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   banal
         adj 1: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
                  "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and
                  commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer";
                  "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn
                  axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn:
                  {banal}, {commonplace}, {hackneyed}, {old-hat},
                  {shopworn}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare}, {timeworn},
                  {tired}, {trite}, {well-worn}]

English Dictionary: banal by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Benny Hill
n
  1. risque English comedian (1925-1992) [syn: Hill, {Benny Hill}, Alfred Hawthorne]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
biannual
adj
  1. occurring or payable twice each year [syn: semiannual, biannual, biyearly, half-yearly]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
biannually
adv
  1. twice a year; "we hold our big sale biannually"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
biennial
adj
  1. having a life cycle lasting two seasons; "a biennial life cycle"; "parsnips and carrots are biennial plants often grown as annuals"
    Synonym(s): biennial, two-year
    Antonym(s): annual, one-year, perennial
  2. occurring every second year; "they met at biennial conventions"
    Synonym(s): biennial, biyearly
n
  1. (botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
biennially
adv
  1. every two years; "this festival takes places biennially"
    Synonym(s): biennially, biyearly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bimli
n
  1. valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation
    Synonym(s): kenaf, kanaf, deccan hemp, bimli, bimli hemp, Indian hemp, Bombay hemp, Hibiscus cannabinus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bone oil
n
  1. the liquid portion of bone fat; used as a lubricant and in leather manufacture
  2. dark-colored ill-smelling oil obtained by carbonizing bone; used especially in sheep dips and in denaturing alcohol
    Synonym(s): bone oil, Dippel's oil
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bonnily
adv
  1. in a bonny manner
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bumelia
n
  1. deciduous or evergreen American shrubs small trees having very hard wood and milky latex
    Synonym(s): Bumelia, genus Bumelia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bunuel
n
  1. Spanish film director (1900-1983) [syn: Bunuel, {Luis Bunuel}]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Banal \Ban"al\, a. [F., fr. ban an ordinance.]
      Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Beamily \Beam"i*ly\, adv.
      In a beaming manner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bemaul \Be*maul"\, v. t.
      To maul or beat severely; to bruise. [bd]In order to bemaul
      Yorick.[b8] --Sterne.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bemoil \Be*moil"\, v. t. [Pref. be- + moil, fr. F. mouiller to
      wet; but cf. also OE. bimolen to soil, fr. AS. m[be]l spot:
      cf. E. mole.]
      To soil or encumber with mire and dirt. [Obs.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bemol \Be"mol\ (b[emac]"m[ocr]l), n. [F. b[82]mol, fr. b[82]
      [flat] + mol soft.] (Mus.)
      The sign [flat]; the same as B flat. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Biannual \Bi*an"nu*al\, a. [Pref. bi- + annual.]
      Occurring twice a year; half-yearly; semiannual.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Biennial \Bi*en"ni*al\, a. [L. biennalis and biennis, fr.
      biennium a space of two years; bis twice + annus year. Cf.
      {Annual}.]
      1. Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a
            biennial election.
  
      2. (Bot.) Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as
            plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and
            produce fruit the second.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Biennial \Bi*en"ni*al\, n.
      1. Something which takes place or appears once in two years;
            esp. a biennial examination.
  
      2. (Bot.) A plant which exists or lasts for two years.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Biennially \Bi*en"ni*al*ly\, adv.
      Once in two years.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Binal \Bi"nal\, a. [See {Binary}.]
      Twofold; double. [R.] [bd]Binal revenge, all this.[b8]
      --Ford.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Oil \Oil\ (oil), n. [OE. oile, OF. oile, F. huile, fr. L. oleum;
      akin to Gr. [?]. Cf. {Olive}.]
      Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible
      substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale
      oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral
      origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used
      for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication,
      illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily
      consistency; as, oil of vitriol.
  
