Name Report For First Name BRAN:
BRAN
First name BRAN's origin is Arthurian Legend. BRAN means "father of caradoc or caradawc". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BRAN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of bran.(Brown names are of the same origin (Arthurian Legend) with BRAN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with BRAN - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming BRAN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BRAN AS A WHOLE:
brangore hildebrand brando branda brandee brandelyn brandi brandice brandie brandilyn brandy brandyce branwyn abran brand brandan branddun brandeles brandelis branden brandin brandubh branduff brandyn branhard branigan brannan brannen brannon branor bransan branson brant branton brantson hildbrand brantley brandon brann brangorre brande branwen brandeis brangaineNAMES RHYMING WITH BRAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ran) - Names That Ends with ran:
saran siran ran sahran shoukran imran omran dickran adiran morfran pendaran taran baran barran farran ferran karan keran kiran teiran beltran ciaran corcoran corran curran daran doran dorran efran eran feran garran jaran jarran jeran joran keiran kieran kyran loran moran odhran odran oran orran queran raedanoran terran dikran faran ocvran bendigeidfran duran garan toran torranRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (an) - Names That Ends with an:
achan ayan iman lishan loiyan nishan anan hanan janan rukan sawsan wijdan shoushan morgan regan nuallan jolan yasiman siobhan papan teyacapan tonalnan shuman lilian bian tan abdiraxman aman hassan labaan sultan taban aidan germian nechtan willan al-asfan aswan bourkan farhan ferhan foursan lahthan lamaanNAMES RHYMING WITH BRAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bra) - Names That Begins with bra:
bra brachah brad bradach bradaigh bradamate bradan bradana bradbourne bradburn bradd braddock braddon brademagus braden bradene bradey bradford bradig bradleah bradlee bradley bradly bradon bradshaw bradwell brady bradyn braeden braedon braedyn braelyn braemwiella braiana braiden brain brainard brainerd brale braleah bram bramley bramwell braoin brarn brasil braweigh brawleigh brawley braxton brayden braydon braylie braylon braytonRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (br) - Names That Begins with br:
bre brea breac breana breanainn breandan breanna breanne breasal brecc breck brecken bred bredbe bredbeddle brede bredon bree bree-ana breeda breen breena breezy brehus breindel breine bren brenda brendalynn brendan brenden brendis brendolyn brendon brendt brendyn brengwain brenius brenn brenna brennan brennen brennon brennus brentNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BRAN:
First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'n':
baen baethan baibin bailintin bain bairrfhionn bairrfhoinn balduin baldwin baldwyn balen balin ban banain banan banbhan bannan bardan barden bardon baron barrington barron bartalan barton bastiaan bastien battseeyon battzion bawdewyn bayen baylen beacan beadutun beagan beagen bealantin beaman bean bearcban bearn beathan beaton bebeodan bebhinn becan bedrosian beldan belden beldon belen bellerophon ben ben-tziyon bendision benedictson benen benjamin benkamin benn benon benson benton benzion beomann beorhttun beorn beretun berihun berlyn bern bernardyn berneen bernon berrin bertin berton bestandan besyrwan bethann bevan bevin bevyn bharain bheathain bhradain bingen binyamin biron biton bittan bitten bjorn blagdan blagden blagdon blian boden bodgan bodwynEnglish Words Rhyming BRAN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BRAN AS A WHOLE:
| abranchial | adjective (a.) Abranchiate. |
| abranchiata | noun (n. pl.) A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration. |
| abranchiate | adjective (a.) Without gills. |
| adumbrant | adjective (a.) Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth. |
| anthobranchia | noun (n. pl.) A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris. |
| aspidobranchia | noun (n. pl.) A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets. |
| anabranch | noun (n.) A branch of a river that reenters, or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil. |
| bran | noun (n.) The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain. |
| noun (n.) The European carrion crow. |
| brancard | noun (n.) A litter on which a person may be carried. |
| branch | noun (n.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant. |
| noun (n.) Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway. | |
| noun (n.) Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department. | |
| noun (n.) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola. | |
| noun (n.) A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family. | |
| noun (n.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters. | |
| adjective (a.) Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store. | |
| verb (v. i.) To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify. | |
| verb (v. i.) To divide into separate parts or subdivision. | |
| verb (v. t.) To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in. | |
| verb (v. t.) To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs. |
| branching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Branch |
