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badinage
n 1: frivolous banter

English Dictionary: boding	by the DICT Development Group
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badness n that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good" Synonym(s): bad, badness Antonym(s): good, goodness used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather Synonym(s): badness, severity, severeness an attribute of mischievous children Synonym(s): naughtiness, mischievousness, badness
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baiting n harassment especially of a tethered animal
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bathing n immersing the body in water or sunshine the act of washing yourself (or another person) Synonym(s): washup, bathing
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bathing cap n a tight-fitting cap that keeps hair dry while swimming Synonym(s): bathing cap, swimming cap
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bathing costume n tight fitting garment worn for swimming [syn: swimsuit, swimwear, bathing suit, swimming costume, bathing costume]
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bathing machine n a building containing dressing rooms for bathers [syn: bathhouse, bathing machine]
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bathing suit n tight fitting garment worn for swimming [syn: swimsuit, swimwear, bathing suit, swimming costume, bathing costume]
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bathing trunks n swimsuit worn by men while swimming [syn: {swimming trunks}, bathing trunks]
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bathing tub n a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body Synonym(s): bathtub, bathing tub, bath, tub
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batting n (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber Synonym(s): batting, batten
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batting average n (baseball) a measure of a batter's performance; the number of base hits divided by the number of official times at bat; "Ted Williams once had a batting average above .400" Synonym(s): batting average, hitting average (an extension of the baseball term) the proportion of times some effort succeeds; "the salesman's batting average was 7 out of 12"
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batting cage n a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice Synonym(s): batting cage, cage
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batting coach n (baseball) someone who teaches batters how to bat better
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batting glove n a glove worn by batters in baseball to give a firmer grip on the bat
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batting helmet n a helmet worn by the batter in baseball
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batting order n (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat; "the managers presented their cards to the umpire at home plate" Synonym(s): batting order, card, lineup
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batwing adj formed or shaped like a bat's wing; "a dress with batwing sleeves" n one of a pair of swinging doors (as at the entrance to a western saloon)
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bawdiness n the trait of behaving in an obscene manner [syn: obscenity, lewdness, bawdiness, salaciousness, salacity]
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beading n ornamentation with beads Synonym(s): beading, beadwork a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture Synonym(s): beading, bead, beadwork, astragal
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beading plane n a plane with a concave blade for making moulding with beadwork
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beating n the act of overcoming or outdoing [syn: beating, whipping] the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows Synonym(s): beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking
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beating-reed instrument n a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed Synonym(s): beating-reed instrument, reed instrument, reed
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beatnik n a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior Synonym(s): beatnik, beat
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beatniks n a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) Synonym(s): beat generation, beats, beatniks
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bedding n coverings that are used on a bed [syn: bedclothes, {bed clothing}, bedding] material used to provide a bed for animals Synonym(s): bedding material, bedding, litter
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bedding geranium n an upright geranium having scalloped leaves with a broad color zone inside the margin and white or pink or red flowers Synonym(s): fish geranium, bedding geranium, zonal pelargonium, Pelargonium hortorum
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bedding material n material used to provide a bed for animals [syn: {bedding material}, bedding, litter]
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bedding plant n an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed Synonym(s): bedder, bedding plant
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beheading n execution by cutting off the victim's head [syn: decapitation, beheading] killing by cutting off the head Synonym(s): decapitation, beheading
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bethink v cause oneself to consider something consider or ponder something carefully; "She bethought her of their predicament"
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betimes adv in good time; "he awoke betimes that morning" [syn: early, betimes]
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betting adj preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man"; "a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool"; "sporting gents and their ladies" Synonym(s): dissipated, betting, card-playing, sporting
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betting odds n the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another; "he offered odds of two to one" Synonym(s): odds, betting odds
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betting shop n a licensed bookmaker's shop that is not at the race track
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bettong n short-nosed rat kangaroo
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Bettongia n jerboa kangaroo Synonym(s): Bettongia, genus Bettongia
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Bhutanese adj of or pertaining to or characteristic of Bhutan or its people or culture or language; "Bhutanese Buddhists" n a native or inhabitant of Bhutan [syn: Bhutanese, Bhutani]
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Bhutanese monetary unit n monetary unit in Bhutan
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bidding n an authoritative direction or instruction to do something Synonym(s): command, bid, bidding, dictation a request to be present; "they came at his bidding" Synonym(s): bidding, summons (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make Synonym(s): bid, bidding
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bidding contest n a series of competing bids
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Bidens n bur marigolds Synonym(s): Bidens, genus Bidens
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Bidens bipinnata n common bur marigold of the eastern United States [syn: Spanish needles, Bidens bipinnata]
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Bidens connata n bur marigold of eastern and northern United States and Canada common in wet pastures and meadows Synonym(s): swampy beggar-ticks, Bidens connata
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Bidens coronata n North American bur marigold with large flowers [syn: tickseed sunflower, Bidens coronata, Bidens trichosperma]
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Bidens trichosperma n North American bur marigold with large flowers [syn: tickseed sunflower, Bidens coronata, Bidens trichosperma]
