Word Meanings - THWARTNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being thwart; obliquity; perverseness.

• Betwixt
  In the space which separates; between.
• 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
• Bedding
  of Bed
• BEAUIDEAL
  A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model.
• Beneficently
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• Berm
  Alt. of Berme
• 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.
• Bespitting
  of Bespit
• 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.
• Bevy
  A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.
• 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.
• BEDFEREBEDPHERE
  A bedfellow. [Obs.] Chapman.
• 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.
• Berserk
  Alt. of Berserker
• Beholden
  of Behold
• Bestraddle
  To bestride.
• Bestarred
  of Bestar

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