BPLE

Name Report For First Name BPLE:

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

Rhymes with BPLE - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming BPLE

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BPLE AS A WHOLE:

NAMES RHYMING WITH BPLE (According to last letters):

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

temple

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

kifle njemile udele naile nile tale adele crocale cybele eriphyle eurayle helle hypsipyle myrtle nephele odele omphale semele kiele rachele akinwole bekele kelile roble sule tekle stille bankole chibale kafele tearle michelle neville scoville maoltuile murthuile somhairle aristotle ercole theophile zale kale daniele emmanuele gamble vasile abbigale abegayle adelle afrodille anabelle angelle annabelle aprille ardelle areille ariele arielle arnelle audrielle belle bernelle bonnibelle brielle camile camille carole cecile cecille chamyle chanelle channelle chantalle chantelle chavelle chenelle cherelle cherrelle chevelle dale danele danelle danielle dannelle danrelle darelle dawnelle dawnielle denelle donelle elle emele francille gabriele gabrielle gale gayle gisselle granuaile

NAMES RHYMING WITH BPLE (According to first letters):

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

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

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BPLE:

First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'e':

babatunde babette backstere baecere baibre bailee bainbridge bainbrydge bairbre baladie baldassare baldhere baldlice balere balgaire balie ballinamore banbrigge bane baptiste barbie bardene barkarne barnabe barre barrie bartle bartolome basile baste bathilde bawdewyne baylee baylie beale beatie beatrice beattie beceere bede bedegrayne bedivere beiste belakane beldane beldene bellance bellangere beltane bemabe bemadette bembe bemeere bemelle bennie benoyce bentle beore beorhthilde berde berdine berenice bergitte berhane berke berkle bernadette bernadine berne bernette bernice bernyce beroe berthe bertie bertilde bertrade bessie bethanee bethanie betje bette bettine beverlee bibsbebe billie binge birche birde birdie birdine birkhe birte birtle blade blaine blaire blaise blaize blake

English Words Rhyming BPLE

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BPLE AS A WHOLE:

subpleural

adjective (a.) Situated under the pleural membrane.

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

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

ample	adjective (a.) Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended.
	adjective (a.) Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample justice.
	adjective (a.) Not contracted of brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative.

antetemple

noun (n.) The portico, or narthex in an ancient temple or church.

apple	noun (n.) The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.
	noun (n.) Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.
	noun (n.) Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.
	noun (n.) Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.
	verb (v. i.) To grow like an apple; to bear apples.

caple	noun (n.) A horse; a nag.
	noun (n.) See Capel.

centuple	adjective (a.) Hundredfold.
	verb (v. t.) To increase a hundredfold.

condisciple

noun (n.) A schoolfellow; a fellow-student.

copple

noun (n.) Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point.

couple	adjective (a.) That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
	adjective (a.) Two of the same kind connected or considered together; a pair; a brace.
	adjective (a.) A male and female associated together; esp., a man and woman who are married or betrothed.
	adjective (a.) See Couple-close.
	adjective (a.) One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; -- called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
	adjective (a.) Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes.
	verb (v.) To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join.
	verb (v.) To join in wedlock; to marry.
	verb (v. i.) To come together as male and female; to copulate.

crapple

noun (n.) A claw.

creeple	noun (n.) A creeping creature; a reptile.
	noun (n.) One who is lame; a cripple.

cripple	noun (n.) One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.
	adjective (a.) Lame; halting.
	verb (v. t.) To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.
	verb (v. t.) To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled.
	() Swampy or low wet ground, often covered with brush or with thickets; bog.
	() A rocky shallow in a stream; -- a lumberman's term.

dapple	noun (n.) One of the spots on a dappled animal.
	adjective (a.) Alt. of Dappled
	verb (v. t.) To variegate with spots; to spot.

decuple	noun (n.) A number ten times repeated.
	adjective (a.) Tenfold.
	verb (v. t.) To make tenfold; to multiply by ten.

dimple	noun (n.) A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin.
	noun (n.) A slight indentation on any surface.
	verb (v. i.) To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities.
	verb (v. t.) To mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions.

