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noun

1. Any of a group of ray-finned fish of the family Polypteridae in the order Polypteriformes.

noun

1. plural of bight

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bight

Proper noun

1. A handmaid of Rachel and mother of Dan and Naphtali.
2. name of biblical origin.

noun

1. plural of bimah

Noun

1. An Aboriginal person.

noun

1. plural of birth

noun

1. (Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
2. (UK, dialectal, archaic) A children's smock or pinafore.
3. (US, archaic) A bustle.
4. (chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
5. (dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
6. (obsolete) Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
7. (obsolete) The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
8. (religion, nonstandard) A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
9. A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
10. A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.
11. A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
12. Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.

verb

1. (Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
2. (Christianity) To make a bishop.
3. (Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops.
4. (UK, colloquial, obsolete) To murder by drowning.
5. (UK, dialectal) To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
6. (by extension, jocularly, obsolete) To confirm (in its other senses).
7. (by extension, of equestrianism) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.

adj

1. (colloquial) Irritable.
2. (colloquial) Spiteful or malevolent; catty; malicious; unpleasant.

verb

1. (intransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
2. (intransitive) To grow or become white.
3. (transitive) To bleach by excluding the light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
4. (transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
5. (transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding
6. (transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
7. (transitive) To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices
8. (transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
9. (transitive, figuratively) To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
10. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
11. To cause to turn aside or back.
12. To use evasion.

adj

1. (of food) watery
2. (of weather) windy and rainy

noun

1. (obsolete) Blacking, blackening.

verb

1. (transitive, archaic) To blacken; to smear with blacking; to stain or mark with soot or coal.

adj

1. (archaic) Pale; bleak.

noun

1. (countable) A variety of bleach.
2. (uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
3. A disease of the skin.
4. An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
2. (intransitive, biology, of corals) To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
3. (transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
4. (transitive, figurative) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.

noun

1. A deceit; a trick.
2. A sidelong glance.

verb

1. (intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
2. (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
3. (intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
4. (obsolete) To blanch.
5. (transitive) To deceive; cheat.
6. (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
7. (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.

noun

1. (by extension) Anything that impedes growth or development or spoils any other aspect of life.
2. (phytopathology) A rapid and complete chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as leaves, branches, twigs, or floral organs.
3. The bacterium, virus or fungus that causes such a condition.

verb

1. (intransitive) To suffer blight.
2. (transitive) To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
3. (transitive) To spoil, ruin, or destroy (something).

adj

1. (chiefly Scotland, elsewhere dated or literary) Cheerful, happy.
2. Casually careless or indifferent; showing a lack of concern.

noun

1. (UK, dialect) Alternative form of blowth (“blossom; bloom”)

noun

1. (figuratively) Imperfection; blemish on one’s reputation, stain.
2. (slang) Blotting paper.
3. A bright or dark spot on old film caused by dirt and loss of the gelatin covering the film, due to age and poor film quality.
4. A dark spot on the skin; a pustule.
5. An irregularly shaped area.
6. An uneven patch of color or discoloration.
7. Any of various crop diseases that cause the plant to form spots.

verb

1. (intransitive) To develop blotches, to become blotchy.
2. (transitive) To mark with blotches.

noun

1. (archaic) Bloom or blossom; blossoms collectively; the state of blossoming.

noun

1. (rare) The state of being blue; blueness.

adj

1. (figuratively) Somewhat depressed; sad.
2. Having a tint or hue similar to the colour blue.

verb

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of blush

adj

1. (of a person) Embarrassed, blushing; feeling as though one might blush.
2. Suffused with blushes or blushlike hues.

adj

1. Obsolete spelling of blithe

noun

1. plural of boche

Proper noun

1. a city in western Germany

noun

1. A trickster or bogeyman figure in Gaelic folklore.

noun

1. plural of bohea

noun

1. (Canada, US, derogatory) A brawny or coarse person.
2. (Canada, US, ethnic slur) An immigrant from Central Europe, Eastern Europe, or the Balkans, especially one who is regarded as vain, aggressively masculine, and socially unsophisticated.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bolshie

noun

1. (Ireland, rural) A piglet.

noun

1. (dated) The sailfish.

verb

1. (colloquial, childish, intransitive) To cry, weep.
2. (sarcastic, intransitive) To complain, whine.

noun

1. plural of booth

noun

1. Alternative spelling of borscht

noun

1. plural of bosh

adj

1. Full of botches or mistakes; poorly done.

intj

1. A mild expression of annoyance.

noun

1. Fuss, ado.
2. Trouble, inconvenience.

verb

1. (intransitive) To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
2. (intransitive) To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
3. (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate.

