Word Meanings - FRANKPLEDGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety.

• 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.
• Becripple
  To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame.
• Bewrought
  Embroidered.
• Benefiter
  One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit.
• Beehouse
  A house for bees; an apiary.
• BEGHARDBEGUARD
  One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins.
• 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.
• Behalf
  Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication.
• Bespurt
  To spurt on or over; to asperse.
• Bean trefoil
  A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida).
• Bethumping
  of Bethump
• Belly-pinched
  Pinched with hunger; starved.
• Bedaubing
  of Bedaub
• Conduct
  The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
• Benightment
  The condition of being benighted.
• Beete
  Alt. of Bete
• BELLICBELLICAL
  Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial. [Obs.] "Bellic Cæsar." Feltham.
• 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
• Behight
  of Behight
• Bearing cloth
  A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.

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