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   batiste
         n 1: a thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric; used for shirts
               or dresses

English Dictionary: bedight	by the DICT Development Group
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bed sheet n bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs Synonym(s): sheet, bed sheet
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bedight v decorate; "deck the halls with holly" [syn: deck, bedight, bedeck]
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bedside n space by the side of a bed (especially the bed of a sick or dying person); "the doctor stood at her bedside"
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bedside manner n manner or conduct of a physician in the presence of a patient
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bedsit n a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) Synonym(s): bedsitting room, bedsitter, bedsit
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bedsitter n a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) Synonym(s): bedsitting room, bedsitter, bedsit
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bedsitting room n a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) Synonym(s): bedsitting room, bedsitter, bedsit
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bedstead n the framework of a bed Synonym(s): bedstead, bedframe
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bedstraw n any of several plants of the genus Galium
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betwixt adv in the interval; "dancing all the dances with little rest between" Synonym(s): between, betwixt
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bewitched adj under a spell Synonym(s): bewitched, ensorcelled
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bitstock n a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring Synonym(s): brace, bitstock
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Bittacidae n a family of predacious tropical insects of the order Mecoptera Synonym(s): Bittacidae, family Bittacidae
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boat whistle n a whistle on a boat that is sounded as a warning
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Boddhisatva n Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to help others Synonym(s): Bodhisattva, Boddhisatva
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Bodhisattva n Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to help others Synonym(s): Bodhisattva, Boddhisatva
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body stocking n a one-piece tight-fitting undergarment for women that covers the torso (and may have sleeves and legs)
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body structure n a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; "he has good bone structure" Synonym(s): structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure
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body suit n a tight-fitting garment of stretchy material that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles); worn by ballet dancers and acrobats for practice or performance Synonym(s): leotard, unitard, body suit, cat suit
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body waste n waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body Synonym(s): body waste, excretion, excreta, excrement, excretory product
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body weight n the weight of a person's body
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bootstrap n a strap that is looped and sewn to the top of a boot for pulling it on v help oneself, often through improvised means
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botched adj spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness; "a bungled job" Synonym(s): bungled, botched
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bowed stringed instrument n stringed instruments that are played with a bow; "the strings played superlatively well" Synonym(s): bowed stringed instrument, string
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Buddhist adj of or relating to or supporting Buddhism; "Buddhist sculpture" Synonym(s): Buddhist, Buddhistic n one who follows the teachings of Buddha
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Buddhistic adj of or relating to or supporting Buddhism; "Buddhist sculpture" Synonym(s): Buddhist, Buddhistic
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budget n a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose; "the laboratory runs on a budget of a million a year" a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them; "the president submitted the annual budget to Congress" v make a budget
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budget cut n the act of reducing budgeted expenditures
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budget deficit n an excess of expenditures over revenues
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budget for v calculate enough money for; provide for in the budget; "I have not budgeted for these expensive meals"
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budget items n the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes Synonym(s): operating expense, operating cost, overhead, budget items
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budgetary adj of or relating to a budget; "budgetary considerations"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cunner \Cun"ner\ (k?n"n?r), n. [Cf. {Conner}.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast ({Ctenolabrus adspersus}); -- called also {chogset}, {burgall}, {blue perch}, and {bait stealer}. [Written also {conner}.] (b) A small shellfish; the limpet or patella.
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Bath \Bath\, n. A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects. {Bath brick}, a preparation of calcareous earth, in the form of a brick, used for cleaning knives, polished metal, etc. {Bath chair}, a kind of chair on wheels, as used by invalids at Bath. [bd]People walked out, or drove out, or were pushed out in their Bath chairs.[b8] --Dickens. {Bath metal}, an alloy consisting of four and a half ounces of zinc and one pound of copper. {Bath note}, a folded writing paper, 8 1/2 by 14 inches. {Bath stone}, a species of limestone (o[94]lite) found near Bath, used for building.
