Word Meanings - BESIEGEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged.

• Bevy
  A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.
• Belletristic
  Alt. of Belletristical
• Beclap
  To catch; to grasp; to insnare.
• BEELINE
  The shortest line from one place to another, like that of a bee to its hive when loaded with honey; an air line. "A bee line for the brig." Kane.
• Benedictional
  A book of benedictions.
• Beechnut
  The nut of the beech tree.
• Bergamot
  A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit.
• Begrudging
  of Begrudge
• Bespatter
  To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.
• Bestraddle
  To bestride.
• Beambird
  A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building.
• Bewigged
  of Bewig
• Bell jar
  A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keepin
• Bedding
  of Bed
• BELLBEARER
  A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.
• Beneficently
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• Berm
  Alt. of Berme
• Behavior
  Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.
• Bespitting
  of Bespit

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