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   bad hat
         n 1: someone who deliberately stirs up trouble [syn:
               {troublemaker}, {trouble maker}, {troubler}, {mischief-
               maker}, {bad hat}]

English Dictionary: beat out	by the DICT Development Group
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bated adj diminished or moderated; "our bated enthusiasm"; "his bated hopes"
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Batoidei n fish with dorsoventrally flattened bodies; includes: rays; skates; guitarfishes; sawfishes Synonym(s): Rajiformes, order Rajiformes, Batoidei, order Batoidei
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be with it v be well-informed [syn: know the score, be with it, {be on the ball}, know what's going on, know what's what]
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beaded adj covered with beads of liquid; "a face beaded with sweat"
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beady-eyed adj having eyes that gleam with malice
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beat out v come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" Synonym(s): beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish beat out a rhythm Synonym(s): beat out, tap out, thump out
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bedded adj deposited or arranged in horizontal layers; "stratified rock" Synonym(s): stratified, bedded Antonym(s): unstratified having a bed or beds as specified Antonym(s): bedless
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bedewed adj wet with dew Synonym(s): bedewed, dewy
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beheaded adj having had the head cut off; "the beheaded prisoners" Synonym(s): beheaded, decapitated
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betide v become of; happen to; "He promised that no harm would befall her"; "What has become of my children?" Synonym(s): befall, bechance, betide
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bidet n a basin for washing genitals and anal area
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biotite n dark brown to black mica found in igneous and metamorphic rock
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bite out v utter; "She bit out a curse"
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bitthead n the upper end of a bitt
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bodied adj having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination; "strong-bodied"; "big-bodied" Antonym(s): unbodied possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term" Synonym(s): bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate
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boot out v remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds" Synonym(s): oust, throw out, drum out, boot out, kick out, expel put out or expel from a place; "The unruly student was excluded from the game" Synonym(s): eject, chuck out, exclude, turf out, boot out, turn out
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booted adj wearing boots
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Bothidae n a family of fish of the order Heterosomata [syn: Bothidae, family Bothidae]
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butat n 100 bututs equal 1 dalasi in Gambia Synonym(s): butut, butat
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butut n 100 bututs equal 1 dalasi in Gambia Synonym(s): butut, butat
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by the day adv one every day; "we'll save 100 man-hours per diem" [syn: per diem, by the day]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bait \Bait\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Baited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Baiting}.] [OE. baiten, beit[?]n, to feed, harass, fr. Icel. beita, orig. to cause to bite, fr. b[c6]ta. [root]87. See {Bite}.] 1. To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull. 2. To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as, to bait horses. --Holland. 3. To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook. A crooked pin . . . bailed with a vile earthworm. --W. Irving.
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Bate \Bate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bating}.] [From abate.] 1. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower. He must either bate the laborer's wages, or not employ or not pay him. --Locke. 2. To allow by way of abatement or deduction. To whom he bates nothing or what he stood upon with the parliament. --South. 3. To leave out; to except. [Obs.] Bate me the king, and, be he flesh and blood. He lies that says it. --Beau. & Fl. 4. To remove. [Obs.] About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare. --Holland. 5. To deprive of. [Obs.] When baseness is exalted, do not bate The place its honor for the person's sake. --Herbert.
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Bated \Bat"ed\, a. Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath. --Macaulay.
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Bathe \Bathe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bathed} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bathing}.] [OE. ba[?]ien, AS. ba[?]ian, fr. b[91][?] bath. See 1st {Bath}, and cf. {Bay} to bathe.] 1. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath. Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus. --South. 2. To lave; to wet. [bd]The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain.[b8] --T. Arnold. 3. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid. And let us bathe our hands in C[91]sar's blood. --Shak. 4. To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with camphor. 5. To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed. [bd]The rosy shadows bathe me. [b8] --Tennyson. [bd]The bright sunshine bathing all the world.[b8] --Longfellow.
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Bat \Bat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Batted} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Batting}.] To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat. --Holland.
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Bead \Bead\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beading}.] To ornament with beads or beading.
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Beautied \Beau"tied\, p. a. Beautiful; embellished. [Poetic] --Shak.
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Bed \Bed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bedded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bedding}.] 1. To place in a bed. [Obs.] --Bacon. 2. To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with. I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her. --Shak. 3. To furnish with a bed or bedding. 4. To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold. 5. To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock. Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded. --Wordsworth. 6. (Masonry) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed. 7. To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position. [bd]Bedded hair.[b8] --Shak.
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Bedded \Bed"ded\, a. Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged in a bed or beds.
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Bedew \Be*dew"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bedewed} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bedewing}.] To moisten with dew, or as with dew. [bd]Falling tears his face bedew.[b8] --Dryden.
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Bedote \Bedote"\ (b[esl]d[omac]t"), v. t. To cause to dote; to deceive. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Bedye \Be*dye"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bedyed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bedyeing}.] To dye or stain. Briton fields with Sarazin blood bedyed. --Spenser.
