Word Meanings - POUNDCAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.

• Bewigged
  of Bewig
• Bedding
  of Bed
• Belonging
  of Belong
• BEARINGRING
  In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship.
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• Benignly
  In a benign manner.
• 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.
• Besaile
  Alt. of Besayle
• 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.
• Bewondered
  of Bewonder
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Beltin
  See Beltane.
• BECCHISTEST
  A qualitative test for cottonseed oil, based on the fact this oil imparts a maroon color to an alcoholic solution of silver nitrate.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• Benumbed
  of Benumb
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Beseech
  To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
• Bethel
  A place of worship; a hallowed spot.
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.

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