Word Meanings - CONTRACTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.

• 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.
• Belibel
  To libel or traduce; to calumniate.
• Betwixt
  In the space which separates; between.
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Bemourn
  To mourn over.
• Heart-wounded
  Wounded to the heart with love or grief.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• Bepuffed
  Puffed; praised.
• BELLBEARER
  A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Beslaver
  To defile with slaver; to beslobber.
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.
• Belittling
  of Belittle
• Bevy
  A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.
• Bedeviling
  of Bedevil
• Bent
  of Bend
• Producent
  One who produces, or offers to notice.
• Befittingly
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• Berate
  To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
• BELLSPALSY
  Paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face.

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