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Bidens tripartita n bur marigold of temperate Eurasia [syn: {European beggar- ticks}, trifid beggar-ticks, trifid bur marigold, Bidens tripartita]
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bitewing n a dental X-ray film that can be held in place by the teeth during radiography
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biting adj capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire" Synonym(s): barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind" Synonym(s): biting, bitter
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biting louse n wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds Synonym(s): bird louse, biting louse, louse
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biting midge n minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects Synonym(s): punkie, punky, punkey, no-see-um, biting midge
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bitingly adv extremely and sharply; "it was bitterly cold"; "bitter cold" Synonym(s): piercingly, bitterly, bitingly, bitter
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bitumastic n a protective coating of asphalt and filter used on structural metals that are exposed to weathering
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boating n water travel for pleasure Synonym(s): boating, yachting
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Bodensee n a lake in southeastern Germany on the northern side of the Swiss Alps; forms part of the Rhine River Synonym(s): Constance, Lake Constance, Bodensee
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boding n a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case" Synonym(s): foreboding, premonition, presentiment, boding
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body English n a motion of the body by a player as if to make an object already propelled go in the desired direction
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body mass index n a measure of someone's weight in relation to height; to calculate one's BMI, multiply one's weight in pounds and divide that by the square of one's height in inches; overweight is a BMI greater than 25; obese is a BMI greater than 30 Synonym(s): body mass index, BMI
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boot maker n a maker of boots Synonym(s): bootmaker, boot maker
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bootmaker n a maker of boots Synonym(s): bootmaker, boot maker
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botanic adj of or relating to plants or botany; "botanical garden" Synonym(s): botanic, botanical
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botanical adj of or relating to plants or botany; "botanical garden" Synonym(s): botanic, botanical n a drug made from part of a plant (as the bark or root or leaves)
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botanical garden n a facility where trees and shrubs are cultivated for exhibition Synonym(s): arboretum, botanical garden
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botanical medicine n the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet) Synonym(s): phytotherapy, herbal therapy, botanical medicine
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botanise v collect and study plants Synonym(s): botanize, botanise
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botanist n a biologist specializing in the study of plants [syn: botanist, phytologist, plant scientist]
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botanize v collect and study plants Synonym(s): botanize, botanise
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bottom quark n a quark with a charge of -1/3 and a mass about 10,000 times that of an electron Synonym(s): bottom quark, beauty quark
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bottommost adj farthest down; "bottommost shelf" [syn: bottommost, lowermost, nethermost]
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boutonneuse fever n a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals Synonym(s): Marseilles fever, Kenya fever, Indian tick fever, boutonneuse fever
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budding adj beginning to develop; "a budding genius" n reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent
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butanoic acid n an unpleasant smelling fatty acid found especially in butter Synonym(s): butyric acid, butanoic acid
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butt hinge n a hinge mortised flush into the edge of the door and jamb
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buttinsky n a meddler who tends to butt in
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button quail n small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains Synonym(s): button quail, button-quail, bustard quail, hemipode
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button snakeroot n coarse prickly perennial eryngo of United States thought to cure rattlesnake bite Synonym(s): rattlesnake master, rattlesnake's master, button snakeroot, Eryngium yuccifolium coarse prickly perennial eryngo with aromatic roots; southeastern United States; often confused with rattlesnake master Synonym(s): button snakeroot, Eryngium aquaticum any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads Synonym(s): blazing star, button snakeroot, gayfeather, gay- feather, snakeroot
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button-quail n small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains Synonym(s): button quail, button-quail, bustard quail, hemipode
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button-shaped adj shaped like a button; "button-shaped white flowers"
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buttonhook n a hook for pulling a button through a buttonhole
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Badness \Bad"ness\, n. The state of being bad.
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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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Bathing \Bath"ing\, n. Act of taking a bath or baths. {Bathing machine}, a small room on wheels, to be driven into the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and dress therein.
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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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Bathing \Bath"ing\, n. Act of taking a bath or baths. {Bathing machine}, a small room on wheels, to be driven into the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and dress therein.
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Bathmism \Bath"mism\, n. See {Vital force}.
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Ronchil \Ron"chil\, n. [Cf. Sp. ronquillo slightly hoarse.] (Zo[94]l.) An American marine food fish ({Bathymaster signatus}) of the North Pacific coast, allied to the tilefish. [Written also {ronquil}.]
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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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Bating \Bat"ing\, prep. [Strictly p. pr. of {Bate} to abate.] With the exception of; excepting. We have little reason to think that they bring many ideas with them, bating some faint ideas of hunger and thirst. --Locke.
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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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Batting \Bat"ting\, n. 1. The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball. --Mason. 2. Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting.
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Scutch \Scutch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scutched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scutching}.] [See {Scotch} to cut slightly.] 1. To beat or whip; to drub. [Old or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 2. To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle. 3. To loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing. {Scutching machine}, a machine used to scutch cotton, silk, or flax; -- called also {batting machine}.
