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.

• Beaus
  of Beau
• Betumbled
  of Betumble
• Belight
  To illuminate.
• Bedpan
  A pan for warming beds.
• Tithe
  A tenth; the tenth part of anything; specifically, the tenthpart of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses. Almost all the tithes
• Benched
  of Bench
• Bega
  See Bigha.
• BETARAYS
  Penetrating rays readily deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances, as radium. They consist of negatively charged particles or electrons, apparently the same in kind as those of the cathode rays, but having much higher
• Berained
  of Berain
• Besmoke
  To foul with smoke.
• Beautifying
  of Beautify
• Beverage
  Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage.
• 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.
• Bedright Bedrite
  The duty or privilege of the marriage bed.
• BEALL
  The whole; all that is to be. [Poetic] Shak.
• 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.
• Beggarliness
  The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.
• Bereave
  To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.
• Bespangled
  of Bespangle
• Beach comber
  A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber.

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