Word Meanings - BRIGHTNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness.

• Betide
  To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
• Belletristic
  Alt. of Belletristical
• Bedding
  of Bed
• Brightly
  Brilliantly; splendidly; with luster; as, brightly shining armor.
• Benedictional
  A book of benedictions.
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• BENTHOS
  The bottom of the sea, esp. of the deep oceans; hence (Bot. & Zoöl.), the fauna and flora of the sea bottom; -- opposed to plankton.
• 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.
• 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.
• Bespatter
  To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.
• Bearberry
  A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.
• Betrayed
  of Betray
• 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
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Stateful
  Full of state; stately.
• Beneficently
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• BERTILLONSYSTEM
  A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
• Berm
  Alt. of Berme
• Beholden
  of Behold

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