Word Meanings - OBSTRUCTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.

• 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.
• 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.
• Beltin
  See Beltane.
• BENCHWARRANT
  A process issued by a presiding judge or by a court against a person guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice's warrant.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• Benumbed
  of Benumb
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Beseech
  To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
• Betide
  To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.
• Beleft
  of Beleave
• Obstructionism
  The act or the policy of obstructing progress.
• Bedeviling
  of Bedevil
• Bemeeting
  of Bemeet
• BERINGSEACONTROVERSY
  A controversy (1886 --93) between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court
• Befittingly
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• Benzoyl
  A compound radical, C6H5.CO; the base of benzoic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds.
• Bejade
  To jade or tire.
• Beshow
  A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.

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