BAST

Name Report For First Name BAST:

First name BAST's origin is African. BAST means "myth name (personification of the heat of the sun)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BAST below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of bast.(Brown names are of the same origin (African) with BAST and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with BAST - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming BAST

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BAST AS A WHOLE:

bastet sebastene sebastiana oubastet bastien sebastian sebastiano sebastien sebastyn sebasten baste bastiaan sebastiene sebastienne

NAMES RHYMING WITH BAST (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ast) - Names That Ends with ast:

biast vokivocummast

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (st) - Names That Ends with st:

cyst amethyst drust clust west ernest gilchrist tempest emest emst forest forrest gikhrist kohkahycumest ocumwhowurst ocunnowhurst rust jurgist anst ernst earnest priest preost hurst gust hengist list

NAMES RHYMING WITH BAST (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bas) - Names That Begins with bas:

baseema basel basheera bashiga bashir bashira bashirah bashiri bashshar basil basile basilia basilio basilius basim basimah basmah bassam bassey

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ba) - Names That Begins with ba:

baal bab baba babafemi babatunde babette babu babukar bac baccaus baccus backstere bacstair badal badawi bader badi'a badr badra badriyyah badru badu baduna baecere baen baerhloew baethan bagdemagus baghel baha baheera bahir bahira bahiti bahiya baibin baibre baigh bailee bailefour bailey bailintin baillidh bailoch bain bainbridge bainbrydge bairbre baird bairrfhionn bairrfhoinn bakari baker bakkir baladi baladie balasi balbina baldassare baldassario baldemar balder baldhart baldhere baldlice baldric baldrik balduin baldulf baldwin baldwyn baleigh balen balere balfour balgair balgaire balie balin balinda balisarda

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BAST:

First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 't':

bancroft barnet barnett barret barrett bart bartlett batt beat beaufort beircheart bemot benat benecroft bennet bennett bent beorht beornet berit bernot berowalt bert birgit birkett bliant bogart bogohardt bohort bort brant brendt brent bret brett briant bridget bridgett briet brit bryant burcet burdett burhardt burkett burkhart burnet burnett burt

English Words Rhyming BAST

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BAST AS A WHOLE:

alabaster	noun (n.) A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.
	noun (n.) A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster.
	noun (n.) A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made.

alabastrian

adjective (a.) Alabastrine.

alabastrine

adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs.

alabastrum

noun (n.) A flower bud.

barbastel

noun (n.) A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips.

bast	noun (n.) The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.
	noun (n.) A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.

bastard	noun (n.) A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
	noun (n.) An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings.
	noun (n.) A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
	noun (n.) A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.
	noun (n.) A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
	noun (n.) Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.
	noun (n.) Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin.
	noun (n.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
	adjective (a.) Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.
	verb (v. t.) To bastardize.

bastardism

noun (n.) The state of being a bastard; bastardy.

bastardizing

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bastardize

bastardly	adjective (a.) Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt.
	adverb (adv.) In the manner of a bastard; spuriously.

bastardy	noun (n.) The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.
	noun (n.) The procreation of a bastard child.

basting

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Baste

bastile bastille	noun (n.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place.
	noun (n.) "The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.

bastinade	noun (n.) See Bastinado, n.
	verb (v. t.) To bastinado.

bastinado	noun (n.) A blow with a stick or cudgel.
	noun (n.) A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet.
	verb (v. t.) To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.

bastinadoing

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bastinado

bastion

noun (n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.

bastioned

adjective (a.) Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.

basto

noun (n.) The ace of clubs in quadrille and omber.

baston	noun (n.) A staff or cudgel.
	noun (n.) See Baton.
	noun (n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court.

bombast	noun (n.) Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
	noun (n.) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.
	noun (n.) Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
	adjective (a.) High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
	verb (v. t.) To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

bombastic

adjective (a.) Alt. of Bombastical

bombastical

adjective (a.) Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.

bombastry

noun (n.) Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.

demibastion

noun (n.) A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank.

interbastation

noun (n.) Patchwork.

subastral

adjective (a.) Beneath the stars or heavens; terrestrial.

subastringent

adjective (a.) Somewhat astringent.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BAST (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ast) - English Words That Ends with ast:

aftercast

noun (n.) A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late.

