Word Meanings - LITERALNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being literal; literal import.

• 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.
• Betso
  A small brass Venetian coin.
• Belittling
  of Belittle
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Stated
  of State
• Bent
  of Bend
• 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.
• Berate
  To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Besnow
  To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes.
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.
• Betwixt
  In the space which separates; between.
• Belletristic
  Alt. of Belletristical
• Bedeviling
  of Bedevil
• Statesmen
  of Statesman
• Benedictional
  A book of benedictions.
• 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.
• 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.

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