Word Meanings - RECURVATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward.

• Belight
  To illuminate.
• Becker
  A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.
• Bewitch
  To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.
• Benched
  of Bench
• BELLEEKWARE
  A porcelainlike kind of decorative pottery with a high gloss, which is sometimes iridescent. A very fine kind is made at Belleek in Ireland.
• Berained
  of Berain
• Begrimed
  of Begrime
• Besmoke
  To foul with smoke.
• Beal
  To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple.
• Betel
  A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber with ovate many-nerved leaves.
• Bell crank
  A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.
• Becripple
  To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame.
• Bewrought
  Embroidered.
• Benedicite
  A canticle (the Latin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel.
• Beehouse
  A house for bees; an apiary.
• BELLYGOD
  One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.
• Bereave
  To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.
• Behalf
  Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication.
• Bespangled
  of Bespangle

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