disciple	noun (n.) One who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine; as, the disciples of Plato; the disciples of our Savior.
	verb (v. t.) To teach; to train.
	verb (v. t.) To punish; to discipline.
	verb (v. t.) To make disciples of; to convert to doctrines or principles.

dripple

adjective (a.) Weak or rare.

duodecuple

adjective (a.) Consisting of twelves.

duple

adjective (a.) Double.

ensample	noun (n.) An example; a pattern or model for imitation.
	verb (v. t.) To exemplify, to show by example.

equimultiple	noun (n.) One of the products arising from the multiplication of two or more quantities by the same number or quantity. Thus, seven times 2, or 14, and seven times 4, or 28, are equimultiples of 2 and 4.
	adjective (a.) Multiplied by the same number or quantity.

example	noun (n.) One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.
	noun (n.) That which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy.
	noun (n.) That which resembles or corresponds with something else; a precedent; a model.
	noun (n.) That which is to be avoided; one selected for punishment and to serve as a warning; a warning.
	noun (n.) An instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and grammar, the principles and rules are illustrated by examples.
	verb (v. t.) To set an example for; to give a precedent for; to exemplify; to give an instance of; to instance.

exciple

noun (n.) Alt. of Excipulum

fipple

noun (n.) A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music.

gripple	noun (n.) A grasp; a gripe.
	adjective (a.) Griping; greedy; covetous; tenacious.

hopple	noun (n.) A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; -- chiefly used in the plural.
	verb (v. t.) To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.
	verb (v. t.) Fig.: To entangle; to hamper.

infinituple

adjective (a.) Multipied an infinite number of times.

manciple

noun (n.) A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court.

maniple	adjective (a.) A handful.
	adjective (a.) A division of the Roman army numbering sixty men exclusive of officers, any small body of soldiers; a company.
	adjective (a.) Originally, a napkin; later, an ornamental band or scarf worn upon the left arm as a part of the vestments of a priest in the Roman Catholic Church. It is sometimes worn in the English Church service.

maple

noun (n.) A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is A. platanoides.

multiple	noun (n.) A quantity containing another quantity a number of times without a remainder.
	adjective (a.) Containing more than once, or more than one; consisting of more than one; manifold; repeated many times; having several, or many, parts.

nipple	noun (n.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.
	noun (n.) The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged.
	noun (n.) Any small projection or article in which there is an orifice for discharging a fluid, or for other purposes; as, the nipple of a nursing bottle; the nipple of a percussion lock, or that part on which the cap is put and through which the fire passes to the charge.
	noun (n.) A pipe fitting, consisting of a short piece of pipe, usually provided with a screw thread at each end, for connecting two other fittings.

octuple

adjective (a.) Eightfold.

quadruple	noun (n.) four times the sum or number; a fourfold amount; as, to receive to quadruple of the amount in damages.
	noun (n.) four times the sum or number; a fourfold amount; as, to receive to quadruple of the amount in damages.
	adjective (a.) Fourfold; as, to make quadruple restitution; a quadruple alliance.
	adjective (a.) Fourfold; as, to make quadruple restitution; a quadruple alliance.
	verb (v. t.) To multiply by four; to increase fourfold; to double; to double twice.
	verb (v. i.) To be multiplied by four; to increase fourfold; to become four times as much.
	verb (v. t.) To multiply by four; to increase fourfold; to double; to double twice.
	verb (v. i.) To be multiplied by four; to increase fourfold; to become four times as much.

quintuple	adjective (a.) Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold.
	adjective (a.) Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold.
	verb (v. t.) To make fivefold, or five times as much or many.
	verb (v. t.) To make fivefold, or five times as much or many.

participle	noun (n.) A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles.
	adjective (a.) Anything that partakes of the nature of different things.

people	noun (n.) The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
	noun (n.) Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity.
	noun (n.) The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.
	noun (n.) One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
	noun (n.) One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.
	verb (v. t.) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.

periople

noun (n.) The external smooth horny layer of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.

pimple	noun (n.) Any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not.
	noun (n.) Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple.

pineapple

noun (n.) A tropical plant (Ananassa sativa); also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.