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Tomtate \Tom"tate\, n. A Florida and West Indian grunt ({Bathystoma, [or] H[91]mulon, rimator}); also, any of various allied species.
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Batiste \Ba*tiste"\, n. [F. batiste, from the name of the alleged first maker, Baptiste of Cambrai. --Littr[82].] Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.
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Bed steps \Bed" steps`\ Steps for mounting a bed of unusual height.
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Bedash \Be*dash"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bedashed} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bedashing}.] To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter. [bd]Trees bedashed with rain.[b8] --Shak.
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Bedeck \Be*deck"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bedecked} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bedecking}.] To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace. Bedecked with boughs, flowers, and garlands. --Pennant.
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Bedight \Be*dight"\, v. t. [p. p. {Bedight}, {Bedighted}.] To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn. [Archaic] --Milton.
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Bedight \Be*dight"\, v. t. [p. p. {Bedight}, {Bedighted}.] To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn. [Archaic] --Milton.
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Bedside \Bed"side`\, n. The side of a bed.
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Bedsite \Bed"site`\, n. A recess in a room for a bed. Of the three bedrooms, two have fireplaces, and all are of fair size, with windows and bedsite well placed. --Quart. Rev.
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Bedstaff \Bed"staff`\, n.; pl. {Bedstaves}. [bd]A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side.[b8] --Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. --B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. --Brome.
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Bedstaff \Bed"staff`\, n.; pl. {Bedstaves}. [bd]A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side.[b8] --Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. --B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. --Brome.
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Bedstead \Bed"stead\, n. [Bed + stead a frame.] A framework for supporting a bed.
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Bedstock \Bed"stock\, n. The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead. [Obs. or Dial. Eng.]
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Bedstraw \Bed"straw`\, n. 1. Straw put into a bed. --Bacon. 2. (Bot.) A genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers. {Our Lady's bedstraw}, which has yellow flowers, is {Galium verum}. {White bedstraw} is {G. mollugo}.
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Beduck \Be*duck"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beducked}.] To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse. [bd]Deep himself beducked.[b8] --Spenser.
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Bedust \Be*dust"\, v. t. To sprinkle, soil, or cover with dust. --Sherwood.
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Betaught \Be*taught"\,a. [p. p. of OE. bitechen, AS. bet[?]can, to assign, deliver. See {Teach}.] Delivered; committed in trust. [Obs.]
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Bethink \Be*think"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bethought}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bethinking}.] [AS. be[?]encan; pref. be- + [?]encan to think. See {Think}.] To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronoun, often with of or that before the subject of thought. I have bethought me of another fault. --Shak. The rest . . . may . . . bethink themselves, and recover. --Milton. We bethink a means to break it off. --Shak. Syn: To recollect; remember; reflect.
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Bethought \Be*thought"\, imp. & p. p. of {Bethink}.
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Betoss \Be*toss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Betossed}.] To put in violent motion; to agitate; to disturb; to toss. [bd]My betossed soul.[b8] --Shak.
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Betwixt \Be*twixt"\, prep. [OE. betwix, bitwix, rarely bitwixt, AS. betweox, betweohs, betweoh, betw[c6]h; pref. be- by + a form fr. AS. tw[be] two. See {Between}.] 1. In the space which separates; between. From betwixt two aged oaks. --Milton. 2. From one to another of; mutually affecting. There was some speech of marriage Betwixt myself and her. --Shak. {Betwixt and between}, in a midway position; so-so; neither one thing nor the other. [Colloq.]
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Betwixt \Be*twixt"\, prep. [OE. betwix, bitwix, rarely bitwixt, AS. betweox, betweohs, betweoh, betw[c6]h; pref. be- by + a form fr. AS. tw[be] two. See {Between}.] 1. In the space which separates; between. From betwixt two aged oaks. --Milton. 2. From one to another of; mutually affecting. There was some speech of marriage Betwixt myself and her. --Shak. {Betwixt and between}, in a midway position; so-so; neither one thing nor the other. [Colloq.]
