Word Meanings - HARSHNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being harsh.

• Bearberry
  A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.
• Betide
  To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
• Belletristic
  Alt. of Belletristical
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Stated
  of State
• Benedictional
  A book of benedictions.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• BERNAFLY
  A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta, which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvæ do great injury.
• 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.
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Bespatter
  To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.
• Betrayed
  of Betray
• 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
• Bedeviling
  of Bedevil
• Statesmen
  of Statesman
• Beneficently
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• Befittingly
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• BEVILEDBEVILLED
  Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.
• Berm
  Alt. of Berme

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