popple	noun (n.) The poplar.
	noun (n.) Tares.
	verb (v. i.) To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, as a cork on rough water; also, to bubble.

principle	noun (n.) Beginning; commencement.
	noun (n.) A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
	noun (n.) An original faculty or endowment.
	noun (n.) A fundamental truth; a comprehensive law or doctrine, from which others are derived, or on which others are founded; a general truth; an elementary proposition; a maxim; an axiom; a postulate.
	noun (n.) A settled rule of action; a governing law of conduct; an opinion or belief which exercises a directing influence on the life and behavior; a rule (usually, a right rule) of conduct consistently directing one's actions; as, a person of no principle.
	noun (n.) Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis; -- applied especially to drugs, plant extracts, etc.
	verb (v. t.) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill.

purple	noun (n.) A color formed by, or resembling that formed by, a combination of the primary colors red and blue.
	noun (n.) Cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as, to put on the imperial purple.
	noun (n.) Hence: Imperial sovereignty; royal rank, dignity, or favor; loosely and colloquially, any exalted station; great wealth.
	noun (n.) A cardinalate. See Cardinal.
	noun (n.) Any species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis) as, the banded purple (B. arthemis). See Illust. under Ursula.
	noun (n.) Any shell of the genus Purpura.
	noun (n.) See Purpura.
	noun (n.) A disease of wheat. Same as Earcockle.
	adjective (a.) Exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or red and blue color; as, a purple robe.
	adjective (a.) Imperial; regal; -- so called from the color having been an emblem of imperial authority.
	adjective (a.) Blood-red; bloody.
	verb (v. t.) To make purple; to dye of purple or deep red color; as, hands purpled with blood.

rimple	noun (n.) A fold or wrinkle. See Rumple.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To rumple; to wrinkle.

ripple	noun (n.) The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves.
	noun (n.) A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by little waves; as, a ripple of laughter.
	noun (n.) a small wave on the surface of water or other liquids for which the driving force is not gravity, but surface tension.
	noun (n.) the residual AC component in the DC current output from a rectifier, expressed as a percentage of the steady component of the current.
	verb (v.) An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
	verb (v. t.) To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
	verb (v. t.) Hence, to scratch or tear.
	verb (v. i.) To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain.
	verb (v. i.) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
	verb (v. t.) To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake.

rumple	noun (n.) A fold or plait; a wrinkle.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat.

sample	noun (n.) Example; pattern.
	noun (n.) A part of anything presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples.
	verb (v. t.) To make or show something similar to; to match.
	verb (v. t.) To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wools, cloths.

scruple	noun (n.) A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.
	noun (n.) Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.
	noun (n.) Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.
	verb (v. i.) To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.
	verb (v. t.) To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.
	verb (v. t.) To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.

septuple	adjective (a.) Seven times as much; multiplied by seven; sevenfold.
	verb (v. t.) To multiply by seven; to make sevenfold.

sextuple	adjective (a.) Six times as much; sixfold.
	adjective (a.) Divisible by six; having six beats; as, sixtuple measure.

sheldaple

noun (n.) A chaffinch.

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

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

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BPLE:

English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 'e':

baalite

noun (n.) A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater.

babble	noun (n.) Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.
	noun (n.) Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.
	verb (v. i.) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.
	verb (v. i.) To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.
	verb (v. i.) To talk much; to chatter; to prate.
	verb (v. i.) To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones.
	verb (v. i.) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding.
	verb (v. i.) To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.

babe	noun (n.) An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.
	noun (n.) A doll for children.

babingtonite

noun (n.) A mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, manganese, and lime.

babyhouse

adjective (a.) A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture.

baccalaureate	noun (n.) The degree of bachelor of arts. (B.A. or A.B.), the first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges.
	noun (n.) A baccalaureate sermon.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to a bachelor of arts.

baccate

adjective (a.) Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits.

bacchante	noun (n.) A priestess of Bacchus.
	noun (n.) A female bacchanal.

bace

noun (n., a., & v.) See Base.

bacillariae

noun (n. pl.) See Diatom.

