Dictionary
Found: 5,663 words.
of Bail
The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.
Baillie
2 defs
Bailiff.
Bailment
2 defs
A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed.
One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.
A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond.
A bath; a bagnio.
A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.
The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after the fast.
A child.
Respects; compliments.
Bait
9 defs
A light or hasty luncheon.
of Bait
One who baits; a tormentor.
of Bait
A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.
A small copper coin formerly current in the Roman States, worth about a cent and a half.
Bake
6 defs
The process, or result, of baking.
of Bake
A pie; baked food.
A house for baking; a bakery.
Alt. of Baked-meat
p. p. of Bake.
Baker
2 defs
A portable oven in which baking is done.
Having legs that bend inward at the knees.
Bakery
2 defs
The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.
Baking
3 defs
of Bake
In a hot or baking manner.
A baker.
Alt. of Bakshish
Same as Backsheesh.
A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking.
A condiment formed of small fishes or shrimps, pounded up with salt and spices, and then dried. It is much esteemed in China.
A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen.
Balance
21 defs
A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).
Balance wheel
3 defs
A ratchet-shaped scape wheel, which in some watches is acted upon by the axis of the balance wheel proper (in those watches called a balance).
Such as can be balanced.
of Balance
The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces.
Balancer
2 defs
In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing.
The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.
of Balance
Bearing or producing acorns.
A fossil balanoid shell.
A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and Tornaria.
Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle.
A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel.
The pomegranate tree (Punica granatum). The bark of the root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally.
To stammer.
Alt. of Balbucinate