Word Meanings - BLACKGUARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army.

• Bearing rein
  A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.
• Belgian
  Of or pertaining to Belgium.
• Beweep
  To weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears.
• Bedell
  Same as Beadle.
• Bemock
  To mock; to ridicule.
• Callat
  Same as Callet.
• Befall
  To happen to.
• Bepommel
  To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing.
• BEADSMANBEDESMAN
  A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. Fuller.
• Behovely
  Useful, or usefully.
• Beslabber
  To beslobber.
• Bestudded
  of Bestud
• COURTCRAFT
  The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts.
• Beastly
  Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
• Belike
  It is likely or probably; perhaps.
• Bewitchedness
  The state of being bewitched.
• Bedight
  of Bedight
• Benching
  of Bench
• Callisection
  Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection.
• Befortune
  To befall.

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