| noun (n.) The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch. | |
| adjective (a.) Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. |
| brancher | noun (n.) That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions. |
| noun (n.) A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches. |
| branchery | noun (n.) A system of branches. |
| branchia | noun (n.) A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have. |
| branchial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to branchiae or gills. |
| branchiate | adjective (a.) Furnished with branchiae; as, branchiate segments. |
| branchiferous | adjective (a.) Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods. |
| branchiness | noun (n.) Fullness of branches. |
| branchiogastropoda | noun (n. pl.) Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiae, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata. |
| branchiomerism | noun (n.) The state of being made up of branchiate segments. |
| branchiopod | noun (n.) One of the Branchiopoda. |
| branchiopoda | noun (n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense. |
| branchiostegal | noun (n.) A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes. |
| branchiostegous | adjective (a.) Branchiostegal. |
| branchiostoma | noun (n.) The lancelet. See Amphioxus. |
| branchiura | noun (n. pl.) A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus). |
| branchless | adjective (a.) Destitute of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked. |
| branchlet | noun (n.) A little branch; a twig. |
| branchy | adjective (a.) Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. |
| branding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brand |
| brander | noun (n.) One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron. |
| noun (n.) A gridiron. |
| brandied | adjective (a.) Mingled with brandy; made stronger by the addition of brandy; flavored or treated with brandy; as, brandied peaches. |
| brandishing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brandish |
| brandish | noun (n.) To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish. |
| noun (n.) To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms. | |
| noun (n.) A flourish, as with a weapon, whip, etc. |
| brandisher | noun (n.) One who brandishes. |
| brandling | noun (n.) Alt. of Brandlin |
| brandlin | noun (n.) Same as Branlin, fish and worm. |
| brandy | noun (n.) A strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain. |
| brandywine | noun (n.) Brandy. |
| brangle | noun (n.) A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. |
| verb (v. i.) To wrangle; to dispute contentiously; to squabble. |
| brangling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brangle |
| noun (n.) A quarrel. |
| branglement | noun (n.) Wrangle; brangle. |
| brangler | noun (n.) A quarrelsome person. |
| brank | noun (n.) Buckwheat. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Branks | |
| verb (v. i.) To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit. | |
| verb (v. i.) To prance; to caper. |
| branks | noun (n.) A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces. |
| noun (n.) A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold. |
| brankursine | noun (n.) Bear's-breech, or Acanthus. |
| branlin | noun (n.) A young salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron. |
| noun (n.) A small red worm or larva, used as bait for small fresh-water fish; -- so called from its red color. |
| branny | adjective (a.) Having the appearance of bran; consisting of or containing bran. |
| bransle | noun (n.) A brawl or dance. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BRAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ran) - English Words That Ends with ran:
| alcoran | noun (n.) The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form). |
| aldebaran | noun (n.) A red star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades. |
| alkoran | noun (n.) The Mohammedan Scriptures. Same as Alcoran and Koran. |
| anomuran | noun (n.) One of the Anomura. |
| adjective (a.) Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans. |
| apteran | noun (n.) One of the Aptera. |
| brachyuran | noun (n.) One of the Brachyura. |
| catamaran | noun (n.) A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations. |
| noun (n.) Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats remarkable for speed. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of fire raft or torpedo bat. | |
| noun (n.) A quarrelsome woman; a scold. |
| cateran | noun (n.) A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier. |
| coleopteran | noun (n.) One of the order of Coleoptera. |
| cran | noun (n.) Alt. of Crane |
| dermapteran | noun (n.) See Dermoptera, Dermopteran. |
| dermopteran | noun (n.) An insect which has the anterior pair of wings coriaceous, and does not use them in flight, as the earwig. |
| dimeran | noun (n.) One of the Dimera. |
| dipteran | noun (n.) An insect of the order Diptera. |
| ephemeran | noun (n.) One of the ephemeral flies. |
| floran | noun (n.) Tin ore scarcely perceptible in the stone; tin ore stamped very fine. |
| furfuran | noun (n.) A colorless, oily substance, C4H4O, obtained by distilling certain organic substances, as pine wood, salts of pyromucic acid, etc.; -- called also tetraphenol. |
