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A game of cards in which the suits are played in sequence, beginning with a 5 or 9, the player who gets rid of his cards first being the winner.

• Betide
  To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
• Beater
  One who, or that which, beats.
• Belletristic
  Alt. of Belletristical
• Firstly
  In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
• Bedim
  To make dim; to obscure or darken.
• Benedictional
  A book of benedictions.
• BERCEUSE
  A vocal or instrumental composition of a soft tranquil character, having a lulling effect; a cradle song.
• Befriended
  of Befriend
• 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.
• Bel-accoyle
  A kind or favorable reception or salutation.
• Bespatter
  To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.
• Betrayed
  of Betray
• Beau ideal
  A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model.
• 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
• Playground
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• Bedquilt
  A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.
• Beneficently
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• BESTIARY
  A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages. A bestiary . . . in itself one of the numerous mediæval renderings of the fantastic mystical zoölogy. Saintsbury.
• Begat
  of Beget
• Berm
  Alt. of Berme

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