Name Report For First Name BURT:
BURT
First name BURT's origin is English. BURT means "glorious". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BURT below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of burt.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with BURT and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with BURT - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming BURT
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BURT AS A WHOLE:
burton alburt eadburt gilburt halburt osburt radburt seaburt wilburt filburtNAMES RHYMING WITH BURT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (urt) - Names That Ends with urt:
meht-urt curt kurt wurt harcourt courtRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (rt) - Names That Ends with rt:
mert beircheart cuthbert sigebert domingart everhart hart radbert wilbert aubert florismart robert raibeart taggart hobart rambert adelbert baldhart stockhart adalbert aethelbert ailbert albert art auhert bart bert bohort bort burkhart calbert calvert colbert colvert cort culbart culbert dealbert delbert eawart elbert englebert evert ewart fitzgilbert gilibeirt gilleabart giselbert guilbert halbart heort herlbert hubert hulbart hurlbart inglebert kort kuhlbert kulbart kulbert lambart lambert odbart odhert orbart osbart pert ramhart sebert sigenert stewart stuart tabbart tahbert talbert urquhart wilbart wilpert tabbert rupert rainart odbert orbert hulbert englbehrt bogart seabert osbert hurlbert halbert gilbert filbert ewert ethelbertNAMES RHYMING WITH BURT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bur) - Names That Begins with bur:
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 burl burle burleig burleigh burley burlin burly burn burnard burne burneig burnell burnet burnett burnette burney burns burrell bursone bursuqRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (bu) - Names That Begins with bu:
buach buadhachan buagh buan buchanan buchi buciac buck buckley bud budd buddy buena buinton buiron bundy bupe bushra busiris buthayna buthaynah butrusNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BURT:
First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 't':
bancroft barnet barnett barret barrett bartlett bast bastet batt beat beaufort bemot benat benecroft bennet bennett bent beorht beornet berit bernot berowalt biast birgit birkett bliant bogohardt brant brendt brent bret brett briant bridget bridgett briet brit bryantEnglish Words Rhyming BURT
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BURT AS A WHOLE:
| burt | noun (n.) See Birt. |
| burthen | noun (n. & v. t.) See Burden. |
| burton | noun (n.) A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part. |
| disburthening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disburthen |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BURT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (urt) - English Words That Ends with urt:
| court | noun (n.) An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. |
| noun (n.) The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. | |
| noun (n.) The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. | |
| noun (n.) Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court. | |
| noun (n.) Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. | |
| noun (n.) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. | |
| noun (n.) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes. | |
| noun (n.) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. | |
| noun (n.) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. | |
| noun (n.) The session of a judicial assembly. | |
| noun (n.) Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. | |
| noun (n.) A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. | |
| verb (v. t.) To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with. | |
| verb (v. t.) To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo. | |
| verb (v. t.) To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek. | |
| verb (v. t.) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract. | |
| verb (v. i.) To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting. |
| curt | adjective (a.) Characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as, curt limits; a curt answer. |
| flurt | noun (n.) A flirt. |
| gurt | noun (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift. |
| hurt | noun (n.) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions. |
| noun (n.) A husk. See Husk, 2. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm. | |
| verb (v. t.) To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Hurt |
| outcourt | noun (n.) An outer or exterior court. |
| sourt | noun (n.) A sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid, as of water from a tube, orifice, or other confined place, or of blood from a wound; a jet; a spirt. |
| noun (n.) A shoot; a bud. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: A sudden outbreak; as, a spurt of jealousy. |
| spurt | noun (n.) A sudden and energetic effort, as in an emergency; an increased exertion for a brief space. |
| verb (v. i.) To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt. | |
| verb (v. t.) To throw out, as a liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an emergency. |
| sturt | noun (n.) Disturbance; annoyance; care. |
| noun (n.) A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits. | |
| verb (v. i.) To vex; to annoy; to startle. |
| yaourt | noun (n.) A fermented drink, or milk beer, made by the Turks. |
| whurt | noun (n.) See Whort. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BURT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bur) - Words That Begins with bur:
| bur | noun (n.) Alt. of Burr |
| burr | noun (n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs. |
| noun (n.) The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2. | |
| noun (n.) A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4. | |
| noun (n.) The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5. | |
| noun (n.) The sweetbread. | |
| noun (n.) A clinker; a partially vitrified brick. | |
| noun (n.) A small circular saw. | |
| noun (n.) A triangular chisel. | |
| noun (n.) A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists. | |
| noun (n.) The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head. | |
| noun (n.) A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1. | |
| noun (n.) The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting. | |
| noun (n.) A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down. | |
