Name Report For First Name BRIA:
BRIA
First name BRIA's origin is Irish. BRIA means "hill. also variant of brina and breanna". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BRIA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of bria.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with BRIA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with BRIA - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming BRIA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BRƯA AS A WHOLE:
cambria briareus abriana abrianna briana brianna brianne briaunna honbria kambria sabria brian briant briar gabrian o'brian aubriana aubrianne briann briannah briannonNAMES RHYMING WITH BRƯA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ria) - Names That Ends with ria:
kamaria berengaria ingria demetria egeria elefteria hesperia viktoria oria tiberia victoria kaaria horia zaharia adairia alegria alexandria andria annamaria aphria aria audria azaria azzaria caffaria calandria ceria daria deandria desideria devoria erendiria fearcharia floria garia gregoria kendria kiandria laria mairia moria oliveria ria rosamaria rosemaria vittoria xavieria xeveria yanamaria zimria zacharia chandria niria elepheteria doria cytheria cloria maria zuria auria neria naiaria berangaria loria honoriaRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ia) - Names That Ends with ia:
afia aminia ashia efia fowsia safia tawia beornia bernia odelia alaia badi'a dummonia amaia donia erensia kamia melodia saskia nubia tabia bethia abelia adalia aloysia agalaia agalia aglaia alesia ambrosia anthia anysia artemia aspasia athanasiaNAMES RHYMING WITH BRƯA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bri) - Names That Begins with bri:
bri brice brick brickman bricriu bricta brid bride bridger bridget bridgett bridgette briefbras briella brielle brien brienna brienne briet brietta brigantia brigbam brigette briggebam briggeham briggere brigham brighde brighid brighton brigid brigida brigidia brigitta brigitte brigliadoro brik brilynn brimlad brin brina brinleigh brinley brinton brion briona brione brioni brionna brionne briony brisa briseis brisha brishen brisia brissa brit brita britani brite brites britlee britney britomartus britta brittain brittan brittaney brittani brittanie brittany brittnee brittney brittni brittny britto britton brittyn brizaRhyming 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 bradleahNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BRƯA:
First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'a':
baba badra baduna baha baheera bahira bahiya balbina balinda balisarda bama bana baptista baraka barbara barbra barda barika barkarna barra barta baseema basheera bashiga bashira basilia bathilda bathsheba battista batula batya bautista beatha beatricia beatrisa becca beda behula bela belda belia belina belinda belisarda bella belva bemia bena benedetta benigna benita beomia berdina bernadea bernadina bernarda bernetta bernicia bernita berta bertha bertilda bertina bertuska beta betha bethanna bethea bethsaida bethseda bethsheba betia bettina beula bha bhadraa bhagiratha bianca bibiana bidelia bidina bienvenida bilagaana binata binga binta birdena birkita bitya bixenta blanca blandina blasa blathma blyana boadicea boda bodiccea bodicea bodiciaEnglish Words Rhyming BRIA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BRƯA AS A WHOLE:
| briar | noun (n.) Same as Brier. |
| noun (n.) A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings. |
| briarean | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed. |
| cambria | noun (n.) The ancient Latin name of Wales. It is used by modern poets. |
| cambrian | noun (n.) A native of Cambria or Wales. |
| noun (n.) The Cambrian formation. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology. |
| cantabrian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cantabria on the Bay of Biscay in Spain. |
| cimbrian | noun (n.) One of the Cimbri. See Cimbric. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cimbri. |
| cumbrian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Cumberland, England, or to a system of rocks found there. |
| fimbria | noun (n.) A fringe, or fringed border. |
| noun (n.) A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain. |
| fimbriate | adjective (a.) Having the edge or extremity bordered by filiform processes thicker than hairs; fringed; as, the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube. |
| verb (v. t.) To hem; to fringe. |
| fimbriating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fimbriate |
| fimbriated | adjective (a.) Having a fringed border; fimbriate. |
| adjective (a.) Having a very narrow border of another tincture; -- said esp. of an ordinary or subordinary. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Fimbriate |
| funebrial | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal. |
| inebriant | noun (n.) Anything that intoxicates, as opium, alcohol, etc.; an intoxicant. |
| adjective (a.) Intoxicating. |
| inebriating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inebriate |
| inebriate | noun (n.) One who is drunk or intoxicated; esp., an habitual drunkard; as, an asylum fro inebriates. |
| adjective (a.) Intoxicated; drunk; habitually given to drink; stupefied. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make drunk; to intoxicate. | |
| verb (v. t.) Fig.: To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate or elate as if by spirituous drink; to deprive of sense and judgment; also, to stupefy. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become drunk. |
| inebriation | noun (n.) The condition of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success. |
| manubrial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a manubrium; shaped like a manubrium; handlelike. |