backbone	noun (n.) The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.
	noun (n.) Anything like , or serving the purpose of, a backbone.
	noun (n.) Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness.

backhouse

noun (n.) A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.

backpiece

noun (n.) Alt. of Backplate

backplate

noun (n.) A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.

backside

noun (n.) The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.

bactericide

noun (n.) Same as Germicide.

bacule

noun (n.) See Bascule.

baculine

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod.

baculite

noun (n.) A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.

badge	noun (n.) A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.
	noun (n.) Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
	noun (n.) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.
	verb (v. t.) To mark or distinguish with a badge.

badinage

noun (n.) Playful raillery; banter.

baenomere

noun (n.) One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods.

baenosome

noun (n.) The thorax of Arthropods.

baffle	noun (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
	noun (n.) A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated.
	noun (n.) A grating or plate across a channel or pipe conveying water, gas, or the like, by which the flow is rendered more uniform in different parts of the cross section of the stream; -- used in measuring the rate of flow, as by means of a weir.
	noun (n.) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
	verb (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
	verb (v. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
	verb (v. i.) To practice deceit.
	verb (v. i.) To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.

bagasse

noun (n.) Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. It is then dried and used as fuel. Also extended to the refuse of beetroot sugar.

bagatelle	noun (n.) A trifle; a thing of no importance.
	noun (n.) A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player.

baggage	noun (n.) The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.
	noun (n.) The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage.
	noun (n.) Purulent matter.
	noun (n.) Trashy talk.
	noun (n.) A man of bad character.
	noun (n.) A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.
	noun (n.) A romping, saucy girl.

bagpipe	noun (n.) A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.
	verb (v. t.) To make to look like a bagpipe.

bague

noun (n.) The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.

baguette	noun (n.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.
	noun (n.) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.

bailable	adjective (a.) Having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail, upon bond with sureties; -- used of persons.
	adjective (a.) Admitting of bail; as, a bailable offense.
	adjective (a.) That can be delivered in trust; as, bailable goods.

bailee

noun (n.) The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust.

bailie

noun (n.) An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman.

baillie	noun (n.) Bailiff.
	noun (n.) Same as Bailie.

bailpiece

noun (n.) A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond.

baize

noun (n.) A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.

bake	noun (n.) The process, or result, of baking.
	verb (v. t.) To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.
	verb (v. t.) To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
	verb (v. t.) To harden by cold.
	verb (v. i.) To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes.
	verb (v. i.) To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.

bakistre

noun (n.) A baker.

balance	noun (n.) An apparatus for weighing.
	noun (n.) Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.
	noun (n.) Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.
	noun (n.) The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.
	noun (n.) An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account.
	noun (n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).
	noun (n.) The constellation Libra.
	noun (n.) The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September.
	noun (n.) A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S.
	noun (n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance.
	noun (n.) To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.
	noun (n.) To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.
	noun (n.) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
	noun (n.) To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them.
	noun (n.) To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account.
	noun (n.) To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books.
	noun (n.) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners.
	noun (n.) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.
	verb (v. i.) To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.
	verb (v. i.) To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate.
	verb (v. i.) To move toward a person or couple, and then back.

balanceable

adjective (a.) Such as can be balanced.

balanite

noun (n.) A fossil balanoid shell.

balaustine

noun (n.) The pomegranate tree (Punica granatum). The bark of the root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally.

baldpate	noun (n.) A baldheaded person.
	noun (n.) The American widgeon (Anas Americana).
	adjective (a.) Alt. of Baldpated

bale	noun (n.) A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw / hay, etc., put up compactly for transportation.
	noun (n.) Misery; calamity; misfortune; sorrow.
	noun (n.) Evil; an evil, pernicious influence; something causing great injury.
	verb (v. t.) To make up in a bale.
	verb (v. t.) See Bail, v. t., to lade.

balefire

noun (n.) A signal fire; an alarm fire.

balize

noun (n.) A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark.

ballade

noun (n.) A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.

ballastage

noun (n.) A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.

balotade

noun (n.) See Ballotade.

balsamine

noun (n.) The Impatiens balsamina, or garden balsam.