noun

1. Alternative form of bothy

noun

1. (obsolete) An allowance of food and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.
2. Alternative form of bush (a lining)

verb

1. Alternative form of bush (to line)

noun

1. plural of bough

noun

1. (obsolete) A bend or hollow in a human or animal body.
2. (obsolete) A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
3. (obsolete) A curve or bend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature.
4. (obsolete) A fold, bend, or coil in a tail, snake's body etc.
5. (obsolete) The part of a sling that contains the stone.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of buy.

adj

1. Full of boughs.

adj

1. Like a stereotypical boy in appearance or demeanor.
2. People disliked his boyish and juvenile behaviour.

Proper noun

1. An ancient biblical city in southern modern-day Jordan, the capital of Edom.

Noun

1. A script once used in south and central Asia

Adjective

1. Pissed, drunk.

Proper noun

1. a pastoral people of Eastern Baluchistan
2. the Dravidian language of this people

noun

1. (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
2. (chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
3. (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
4. (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
5. (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
6. (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
7. (rail transport) A branch line.
8. A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
9. A location of an organization with several locations.
10. An area in business or of knowledge, research.
11. Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
12. The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.

verb

1. (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
2. (intransitive) To produce branches.
3. (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
4. (transitive) To strip of branches.
5. (transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.

adj

1. brash, stormy
2. brittle, crumbly

noun

1. (archaic) A bruise; a wound.
2. (archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
3. (figurative) A difference in opinions, social class etc.
4. (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment
5. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves
6. A breaking out upon; an assault.
7. A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
8. A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence
9. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

verb

1. (intransitive, of a whale) To leap out of the water.
2. (law, informal, transitive, usually passive) To charge or convict (someone) of breaching the terms of a bail, probation, recognizance, etc.
3. (transitive) To make a breach in.
4. (transitive) To violate or break.
5. (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.

adj

1. (phonetics, of a consonant or vowel) voiceless, surd; contrasting with voice (breath sounds, voice sounds)

noun

1. (countable) A rest or pause.
2. (countable) A single act of breathing in or out; a breathing of air.
3. (obsolete) Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.
4. (obsolete) Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration.
5. (uncountable) Air expelled from the lungs.
6. (uncountable) The act or process of breathing.
7. A small amount of something, such as wind, or common sense.

verb

1. Misspelling of breathe.

adj

1. (obstetrics) Born, or having been born, breech.

adv

1. (obstetrics, of birth) With the hips coming out before the head.

noun

1. (firearms) The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber.
2. (historical, now only in the plural) A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks.
3. (nautical) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
4. (now rare) The buttocks or backside.
5. (obstetrics) A breech birth.

verb

1. (dated, transitive) To beat or spank on the buttocks.
2. (dated, transitive) To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time (the breeching ceremony).
3. (poetic, transitive, obsolete) To cover as if with breeches.
4. (transitive) To fasten with breeching.
5. (transitive) To fit or furnish with a breech.

noun

1. (Ireland, historical) A judge or lawgiver in ancient Celtic Ireland.

adj

1. (metallurgy) Of a metal object or surface: lacking any protective coating or surface treatment for the prevention of corrosion.
2. (music) Of a rhythm or tempo: lively, upbeat.
3. Clearly apparent; conspicuous.
4. Emitting much light; visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, radiant.
5. Glorious; illustrious.
6. Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.
7. In good spirits; happy, optimistic.
8. Manifest to the mind as light is to the eyes; clear, evident, plain.
9. Of a colour: not muted or pale; bold, brilliant, vivid.
10. Of a musical instrument, sound, or a voice: clearly audible; clear, resounding, and often high-pitched.
11. Of a period of history or time: happy, prosperous, successful.
12. Of a person: lively, vivacious.
13. Of a place: not dark; well-lit.
14. Of a room or other place: having acoustic qualities that tend to cause much echoing or reverberation of sound, particularly at high frequencies.
15. Of a scent or taste: not bland or mild; bold, sharp, strong.
16. Of a substance: clear, transparent; also, pure, unadulterated; (specifically) of wine: free of suspended particles; not cloudy; fine.
17. Of an object, surface, etc.: having vivid colour(s); colourful.
18. Of an object, surface, etc.: reflecting much light; having a high lustre; gleaming, shiny.
19. Of an opportunity or outlook: having a reasonable chance of success; favourable, good.
20. Of climate or weather: not cloudy or gloomy; fair; also, of a period of time, the sky, etc.: characterized by much sunshine and good weather.
21. Of conversation, writing, etc.: imaginative or sparkling with wit; clever, witty.
22. Of light: brilliant, intense.
23. Of the eyes: able to see clearly; of eyesight: keen, sharp.
24. Of the face or eyes, or a smile: showing happiness or hopefulness; cheerful, lively.

