BUD

Name Report For First Name BUD:

First name BUD's origin is English. BUD means "brother. nickname used since medieval times". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BUD below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of bud.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with BUD and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with BUD - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming BUD

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BUD AS A WHOLE:

abbud abbudin buddy budd

NAMES RHYMING WITH BUD (According to last letters):

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

khulud masud daoud abdul-wadud da'ud hud mahmud saud su'ud bladud knud lud archaimbaud arnaud ehud gertrud isoud maud amaud archenhaud claud dawud drud jud mahmoud mccloud thibaud stroud suoud houd masoud aud

NAMES RHYMING WITH BUD (According to first letters):

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

buach buadhachan buagh buan buchanan buchi buciac buck buckley buena buinton buiron bundy bupe burbank burcet burch burchard burdett burdette burdon bureig burel burford burgeis burgess burghard burghere burgtun burhan burhardt burhbank burhdon burhford burhleag burhtun burian burke burkett burkhart burl burle burleig burleigh burley burlin burly burn burnard burne burneig burnell burnet burnett burnette burney burns burrell bursone bursuq burt burton bushra busiris buthayna buthaynah butrus

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BUD:

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

baird ballard bamard bannruod bard barend barnard bathild bayard bayhard beamard bearnard behrend bemossed beortbtraed beorthtraed berchtwald berend beresford berford berinhard bernard bernd bernhard berthold bertrand bhraghad bickford biecaford biford bird birdoswald birkhead birkhed blaed blandford blanford blathnaid bofind bond boulad boyd brad bradd bradford brainard brainerd brand branhard bred brid brighid brigid brimlad brunhild brygid byford byrd byrtwold

English Words Rhyming BUD

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BUD AS A WHOLE:

bud	noun (n.) A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.
	noun (n.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.
	verb (v. i.) To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
	verb (v. i.) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
	verb (v. i.) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.
	verb (v. t.) To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.

budding	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bud
	noun (n.) The act or process of producing buds.
	noun (n.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.
	noun (n.) The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.

buddha

noun (n.) The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp. Gautama Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni), the founder of Buddhism.

buddhism

noun (n.) The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlightened," in the sixth century b. c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvana) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000.

buddhist	noun (n.) One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.

buddhistic

adjective (a.) Same as Buddhist, a.

buddle	noun (n.) An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions.
	verb (v. i.) To wash ore in a buddle.

budging

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

budge	noun (n.) A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.
	adjective (a.) Lined with budge; hence, scholastic.
	adjective (a.) Austere or stiff, like scholastics.
	verb (v. i.) To move off; to stir; to walk away.
	verb (v.) Brisk; stirring; jocund.

budgeness

noun (n.) Sternness; severity.

budger

noun (n.) One who budges.

budgerow

noun (n.) A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.

budget	noun (n.) A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.
	noun (n.) The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries.

budgy

noun (n.) Consisting of fur.

budlet

noun (n.) A little bud springing from a parent bud.

cuckoobud

noun (n.) A species of Ranunculus (R. bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup.

redbud

noun (n.) A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under Judas.

rosebud

noun (n.) The flower of a rose before it opens, or when but partially open.

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

Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ud) - English Words That Ends with ud:

boud

noun (n.) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.

badaud

noun (n.) A person given to idle observation of everything, with wonder or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler.

cloud	noun (n.) A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.
	noun (n.) A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor.
	noun (n.) A dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title.
	noun (n.) That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect.
	noun (n.) A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection.
	noun (n.) A large, loosely-knitted scarf, worn by women about the head.
	verb (v. t.) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded.
	verb (v. t.) To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen.
	verb (v. t.) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character.
	verb (v. t.) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn.
	verb (v. i.) To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up.

croud

noun (n.) See Crowd, a violin.

crud

noun (n.) See Curd.

cud	noun (n.) That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.
	noun (n.) A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid.
	noun (n.) The first stomach of ruminating beasts.

