The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.
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In a hot or baking manner.
A baker.
A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter). Same as Backsheesh.
A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter). Same as Backsheesh.
A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter). Same as Backsheesh.
Same as Backsheesh.
The capital city of Azerbaijan. Population (2000) = 1,713,300.
A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking.
A condiment formed of small fishes or shrimps, pounded up with salt and spices, and then dried. It is much esteemed in China.
close-fitting and woolen and covers all of the head but the face.
type genus of the Balaenidae: Greenland whales.
type genus of the Balaenicipitidae: shoebills.
a family comprising the shoebills.
a family comprising the right whales.
A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen.
the type genus of the Balaenopteridae.
rorquals; blue whales.
a stringed instrument of Russian origin that has a triangular body and three strings.
To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.
Such as can be balanced.
being in a state of proper balance or equilibrium; -- opposite of unbalanced.
The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces.
One who balances, or uses a balance.
The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.
Bearing or producing acorns.
A fossil balanoid shell.
A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and Tornaria.
Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle.
A West Indian sapotaceous tree (Bumelia retusa).
The pomegranate tree (Punica granatum). The bark of the root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally.
A protecting ruffle or frill, as of silk or lace, sewed close to the lower edge of a skirt on the inside.
To stammer.
The defect of stammering; also, a kind of incomplete pronunciation.
A balcony.
Having balconies.
A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.
Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak.
Having a white face or a white mark on the face, as a stag.
Having a bald head; lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; -- alsp called bald and bald-pated; as, a bald-headed gentleman.
A rich brocade; baudekin.
The most beautiful and beloved of the gods; the god of peace; the son of Odin and Freya.
To mix or adulterate, as liquors.
A person whose head is bald.
Nakedly; without reserve; inelegantly.
The state or condition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style.
A baldheaded person.
Destitute of hair on the head; baldheaded.
A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat.
A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; it is used to support a sword or bugle by the left hip; less properly, any belt.
A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple.
a person who has a bald head; -- a deprecatory term.
Misery; calamity; misfortune; sorrow.
Of or pertaining to the isles of Majorca, Minorca, Ivica, etc., in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Valencia.
Plates or blades of /whalebone,/ from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Bal/noidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.
A signal fire; an alarm fire.
Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.
In a baleful manner; perniciously.
The quality or state of being baleful.
A badgerlike animal of India (Arctonyx collaris).
A crossbow.
a natural family comprising the triggerfishes.
Like a fish of the genus Balistes; of the family Balistid/. See Filefish.
A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged.
A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark.
To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
to divide a territory into small, hostile states.
The countries occupying the Balkan Peninsula.
Same as baffled.
A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer.
likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly.
In a manner to balk or frustrate.
Uneven; ridgy.
line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game.
Apt to balk; as, a balky horse.
A social assembly for the purpose of dancing; -- usually applied to an occasion lavish or formal.
An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding.
skilled in stealing the ball or robbing a batter of a hit; -- used of a Baseball or basketball or football player.
shaped like a sphere.
To make mention of in ballads.
A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
A writer of ballads.
Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads.
A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies.
To bully; to threaten.
To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.
A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.
That which is used for steadying anything; ballast.
See Balladry.
formed or gathered into a ball.
A female ballet dancer.
An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.
a man who trains ballet dancers.
a woman who trains ballet dancers.
a heelless slipper specifically designed to be worn by ballet dancers while dancing.
of or pertaining to ballet{1}.
a ballet enthusiast.
An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.
A crossbow.
Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.
A rocket-propelled missile of long range which is guided only during the powered portion of its flight, which usually takes only a small part of the total flight time; -- contrasted with guided missile.
The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine.
A smokeless powder containing equal parts of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin.
See Bailey.
To go up or voyage in a balloon.
Swelled out like a balloon.
One who goes up in a balloon; an a/ronaut.
The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them; the sport of riding in balloons.
An a/ronaut.
The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; an older term for ballooning.
To vote for or in opposition to.
A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out.
In France, a second ballot taken after an indecisive first ballot to decide between two or several candidates; a runoff election.
Voting by ballot.
One who votes by ballot.
An officer who has charge of a ballot box.
A cudgel.
an athlete who plays baseball.
a pen which has a small metal ball as point of transfer of ink to paper, at the tip of a cylandrical and non-refillable reservoir of ink; -- short for ballpoint pen.
Incapable of being penetrated by balls from firearms; bulletproof.
A room for balls or dancing.
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