Word Meanings - CURTAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.

• Bean
  A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.
• Betty
  A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.
• Belsire
  A grandfather, or ancestor.
• Bedash
  To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter.
• Intendedly
  Intentionally.
• Bent grass
  Same as Bent, a kind of grass.
• Beeswing
  The second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee.
• BELLESLETTRES
  Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.
• Bescreen
  To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal.
• Behest
  That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.
• Belcher
  One who, or that which, belches.
• Bearherd
  A man who tends a bear.
• Bever
  A light repast between meals; a lunch.
• Bemangle
  To mangle; to tear asunder.
• Bedeguar
  Alt. of Bedegar
• Rounding
  of Round
• Benzoate
  A salt formed by the union of benzoic acid with any salifiable base.
• Befell
  of Befall
• BELOOCHEBELOOCHEE
  Of or pertaining to Beloochistan, or to its inhabitants. -- n.
• Beset
  of Beset

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