agast	adjective (p. p. & a.) See Aghast.
	verb (v. t.) Alt. of Aghast

antepast

noun (n.) A foretaste.

antispast

noun (n.) A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long (#).

arblast

noun (n.) A crossbow. See Arbalest.

avast

adjective (a.) Cease; stop; stay.

backcast

noun (n.) Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse.

ballast	adjective (a.) Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.
	adjective (a.) Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.
	adjective (a.) Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.
	adjective (a.) The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete.
	adjective (a.) Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
	verb (v. t.) To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.
	verb (v. t.) To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.
	verb (v. t.) To keep steady; to steady, morally.

beast	noun (n.) Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.
	noun (n.) Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.
	noun (n.) As opposed to man: Any irrational animal.
	noun (n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.
	noun (n.) A game at cards similar to loo.
	noun (n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.

bioblast

noun (n.) Same as Bioplast.

bioplast

noun (n.) A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.

blast	noun (n.) A violent gust of wind.
	noun (n.) A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast.
	noun (n.) The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.
	noun (n.) The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath.
	noun (n.) A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
	noun (n.) The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose.
	noun (n.) A flatulent disease of sheep.
	verb (v. t.) To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel.
	verb (v. t.) Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character.
	verb (v. t.) To confound by a loud blast or din.
	verb (v. t.) To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.
	verb (v. i.) To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.
	verb (v. i.) To blow; to blow on a trumpet.

bluebreast

noun (n.) A small European bird; the blue-throated warbler.

boast	noun (n.) Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
	noun (n.) The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
	verb (v. i.) To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth.
	verb (v. i.) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
	verb (v. t.) To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
	verb (v. t.) To display vaingloriously.
	verb (v. t.) To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
	verb (v. t.) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
	verb (v. t.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

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.

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.

breastfast

noun (n.) A large rope to fasten the midship part of a ship to a wharf, or to another vessel.

broadcast	noun (n.) A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.
	adjective (a.) Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.
	adjective (a.) Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows.
	adverb (adv.) So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press.

bullfeast

noun (n.) See Bullfight.

cast	noun (n.) The act of casting or throwing; a throw.
	noun (n.) The thing thrown.
	noun (n.) The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.
	noun (n.) A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.
	noun (n.) That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm.
	noun (n.) The act of casting in a mold.
	noun (n.) An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.
	noun (n.) That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.
	noun (n.) Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance.
	noun (n.) A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.
	noun (n.) A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift.
	noun (n.) The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
	noun (n.) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.
	noun (n.) A stoke, touch, or trick.
	noun (n.) A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.
	noun (n.) A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.
	noun (n.) Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
	noun (n.) Contrivance; plot, design.
	verb (v. t.) To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.
	verb (v. t.) To direct or turn, as the eyes.
	verb (v. t.) To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.
	verb (v. t.) To throw down, as in wrestling.
	verb (v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
	verb (v. t.) To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
	verb (v. t.) To bring forth prematurely; to slink.
	verb (v. t.) To throw out or emit; to exhale.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.
	verb (v. t.) To impose; to bestow; to rest.
	verb (v. t.) To dismiss; to discard; to cashier.
	verb (v. t.) To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope.
	verb (v. t.) To contrive; to plan.
	verb (v. t.) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.
	verb (v. t.) To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.
	verb (v. t.) To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells, stoves, bullets.
	verb (v. t.) To stereotype or electrotype.
	verb (v. t.) To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.
	verb (v. i.) To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.
	verb (v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.
	verb (v. i.) To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.
	verb (v. i.) To calculate; to compute.
	verb (v. i.) To receive form or shape in a mold.
	verb (v. i.) To warp; to become twisted out of shape.
	verb (v. i.) To vomit.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Cast
	() 3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth.

chiliast

noun (n.) One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.

chirogymnast

noun (n.) A mechanical contrivance for exercising the fingers of a pianist.

chiroplast

noun (n.) An instrument to guid the hands and fingers of pupils in playing on the piano, etc.

chromoblast

noun (n.) An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell.

cnidoblast

noun (n.) One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidae.

coast	noun (n.) To draw or keep near; to approach.
	noun (n.) To sail by or near the shore.
	noun (n.) To sail from port to port in the same country.
	noun (n.) To slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice.
	verb (v. t.) The side of a thing.
	verb (v. t.) The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border.
	verb (v. t.) The seashore, or land near it.
	verb (v. t.) To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.
	verb (v. t.) To sail by or near; to follow the coast line of.
	verb (v. t.) To conduct along a coast or river bank.