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Bewitch \Be*witch"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bewitched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bewitching}.] 1. To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery. See how I am bewitched; behold, mine arm Is like a blasted sapling withered up. --Shak. 2. To charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance; to enchant. The charms of poetry our souls bewitch. --Dryden. Syn: To enchant; captivate; charm; entrance.
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Bewitchedness \Bewitch"edness\, n. The state of being bewitched. --Gauden.
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Bidigitate \Bidig"itate\, a. [Pref. bi- + digitate.] Having two fingers or fingerlike projections.
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Stock \Stock\ (st[ocr]k), n. [AS. stocc a stock, trunk, stick; akin to D. stok, G. stock, OHG. stoc, Icel. stokkr, Sw. stock, Dan. stok, and AS. stycce a piece; cf. Skr. tuj to urge, thrust. Cf. {Stokker}, {Stucco}, and {Tuck} a rapier.] 1. The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. --Job xiv. 8,9. 2. The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted. The scion overruleth the stock quite. --Bacon. 3. A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post. All our fathers worshiped stocks and stones. --Milton. Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick. --Fuller. 4. Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense. Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks. --Shak. 5. The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached. Specifically: (a) The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage. (b) The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace. (c) (Joinery) The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock. (d) (Naut.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of {Anchor}. (e) The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself. (f) A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock. (g) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See {Counterfoil}. [Eng.] 6. The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family. And stand betwixt them made, when, severally, All told their stock. --Chapman. Thy mother was no goddess, nor thy stock From Dardanus. --Denham. 7. Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also {the public funds}; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called {stocks}, and the former {shares}. 8. (Bookkeeping) Same as {Stock account}, below. 9. Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions. Add to that stock which justly we bestow. --Dryden. 10. (Agric.) Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also {live stock}. 11. (Card Playing) That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank. I must buy the stock; send me good cardings. --Beau. & Fl. 12. A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado. [Obs.] 13. [Cf. {Stocking}.] A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings). [Obs.] With a linen stock on one leg. --Shak. 14. A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock. 15. pl. A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment. He shall rest in my stocks. --Piers Plowman. 16. pl. (Shipbuilding) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building. 17. pl. Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings. [Eng.] 18. (Bot.) Any cruciferous plant of the genus {Matthiola}; as, common stock ({Matthiola incana}) (see {Gilly-flower}); ten-weeks stock ({M. annua}). 19. (Geol.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone. 20. A race or variety in a species. 21. (Biol.) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see {Person}), as trees, chains of salp[91], etc. 22. The beater of a fulling mill. --Knight. 23. (Cookery) A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; -- used in making soup, gravy, etc. {Bit stock}. See {Bitstock}. {Dead stock} (Agric.), the implements of husbandry, and produce stored up for use; -- in distinction from live stock, or the domestic animals on the farm. See def. 10, above. {Head stock}. See {Headstock}. {Paper stock}, rags and other material of which paper is made. {Stock account} (Bookkeeping), an account on a merchant's ledger, one side of which shows the original capital, or stock, and the additions thereto by accumulation or contribution, the other side showing the amounts withdrawn. {Stock car}, a railway car for carrying cattle. {Stock company} (Com.), an incorporated company the capital of which is represented by marketable shares having a certain equal par value.
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Bitstock \Bit"stock`\, n. A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.
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Bodge \Bodge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bodged}.] To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch. [Obs. or Dial.]
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Bodhisat \Bo"dhisat\, d8Bodhisattva \[d8]Bo`dhisatt"va\, d8Bodhisattwa \[d8]Bo`dhisatt"wa\, n. [Skr. b[omac]dhisattva (perh. through Pali b[omac]dhisatt[omac]); fr. b[omac]dhi knowledge, enlightenment + sattva being, essence.] (Buddhism) One who has reached the highest degree of saintship, so that in his next incarnation he will be a Buddha, or savior of the world. -- {Bo"dhisat`ship}, n.
