Word Meanings - STIFFNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.

• Betide
  To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
• Bedding
  of Bed
• Characteristically
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• Beltin
  See Beltane.
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• BELACCOYLE
  A kind or favorable reception or salutation. [Obs.]
• Benumbed
  of Benumb
• 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.
• Betrayed
  of Betray
• Beleft
  of Beleave
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Clothespress
  A receptacle for clothes.
• Bemeeting
  of Bemeet
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• BELLMETAL
  A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells. Bell metal ore, a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron; the mineral stannite.
• 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.

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