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Batlet \Bat"let\, n. [Bat stick + -let.] A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also {batler}, {batling staff}, {batting staff}. --Shak.
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Bat's-wing \Bat's"-wing"\or Batwing \Bat"wing\, a. Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner.
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Bawdiness \Bawd"i*ness\, n. Obscenity; lewdness.
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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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Beading \Bead"ing\, n. 1. (Arch.) Molding in imitation of beads. 2. The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.
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Beat \Beat\, v. t. [imp. {Beat}; p. p. {Beat}, {Beaten}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beating}.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be[a0]tan; akin to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[?]zan. Cf. 1st {Butt}, {Button}.] 1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. --Ex. xxx. 36. They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex. xxxix. 3. 2. To punish by blows; to thrash. 3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. --Prior. 4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. --Milton. 5. To tread, as a path. Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. --Blackmore. 6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass. He beat them in a bloody battle. --Prescott. For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M. Arnold. 7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.] 8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic? --Locke. 9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See {Alarm}, {Charge}, {Parley}, etc. {To beat down}, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.] {To beat into}, to teach or instill, by repetition. {To beat off}, to repel or drive back. {To beat out}, to extend by hammering. {To beat out of} a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. [bd]Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day.[b8] --South. {To beat the dust}. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. {To beat the hoof}, to walk; to go on foot. {To beat the wing}, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation. {To beat time}, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot. {To beat up}, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters. Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump; baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer; defeat; vanquish; overcome.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beating \Beat"ing\, n. 1. The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows. 2. Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart. 3. (Acoustics & Mus.) Pulsative sounds. See {Beat}, n. 4. (Naut.) The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.
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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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bedding \Bed"ding\, n. [AS. bedding, beding. See {Bed}.] 1. A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter. 2. (Geol.) The state or position of beds and layers.
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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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Bedmaker \Bed"mak`er\, n. One who makes beds.
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Bedouin \Bed"ouin\, n. [F. b[82]douin, OF. b[82]duin, fr. Ar. bedaw[c6] rural, living in the desert, fr. badw desert, fr. bad[be] to live in the desert, to lead a nomadic life.] One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts. -- {Bed"ouin*ism}, n.
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Bedung \Be*dung"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bedunged}.] To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively. --Bp. Hall.
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Bedung \Be*dung"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bedunged}.] To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively. --Bp. Hall.
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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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Bethink \Be*think"\, v. i. To think; to recollect; to consider. [bd]Bethink ere thou dismiss us.[b8] --Byron.
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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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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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Betime \Betime"\, Betimes \Betimes"\, adv. [Pref. be- (for by) + time; that is, by the proper time. The -s is an adverbial ending.] 1. In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. --Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. --Barrow. 2. In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes. --Shak.
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Betongue \Be*tongue"\, v. t. To attack with the tongue; to abuse; to insult.
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Betony \Bet"o*ny\, n.; pl. {Betonies}. [OE. betony, betany, F. betoine, fr. L. betonica, vettonica.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Betonica} (Linn.). Note: The purple or wood betony ({B. officinalis}, Linn.) is common in Europe, being formerly used in medicine, and (according to Loudon) in dyeing wool a yellow color.
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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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Jerboa \Jer*bo"a\, n. [Ar. yarb[?]'.] (Zo[94]l.) Any small jumping rodent of the genus {Dipus}, esp. {D. [92]gyptius}, which is common in Egypt and the adjacent countries. The jerboas have very long hind legs and a long tail. [Written also {gerboa}.] Note: The name is also applied to other small jumping rodents, as the {Pedetes Caffer}, of the Cape of Good Hope. {Jerboa kangaroo} (Zo[94]l.), small Australian kangaroo ({Bettongia penicillata}), about the size of a common hare.
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Bid \Bid\ (b[icr]d), v. t. [imp. {Bade} (b[acr]d), {Bid}, (Obs.) {Bad}; p. p. {Bidden}, {Bid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bidding}.] [OE. bidden, prop to ask, beg, AS. biddan; akin to OS. biddian, Icel. bi[edh]ja, OHG. bittan, G. bitten, to pray, ask, request, and E. bead, also perh. to Gr. teiqein to persuade, L. fidere to trust, E. faith, and bide. But this word was early confused with OE. beden, beoden, AS. be[a2]dan, to offer, command; akin to Icel. bj[omac][edh]a, Goth. biudan (in comp.), OHG. biotan to command, bid, G. bieten, D. bieden, to offer, also to Gr. pynqa`nesqai to learn by inquiry, Skr. budh to be awake, to heed, present OSlav. bud[emac]ti to be awake, E. bode, v. The word now has the form of OE. bidden to ask, but the meaning of OE. beden to command, except in [bd]to bid beads.[b8] [root]30.] 1. To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract). 2. To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc. Neither bid him God speed. --2. John 10. He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. --Granrille. 3. To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. [Mostly obs.] [bd]Our banns thrice bid ![b8] --Gay. 4. To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command. That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. --Pope Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. --Matt. xiv. 28 I was bid to pick up shells. --D. Jerrold. 5. To invite; to call in; to request to come. As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. --Matt. xxii. 9 {To bid beads}, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.] {To bid defiance to}, to defy openly; to brave. {To bid fair}, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely. Syn: To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command; direct; charge; enjoin.