| garran | noun (n.) See Galloway. |
| grogran | noun (n.) A coarse stuff made of silk and mohair, or of coarse silk. |
| hemipteran | noun (n.) One of the Hemiptera; an hemipter. |
| homopteran | noun (n.) An homopter. |
| hymenopteran | noun (n.) One of the Hymenoptera. |
| iran | noun (n.) The native name of Persia. |
| koran | noun (n.) The Scriptures of the Mohammedans, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran. |
| lateran | noun (n.) The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world. |
| lutheran | noun (n.) One who accepts or adheres to the doctrines of Luther or the Lutheran Church. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Luther; adhering to the doctrines of Luther or the Lutheran Church. |
| macruran | noun (n.) One of the Macrura. |
| moneran | noun (n.) One of the Monera. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Monera. |
| neuropteran | noun (n.) A neuropter. |
| ophiuran | noun (n.) One of the Ophiurioidea. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ophiurioidea. |
| orthopteran | noun (n.) One of the Orthoptera. |
| quran | noun (n.) See Koran. |
| noun (n.) See Koran. |
| pentameran | noun (n.) One of the Pentamera. |
| poriferan | noun (n.) One of the Polifera. |
| ran | noun (n.) Open robbery. |
| noun (n.) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch. | |
| () imp. of Run. | |
| (imp.) of Run |
| rhipipteran | noun (n.) Same as Rhipipter. |
| siphonophoran | noun (n.) One of the Siphonophora. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to the Siphonophora. |
| sovran | adjective (a.) A variant of Sovereign. |
| sporran | noun (n.) A large purse or pouch made of skin with the hair or fur on, worn in front of the kilt by Highlanders when in full dress. |
| strepsipteran | noun (n.) One of the Strepsiptera. |
| sumatran | noun (n.) A native of Sumatra. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Sumatra or its inhabitants. |
| sonoran | adjective (a.) Pertaining to or designating the arid division of the Austral zone, including the warmer parts of the western United States and central Mexico. It is divided into the Upper Sonoran, which lies next to the Transition zone, and the Lower Sonoran, next to the Tropical. |
| tetrapteran | noun (n.) An insect having four wings. |
| thysanopteran | noun (n.) One of the Thysanoptera. |
| thysanuran | noun (n.) One of the Thysanura. Also used adjectively. |
| trimeran | noun (n.) One of the Trimera. Also used adjectively. |
| tyran | noun (n.) A tyrant. |
| toran | noun (n.) Alt. of Torana |
| varan | noun (n.) The monitor. See Monitor, 3. |
| veteran | noun (n.) One who has been long exercised in any service or art, particularly in war; one who has had. |
| adjective (a.) Long exercised in anything, especially in military life and the duties of a soldier; long practiced or experienced; as, a veteran officer or soldier; veteran skill. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BRAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bra) - Words That Begins with bra:
| brabantine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Brabant, an ancient province of the Netherlands. |
| brabble | noun (n.) A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle. |
| verb (v. i.) To clamor; to contest noisily. |
| brabblement | noun (n.) A brabble. |
| brabbler | noun (n.) A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler. |
| braccate | adjective (a.) Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet. |
| brace | noun (n.) That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop. |
| noun (n.) A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum. | |
| noun (n.) The state of being braced or tight; tension. | |
| noun (n.) A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell. | |
| noun (n.) A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves. | |
| noun (n.) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon. | |
| noun (n.) A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock. | |
| noun (n.) A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt. | |
| noun (n.) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders. | |
| noun (n.) Harness; warlike preparation. | |
| noun (n.) Armor for the arm; vantbrace. | |
| noun (n.) The mouth of a shaft. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly. | |
| verb (v. t.) To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd. | |
| verb (v. t.) To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards. | |
| verb (v. i.) To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -- with up. |
| bracing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brace |
| noun (n.) The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced. | |
| noun (n.) Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss. | |
| adjective (a.) Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind. |
| bracelet | noun (n.) An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls. |
| noun (n.) A piece of defensive armor for the arm. |
| bracer | noun (n.) That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage. |
| noun (n.) A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart. | |
| noun (n.) A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body. |
| brach | noun (n.) A bitch of the hound kind. |
| brachelytra | noun (n. pl.) A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles. |
