Name Report For First Name BREE:
BREE
First name BREE's origin is Irish. BREE means "hill. also abbreviation of brina and breanna". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BREE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of bree.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with BREE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with BREE - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming BREE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BREE AS A WHOLE:
ambreen bree-ana breeda breena breezy breen aubreeNAMES RHYMING WITH BREE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ree) - Names That Ends with ree:
floree taree masree andree audree caree carree charee cheree cherree desaree desiree deziree fyuree torree tyree mareeRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ee) - Names That Ends with ee:
aimee haidee ehawee hantaywee magaskawee makawee meoquanee ooljee ptaysanwee takchawee al-fadee falakee fraynee lee adorlee ainslee aleshanee amitee analee andee annalee ashlee avalee bethanee beverlee bonny-lee brandee britlee brittnee brylee brynlee callee casee cassadee catlee cattee caycee charlee chelsee cloee coralee cydnee cyndee dannalee dannee debbee debralee dee devinee dorothee dustee edee edmee eevee ellee eloisee emilee emmalee emylee estee evanee greenlee harmonee haylee hollee indee jacee jadee jaicee jaimee jamee jamielee jamilee jaycee jaymee jeanee jenalee jenee jennalee jennasee jennilee jodee joseeNAMES RHYMING WITH BREE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bre) - Names That Begins with bre:
bre brea breac breana breanainn breandan breanna breanne breasal brecc breck brecken bred bredbe bredbeddle brede bredon brehus breindel breine bren brenda brendalynn brendan brenden brendis brendolyn brendon brendt brendyn brengwain brenius brenn brenna brennan brennen brennon brennus brent brentan brenten brentley brently brenton breri breslin bressal bret brett bretta brettany brette bretton breuse brewster brewstere breyanna breynne brezzianaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (br) - Names That Begins with br:
bra brachah brad bradach bradaigh bradamate bradan bradana bradbourne bradburn bradd braddock braddon brademagus braden bradene bradey bradford bradig bradleah bradlee bradley bradly bradon bradshaw bradwell brady bradyn braeden braedon braedyn braelyn braemwiella braiana braiden brain brainard brainerd brale braleah bramNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BREE:
First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'e':
babatunde babette backstere baecere baibre bailee bainbridge bainbrydge bairbre baladie baldassare baldhere baldlice balere balgaire balie ballinamore banbrigge bane bankole baptiste barbie bardene barkarne barnabe barre barrie bartle bartolome basile baste bathilde bawdewyne baylee baylie beale beatie beatrice beattie beceere bede bedegrayne bedivere beiste bekele belakane beldane beldene bellance bellangere belle beltane bemabe bemadette bembe bemeere bemelle bennie benoyce bentle beore beorhthilde berde berdine berenice bergitte berhane berke berkle bernadette bernadine berne bernelle bernette bernice bernyce beroe berthe bertie bertilde bertrade bessie bethanie betje bette bettine bibsbebe billie binge birche birde birdie birdine birkhe birte birtle blade blaine blaire blaiseEnglish Words Rhyming BREE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BREE AS A WHOLE:
| breede | noun (n.) Breadth. |
| breech | noun (n.) The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks. |
| noun (n.) Breeches. | |
| noun (n.) The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind the chamber. | |
| noun (n.) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put into, or clothe with, breeches. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover as with breeches. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun. | |
| verb (v. t.) To whip on the breech. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fasten with breeching. |
| breeching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breech |
| noun (n.) A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech. | |
| noun (n.) That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle. | |
| noun (n.) A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged. | |
| noun (n.) The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack. |
| breechblock | noun (n.) The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired. |
| breechcloth | noun (n.) A cloth worn around the breech. |
| breeches | noun (n. pl.) A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes. |
| noun (n. pl.) Trousers; pantaloons. |
| breechloader | noun (n.) A firearm which receives its load at the breech. |
| breeding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breed |
| noun (n.) The act or process of generating or bearing. | |
| noun (n.) The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding. | |
| noun (n.) Nurture; education; formation of manners. | |
| noun (n.) Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society. | |
| noun (n.) Descent; pedigree; extraction. |
| breed | noun (n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance. |
| noun (n.) Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities. | |
| noun (n.) A number produced at once; a brood. | |
| verb (v. t.) To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. | |
| verb (v. t.) To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up. | |
| verb (v. t.) To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men. | |
| verb (v. t.) To raise, as any kind of stock. | |
