Word Meanings - CAUSTICILY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash.

• 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.
• BEARSFOOT
  A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.
• Benedictional
  A book of benedictions.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• 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
• BECHUANAS
  A division of the Bantus, dwelling between the Orange and Zambezi rivers, supposed to be the most ancient Bantu population of South Africa. They are divided into totemic clans; they are intelligent and progressive.
• Beneficently
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• Befittingly
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• Berm
  Alt. of Berme
• Bejade
  To jade or tire.
• Bespitting
  of Bespit

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