Word Meanings - REFINEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas.

• Betrayed
  of Betray
• Bedding
  of Bed
• Beltin
  See Beltane.
• Statemonger
  One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• Benumbed
  of Benumb
• BETARAYS
  Penetrating rays readily deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances, as radium. They consist of negatively charged particles or electrons, apparently the same in kind as those of the cathode rays, but having much higher
• 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.
• Beseech
  To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
• 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.
• Beleft
  of Beleave
• Betso
  A small brass Venetian coin.
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Bemeeting
  of Bemeet
• BEALL
  The whole; all that is to be. [Poetic] Shak.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• Benzoyl
  A compound radical, C6H5.CO; the base of benzoic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds.
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Beshow
  A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.

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