crapaud	noun (n.) A toad.
	noun (n.) As a proper name, Johnny Crapaud, or Crapaud, a nickname for a Frenchman.

emeraud

noun (n.) An emerald.

feud	noun (n.) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
	noun (n.) A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.
	noun (n.) A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.

fraud	noun (n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.
	noun (n.) An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.
	noun (n.) A trap or snare.

fud	noun (n.) The tail of a hare, coney, etc.
	noun (n.) Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy.

gaud	noun (n.) Trick; jest; sport.
	noun (n.) Deceit; fraud; artifice; device.
	noun (n.) An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket.
	noun (n.) To sport or keep festival.
	verb (v. t.) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint.

goud

noun (n.) Woad.

heraud

noun (n.) A herald.

hud

noun (n.) A huck or hull, as of a nut.

maraud	noun (n.) An excursion for plundering.
	verb (v. i.) To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder.

maud

noun (n.) A gray plaid; -- used by shepherds in Scotland.

misproud

adjective (a.) Viciously proud.

mud	noun (n.) Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
	verb (v. t.) To bury in mud.
	verb (v. t.) To make muddy or turbid.

overloud

adjective (a.) Too loud; noisy.

overproud

adjective (a.) Exceedingly or unduly proud.

pud	noun (n.) Same as Pood.
	noun (n.) The hand; the first.

ribaud

noun (n.) A ribald.

rud	noun (n.) Redness; blush.
	noun (n.) Ruddle; red ocher.
	noun (n.) The rudd.
	verb (v. t.) To make red.

scud	noun (n.) The act of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation.
	noun (n.) Loose, vapory clouds driven swiftly by the wind.
	noun (n.) A slight, sudden shower.
	noun (n.) A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
	noun (n.) Any swimming amphipod crustacean.
	verb (v. i.) To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.
	verb (v. i.) To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread.
	verb (v. t.) To pass over quickly.

shroud	noun (n.) That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
	noun (n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
	noun (n.) That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
	noun (n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
	noun (n.) The branching top of a tree; foliage.
	noun (n.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.
	noun (n.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
	noun (n.) To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
	noun (n.) To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.
	verb (v. i.) To take shelter or harbor.
	verb (v. t.) To lop. See Shrood.

spud	noun (n.) A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes.
	noun (n.) A dagger.
	noun (n.) Anything short and thick; specifically, a piece of dough boiled in fat.
	noun (n.) A potato.

stroud

noun (n.) A kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the North American Indians.

stud	noun (n.) A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc.
	noun (n.) A stem; a trunk.
	noun (n.) An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
	noun (n.) A kind of nail with a large head, used chiefly for ornament; an ornamental knob; a boss.
	noun (n.) An ornamental button of various forms, worn in a shirt front, collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable.
	noun (n.) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
	noun (n.) A stud bolt.
	noun (n.) An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
	verb (v. t.) To adorn with shining studs, or knobs.
	verb (v. t.) To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs.

sunnud

noun (n.) A charter or warrant; also, a deed of gift.

tacaud

noun (n.) The bib, or whiting pout.

talmud

noun (n.) The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch.

thud	noun (n.) A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth.
	verb (v. i. & t.) To make, or strike so as to make, a dull sound, or thud.

thundercloud

noun (n.) A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder.

yaud

noun (n.) See Yawd.