| northumbrian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Northumberland. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Northumberland in England. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BRƯA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ria) - English Words That Ends with ria:
| actinaria | noun (n. pl.) A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. |
| adularia | noun (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone. |
| adversaria | noun (n. pl.) A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. |
| albuminuria | noun (n.) A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine. |
| alcyonaria | noun (n. pl.) One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea. |
| alfilaria | noun (n.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California. |
| aporia | noun (n.) A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc. |
| appendicularia | noun (n.) A genus of small free-swimming Tunicata, shaped somewhat like a tadpole, and remarkable for resemblances to the larvae of other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| apteria | noun (n. pl.) Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryliae. |
| araucaria | noun (n.) A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible. |
| aria | noun (n.) An air or song; a melody; a tune. |
| auricularia | noun (n. pl.) A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| avicularia | noun (n. pl.) See prehensile processes on the cells of some Bryozoa, often having the shape of a bird's bill. |
| acetonuria | noun (n.) Excess of acetone in the urine, as in starvation or diabetes. |
| alfileria | noun (n.) Alt. of Alfilerilla |
| anisocoria | noun (n.) Inequality of the pupils of the eye. |
| azoturia | noun (n.) Excess of urea or other nitrogenous substances in the urine. |
| bacteria | noun (n.p.) See Bacterium. |
| (pl. ) of Bacterium |
| balistraria | noun (n.) A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged. |
| baria | noun (n.) Baryta. |
| bipinnaria | noun (n.) The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free-swimming stage. |
| brachiolaria | noun (n. pl.) A peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia. |
| calceolaria | noun (n.) A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name. |
| calvaria | noun (n.) The bones of the cranium; more especially, the bones of the domelike upper portion. |
| carinaria | noun (n.) A genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin, glassy, bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills. |
| cercaria | noun (n.) The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage. |
| chyluria | noun (n.) A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance. |
| cineraria | noun (n.) A Linnaean genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament. |
| cnidaria | noun (n. pl.) A comprehensive group equivalent to the true Coelenterata, i. e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata. |
| convallaria | noun (n.) The lily of the valley. |
| crotalaria | noun (n.) A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox. |
| curia | noun (n.) One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus. |
| noun (n.) The place of assembly of one of these divisions. | |
| noun (n.) The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house. | |
| noun (n.) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household. | |
| noun (n.) Any court of justice. | |
| noun (n.) The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana. |
| caballeria | noun (n.) An ancient Spanish land tenure similar to the English knight's fee; hence, in Spain and countries settled by the Spanish, a land measure of varying size. In Cuba it is about 33 acres; in Porto Rico, about 194 acres; in the Southwestern United States, about 108 acres. |
| cafeteria | noun (n.) A restaurant or cafe at which the patrons serve themselves with food kept at a counter, taking the food to small tables to eat. |
| ceria | noun (n.) Cerium oxide, CeO2, a white infusible substance constituting about one per cent of the material of the common incandescent mantle. |
| dataria | noun (n.) Formerly, a part of the Roman chancery; now, a separate office from which are sent graces or favors, cognizable in foro externo, such as appointments to benefices. The name is derived from the word datum, given or dated (with the indications of the time and place of granting the gift or favor). |
| decandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants characterized by having ten stamens. |
| desmobacteria | noun (n. pl.) See Microbacteria. |
| desmomyaria | noun (n. pl.) The division of Tunicata which includes the Salpae. See Salpa. |
| diandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having two stamens. |
| dimyaria | noun (n. pl.) An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve. |
| dinosauria | noun (n. pl.) An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large "bird tracks," so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix. |
| diphtheria | noun (n.) A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group. |
| dodecandria | noun (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen. |
| dysphoria | noun (n.) Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets. |
| dysuria | noun (n.) Alt. of Dysury |
| enaliosauria | noun (n. pl.) An extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the Ichthyosauria and the Plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders. |
| enheahedria | noun (n.) Alt. of Enheahedron |
| enneandria | noun (n.) A Linnaean class of plants having nine stamens. |
| feria | noun (n.) A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BRƯA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bri) - Words That Begins with bri:
| bribable | adjective (a.) Capable of being bribed. |
| bribe | noun (n.) A gift begged; a present. |
| noun (n.) A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust. | |
| noun (n.) That which seduces; seduction; allurement. | |
