Word Meanings - ADDICTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.
- Betorn
Torn in pieces; tattered. - Beastliness
The state or quality of being beastly. - Belight
To illuminate. - Stately
Evincing state or dignity; lofty; majestic; grand; as, statelymanners; a stately gait. - Bedgown
A nightgown. - Benched
of Bench - Beforetime
Formerly; aforetime. - Berained
of Berain - Beknow
To confess; to acknowledge. - 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. - Beaus
of Beau - 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. - BEADSMANBEDESMAN
A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. Fuller. - Bedpan
A pan for warming beds. - 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. - Bega
See Bigha. - Bereave
To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away. - Bespangled
of Bespangle
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