Word Meanings - BEARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain. 4. A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out. 5. That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw
Additional info about word: BEARD
Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain. 4. A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out. 5. That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle. (more info) G. bart, Lith. barzda, OSlav. brada, Pol. broda, Russ. boroda, L. 1. The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults. The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat. The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes. The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle. The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster. In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
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- BELLMAN
A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton. - BELIAL
An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil. What concord hath Christ with Belia 2 Cor. vi. 15. A son of Belial, a worthless, wicked, or thoroughly depraved person. 1 Sam. ii. 12. - BESCRATCH
To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches. - UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - BEASTLIHEAD
Beastliness. Spenser. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - BEWRAP
To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - BERGOMASK
A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness. - BELEAVE
To leave or to be left. May. - BESCATTER
1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser. - BEVELMENT
The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes. - UNDERPLOT
1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison. - BETSO
A small brass Venetian coin. - BESCORN
To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer. - BECHE DE MER
The trepang. - UNDERNICENESS
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. - BETOKEN
1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen - BELLADONNA
An herbaceous European plant with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due - BETROTHAL
The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance. "The feast of betrothal." Longfellow. - COMBER
1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave. - GABBER
1. A liar; a deceiver. 2. One addicted to idle talk. - HAIRBELL
See HAREBELL - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - ORBED
Having the form of an orb; round. The orbèd eyelids are let down. Trench. - WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - LAMBERT PINE
The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States. - GERBE
A kind of ornamental firework. Farrow. - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius.