau, fr. OHG. butil, putil, G. b[81]ttel, fr. OHG. biotan,
      G. bieten, to bid, confused with AS. bydel, the same word as
      OHG. butil. See. {Bid}, v.]
      1. A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites
            or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an
            {apparitor} or {summoner}.
  
      2. An officer in a university, who precedes public
            processions of officers and students. [Eng.]
  
      Note: In this sense the archaic spellings bedel (Oxford) and
               bedell (Cambridge) are preserved.
  
      3. An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of
            duties, as the preservation of order in church service,
            the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Beau ideal \Beau" i*de"al\ [F. beau beautiful + id[82]al ideal.]
      A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or
      physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities,
      defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or
      faultless standard or model.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ideal \I*de"al\, n.
      A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a
      model of excellence, beauty, etc.
  
               The ideal is to be attained by selecting and assembling
               in one whole the beauties and perfections which are
               usually seen in different individuals, excluding
               everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type
               or model of the species. Thus, the Apollo Belvedere is
               the ideal of the beauty and proportion of the human
               frame.                                                   --Fleming.
  
      {Beau ideal}. See {Beau ideal}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bedel \Be"del\, Bedell \Be"dell\, n.
      Same as {Beadle}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bedel \Be"del\, Bedell \Be"dell\, n.
      Same as {Beadle}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Beetle \Bee"tle\ (b[emac]"t'l), n. [OE. betel, AS. b[c6]tl,
      b[?]tl, mallet, hammer, fr. be[a0]tan to beat. See {Beat}, v.
      t.]
      1. A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
  
      2. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering
            process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; --
            called also {beetling machine}. --Knight.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Beetle \Bee"tle\ (b[emac]"t'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beetled}
      (-t'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Beetling}.]
      1. To beat with a heavy mallet.
  
      2. To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle
            or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Beetle \Bee"tle\, n. [OE. bityl, bittle, AS. b[imac]tel, fr.
      b[imac]tan to bite. See {Bite}, v. t.]
      Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the
      outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when
      they are folded up. See {Coleoptera}.
  
      {Beetle mite} (Zo[94]l.), one of many species of mites, of
            the family {Oribatid[91]}, parasitic on beetles.
  
      {Black beetle}, the common large black cockroach ({Blatta
            orientalis}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Beetle \Bee"tle\, v. i. [See {Beetlebrowed}.]
      To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang;
      to jut.
  
               To the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er
               his base into the sea.                           --Shak.
  
               Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime.
                                                                              --Wordsworth.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Beheadal \Be*head"al\, n.
      Beheading. [Modern]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Beteela \Be*tee"la\, n. [Pg. beatilha.]
      An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc.
      [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Betel \Be"tel\ (b[emac]"t'l), n. [Pg., fr. Tamil
      ve[tsdot][tsdot]ilei, prop. meaning, a mere leaf.] (Bot.)
      A species of pepper ({Piper betle}), the leaves of which are
      chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime,
      by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber
      with ovate many-nerved leaves.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bethel \Beth"el\, n. [Heb. b[?]th-el house of God.]
      1. A place of worship; a hallowed spot. --S. F. Adams.
  
      2. A chapel for dissenters. [Eng.]
  
      3. A house of worship for seamen.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bidale \Bid"ale`\, n. [Bid + ale.]
      An invitation of friends to drink ale at some poor man's
      house, and there to contribute in charity for his relief.
      [Prov. Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Boat-tail \Boat"-tail`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      A large grackle or blackbird ({Quiscalus major}), found in
      the Southern United States.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bodily \Bod"i*ly\, a.
      1. Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal;
            consisting of matter.
  
                     You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the
                     bodily part of us.                              --Tatler.
  
      2. Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the
            mind. [bd]Bodily defects.[b8] --L'Estrange.
  
      3. Real; actual; put in execution. [Obs.]
  
                     Be brought to bodily act.                  --Shak.
  
      {Bodily fear}, apprehension of physical injury.
  
