Word Meanings - INVESTITURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or ceremony of investing, or the of being invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also, the right of so investing.

• Bedding
  of Bed
• Bez-antler
  The second branch of a stag's horn.
• Beltin
  See Beltane.
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• BELGIANBLOCK
  A nearly cubical block of some tough stone, esp. granite, used as a material for street pavements. Its usual diameter is 5 to 7 inches.
• Benumbed
  of Benumb
• Behavior
  Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.
• Beseech
  To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
• 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.
• Beleft
  of Beleave
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Gives
  Fetters.
• Bemeeting
  of Bemeet
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• BELLPEPPER
  A species of Capsicum, or Guinea pepper (C. annuum). It is the red pepper of the gardens.
• Benzoyl
  A compound radical, C6H5.CO; the base of benzoic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds.
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Beshow
  A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.

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