Word Meanings - PRESSURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.

• Betide
  To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
• Bell jar
  A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keepin
• Bedding
  of Bed
• Conditionality
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• Beneficently
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• BENZOSOL
  Guaiacol benzoate, used as an intestinal antiseptic and as a substitute for creosote in phthisis. It is a colorless crystalline pewder.
• Berm
  Alt. of Berme
• 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.
• Bespitting
  of Bespit
• 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.
• Betrayed
  of Betray
• Bellwort
  A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Pressirostral
  Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
• Benevolence
  The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• BESSEMERSTEEL
  Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English eng
• Berserk
  Alt. of Berserker
• Beholden
  of Behold

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