contrast	noun (n.) The act of contrasting, or the state of being contrasted; comparison by contrariety of qualities.
	noun (n.) Opposition or dissimilitude of things or qualities; unlikeness, esp. as shown by juxtaposition or comparison.
	noun (n.) The opposition of varied forms, colors, etc., which by such juxtaposition more vividly express each other's peculiarities.
	verb (v. i.) To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities.
	verb (v. t.) To set in opposition, or over against, in order to show the differences between, or the comparative excellences and defects of; to compare by difference or contrariety of qualities; as, to contrast the present with the past.
	verb (v. t.) To give greater effect to, as to a figure or other object, by putting it in some relation of opposition to another figure or object.

countercast

noun (n.) A trick; a delusive contrivance.

cranioclast

noun (n.) An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases.

cystoplast

noun (n.) A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.

cytoblast

noun (n.) The nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of a cellule, through or in which cell development takes place.

chloroplast

noun (n.) A plastid containing chlorophyll, developed only in cells exposed to the light. Chloroplasts are minute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low forms.

dicast

noun (n.) A functionary in ancient Athens answering nearly to the modern juryman.

disdiaclast

noun (n.) One of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks of muscle fibers.

divast

adjective (a.) Devastated; laid waste.

downcast	noun (n.) Downcast or melancholy look.
	noun (n.) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
	adjective (a.) Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.

dynast	noun (n.) A ruler; a governor; a prince.
	noun (n.) A dynasty; a government.

east	noun (n.) The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and which is toward the right hand of one who faces the north; the point directly opposite to the west.
	noun (n.) The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East.
	noun (n.) Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West.
	adjective (a.) Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east side; the east wind is a wind that blows from the east.
	adjective (a.) Designating, or situated in, that part of a church which contains the choir or chancel; as, the east front of a cathedral.
	adverb (adv.) Eastward.
	verb (v. i.) To move toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east; to orientate.

ecclesiast	noun (n.) An ecclesiastic.
	noun (n.) The Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus.

ectoblast	noun (n.) The outer layer of the blastoderm; the epiblast; the ectoderm.
	noun (n.) The outer envelope of a cell; the cell wall.

elegiast

noun (n.) One who composes elegies.

encomiast

noun (n.) One who praises; a panegyrist.

endoblast

noun (n.) Entoblast; endoplast. See Nucleus,

endoplast

noun (n.) See Nucleus.

enthusiast

noun (n.) One moved or actuated by enthusiasm; as: (a) One who imagines himself divinely inspired, or possessed of some special revelation; a religious madman; a fanatic. (b) One whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is influenced by a peculiar; fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person.

entoblast

noun (n.) The inner germ layer; endoderm. See Nucleolus.

entosthoblast

noun (n.) The granule within the nucleolus or entoblast of a nucleated cell.

epiblast

noun (n.) The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm. See Blastoderm, Delamination.

fantast

noun (n.) One whose manners or ideas are fantastic.

fast	noun (n.) That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.
	noun (n.) The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.
	adjective (a.) In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.
	adjective (a.) In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
	adjective (a.) In such a condition, as to resilience, etc., as to make possible unusual rapidity of play or action; as, a fast racket, or tennis court; a fast track; a fast billiard table, etc.
	verb (v. i.) To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
	verb (v. i.) To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.
	verb (v. i.) Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.
	verb (v. i.) Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.
	verb (v. i.) A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.
	verb (v.) Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door.
	verb (v.) Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
	verb (v.) Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
	verb (v.) Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
	verb (v.) Tenacious; retentive.
	verb (v.) Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
	verb (v.) Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.
	verb (v.) Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BAST (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bas) - Words That Begins with bas:

basal

adjective (a.) Relating to, or forming, the base.

basalt	noun (n.) A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated.
	noun (n.) An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain.

basaltic

adjective (a.) Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava.

basaltiform

adjective (a.) In the form of basalt; columnar.

basaltoid

adjective (a.) Formed like basalt; basaltiform.

basan

noun (n.) Same as Basil, a sheepskin.

basanite

noun (n.) Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.

basbleu

noun (n.) A bluestocking; a literary woman.

