See Batten, and Baton.

The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game. The game itself. The wanton slaughter of game.

An elevated river bed or sea bed.

The measuring of time by beating.

Belonging to, or resembling, a bat.

A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also batule board.

Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner.

A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about four cents.

Same as Bawbee.

A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.

See Bawbling.

A unit of transmission speed for information conveyed over a digital communications channel, usually taken as equal to the number of bits of information transmitted per second. The speed in bauds indicates the number of signalling events per second; however, since it is necessary in most cases to transmit control information along with the data, the data signalling rate may be smaller than the baud rate.

The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery; -- made originally at Baghdad.

A belt. See Baldric.

See Balk.

Designating or conforming to either of the scales used by the French chemist Antoine Baum/ in the graduation of his hydrometers; of or relating to Baum/'s scales or hydrometers. There are two Baum/ hydrometers. One, which is used with liquids heavier than water, sinks to 0/ in pure water, and to 15/ in a 15 per cent salt solution; the other, for liquids lighter than water, sinks to 0/ in a 10 per cent salt solution and to 10/ in pure water. In both cases the graduation, based on the distance between these fundamental points, is continued along the stem as far as desired.

A form of acupuncture, followed by the rubbing of the part with a stimulating fluid.

Of or pertaining to bauxite.

Much talking; prattle; chatter.

A state in southern Germany.

Of or pertaining to Bavaria. A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria.

A kind of cloak or surtout.

A baboon.

A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.

A halfpenny.

A trinket. See Bauble.

Insignificant; contemptible.

A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment.

To procure women for lewd purposes.

Obscenely; lewdly.

Obscenity; lewdness.

A belt. See Baldric.

The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.

Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes.

A house of prostitution; a house of ill fame; a brothel.

Same as Bathorse.

A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry.

One who bawls.

An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure.

A kind of hawk.

A badger.

A baker; originally, a female baker.

To dam, as water; -- with up or back.

The second tine of a stag's horn. See under Antler.

The East Indian weaver bird (Ploceus Philippinus).

A female dancer in the East Indies.

A violent thunder squall occurring on the south coast of Cuba, esp. near Bayamo. The gusts, called bayamo winds, are modified foehn winds.

Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse.

Blind; stupid.

A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species (Bagrina bayad and Bagrina docmac).

The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis. A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle (Pimenta acris). The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree.

A bolt with a barbed shank.

Having a bay or bays.

In the United States navy, a sick-bay nurse; -- now officially designated as hospital apprentice.

To stab with a bayonet.

An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind.

See Baize.

In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale.

An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia.

The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea.

An order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams.

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have existence.

The whole; all that is to be.

To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.

Bordered by a beach.

an area in hostile territory that has been occupied and is held to allow aditional troops and supplies to enter.

having an extensive gently sloping area of sand or gravel; -- of a shore or shoreline. Opposite of cliffy.

clothing to be worn at a beach.

Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly.

To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.

Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.

Having no beacon.

To form beadlike bubbles.

imp. p. p. of bead, v. t. i..

Molding in imitation of beads.

A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.

Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.

The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle.

A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general.

A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black.

Ornamental work in beads.

Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening.

having eyes that gleam with malice.

A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix.

hunting rabbits with beagles.

The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varies much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds. A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles. The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.

Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.

A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.

An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak.

A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surfaces of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.

To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple.

To emit beams of light.

A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa grisola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building.

Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag.

Beamy; radiant.

In a beaming manner.

The state of being beamy.

Emitting beams; radiant.

In a beaming manner; radiantly.

Not having a beam.

A small beam of light.

Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining.

A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.

a small cloth bag filled with dried beans; it is thrown from person to person in games.

a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head.

a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head.

(British) an annual dinner party given by an employer for the employees.

a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen.

a game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the correponding numbers on their cards.

stem of a bean plant.

same as beanie.

To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.

A traffic jam caused by tourists stopping to look at bears near the road; -- a phenomenon once common in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming.

The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium)

A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf.

A species of hellebore (Helleborus f/tidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.

A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.

Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable.

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.

The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).