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

Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (bu) - Words That Begins with bu:

buolt

noun (n.) Corrupted form Bolt.

buansuah

noun (n.) The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primaevus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.

buat

noun (n.) A lantern; also, the moon.

bub	noun (n.) Strong malt liquor.
	noun (n.) A young brother; a little boy; -- a familiar term of address of a small boy.
	verb (v. t.) To throw out in bubbles; to bubble.

bubale

noun (n.) A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible.

bubaline

adjective (a.) Resembling a buffalo.

bubble	noun (n.) A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.
	noun (n.) A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aerated waters.
	noun (n.) A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.
	noun (n.) A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
	noun (n.) The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
	noun (n.) Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble.
	noun (n.) A person deceived by an empty project; a gull.
	noun (n.) To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.
	noun (n.) To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.
	noun (n.) To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.

bubbling

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

bubbler	noun (n.) One who cheats.
	noun (n.) A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes.
	verb (v. t.) To cheat; to deceive.

bubbly

adjective (a.) Abounding in bubbles; bubbling.

bubby	noun (n.) A woman's breast.
	noun (n.) Bub; -- a term of familiar or affectionate address to a small boy.

bubo

noun (n.) An inflammation, with enlargement, of a lymphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.

bubonic

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.

bubonocele

noun (n.) An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.

bubukle

noun (n.) A red pimple.

buccal

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.

buccaneer	noun (n.) A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries.
	verb (v. i.) To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.

buccaneerish

adjective (a.) Like a buccaneer; piratical.

buccinal

adjective (a.) Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.

buccinator

noun (n.) A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

buccinoid

adjective (a.) Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidae, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata.

buccinum

noun (n.) A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).

bucentaur	noun (n.) A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.
	noun (n.) The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic.

buceros

noun (n.) A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.

bucholzite

noun (n.) Same as Fibrolite.

buchu

noun (n.) A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil glands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves.

buck	noun (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
	noun (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
	noun (n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
	noun (n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
	noun (n.) A male Indian or negro.
	noun (n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
	noun (n.) The beech tree.
	verb (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
	verb (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
	verb (v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
	verb (v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.
	verb (v. i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.
	verb (v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
	verb (v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.

bucking	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buck
	noun (n.) The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.
	noun (n.) A washing.
	noun (n.) The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.

buckboard

noun (n.) A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon.

bucker	noun (n.) One who bucks ore.
	noun (n.) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
	noun (n.) A horse or mule that bucks.

bucket	noun (n.) A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
	noun (n.) A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
	noun (n.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel.
	noun (n.) The valved piston of a lifting pump.
	verb (v. t.) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.
	verb (v. t.) To pour over from a bucket; to drench.
	verb (v. t.) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
	verb (v. t.) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

buckety

noun (n.) Paste used by weavers to dress their webs.

buckeye	noun (n.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut.
	noun (n.) A cant name for a native in Ohio.

buckhound

noun (n.) A hound for hunting deer.

buckie

noun (n.) A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum.

buckish

adjective (a.) Dandified; foppish.

buckle	noun (n.) A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.
	noun (n.) A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
	noun (n.) A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
	noun (n.) A contorted expression, as of the face.
	noun (n.) To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
	noun (n.) To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
	noun (n.) To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.
	noun (n.) To join in marriage.
	verb (v. i.) To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
	verb (v. i.) To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
	verb (v. i.) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
	verb (v. i.) To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.

buckling	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buckle
	adjective (a.) Wavy; curling, as hair.

buckler	noun (n.) A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.
	noun (n.) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
	noun (n.) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
	noun (n.) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
	verb (v. t.) To shield; to defend.

buckra	noun (n.) A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc.
	adjective (a.) White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam.

buckram	noun (n.) A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
	noun (n.) A plant. See Ramson.
	adjective (a.) Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit.
	adjective (a.) Stiff; precise.
	verb (v. t.) To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.

buckshot

noun (n.) A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.

buckskin	noun (n.) The skin of a buck.
	noun (n.) A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
	noun (n.) A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
	noun (n.) Breeches made of buckskin.

buckstall

noun (n.) A toil or net to take deer.

buckthorn

noun (n.) A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus.

bucktooth

noun (n.) Any tooth that juts out.

buckwheat	noun (n.) A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food.
	noun (n.) The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc.

bucolic	noun (n.) A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.

bucolical

adjective (a.) Bucolic.

bucranium

noun (n.) A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BUD:

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.

beambird

noun (n.) A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building.

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.

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