Word Meanings - BACKWARDNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state of being backward.

• Bearing cloth
  A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
• Bewitch
  To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.
• Belly-pinched
  Pinched with hunger; starved.
• Bedel
  Alt. of Bedell
• BELLMOUTHED
  Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun. Byron.
• Benightment
  The condition of being benighted.
• Befalling
  of Befall
• Beryl
  A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine
• Behove
  and derivatives. See Behoove, &c.
• Betel
  A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber with ovate many-nerved leaves.
• Beastliness
  The state or quality of being beastly.
• Bewrought
  Embroidered.
• Belt
  That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.
• Bedgown
  A nightgown.
• BENEFITSOCIETY
  A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.
• Benthamic
  Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.
• Beforetime
  Formerly; aforetime.
• Bescumber
  Alt. of Bescummer
• Beknow
  To confess; to acknowledge.
• Bethumping
  of Bethump

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