Word Meanings - ACRIDNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.

• Bean trefoil
  A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida).
• 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.
• Beweeping
  of Beweep
• Bedaubing
  of Bedaub
• 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.
• BEELARKSPUR
  (Bot.) See Larkspur.
• Beete
  Alt. of Bete
• Bereave
  To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.
• Behight
  of Behight
• Bespangled
  of Bespangle
• Bestride
  To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over
• Bearing cloth
  A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
• Belligerence
  Alt. of Belligerency
• Bewitch
  To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.
• Bedel
  Alt. of Bedell
• Beneficed
  of Benefice
• BELLARMINE
  A stoneware jug of a pattern originated in the neighborhood of Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation;
• Befalling
  of Befall
• Berhyme
  To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about.
• Behove
  and derivatives. See Behoove, &c.

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