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

• Betorn
  Torn in pieces; tattered.
• Becker
  A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.
• Bellows fish
  A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.
• Fourth
  Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.
• Benefiter
  One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit.
• 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.
• Begrimed
  of Begrime
• Berretta
  A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green.
• Bespurt
  To spurt on or over; to asperse.
• Beal
  To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple.
• Betroth
  To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.
• Becripple
  To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame.
• Belly-pinched
  Pinched with hunger; starved.
• Specifically
  In a specific manner.
• Beehouse
  A house for bees; an apiary.
• Benightment
  The condition of being benighted.
• BEZOARTICBEZOARTICAL
  Having the qualities of an antidote, or of bezoar; healing. [Obs.]
• Behalf
  Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication.
• Beryl
  A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine

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