| brachia | noun (n. pl.) See Brachium. |
| brachial | adjective (a.) Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve. |
| adjective (a.) Of the nature of an arm; resembling an arm. |
| brachiata | noun (n. pl.) A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea. |
| brachiate | adjective (a.) Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac. |
| brachioganoid | noun (n.) One of the Brachioganoidei. |
| brachioganoidei | noun (n. pl.) An order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of Africa is a living example. See Crossopterygii. |
| brachiolaria | noun (n. pl.) A peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia. |
| brachiopod | noun (n.) One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell. |
| brachiopoda | noun (n.) A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle. |
| brachium | noun (n.) The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow. |
| brachman | noun (n.) See Brahman. |
| brachycatalectic | noun (n.) A verse wanting two syllables at its termination. |
| brachycephalic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Brachycephalous |
| brachycephalous | adjective (a.) Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic. |
| brachycephaly | noun (n.) Alt. of Brachycephalism |
| brachycephalism | noun (n.) The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head. |
| brachyceral | adjective (a.) Having short antennae, as certain insects. |
| brachydiagonal | noun (n.) The shorter of the diagonals in a rhombic prism. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism. |
| brachydome | noun (n.) A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. See Dome. |
| brachygrapher | noun (n.) A writer in short hand; a stenographer. |
| brachygraphy | noun (n.) Stenography. |
| brachylogy | noun (n.) Conciseness of expression; brevity. |
| brachypinacoid | noun (n.) A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis. |
| brachyptera | noun (n. pl.) A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles. |
| brachypteres | noun (n.pl.) A group of birds, including auks, divers, and penguins. |
| brachypterous | adjective (a.) Having short wings. |
| brachystochrone | noun (n.) A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid. |
| brachytypous | adjective (a.) Of a short form. |
| brachyura | noun (n. pl.) A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix. |
| brachyural | adjective (a.) Alt. of Brachyurous |
| brachyurous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Brachyura. |
| brack | noun (n.) An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw. |
| noun (n.) Salt or brackish water. |
| bracken | noun (n.) A brake or fern. |
| bracket | noun (n.) An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office. |
| noun (n.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles. | |
| noun (n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support. | |
| noun (n.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage. | |
| noun (n.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet. | |
| noun (n.) A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like. | |
| noun (n.) A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece; -- only used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the United States navy it is called fork. | |
| verb (v. t.) To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shoot so as to establish a bracket for (an object). |
| bracketing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bracket |
| noun (n.) A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively. |
| brackish | adjective (a.) Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil. |
| brackishness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt. |
| bracky | adjective (a.) Brackish. |
| bract | noun (n.) A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises. |
| noun (n.) Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BRAN:
English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 'n':
| babian | noun (n.) Alt. of Babion |
| babion | noun (n.) A baboon. |
| baboon | noun (n.) One of the Old World Quadrumana, of the genera Cynocephalus and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape. |
| babylonian | noun (n.) An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean. |
| noun (n.) An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean. |
| bacchanalian | noun (n.) A bacchanal; a drunken reveler. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness. |
| backdown | noun (n.) A receding or giving up; a complete surrender. |
| backgammon | noun (n.) A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables. |
| verb (v. i.) In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first "table". |
| backwardation | noun (n.) The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. |
| backwoodsman | noun (n.) A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States. |
| bacon | noun (n.) The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. |
| baconian | noun (n.) One who adheres to the philosophy of Lord Bacon. |
| noun (n.) One who maintains that Lord Bacon is the author of the works commonly attributed to Shakespeare. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. |
| bactrian | noun (n.) A native of Bactria. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia. |