bascinet

noun (n.) A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor.

bascule

noun (n.) In mechanics an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls.

base	noun (n.) The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue.
	noun (n.) Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.
	noun (n.) The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented.
	noun (n.) The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration.
	noun (n.) That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.
	noun (n.) The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.
	noun (n.) The chief ingredient in a compound.
	noun (n.) A substance used as a mordant.
	noun (n.) The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.
	noun (n.) The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand.
	noun (n.) The number from which a mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of logarithms.
	noun (n.) A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base.
	noun (n.) A place or tract of country, protected by fortifications, or by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed, forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc.
	noun (n.) The smallest kind of cannon.
	noun (n.) That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ.
	noun (n.) The basal plane of a crystal.
	noun (n.) The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline.
	noun (n.) The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.
	noun (n.) The housing of a horse.
	noun (n.) A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
	noun (n.) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
	noun (n.) An apron.
	noun (n.) The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games.
	noun (n.) A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
	noun (n.) A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars.
	noun (n.) Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield.
	noun (n.) To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; -- used with on or upon.
	adjective (a.) Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.
	adjective (a.) Low in place or position.
	adjective (a.) Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean.
	adjective (a.) Illegitimate by birth; bastard.
	adjective (a.) Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals.
	adjective (a.) Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion.
	adjective (a.) Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations.
	adjective (a.) Not classical or correct.
	adjective (a.) Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin.
	adjective (a.) Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant.
	adjective (a.) To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower.
	adjective (a.) To reduce the value of; to debase.

basing

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Base

baseball	noun (n.) A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball.
	noun (n.) The ball used in this game.

baseboard

noun (n.) A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard.

baseborn	adjective (a.) Born out of wedlock.
	adjective (a.) Born of low parentage.
	adjective (a.) Vile; mean.

based	noun (n.) Wearing, or protected by, bases.
	adjective (a.) Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Base

baselard

noun (n.) A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century.

baseless

adjective (a.) Without a base; having no foundation or support.

basement

adjective (a.) The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively.

baseness

noun (n.) The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.

basenet

noun (n.) See Bascinet.

bashaw	noun (n.) A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.
	noun (n.) Fig.: A magnate or grandee.
	noun (n.) A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat.

bashful	adjective (a.) Abashed; daunted; dismayed.
	adjective (a.) Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression.

bashfulness

noun (n.) The quality of being bashful.

bashless

adjective (a.) Shameless; unblushing.

bashyle

noun (n.) See Basyle.

basic	adjective (a.) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
	adjective (a.) Having the base in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.
	adjective (a.) Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
	adjective (a.) Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.

basicerite

noun (n.) The second joint of the antennae of crustaceans.

basicity	noun (n.) The quality or state of being a base.
	noun (n.) The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid.

basidiospore

noun (n.) A spore borne by a basidium.

basidium

noun (n.) A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.

basifier

noun (n.) That which converts into a salifiable base.

basifugal

noun (n.) Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a basifugal growth.

basigynium

noun (n.) The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.

basihyal

adjective (a.) Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted hyoid arch.

basihyoid

noun (n.) The central tongue bone.

basil	noun (n.) The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground.
	noun (n.) The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush basil, or lesser basil (O. minimum), the leaves of which are used in cookery. The name is also given to several kinds of mountain mint (Pycnanthemum).
	noun (n.) The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.
	verb (v. t.) To grind or form the edge of to an angle.

basiling

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Basil

basilar

noun (n.) Alt. of Basilary

basilary	noun (n.) Relating to, or situated at, the base.
	noun (n.) Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action.

basilic	noun (n.) Basilica.
	adjective (a.) Alt. of Basilical

basilical	adjective (a.) Royal; kingly; also, basilican.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm.