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Bidding \Bid"ding\, n. 1. Command; order; a proclamation or notifying. [bd]Do thou thy master's bidding.[b8] --Shak. 2. The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction.
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Bidding prayer \Bid"ding prayer`\ 1. (R. C. Ch.) The prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before the sermon. 2. (Angl. Ch.) The prayer before the sermon, with petitions for various specified classes of persons.
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Spanish \Span"ish\, a. Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards. {Spanish bayonet} (Bot.), a liliaceous plant ({Yucca alorifolia}) with rigid spine-tipped leaves. The name is also applied to other similar plants of the Southwestern United States and mexico. Called also {Spanish daggers}. {Spanish bean} (Bot.) See the Note under {Bean}. {Spanish black}, a black pigment obtained by charring cork. --Ure. {Spanish broom} (Bot.), a leguminous shrub ({Spartium junceum}) having many green flexible rushlike twigs. {Spanish brown}, a species of earth used in painting, having a dark reddish brown color, due to the presence of sesquioxide of iron. {Spanish buckeye} (Bot.), a small tree ({Ungnadia speciosa}) of Texas, New Mexico, etc., related to the buckeye, but having pinnate leaves and a three-seeded fruit. {Spanish burton} (Naut.), a purchase composed of two single blocks. A double Spanish burton has one double and two single blocks. --Luce (Textbook of Seamanship). {Spanish chalk} (Min.), a kind of steatite; -- so called because obtained from Aragon in Spain. {Spanish cress} (Bot.), a cruciferous plant ({lepidium Cadamines}), a species of peppergrass. {Spanish curiew} (Zo[94]l.), the long-billed curlew. [U.S.] {Spanish daggers} (Bot.) See {Spanish bayonet}. {Spanish elm} (Bot.), a large West Indian tree ({Cordia Gerascanthus}) furnishing hard and useful timber. {Spanish feretto}, a rich reddish brown pigment obtained by calcining copper and sulphur together in closed crucibles. {Spanish flag} (Zo[94]l.), the California rockfish ({Sebastichthys rubrivinctus}). It is conspicuously colored with bands of red and white. {Spanish fly} (Zo[94]l.), a brilliant green beetle, common in the south of Europe, used for raising blisters. See {Blister beetle} under {Blister}, and {Cantharis}. {Spanish fox} (Naut.), a yarn twisted against its lay. {Spanish grass}. (Bot.) See {Esparto}. {Spanish juice} (Bot.), licorice. {Spanish leather}. See {Cordwain}. {Spanish mackerel}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A species of mackerel ({Scomber colias}) found both in Europe and America. In America called {chub mackerel}, {big-eyed mackerel}, and {bull mackerel}. (b) In the United States, a handsome mackerel having bright yellow round spots ({Scomberomorus maculatus}), highly esteemed as a food fish. The name is sometimes erroneously applied to other species. See Illust. under Mackerel. {Spanish main}, the name formerly given to the southern portion of the Caribbean Sea, together with the contiguous coast, embracing the route traversed by Spanish treasure ships from the New to the Old World. {Spanish moss}. (Bot.) See {Tillandsia}. {Spanish needles} (Bot.), a composite weed ({Bidens bipinnata}) having achenia armed with needlelike awns. {Spanish nut} (Bot.), a bulbous plant ({Iris Sisyrinchium}) of the south of Europe. {Spanish potato} (Bot.), the sweet potato. See under {Potato}. {Spanish red}, an ocherous red pigment resembling Venetian red, but slightly yellower and warmer. --Fairholt. {Spanish reef} (Naut.), a knot tied in the head of a jib-headed sail. {Spanish sheep} (Zo[94]l.), a merino. {Spanish white}, an impalpable powder prepared from chalk by pulverizing and repeated washings, -- used as a white pigment. {Spanish windlass} (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a rope wound about it, into which a marline spike is thrust to serve as a lever.
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Water agrimony \Wa"ter ag"rimony\ (Bot.) A kind of bur marigold ({Bidens tripartita}) found in wet places in Europe.
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Biding \Bid"ing\, n. Residence; habitation. --Rowe.
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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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Bitangent \Bi*tan"gent\, a. [Pref. bi- + tangent.] (Geom.) Possessing the property of touching at two points. -- n. A line that touches a curve in two points.
