Word Meanings - PERTINACITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being pertinacious; obstinacy; perseverance; persistency.

• Betrayed
  of Betray
• Belonging
  of Belong
• Bedding
  of Bed
• States-general
  In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty.
• Benignly
  In a benign manner.
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• BEVELGEAR
  A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.
• Besaile
  Alt. of Besayle
• 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.
• 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.
• Beltin
  See Beltane.
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• BEARBERE
  Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare). [Obs. except in North of Eng. and Scot.]
• Benumbed
  of Benumb
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• Beseech
  To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Beleft
  of Beleave
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.

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