Word Meanings - COINTENSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The condition of being of equal in intensity; -- applied to relations; as, 3:6 and 6:12 are relations of cointension.

• 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.
• Betso
  A small brass Venetian coin.
• Bellwort
  A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• BEARINGRING
  In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship.
• Benevolence
  The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• Berserk
  Alt. of Berserker
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.
• Betwixt
  In the space which separates; between.
• Belonging
  of Belong
• Bedeviling
  of Bedevil
• BECCHISTEST
  A qualitative test for cottonseed oil, based on the fact this oil imparts a maroon color to an alcoholic solution of silver nitrate.
• Benignly
  In a benign manner.
• Befittingly
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• Besaile
  Alt. of Besayle
• Bejade
  To jade or tire.
• Bestialize
  To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize.
• Belaud
  To laud or praise greatly.

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