Word Meanings - DISPERSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or process of scattering or dispersing, or the state of being scattered or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites and ceremonies; a great dispersion of the human family took place at the building of Babel.

• Betiding
  of Betide
• Beaufin
  See Biffin.
• Bellipotent
  Mighty in war; armipotent.
• Ceremonies
  of Ceremony
• Bedpost
  One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead.
• Beneficential
  Relating to beneficence.
• BEADSMANBEDESMAN
  A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. Fuller.
• Begot
  of Beget
• Berlin
  A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.
• GREATGRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• Bespitten
  of Bespit
• Betrap
  To draw into, or catch in, a trap; to insnare; to circumvent.
• Beauty
  An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense.
• Bellwether
  A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck.
• Great-granddaughter
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• Bedrop
  To sprinkle, as with drops.
• Benet
  To catch in a net; to insnare.
• BEAUFORTSSCALE
  A scale of wind force devised by Sir F. Beaufort, R. N., in 1805, in which the force is indicated by numbers from 0 to 12. The full scale is as follows: -- 0, calm; 1, light air; 2, light breeze; 3, gentle breeze; 4, moderate breeze; 5, fresh breeze; 6,
• Beggary
  The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.
• Berrying
  of Berry

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