| noun (n.) A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping. | |
| noun (n.) The lobe or lap of the ear. | |
| noun (n.) A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr. | |
| noun (n.) The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8. | |
| verb (v. i.) To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur. |
| burbolt | noun (n.) A birdbolt. |
| burbot | noun (n.) A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin. |
| burdelais | noun (n.) A sort of grape. |
| burden | noun (n.) That which is borne or carried; a load. |
| noun (n.) That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive. | |
| noun (n.) The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden. | |
| noun (n.) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin. | |
| noun (n.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace. | |
| noun (n.) A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds. | |
| noun (n.) A birth. | |
| noun (n.) The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer. | |
| noun (n.) The drone of a bagpipe. | |
| noun (n.) A club. | |
| verb (v. t.) To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load. | |
| verb (v. t.) To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable). |
| burdening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Burden |
| burdener | noun (n.) One who loads; an oppressor. |
| burdenous | adjective (a.) Burdensome. |
| burdensome | adjective (a.) Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive. |
| burdock | noun (n.) A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals. |
| burdon | noun (n.) A pilgrim's staff. |
| bureau | noun (n.) Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers. |
| noun (n.) The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted. | |
| noun (n.) Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief. | |
| noun (n.) A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture. |
| bureaucracy | noun (n.) A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system. |
| noun (n.) Government officials, collectively. |
| bureaucrat | noun (n.) An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine. |
| bureaucratic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Bureaucratical |
| bureaucratical | adjective (a.) Of, relating to, or resembling, a bureaucracy. |
| bureaucratist | noun (n.) An advocate for , or supporter of, bureaucracy. |
| burel | noun (n. & a.) Same as Borrel. |
| burette | noun (n.) An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock. |
| burg | noun (n.) A fortified town. |
| noun (n.) A borough. |
| burgage | noun (n.) A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft. |
| burgall | noun (n.) A small marine fish; -- also called cunner. |
| burgamot | noun (n.) See Bergamot. |
| burganet | noun (n.) See Burgonet. |
| burgee | noun (n.) A kind of small coat. |
| noun (n.) A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels. |
| burgeois | noun (n.) See 1st Bourgeois. |
| noun (n.) A burgess; a citizen. See 2d Bourgeois. |
| burgess | noun (n.) An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough. |
| noun (n.) One who represents a borough in Parliament. | |
| noun (n.) A magistrate of a borough. | |
| noun (n.) An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers. |
| burggrave | noun (n.) Originally, one appointed to the command of a burg (fortress or castle); but the title afterward became hereditary, with a domain attached. |
| burgh | noun (n.) A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough. |
| burghal | adjective (a.) Belonging to a burgh. |
| burghbote | noun (n.) A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town. |
| burghbrech | noun (n.) The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace. |
| burgher | noun (n.) A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough. |
| noun (n.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers. |
| burghermaster | noun (n.) See Burgomaster. |
| burghership | noun (n.) The state or privileges of a burgher. |
| burghmaster | noun (n.) A burgomaster. |
| noun (n.) An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster. |
| burghmote | noun (n.) A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly. |
| burglar | noun (n.) One guilty of the crime of burglary. |
| burglarer | noun (n.) A burglar. |
| burglarious | adjective (a.) Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary. |
| burglary | noun (n.) Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not. |
| burgomaster | noun (n.) A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster. |
| noun (n.) An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull (Larus glaucus), common in arctic regions. |
| burgonet | noun (n.) A kind of helmet. |
| burgoo | noun (n.) A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen. |
| burgrass | noun (n.) Grass of the genus Cenchrus, growing in sand, and having burs for fruit. |
| burgrave | noun (n.) See Burggrave. |
| burgundy | noun (n.) An old province of France (in the eastern central part). |
| noun (n.) A richly flavored wine, mostly red, made in Burgundy, France. |
| burh | noun (n.) See Burg. |
| burhel | noun (n.) Alt. of Burrhel |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BURT:
English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 't':
| baalist | noun (n.) Alt. of Baalite |
| babblement | noun (n.) Babble. |
| babist | noun (n.) A believer in Babism. |
| baccarat | noun (n.) A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters. |
| bacchant | noun (n.) A priest of Bacchus. |
| noun (n.) A bacchanal; a reveler. | |
| adjective (a.) Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing. |
| backcast | noun (n.) Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse. |
| backjoint | noun (n.) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling. |
| backset | noun (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback. |
| noun (n.) Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water. | |
| verb (v. i.) To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring. |
| backsight | noun (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3. |
| bacteriologist | noun (n.) One skilled in bacteriology. |
| bacterioscopist | noun (n.) One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations. |
| bafflement | noun (n.) The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check. |
| baft | noun (n.) Same as Bafta. |
| baguet | noun (n.) Alt. of Baguette |
| bailment | noun (n.) The action of bailing a person accused. |
