Word Meanings - POCKETKNIFE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.

• Believing
  of Believe
• Bevelment
  The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.
• Becomed
  Proper; decorous.
• Bename
  To promise; to name.
• BECQUERELRAYS
  Radiations first observed by the French physicist Henri Becquerel, in working with uranium and its compounds. They consist of a mixture of alpha, beta, and gamma rays.
• Beefwood
  An Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland.
• Bequest
  The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B.
• Beguinage
  A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines.
• Besmirched
  of Besmirch
• Bestir
  To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor; -- usually with the reciprocal pronoun.
• Beamy
  Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining.
• Bell animalcule
  An infusorian of the family Vorticellidae, common in fresh-water ponds.
• Beware
  To be on one's guard; to be cautious; to take care; -- commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided.
• Bedashing
  of Bedash
• Bene
  See Benne.
• BEETLEBROWED
  Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen. Note: The earlier meaning was, "Having bushy or overhanging eyebrows."
• Beeswax
  The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed.
• Bereaved
  of Bereave
• Behn
  The Centaurea behen, or saw-leaved centaury.
• Besotting
  of Besot

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