Word Meanings - CONTAGIOUSDISEASE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A disease communicable by contact with a patient suffering from it, or with some secretion of, or object touched by, such a patient. Most such diseases have already been proved to be germ diseases, and their communicability depends on the transmission of the living germs. Many germ diseases are not contagious, some special method of transmission or inoculation of the germs being required.

• Between
  In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.
• Bellipotent
  Mighty in war; armipotent.
• Bedded
  of Bed
• Methodical
  Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise.
• Beneficential
  Relating to beneficence.
• Beelzebub
  The title of a heathen deity to whom the Jews ascribed the sovereignty of the evil spirits; hence, the Devil or a devil. See Baal.
• Touching
  of Touch
• Berlin
  A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.
• Behave
  To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.
• Bespitten
  of Bespit
• Bearable
  Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable.
• Bevies
  of Bevy
• Bellwether
  A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck.
• Bedazzle
  To dazzle or make dim by a strong light.
• Objectable
  Such as can be presented in opposition; that may be put forward as an objection.
• Benet
  To catch in a net; to insnare.
• Beetling
  of Beetle
• BEACHCOMBER
  A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber. [Amer.]
• Berrying
  of Berry
• Behither
  On this side of.

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