      Syn: See {Corporal}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bodily \Bod"i*ly\, adv.
      1. Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter;
            in the body.
  
                     For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead
                     bodily.                                             --Col. ii. 9
  
      2. In respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or
            mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as, to carry away
            bodily. [bd]Leapt bodily below.[b8] --Lowell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bodle \Bo"dle\, n.
      A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English
      penny. --Sir W. Scott.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Boodle \Boo"dle\, n. [Origin uncertain.]
      1. The whole collection or lot; caboodle. [Low, U. S.]
            --Bartlett.
  
      2. Money given in payment for votes or political influence;
            bribe money; swag. [Polit. slang, U. S.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Boothale \Boot"hale`\, v. t. & i. [Boot, for booty + hale.]
      To forage for booty; to plunder. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bottle \Bot"tle\, n. [OE. bote, botelle, OF. botel, bouteille,
      F. bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta,
      flask. Cf. {Butt} a cask.]
      1. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but
            formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for
            holding liquids.
  
      2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains;
            as, to drink a bottle of wine.
  
      3. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in
            the bottle.
  
      Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part
               of a compound.
  
      {Bottle ale}, bottled ale. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      {Bottle brush}, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the
            interior of bottles.
  
      {Bottle fish} (Zo[94]l.), a kind of deep-sea eel
            ({Saccopharynx ampullaceus}), remarkable for its baglike
            gullet, which enables it to swallow fishes two or three
            times its won size.
  
      {Bottle flower}. (Bot.) Same as {Bluebottle}.
  
      {Bottle glass}, a coarse, green glass, used in the
            manufacture of bottles. --Ure.
  
      {Bottle gourd} (Bot.), the common gourd or calabash
            ({Lagenaria Vulgaris}), whose shell is used for bottles,
            dippers, etc.
  
      {Bottle grass} (Bot.), a nutritious fodder grass ({Setaria
            glauca} and {S. viridis}); -- called also {foxtail}, and
            {green foxtail}.
  
      {Bottle tit} (Zo[94]l.), the European long-tailed titmouse;
            -- so called from the shape of its nest.
  
      {Bottle tree} (Bot.), an Australian tree ({Sterculia
            rupestris}), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen,
            trunk.
  
      {Feeding bottle}, {Nursing bottle}, a bottle with a rubber
            nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in
            feeding infants.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bottle \Bot"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bottled}p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Bottling}.]
      To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or
      bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle
      wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bottle \Bot"tle\, n. [OE. botel, OF. botel, dim. of F. botte;
      cf. OHG. bozo bunch. See {Boss} stud.]
      A bundle, esp. of hay. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Chaucer.
      --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bowtel \Bow"tel\, n.
      See {Boultel}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Boultel \Boul"tel\, Boultin \Boul"tin\, n. (Arch.)
      (a) A molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a
            circle, being a member just below the abacus in the
            Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.
      (b) One of the shafts of a clustered column. [Written also
            {bowtel}, {boltel}, {boultell}, etc.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bowtel \Bow"tel\, n.
      See {Boultel}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Boultel \Boul"tel\, Boultin \Boul"tin\, n. (Arch.)
      (a) A molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a
            circle, being a member just below the abacus in the
            Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.
      (b) One of the shafts of a clustered column. [Written also
            {bowtel}, {boltel}, {boultell}, etc.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Buddle \Bud"dle\, n. [Prov. E., to cleanse ore, also a vessel
      for this purpose; cf. G. butteln to shake.] (Mining)
      An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which
      stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of
      running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable
      portions.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Buddle \Bud"dle\, v. i. (Mining)
      To wash ore in a buddle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Butyl \Bu"tyl\, n. [L. butyrum butter + -yl. See {Butter}.]
      (Chem.)
      A compound radical, regarded as butane, less one atom of
      hydrogen.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lee \Lee\, n. [OE. lee shelter, Icel. hl[emac], akin to AS.
      hle[a2], hle[a2]w, shelter, protection, OS. hl[8a]o, D. lij
      lee, Sw. l[84], Dan. l[91].]
      1. A sheltered place; esp., a place protected from the wind
            by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter;
            protection; as, the lee of a mountain, an island, or a
            ship.
  
