Name Report For First Name BIRD:
BIRD
First name BIRD's origin is English. BIRD means "bird". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BIRD below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of bird.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with BIRD and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with BIRD - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming BIRD
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BÝRD AS A WHOLE:
birdena birdie birdine birdy birde birdhil birdhill birdoswaldNAMES RHYMING WITH BÝRD (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ird) - Names That Ends with ird:
baird lairdRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (rd) - Names That Ends with rd:
ballard cyneheard bard gotthard ashford ceneward pickford ransford rexford stanford willard bayard cinnard kinnard reynard rikard hildegard irmgard irmigard stockhard stokkard adalhard adelhard aegelweard aescford aethelhard aethelweard aisford alhhard alvord archerd athelward bamard bayhard beamard bearnard berford berinhard bernard bernhard biecaford biford blandford blanford brainerd branhard burghard burhford ceard cenehard clyford cord cynhard deerward deorward eadgard eadward eadweard ealhhard eallard eckerd edgard eduard edvard edward eferhard eideard einhard ekerd ekhard erhard erkerd everard everhard evrard eward garrard gaspard gehard gerd gerhard gifuhard goddard guifford hagaward haraford harford heahweard heanford hobard hobbard hoireabard hubbard hulbard huxeford jefford kord linfordNAMES RHYMING WITH BÝRD (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bir) - Names That Begins with bir:
bir birch birche birgit birj birk birkett birkey birkhe birkhead birkhed birkita birley birney biron birr birte birtel birtleRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (bi) - Names That Begins with bi:
biaiardo bian bianca biast bibi bibiana bibsbebe bich bick bickford bicoir biddy bidelia bidina bidziil bienvenida bikr bilagaana bilal bilko bill billie billy bilqis bily bimisi binah binata bing binga binge bingen binh bink binta binyamin bisgu bishop bishr bitanig biton bittan bitten bittor bitya bixentaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BÝRD:
First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'd':
bannruod barend barnard bathild behrend bemossed beortbtraed beorthtraed berchtwald berend beresford bernd berthold bertrand bhraghad bladud blaed blathnaid bofind bond boulad boyd brad bradd bradford brainard brand bred brid brighid brigid brimlad brunhild brygid bud budd burchard burford burnard byford byrd byrtwoldEnglish Words Rhyming BIRD
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BÝRD AS A WHOLE:
| beambird | noun (n.) A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building. |
| bellbird | noun (n.) A South American bird of the genus Casmarhincos, and family Cotingidae, of several species; the campanero. |
| noun (n.) The Myzantha melanophrys of Australia. |
| bird | noun (n.) Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2). |
| noun (n.) A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves. | |
| noun (n.) Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: A girl; a maiden. | |
| verb (v. i.) To catch or shoot birds. | |
| verb (v. i.) Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve. |
| birdbolt | noun (n.) A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them. |
| noun (n.) Anything which smites without penetrating. |
| bird cage | noun (n.) Alt. of Birdcage |
| birdcage | noun (n.) A cage for confining birds. |
| birdcall | noun (n.) A sound made in imitation of the note or cry of a bird for the purpose of decoying the bird or its mate. |
| noun (n.) An instrument of any kind, as a whistle, used in making the sound of a birdcall. |
| birdcatcher | noun (n.) One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler. |
| birdcatching | noun (n.) The art, act, or occupation or catching birds or wild fowls. |
| birder | noun (n.) A birdcatcher. |
| birdie | noun (n.) A pretty or dear little bird; -- a pet name. |
| birdikin | noun (n.) A young bird. |
| birding | noun (n.) Birdcatching or fowling. |
| birdlet | noun (n.) A little bird; a nestling. |
| birdlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a bird. |
| birdlime | noun (n.) An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares. |
| verb (v. t.) To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare. |
| birdling | noun (n.) A little bird; a nestling. |
| birdman | noun (n.) A fowler or birdcatcher. |
| noun (n.) An aviator; airman. |
| birdseed | noun (n.) Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds. |
| bird's nest | noun (n.) Alt. of Bird's-nest |
| blackbird | noun (n.) In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelaeus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See Redwing. |
| noun (n.) Among slavers and pirates, a negro or Polynesian. | |
| noun (n.) A native of any of the islands near Queensland; -- called also Kanaka. |
| bloodbird | noun (n.) An Australian honeysucker (Myzomela sanguineolata); -- so called from the bright red color of the male bird. |
