That which besets, surrounds, compasses, or affects; situation; circumstance.
verb
(archaic) To go about; encompass; surround; beset, surround with hostile intent; to overrun.
(obsolete except in set phrases) To affect, usually as a good or bad influence, or as a circumstance.
(obsolete) To clothe, dress.
(rare, humoristic or faux-archaic) To go away, to disappear.
beno
beno
noun
An alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented sap of palm trees, originating from the Philippines.
beyo
bleo
boce
bode
bode
noun
(obsolete or dialect) A bid; an offer.
A herald; a messenger.
A stop; a halting; delay.
An omen; a foreshadowing.
verb
(intransitive, followed by "well", "ill", "no good", etc.) To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future.
(transitive, intransitive) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell.
simple past tense of bide
boer
boke
boke
verb
(intransitive) To retch or vomit.
(transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal) To thrust or push out; butt; poke.
bole
bole
noun
(Scotland) A small closet.
(Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
(colour) The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
(obsolete) A bolus; a dose.
Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
The trunk or stem of a tree.
bone
bone
adj
Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
noun
(American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
(US, informal) A dollar.
(countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
(figurative) A reward.
(figurative) The framework of anything.
(slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
(slang) An erect penis; a boner.
(slang) Clipping of trombone.
(slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.
(uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
A bonefish
An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
verb
(Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
(carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
(civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
(transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
(usually with "up") To study.
(vulgar, slang, usually of a man, transitive, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
To fertilize with bone.
To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
To polish boots to a shiny finish.
To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
To put whalebone into.
bore
bore
noun
A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
Calibre; importance.
One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
Something dull or uninteresting.
The place where such a well exists.
The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
verb
(colloquial) past participle of bear
(intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
(intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
(intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
(obsolete) To fool; to trick.
(proscribed) simple past tense of bare
(transitive) To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
(transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
(transitive) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
(transitive) To make a hole through something.
(transitive, sports, slang) To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).
simple past tense of bear
bose
bose
verb
(usually archaeology) To strike the ground with an object in order to determine, from the resulting sounds, what lies underground.
bote
bote
noun
A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
A right to take wood from property not one's own.
Atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
bove
bove
prep
(now colloquial or dialectal) Above.
bowe
bowe
noun
Obsolete spelling of bow
bpoe
cobe
dobe
dobe
noun
Clipping of adobe.
eboe
eboh
ebon
ebon
adj
(poetic) Black in colour.
(poetic) Made of ebony.
noun
(now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree.
ebro
ebro
Proper noun
a river in Spain that flows into the Mediterranean
egbo
hebo
jobe
jobe
verb
to harangue, to rebuke in a long-winded or drawn-out way
kobe
lebo
lobe
lobe
noun
(anatomy) A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung. [from 16th c.]
(figure skating) A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it. [from 20th c.]
Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form. [from 19th c.]
loeb
nebo
nobe
obed
obel
ober
obes
obes
noun
plural of obe
obex
obex
noun
(anatomy) A small, crescentic fold of white matter that covers the inferior angle of the floor of the fourth ventricle.
obey
obey
verb
(intransitive) To do as one is told.
(obsolete, intransitive) To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).
(transitive) To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
obie
oboe
oboe
noun
A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.
robe
robe
noun
(US) The skin of an animal, especially the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.
A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature.
A wardrobe, especially one built into a bedroom.
The largest and strongest tobacco leaves.
verb
(intransitive) To put on official vestments.
(transitive) To clothe; to dress.
tobe
tobe
noun
A cotton garment worn in parts of northern Africa.