Word Meanings - BROWNNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being brown.

• 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
• Belletristic
  Alt. of Belletristical
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Statehood
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• Benedictional
  A book of benedictions.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• BESAIELBESAILEBESAYLE
  A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.
• 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.
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Bespatter
  To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.
• Betso
  A small brass Venetian coin.
• 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
• Bedeviling
  of Bedevil
• Statesmanship
  The qualifications, duties, or employments of a statesman.
• Beneficently
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• Befittingly
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• BROWNBILL
  A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak. Note: The black, or as it is sometimes called, the brown bill, was a kind of halberd, the cutting part hook
• Berm
  Alt. of Berme

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