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   bagpipe
         n 1: a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag
               and squeezes it out through the drone

English Dictionary: base of operations by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bagpiper
n
  1. someone who plays the bagpipe
    Synonym(s): piper, bagpiper
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
base of operations
n
  1. installation from which a military force initiates operations; "the attack wiped out our forward bases"
    Synonym(s): base, base of operations
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bishop of Rome
n
  1. the head of the Roman Catholic Church [syn: pope, Catholic Pope, Roman Catholic Pope, pontiff, Holy Father, Vicar of Christ, Bishop of Rome]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bog spavin
n
  1. spavin caused by collection of fluids
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Book of Habakkuk
n
  1. an Old Testament book telling Habakkuk's prophecies [syn: Habakkuk, Habacuc, Book of Habakkuk]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Book of Obadiah
n
  1. an Old Testament book telling Obadiah's prophecies; the shortest book in the Christian Bible
    Synonym(s): Obadiah, Abdias, Book of Obadiah
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
buck fever
n
  1. nervous excitement of an inexperienced hunter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bush baby
n
  1. agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears
    Synonym(s): galago, bushbaby, bush baby
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bush poppy
n
  1. evergreen shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico often cultivated for its fragrant golden yellow flowers
    Synonym(s): bush poppy, tree poppy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bushbaby
n
  1. agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears
    Synonym(s): galago, bushbaby, bush baby
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bagpipe \Bag"pipe\, n.
      A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands
      of Scotland.
  
      Note: It consists of a leather bag, which receives the air by
               a tube that is stopped by a valve; and three sounding
               pipes, into which the air is pressed by the performer.
               Two of these pipes produce fixed tones, namely, the
               bass, or key tone, and its fifth, and form together
               what is called the drone; the third, or chanter, gives
               the melody.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bagpipe \Bag"pipe\, v. t.
      To make to look like a bagpipe.
  
      {To bagpipe the mizzen} (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing
            the sheet to the mizzen rigging. --Totten.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bagpiper \Bag"pip`er\, n.
      One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Raskolnik \[d8]Ras*kol"nik\, n.; pl. {Raskolniki}or
      {Raskolniks}. [Russ. raskol'nik dissenter, fr. raskol
      dissent.]
      The name applied by the Russian government to any subject of
      the Greek faith who dissents from the established church. The
      Raskolniki embrace many sects, whose common characteristic is
      a clinging to antique traditions, habits, and customs. The
      schism originated in 1667 in an ecclesiastical dispute as to
      the correctness of the translation of the religious books.
      The dissenters, who have been continually persecuted, are
      believed to number about 20,000,000, although the Holy Synod
      officially puts the number at about 2,000,000. They are
      officially divided into three groups according to the degree
      of their variance from orthodox beliefs and observances, as
      follows: I. [bd]Most obnoxious.[b8] the
  
      {Judaizers}; the
  
      {Molokane}, who refuse to recognize civil authority or to
            take oaths; the
  
      {Dukhobortsy}, or
  
      {Dukhobors}, who are communistic, marry without ceremony, and
            believe that Christ was human, but that his soul reappears
            at intervals in living men; the
  
      {Khlysty}, who countenance anthropolatory, are ascetics,
            practice continual self-flagellation, and reject marriage;
            the
  
      {Skoptsy}, who practice castration; and a section of the
  
      {Bezpopovtsy}, or priestless sect, which disbelieve in
            prayers for the Czar and in marriage. II.
            [bd]Obnoxious:[b8] the
  
      {Bezpopovtsy}, who pray for the Czar and recognize marriage.
            III. [bd]Least obnoxious:[b8] the
  
      {Popovtsy}, who dissent from the orthodox church in minor
            points only.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Spavin \Spav"in\, n. [OE. spaveyne, OF. esparvain, F.
      [82]parvin; akin to OF. espervier a sparrow hawk, F.
      [82]pervier, fr. OHG. sparw[be]ri (G. sperber), fr. OHG.
      sparo sparrow, because this disease makes the horse raise the
      infirm leg in the manner of a sparrow hawk or sparrow. See
      {Sparrow}.] (Far.)
      A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling
      developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the
      bones; also, the swelling itself. The resulting lameness is
      due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly
      supposed. --Harbaugh.
  
      {Bog spavin}, a soft swelling produced by distention of the
            capsular ligament of the hock; -- called also {blood
            spavin}.
  
      {Bone spavin}, spavin attended with exostosis; ordinary
            spavin.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bog \Bog\, n. [Ir. & Gael. bog soft, tender, moist: cf. Ir.
      bogach bog, moor, marsh, Gael. bogan quagmire.]
      1. A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable
            matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to
            sink; a marsh; a morass.
  
                     Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of
                     treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. --R.
                                                                              Jago.
  
      2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and
            grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.]
  
      {Bog bean}. See {Buck bean}.
  
      {Bog bumper} (bump, to make a loud noise), {Bog blitter},
      {Bog bluiter}, {Bog jumper}, the bittern. [Prov.]
  
      {Bog butter}, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found
            in the peat bogs of Ireland.
  
      {Bog earth} (Min.), a soil composed for the most part of
            silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. --P. Cyc.
  
      {Bog moss}. (Bot.) Same as {Sphagnum}.
  
      {Bog myrtle} (Bot.), the sweet gale.
  
      {Bog ore}. (Min.)
            (a) An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a
                  variety of brown iron ore, or limonite.
            (b) Bog manganese, the hydrated peroxide of manganese.
  
      {Bog rush} (Bot.), any rush growing in bogs; saw grass.
  
      {Bog spavin}. See under {Spavin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Buck fever \Buck fever\
      Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such
      as often unnerves a novice in hunting. [Colloq.]

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Big Beaver, PA (borough, FIPS 6240)
      Location: 40.81834 N, 80.36358 W
      Population (1990): 2298 (889 housing units)
      Area: 46.2 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water)

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Busy Beaver
  
      (BB) One of a series of sets of {Turing Machine}
      programs.   The BBs in the Nth set are programs of N states
      that produce a larger finite number of ones on an initially
      blank tape than any other program of N states.   There is no
      program that, given input N, can deduce the productivity
      (number of ones output) of the BB of size N.
  
      The productivity of the BB of size 1 is 1.   Some work has been
      done to figure out productivities of bigger Busy Beavers - the
      7th is in the thousands.
  
      (1994-10-24)
  
  
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