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Bite \Bite\, v. t. [imp. {Bit}; p. p. {Bitten}, {Bit}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Biting}.] [OE. biten, AS. b[c6]tan; akin to D. bijten, OS. b[c6]tan, OHG. b[c6]zan, G. beissen, Goth. beitan, Icel. b[c6]ta, Sw. bita, Dan. bide, L. findere to cleave, Skr. bhid to cleave. [root]87. Cf. {Fissure}.] 1. To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man. Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain. --Shak. 2. To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food. 3. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth. [bd]Frosts do bite the meads.[b8] --Shak. 4. To cheat; to trick; to take in. [Colloq.] --Pope. 5. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground. The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned and turned with nothing to bite. --Dickens. {To bite the dust}, {To bite the ground}, to fall in the agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust. {To bite in} (Etching), to corrode or eat into metallic plates by means of an acid. {To bite the thumb at} (any one), formerly a mark of contempt, designed to provoke a quarrel; to defy. [bd]Do you bite your thumb at us?[b8] --Shak. {To bite the tongue}, to keep silence. --Shak.
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Biting \Bit"ing\, a. That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic. [bd]A biting affliction.[b8] [bd]A biting jest.[b8] --Shak.
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Biting in \Bit"ing in"\ (Etching.) The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. See {Etch}. --G. Francis.
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Bitingly \Bit"ing*ly\, adv. In a biting manner.
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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 bug \Boat" bug`\ (Zo[94]l.) An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus {Notonecta}; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a little boat. Called also {boat fly}, {boat insect}, {boatman}, and {water boatman}.
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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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Boating \Boat"ing\, n. 1. The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats. 2. In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.
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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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Boding \Bod"ing\ (b[omac]d"[icr]ng), a. Foreshowing; presaging; ominous. -- {Bod"ing*ly}, adv.
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Boding \Bod"ing\, n. A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.
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Boding \Bod"ing\ (b[omac]d"[icr]ng), a. Foreshowing; presaging; ominous. -- {Bod"ing*ly}, adv.
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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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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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Booting \Boot"ing\, n. Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty. [Obs.] --Sir. J. Harrington.
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Booting \Boot"ing\, n. 1. A kind of torture. See {Boot}, n., 2. 2. A kicking, as with a booted foot. [U. S.]
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Bootmaker \Boot"mak`er\, n. One who makes boots. -- {Boot"mak`ing}, n.
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Bootmaker \Boot"mak`er\, n. One who makes boots. -- {Boot"mak`ing}, n.
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Botanic \Botan"ic\, Botanical \Botan"ical\, a. [Cf. F. botanique. See {Botany}.] Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition. -- {Botan"ical*ly}, adv. {Botanic garden}, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. {Botanic physician}, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots.
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Botanic \Botan"ic\, Botanical \Botan"ical\, a. [Cf. F. botanique. See {Botany}.] Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition. -- {Botan"ical*ly}, adv. {Botanic garden}, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. {Botanic physician}, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots.
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Garden \Gar"den\ (g[aum]r"d'n; 277), n. [OE. gardin, OF. gardin, jardin, F. jardin, of German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G. garten; akin to AS. geard. See {Yard} an inclosure.] 1. A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables. 2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy. --Shak. Note: Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse. {Garden balsam}, an ornamental plant ({Impatiens Balsamina}). {Garden engine}, a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens. {Garden glass}. (a) A bell glass for covering plants. (b) A globe of dark-colored glass, mounted on a pedestal, to reflect surrounding objects; -- much used as an ornament in gardens in Germany. {Garden house} (a) A summer house. --Beau. & Fl. (b) A privy. [Southern U.S.] {Garden husbandry}, the raising on a small scale of seeds, fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale. {Garden} {mold [or] mould}, rich, mellow earth which is fit for a garden. --Mortimer. {Garden nail}, a cast nail used, for fastening vines to brick walls. --Knight. {Garden net}, a net for covering fruits trees, vines, etc., to protect them from birds. {Garden party}, a social party held out of doors, within the grounds or garden attached to a private residence. {Garden plot}, a plot appropriated to a garden. {Garden pot}, a watering pot. {Garden pump}, a garden engine; a barrow pump. {Garden shears}, large shears, for clipping trees and hedges, pruning, etc. {Garden spider}, (Zo[94]l.), the diadem spider ({Epeira diadema}), common in gardens, both in Europe and America. It spins a geometrical web. See {Geometric spider}, and {Spider web}. {Garden stand}, a stand for flower pots. {Garden stuff}, vegetables raised in a garden. [Colloq.] {Garden syringe}, a syringe for watering plants, sprinkling them with solutions for destroying insects, etc. {Garden truck}, vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.] {Garden ware}, garden truck. [Obs.] --Mortimer. {Bear garden}, {Botanic garden}, etc. See under {Bear}, etc. {Hanging garden}. See under {Hanging}. {Kitchen garden}, a garden where vegetables are cultivated for household use. {Market garden}, a piece of ground where vegetable are cultivated to be sold in the markets for table use.
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Botanic \Botan"ic\, Botanical \Botan"ical\, a. [Cf. F. botanique. See {Botany}.] Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition. -- {Botan"ical*ly}, adv. {Botanic garden}, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. {Botanic physician}, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots.
