(architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section.
(by extension) Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
(chemistry, dated) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe.
A bubble, in spirits.
A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
A small drop of water or other liquid.
A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes.
Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
Various small, round solid objects.
verb
(intransitive) To form into a bead.
(transitive) To apply beads to.
(transitive) To cause beads to form on (something).
(transitive) To form into a bead.
bede
bede
noun
(mining) A kind of pickaxe.
Prayer, request, supplication
Rosary.
verb
pray, offer, proffer
present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort
proclaim, declare
request, demand, order, command, forbid
beds
beds
noun
plural of bed
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bed
beid
beld
bend
bend
noun
(heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
(in the plural, medicine, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
(mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
(music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
(nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
(nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
(obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
A curve.
Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
verb
(intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
(intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
(intransitive) To become curved.
(intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
(intransitive) To change direction.
(intransitive) To submit.
(intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
(intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
(transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
(transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
(transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
(transitive) To cause to change direction.
(transitive) To force to submit.
(transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
(transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
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.
bled
bled
noun
(in parts of French North Africa) Hinterland, field.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bleed
bmed
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
bred
bred
verb
simple past tense and past participle of breed
bsed
bude
dbme
debe
debi
debs
debs
noun
plural of deb
debt
debt
noun
(finance) Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
(law) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due
An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
The state or condition of owing something to another.
demb
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).