| badian | noun (n.) An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise. |
| badigeon | noun (n.) A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface. |
| noun (n.) A cement or distemper paste (as of plaster and powdered freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, etc. |
| badminton | noun (n.) A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks. |
| noun (n.) A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened. |
| bagman | noun (n.) A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen. |
| bain | noun (n.) A bath; a bagnio. |
| bairn | noun (n.) A child. |
| balcon | noun (n.) A balcony. |
| baldachin | noun (n.) A rich brocade; baudekin. |
| noun (n.) A structure in form of a canopy, sometimes supported by columns, and sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter's. | |
| noun (n.) A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession. |
| baldwin | noun (n.) A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple. |
| baleen | noun (n.) Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth. |
| balloon | noun (n.) A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation. |
| noun (n.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. | |
| noun (n.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form. | |
| noun (n.) A bomb or shell. | |
| noun (n.) A game played with a large inflated ball. | |
| noun (n.) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon. | |
| verb (v. i.) To go up or voyage in a balloon. | |
| verb (v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon. |
| ballotation | noun (n.) Voting by ballot. |
| ballotin | noun (n.) An officer who has charge of a ballot box. |
| balneation | noun (n.) The act of bathing. |
| balsamation | noun (n.) The act of imparting balsamic properties. |
| noun (n.) The art or process of embalming. |
| ban | noun (n.) A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation. |
| noun (n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army. | |
| noun (n.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense). | |
| noun (n.) An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription. | |
| noun (n.) A curse or anathema. | |
| noun (n.) A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes. | |
| noun (n.) An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia. | |
| verb (v. t.) To curse; to invoke evil upon. | |
| verb (v. t.) To forbid; to interdict. | |
| verb (v. i.) To curse; to swear. |
| bandon | noun (n.) Disposal; control; license. |
| banian | noun (n.) A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer. |
| noun (n.) A man's loose gown, like that worn by the Banians. | |
| noun (n.) The Indian fig. See Banyan. |
| bannition | noun (n.) The act of expulsion. |
| banyan | noun (n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men. |
| baptization | noun (n.) Baptism. |
| barbacan | noun (n.) See Barbican. |
| noun (n.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own. | |
| noun (n.) An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy. |
| barbadian | noun (n.) A native of Barbados. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Barbados. |
| barbarian | noun (n.) A foreigner. |
| noun (n.) A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state. | |
| noun (n.) A person destitute of culture. | |
| noun (n.) A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity. | |
| adjective (a.) Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations. |
| barbican | noun (n.) Alt. of Barbacan |
| barbiton | noun (n.) An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre. |
| barcon | noun (n.) A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean. |
| bargain | noun (n.) An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration. |
| noun (n.) An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge. | |
| noun (n.) A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain. | |
| noun (n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap. | |
| noun (n.) To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow. | |
| verb (v. t.) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another. |
| bargeman | noun (n.) The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge. |
| barken | adjective (a.) Made of bark. |
| barleycorn | noun (n.) A grain or "corn" of barley. |
| noun (n.) Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch. |
| barn | noun (n.) A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables. |
| noun (n.) A child. [Obs.] See Bairn. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lay up in a barn. |
| baron | noun (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount. |
| noun (n.) A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. |
| barracan | noun (n.) A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant. |
| barracoon | noun (n.) A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily. |
| barren | noun (n.) A tract of barren land. |
| noun (n.) Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile. | |
| adjective (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals. | |
| adjective (a.) Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile. | |
| adjective (a.) Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty. | |
| adjective (a.) Mentally dull; stupid. |
| bartizan | noun (n.) A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway. |