| verb (v. t.) To produce or obtain by any natural process. | |
| verb (v. i.) To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth. | |
| verb (v. i.) To have birth; to be produced or multiplied. | |
| verb (v. i.) To raise a breed; to get progeny. |
| breedbate | noun (n.) One who breeds or originates quarrels. |
| breeder | noun (n.) One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc. |
| noun (n.) A cause. |
| breeze | noun (n.) Alt. of Breeze fly |
| noun (n.) A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind. | |
| noun (n.) An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze. | |
| noun (n.) Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal. | |
| noun (n.) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks. | |
| verb (v. i.) To blow gently. |
| breeze fly | noun (n.) A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies. |
| breezeless | adjective (a.) Motionless; destitute of breezes. |
| breeziness | noun (n.) State of being breezy. |
| breezy | adjective (a.) Characterized by, or having, breezes; airy. |
| adjective (a.) Fresh; brisk; full of life. |
| cabree | noun (n.) The pronghorn antelope. |
| crossbreed | noun (n.) A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stocks. |
| noun (n.) Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid. |
| daubreelite | noun (n.) A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons. |
| inbreeding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inbreed |
| subbreed | noun (n.) A race or strain differing in certain characters from the parent breed; an incipient breed. |
| tambreet | noun (n.) The duck mole. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BREE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ree) - English Words That Ends with ree:
| axletree | noun (n.) A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve. |
| noun (n.) A spindle or axle of a wheel. |
| axtree | noun (n.) Axle or axletree. |
| boottree | noun (n.) An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven. |
| boree | noun (n.) Same as BourrEe. |
| bourree | noun (n.) An old French dance tune in common time. |
| bridgetree | noun (n.) The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill. |
| brinjaree | noun (n.) A rough-haired East Indian variety of the greyhound. |
| chesstree | noun (n.) A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail. |
| chickaree | noun (n.) The American red squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius); -- so called from its cry. |
| choree | noun (n.) See Choreus. |
| noun (n.) a trochee. | |
| noun (n.) A tribrach. |
| conferee | noun (n.) One who is conferred with, or who takes part in a conference; as, the conferees on the part of the Senate. |
| noun (n.) One upon whom something is conferred. |
| conferree | noun (n.) Same as Conferee. |
| corroboree | noun (n.) A nocturnal festivity with which the Australian aborigines celebrate tribal events of importance. Symbolic dances are given by the young men of the tribe, while the women act as musicians. |
| noun (n.) A song or chant made for such a festivity. | |
| noun (n.) A festivity or social gathering, esp. one of a noisy or uproarious character; hence, tumult; uproar. |
| decree | noun (n.) An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru// decision. |
| noun (n.) A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty. | |
| noun (n.) A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him. | |
| noun (n.) An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils. | |
| verb (v. t.) To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property. | |
| verb (v. t.) To ordain by fate. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make decrees; -- used absolutely. |
| degree | noun (n.) A step, stair, or staircase. |
| noun (n.) One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison. | |
| noun (n.) The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position. | |
| noun (n.) Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree. | |
| noun (n.) Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. | |
| noun (n.) Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees. | |
| noun (n.) State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a2b3c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax4 + bx2 = c, and mx2y2 + nyx = p, are both equations of the fourth degree. | |
| noun (n.) A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds. | |
| noun (n.) A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer. | |
| noun (n.) A line or space of the staff. |
| doree | noun (n.) A European marine fish (Zeus faber), of a yellow color. See Illust. of John Doree. |
| doretree | noun (n.) A doorpost. |
| doubletree | noun (n.) The bar, or crosspiece, of a carriage, to which the singletrees are attached. |
| dree | adjective (a.) Wearisome; tedious. |
| verb (v. t.) To endure; to suffer. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be able to do or endure. |
| dungaree | noun (n.) A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff. |
| entree | noun (n.) A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entree of a house. |
| noun (n.) In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc. |
| filigree | noun (n.) Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently of a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern. |
| adjective (a.) Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative. |
| free | adjective (a.) To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences. |
| adjective (a.) To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of. | |
