Word Meanings - FIRKIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.

• Bethumping
  of Bethump
• Bearing cloth
  A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
• Belight
  To illuminate.
• Capacity
  The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.
• Bedel
  Alt. of Bedell
• Benched
  of Bench
• BENTGRASS
  Same as Bent, a kind of grass.
• Befalling
  of Befall
• Berained
  of Berain
• Behove
  and derivatives. See Behoove, &c.
• Besmoke
  To foul with smoke.
• Betorn
  Torn in pieces; tattered.
• Beastliness
  The state or quality of being beastly.
• Bell crank
  A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.
• Fourth
  Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.
• Bedgown
  A nightgown.
• Benedicite
  A canticle (the Latin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel.
• BERSERKBERSERKER
  One of a class of legendary heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds. Longfellow. 2. One who fights as if frenzied, like a Berserker.
• Beforetime
  Formerly; aforetime.
• Bereave
  To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.

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