Word Meanings - ABSURDITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
- Betorn
Torn in pieces; tattered. - Bearing cloth
A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. - Belight
To illuminate. - Sounded
of Sound - Bedel
Alt. of Bedell - Benched
of Bench - BESANTLER
Same as Bez-antler. - Befalling
of Befall - Berained
of Berain - Behove
and derivatives. See Behoove, &c. - Besmoke
To foul with smoke. - Betroth
To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman. - Beastliness
The state or quality of being beastly. - 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. - Truth-teller
One who tells the truth. - Bedgown
A nightgown. - 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. - SOUNDINGBALLOON
An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes. - Beforetime
Formerly; aforetime. - Bereave
To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.
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