Word Meanings - BRASILINBRASILEIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A substance, C16H14O5, extracted from brazilwood as a yellow crystalline powder which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies on exposure to the air, being oxidized to bra*sil"e*in, C16H12O5, to which brazilwood owes its dyeing properties.

• Bearable
  Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable.
• Betrustment
  The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted.
• Belles-lettres
  Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.
• Bedazzle
  To dazzle or make dim by a strong light.
• Intensely
  Intently.
• Benediction
  The act of blessing.
• Beetling
  of Beetle
• BECHUANAS
  A division of the Bantus, dwelling between the Orange and Zambezi rivers, supposed to be the most ancient Bantu population of South Africa. They are divided into totemic clans; they are intelligent and progressive.
• Berg
  A large mass or hill, as of ice.
• Behither
  On this side of.
• YELLOWCOVERED
  Covered or bound in yellow paper. Yellow-covered literature, cheap sensational novels and trashy magazines; -- formerly so called from the usual color of their covers. [Colloq. U. S.] Bartlett.
• Bespattering
  of Bespatter
• Bearn
  See Bairn.
• Between
  In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.
• Bellipotent
  Mighty in war; armipotent.
• Bedevilled
  of Bedevil
• Substance
  That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real, in distinction from that which is apparent; the abiding p
• Beneficential
  Relating to beneficence.
• Befit
  To be suitable to; to suit; to become.
• BEELINE
  The shortest line from one place to another, like that of a bee to its hive when loaded with honey; an air line. "A bee line for the brig." Kane.

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