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Botanic \Botan"ic\, Botanical \Botan"ical\, a. [Cf. F. botanique. See {Botany}.] Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition. -- {Botan"ical*ly}, adv. {Botanic garden}, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. {Botanic physician}, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots.
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Botanic \Botan"ic\, Botanical \Botan"ical\, a. [Cf. F. botanique. See {Botany}.] Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition. -- {Botan"ical*ly}, adv. {Botanic garden}, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. {Botanic physician}, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots.
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Botany \Bot"a*ny\, n.; pl. {Botanies}. [F. botanique, a. & n., fr. Gr. [?] botanic, fr. [?] herb, plant, fr. [?] to feed, graze.] 1. The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See {Plant}. 2. A book which treats of the science of botany. Note: Botany is divided into various departments; as, {Structural Botany}, which investigates the structure and organic composition of plants; {Physiological Botany}, the study of their functions and life; and {Systematic Botany}, which has to do with their classification, description, nomenclature, etc.
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Botanist \Bot"a*nist\, n. [Cf. F. botaniste.] One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.
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Botanize \Bot"a*nize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Botanized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Botanizing}.] [Cf. F. botaniser.] To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.
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Botanize \Bot"a*nize\, v. t. To explore for botanical purposes.
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Botanize \Bot"a*nize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Botanized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Botanizing}.] [Cf. F. botaniser.] To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.
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Botanizer \Bot"a*ni`zer\, n. One who botanizes.
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Botanize \Bot"a*nize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Botanized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Botanizing}.] [Cf. F. botaniser.] To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.
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Bothnian \Both"ni*an\, Bothnic \Both"nic\, a. Of or pertaining to Bothnia, a country of northern Europe, or to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of the Baltic sea.
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Bottom \Bot"tom\, a. Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices. {Bottom glade}, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. --Milton. {Bottom grass}, grass growing on bottom lands. {Bottom land}. See 1st {Bottom}, n., 7.
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Glade \Glade\, n. [Prob. of Scand. origin, and akin to glad, a.; cf. also W. golead, goleuad, a lighting, illumination, fr. goleu light, clear, bright, goleu fwlch glade, lit., a light or clear defile.] 1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. There interspersed in lawns and opening glades. --Pope. 2. An everglade. [Local, U. S.] 3. An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, smooth ice. [Local, U. S.] {Bottom glade}. See under {Bottom}. {Glade net}, in England, a net used for catching woodcock and other birds in forest glades.
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Bottom \Bot"tom\, a. Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices. {Bottom glade}, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. --Milton. {Bottom grass}, grass growing on bottom lands. {Bottom land}. See 1st {Bottom}, n., 7.
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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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Budding \Bud"ding\, n. 1. The act or process of producing buds. 2. (Biol.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See {Hydroidea}. 3. The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.
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Flowering \Flow"er*ing\, a. (Bot.) Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. {Flowering fern}, a genus of showy ferns ({Osmunda}), with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places. {Flowering plants}, plants which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; -- distinguished from {flowerless plants}. {Flowering rush}, a European rushlike plant ({Butomus umbellatus}), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Butt \Butt\, But \But\, n. [F. but butt, aim (cf. butte knoll), or bout, OF. bot, end, extremity, fr. boter, buter, to push, butt, strike, F. bouter; of German origin; cf. OHG. b[d3]zan, akin to E. beat. See {Beat}, v. t.] 1. A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end. Here is my journey's end, here my butt And very sea mark of my utmost sail. --Shak. Note: As applied to land, the word is nearly synonymous with mete, and signifies properly the end line or boundary; the abuttal. 2. The thicker end of anything. See {But}. 3. A mark to be shot at; a target. --Sir W. Scott. The groom his fellow groom at butts defies, And bends his bow, and levels with his eyes. --Dryden. 4. A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company. I played a sentence or two at my butt, which I thought very smart. --Addison. 5. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram. 6. A thrust in fencing. To prove who gave the fairer butt, John shows the chalk on Robert's coat. --Prior. 7. A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field. The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in cornfields. --Burrill. 8. (Mech.) (a) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called {butt joint}. (b) The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib. (c) The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose. 9. (Shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet. 10. (Carp.) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called {butt hinge}. 