Word Meanings - THERMOCHROSY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The property possessed by heat of being composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances.

• 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
• Bellwort
  A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Differentiate
  To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to specialize; to desynonymize.
• Benevolence
  The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• BELLANIMALCULE
  An infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ, common in fresh-water ponds.
• Berserk
  Alt. of Berserker
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Bestarred
  of Bestar
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.
• Betso
  A small brass Venetian coin.
• Belonging
  of Belong
• Bedeviling
  of Bedevil
• Lightermen
  of Lighterman
• Benignly
  In a benign manner.
• Befittingly
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• BELLPROCESS
  The process of washing molten pig iron by adding iron oxide, proposed by I. Lowthian Bell of England about 1875.
• Besaile
  Alt. of Besayle

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