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.

• Bearing cloth
  A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
• Bewrought
  Embroidered.
• Belt
  That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.
• Bedel
  Alt. of Bedell
• BEAVERSTATE
  Oregon; -- a nickname.
• Benthamic
  Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.
• Befalling
  of Befall
• Bescumber
  Alt. of Bescummer
• Behove
  and derivatives. See Behoove, &c.
• Bethumping
  of Bethump
• Beldame
  Grandmother; -- corresponding to belsire.
• Beastliness
  The state or quality of being beastly.
• Followed
  of Follow
• Bemaster
  To master thoroughly.
• Bedgown
  A nightgown.
• BEDRIDBEDRIDDEN
  Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity. "Her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father." Shak. "The estate of a bedridden old gentleman." Macaulay.
• Benzoin
  A resinous substance, dry and brittle, obtained from the Styrax benzoin, a tree of Sumatra, Java, etc., having a fragrant odor, and slightly aromatic taste. It is used in the preparation of benzoic acid, in medicine, and as a perfume.
• Beforetime
  Formerly; aforetime.
• Besetment
  The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin.
• Beknow
  To confess; to acknowledge.

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