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Bodhisat \Bo"dhisat\, d8Bodhisattva \[d8]Bo`dhisatt"va\, d8Bodhisattwa \[d8]Bo`dhisatt"wa\, n. [Skr. b[omac]dhisattva (perh. through Pali b[omac]dhisatt[omac]); fr. b[omac]dhi knowledge, enlightenment + sattva being, essence.] (Buddhism) One who has reached the highest degree of saintship, so that in his next incarnation he will be a Buddha, or savior of the world. -- {Bo"dhisat`ship}, n.
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Bodiced \Bod"iced\, a. Wearing a bodice. --Thackeray.
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Body \Bod"y\, n.; pl. {Bodies}. [OE. bodi, AS. bodig; akin to OHG. botah. [root]257. Cf. {Bodice}.] 1. The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person. Absent in body, but present in spirit. --1 Cor. v. 3 For of the soul the body form doth take. For soul is form, and doth the body make. --Spenser. 2. The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc. Who set the body and the limbs Of this great sport together? --Shak. The van of the king's army was led by the general; . . . in the body was the king and the prince. --Clarendon. Rivers that run up into the body of Italy. --Addison. 3. The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow. Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. --Col. ii. 17. 4. A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody. A dry, shrewd kind of a body. --W. Irving. 5. A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body. A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter. --Prescott. 6. A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity. 7. Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an a[89]riform body. [bd]A body of cold air.[b8] --Huxley. By collision of two bodies, grind The air attrite to fire. --Milton. 8. Amount; quantity; extent. 9. That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs. 10. The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body. 11. (Print.) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body. 12. (Geom.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure. 13. Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body. Note: Colors bear a body when they are capable of being ground so fine, and of being mixed so entirely with oil, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same color. {After body} (Naut.), the part of a ship abaft the dead flat. {Body cavity} (Anat.), the space between the walls of the body and the inclosed viscera; the c[91]lum; -- in mammals, divided by the diaphragm into thoracic and abdominal cavities. {Body of a church}, the nave. {Body cloth}; pl. {Body cloths}, a cloth or blanket for covering horses. {Body clothes}. (pl.) 1. Clothing for the body; esp. underclothing. 2. Body cloths for horses. [Obs.] --Addison. {Body coat}, a gentleman's dress coat. {Body color} (Paint.), a pigment that has consistency, thickness, or body, in distinction from a tint or wash. {Body of a law} (Law), the main and operative part. {Body louse} (Zo[94]l.), a species of louse ({Pediculus vestimenti}), which sometimes infests the human body and clothes. See {Grayback}. {Body plan} (Shipbuilding), an end elevation, showing the conbour of the sides of a ship at certain points of her length. {Body politic}, the collective body of a nation or state as politically organized, or as exercising political functions; also, a corporation. --Wharton. As to the persons who compose the body politic or associate themselves, they take collectively the name of [bd]people[b8], or [bd]nation[b8]. --Bouvier. {Body servant}, a valet. {The bodies seven} (Alchemy), the metals corresponding to the planets. [Obs.] Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe, Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus coper. --Chaucer. {Body snatcher}, one who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave, vault, etc.; a resurrectionist. {Body snatching} (Law), the unauthorized removal of a dead body from the grave; usually for the purpose of dissection.
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Boodhist \Boodh"ist\, n. Same as {Buddhist}.
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Boot \Boot\, n. [OE. bote, OF. bote, F. botte, LL. botta; of uncertain origin.] 1. A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather. 2. An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland. So he was put to the torture, which in Scotland they call the boots; for they put a pair of iron boots close on the leg, and drive wedges between them and the leg. --Bp. Burnet. 3. A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach. [Obs.] 4. A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach. 5. An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud. 6. (Plumbing) The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof. {Boot catcher}, the person at an inn whose business it was to pull off boots and clean them. [Obs.] --Swift. {Boot closer}, one who, or that which, sews the uppers of boots. {Boot crimp}, a frame or device used by bootmakers for drawing and shaping the body of a boot. {Boot hook}, a hook with a handle, used for pulling on boots. {Boots and saddles} (Cavalry Tactics), the trumpet call which is the first signal for mounted drill. {Sly boots}. See {Slyboots}, in the Vocabulary.