| bluebird | noun (n.) A small song bird (Sialia sialis), very common in the United States, and, in the north, one of the earliest to arrive in spring. The male is blue, with the breast reddish. It is related to the European robin. |
| butterbird | noun (n.) The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica. |
| birdwoman | noun (n.) An airwoman; an aviatress. |
| blackbirder | noun (n.) A slave ship; a slaver. |
| blackbirding | noun (n.) The kidnaping of negroes or Polynesians to be sold as slaves. |
| noun (n.) The act or practice of collecting natives of the islands near Queensland for service on the Queensland sugar plantations. |
| catbird | noun (n.) An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times the mewing of a cat. |
| cowbird | noun (n.) The cow blackbird (Molothrus ater), an American starling. Like the European cuckoo, it builds no nest, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds; -- so called because frequently associated with cattle. |
| crankbird | noun (n.) A small European woodpecker (Picus minor). |
| cushewbird | noun (n.) The galeated curassow. See Curassow. |
| deathbird | noun (n.) Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death. |
| devil bird | noun (n.) A small water bird. See Dabchick. |
| doughbird | noun (n.) The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). See Curlew. |
| dunbird | noun (n.) The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre. |
| noun (n.) An American duck; the ruddy duck. |
| firebird | noun (n.) The Baltimore oriole. |
| frostbird | noun (n.) The golden plover. |
| hairbird | noun (n.) The chipping sparrow. |
| hangbird | noun (n.) The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore oriole. |
| haybird | noun (n.) The European spotted flycatcher. |
| noun (n.) The European blackcap. |
| honeybird | noun (n.) The honey guide. |
| humbird | noun (n.) Humming bird. |
| icebird | noun (n.) An Arctic sea bird, as the Arctic fulmar. |
| kingbird | noun (n.) A small American bird (Tyrannus tyrannus, or T. Carolinensis), noted for its courage in attacking larger birds, even hawks and eagles, especially when they approach its nest in the breeding season. It is a typical tyrant flycatcher, taking various insects upon the wing. It is dark ash above, and blackish on the head and tail. The quills and wing coverts are whitish at the edges. It is white beneath, with a white terminal band on the tail. The feathers on the head of the adults show a bright orange basal spot when erected. Called also bee bird, and bee martin. Several Southern and Western species of Tyrannus are also called king birds. |
| noun (n.) The king tody. See under King. |
| ladybird | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small beetles of the genus Coccinella and allied genera (family Coccinellidae); -- called also ladybug, ladyclock, lady cow, lady fly, and lady beetle. Coccinella seplempunctata in one of the common European species. See Coccinella. |
| maybird | noun (n.) The whimbrel; -- called also May fowl, May curlew, and May whaap. |
| noun (n.) The knot. | |
| noun (n.) The bobolink. |
| mockbird | noun (n.) The European sedge warbler (Acrocephalus phragmitis). |
| manbird | noun (n.) An aviator. |
| nettlebird | noun (n.) the European whitethroat. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BÝRD (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ird) - English Words That Ends with ird:
| caird | noun (n.) A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar. |
| gird | noun (n.) A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang. |
| noun (n.) A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer. | |
| verb (v.) To strike; to smite. | |
| verb (v.) To sneer at; to mock; to gibe. | |
| verb (v. i.) To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms. | |
| verb (v. t.) To encircle or bind with any flexible band. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To surround; to encircle, or encompass. | |
| verb (v. t.) To clothe; to swathe; to invest. | |
| verb (v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest. |
| laird | noun (n.) A lord; a landholder, esp. one who holds land directly of the crown. |
| oilbird | noun (n.) See Guacharo. |
| ovenbird | noun (n.) Any species of the genus Furnarius, allied to the creepers. They inhabit South America and the West Indies, and construct curious oven-shaped nests. |
| noun (n.) In the United States, Seiurus aurocapillus; -- called also golden-crowned thrush. | |
| noun (n.) In England, sometimes applied to the willow warbler, and to the long-tailed titmouse. |
| oxbird | noun (n.) The dunlin. |
| noun (n.) The sanderling. | |
| noun (n.) An African weaver bird (Textor alector). |
| peabird | noun (n.) The wryneck; -- so called from its note. |
| poebird | noun (n.) The parson bird. |
| redbird | noun (n.) The cardinal bird. |
| noun (n.) The summer redbird (Piranga rubra). | |
| noun (n.) The scarlet tanager. See Tanager. |
| reedbird | noun (n.) The bobolink. |
| noun (n.) One of several small Asiatic singing birds of the genera Sch/nicola and Eurycercus; -- called also reed babbler. |
| ricebird | noun (n.) The Java sparrow. |
| noun (n.) The bobolink. |