      Note: The mineral oils are varieties of petroleum. See
               {Petroleum}. The vegetable oils are of two classes,
               {essential oils} (see under {Essential}), and {natural
               oils} which in general resemble the animal oils and
               fats. Most of the natural oils and the animal oils and
               fats consist of ethereal salts of glycerin, with a
               large number of organic acids, principally stearic,
               oleic, and palmitic, forming respectively stearin,
               olein, and palmitin. Stearin and palmitin prevail in
               the solid oils and fats, and olein in the liquid oils.
               Mutton tallow, beef tallow, and lard are rich in
               stearin, human fat and palm oil in palmitin, and sperm
               and cod-liver oils in olein. In making soaps, the acids
               leave the glycerin and unite with the soda or potash.
  
      {Animal oil}, {Bone oil}, {Dipple's oil}, etc. (Old Chem.), a
            complex oil obtained by the distillation of animal
            substances, as bones. See {Bone oil}, under {Bone}.
  
      {Drying oils}, {Essential oils}. (Chem.) See under {Drying},
            and {Essential}.
  
      {Ethereal oil of wine}, {Heavy oil of wine}. (Chem.) See
            under {Ethereal}.
  
      {Fixed oil}. (Chem.) See under {Fixed}.
  
      {Oil bag} (Zo[94]l.), a bag, cyst, or gland in animals,
            containing oil.
  
      {Oil beetle} (Zo[94]l.), any beetle of the genus {Meloe} and
            allied genera. When disturbed they emit from the joints of
            the legs a yellowish oily liquor. Some species possess
            vesicating properties, and are used instead of
            cantharides.
  
      {Oil box}, [or] {Oil cellar} (Mach.), a fixed box or
            reservoir, for lubricating a bearing; esp., the box for
            oil beneath the journal of a railway-car axle.
  
      {Oil cake}. See under {Cake}.
  
      {Oil cock}, a stopcock connected with an oil cup. See {Oil
            cup}.
  
      {Oil color}.
      (a) A paint made by grinding a coloring substance in oil.
      (b) Such paints, taken in a general sense.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Bone earth} (Chem.), the earthy residuum after the
            calcination of bone, consisting chiefly of phosphate of
            calcium.
  
      {Bone lace}, a lace made of linen thread, so called because
            woven with bobbins of bone.
  
      {Bone oil}, an oil obtained by, heating bones (as in the
            manufacture of bone black), and remarkable for containing
            the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their
            derivatives; -- also called {Dippel's oil}.
  
      {Bone setter}. Same as {Bonesetter}. See in the Vocabulary.
           
  
      {Bone shark} (Zo[94]l.), the basking shark.
  
      {Bone spavin}. See under {Spavin}.
  
      {Bone turquoise}, fossil bone or tooth of a delicate blue
            color, sometimes used as an imitation of true turquoise.
           
  
      {Bone whale} (Zo[94]l.), a right whale.
  
      {To be upon the bones of}, to attack. [Obs.]
  
      {To make no bones}, to make no scruple; not to hesitate.
            [Low]
  
      {To pick a bone with}, to quarrel with, as dogs quarrel over
            a bone; to settle a disagreement. [Colloq.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Bone earth} (Chem.), the earthy residuum after the
            calcination of bone, consisting chiefly of phosphate of
            calcium.
  
      {Bone lace}, a lace made of linen thread, so called because
            woven with bobbins of bone.
  
      {Bone oil}, an oil obtained by, heating bones (as in the
            manufacture of bone black), and remarkable for containing
            the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their
            derivatives; -- also called {Dippel's oil}.
  
      {Bone setter}. Same as {Bonesetter}. See in the Vocabulary.
           
  
      {Bone shark} (Zo[94]l.), the basking shark.
  
      {Bone spavin}. See under {Spavin}.
  
      {Bone turquoise}, fossil bone or tooth of a delicate blue
            color, sometimes used as an imitation of true turquoise.
           
  
      {Bone whale} (Zo[94]l.), a right whale.
  
      {To be upon the bones of}, to attack. [Obs.]
  
      {To make no bones}, to make no scruple; not to hesitate.
            [Low]
  
      {To pick a bone with}, to quarrel with, as dogs quarrel over
            a bone; to settle a disagreement. [Colloq.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bonnily \Bon"ni*ly\, adv.
      Gayly; handsomely.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bunnell, FL (city, FIPS 9550)
      Location: 29.46679 N, 81.25887 W
      Population (1990): 1873 (728 housing units)
      Area: 7.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 32110

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Benhail, son of strength
  
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