Word Meanings - BORNEOL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, and camphol.

• Betrothing
  of Betroth
• Bellied
  Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.
• Becking
  of Beck
• Callot
  A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte.
• Benefice
  A favor or benefit.
• Bedye
  To dye or stain.
• BEAUMONTAGUE
  A cement used in making joints, filling cracks, etc. For iron, the principal constituents are iron borings and sal ammoniac; for wood, white lead or litharge, whiting, and linseed oil.
• Berhyming
  of Berhyme
• Begrease
  To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.
• Bespeckle
  To mark with speckles or spots.
• Bealing
  of Beal
• Betulin
  A substance of a resinous nature, obtained from the outer bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor.
• Bellows
  An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the
• Becomingness
  The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness.
• Found
  of Find
• Benefitting
  of Benefit
• Beehive
  A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively.
• BEDPIECEBEDPLATE
  The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate.
• Beroe
  A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.
• Begum
  In the East Indies, a princess or lady of high rank.

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