| adjective (a.) To frank. | |
| superlative (superl.) Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty. | |
| superlative (superl.) Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will. | |
| superlative (superl.) Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent. | |
| superlative (superl.) Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative. | |
| superlative (superl.) Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money. | |
| superlative (superl.) Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of. | |
| superlative (superl.) Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy. | |
| superlative (superl.) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse. | |
| superlative (superl.) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of. | |
| superlative (superl.) Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc. | |
| superlative (superl.) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage. | |
| superlative (superl.) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells. | |
| adverb (adv.) Freely; willingly. | |
| adverb (adv.) Without charge; as, children admitted free. |
| gauntree | noun (n.) Alt. of Gauntry |
| gawntree | noun (n.) See Gauntree. |
| gree | noun (n.) Good will; favor; pleasure; satisfaction; -- used esp. in such phrases as: to take in gree; to accept in gree; that is, to take favorably. |
| noun (n.) Rank; degree; position. | |
| noun (n.) The prize; the honor of the day; as, to bear the gree, i. e., to carry off the prize. | |
| noun (n.) A step. | |
| verb (v. i.) To agree. |
| greegree | noun (n.) An African talisman or Gri'gri' charm. |
| hattree | noun (n.) A hatstand. |
| jambooree | noun (n.) A noisy or unrestrained carousal or frolic; a spree. |
| manteltree | noun (n.) The lintel of a fireplace when of wood, as frequently in early houses. |
| mesmeree | noun (n.) A person subjected to mesmeric influence; one who is mesmerized. |
| millree | noun (n.) Alt. of Millreis |
| overfree | adjective (a.) Free to excess; too liberal; too familiar. |
| pedigree | noun (n.) A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors. |
| noun (n.) A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse. |
| puree | noun (n.) A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a puree of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated. |
| purree | noun (n.) A yellow coloring matter. See Euxanthin. |
| puggaree | noun (n.) Same as Puggry. |
| puggree | noun (n.) A light scarf wound around a hat or helmet to protect the head from the sun. |
| raparee | noun (n.) See Rapparee. |
| rapparee | noun (n.) A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary. |
| recoveree | noun (n.) The person against whom a judgment is obtained in common recovery. |
| ree | noun (n.) See Rei. |
| verb (v. t.) To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off. |
| referee | noun (n.) One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it. |
| rooftree | noun (n.) The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself. |
| saddletree | noun (n.) The frame of a saddle. |
| sangaree | noun (n.) Wine and water sweetened and spiced, -- a favorite West Indian drink. |
| saree | noun (n.) The principal garment of a Hindoo woman. It consists of a long piece of cloth, which is wrapped round the middle of the body, a portion being arranged to hang down in front, and the remainder passed across the bosom over the left shoulder. |
| scree | noun (n.) A pebble; a stone; also, a heap of stones or rocky debris. |
| shikaree | noun (n.) Alt. of Shikari |
| shittah tree | noun (n.) A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; -- now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in color. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BREE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bre) - Words That Begins with bre:
| breach | noun (n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense. |
| noun (n.) Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise. | |
| noun (n.) A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture. | |
| noun (n.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf. | |
| noun (n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture. | |
| noun (n.) A bruise; a wound. | |
| noun (n.) A hernia; a rupture. | |
| noun (n.) A breaking out upon; an assault. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city. | |
| verb (v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale. |
| breaching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breach |
| breachy | adjective (a.) Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle. |
| bread | noun (n.) An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking. |
| noun (n.) Food; sustenance; support of life, in general. | |
| adjective (a.) To spread. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets. |
| breadbasket | noun (n.) The stomach. |
| breaded | adjective (a.) Braided |
| breaden | adjective (a.) Made of bread. |
| breadfruit | noun (n.) The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name. |
| noun (n.) The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. |
| breadless | adjective (a.) Without bread; destitute of food. |
| breadroot | noun (n.) The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food. |
| breadstuff | noun (n.) Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made. |
| breadth | adjective (a.) Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width. |
| breadthless | adjective (a.) Without breadth. |
| breadthwinner | noun (n.) The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living. |
| breaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Break |
| break | noun (n.) See Commutator. |
| verb (v. t.) To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise. | |
| verb (v. t.) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey. | |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set. | |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments. | |
| verb (v. t.) To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill. | |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax. | |
| verb (v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind. | |
| verb (v. t.) To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend. | |
| verb (v. t.) To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle. | |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin. | |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss. | |
| verb (v. i.) To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder. | |
| verb (v. i.) To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag. | |
| verb (v. i.) To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn. | |
| verb (v. i.) To burst forth violently, as a storm. | |
| verb (v. i.) To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fall in business; to become bankrupt. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fall out; to terminate friendship. | |
| verb (v. t.) An opening made by fracture or disruption. | |
| verb (v. t.) An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship. | |
| verb (v. t.) A projection or recess from the face of a building. | |
| verb (v. t.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current. | |
| verb (v. t.) An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation. | |
| verb (v. t.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn. | |
| verb (v. t.) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind. | |
| verb (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10. |
| breakable | adjective (a.) Capable of being broken. |
| breakage | noun (n.) The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken. |
| noun (n.) An allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use. |
| breakdown | noun (n.) The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall. |
| noun (n.) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down. | |
| noun (n.) Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time. |
| breaker | noun (n.) One who, or that which, breaks. |
| noun (n.) Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed. | |
| noun (n.) A small water cask. | |
| noun (n.) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface. |
| breakfast | noun (n.) The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal. |
| noun (n.) A meal after fasting, or food in general. | |
| verb (v. i.) To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with breakfast. |
| breakfasting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breakfast |
| breakman | noun (n.) See Brakeman. |
| breakneck | noun (n.) A fall that breaks the neck. |
| noun (n.) A steep place endangering the neck. | |
| adjective (a.) Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed. |
| breakwater | noun (n.) Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence. |
| bream | noun (n.) A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known. |
| noun (n.) An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish. | |
| noun (n.) A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream. | |
| verb (v. t.) To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping. |
| breaming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bream |
| breast | noun (n.) The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse. |
| noun (n.) Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat. | |
| noun (n.) Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill. | |
| noun (n.) The face of a coal working. | |
| noun (n.) The front of a furnace. | |
| noun (n.) The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart. | |
| noun (n.) The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast. | |
| noun (n.) A torus. | |
| verb (v. t.) To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves. |
| breasting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breast |
| noun (n.) The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel. |
| breastband | noun (n.) A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding. |
| breastbeam | noun (n.) The front transverse beam of a locomotive. |
| breastbone | noun (n.) The bone of the breast; the sternum. |
| breasted | adjective (a.) Having a breast; -- used in composition with qualifying words, in either a literal or a metaphorical sense; as, a single-breasted coat. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Breast |
| breastfast | noun (n.) A large rope to fasten the midship part of a ship to a wharf, or to another vessel. |
| breastheight | noun (n.) The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing. |
| breasthook | noun (n.) A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side. |
| breastknot | noun (n.) A knot of ribbons worn on the breast. |
| breastpin | noun (n.) A pin worn on the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch. |
| breastplate | noun (n.) A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor. |
| noun (n.) A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool. | |
| noun (n.) A strap that runs across a horse's breast. | |
| noun (n.) A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod. |
| breastplow | noun (n.) Alt. of Breastplough |
