Word Meanings - SHORTNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of an essay; the shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness of breath.

• Belibel
  To libel or traduce; to calumniate.
• Bewigged
  of Bewig
• Bedding
  of Bed
• Bemourn
  To mourn over.
• States-general
  In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty.
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• Bepuffed
  Puffed; praised.
• BERMUDALILY
  The large white lily (Lilium longiflorum eximium, syn. L. Harrisii) which is extensively cultivated in Bermuda.
• 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.
• Beslaver
  To defile with slaver; to beslobber.
• 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.
• Belittling
  of Belittle
• Bewondered
  of Bewonder
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Bent
  of Bend
• Winterkill
  To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• Berate
  To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
• BEVELGEAR
  A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.

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