Word Meanings - CHLORINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4.

• Betrayment
  Betrayal.
• Bearward
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd.
• Belled
  of Bell
• Compounded
  of Compound
• Bedewing
  of Bedew
• Bendlet
  A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.
• BECQUERELRAYS
  Radiations first observed by the French physicist Henri Becquerel, in working with uranium and its compounds. They consist of a mixture of alpha, beta, and gamma rays.
• Befog
  To involve in a fog; -- mostly as a participle or part. adj.
• Berberine
  An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.
• Bejeweling
  of Bejewel
• Besomer
  One who uses a besom.
• Bettermost
  Best.
• Beatification
  The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stag
• Bellic
  Alt. of Bellical
• Heavy-armed
  Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms.
• Bedlamite
  An inhabitant of a madhouse; a madman.
• Benedight
  Blessed.
• BEETLEBROWED
  Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen. Note: The earlier meaning was, "Having bushy or overhanging eyebrows."
• Befringe
  To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe.
• Bergmeal
  An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of

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