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.

basilican

adjective (a.) Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical.

basilicok

noun (n.) The basilisk.

basilicon

noun (n.) An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.

basilisk	noun (n.) A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.
	noun (n.) A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidae.
	noun (n.) A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size.

basin	noun (n.) A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
	noun (n.) The quantity contained in a basin.
	noun (n.) A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.
	noun (n.) A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.
	noun (n.) A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.
	noun (n.) The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.
	noun (n.) An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

basined

adjective (a.) Inclosed in a basin.

basinet

noun (n.) Same as Bascinet.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BAST:

English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 't':

baalist

noun (n.) Alt. of Baalite

babblement

noun (n.) Babble.

babist

noun (n.) A believer in Babism.

baccarat

noun (n.) A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.

bacchant	noun (n.) A priest of Bacchus.
	noun (n.) A bacchanal; a reveler.
	adjective (a.) Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.

backjoint

noun (n.) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

backset	noun (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
	noun (n.) Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water.
	verb (v. i.) To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring.

backsight

noun (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3.

bacteriologist

noun (n.) One skilled in bacteriology.

bacterioscopist

noun (n.) One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations.

bafflement

noun (n.) The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.

baft

noun (n.) Same as Bafta.

baguet

noun (n.) Alt. of Baguette

bailment	noun (n.) The action of bailing a person accused.
	noun (n.) A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed.

bakemeat

noun (n.) Alt. of Baked-meat

balancement

noun (n.) The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces.

ballet	noun (n.) An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.
	noun (n.) The company of persons who perform the ballet.
	noun (n.) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.
	noun (n.) A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

balloonist

noun (n.) An aeronaut.

ballot	noun (n.) Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.
	noun (n.) The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.
	noun (n.) The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district.
	noun (n.) To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.
	verb (v. t.) To vote for or in opposition to.

banat

noun (n.) The territory governed by a ban.

bandelet

noun (n.) Alt. of Bandlet

bandlet	noun (n.) A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring.
	noun (n.) Same as Bandelet.

bandicoot	noun (n.) A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.
	noun (n.) A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.

bandit

noun (n.) An outlaw; a brigand.

banewort

noun (n.) Deadly nightshade.

banishment

noun (n.) The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.

bankrupt	noun (n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
	noun (n.) A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person.
	noun (n.) A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.
	adjective (a.) Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.
	adjective (a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.
	adjective (a.) Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.
	adjective (a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
	verb (v. t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.

banneret	noun (n.) Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.
	noun (n.) A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.
	noun (n.) A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
	noun (n.) A small banner.

banquet	noun (n.) A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.
	noun (n.) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.
	verb (v. t.) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
	verb (v. i.) To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.
	verb (v. i.) To partake of a dessert after a feast.

baphomet

noun (n.) An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.

baptist	noun (n.) One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ.
	noun (n.) One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.

baptizement

noun (n.) The act of baptizing.

barbet	noun (n.) A variety of small dog, having long curly hair.
	noun (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.
	noun (n.) A larva that feeds on aphides.

barghest

noun (n.) A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune.

barillet

noun (n.) A little cask, or something resembling one.

baronet

noun (n.) A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.

barouchet

noun (n.) A kind of light barouche.

barpost

noun (n.) A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.

barrenwort

noun (n.) An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.

barret

noun (n.) A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers; -- called also barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics.

barringout

noun (n.) The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools.

barrowist

noun (n.) A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.

barrulet

noun (n.) A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width.

bartlett

noun (n.) A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchretien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.

basket	noun (n.) A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.
	noun (n.) The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.
	noun (n.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
	noun (n.) The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach.
	verb (v. t.) To put into a basket.

basnet

noun (n.) Same as Bascinet.

basset	noun (n.) A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice.
	noun (n.) The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
	adjective (a.) Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata.
	verb (v. i.) To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets.

bassinet	noun (n.) A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in which young children are placed as in a cradle.
	noun (n.) See Bascinet.

bassoonist

noun (n.) A performer on the bassoon.

bat	noun (n.) A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
	noun (n.) Shale or bituminous shale.
	noun (n.) A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
	noun (n.) A part of a brick with one whole end.
	noun (n.) One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire.
	noun (n.) Same as Tical, n., 1.
	noun (n.) In badminton, tennis, and similar games, a racket.
	noun (n.) A stroke; a sharp blow.
	noun (n.) A stroke of work.
	noun (n.) Rate of motion; speed.
	noun (n.) A spree; a jollification.
	noun (n.) Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
	verb (v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
	verb (v. i.) To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To wink.

batement

noun (n.) Abatement; diminution.

batlet

noun (n.) A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff.

battailant	noun (n.) A combatant.
	verb (v. i.) Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike.

battlement	noun (n.) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
	noun (n.) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.

battologist

noun (n.) One who battologizes.

