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.

• Betony
  A plant of the genus Betonica (Linn.).
• Bearhound
  A hound for baiting or hunting bears.
• Bellbird
  A South American bird of the genus Casmarhincos, and family Cotingidae, of several species; the campanero.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Bedegar
  A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosae). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.
• Beneath
  Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of.
• BEAMTREE
  A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple.
• Befallen
  of Befall
• Bereaving.
  of Bereave
• GREATGRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• Behooveful
  Advantageous; useful; profitable.
• Besottingly
  In a besotting manner.
• Betrothing
  of Betroth
• Beastlike
  Like a beast.
• Bellied
  Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.
• Callot
  A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte.
• Bedfere Bedphere
  A bedfellow.
• Benefice
  A favor or benefit.
• 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.
• Beforehand
  In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with.

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