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   bad check
         n 1: a check that is dishonored on presentation because of
               insufficient funds; "issuing a bad check is a form of
               larceny" [syn: {bad check}, {bad cheque}]

English Dictionary: bodacious by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bad cheque
n
  1. a check that is dishonored on presentation because of insufficient funds; "issuing a bad check is a form of larceny"
    Synonym(s): bad check, bad cheque
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bait casting
n
  1. the single-handed rod casting of a relatively heavy (artificial) bait
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bed check
n
  1. a check that everyone is in bed by the time they should be
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bed jacket
n
  1. a lightweight jacket worn over bedclothes (as when sitting in bed)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
beet sugar
n
  1. sugar made from sugar beets
  2. sugar from sugar beets used as sweetening agent
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Betsy Griscom Ross
n
  1. American seamstress said to have made the first American flag at the request of George Washington (1752-1836)
    Synonym(s): Ross, Betsy Ross, Betsy Griscom Ross
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bodacious
adj
  1. incorrigible; "a bodacious gossip"
  2. unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
    Synonym(s): audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bootjack
n
  1. has V-shaped notch for pulling off boots
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bud sagebrush
n
  1. a perennial that is valuable as sheep forage in the United States
    Synonym(s): bud brush, bud sagebrush, Artemis spinescens
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
buddy system
n
  1. a cooperative practice of pairing two or more people together for mutual assistance or safety (especially in recreational swimming)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
by design
adv
  1. with intention; in an intentional manner; "he used that word intentionally"; "I did this by choice"
    Synonym(s): intentionally, deliberately, designedly, on purpose, purposely, advisedly, by choice, by design
    Antonym(s): accidentally, by chance, circumstantially, unexpectedly, unintentionally
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bydgoszcz
n
  1. an industrial city and river port in northern Poland [syn: Bydgoszcz, Bromberg]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Beet \Beet\ (b[emac]t), n. [AS. bete, from L. beta.]
      1. (Bot.) A biennial plant of the genus {Beta}, which
            produces an edible root the first year and seed the second
            year.
  
      2. The root of plants of the genus {Beta}, different species
            and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding
            stock, or in making sugar.
  
      Note: There are many varieties of the common beet ({Beta
               vulgaris}). The Old [bd]white beet[b8], cultivated for
               its edible leafstalks, is a distinct species ({Beta
               Cicla}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Betacism \Be"ta*cism\, d8Betacismus \[d8]Be`ta*cis"mus\, n.
      Excessive or extended use of the b sound in speech, due to
      conversion of other sounds into it, as through inability to
      distinguish them from b, or because of difficulty in
      pronouncing them.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bootjack \Boot"jack`\, n.
      A device for pulling off boots.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Botch \Botch\, n.; pl. {Botches}. [Same as Boss a stud. For
      senses 2 & 3 cf. D. botsen to beat, akin to E. beat.]
      1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a
            boil; an eruptive disease. [Obs. or Dial.]
  
                     Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended
            in a clumsy manner.
  
      3. Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a
            piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or
            not properly finished; a bungle.
  
                     To leave no rubs nor botches in the work. --Shak.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bootjack, CA (CDP, FIPS 7525)
      Location: 37.46971 N, 119.88310 W
      Population (1990): 1295 (632 housing units)
      Area: 46.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   byte sex n.   [common] The byte sex of hardware is {big-endian}
   or {little-endian}; see those entries.
  
  

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   bytesexual /bi:t`sek'shu-*l/ adj.   [rare] Said of hardware,
   denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either {big-endian}
   or {little-endian} format (depending, presumably, on a {mode bit}
   somewhere).   See also {NUXI problem}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   bitwise complement
  
      The bitwise complement of a {bit field} is a bit field of the
      same length but with each zero changed to a one and vice
      versa.   This is the same as the {ones complement} of a binary
      integer.
  
      (1994-11-14)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   bytesexual
  
      /bi:t"sek"shu-*l/ Said of hardware, denotes willingness
      to compute or pass data in either {big-endian} or
      {little-endian} format (depending, presumably, on a {mode bit}
      somewhere).   See also {NUXI problem}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Beth-jeshimoth
      house of wastes, or deserts, a town near Abel-shittim, east of
      Jordan, in the desert of Moab, where the Israelites encamped not
      long before crossing the Jordan (Num. 33:49; A.V.,
      "Bethjesimoth"). It was within the territory of Sihon, king of
      the Amorites (Josh. 12:3).
     
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