| riflebird | noun (n.) Any one of several species of beautiful birds of Australia and New Guinea, of the genera Ptiloris and Craspidophora, allied to the paradise birds. |
| ringbird | noun (n.) The reed bunting. It has a collar of white feathers. Called also ring bunting. |
| shadbird | noun (n.) The American, or Wilson's, snipe. See under Snipe. So called because it appears at the same time as the shad. |
| noun (n.) The common European sandpiper. |
| snakebird | noun (n.) Any one of four species of aquatic birds of the genus Anhinga or Plotus. They are allied to the gannets and cormorants, but have very long, slender, flexible necks, and sharp bills. |
| noun (n.) The wryneck. |
| snowbird | noun (n.) An arctic finch (Plectrophenax, / Plectrophanes, nivalis) common, in winter, both in Europe and the United States, and often appearing in large flocks during snowstorms. It is partially white, but variously marked with chestnut and brown. Called also snow bunting, snowflake, snowfleck, and snowflight. |
| noun (n.) Any finch of the genus Junco which appears in flocks in winter time, especially J. hyemalis in the Eastern United States; -- called also blue snowbird. See Junco. | |
| noun (n.) The fieldfare. |
| stiltbird | noun (n.) See Stilt, n., 3. |
| stonebird | noun (n.) The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2. |
| sunbird | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small brilliantly colored birds of the family Nectariniidae, native of Africa, Southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia. In external appearance and habits they somewhat resemble humming birds, but they are true singing birds (Oscines). |
| noun (n.) The sun bittern. |
| third | noun (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided. |
| noun (n.) The sixtieth part of a second of time. | |
| noun (n.) The third tone of the scale; the mediant. | |
| noun (n.) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life. | |
| adjective (a.) Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day. | |
| adjective (a.) Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day. |
| thornbird | noun (n.) A small South American bird (Anumbius anumbii) allied to the ovenbirds of the genus Furnarius). It builds a very large and complex nest of twigs and thorns in a bush or tree. |
| thumbbird | noun (n.) The goldcrest. |
| thunderbird | noun (n.) An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher. |
| tonguebird | noun (n.) The wryneck. |
| troopbird | noun (n.) Any troupial. |
| troutbird | noun (n.) The American golden plover. |
| yellowbird | noun (n.) The American goldfinch, or thistle bird. See Goldfinch. |
| noun (n.) The common yellow warbler; -- called also summer yellowbird. See Illust. of Yellow warbler, under Yellow, a. |
| wallbird | noun (n.) The spotted flycatcher. |
| wattlebird | noun (n.) Any one of several species of honey eaters belonging to Anthochaera and allied genera of the family Meliphagidae. These birds usually have a large and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below each ear. They are natives of Australia and adjacent islands. |
| noun (n.) The Australian brush turkey. |
| weird | noun (n.) Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction. |
| noun (n.) A spell or charm. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to. |
| wetbird | noun (n.) The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain. |
| wheatbird | noun (n.) A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch. |
| wheelbird | noun (n.) The European goatsucker. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BÝRD (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bir) - Words That Begins with bir:
| biradiate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Biradiated |
| biradiated | adjective (a.) Having two rays; as, a biradiate fin. |
| biramous | adjective (a.) Having, or consisting of, two branches. |
| birch | noun (n.) A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta). |
| noun (n.) The wood or timber of the birch. | |
| noun (n.) A birch twig or birch twigs, used for flogging. | |
| noun (n.) A birch-bark canoe. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the birch; birchen. | |
| verb (v. t.) To whip with a birch rod or twig; to flog. |
| birching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Birch |
| birchen | adjective (a.) Of or relating to birch. |
| birectangular | adjective (a.) Containing or having two right angles; as, a birectangular spherical triangle. |
| bireme | noun (n.) An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars. |
| biretta | noun (n.) Same as Berretta. |
| birgander | noun (n.) See Bergander. |
| birk | noun (n.) A birch tree. |
| noun (n.) A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus). |
| birken | adjective (a.) Birchen; as, birken groves. |
| verb (v. t.) To whip with a birch or rod. |
| birkie | noun (n.) A lively or mettlesome fellow. |
| birlaw | noun (n.) A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law. |
| birostrate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Birostrated |
| birostrated | adjective (a.) Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks. |