| barton | noun (n.) The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself. |
| noun (n.) A farmyard. |
| basan | noun (n.) Same as Basil, a sheepskin. |
| baseborn | adjective (a.) Born out of wedlock. |
| adjective (a.) Born of low parentage. | |
| adjective (a.) Vile; mean. |
| basilican | adjective (a.) Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical. |
| basilicon | noun (n.) An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance. |
| 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. |
| basion | noun (n.) The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull. |
| bason | noun (n.) A basin. |
| basset horn | adjective (a.) An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves. |
| () The corno di bassetto. |
| bassoon | noun (n.) A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc. |
| bassorin | noun (n.) A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| batavian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Batavia or Holland. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe; or to (b) /atavia or Holland; as, a Batavian legion. |
| batman | noun (n.) A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds. |
| noun (n.) A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load. |
| baton | noun (n.) A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances. |
| noun (n.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister. |
| batoon | noun (n.) See Baton, and Baston. |
| batrachian | noun (n.) One of the Batrachia. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Batrachia. |
| batsman | noun (n.) The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc. |
| battalion | noun (n.) A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array. |
| noun (n.) A regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp. when assembled for drill or battle. | |
| noun (n.) An infantry command of two or more companies, which is the tactical unit of the infantry, or the smallest command which is self-supporting upon the battlefield, and also the unit in which the strength of the infantry of an army is expressed. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form into battalions. |
| batton | noun (n.) See Batten, and Baton. |
| baudekin | noun (n.) The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad. |
| bavarian | noun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bavaria. |
| bavian | noun (n.) A baboon. |
| bavin | noun (n.) A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood. |
| noun (n.) Impure limestone. |
| bawn | noun (n.) An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure. |
| noun (n.) A large house. |
| bawsin | noun (n.) Alt. of Bawson |
| bawson | noun (n.) A badger. |
| noun (n.) A large, unwieldy person. |
| beacon | noun (n.) A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning. |
| noun (n.) A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners. | |
| noun (n.) A high hill near the shore. | |
| noun (n.) That which gives notice of danger. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with a beacon or beacons. |
| beadsman | noun (n.) Alt. of Bedesman |
| bedesman | noun (n.) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. |
| noun (n.) Same as Beadsman. |
| beadswoman | noun (n.) Alt. of Bedeswoman |
| bedeswoman | noun (n.) Fem. of Beadsman. |
| beakiron | noun (n.) A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil. |
| bean | noun (n.) A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs. |
| noun (n.) The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans. |
| bearn | noun (n.) See Bairn. |
| bearskin | noun (n.) The skin of a bear. |
| noun (n.) A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats. | |
| noun (n.) A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers. |
| beaten | adjective (a.) Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. |
| adjective (a.) Vanquished; conquered; baffled. | |
| adjective (a.) Exhausted; tired out. | |
| adjective (a.) Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase. | |
| adjective (a.) Tried; practiced. | |
| () of Beat |
| beatification | noun (n.) The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization. |
| beaufin | noun (n.) See Biffin. |
| beaverteen | noun (n.) A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. |
| beckon | noun (n.) A sign made without words; a beck. |
| verb (v. t.) To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand. |
| beden | noun (n.) The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible. |
| bedgown | noun (n.) A nightgown. |
| bedouin | noun (n.) One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Bedouins; nomad. |
| bedpan | noun (n.) A pan for warming beds. |
| noun (n.) A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed. |
| beduin | noun (n.) See Bedouin. |
| beechen | adjective (a.) Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech. |
| begin | noun (n.) Beginning. |
| verb (v. i.) To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. | |
| verb (v. i.) To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start. | |
| verb (v. t.) To enter on; to commence. | |
| verb (v. t.) To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of. |
| beguin | noun (n.) See Beghard. |
| behen | noun (n.) Alt. of Behn |
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