Word Meanings - BANISHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.

• Betorn
  Torn in pieces; tattered.
• Bearing cloth
  A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
• 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.
• Bedel
  Alt. of Bedell
• 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.
• Befalling
  of Befall
• 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.
• Behove
  and derivatives. See Behoove, &c.
• 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.
• Beastliness
  The state or quality of being beastly.
• 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.]
• Bedgown
  A nightgown.
• Benightment
  The condition of being benighted.
• Beforetime
  Formerly; aforetime.
• 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
• Beknow
  To confess; to acknowledge.

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