Word Meanings - SURFACETENSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth of a millimeter, is considered to equal the radius of the sphere of molecular action, that is, the greatest distance at which there is cohesion between two particles. Particles lying below this film, being equally acted on from all sides, are in equilibrium as to forces of cohesion, but those in the film are on the whole attracted inward, and tension results.

Beguin
See Beghard.
Attraction
An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separ
Betid
of Betide
Bretful
Brimful.
Equally
In an equal manner or degree in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justly; as, equally taxed, furnished, etc.
Bellerophon
A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age.
Beautie
of Beauty
Brabbler
A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler.
Brill
A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food; -- called also bret, pearl, prill. See Bret.
Sidesmen
of Sidesman
Benedictine
Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet.
Bedroom
A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.
Branchery
A system of branches.
Brokenness
The state or quality of being broken; unevenness.
BELLARMINE
A stoneware jug of a pattern originated in the neighborhood of Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation;
Beretta
Same as Berretta.
Beggar's ticks
The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.
BREECHACTION
The breech mechanism in breech-loading small arms and certain special guns, as automatic and machine guns; --used frequently in referring to the method by which the movable barrels of breech- loading shotguns are locked, unlocked, or rotated to loading
Besotted
of Besot
Breach
The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

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