Word Meanings - ELECTROMAGNET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing. The metal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe.

• Belletristic
  Alt. of Belletristical
• Beclap
  To catch; to grasp; to insnare.
• Bez-antler
  The second branch of a stag's horn.
• Benedictional
  A book of benedictions.
• Beechnut
  The nut of the beech tree.
• Passionately
  In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently.
• 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.
• Begrudging
  of Begrudge
• BEARSPAW
  A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.
• Bespatter
  To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.
• Beambird
  A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building.
• Betide
  To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
• 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
• Bedding
  of Bed
• Cobaltous
  Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said esp. of cobalt compounds in which the metal has its lower valence.
• Beneficently
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• Passus
  of Passus
• Berm
  Alt. of Berme
• 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.

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