B
B is the second letter, and the first articulation, or consonant, in the English, as in the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and most other alphabets. In the Ethiopic, it is the ninth lett...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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BAA
B'AA, noun The cry or appropriate bleating of sheep.B'AA, verb intransitive To cry or bleat as sheep.
BAAL
BA'AL, noun An idol among the ancient Chaldeans and Syrians, representing the sun. The word signifies also lord, or commander; and the character of the idol was varied by differ...
BABBLE
BAB'BLE, verb intransitive1. To utter words imperfectly or indistinctly, as children.2. To talk idly or irrationally; to talk thoughtlessly.3. To talk much; to prate; hence to t...
BABBLEMENT
BAB'BLEMENT, noun Idle talk; senseless prate; unmeaning words.
BABBLER
BAB'BLER, noun An idle talker; an irrational prattler; a teller of secrets.
BABBLING
BAB'BLING, participle present tense Talking idly; telling secrets.2. Uttering a succession of murmuring sounds; as a babbling stream.3. In hunting, babbling is when the hounds a...
BABE
BABE, noun [Latin pupus, a word of endearment; pupa, little girl; whence pupillus, pupilla, pupil.]An infant; a young child of either sex.
BABEL
BA'BEL, noun [Heb.] Confusion; disorder.
BABERY
BA'BERY, noun Finery to please a child; any trifling toy for children.
BABISH
BA'BISH, adjective Like a babe; childish.
BABISHLY
BA'BISHLY, adverb Childishly.
BABOON
BABOON', noun A monkey of the largest species; a quadruped belonging to the genus Simia, in the class Mammalia, and order Primates, according to the system of Linne; but by Penn...
BABY
BA'BY, adjective Like a young child; pertaining to an infant.BA'BY, noun [See Babe.] An infant or young child of either sex; a babe; [used in familiar language.]2. A small image...
BABY-HOUSE
BA'BY-HOUSE, noun A place for children's dolls and babies.
BABYHOOD
BA'BYHOOD, noun The state of being a baby.
BABYLONIAN
BABYLO'NIANBABYLON'ICBABYLON'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to Babylon, or made there; as Babylonic garments, carpets or hangings.2. Tumultuous; disorderly.
BABYLONIC
BABYLON'IC
BABYLONICAL
BABYLON'ICAL, a. Pertaining to Babylon, or made there; as Babylonic garments, carpets or hangings.2. Tumultuous; disorderly.
BABYLONICS
BABYLON'ICS, nounplural The title of a fragment of the history of the world, ending 267 years before Christ, composed by Berosus, a priest of Babylon.
BABYLONISH
BABYLO'NISH, adjective Pertaining to Babylon, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia, or to the kingdom. The city stood on the river Frat, or Euphrates, and it is suppo...
BABYROUSSA
BABYROUS'SA, noun In zoology, the Indian hog, a native of Celebes, and of Buero, but not found on the continent of Asia or of Africa. This quadruped belongs to the genus, Sus, i...
BAC
BAC or BACK, noun1. In navigation, a ferry-boat or praam.2. In brewing, a large flat tub, or vessel, in which wort is cooled before boiling; hence called a cooler.3. In distille...
BACCA
BAC'CA, noun [Latin] In botany, a berry; a fruit which consists of a pulpy pericarp, without valves, inclosing several naked seeds.
BACCALAUREATE
BACCALAU'REATE, noun [The first part of this word is from the same root as bachelor; or as Bailey supposes, from bacca, berry; and the latter part, from laurea, a laurel, from t...
BACCATED
BAC'CATED, adjective [Latin baccatus, garnished with pearls, from bacca, a berry.]Set or adorned with pearls; having many berries.
BACCHANAL
BAC'CHANAL,BACCHANA'LIAN, noun [from Bacchus, Gr., the deity of wine and revelling. Latin poculum.]One who indulges in drunken revels; a drunkard; one who is noisy and riotous, ...