BANQUETING-ROOM
BAN'QUETING-ROOM, n. A saloon, or spacious hall for public entertainments.
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BANQUETTE
BANQUETTE or BANQUET, noun banket. In fortification, a little raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy in...
BANSHEE
BAN'SHEE or BEN'SHI, noun An Irish fairy.
BANSTICKLE
BAN'STICKLE, noun A small fish, called also stickle-back. This fish falls under the genus Gasterosteus.
BANTER
BAN'TER, verb transitive [Gr. to mock, or deride.] To play upon in words and in good humor; to rally; to joke, or jest with. banter hardly amounts to ridicule, much less to deri...
BANTERED
BAN'TERED, participle passive Rallied; laughed at in good humor.
BANTERER
BAN'TERER, noun One who banters, or laughs at with pleasantry.
BANTERING
BAN'TERING, participle present tense Joking; laughing at with good humor.
BANTLING
BANT'LING, noun A young child; an infant.
BAPTISM
BAP'TISM, noun [Gr. to baptize.]1. The application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This i...
BAPTISMAL
BAPTIS'MAL, adjective Pertaining to baptist; as a baptismal vow.
BAPTIST
BAP'TIST, noun One who administers baptism. This appellation is appropriately given to John, the forerunner of Christ.2. As a contraction of Anabaptist, one who denies the doctr...
BAPTISTERY
BAP'TISTERY, noun [Latin baptisterium.] A place where the sacrament of baptism is administered. Primitively, baptisteries were in buildings separate from the church; but in the ...
BAPTISTIC
BAPTIS'TICBAPTIS'TICAL, adjective Pertaining to baptism.
BAPTISTICAL
BAPTIS'TICAL, a. Pertaining to baptism.
BAPTIZE
BAPTI'ZE, verb transitive [See Baptism.] To administer the sacrament of baptism to; to christen. By some denominations of christians, baptism is performed by plunging, or immers...
BAPTIZED
BAPTI'ZED, participle passive Having received baptism; christened.
BAPTIZER
BAPTI'ZER, noun One who christens, or administers baptism.
BAPTIZING
BAPTI'ZING, participle present tense Administering baptism to; christening.
BAR
B'AR, noun [If these words are the Eng.bar, the sense is a shoot, that which shoots, passes or is driven.]1. A piece of wood, iron or other solid matte, long in proportion to it...
BARB
B'ARB, noun [Latin barba; This is beard, with a different ending. The sense may be, that which shoots out.]1. Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it; as ...
BARBADOES-CHERRY
BARBA'DOES-CHERRY, noun The Malpighia, a tree growing in the W. Indies, fifteen feet high and producing a pleasant tart fruit.BARBA'DOES TAR, noun A mineral fluid, of the nature...
BARBARIAN
BARBA'RIAN, noun [Latin barbarus;. The sense is, foreign, wild, fierce.]1. A man in his rude, savage state; an uncivilized person.2. A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute o...
BARBARIC
BARBAR'IC, adjective [Latin barbaricus. See Barbarian. The Romans applied this word to designate things foreign; Barbaricum aurum, gold from Asia, Virg. AEn.2.504; Barbaricoe ve...
BARBARITY
BARBAR'ITY, noun [See Barbarian.] The manners of a barbarian; savageness; cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.2. Barbarism; impurity of speech. [The use of the word in this sense...
BARBARIZE
B'ARBARIZE, verb transitive To make barbarous.Hideous changes have barbarized France.
BARBAROUS
B'ARBAROUS, adjective Uncivilized; savage; unlettered; untutored; ignorant; unacquainted with arts; stranger to civility of manners.Thou are a roman; be not barbarous2. Cruel; f...