| birring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Birr |
| birr | noun (n.) A whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel. |
| noun (n.) A rush or impetus; force. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion. |
| birrus | noun (n.) A coarse kind of thick woolen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages; also, a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or over the head. |
| birse | noun (n.) A bristle or bristles. |
| birt | noun (n.) A fish of the turbot kind; the brill. |
| birth | noun (n.) The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son. |
| noun (n.) Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction. | |
| noun (n.) The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency. | |
| noun (n.) The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth. | |
| noun (n.) That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable. | |
| noun (n.) Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire. | |
| noun (n.) See Berth. |
| birthday | noun (n.) The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement. |
| noun (n.) The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities. |
| birthdom | noun (n.) The land of one's birth; one's inheritance. |
| birthing | noun (n.) Anything added to raise the sides of a ship. |
| birthless | adjective (a.) Of mean extraction. |
| birthmark | noun (n.) Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth. |
| birthnight | noun (n.) The night in which a person is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years. |
| birthplace | noun (n.) The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense. |
| birthright | noun (n.) Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. |
| birthroot | noun (n.) An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties. |
| birthwort | noun (n.) A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BÝRD:
English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 'd':
| babehood | noun (n.) Babyhood. |
| babillard | noun (n.) The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler. |
| babyhood | noun (n.) The state or period of infancy. |
| baccated | adjective (a.) Having many berries. |
| adjective (a.) Set or adorned with pearls. |
| bachelorhood | noun (n.) The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship. |
| backband | noun (n.) The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage. |
| backboard | noun (n.) A board which supports the back wen one is sitting; |
| noun (n.) A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon. | |
| noun (n.) A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel. | |
| noun (n.) A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure. |
| backbond | noun (n.) An instrument which, in conjunction with another making an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust. |
| backboned | adjective (a.) Vertebrate. |
| backed | adjective (a.) Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad-backed; hump-backed. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Back |
| backfriend | noun (n.) A secret enemy. |
| background | noun (n.) Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front. |
| noun (n.) The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures. | |
| noun (n.) Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings. | |
| noun (n.) A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight. |
| backhand | noun (n.) A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right. |
| adjective (a.) Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting. | |
| adjective (a.) Backhanded; indirect; oblique. |
| backhanded | adjective (a.) With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow. |
| adjective (a.) Indirect; awkward; insincere; sarcastic; as, a backhanded compliment. | |
| adjective (a.) Turned back, or inclining to the left; as, a backhanded letters. |
| backsword | noun (n.) A sword with one sharp edge. |
| noun (n.) In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick. |
| backward | noun (n.) The state behind or past. |
| adjective (a.) Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances. | |
| adjective (a.) Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath. | |
| adjective (a.) Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child. | |
| adjective (a.) Late or behindhand; as, a backward season. | |
| adjective (a.) Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state. | |
| adjective (a.) Already past or gone; bygone. | |
| adverb (adv.) Alt. of Backwards | |
| verb (v. i.) To keep back; to hinder. |
| bacteroid | adjective (a.) Alt. of Bacteroidal |
| baenopod | noun (n.) One of the thoracic legs of Arthropods. |
| balanoid | adjective (a.) Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle. |
| balconied | adjective (a.) Having balconies. |
| bald | adjective (a.) Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak. |
| adjective (a.) Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal. | |
| adjective (a.) Undisguised. | |
| adjective (a.) Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean. | |
| adjective (a.) Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat. | |
