Word Meanings - COSTLINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness.

• 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.
• Belletristic
  Alt. of Belletristical
• Bez-antler
  The second branch of a stag's horn.
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Benedictional
  A book of benedictions.
• BETARAYS
  Penetrating rays readily deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances, as radium. They consist of negatively charged particles or electrons, apparently the same in kind as those of the cathode rays, but having much higher
• 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.
• Betide
  To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.
• 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
• BEALL
  The whole; all that is to be. [Poetic] Shak.
• Bedeviling
  of Bedevil
• 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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