| verb (v. t.) To rob or steal. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give or promise a reward or consideration to (a judge, juror, legislator, voter, or other person in a position of trust) with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct; to induce or influence by a bribe; to give a bribe to. | |
| verb (v. t.) To gain by a bribe; of induce as by a bribe. | |
| verb (v. i.) To commit robbery or theft. | |
| verb (v. i.) To give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or promise. |
| bribing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bribe |
| bribeless | adjective (a.) Incapable of being bribed; free from bribes. |
| briber | noun (n.) A thief. |
| noun (n.) One who bribes, or pays for corrupt practices. | |
| noun (n.) That which bribes; a bribe. |
| bribery | noun (n.) Robbery; extortion. |
| noun (n.) The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements. |
| brick | noun (n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp. |
| noun (n.) Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick. | |
| noun (n.) Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread). | |
| noun (n.) A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks. | |
| verb (v. t.) To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them. |
| bricking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brick |
| noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brisk |
| brickbat | noun (n.) A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4. |
| brickkiln | noun (n.) A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them. |
| bricklayer | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to build with bricks. |
| bricklaying | noun (n.) The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks. |
| brickle | adjective (a.) Brittle; easily broken. |
| brickleness | noun (n.) Brittleness. |
| brickmaker | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to make bricks. |
| brickwork | noun (n.) Anything made of bricks. |
| noun (n.) The act of building with or laying bricks. |
| bricky | adjective (a.) Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust. |
| brickyard | noun (n.) A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place. |
| bricole | noun (n.) A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used. |
| noun (n.) An ancient kind of military catapult. | |
| noun (n.) In court tennis, the rebound of a ball from a wall of the court; also, the side stroke or play by which the ball is driven against the wall; hence, fig., indirect action or stroke. | |
| noun (n.) A shot in which the cue ball is driven first against the cushion. |
| brid | noun (n.) A bird. |
| bridal | noun (n.) Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber. |
| noun (n.) A nuptial festival or ceremony; a marriage. |
| bridalty | noun (n.) Celebration of the nuptial feast. |
| bride | noun (n.) A woman newly married, or about to be married. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: An object ardently loved. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make a bride of. |
| bridebed | noun (n.) The marriage bed. |
| bridecake | noun (n.) Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding. |
| bridechamber | noun (n.) The nuptial apartment. |
| bridegroom | noun (n.) A man newly married, or just about to be married. |
| brideknot | noun (n.) A knot of ribbons worn by a guest at a wedding; a wedding favor. |
| bridemaid | noun (n.) Alt. of Brideman |
| brideman | noun (n.) See Bridesmaid, Bridesman. |
| bridesmaid | noun (n.) A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding. |
| bridesman | noun (n.) A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the "best man." |
| bridestake | noun (n.) A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round. |
| bridewell | noun (n.) A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse. |
| bridge | noun (n.) A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other. |
| noun (n.) Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed. | |
| noun (n.) The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument. | |
| noun (n.) A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit. | |
| noun (n.) A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall. | |
| noun (n.) A card game resembling whist. | |
| verb (v. t.) To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river. | |
| verb (v. t.) To open or make a passage, as by a bridge. | |
| verb (v. t.) To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; -- generally with over. |
| bridging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bridge |
| bridgeboard | noun (n.) A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened. |
| noun (n.) A board or plank used as a bridge. |
| bridgehead | noun (n.) A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tete-de-pont. |
| bridgeless | adjective (a.) Having no bridge; not bridged. |
| bridgepot | noun (n.) The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle. |
| bridgetree | noun (n.) The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill. |
| bridgeing | noun (n.) The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight. |
| bridgey | adjective (a.) Full of bridges. |
| bridle | noun (n.) The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages. |
| noun (n.) A restraint; a curb; a check. | |
| noun (n.) The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the tumbler, sear, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle. | |
| noun (n.) A mooring hawser. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put a bridle upon; to equip with a bridle; as, to bridle a horse. | |
| verb (v. t.) To restrain, guide, or govern, with, or as with, a bridle; to check, curb, or control; as, to bridle the passions; to bridle a muse. | |
| verb (v. i.) To hold up the head, and draw in the chin, as an expression of pride, scorn, or resentment; to assume a lofty manner; -- usually with up. |
| bridling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bridle |