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Behead \Be*head"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beheaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beheading}.] [OE. bihefden, AS. behe[a0]fdian; pref. be- + he[a0]fod head. See {Head}.] To sever the head from; to take off the head of.
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Betide \Be*tide"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Betided}, Obs. {Betid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Betiding}.] [OE. bitiden; pref. bi-, be- + tiden, fr. AS. t[c6]dan, to happen, fr. t[c6]d time. See {Tide}.] To happen to; to befall; to come to; as, woe betide the wanderer. What will betide the few ? --Milton.
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Betide \Be*tide"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Betided}, Obs. {Betid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Betiding}.] [OE. bitiden; pref. bi-, be- + tiden, fr. AS. t[c6]dan, to happen, fr. t[c6]d time. See {Tide}.] To happen to; to befall; to come to; as, woe betide the wanderer. What will betide the few ? --Milton.
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Betide \Be*tide"\, v. i. To come to pass; to happen; to occur. A salve for any sore that may betide. --Shak. Note: Shakespeare has used it with of. [bd]What would betide of me ?[b8]
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Bet \Bet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bet}, {Betted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Betting}.] To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager. John a Gaunt loved him well, and betted much money on his head. --Shak. I'll bet you two to one I'll make him do it. --O. W. Holmes.
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Bewet \Be*wet"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bewet}, {Bewetted}.] To wet or moisten. --Gay.
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Bide \Bide\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bided}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Biding}.] [OE. biden, AS. b[c6]dan; akin to OHG. b[c6]tan, Goth. beidan, Icel. b[c6][?][?]; perh. orig., to wait with trust, and akin to bid. See {Bid}, v. t., and cf. {Abide}.] 1. To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay. All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell. --Milton. 2. To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or state; to continue to be. --Shak.
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Bidet \Bi*det"\, n. [F. bidet, perh. fr. Celtic; cr. Gael. bideach very little, diminutive, bidein a diminutive animal, W. bidan a weakly or sorry wretch.] 1. A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage. --B. Jonson. 2. A kind of bath tub for sitting baths; a sitz bath.
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Mica \Mi"ca\, n. [L. mica crumb, grain, particle; cf. F. mica.] (Min.) The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. They differ widely in composition, and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black. The transparent forms are used in lanterns, the doors of stoves, etc., being popularly called {isinglass}. Formerly called also {cat-silver}, and {glimmer}. Note: The important species of the mica group are: {muscovite}, common or potash mica, pale brown or green, often silvery, including {damourite} (also called {hydromica}); {biotite}, iron-magnesia mica, dark brown, green, or black; {lepidomelane}, iron, mica, black; {phlogopite}, magnesia mica, colorless, yellow, brown; {lepidolite}, lithia mica, rose-red, lilac. Mica (usually muscovite, also biotite) is an essential constituent of granite, gneiss, and mica slate; {biotite} is common in many eruptive rocks; {phlogopite} in crystalline limestone and serpentine. {Mica diorite} (Min.), an eruptive rock allied to diorite but containing mica (biotite) instead of hornblende. {Mica powder}, a kind of dynamite containing fine scales of mica. {Mica schist}, {Mica slate} (Geol.), a schistose rock, consisting of mica and quartz with, usually, some feldspar.
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Biotite \Bi"o*tite\, n. [From Biot, a French naturalist.] (Min.) Mica containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See {Mica}.
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Mica \Mi"ca\, n. [L. mica crumb, grain, particle; cf. F. mica.] (Min.) The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. They differ widely in composition, and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black. The transparent forms are used in lanterns, the doors of stoves, etc., being popularly called {isinglass}. Formerly called also {cat-silver}, and {glimmer}. Note: The important species of the mica group are: {muscovite}, common or potash mica, pale brown or green, often silvery, including {damourite} (also called {hydromica}); {biotite}, iron-magnesia mica, dark brown, green, or black; {lepidomelane}, iron, mica, black; {phlogopite}, magnesia mica, colorless, yellow, brown; {lepidolite}, lithia mica, rose-red, lilac. Mica (usually muscovite, also biotite) is an essential constituent of granite, gneiss, and mica slate; {biotite} is common in many eruptive rocks; {phlogopite} in crystalline limestone and serpentine. {Mica diorite} (Min.), an eruptive rock allied to diorite but containing mica (biotite) instead of hornblende. {Mica powder}, a kind of dynamite containing fine scales of mica. {Mica schist}, {Mica slate} (Geol.), a schistose rock, consisting of mica and quartz with, usually, some feldspar.
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Biotite \Bi"o*tite\, n. [From Biot, a French naturalist.] (Min.) Mica containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See {Mica}.
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Bit \Bit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bitted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bitting}.] To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of.
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Boat \Boat\ (b[omac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Boated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Boating}.] 1. To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods. 2. To place in a boat; as, to boat oars. {To boat the oars}. See under {Oar}.
