Word Meanings - BANISHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

• Beautifying
  of Beautify
• Bewitch
  To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.
• Belt
  That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.
• Bedright Bedrite
  The duty or privilege of the marriage bed.
• BELLMOUTHED
  Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun. Byron.
• Benthamic
  Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.
• Beggarliness
  The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.
• Bescumber
  Alt. of Bescummer
• Beach comber
  A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber.
• 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.
• Beldame
  Grandmother; -- corresponding to belsire.
• Becalming
  of Becalm
• Bewrought
  Embroidered.
• Bemaster
  To master thoroughly.
• Bedstraw
  Straw put into a bed.
• 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.
• Benzoin
  A resinous substance, dry and brittle, obtained from the Styrax benzoin, a tree of Sumatra, Java, etc., having a fragrant odor, and slightly aromatic taste. It is used in the preparation of benzoic acid, in medicine, and as a perfume.
• Begirt
  of Begird
• Besetment
  The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin.
• 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.

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