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Botch \Botch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Botched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Botching}.] [See {Botch}, n.] 1. To mark with, or as with, botches. Young Hylas, botched with stains. --Garth. 2. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up. Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time. --Robynson (More's Utopia). 3. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work. For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane. --Dryden.
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Botchedly \Botch"ed*ly\, adv. In a clumsy manner.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sheet \Sheet\, n. [OE. shete, schete, AS. sc[emac]te, sc[ymac]te, fr. sce[a0]t a projecting corner, a fold in a garment (akin to D. schoot sheet, bosom, lap, G. schoss bosom, lap, flap of a coat, Icel. skaut, Goth. skauts the hem of a garment); originally, that which shoots out, from the root of AS. sce[a2]tan to shoot. [root]159. See {Shoot}, v. t.] In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies. Specifically: (a) A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body. He fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners. --Acts x. 10, 11. If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me In one of those same sheets. --Shak. (b) A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc. (c) A single signature of a book or a pamphlet; in pl., the book itself. To this the following sheets are intended for a full and distinct answer. --Waterland. (d) A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf. (e) A broad expanse of water, or the like. [bd]The two beautiful sheets of water.[b8] --Macaulay. (f) A sail. --Dryden. (g) (Geol.) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata. 2. [AS. sce[a0]ta. See the Etymology above.] (Naut.) (a) A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom. (b) pl. The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets. Note: Sheet is often used adjectively, or in combination, to denote that the substance to the name of which it is prefixed is in the form of sheets, or thin plates or leaves; as, sheet brass, or sheet-brass; sheet glass, or sheet-glass; sheet gold, or sheet-gold; sheet iron, or sheet-iron, etc. {A sheet in the wind}, half drunk. [Sailors' Slang] {Both sheets in the wind}, very drunk. [Sailors' Slang] {In sheets}, lying flat or expanded; not folded, or folded but not bound; -- said especially of printed sheets. {Sheet bend} (Naut.), a bend or hitch used for temporarily fastening a rope to the bight of another rope or to an eye. {Sheet lightning}, {Sheet piling}, etc. See under {Lightning}, {Piling}, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Buddhist \Bud"dhist\, n. One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Buddhist \Bud"dhist\, a. Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Buddhistic \Bud*dhis"tic\, a. Same as {Buddhist}, a.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Budge \Budge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Budged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Budging}.] [F. bouger to stir, move (akin to Pr. bojar, bolegar, to stir, move, It. bulicare to boil, bubble), fr. L. bullire. See {Boil}, v. i.] To move off; to stir; to walk away. I'll not budge an inch, boy. --Shak. The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Budget \Budg"et\, n. [OE. bogett, bouget, F. bougette bag, wallet, dim. of OF. boge, bouge, leather bag. See {Budge}, n., and cf. {Bouget}.] 1. A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions. 2. The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries. {To open the budget}, to lay before a legislative body the financial estimates and plans of the executive government.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Looking round on every side beheld A pathless desert. --Milton. 4. (a) One of the halves of the body, of an animals or man, on either side of the mesial plane; or that which pertains to such a half; as, a side of beef; a side of sole leather. (b) The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side. One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side. --John xix. 34. 5. A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge. Along the side of yon small hill. --Milton. 6. The position of a person or party regarded as opposed to another person or party, whether as a rival or a foe; a body of advocates or partisans; a party; hence, the interest or cause which one maintains against another; a doctrine or view opposed to another. God on our side, doubt not of victory. --Shak. We have not always been of the . . . same side in politics. --Landor. Sets the passions on the side of truth. --Pope. 7. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another. To sit upon thy father David's throne, By mother's side thy father. --Milton. 8. Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other; as, the bright side of poverty. {By the side of}, close at hand; near to. {Exterior side}. (Fort.) See {Exterior}, and Illust. of {Ravelin}. {Interior side} (Fort.), the line drawn from the center of one bastion to that of the next, or the line curtain produced to the two oblique radii in front. --H. L. Scott. {Side by side}, close together and abreast; in company or along with. {To choose sides}, to select those who shall compete, as in a game, on either side. {To take sides}, to attach one's self to, or give assistance to, one of two opposing sides or parties.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stern \Stern\, n. [Icel. stj[d3]rn a steering, or a doubtful AS. ste[a2]rn. [fb]166. See {Steer}, v. t.] 1. The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. (Naut.) The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow. 3. Fig.: The post of management or direction. And sit chiefest stern of public weal. --Shak. 4. The hinder part of anything. --Spenser. 5. The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog. {By the stern}. (Naut.) See {By the head}, under {By}.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Batchtown, IL (village, FIPS 4117) Location: 39.03289 N, 90.65398 W Population (1990): 225 (112 housing units) Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62006
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Bates City, MO (village, FIPS 3556) Location: 39.00619 N, 94.07024 W Population (1990): 197 (80 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 64011
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Bathgate, ND (city, FIPS 5260) Location: 48.88055 N, 97.47286 W Population (1990): 75 (33 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58216
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Batsto, NJ Zip code(s): 08037
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Beattyestown, NJ (CDP, FIPS 4240) Location: 40.81924 N, 74.85553 W Population (1990): 3966 (1887 housing units) Area: 7.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Bethesda, MD (CDP, FIPS 7125) Location: 38.98975 N, 77.12030 W Population (1990): 62936 (28253 housing units) Area: 38.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 20814, 20816 Bethesda, OH (village, FIPS 6138) Location: 40.01613 N, 81.07293 W Population (1990): 1161 (480 housing units) Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 43719
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Butte City, CA Zip code(s): 95920 Butte City, ID (city, FIPS 11710) Location: 43.60641 N, 113.23845 W Population (1990): 59 (39 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Butztown, PA Zip code(s): 18017
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Beats the shit outa me (BSOM) "I don't understand it". The last thing you say as you walk out on someone whose system you can't fix. (1998-06-15)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bit string An ordered sequence of {bit}s. This is very similar to a {bit pattern} except that the term "string" suggests an arbitrary length sequence as opposed to a pre-determined length "pattern".
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bit stuffing A {protocol} which guarantees the receiver of {synchronous} data can recover the sender's clock. When the data stream sent contains a large number of adjacent bits which cause no transition of the signal, the receiver cannot adjust its clock to maintain proper synchronised reception. To eliminate the possibility of such a pathological case, when a preset number of transitionless bits have been transmitted, a bit which does cause a transition is "stuffed" (transmitted) by the sender. The receiver follows the same protocol and removes the stuffed bit after the specified number of transitionless bits, but can use the stuffed bit to recover the sender's clock. The advantage of bit stuffing is that only a bit (not a {byte}) is inserted in the data stream, and that only when the content of the data stream fails to provide a timing signal to the receiver. Thus very nearly 100% of the bits transported are useful data. In contrast, {asynchronous} transmission of data "throws away" a start bit and one or more stop bits for each data byte sent. (1996-04-23)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bootstrap 1. (From "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps") To load and initialise the {operating system} on a computer. Normally abbreviated to "{boot}". See {bootstrap loader}. 