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Bode \Bode\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Boded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Boding}.] [OE. bodien, AS. bodian to announce, tell from bod command; akin to Icel. bo[?]a to announce, Sw. b[86]da to announce, portend. [root]89. See {Bid}.] To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow. A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. --Goldsmith. Good onset bodes good end. --Spenser.
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Bodied \Bod"ied\, a. Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied. A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied. --Hakluyt.
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Body \Bod"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bodied} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bodying}.] To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody. {To body forth}, to give from or shape to mentally. Imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown. --Shak.
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Boot \Boot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Booted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Booting}.] 1. To put boots on, esp. for riding. Coated and booted for it. --B. Jonson. 2. To punish by kicking with a booted foot. [U. S.]
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Booted \Boot"ed\, a. 1. Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; -- said of the tarsus of some birds.
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Boot \Boot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Booted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Booting}.] 1. To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it? What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them? --Hooker. What subdued To change like this a mind so far imbued With scorn of man, it little boots to know. --Byron. What boots to us your victories? --Southey. 2. To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition. [Obs.] And I will boot thee with what gift beside Thy modesty can beg. --Shak.
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Boutade \Bou*tade"\, n. [F., fr. bouter to thrust. See {Butt}.] An outbreak; a caprice; a whim. [Obs.]
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Bud \Bud\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Budded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Budding}.] 1. To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot. 2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. 3. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin. --Shak. Syn: To sprout; germinate; blossom.
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But \But\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Butted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Butting}.] See {Butt}, v., and {Abut}, v.
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Butt \Butt\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Butted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Butting}.] [OE. butten, OF. boter to push, F. bouter. See {Butt} an end, and cf. {Boutade}.] 1. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. [Written also {but}.] And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground. --Drayton. 2. To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See {Butt}, n.] A snow-white steer before thine altar led, Butts with his threatening brows. --Dryden.
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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).
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Head \Head\, n. [OE. hed, heved, heaved, AS. he[a0]fod; akin to D. hoofd, OHG. houbit, G. haupt, Icel. h[94]fu[?], Sw. hufvud, Dan. hoved, Goth. haubip. The word does not corresponds regularly to L. caput head (cf. E. {Chief}, {Cadet}, {Capital}), and its origin is unknown.] 1. The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon. 2. The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler. 3. The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head. 4. The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like. [bd]Their princes and heads.[b8] --Robynson (More's Utopia). The heads of the chief sects of philosophy. --Tillotson. Your head I him appoint. --Milton. 5. The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers. An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke Marlborough at the head of them. --Addison. 6. Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle. It there be six millions of people, there are about four acres for every head. --Graunt. 7. The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will. Men who had lost both head and heart. --Macaulay. 8. The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea. 9. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. --Shak. 10. A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon. 11. Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height. Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption. --Shak. The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself. --Addison. 12. Power; armed force. My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head. --Shak. 13. A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair. --Swift. 14. An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals. 15. (Bot.) (a) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum. (b) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant. 16. The antlers of a deer. 17. A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor. --Mortimer. 18. pl. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. --Knight. Note: Head is often used adjectively or in self-explaining combinations; as, head gear or headgear, head rest. Cf. {Head}, a. {A buck of the first head}, a male fallow deer in its fifth year, when it attains its complete set of antlers. --Shak. {By the head}. (Naut.) See under {By}. {Elevator head}, {Feed head}, etc. See under {Elevator}, {Feed}, etc. {From head to foot}, through the whole length of a man; completely; throughout. [bd]Arm me, audacity, from head to foot.[b8] --Shak. {Head and ears}, with the whole person; deeply; completely; as, he was head and ears in debt or in trouble. [Colloq.] {Head fast}. (Naut.) See 5th {Fast}. {Head kidney} (Anat.), the most anterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the pronephros. {Head money}, a capitation tax; a poll tax. --Milton. {Head pence}, a poll tax. [Obs.] {Head sea}, a sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls against her course. {Head and shoulders}. (a) By force; violently; as, to drag one, head and shoulders. [bd]They bring in every figure of speech, head and shoulders.[b8] --Felton. (b) By the height of the head and shoulders; hence, by a great degree or space; by far; much; as, he is head and shoulders above them. {Head or tail}, this side or that side; this thing or that; -- a phrase used in throwing a coin to decide a choice, guestion, or stake, head being the side of the coin bearing the effigy or principal figure (or, in case there is no head or face on either side, that side which has the date on it), and tail the other side. {Neither head nor tail}, neither beginning nor end; neither this thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; -- a phrase used in speaking of what is indefinite or confused; as, they made neither head nor tail of the matter. [Colloq.] {Head wind}, a wind that blows in a direction opposite the vessel's course. {Out one's own head}, according to one's own idea; without advice or co[94]peration of another. {Over the head of}, beyond the comprehension of. --M. Arnold.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Baudette, MN (city, FIPS 4024) Location: 48.71117 N, 94.58702 W Population (1990): 1146 (531 housing units) Area: 8.5 sq km (land), 1.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56623
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Baudot {Baudot code}
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Bedad, alone; solitary