| bridler | noun (n.) One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle. |
| bridoon | noun (n.) The snaffle and rein of a military bridle, which acts independently of the bit, at the pleasure of the rider. It is used in connection with a curb bit, which has its own rein. |
| brief | noun (n.) A writ issuing from the chancery, directed to any judge ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into the case, and upon their verdict to pronounce sentence. |
| noun (n.) A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose. | |
| adjective (a.) Short in duration. | |
| adjective (a.) Concise; terse; succinct. | |
| adjective (a.) Rife; common; prevalent. | |
| adjective (a.) A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words. | |
| adjective (a.) An epitome. | |
| adjective (a.) An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument. | |
| adjective (a.) A writ; a breve. See Breve, n., 2. | |
| adverb (adv.) Briefly. | |
| adverb (adv.) Soon; quickly. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings. |
| briefless | adjective (a.) Having no brief; without clients; as, a briefless barrister. |
| briefman | noun (n.) One who makes a brief. |
| noun (n.) A copier of a manuscript. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BRƯA:
English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 'a':
| baa | noun (n.) The cry or bleating of a sheep; a bleat. |
| verb (v. i.) To cry baa, or bleat as a sheep. |
| baba | noun (n.) A kind of plum cake. |
| babiroussa | noun (n.) Alt. of Babirussa |
| babirussa | noun (n.) A large hoglike quadruped (Sus, / Porcus, babirussa) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved. |
| babyroussa | noun (n.) Alt. of Babyrussa |
| babyrussa | noun (n.) See Babyroussa. |
| baccara | noun (n.) Alt. of Baccarat |
| bacchanalia | noun (n. pl.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus. |
| noun (n. pl.) Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler. |
| badiaga | noun (n.) A fresh-water sponge (Spongilla), common in the north of Europe, the powder of which is used to take away the livid marks of bruises. |
| bafta | noun (n.) A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export. |
| baggala | noun (n.) A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian Ocean. |
| balaenoidea | noun (n.) A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen. |
| ballista | noun (n.) An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles. |
| balsa | noun (n.) A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America. |
| banana | noun (n.) A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa. |
| bandala | noun (n.) A fabric made in Manilla from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis). |
| bandanna | noun (n.) Alt. of Bandana |
| bandana | noun (n.) A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form. |
| noun (n.) A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure. |
| barbara | noun (n.) The first word in certain mnemonic lines which represent the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives. |
| barilla | noun (n.) A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes. |
| noun (n.) The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes. | |
| noun (n.) Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp. |
| barracuda | noun (n.) Alt. of Barracouata |
| noun (n.) Any of several voracious pikelike marine fishes allied to the gray mullets, constituting the genus Sphyraena and family Sphyraenidae. The great barracuda (S. barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. S. Argentea of the Pacific coast and S. sphyraena of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food. |
| barracouata | noun (n.) A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus Sphyraena, sometimes used as food. |
| noun (n.) A large edible fresh-water fish of Australia and New Zealand (Thyrsites atun). |
| barranca | noun (n.) A ravine caused by heavy rains or a watercourse. |
| baryta | noun (n.) An oxide of barium (or barytum); a heavy earth with a specific gravity above 4. |
| basilica | noun (n.) Originally, the place of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose. |
| noun (n.) A building used by the Romans as a place of public meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached. | |
| noun (n.) A church building of the earlier centuries of Christianity, the plan of which was taken from the basilica of the Romans. The name is still applied to some churches by way of honorary distinction. | |
| noun (n.) A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century. |
| basommatophora | noun (n. pl.) A group of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails. |
| bassa | noun (n.) Alt. of Bassaw |
| batata | noun (n.) An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas). |
| batrachia | noun (n. pl.) The order of amphibians which includes the frogs and toads; the Anura. Sometimes the word is used in a wider sense as equivalent to Amphibia. |
| batta | noun (n.) Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India. |
| noun (n.) Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins. |
| battalia | noun (n.) Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action. |
| noun (n.) An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body. |
| battuta | noun (n.) The measuring of time by beating. |
| baya | noun (n.) The East Indian weaver bird (Ploceus Philippinus). |
| bdelloidea | noun (n. pl.) The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea. |
| bdellomorpha | noun (n.) An order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams. |
| beccabunga | noun (n.) See Brooklime. |
| becuna | noun (n.) A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyraena spet). See Barracuda. |
| bega | noun (n.) See Bigha. |
| begonia | noun (n.) A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors. |
| belladonna | noun (n.) An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade. |
| noun (n.) A species of Amaryllis (A. belladonna); the belladonna lily. |
