Word Meanings - LITERALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state or quality of being literal. Sir T. Browne.

• 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.
• Beleft
  of Beleave
• Bez-antler
  The second branch of a stag's horn.
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Bemeeting
  of Bemeet
• BELLYPINCHED
  Pinched with hunger; starved. "The belly-pinched wolf." Shak.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• 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.
• Betide
  To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.
• Belibel
  To libel or traduce; to calumniate.
• Literalization
  The act of literalizing; reduction to a literal meaning.
• Bedeviling
  of Bedevil
• Bemourn
  To mourn over.
• BENZOSOL
  Guaiacol benzoate, used as an intestinal antiseptic and as a substitute for creosote in phthisis. It is a colorless crystalline pewder.
• Befittingly
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• Bepuffed
  Puffed; praised.
• Bejade
  To jade or tire.

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