                     We lurked under lee.                           --Morte
                                                                              d'Arthure.
  
                     Desiring me to take shelter in his lee. --Tyndall.
  
      2. (Naut.) That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on
            shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See {Lee}, a.
  
      {By the lee}, {To bring by the lee}. See under {By}, and
            {Bring}.
  
      {Under the lee of}, on that side which is sheltered from the
            wind; as, to be under the lee of a ship.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   By \By\ (b[imac]), prep. [OE. bi, AS. b[c6], big, near to, by,
      of, from, after, according to; akin to OS. & OFries. bi, be,
      D. bij, OHG. b[c6], G. bei, Goth. bi, and perh. Gr. 'amfi`.
      E. prefix be- is orig. the same word. [root]203. See pref.
      {Be-}.]
      1. In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from;
            close to; along with; as, come and sit by me. [1913
            Webster]
  
                     By foundation or by shady rivulet He sought them
                     both.                                                --Milton.
  
      2. On; along; in traversing. Compare 5.
  
                     Long labors both by sea and land he bore. --Dryden.
  
                     By land, by water, they renew the charge. --Pope.
  
      3. Near to, while passing; hence, from one to the other side
            of; past; as, to go by a church.
  
      4. Used in specifying adjacent dimensions; as, a cabin twenty
            feet by forty.
  
      5. Against. [Obs.] --Tyndale [1. Cor. iv. 4].
  
      6. With, as means, way, process, etc.; through means of; with
            aid of; through; through the act or agency of; as, a city
            is destroyed by fire; profit is made by commerce; to take
            by force.
  
      Note: To the meaning of by, as denoting means or agency,
               belong, more or less closely, most of the following
               uses of the word:
            (a) It points out the author and producer; as,
                  [bd]Waverley[b8], a novel by Sir W.Scott; a statue by
                  Canova; a sonata by Beethoven.
            (b) In an oath or adjuration, it indicates the being or
                  thing appealed to as sanction; as, I affirm to you by
                  all that is sacred; he swears by his faith as a
                  Christian; no, by Heaven.
            (c) According to; by direction, authority, or example of;
                  after; -- in such phrases as, it appears by his
                  account; ten o'clock by my watch; to live by rule; a
                  model to build by.
            (d) At the rate of; according to the ratio or proportion
                  of; in the measure or quantity of; as, to sell cloth
                  by the yard, milk by the quart, eggs by the dozen,
                  meat by the pound; to board by the year.
            (e) In comparison, it denotes the measure of excess or
                  deficiency; when anything is increased or diminished,
                  it indicates the measure of increase or diminution;
                  as, larger by a half; older by five years; to lessen
                  by a third.
            (f) It expresses continuance or duration; during the
                  course of; within the period of; as, by day, by night.
            (g) As soon as; not later than; near or at; -- used in
                  expressions of time; as, by this time the sun had
                  risen; he will be here by two o'clock.
  
      Note: In boxing the compass, by indicates a pint nearer to,
               or towards, the next cardinal point; as, north by east,
               i.e., a point towards the east from the north;
               northeast by east, i.e., on point nearer the east than
               northeast is.
  
      Note: With is used instead of by before the instrument with
               which anything is done; as, to beat one with a stick;
               the board was fastened by the carpenter with nails. But
               there are many words which may be regarded as means or
               processes, or, figuratively, as instruments; and
               whether with or by shall be used with them is a matter
               of arbitrary, and often, of unsettled usage; as, to a
               reduce a town by famine; to consume stubble with fire;
               he gained his purpose by flattery; he entertained them
               with a story; he distressed us with or by a recital of
               his sufferings. see {With}.
  
      {By all means}, most assuredly; without fail; certainly.
  
