Word Meanings - TWELVEPENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shilling sterling, being about twenty-four cents.

• Beaufet
  A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet.
• Belligerently
  In a belligerent manner; hostilely.
• Beyond
  On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than.
• Bedplate
  The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate.
• Beneficent
  Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.
• BERMUDAGRASS
  A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.
• Begem
  To adorn with gems, or as with gems.
• Berkeleian
  Of or relating to Bishop Berkeley or his system of idealism; as, Berkeleian philosophy.
• Bespit
  of Bespit
• Betid
  of Betide
• Beautie
  of Beauty
• Belluine
  Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal.
• Shilling
  A silver coin, and money of account, of Great Britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States currency.
• Bedroom
  A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.
• Benetted
  of Benet
• BETHABARAWOOD
  A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian.
• Beggar's ticks
  The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.
• Berry
  Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.
• Beaconed
  of Beacon
• Bestad
  Beset; put in peril.

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