Word Meanings - POROUSNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The quality of being porous.
- 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 - 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. - Bemeeting
of Bemeet - BESTIARY
A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages. A bestiary . . . in itself one of the numerous mediæval renderings of the fantastic mystical zoölogy. Saintsbury. - 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. - Betide
To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer. - Bear's-breech
See Acanthus, n., 1. - Belibel
To libel or traduce; to calumniate. - BEADHOUSEBEDEHOUSE
An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors. - Bedeviling
of Bedevil - Bemourn
To mourn over. - Befittingly
In a befitting manner; suitably. - Bepuffed
Puffed; praised. - Bejade
To jade or tire. - Beslaver
To defile with slaver; to beslobber.
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