      {By and by}.
            (a) Close together (of place). [Obs.] [bd]Two yonge
                  knightes liggyng [lying] by and by.[b8] --Chaucer.
            (b) Immediately; at once. [Obs.] [bd]When . . .
                  persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he
                  is offended.[b8] --Matt. xiii. 21.
            (c) Presently; pretty soon; before long.
  
      Note: In this phrase, by seems to be used in the sense of
               nearness in time, and to be repeated for the sake of
               emphasis, and thus to be equivalent to [bd]soon, and
               soon,[b8] that is instantly; hence, -- less
               emphatically, -- pretty soon, presently.
  
      {By one's self}, with only one's self near; alone; solitary.
  
      {By the bye}. See under {Bye}.
  
      {By the head} (Naut.), having the bows lower than the stern;
            -- said of a vessel when her head is lower in the water
            than her stern. If her stern is lower, she is by the
            stern.
  
      {By the lee}, the situation of a vessel, going free, when she
            has fallen off so much as to bring the wind round her
            stern, and to take her sails aback on the other side.
  
      {By the run}, to let go by the run, to let go altogether,
            instead of slacking off.
  
      {By the way}, by the bye; -- used to introduce an incidental
            or secondary remark or subject.
  
      {Day by day}, {One by one}, {Piece by piece}, etc., each day,
            each one, each piece, etc., by itself singly or
            separately; each severally.
  
      {To come by}, to get possession of; to obtain.
  
      {To do by}, to treat, to behave toward.
  
      {To set by}, to value, to esteem.
  
      {To stand by}, to aid, to support.
  
      Note: The common phrase good-by is equivalent to farewell,
               and would be better written good-bye, as it is a
               corruption of God be with you (b'w'ye).

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bethel, AK (city, FIPS 6520)
      Location: 60.76821 N, 161.77222 W
      Population (1990): 4674 (1624 housing units)
      Area: 114.7 sq km (land), 14.9 sq km (water)
   Bethel, CT (CDP, FIPS 4790)
      Location: 41.37153 N, 73.41158 W
      Population (1990): 8835 (3615 housing units)
      Area: 10.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 06801
   Bethel, DE (town, FIPS 5820)
      Location: 38.57006 N, 75.61979 W
      Population (1990): 178 (86 housing units)
      Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 19931
   Bethel, ME
      Zip code(s): 04217
   Bethel, MN (city, FIPS 5554)
      Location: 45.40059 N, 93.26937 W
      Population (1990): 394 (135 housing units)
      Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
   Bethel, MO (town, FIPS 5104)
      Location: 39.87823 N, 92.02272 W
      Population (1990): 117 (90 housing units)
      Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 63434
   Bethel, NC (town, FIPS 5460)
      Location: 35.80759 N, 77.37608 W
      Population (1990): 1842 (743 housing units)
      Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 27812
   Bethel, NY
      Zip code(s): 12720
   Bethel, OH (village, FIPS 6068)
      Location: 38.96245 N, 84.08469 W
      Population (1990): 2407 (976 housing units)
      Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 45106
   Bethel, OK
      Zip code(s): 74724
   Bethel, PA
      Zip code(s): 19507
   Bethel, VT
      Zip code(s): 05032

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Biddle, MT
      Zip code(s): 59314

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bidwell, OH
      Zip code(s): 45614

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bitely, MI
      Zip code(s): 49309

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bithlo, FL (CDP, FIPS 6625)
      Location: 28.56967 N, 81.10957 W
      Population (1990): 4834 (1968 housing units)
      Area: 27.6 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bothell, WA (city, FIPS 7380)
      Location: 47.76003 N, 122.19688 W
      Population (1990): 12345 (5146 housing units)
      Area: 13.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 98011, 98021

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bowdle, SD (city, FIPS 6540)
      Location: 45.45166 N, 99.65589 W
      Population (1990): 589 (289 housing units)
      Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 57428

