(Now chiefly dialectal) Well provided; comfortable; cosy.
adv
(Now chiefly dialectal) Comfortably.
verb
(transitive, Scotland) To dry.
(transitive, Scotland) To render or make comfortable.
beni
beri
bice
bice
noun
A cobalt blue pigment.
A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt.
bide
bide
verb
(intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
(intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
(transitive, archaic) To face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand.
(transitive, archaic) To wait for; to await.
(transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
biel
bien
bier
bier
noun
A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.
A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.
A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed.
bike
bike
noun
(Scotland, Northern England) A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants.
(chiefly Scotland, by extension, collective) A crowd of people.
(slang, derogatory) Ellipsis of village bike.
Clipping of bicycle.
Clipping of motorbike.
verb
(intransitive) To ride a bike.
(intransitive) To travel by bike.
(transitive) To transport by bicycle.
bile
bile
noun
(obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).
A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
verb
Pronunciation spelling of boil.
bine
bine
noun
(UK, slang) cigarette
(botany) A climbing plant which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support (distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers).
bise
bise
noun
A cold, dry, northerly wind in France, Switzerland, etc.
Alternative form of bice (blue pigment)
bite
bite
noun
(colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
(colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
(figuratively) aggression
(printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
(slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
(slang) An act of plagiarism.
(slang) Something unpleasant.
(television) Short for sound bite.
A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
A small meal or snack.
The act of biting.
The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
The wound left behind after having been bitten.
verb
(intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
(intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
(intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
(intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
(intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
(intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
(intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
(intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
(intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
(intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
(intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
(intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
(obsolete) To deceive or defraud; to take in.
(transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
(transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
(transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
(transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
(transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
bize
brei
brie
brie
noun
An originally French variety of soft cheese made from cow's milk.
bsie
debi
dieb
dieb
noun
A canine of northern Africa, the African golden wolf (Canis lupaster, formerly considered an African variant of the golden jackal, Canis aureus).
eisb
gibe
gibe
noun
Alternative spelling of gybe
Alternative spelling of jibe (“facetious or insulting remark”)
verb
Alternative spelling of jibe
ibew
ibex
ibex
noun
(heraldry) An imaginary creature with serrated horns, somewhat similar to the heraldic antelope.
A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species Capra ibex.
imbe
imbe
noun
The originally African tree Garcinia livingstonei.
inbe
jibe
jibe
noun
(nautical, now chiefly US) Alternative spelling of gybe
A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt.
verb
(intransitive) To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer.
(intransitive, Canada, US, informal) To accord or agree.
(transitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt.
(transitive) To say in a mocking or taunting manner.
kibe
kibe
noun
(rare, archaic, now poetic or dialectal) A chilblain (often ulcerated), especially on the heel of the foot (also afflictive to some animals).
obie
ribe
vibe
vibe
noun
(colloquial) A vibrator (sex toy).
(colloquial) Vibration.
(colloquial, originally New Age jargon) An atmosphere or aura felt to belong to a person, place or thing.
(plural only, colloquial) A vibraphone.
verb
(intransitive, colloquial) To agree.
(intransitive, colloquial) To get along; to hit it off.
(intransitive, colloquial) To relax and enjoy oneself.
(transitive, colloquial) To feel in agreement with; to appreciate.
(transitive, colloquial) To stimulate with a vibrator.