Word Meanings - QUALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank.

• 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.
• Betide
  To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
• Beltin
  See Beltane.
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Characteristically
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• Benumbed
  of Benumb
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• BENCHMARK
  Any permanent mark to which other levels may be referred. Specif. : A horizontal mark at the water's edge with reference to which the height of tides and floods may be measured.
• Beseech
  To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Beleft
  of Beleave
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.
• Betrayed
  of Betray
• Bemeeting
  of Bemeet
• Bedeviling
  of Bedevil
• Considering
  of Consider
• Benzoyl
  A compound radical, C6H5.CO; the base of benzoic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds.
• Befittingly
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• BERGSTOCK
  A long pole with a spike at the end, used in climbing mountains; an alpenstock.
• Beshow
  A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.

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