Word Meanings - DIFFERENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty?

• Belittling
  of Belittle
• Bez-antler
  The second branch of a stag's horn.
• Bedding
  of Bed
• Bent
  of Bend
• BEARSFOOT
  A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• Berate
  To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
• LIGHTSIGNALS
  A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arrangement in groups denoting numbers having a code significance.
• Behavior
  Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.
• Besnow
  To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes.
• Betide
  To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
• 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
• Differencing
  of Difference
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Benedictional
  A book of benedictions.
• BECHUANAS
  A division of the Bantus, dwelling between the Orange and Zambezi rivers, supposed to be the most ancient Bantu population of South Africa. They are divided into totemic clans; they are intelligent and progressive.
• 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

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