| noun (n.) A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed. |
| bakemeat | noun (n.) Alt. of Baked-meat |
| balancement | noun (n.) The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. |
| ballast | adjective (a.) Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing. |
| adjective (a.) Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness. | |
| adjective (a.) Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid. | |
| adjective (a.) The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete. | |
| adjective (a.) Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security. | |
| verb (v. t.) To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid. | |
| verb (v. t.) To keep steady; to steady, morally. |
| ballet | noun (n.) An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing. |
| noun (n.) The company of persons who perform the ballet. | |
| noun (n.) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers. | |
| noun (n.) A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color. |
| balloonist | noun (n.) An aeronaut. |
| ballot | noun (n.) Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting. |
| noun (n.) The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets. | |
| noun (n.) The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district. | |
| noun (n.) To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To vote for or in opposition to. |
| banat | noun (n.) The territory governed by a ban. |
| bandelet | noun (n.) Alt. of Bandlet |
| bandlet | noun (n.) A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring. |
| noun (n.) Same as Bandelet. |
| bandicoot | noun (n.) A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens. |
| noun (n.) A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania. |
| bandit | noun (n.) An outlaw; a brigand. |
| banewort | noun (n.) Deadly nightshade. |
| banishment | noun (n.) The act of banishing, or the state of being banished. |
| bankrupt | noun (n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. |
| noun (n.) A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person. | |
| noun (n.) A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities. | |
| adjective (a.) Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant. | |
| adjective (a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury. | |
| adjective (a.) Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy. | |
| adjective (a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess). | |
| verb (v. t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish. |
| banneret | noun (n.) Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank. |
| noun (n.) A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank. | |
| noun (n.) A civil officer in some Swiss cantons. | |
| noun (n.) A small banner. |
| banquet | noun (n.) A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches. |
| noun (n.) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats. | |
| verb (v. t.) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast. | |
| verb (v. i.) To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast. | |
| verb (v. i.) To partake of a dessert after a feast. |
| baphomet | noun (n.) An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites. |
| baptist | noun (n.) One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ. |
| noun (n.) One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist. |
| baptizement | noun (n.) The act of baptizing. |
| barbet | noun (n.) A variety of small dog, having long curly hair. |
| noun (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa. | |
| noun (n.) A larva that feeds on aphides. |
| barghest | noun (n.) A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune. |
| barillet | noun (n.) A little cask, or something resembling one. |
| baronet | noun (n.) A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners. |
| barouchet | noun (n.) A kind of light barouche. |
| barpost | noun (n.) A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field. |
| barrenwort | noun (n.) An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific. |
| barret | noun (n.) A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers; -- called also barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics. |
| barringout | noun (n.) The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools. |
| barrowist | noun (n.) A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953. |
| barrulet | noun (n.) A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width. |
| bartlett | noun (n.) A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchretien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts. |
| basalt | noun (n.) A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated. |
| noun (n.) An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain. |
| bascinet | noun (n.) A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor. |
| basement | adjective (a.) The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively. |
| basenet | noun (n.) See Bascinet. |
| basinet | noun (n.) Same as Bascinet. |
| basket | noun (n.) A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. |
| noun (n.) The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches. | |
| noun (n.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. | |
| noun (n.) The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put into a basket. |
| basnet | noun (n.) Same as Bascinet. |
| basset | noun (n.) A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice. |
| noun (n.) The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop. | |
| adjective (a.) Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata. | |
| verb (v. i.) To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets. |
| bassinet | noun (n.) A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in which young children are placed as in a cradle. |
| noun (n.) See Bascinet. |
| bassoonist | noun (n.) A performer on the bassoon. |
| bast | noun (n.) The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom. |
| noun (n.) A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2. |
| bat | noun (n.) A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc. |
| noun (n.) Shale or bituminous shale. | |
| noun (n.) A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting. | |
| noun (n.) A part of a brick with one whole end. | |
| noun (n.) One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Tical, n., 1. | |
| noun (n.) In badminton, tennis, and similar games, a racket. | |
| noun (n.) A stroke; a sharp blow. | |
| noun (n.) A stroke of work. | |
| noun (n.) Rate of motion; speed. | |