| breastplough | noun (n.) A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf. |
| breastrail | noun (n.) The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc. |
| breastrope | noun (n.) See Breastband. |
| breastsummer | noun (n.) A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows. |
| breastwheel | noun (n.) A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight. |
| breastwork | noun (n.) A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material. |
| noun (n.) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle. |
| breath | noun (n.) The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc. |
| noun (n.) The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath. | |
| noun (n.) The power of respiration, and hence, life. | |
| noun (n.) Time to breathe; respite; pause. | |
| noun (n.) A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: That which gives or strengthens life. | |
| noun (n.) A single word; the slightest effort; a trifle. | |
| noun (n.) A very slight breeze; air in gentle motion. | |
| noun (n.) Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume. | |
| noun (n.) Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration. |
| breathable | adjective (a.) Such as can be breathed. |
| breathableness | noun (n.) State of being breathable. |
| breathing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breathe |
| noun (n.) Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air. | |
| noun (n.) Air in gentle motion. | |
| noun (n.) Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit. | |
| noun (n.) Aspiration; secret prayer. | |
| noun (n.) Exercising; promotion of respiration. | |
| noun (n.) Utterance; communication or publicity by words. | |
| noun (n.) Breathing place; vent. | |
| noun (n.) Stop; pause; delay. | |
| noun (n.) Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed by the letter h. | |
| noun (n.) A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See Rough breathing, Smooth breathing, below. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BREE:
English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 'e':
| baalite | noun (n.) A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater. |
| babble | noun (n.) Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle. |
| noun (n.) Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur. | |
| verb (v. i.) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles. | |
| verb (v. i.) To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words. | |
| verb (v. i.) To talk much; to chatter; to prate. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones. | |
| verb (v. i.) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding. | |
| verb (v. i.) To disclose by too free talk, as a secret. |
| babe | noun (n.) An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby. |
| noun (n.) A doll for children. |
| babingtonite | noun (n.) A mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, manganese, and lime. |
| babyhouse | adjective (a.) A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture. |
| baccalaureate | noun (n.) The degree of bachelor of arts. (B.A. or A.B.), the first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges. |
| noun (n.) A baccalaureate sermon. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to a bachelor of arts. |
| baccate | adjective (a.) Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits. |
| bacchante | noun (n.) A priestess of Bacchus. |
| noun (n.) A female bacchanal. |
| bace | noun (n., a., & v.) See Base. |
| bacillariae | noun (n. pl.) See Diatom. |
| backbone | noun (n.) The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column. |
| noun (n.) Anything like , or serving the purpose of, a backbone. | |
| noun (n.) Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness. |
| backhouse | noun (n.) A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary. |
| backpiece | noun (n.) Alt. of Backplate |
| backplate | noun (n.) A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back. |
| backside | noun (n.) The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal. |
| bactericide | noun (n.) Same as Germicide. |
| bacule | noun (n.) See Bascule. |
| baculine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod. |
| baculite | noun (n.) A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite. |
| badge | noun (n.) A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman. |
| noun (n.) Something characteristic; a mark; a token. | |
| noun (n.) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one. | |
| verb (v. t.) To mark or distinguish with a badge. |
| badinage | noun (n.) Playful raillery; banter. |
| baenomere | noun (n.) One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods. |
| baenosome | noun (n.) The thorax of Arthropods. |
| baffle | noun (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture. |
| noun (n.) A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated. | |
| noun (n.) A grating or plate across a channel or pipe conveying water, gas, or the like, by which the flow is rendered more uniform in different parts of the cross section of the stream; -- used in measuring the rate of flow, as by means of a weir. | |
| noun (n.) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight. | |
| verb (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil. | |
| verb (v. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart. | |
| verb (v. i.) To practice deceit. | |
| verb (v. i.) To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds. |
| bagasse | noun (n.) Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. It is then dried and used as fuel. Also extended to the refuse of beetroot sugar. |
