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A method of pronouncing Latin and Greek in which the vowels have their more familiar Continental values, as in German and Italian, the consonants being pronounced mostly as in English. The stricter form of this method of pronouncing Latin approaches the Roman, the modified form the English, pronunciation. The Continental method of Greek pronunciation is often called Erasmian.

• Betide
  To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
• Beau ideal
  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.
• Belittling
  of Belittle
• Calle
  A kind of head covering; a caul.
• Bedquilt
  A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.
• Bent
  of Bend
• Romanic
  Of or pertaining to Rome or its people.
• Begat
  of Beget
• Berate
  To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
• BERNAFLY
  A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta, which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvæ do great injury.
• Besnow
  To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes.
• Betrayed
  of Betray
• Beaver
  An amphibious rodent, of the genus Castor.
• Belletristic
  Alt. of Belletristical
• Callisthenic
  Alt. of Callisthenics
• Bedrug
  To drug abundantly or excessively.
• Benedictional
  A book of benedictions.
• Romanticness
  The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness.
• Beggestere
  A beggar.
• 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.

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