| bellona | noun (n.) The goddess of war. |
| beluga | noun (n.) A cetacean allied to the dolphins. |
| bema | noun (n.) A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. |
| noun (n.) That part of an early Christian church which was reserved for the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel. | |
| noun (n.) Erroneously: A pulpit. |
| bengola | noun (n.) A Bengal light. |
| beretta | noun (n.) Same as Berretta. |
| berretta | noun (n.) A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green. |
| bertha | noun (n.) A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies. |
| beteela | noun (n.) An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc. |
| bibliomania | noun (n.) A mania for acquiring books. |
| bibliophobia | noun (n.) A dread of books. |
| bibliotheca | noun (n.) A library. |
| biga | noun (n.) A two-horse chariot. |
| bigha | noun (n.) A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre. |
| bignonia | noun (n.) A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus. |
| bimana | noun (n. pl.) Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia. |
| biretta | noun (n.) Same as Berretta. |
| blastema | noun (n.) The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows. |
| blastoidea | noun (n. pl.) One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form. |
| blastula | noun (n.) That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm. |
| blea | noun (n.) The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood. |
| blennorrhea | noun (n.) An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus. |
| noun (n.) Gonorrhea. |
| boa | noun (n.) A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques). |
| noun (n.) A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor. |
| bocca | noun (n.) The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out. |
| bohea | noun (n.) Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea. |
| bohemia | noun (n.) A country of central Europe. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: The region or community of social Bohemians. See Bohemian, n., 3. |
| bologna | noun (n.) A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects. |
| noun (n.) A Bologna sausage. |
| bonanza | noun (n.) In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income. |
| bonetta | noun (n.) See Bonito. |
| bosa | noun (n.) A drink, used in the East. See Boza. |
| bothrenchyma | noun (n.) Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood. |
| bougainvillaea | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceae, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts. |
| boza | noun (n.) An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water. |
| brachelytra | noun (n. pl.) A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles. |
| brachia | noun (n. pl.) See Brachium. |
| brachiata | noun (n. pl.) A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea. |
| brachiopoda | noun (n.) A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle. |
| brachyptera | noun (n. pl.) A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles. |
| brachyura | noun (n. pl.) A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix. |
| bractea | noun (n.) A bract. |
| brahma | noun (n.) The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindoo gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer. |
| noun (n.) A valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well feathered. There are two breeds, the dark or penciled, and the light; -- called also Brahmapootra. |
| brama | noun (n.) See Brahma. |
| branchia | noun (n.) A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have. |
| branchiogastropoda | noun (n. pl.) Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiae, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata. |
| branchiopoda | noun (n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense. |
| branchiostoma | noun (n.) The lancelet. See Amphioxus. |
| branchiura | noun (n. pl.) A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus). |
| brassica | noun (n.) A genus of plants embracing several species and varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage (B. oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B. campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape or coleseed (B. napus), etc. |
| bravura | noun (n.) A florid, brilliant style of music, written for effect, to show the range and flexibility of a singer's voice, or the technical force and skill of a performer; virtuoso music. |
| breccia | noun (n.) A rock composed of angular fragments either of the same mineral or of different minerals, etc., united by a cement, and commonly presenting a variety of colors. |
| bregma | noun (n.) The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull. |
| bretwalda | noun (n.) The official title applied to that one of the Anglo-Saxon chieftains who was chosen by the other chiefs to lead them in their warfare against the British tribes. |
| britannia | noun (n.) A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and is used for table ware. Called also Britannia metal. |
| britzska | noun (n.) A long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey. |
| broma | noun (n.) Aliment; food. |
| noun (n.) A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it. |
| bronchia | noun (n. pl.) The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi. |
| bruta | noun (n.) See Edentata. |
| bryophyta | noun (n. pl.) See Cryptogamia. |
| bryozoa | noun (n. pl.) A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa. |
| buckra | noun (n.) A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc. |
| adjective (a.) White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam. |
| buddha | noun (n.) The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp. Gautama Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni), the founder of Buddhism. |
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