An alkaloid obtained from the Buxus sempervirens, or common box tree. It is identical with bebeerine; -- called also buxina.

Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.

the type genus of the Buxaceae.

To negotiate or treat about a purchase.

to take over ownership of; -- of corporations and companies.

One who buys; a purchaser.

the act of buying; as, buying equipment for the trip took several hours.

the acquisition of ownership of a company by purchasing a controlling percentage of its stock.

See Buzz.

A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones, or of a general expression of surprise or approbation.

Senseless; stupid.

A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with legs relatively longer.

One who, or that which, buzzes; a whisperer; a talebearer.

In a buzzing manner; with a buzzing sound.

men's underwear.

biological warfare; the use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food.

a boiling water reactor; a type of nuclear reactor that uses water as a coolant and moderator; -- the steam produced can drive a steam turbine and produce electrical power.

Out of the common path; aside; -- used in composition, giving the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by-design, by-interest, etc.

One who bids at an auction in behalf of the auctioneer or owner, for the purpose of running up the price of articles.

A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow.

A private corner.

An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory.

A drinking between meals.

An election held by itself, not at the time of a general election.

Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage.

Self-interest; private advantage.

A private lane, or one opening out of the usual road.

A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own government.

A nickname.

A by-passage, for a pipe, or other channel, to divert circulation from the usual course.

A passage different from the usual one; a byway.

Past; gone by.

A retired or private place.

A secondary or additional product; something produced, as in the course of a manufacture, in addition to the principal product.

Private end or view; by-interest.

A private room or apartment.

An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point.

A proverb.

A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street.

An accidental or a slyly given stroke.

An obscure road; a way turning from the main road.

A private or selfish view; self-interested aim or purpose.

A secluded or private walk.

The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water.

A secret or side stroke, as of raillery or sarcasm.

A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.

A dwelling.

a European country east of Poland, formerly a part of the Soviet Union. After the breakup of the Soviet Union the name was changed to Belarus.

a native or inhabitant of Byelorussia.

Something gone by or past; a past event.

A peninsula.

See Bilander.

To give a nickname to.

A private path; an obscure way; indirect means.

Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds.

A cow house.

A private or obscure road.

Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron.

Bespotted with mud or dirt.

See Byssus, n., 1.

Bearing a byssus or tuft.

See Byssus, n., 1.

Made of silk; having a silky or flaxlike appearance.

Byssaceous.

An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende.

One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting.

A secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one.

A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency.

Work aside from regular work; subordinate or secondary business.

See Byzantine.

Of or pertaining to Byzantium. A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople.

A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium. See Bezant.

The doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters.

An ancient city on the Bosphorus founded by the Greeks. It was later renamed Constaninople in honor of the emperor Constantine, and renamed Istanbul by the Turks, which name it still retains.

contraction of caesarean section.

an abbreviation of collect on delivery; a method of payment by which goods are paid for when they are delivered to the customer's home or place of business. Contrasted to payment in advance or terms or credit.

The central processing unit, that part of the electronic circuitry of a computer in which the arithmetic and logical operations are performed on input data, which are thereby converted to output data; it is usually located on the mainboard, or motherboard, of a computer. The CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached. Most personal computers as of 1998 had only one CPU, but some computers may have more than one CPU.

Same as curriculum vitae; -- a commonly used initialism.

Of or pertaining to C/sar or the C/sars; imperial.

the chemical symbol for calcium, the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust, having an atomic number of 20.

to have a bowel movement.

The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Muslims must pray.

Case.

A forest composed of stunted trees and thorny bushes, found in areas of small rainfall in Brazil.

A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.

To unite in a small party to promote private views and interests by intrigue; to intrigue; to plot.

A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain medi/val Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means.

One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions.

Of or pertaining to the cabala; containing or conveying an occult meaning; mystic.

In a cabalistic manner.

To use cabalistic language.

One who cabals.

An ancient Spanish land tenure similar to the English knight's fee; hence, in Spain and countries settled by the Spanish, a land measure of varying size. In Cuba it is about 33 acres; in Puerto Rico, about 194 acres; in the Southwestern United States, about 108 acres.

A knight or cavalier; hence, a gentleman.

Of or pertaining to a horse. Caballine aloes.

A horse.

A tavern; a house where liquors are retailed.

A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written caba.

A species of armadillo of the genus Xenurus (Xenurus unicinctus and Xenurus hispidus); the tatouay.

A mineral occuring in glassy rhombohedral crystals, varying in color from white to yellow or red. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also chabasie.

Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.

the larva of several species of moths and butterflies, which attacks cabbages. The most common is the toxic green larva of a white butterfly, the cabbage butterfly, (Pieris rap/). The cabbage cutworms, which eat off the stalks of young plants during the night, are the larv/ of several species of moths, of the genus Agrotis. See Cutworm. larva of a cabbage butterfly.

One who works at cabbling.

The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron.

A pole or beam, esp. one used in Gaelic games for tossing as a trial of strength.

The finest kind of silk received from India.

A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin.

The capybara. See Capybara.

To confine in, or as in, a cabin.

To inclose

One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc.

The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture.

The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture.

One of the Cabiri.

Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Heph/stus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals.

Same as Cabiric.

Of or pertaining to the Cabiri, or to their mystical worship.

To telegraph by a submarine cable

Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope.

A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.