2. (From "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps") to use a {compiler} to compile itself. The usual process is to write an {interpreter} for a language, L, in an existing language, M. The compiler is then written in L and the interpreter is used to run it. This produces an {executable} for compiling programs in L from the source of the compiler in L. This technique is often used to verify the correctness of a compiler. It was first used in the {LISP} community. See also {my favourite toy language}. (27 November 1995)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bootstrap loader (from "{bootstrap}" or "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps") A short {program} that was read in from {card}s or {paper tape}, or {toggle}d in from the {front panel} switches, which read in a more complex {program} to which it gave control. On early computers the bootstrap loader was always very short (great efforts were expended on making it short in order to minimise the labour and chance of error involved in toggling it in), but was just smart enough to read in a slightly more complex {program} (usually from a card or {paper tape} reader), to which it handed control; this {program} in turn was smart enough to read the {application} or {operating system} from a {magnetic tape} drive or {disk drive}. Thus, in successive steps, the {computer} "pulled itself up by its bootstraps" to a useful operating state. Nowadays the bootstrap is usually found in {ROM} or {EPROM}, and reads the first stage in from a fixed location on the {disk}, called the "{boot block}". When this {program} gains control, it is powerful enough to load the actual {OS} and hand control over to it. See {boot}. (27 November 1995)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
byte-code A {binary} file containing an {executable} program, formed by a sequence of {op code}/data pairs. Byte-code op codes are most often fixed size binary patterns, but can be variable size. The data portion consists of zero or more {bits}, the format of the data portion may be determined by the identifier. The data is most often variable in size. In some cases, by clever design, (e.g. some {RISC} {instruction sets}) the identifier/data pair is a fixed size. This can provide performance benefits. A byte-code program is normally interpreted by a {byte-code interpreter}. The advantage of this technique compared with outputing {machine code} for a particular processor is that the same byte-code can be executed on any processor on which the byte-code interpreter runs. The byte-code may be compiled to machine code ("native code") for speed of execution but this usually requires significantly greater effort for each new taraget architecture than simply porting the interpreter. For example, {Java} is compiled to byte-code which runs on the {Java Virtual Machine}. (1998-08-30)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
byte-code compiler A {compiler} which outputs a program in some kind of {byte-code}. Compare: {byte-code interpreter}. (1995-11-04)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
byte-code interpreter A program that {executes} a {byte code} program. An example is the {Java Virtual Machine}. (1999-11-28)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Bedstead used in Deut. 3:11, but elsewhere rendered "couch," "bed." In 2 Kings 1:4; 16:2; Ps. 132:3; Amos 3:12, the divan is meant by this word.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Bethesda house of mercy, a reservoir (Gr. kolumbethra, "a swimming bath") with five porches, close to the sheep-gate or market (Neh. 3:1; John 5:2). Eusebius the historian (A.D. 330) calls it "the sheep-pool." It is also called "Bethsaida" and "Beth-zatha" (John 5:2, R.V. marg.). Under these "porches" or colonnades were usually a large number of infirm people waiting for the "troubling of the water." It is usually identified with the modern so-called Fountain of the Virgin, in the valley of the Kidron, and not far from the Pool of Siloam (q.v.); and also with the Birket Israel, a pool near the mouth of the valley which runs into the Kidron south of "St. Stephen's Gate." Others again identify it with the twin pools called the "Souterrains," under the convent of the Sisters of Zion, situated in what must have been the rock-hewn ditch between Bezetha and the fortress of Antonia. But quite recently Schick has discovered a large tank, as sketched here, situated about 100 feet north-west of St. Anne's Church, which is, as he contends, very probably the Pool of Bethesda. No certainty as to its identification, however, has as yet been arrived at. (See {FOUNTAIN}; {GIHON}.)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Bethsaida house of fish. (1.) A town in Galilee, on the west side of the sea of Tiberias, in the "land of Gennesaret." It was the native place of Peter, Andrew, and Philip, and was frequently resorted to by Jesus (Mark 6:45; John 1:44; 12:21). It is supposed to have been at the modern 'Ain Tabighah, a bay to the north of Gennesaret. (2.) A city near which Christ fed 5,000 (Luke 9:10; comp. John 6:17; Matt. 14:15-21), and where the blind man had his sight restored (Mark 8:22), on the east side of the lake, two miles up the Jordan. It stood within the region of Gaulonitis, and was enlarged by Philip the tetrarch, who called it "Julias," after the emperor's daughter. Or, as some have supposed, there may have been but one Bethsaida built on both sides of the lake, near where the Jordan enters it. Now the ruins et-Tel.
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Bethesda, house of pity or mercy
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Beth-gader, a house for a mouse
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Bethsaida, house of fruits, or of food, or of snares