adv

1. (archaic) Referring to sight, sound, understanding, etc.: clearly, distinctly; brightly.
2. (often literary) In a bright manner; brightly, glowingly, luminously, lustrously.
3. Referring to colour: with bold or vivid colours; brightly, boldly, vividly.

noun

1. (chiefly in the plural) Something (especially a product intended for sale) that has vivid colours or a lustrous appearance.
2. (figuratively) Glory, splendour.
3. (painting) An artist's brush used in acrylic and oil painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.
4. A person with a naturalistic worldview with no mystical or supernatural elements.
5. Brightness, glow.

verb

1. (intransitive, also figuratively) Often followed by up: to become bright (in various senses); to brighten.
2. (transitive) Often followed by up: to cast light on (someone or something); to brighten, to illuminate.
3. (transitive, figuratively) Often followed by up: to cause (someone or something) to be bright (in various senses); to brighten; specifically, to make (someone or something) energetic, or happy and optimistic.

noun

1. (architecture, UK, dialect) A spire rising from a tower.
2. (masonry) A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
3. A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
4. A spit for cooking food.
5. A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
6. Alternative spelling of brooch
7. An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
8. The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
9. The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
2. (nautical, intransitive, of a submerged submarine, torpedo, or similar) To break the surface of the water.
3. (transitive) To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).
4. (transitive) To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
5. (transitive) To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.
6. (transitive, figuratively) To begin discussion about (something).

noun

1. Obsolete form of brooch.

verb

1. Obsolete form of broach.

noun

1. A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.
2. A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.

verb

1. (transitive) To adorn as with a brooch.

noun

1. plural of broth

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of broth.

noun

1. A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.

verb

1. To eat brunch.

adj

1. Having a similar texture to a fox’s tail; brushlike, bushy.
2. Of the countryside: having thick vegetation, taller than grass but shorter than trees; having abundant brush; shrubby.

Proper noun

1. an administrative district in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
2. and (Clan Buchan). Of note is John Buchan, the author.

noun

1. (informal, uncountable) marijuana
2. A human being who has become enlightened. (in Buddhism)
3. A statue or image of the Buddha.

noun

1. (Hinduism) A transpersonal faculty of mind higher than the rational mind that might be translated as ‘intuitive intelligence’ or simply ‘higher mind’. It is ‘that which knows’, ie. able to discern truth from falsehood.

noun

1. Alternative form of buqsha

noun

1. (historical) The paymaster in native Indian states.

adj

1. Having, or growing in bunches.

noun

1. Alternative form of bunya (“banyan; Hindu caste member”)

noun

1. (historical) A former currency unit of Yemen.

noun

1. plural of burgh

noun

1. Archaic spelling of bharal.

noun

1. (archaic) A German university student.

adj

1. (Australia) Lost in the bush.
2. (Canada) Mentally unwell due to isolation, especially due to working in a remote mine or camp; experiencing cabin fever.
3. (informal) Very tired; exhausted.
4. Incorporating a bush, a mechanical part.

noun

1. (UK) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.
2. (colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
3. (historical) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
4. A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
5. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.

verb

1. (US, tailoring, transitive, intransitive) To mend or repair clothes.
2. To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.

noun

1. (US, baseball, slang) A major league baseball player who has recently come from a small league.

noun

1. plural of bush

noun

1. A small bush.

noun

1. (Australia, colloquial) Someone who lives in or is familiar with the Australian outback; a bushman or bushwoman.

noun

1. Alternative form of bushwah

noun

1. (India, historical) The young of any animal.
2. (India, historical, slang, by extension) A child.

noun

1. An unfrequented path; an indirect route; a byway.

noun

1. (by synecdoche) The medina, the older part of a city in North Africa or the Middle East.
2. (slang) A person's house or flat/apartment.
3. The fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East.

noun

1. (heraldry) A kind of fish found in heraldic designs.

noun

1. (now historical) A long whip formerly used as an instrument of punishment in India and parts of the Middle East.

noun

1. A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher.
2. Alternative form of xebec