Word Meanings - ABSURDITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.

• Bearing cloth
  A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
• Betumbled
  of Betumble
• Bell crank
  A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.
• Bedel
  Alt. of Bedell
• BEARSPAW
  A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.
• Benedicite
  A canticle (the Latin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel.
• Befalling
  of Befall
• Bereave
  To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.
• Behove
  and derivatives. See Behoove, &c.
• Bespangled
  of Bespangle
• Beastliness
  The state or quality of being beastly.
• Beverage
  Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage.
• Belligerence
  Alt. of Belligerency
• Bedgown
  A nightgown.
• BECKSSCALE
  A hydrometer scale on which the zero point corresponds to sp. gr. 1.00, and the 30º-point to sp. gr. 0.85. From these points the scale is extended both ways, all the degrees being of equal length.
• Beneficed
  of Benefice
• Beforetime
  Formerly; aforetime.
• Berhyme
  To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about.
• Beknow
  To confess; to acknowledge.
• Bestowing
  of Bestow

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