Word Meanings - PARAFFINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.

• Beadsman
  Alt. of Bedesman
• Bethump
  To beat or thump soundly.
• Belle
  A young lady of superior beauty and attractions; a handsome lady, or one who attracts notice in society; a fair lady.
• Becket
  A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope.
• Chemically
  According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation.
• Benedict
  Alt. of Benedick
• Beebread
  A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.
• Solidly
  In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly.
• Bereavement
  The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.
• Begriming
  of Begrime
• Besomer
  One who uses a besom.
• BELAYINGPIN
  A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed.
• Beheld
  imp. & p. p. of Behold.
• Be-all
  The whole; all that is to be.
• Betossed
  of Betoss
• Belligerency
  The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare.
• Becuna
  A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyraena spet). See Barracuda.
• Compounding
  of Compound
• Beneficeless
  Having no benefice.
• Bee larkspur
  (Bot.) See Larkspur.

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