Word Meanings - LOCALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state or quality of being local; affection for a particular place.

• Bean
  A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.
• Bewash
  To drench or souse with water.
• Bellower
  One who, or that which, bellows.
• Bedash
  To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter.
• BEARINGRING
  In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship.
• Benefited
  of Benefit
• Beeswing
  The second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee.
• Berob
  To rob; to plunder.
• Behest
  That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.
• Bestridden
  of Bestride
• Besprinkle
  To sprinkle over; to scatter over.
• Bearherd
  A man who tends a bear.
• Bewitched
  of Bewitch
• Bellyful
  As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough.
• Bedeguar
  Alt. of Bedegar
• BECCHISTEST
  A qualitative test for cottonseed oil, based on the fact this oil imparts a maroon color to an alcoholic solution of silver nitrate.
• Benighting
  of Benight
• Befell
  of Befall
• Bertram
  Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum).
• Behoove
  To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.

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