Word Meanings - DILATORINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.

• Betrayed
  of Betray
• Belletristic
  Alt. of Belletristical
• Bedding
  of Bed
• BEARTRAPDAM
  A kind of movable dam, in one form consisting of two leaves resting against each other at the top when raised and folding down one over the other when lowered, for deepening shallow parts in a river.
• Benedictional
  A book of benedictions.
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• 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.
• 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.
• Bespatter
  To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.
• 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.
• Betso
  A small brass Venetian coin.
• 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
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• BECUIBABECUIBANUT
  The nut of the Brazilian tree Myristica Bicuhyba, which yields a medicinal balsam used for rheumatism.
• Beneficently
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• Berm
  Alt. of Berme
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Bespitting
  of Bespit
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.

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