Word Meanings - HORNBEAM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tree of the genus Carpinus (C. Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech.

• Betrayer
  One who, or that which, betrays.
• Belief
  Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute cer
• Beatificate
  To beatify.
• Water wing
  One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current.
• Callosan
  Of the callosum.
• Bedlam
  A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.
• BELLELETTRIST
  One versed in belleslettres.
• Water antelope
  See Water buck.
• Bequeath
  To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property.
• Befrill
  To furnish or deck with a frill.
• WATERDRAIN
  A drain or channel for draining off water.
• Water-logged
  Filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike; -- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm.
• Besmeared
  of Besmear
• Betterment
  A making better; amendment; improvement.
• Bell
  A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.
• Beauseant
  The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.
• Whiteblow
  Same as Whitlow grass, under Whitlow.
• Commonish
  Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
• Bender
  One who, or that which, bends.

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