Word Meanings - PEEPHOLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without being discovered.
- Betwixt
In the space which separates; between. - Bedding
of Bed - Beltin
See Beltane. - BECKSSCALE
A hydrometer scale on which the zero point corresponds to sp. gr. 1.00, and the 30º-point to sp. gr. 0.85. From these points the scale is extended both ways, all the degrees being of equal length. - Beem
A trumpet. - Benumbed
of Benumb - 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. - Beseech
To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. - 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. - Beleft
of Beleave - Bevy
A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies. - Bedbug
A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix. - Bemeeting
of Bemeet - BEETLEBROW
An overhanging brow. - Beetle brow
An overhanging brow. - Benzoyl
A compound radical, C6H5.CO; the base of benzoic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds. - Beholden
of Behold - Beshow
A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish. - Bestraddle
To bestride. - Bear's-breech
See Acanthus, n., 1.
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