11. (Leather Trade) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks. 12. The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice. {Butt chain} (Saddlery), a short chain attached to the end of a tug. {Butt end}. The thicker end of anything. See {But end}, under 2d {But}. Amen; and make me die a good old man! That's the butt end of a mother's blessing. --Shak. {A butt's length}, the ordinary distance from the place of shooting to the butt, or mark. {Butts and bounds} (Conveyancing), abuttals and boundaries. In lands of the ordinary rectangular shape, butts are the lines at the ends (F. bouts), and bounds are those on the sides, or sidings, as they were formerly termed. --Burrill. {Bead and butt}. See under {Bead}. {Butt and butt}, joining end to end without overlapping, as planks. {Butt weld} (Mech.), a butt joint, made by welding together the flat ends, or edges, of a piece of iron or steel, or of separate pieces, without having them overlap. See {Weld}. {Full butt}, headfirst with full force. [Colloq.] [bd]The corporal . . . ran full butt at the lieutenant.[b8] --Marryat.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Butt hinge \Butt" hinge`\ See 1st {Butt}, 10.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Butt \Butt\, But \But\, n. [F. but butt, aim (cf. butte knoll), or bout, OF. bot, end, extremity, fr. boter, buter, to push, butt, strike, F. bouter; of German origin; cf. OHG. b[d3]zan, akin to E. beat. See {Beat}, v. t.] 1. A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end. Here is my journey's end, here my butt And very sea mark of my utmost sail. --Shak. Note: As applied to land, the word is nearly synonymous with mete, and signifies properly the end line or boundary; the abuttal. 2. The thicker end of anything. See {But}. 3. A mark to be shot at; a target. --Sir W. Scott. The groom his fellow groom at butts defies, And bends his bow, and levels with his eyes. --Dryden. 4. A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company. I played a sentence or two at my butt, which I thought very smart. --Addison. 5. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram. 6. A thrust in fencing. To prove who gave the fairer butt, John shows the chalk on Robert's coat. --Prior. 7. A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field. The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in cornfields. --Burrill. 8. (Mech.) (a) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called {butt joint}. (b) The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib. (c) The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose. 9. (Shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet. 10. (Carp.) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called {butt hinge}. 11. (Leather Trade) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks. 12. The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice. {Butt chain} (Saddlery), a short chain attached to the end of a tug. {Butt end}. The thicker end of anything. See {But end}, under 2d {But}. Amen; and make me die a good old man! That's the butt end of a mother's blessing. --Shak. {A butt's length}, the ordinary distance from the place of shooting to the butt, or mark. {Butts and bounds} (Conveyancing), abuttals and boundaries. In lands of the ordinary rectangular shape, butts are the lines at the ends (F. bouts), and bounds are those on the sides, or sidings, as they were formerly termed. --Burrill. {Bead and butt}. See under {Bead}. {Butt and butt}, joining end to end without overlapping, as planks. {Butt weld} (Mech.), a butt joint, made by welding together the flat ends, or edges, of a piece of iron or steel, or of separate pieces, without having them overlap. See {Weld}. {Full butt}, headfirst with full force. [Colloq.] [bd]The corporal . . . ran full butt at the lieutenant.[b8] --Marryat.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Butt hinge \Butt" hinge`\ See 1st {Butt}, 10.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
But \But\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Butted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Butting}.] See {Butt}, v., and {Abut}, v.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Butting \But"ting\, n. An abuttal; a boundary. Without buttings or boundings on any side. --Bp. Beveridge.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Butting joint \But"ting joint`\ A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Button \But"ton\, n. [OE. boton, botoun, F. bouton button, bud, prop. something pushing out, fr. bouter to push. See {Butt} an end.] 1. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass. 2. A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament. 3. A bud; a germ of a plant. --Shak. 4. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door. 5. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion. {Button hook}, a hook for catching a button and drawing it through a buttonhole, as in buttoning boots and gloves. {Button shell} (Zo[94]l.), a small, univalve marine shell of the genus {Rotella}. {Button snakeroot}. (Bot.) (a) The American composite genus {Liatris}, having rounded buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) An American umbelliferous plant with rigid, narrow leaves, and flowers in dense heads. {Button tree} (Bot.), a genus of trees ({Conocarpus}), furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West Indies. {To hold by the button}, to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; to buttonhole.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quail \Quail\, n. [OF. quaille, F. caille, LL. quaquila, qualia, qualea, of Dutch or German origin; cf. D. kwakkel, kwartel, OHG. wahtala, G. wachtel.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any gallinaceous bird belonging to {Coturnix} and several allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail ({C. communis}), the rain quail ({C. Coromandelica}) of India, the stubble quail ({C. pectoralis}), and the Australian swamp quail ({Synoicus australis}). 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several American partridges belonging to {Colinus}, {Callipepla}, and allied genera, especially the bobwhite (called {Virginia quail}, and {Maryland quail}), and the California quail ({Calipepla Californica}). 3. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of Turnix and allied genera, native of the Old World, as the Australian painted quail ({Turnix varius}). See {Turnix}. 4. A prostitute; -- so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.[Obs.] --Shak. {Bustard quail} (Zo[94]l.), a small Asiatic quail-like bird of the genus Turnix, as {T. taigoor}, a black-breasted species, and the hill bustard quail ({T. ocellatus}). See {Turnix}. {Button quail} (Zo[94]l.), one of several small Asiatic species of Turnix, as {T. Sykesii}, which is said to be the smallest game bird of India. {Mountain quail}. See under {Mountain}. {Quail call}, a call or pipe for alluring quails into a net or within range. {Quail dove} {(Zo[94]l.)