baybolt

noun (n.) A bolt with a barbed shank.

bayonet	noun (n.) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.
	noun (n.) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.
	verb (v. t.) To stab with a bayonet.
	verb (v. t.) To compel or drive by the bayonet.

beamlet

noun (n.) A small beam of light.

beat	noun (n.) A stroke; a blow.
	noun (n.) A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
	noun (n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
	noun (n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
	noun (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.
	noun (n.) One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him.
	noun (n.) The act of one that beats a person or thing
	noun (n.) The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; a scoop.
	noun (n.) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
	noun (n.) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
	adjective (a.) Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
	verb (v. t.) To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
	verb (v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash.
	verb (v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
	verb (v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
	verb (v. t.) To tread, as a path.
	verb (v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
	verb (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
	verb (v. t.) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
	verb (v. t.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
	verb (v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
	verb (v. i.) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
	verb (v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
	verb (v. i.) To be in agitation or doubt.
	verb (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
	verb (v. i.) To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
	verb (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
	verb (v. i.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
	verb (v. i.) A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.
	verb (v. i.) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
	verb (v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
	(imp.) of Beat
	(p. p.) of Beat

beaufet

noun (n.) A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet.

beauseant

noun (n.) The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.

becket	noun (n.) A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope.
	noun (n.) A spade for digging turf.

bedagat

noun (n.) The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah.

bedevilment

noun (n.) The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble.

bedizenment

noun (n.) That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.

bedpost	noun (n.) One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead.
	noun (n.) Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff.

bedquilt

noun (n.) A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.

beechnut

noun (n.) The nut of the beech tree.

beet	noun (n.) A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.
	noun (n.) The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.

befriendment

noun (n.) Act of befriending.

beguilement

noun (n.) The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled.

behest	noun (n.) That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.
	noun (n.) A vow; a promise.
	verb (v. t.) To vow.

behight	noun (n.) A vow; a promise.
	verb (v.) To promise; to vow.
	verb (v.) To give in trust; to commit; to intrust.
	verb (v.) To adjudge; to assign by authority.
	verb (v.) To mean, or intend.
	verb (v.) To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
	verb (v.) To call; to name; to address.
	verb (v.) To command; to order.
	(imp.) of Behight
	(p. p.) of Behight

belligerent	noun (n.) A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare.
	(p. pr.) Waging war; carrying on war.
	(p. pr.) Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights.

bellwort

noun (n.) A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.

bellycheat

noun (n.) An apron or covering for the front of the person.

belt	noun (n.) That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.
	noun (n.) That which restrains or confines as a girdle.
	noun (n.) Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.
	noun (n.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt.
	noun (n.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
	noun (n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.
	noun (n.) A token or badge of knightly rank.
	noun (n.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.
	noun (n.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.
	verb (v. t.) To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.
	verb (v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep.

bendlet

noun (n.) A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.

benedict	noun (n.) Alt. of Benedick
	adjective (a.) Having mild and salubrious qualities.

benedight

adjective (a.) Blessed.

beneficent

adjective (a.) Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.

beneficient

adjective (a.) Beneficent.

benefit	noun (n.) An act of kindness; a favor conferred.
	noun (n.) Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit.
	noun (n.) A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.
	noun (n.) Beneficence; liberality.
	noun (n.) Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.
	verb (v. t.) To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.
	verb (v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.

benevolent

adjective (a.) Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable.

benightment

noun (n.) The condition of being benighted.

benignant

adjective (a.) Kind; gracious; favorable.

bennet

adjective (a.) The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc.

bent	noun (n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
	noun (n.) A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
	noun (n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
	adjective (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
	adjective (a. & p. p.) Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.
	verb (v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
	verb (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
	verb (v.) A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
	verb (v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
	verb (v.) A transverse frame of a framed structure.
	verb (v.) Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
	() of Bend
	() imp. & p. p. of Bend.

benumbment

noun (n.) Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor.

bequeathment

noun (n.) The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest.

bequest	noun (n.) The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B.
	noun (n.) That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift.
	verb (v. t.) To bequeath, or leave as a legacy.

bereavement

noun (n.) The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.

bergamot	noun (n.) A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit.
	noun (n.) A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata).
	noun (n.) The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
	noun (n.) A variety of pear.
	noun (n.) A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
	noun (n.) A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit.