Word Meanings - ALTERNATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.

• 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.
• Beweeping
  of Beweep
• 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.
• Winterkilled
  of Winterkill
• Beforetime
  Formerly; aforetime.
• Bereave
  To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.
• BETENOIRE
  Something especially hated or dreaded; a bugbear.
• Beknow
  To confess; to acknowledge.
• Bespangled
  of Bespangle
• Bestride
  To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over
• Beaus
  of Beau
• Belligerence
  Alt. of Belligerency
• Bewitch
  To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.
• Bedpan
  A pan for warming beds.
• Beneficed
  of Benefice
• BEANCAPER
  A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum.
• Bega
  See Bigha.
• Berhyme
  To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about.

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