Word Meanings - ABILITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent.

• Betide
  To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.
• Dorn
  A British ray; the thornback.
• DOVERSPOWDER
  A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash an
• Belonging
  of Belong
• Conventionalities
  of Conventionality
• Bedeviling
  of Bedevil
• Dough-baked
  Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understanding.
• Benignly
  In a benign manner.
• Dogeless
  Without a doge.
• Befittingly
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• Legalist
  One who practices or advocates strict conformity to law; in theology, one who holds to the law of works. See Legal, 2 (a).
• Besaile
  Alt. of Besayle
• Domesticity
  The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.
• Bejade
  To jade or tire.
• BEDRIDBEDRIDDEN
  Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity. "Her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father." Shak. "The estate of a bedridden old gentleman." Macaulay.
• BESCUMBERBESCUMMER
  To discharge ordure or dung upon. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
• Betrayed
  of Betray
• Beater
  One who, or that which, beats.
• Dorsiferous
  Bearing, or producing, on the back; -- applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain Batrachia, the ova of which become attached to the skin of the back of the parent, where they develop; dorsiparous.

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