Word Meanings - COMMERCEDESTROYER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers.

• Bestridden
  of Bestride
• Bean
  A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.
• Belace
  To fasten, as with a lace or cord.
• Bewitched
  of Bewitch
• Bedash
  To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter.
• Belsire
  A grandfather, or ancestor.
• BEAUIDEAL
  A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model.
• Beeswing
  The second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee.
• Bent grass
  Same as Bent, a kind of grass.
• Bescreen
  To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal.
• Beteela
  An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc.
• Bearherd
  A man who tends a bear.
• Belcher
  One who, or that which, belches.
• Bewreck
  To wreck.
• Bedeguar
  Alt. of Bedegar
• Bemangle
  To mangle; to tear asunder.
• BEDFEREBEDPHERE
  A bedfellow. [Obs.] Chapman.
• Befell
  of Befall
• Benzoate
  A salt formed by the union of benzoic acid with any salifiable base.
• Beset
  of Beset

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