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   BDL
  
      {Block Diagram Compiler}
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Beetle
      (Heb. hargol, meaning "leaper"). Mention of it is made only in
      Lev. 11:22, where it is obvious the word cannot mean properly
      the beetle. It denotes some winged creeper with at least four
      feet, "which has legs above its feet, to leap withal." The
      description plainly points to the locust (q.v.). This has been
      an article of food from the earliest times in the East to the
      present day. The word is rendered "cricket" in the Revised
      Version.
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Bethel
      house of God. (1.) A place in Central Palestine, about 10 miles
      north of Jerusalem, at the head of the pass of Michmash and Ai.
      It was originally the royal Canaanite city of Luz (Gen. 28:19).
      The name Bethel was at first apparently given to the sanctuary
      in the neighbourhood of Luz, and was not given to the city
      itself till after its conquest by the tribe of Ephraim. When
      Abram entered Canaan he formed his second encampment between
      Bethel and Hai (Gen. 12:8); and on his return from Egypt he came
      back to it, and again "called upon the name of the Lord" (13:4).
      Here Jacob, on his way from Beersheba to Haran, had a vision of
      the angels of God ascending and descending on the ladder whose
      top reached unto heaven (28:10, 19); and on his return he again
      visited this place, "where God talked with him" (35:1-15), and
      there he "built an altar, and called the place El-beth-el"
      (q.v.). To this second occasion of God's speaking with Jacob at
      Bethel, Hosea (12:4,5) makes reference.
     
         In troublous times the people went to Bethel to ask counsel of
      God (Judg. 20:18, 31; 21:2). Here the ark of the covenant was
      kept for a long time under the care of Phinehas, the grandson of
      Aaron (20:26-28). Here also Samuel held in rotation his court of
      justice (1 Sam. 7:16). It was included in Israel after the
      kingdom was divided, and it became one of the seats of the
      worship of the golden calf (1 Kings 12:28-33; 13:1). Hence the
      prophet Hosea (Hos. 4:15; 5:8; 10:5, 8) calls it in contempt
      Beth-aven, i.e., "house of idols." Bethel remained an abode of
      priests even after the kingdom of Israel was desolated by the
      king of Assyria (2 Kings 17:28, 29). At length all traces of the
      idolatries were extirpated by Josiah, king of Judah (2 Kings
      23:15-18); and the place was still in existence after the
      Captivity (Ezra 2:28; Neh. 7:32). It has been identified with
      the ruins of Beitin, a small village amid extensive ruins some 9
      miles south of Shiloh.
     
         (2.) Mount Bethel was a hilly district near Bethel (Josh.
      16:1; 1 Sam. 13:2).
     
         (3.) A town in the south of Judah (Josh. 8:17; 12:16).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Bethuel
      man of God, or virgin of God, or house of God. (1.) The son of
      Nahor by Milcah; nephew of Abraham, and father of Rebekah (Gen.
      22:22, 23; 24:15, 24, 47). He appears in person only once
      (24:50).
     
         (2.) A southern city of Judah (1 Chr. 4:30); called also
      Bethul (Josh. 19:4) and Bethel (12:16; 1 Sam. 30:27).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Bottle
      a vessel made of skins for holding wine (Josh. 9:4. 13; 1 Sam.
      16:20; Matt. 9:17; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:37, 38), or milk (Judg.
      4:19), or water (Gen. 21:14, 15, 19), or strong drink (Hab.
      2:15).
     
         Earthenware vessels were also similarly used (Jer. 19:1-10; 1
      Kings 14:3; Isa. 30:14). In Job 32:19 (comp. Matt. 9:17; Luke
      5:37, 38; Mark 2:22) the reference is to a wine-skin ready to
      burst through the fermentation of the wine. "Bottles of wine" in
      the Authorized Version of Hos. 7:5 is properly rendered in the
      Revised Version by "the heat of wine," i.e., the fever of wine,
      its intoxicating strength.
     
         The clouds are figuratively called the "bottles of heaven"
      (Job 38:37). A bottle blackened or shrivelled by smoke is
      referred to in Ps. 119:83 as an image to which the psalmist
      likens himself.
     

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

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Bethuel, filiation of God
  
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