| bagatelle | noun (n.) A trifle; a thing of no importance. |
| noun (n.) A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player. |
| baggage | noun (n.) The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army. |
| noun (n.) The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage. | |
| noun (n.) Purulent matter. | |
| noun (n.) Trashy talk. | |
| noun (n.) A man of bad character. | |
| noun (n.) A woman of loose morals; a prostitute. | |
| noun (n.) A romping, saucy girl. |
| bagpipe | noun (n.) A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland. |
| verb (v. t.) To make to look like a bagpipe. |
| bague | noun (n.) The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts. |
| baguette | noun (n.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead. |
| noun (n.) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation. |
| bailable | adjective (a.) Having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail, upon bond with sureties; -- used of persons. |
| adjective (a.) Admitting of bail; as, a bailable offense. | |
| adjective (a.) That can be delivered in trust; as, bailable goods. |
| bailee | noun (n.) The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust. |
| bailie | noun (n.) An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman. |
| baillie | noun (n.) Bailiff. |
| noun (n.) Same as Bailie. |
| bailpiece | noun (n.) A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond. |
| baize | noun (n.) A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors. |
| bake | noun (n.) The process, or result, of baking. |
| verb (v. t.) To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground. | |
| verb (v. t.) To harden by cold. | |
| verb (v. i.) To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun. |
| bakistre | noun (n.) A baker. |
| balance | noun (n.) An apparatus for weighing. |
| noun (n.) Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate. | |
| noun (n.) Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales. | |
| noun (n.) The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness. | |
| noun (n.) An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account. | |
| noun (n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary). | |
| noun (n.) The constellation Libra. | |
| noun (n.) The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September. | |
| noun (n.) A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S. | |
| noun (n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance. | |
| noun (n.) To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope. | |
| noun (n.) To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize. | |
| noun (n.) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate. | |
| noun (n.) To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them. | |
| noun (n.) To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account. | |
| noun (n.) To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books. | |
| noun (n.) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners. | |
| noun (n.) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail. | |
| verb (v. i.) To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move toward a person or couple, and then back. |
| balanceable | adjective (a.) Such as can be balanced. |
| balanite | noun (n.) A fossil balanoid shell. |
| balaustine | noun (n.) The pomegranate tree (Punica granatum). The bark of the root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally. |
| baldpate | noun (n.) A baldheaded person. |
| noun (n.) The American widgeon (Anas Americana). | |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Baldpated |
| bale | noun (n.) A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw / hay, etc., put up compactly for transportation. |
| noun (n.) Misery; calamity; misfortune; sorrow. | |
| noun (n.) Evil; an evil, pernicious influence; something causing great injury. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make up in a bale. | |
| verb (v. t.) See Bail, v. t., to lade. |
| balefire | noun (n.) A signal fire; an alarm fire. |
| balize | noun (n.) A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark. |
| ballade | noun (n.) A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy. |
| ballastage | noun (n.) A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor. |
| balotade | noun (n.) See Ballotade. |
| balsamine | noun (n.) The Impatiens balsamina, or garden balsam. |
| balustrade | noun (n.) A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building. |
| bambocciade | noun (n.) A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life. |
| bandage | noun (n.) A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc. |
| noun (n.) Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes. |
| banderole | noun (n.) Alt. of Bandrol |
| bandle | noun (n.) An Irish measure of two feet in length. |
| bandoline | noun (n.) A glutinous pomatum for the fair. |
| bandore | noun (n.) A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore. |
| bane | noun (n.) That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality. |
| noun (n.) Destruction; death. | |
| noun (n.) Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe. | |
| noun (n.) A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot. | |
| verb (v. t.) To be the bane of; to ruin. |
| bangue | noun (n.) See Bhang. |
| bangle | noun (n.) An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn by women in India and Africa, and in some other countries, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet. |
