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.

• 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.
• Belibel
  To libel or traduce; to calumniate.
• Bevy
  A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Bemourn
  To mourn over.
• Statesmanlike
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• Bepuffed
  Puffed; praised.
• BEZOARTICBEZOARTICAL
  Having the qualities of an antidote, or of bezoar; healing. [Obs.]
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Beslaver
  To defile with slaver; to beslobber.
• Bestraddle
  To bestride.
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.
• Belittling
  of Belittle
• Bewigged
  of Bewig
• Bedeviling
  of Bedevil
• Bent
  of Bend
• BEARINGRING
  In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship.
• Befittingly
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• Berate
  To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.

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