balustrade

noun (n.) A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

bambocciade

noun (n.) A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life.

bandage	noun (n.) A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.
	noun (n.) Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature.
	verb (v. t.) To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes.

banderole

noun (n.) Alt. of Bandrol

bandle

noun (n.) An Irish measure of two feet in length.

bandoline

noun (n.) A glutinous pomatum for the fair.

bandore

noun (n.) A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore.

bane	noun (n.) That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.
	noun (n.) Destruction; death.
	noun (n.) Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.
	noun (n.) A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.
	verb (v. t.) To be the bane of; to ruin.

bangue

noun (n.) See Bhang.

bangle	noun (n.) An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn by women in India and Africa, and in some other countries, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet.
	verb (v. t.) To waste by little and little; to fritter away.

bankable

adjective (a.) Receivable at a bank.

bankside

noun (n.) The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.

banlieue

noun (n.) The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city.

banquette	noun (n.) A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.
	noun (n.) A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.
	noun (n.) A bench or seat for passengers on the top of a diligence or other public vehicle.

banshee

noun (n.) Alt. of Banshie

banshie	noun (n.) A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.
	noun (n.) A supernatural being supposed to warn a family of the approaching death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice.

banstickle

noun (n.) A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.

baptizable

adjective (a.) Capable of being baptized; fit to be baptized.

barbacanage	noun (n.) See Barbicanage.
	noun (n.) Money paid for the support of a barbican.

barbaresque

adjective (a.) Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque architecture.

barbate

adjective (a.) Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.

barbecue	noun (n.) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
	noun (n.) A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole.
	noun (n.) A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
	verb (v. t.) To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron.
	verb (v. t.) To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog.

barbellate

adjective (a.) Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point.

barbellulate

adjective (a.) Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.

barbette

noun (n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.

barbicanage

noun (n.) Alt. of Barbacanage

barble

noun (n.) See Barbel.

barbotine

noun (n.) A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.

barbre

adjective (a.) Barbarian.

barbule	noun (n.) A very minute barb or beard.
	noun (n.) One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.

barcarolle	noun (n.) A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers.
	noun (n.) A piece of music composed in imitation of such a song.

barde	noun (n.) A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.]
	(pl.) Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
	(pl.) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.

bare	noun (n.) Surface; body; substance.
	noun (n.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
	adjective (a.) Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
	adjective (a.) With head uncovered; bareheaded.
	adjective (a.) Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
	adjective (a.) Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
	adjective (a.) Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture.
	adjective (a.) Threadbare; much worn.
	adjective (a.) Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.
	adjective (a.) To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
	() Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
	() of Bear

barebone

noun (n.) A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin.

barege

noun (n.) A gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted.

barge	noun (n.) A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.
	noun (n.) A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge.
	noun (n.) A large boat used by flag officers.
	noun (n.) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
	noun (n.) A large omnibus used for excursions.

bargecourse

noun (n.) A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable.

bargee

noun (n.) A bargeman.

barite

noun (n.) Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins.

baritone	noun (a. & n.) See Barytone.
	noun (n.) A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other.
	noun (n.) A person having a voice of such range.
	noun (n.) The viola di gamba, now entirely disused.
	noun (n.) A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.
	adjective (a.) Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice.
	adjective (a.) Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.

barque	noun (n.) Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
	noun (n.) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
	noun (n.) Same as 3d Bark, n.

barkantine

noun (n.) Same as Barkentine.

barkentine

noun (n.) A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.

barleybrake

noun (n.) Alt. of Barleybreak

barmecide

noun (n.) One who proffers some illusory advantage or benefit. Also used as an adj.: Barmecidal.

barmote

noun (n.) A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners.

barnabite

noun (n.) A member of a religious order, named from St. Barnabas.

barnacle	noun (n.) Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle.
	noun (n.) A bernicle goose.
	noun (n.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.
	(sing.) Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers.

baronage	noun (n.) The whole body of barons or peers.
	noun (n.) The dignity or rank of a baron.
	noun (n.) The land which gives title to a baron.

baronetage	noun (n.) State or rank of a baronet.
	noun (n.) The collective body of baronets.

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