Word Meanings - BACKWARDNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state of being backward.

• Betorn
  Torn in pieces; tattered.
• Belligerence
  Alt. of Belligerency
• Becripple
  To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame.
• States-general
  In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty.
• Beneficed
  of Benefice
• Beehouse
  A house for bees; an apiary.
• BEVELGEAR
  A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.
• Berhyme
  To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about.
• Behalf
  Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication.
• Bespew
  To soil or daub with spew; to vomit on.
• Bean trefoil
  A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida).
• Betroth
  To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.
• Bellows fish
  A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.
• Bedaubing
  of Bedaub
• BEARBERE
  Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare). [Obs. except in North of Eng. and Scot.]
• Benefiter
  One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit.
• Beete
  Alt. of Bete
• Berretta
  A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green.
• Behight
  of Behight
• Bespurt
  To spurt on or over; to asperse.

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