| verb (v. t.) To waste by little and little; to fritter away. |
| bankable | adjective (a.) Receivable at a bank. |
| bankside | noun (n.) The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam. |
| banlieue | noun (n.) The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city. |
| banquette | noun (n.) A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy. |
| noun (n.) A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser. | |
| noun (n.) A bench or seat for passengers on the top of a diligence or other public vehicle. |
| banshee | noun (n.) Alt. of Banshie |
| banshie | noun (n.) A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house. |
| noun (n.) A supernatural being supposed to warn a family of the approaching death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice. |
| banstickle | noun (n.) A small fish, the three-spined stickleback. |
| baptizable | adjective (a.) Capable of being baptized; fit to be baptized. |
| barbacanage | noun (n.) See Barbicanage. |
| noun (n.) Money paid for the support of a barbican. |
| barbaresque | adjective (a.) Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque architecture. |
| barbate | adjective (a.) Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs. |
| barbecue | noun (n.) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast. |
| noun (n.) A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole. | |
| noun (n.) A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron. | |
| verb (v. t.) To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog. |
| barbellate | adjective (a.) Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. |
| barbellulate | adjective (a.) Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs. |
| barbette | noun (n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet. |
| barbicanage | noun (n.) Alt. of Barbacanage |
| barble | noun (n.) See Barbel. |
| barbotine | noun (n.) A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief. |
| barbre | adjective (a.) Barbarian. |
| barbule | noun (n.) A very minute barb or beard. |
| noun (n.) One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather. |
| barcarolle | noun (n.) A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers. |
| noun (n.) A piece of music composed in imitation of such a song. |
| barde | noun (n.) A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.] |
| (pl.) Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms. | |
| (pl.) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game. |
| bare | noun (n.) Surface; body; substance. |
| noun (n.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather. | |
| adjective (a.) Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare. | |
| adjective (a.) With head uncovered; bareheaded. | |
| adjective (a.) Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed. | |
| adjective (a.) Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager. | |
| adjective (a.) Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture. | |
| adjective (a.) Threadbare; much worn. | |
| adjective (a.) Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority. | |
| adjective (a.) To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast. | |
| () Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v. | |
| () of Bear |
| barebone | noun (n.) A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin. |
| barege | noun (n.) A gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted. |
| barge | noun (n.) A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated. |
| noun (n.) A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge. | |
| noun (n.) A large boat used by flag officers. | |
| noun (n.) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat. | |
| noun (n.) A large omnibus used for excursions. |
| bargecourse | noun (n.) A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable. |
| bargee | noun (n.) A bargeman. |
| barite | noun (n.) Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins. |
| baritone | noun (a. & n.) See Barytone. |
| noun (n.) A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other. | |
| noun (n.) A person having a voice of such range. | |
| noun (n.) The viola di gamba, now entirely disused. | |
| noun (n.) A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood. | |
| adjective (a.) Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice. | |
| adjective (a.) Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood. |
| barque | noun (n.) Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind. |
| noun (n.) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged. | |
| noun (n.) Same as 3d Bark, n. |
| barkantine | noun (n.) Same as Barkentine. |
| barkentine | noun (n.) A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append. |
| barleybrake | noun (n.) Alt. of Barleybreak |
| barmecide | noun (n.) One who proffers some illusory advantage or benefit. Also used as an adj.: Barmecidal. |
| barmote | noun (n.) A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners. |
| barnabite | noun (n.) A member of a religious order, named from St. Barnabas. |
| barnacle | noun (n.) Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle. |
| noun (n.) A bernicle goose. | |
| noun (n.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him. | |
| (sing.) Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers. |
| baronage | noun (n.) The whole body of barons or peers. |
| noun (n.) The dignity or rank of a baron. | |
| noun (n.) The land which gives title to a baron. |
| baronetage | noun (n.) State or rank of a baronet. |
| noun (n.) The collective body of baronets. |
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