Word Meanings - LITERALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

• Betwixt
  In the space which separates; between.
• Belittling
  of Belittle
• Bedding
  of Bed
• BEARTRAPDAM
  A kind of movable dam, in one form consisting of two leaves resting against each other at the top when raised and folding down one over the other when lowered, for deepening shallow parts in a river.
• Bent
  of Bend
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• Berate
  To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
• 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.
• Besnow
  To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes.
• 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.
• Bevy
  A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.
• Belletristic
  Alt. of Belletristical
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• BECUIBABECUIBANUT
  The nut of the Brazilian tree Myristica Bicuhyba, which yields a medicinal balsam used for rheumatism.
• Benedictional
  A book of benedictions.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• 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.
• Bestraddle
  To bestride.

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