| adjective (a.) Destitute of the natural covering. | |
| adjective (a.) Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. |
| baldhead | noun (n.) A person whose head is bald. |
| noun (n.) A white-headed variety of pigeon. |
| baldheaded | adjective (a.) Having a bald head. |
| baldpated | adjective (a.) Destitute of hair on the head; baldheaded. |
| balistoid | adjective (a.) Like a fish of the genus Balistes; of the family Balistidae. See Filefish. |
| ballad | noun (n.) A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas. |
| verb (v. i.) To make or sing ballads. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make mention of in ballads. |
| ballooned | adjective (a.) Swelled out like a balloon. |
| balustered | adjective (a.) Having balusters. |
| bannered | adjective (a.) Furnished with, or bearing, banners. |
| barbated | adjective (a.) Having barbed points. |
| barbed | adjective (a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.) |
| adjective (a.) Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Barb |
| bard | noun (n.) A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men. |
| noun (n.) Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon. | |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Barde | |
| noun (n.) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind. | |
| noun (n.) Specifically, Peruvian bark. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon. |
| barded | adjective (p.a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. |
| adjective (p.a.) Wearing rich caparisons. |
| barebacked | adjective (a.) Having the back uncovered; as, a barebacked horse. |
| barefaced | adjective (a.) With the face uncovered; not masked. |
| adjective (a.) Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless; audacious. |
| barefooted | adjective (a.) Having the feet bare. |
| barehanded | noun (n.) Having bare hands. |
| barelegged | adjective (a.) Having the legs bare. |
| barenecked | adjective (a.) Having the neck bare. |
| bargeboard | noun (n.) A vergeboard. |
| barkbound | adjective (a.) Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close. |
| barmaid | noun (n.) A girl or woman who attends the customers of a bar, as in a tavern or beershop. |
| barnyard | noun (n.) A yard belonging to a barn. |
| barreled | adjective (a.) Alt. of Barrelled |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Barrel |
| barrelled | adjective (a.) Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun. |
| () of Barrel |
| barwood | noun (n.) A red wood of a leguminous tree (Baphia nitida), from Angola and the Gaboon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work. |
| basaltoid | adjective (a.) Formed like basalt; basaltiform. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| basihyoid | noun (n.) The central tongue bone. |
| basined | adjective (a.) Inclosed in a basin. |
| basipterygoid | noun (a. & n.) Applied to a protuberance of the base of the sphenoid bone. |
| basisphenoid | noun (n.) The basisphenoid bone. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Basisphenoidal |
| basswood | noun (n.) The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree. |
| 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. |
| bastioned | adjective (a.) Furnished with a bastion; having bastions. |
| batailled | adjective (a.) Embattled. |
| bated | adjective (a.) Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Bate |
| batrachoid | adjective (a.) Froglike. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the Batrachidae, a family of marine fishes, including the toadfish. Some have poisonous dorsal spines. |
| battlemented | adjective (a.) Having battlements. |
| bawd | noun (n.) A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a woman. |
| verb (v. i.) To procure women for lewd purposes. |
| bayad | noun (n.) Alt. of Bayatte |
| bayard | adjective (a.) Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse. |
| adjective (a.) A stupid, clownish fellow. |
| bayed | adjective (a.) Having a bay or bays. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Bay |
| beached | adjective (p. p. & a.) Bordered by a beach. |
| adjective (p. p. & a.) Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Beach |
| bead | noun (n.) A prayer. |
| noun (n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer. | |
| noun (n.) Any small globular body | |
| noun (n.) A bubble in spirits. | |
| noun (n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid. | |
| noun (n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim). | |
| noun (n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments. | |
| noun (n.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading. | |
| verb (v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles. |
| beaked | adjective (a.) Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped. |
| adjective (a.) Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate. |
| beakhead | noun (n.) An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak. |
| noun (n.) A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Beak, 3. |
| beamed | adjective (a.) Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Beam |
