Word Meanings - PRESERVATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation.

• Bellwort
  A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.
• Bez-antler
  The second branch of a stag's horn.
• Bedding
  of Bed
• Benevolence
  The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.
• BEEFWITTED
  Stupid; dull. Shak.
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• Berserk
  Alt. of Berserker
• 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.
• Bestarred
  of Bestar
• Betide
  To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
• 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.
• Belonging
  of Belong
• Destructionist
  One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive.
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Benignly
  In a benign manner.
• BELLANIMALCULE
  An infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ, common in fresh-water ponds.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• Besaile
  Alt. of Besayle
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Betrayed
  of Betray

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