Word Meanings - BACKWARDNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state of being backward.

• Betorn
  Torn in pieces; tattered.
• Becalming
  of Becalm
• 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.
• 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.
• Bedstraw
  Straw put into a bed.
• Benefiter
  One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit.
• 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.
• Begirt
  of Begird
• 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.
• Beadroll
  A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general.
• Bespurt
  To spurt on or over; to asperse.
• Betroth
  To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.
• Becker
  A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.
• Belly-pinched
  Pinched with hunger; starved.
• BEARBERE
  Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare). [Obs. except in North of Eng. and Scot.]
• Benightment
  The condition of being benighted.
• Begrimed
  of Begrime
• 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
• Beal
  To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple.

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