| bearbind | noun (n.) The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis). |
| beard | noun (n.) The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults. |
| noun (n.) The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat. | |
| noun (n.) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds | |
| noun (n.) The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes. | |
| noun (n.) The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle. | |
| noun (n.) The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster. | |
| noun (n.) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies. | |
| noun (n.) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain. | |
| noun (n.) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out. | |
| noun (n.) That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle. | |
| noun (n.) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face. | |
| noun (n.) An imposition; a trick. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt. | |
| verb (v. t.) To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish. |
| bearded | adjective (a.) Having a beard. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Beard |
| bearherd | noun (n.) A man who tends a bear. |
| bearhound | noun (n.) A hound for baiting or hunting bears. |
| bearward | noun (n.) A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. |
| beasthood | noun (n.) State or nature of a beast. |
| beastlihead | noun (n.) Beastliness. |
| beautied | adjective (p. a.) Beautiful; embellished. |
| beavered | adjective (a.) Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat. |
| becard | noun (n.) A South American bird of the flycatcher family. (Tityra inquisetor). |
| becomed | adjective (a.) Proper; decorous. |
| bed | noun (n.) An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs. |
| noun (n.) (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage. | |
| noun (n.) A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground. | |
| noun (n.) A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals. | |
| noun (n.) The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river. | |
| noun (n.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc. | |
| noun (n.) See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed. | |
| noun (n.) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds. | |
| noun (n.) A course of stone or brick in a wall. | |
| noun (n.) The place or material in which a block or brick is laid. | |
| noun (n.) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile. | |
| noun (n.) The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine. | |
| noun (n.) The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad. | |
| noun (n.) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid. | |
| verb (v. t.) To place in a bed. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with a bed or bedding. | |
| verb (v. t.) To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position. | |
| verb (v. i.) To go to bed; to cohabit. |
| bedcord | noun (n.) A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed. |
| bedded | adjective (a.) Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged in a bed or beds. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Bed |
| bedspread | noun (n.) A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet. |
| bedstead | noun (n.) A framework for supporting a bed. |
| beebread | noun (n.) A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young. |
| beefwood | noun (n.) An Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland. |
| beeld | noun (n.) Same as Beild. |
| beetlehead | noun (n.) A stupid fellow; a blockhead. |
| noun (n.) The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Squatarola helvetica). See Plover. |
| beforehand | adjective (a.) In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded. |
| adverb (adv.) In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. | |
| adverb (adv.) By way of preparation, or preliminary; previously; aforetime. |
| beggarhood | noun (n.) The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars. |
| beghard | noun (n.) Alt. of Beguard |
| beguard | noun (n.) One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins. |
| behind | noun (n.) The backside; the rump. |
| adjective (a.) On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill. | |
| adjective (a.) Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death. | |
| adjective (a.) Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement. | |
| adverb (adv.) At the back part; in the rear. | |
| adverb (adv.) Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind. | |
| adverb (adv.) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining. | |
| adverb (adv.) Backward in time or order of succession; past. | |
| adverb (adv.) After the departure of another; as, to stay behind. |
| beild | noun (n.) A place of shelter; protection; refuge. |
| belated | adjective (a.) Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Belate |
| belgard | noun (n.) A sweet or loving look. |
| belled | adjective (a.) Hung with a bell or bells. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Bell |
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