Word Meanings - STATUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion.

• 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.
• Bell jar
  A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keepin
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Imaged
  of Image
• Beneficently
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• BEDRIDBEDRIDDEN
  Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity. "Her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father." Shak. "The estate of a bedridden old gentleman." Macaulay.
• Berm
  Alt. of Berme
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Bespitting
  of Bespit
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.
• Betrayed
  of Betray
• Bellwort
  A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.
• Bedeviling
  of Bedevil
• Livelode
  Course of life; means of support; livelihood.
• Benevolence
  The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.
• Befittingly
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• BEJUCO
  Any climbing woody vine of the tropics with the habit of a liane; in the Philippines, esp. any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.
• Berserk
  Alt. of Berserker

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