A pastoral song.

A hill.

See Barmaster.

An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite.

See Barmote.

A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.

The crevasse or series of crevasses, usually deep and often broad, frequently occurring near the head of a mountain glacier, about where the n/v/ field joins the valley portion of the glacier.

A long pole with a spike at the end, used in climbing mountains; an alpenstock.

The Norway haddock. See Rosefish.

To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about.

An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.

To berhyme.

the Jewish rite of circumcision.

Of or relating to Bishop Berkeley or his system of idealism; as, Berkeleian philosophy.

Bishop George Berkeley; b. 1685, d. 1753.

a chemical element of the transuranic series. Chemical symbol Bk; atomic number 97; atomic weight 247. It is a radioactive element, with no stable isotopes; the longest-lived isotope is of mass number 247.07, decaying by alpha-emission with a half-life of 1,400 years. The isotope with atomic weight 249 has a half-life of 314 days, and was isolated in weighable quantities.

A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.

A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.

same as Bermudas.

a native or inhabitant of Bermuda.

a group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast; British colony; resort.

a native or inhabitant of Bermuda.

The capital city of Switzerland. Population (2000) = 129,423.

See Barnacle.

Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks. A Cistercian monk.

Pertaining to the city or canton of Bern, in Switzerland, or to its inhabitants. A native or natives of Bern.

A bernicle goose.

Same as Burnoose.

To rob; to plunder.

A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.

A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green.

Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate; as, a berried shrub.

A mound; a hillock.

A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild.

An Egyptian clover (Trifolium alexandrinum) extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called also Egyptian clover.

frenzied; crazed; usually in predicate position.

One of a class of legendary heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds.

See Bristle.

a genus of plants comprising the hoary alyssum.

To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.

A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.

A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.

A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.

The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake.

Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum).

Of or pertaining to the Berycid/, a family of marine fishes.

A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminum and beryllium. The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium.

Like a beryl; of a light or bluish green color.

A metallic element found in the beryl. See Glucinum.

A solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl.

Same as Bez-antler.

To make a saint of.

See Bezant.

A great-grandfather.

To scatter over.

To treat with scorn.

To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.

To cover with scrawls; to scribble over.

To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal.

To scribble over.

To see; to look; to mind.

Solicitation; supplication.

One who beseeches.

Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look.

The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly.

To beseech.

To seem; to appear; to be fitting.

Becoming; suitable.

Fit; suitable; becoming.

To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects.

The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin.

One who, or that which, besets.

Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin.

To shine upon; to illumine.

A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.

To curse; to execrate.

To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen.

To shut up or out.

At the side of; on one side of.

On one side.

Over and above; separate or distinct from; in addition to; other than; else than. See Beside, prep., 3, and Syn. under Beside.

To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.

The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged.

One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.

That besieges; laying siege to.

To suit; to fit; to become.

To beslobber.

To enslave.

To defile with slaver; to beslobber.

To daub with slime; to soil.

To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise.

To beslobber.

To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil.

One that besmears.

To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully.

To foul with smoke.

To blacken with smut; to foul with soot.

To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes.

To befoul with snuff.

A worthless fellow; a bezonian.

To sweep, as with a besom.

One who uses a besom.

Befitting associates or attendants.

To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate.

Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied.

In a besotting manner.

p. p. of Beseech.

To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering.

covered with beads or jewels or sequins.

To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.

To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle.

A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.)

One who bespeaks.

To mark with speckles or spots.

To soil or daub with spew; to vomit on.

To season with spice, or with some spicy drug.

Same as Bespurt.

To daub or soil with spittle.

imp. p. p. of Bespeak.

same as made-to-order; -- of clothing.