Word Meanings - DISCONTINUANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel.

• Betwixt
  In the space which separates; between.
• Belittling
  of Belittle
• Bedding
  of Bed
• Highway
  A road or way open to the use of the public; a main road or thoroughfare.
• Bent
  of Bend
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• BENTHOS
  The bottom of the sea, esp. of the deep oceans; hence (Bot. & Zoöl.), the fauna and flora of the sea bottom; -- opposed to plankton.
• Berate
  To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
• 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.
• 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.
• Bevy
  A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.
• Belletristic
  Alt. of Belletristical
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Statement
  The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.
• Benedictional
  A book of benedictions.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• BERTILLONSYSTEM
  A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
• 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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