}, any one of several American ground pigeons belonging to {Geotrygon} and allied genera. {Quail hawk} (Zo[94]l.), the New Zealand sparrow hawk ({Hieracidea Nov[91]-Hollandi[91]}). {Quail pipe}. See {Quail call}, above. {Quail snipe} (Zo[94]l.), the dowitcher, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also {robin snipe}, and {brown snipe}. {Sea quail} (Zo[94]l.), the turnstone. [Local, U. S.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Button \But"ton\, n. [OE. boton, botoun, F. bouton button, bud, prop. something pushing out, fr. bouter to push. See {Butt} an end.] 1. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass. 2. A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament. 3. A bud; a germ of a plant. --Shak. 4. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door. 5. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion. {Button hook}, a hook for catching a button and drawing it through a buttonhole, as in buttoning boots and gloves. {Button shell} (Zo[94]l.), a small, univalve marine shell of the genus {Rotella}. {Button snakeroot}. (Bot.) (a) The American composite genus {Liatris}, having rounded buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) An American umbelliferous plant with rigid, narrow leaves, and flowers in dense heads. {Button tree} (Bot.), a genus of trees ({Conocarpus}), furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West Indies. {To hold by the button}, to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; to buttonhole.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Button \But"ton\, n. [OE. boton, botoun, F. bouton button, bud, prop. something pushing out, fr. bouter to push. See {Butt} an end.] 1. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass. 2. A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament. 3. A bud; a germ of a plant. --Shak. 4. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door. 5. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion. {Button hook}, a hook for catching a button and drawing it through a buttonhole, as in buttoning boots and gloves. {Button shell} (Zo[94]l.), a small, univalve marine shell of the genus {Rotella}. {Button snakeroot}. (Bot.) (a) The American composite genus {Liatris}, having rounded buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) An American umbelliferous plant with rigid, narrow leaves, and flowers in dense heads. {Button tree} (Bot.), a genus of trees ({Conocarpus}), furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West Indies. {To hold by the button}, to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; to buttonhole.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Buttons \But"tons\, n. A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery. [Colloq.] --Dickens.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Betances, PR (comunidad, FIPS 7668) Location: 18.03150 N, 67.13345 W Population (1990): 1031 (394 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Bittinger, MD Zip code(s): 21522
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Bottineau County, ND (county, FIPS 9) Location: 48.79171 N, 100.84070 W Population (1990): 8011 (4661 housing units) Area: 4321.9 sq km (land), 75.5 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Bowdens, NC Zip code(s): 28398
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
Bad Thing n. [very common; from the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And All That"] Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject. This term is always capitalized, as in "Replacing all of the 9600-baud modems with bicycle couriers would be a Bad Thing". Oppose {Good Thing}. British correspondents confirm that {Bad Thing} and {Good Thing} (and prob. therefore {Right Thing} and {Wrong Thing}) come from the book referenced in the etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things. This has apparently created a mainstream idiom on the British side of the pond. It is very common among American hackers, but not in mainstream usage here. Compare {Bad and Wrong}.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
boat anchor n. [common; from ham radio] 1. Like {doorstop} but more severe; implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless. "That was a working motherboard once. One lightning strike later, instant boat anchor!" 2. A person who just takes up space. 3. Obsolete but still working hardware, especially when used of an old S100-bus hobbyist system; originally a term of annoyance, but became more and more affectionate as the hardware became more and more obsolete.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Bad Thing (From the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject. This term is always capitalised, as in "Replacing all of the 9600-baud modems with bicycle couriers would be a Bad Thing". Opposite: {Good Thing}. British correspondents confirm that {Bad Thing} and {Good Thing} (and probably therefore {Right Thing} and {Wrong Thing}) come from the book referenced in the etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things. This has apparently created a mainstream idiom on the British side of the pond. [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Betamaxed When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but better marketed competition. E.g. "Microsoft betamaxed Apple right out of the market". The Betamex videotape standard lost to VHS. (1999-01-15)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bit mask A pattern of {binary} values which is combined with some value using {bitwise} AND with the result that bits in the value in positions where the mask is zero are also set to zero. For example, if, in {C}, we want to test if bits 0 or 2 of x are set, we can write int mask = 5; /* binary 101 */ if (x & mask) ... A bit mask might also be used to set certain bits using bitwise OR, or to invert them using bitwise {exclusive OR}. (1995-05-12)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
boat anchor 1. Like {doorstop} but more severe; implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless. "That was a working motherboard once. One lightning strike later, instant boat anchor!" 2. A person who just takes up space. 3. Obsolete but still working hardware, especially when used of an old S100-bus hobbyist system; originally a term of annoyance, but became more and more affectionate as the hardware became more and more obsolete. [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
botmaster The owner of a {bot}. (1997-04-07)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Beaten gold in Num. 8:4, means "turned" or rounded work in gold. The Greek Version, however, renders the word "solid gold;" the Revised Version, "beaten work of gold." In 1 Kings 10:16, 17, it probably means "mixed" gold, as the word ought to be rendered, i.e., not pure gold. Others render the word in these places "thin plates of gold."
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Bethemek, house of deepness