| noun (n.) A spree; a jollification. | |
| noun (n.) Manner; rate; condition; state of health. | |
| verb (v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat. | |
| verb (v. i.) To use a bat, as in a game of baseball. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To bate or flutter, as a hawk. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To wink. |
| batement | noun (n.) Abatement; diminution. |
| batlet | noun (n.) A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff. |
| battailant | noun (n.) A combatant. |
| verb (v. i.) Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike. |
| battlement | noun (n.) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications. |
| noun (n.) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches. |
| battologist | noun (n.) One who battologizes. |
| baybolt | noun (n.) A bolt with a barbed shank. |
| bayonet | noun (n.) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense. |
| noun (n.) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery. | |
| verb (v. t.) To stab with a bayonet. | |
| verb (v. t.) To compel or drive by the bayonet. |
| beamlet | noun (n.) A small beam of light. |
| beast | noun (n.) Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc. |
| noun (n.) Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden. | |
| noun (n.) As opposed to man: Any irrational animal. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow. | |
| noun (n.) A game at cards similar to loo. | |
| noun (n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc. |
| beat | noun (n.) A stroke; a blow. |
| noun (n.) A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse. | |
| noun (n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit. | |
| noun (n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament. | |
| noun (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8. | |
| noun (n.) One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him. | |
| noun (n.) The act of one that beats a person or thing | |
| noun (n.) The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; a scoop. | |
| noun (n.) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively. | |
| noun (n.) A smart tap on the adversary's blade. | |
| adjective (a.) Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted. | |
| verb (v. t.) To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. | |
| verb (v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash. | |
| verb (v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. | |
| verb (v. t.) To tread, as a path. | |
| verb (v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. | |
| verb (v. t.) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc. | |
| verb (v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move with pulsation or throbbing. | |
| verb (v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be in agitation or doubt. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters. | |
| verb (v. i.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison. | |
| verb (v. i.) A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat. | |
| verb (v. i.) A place of habitual or frequent resort. | |
| verb (v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat. | |
| (imp.) of Beat | |
| (p. p.) of Beat |
| beaufet | noun (n.) A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet. |
| beauseant | noun (n.) The black and white standard of the Knights Templars. |
| becket | noun (n.) A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope. |
| noun (n.) A spade for digging turf. |
| bedagat | noun (n.) The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah. |
| bedevilment | noun (n.) The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble. |
| bedizenment | noun (n.) That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily. |
| bedpost | noun (n.) One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead. |
| noun (n.) Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff. |
| bedquilt | noun (n.) A quilt for a bed; a coverlet. |
| beechnut | noun (n.) The nut of the beech tree. |
| beet | noun (n.) A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year. |
| noun (n.) The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar. |
| befriendment | noun (n.) Act of befriending. |
| beguilement | noun (n.) The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled. |
| behest | noun (n.) That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction. |
| noun (n.) A vow; a promise. | |
| verb (v. t.) To vow. |
| behight | noun (n.) A vow; a promise. |
| verb (v.) To promise; to vow. | |
| verb (v.) To give in trust; to commit; to intrust. | |
| verb (v.) To adjudge; to assign by authority. | |
| verb (v.) To mean, or intend. | |
| verb (v.) To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be. | |
| verb (v.) To call; to name; to address. | |
| verb (v.) To command; to order. | |
| (imp.) of Behight | |
| (p. p.) of Behight |
| belligerent | noun (n.) A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare. |
| (p. pr.) Waging war; carrying on war. | |
| (p. pr.) Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights. |
| bellwort | noun (n.) A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers. |
| bellycheat | noun (n.) An apron or covering for the front of the person. |
| belt | noun (n.) That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt. |
| noun (n.) That which restrains or confines as a girdle. | |
| noun (n.) Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt. | |
| noun (n.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds. | |
| noun (n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea. | |
| noun (n.) A token or badge of knightly rank. | |
| noun (n.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other. | |
| noun (n.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges. | |
| verb (v. t.) To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep. |
| bendlet | noun (n.) A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend. |
| benedict | noun (n.) Alt. of Benedick |
| adjective (a.) Having mild and salubrious qualities. |
| benedight | adjective (a.) Blessed. |
| beneficent | adjective (a.) Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. |
| beneficient | adjective (a.) Beneficent. |
| benefit | noun (n.) An act of kindness; a favor conferred. |
| noun (n.) Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit. | |
| noun (n.) A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use. | |
| noun (n.) Beneficence; liberality. | |
| noun (n.) Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments. | |
| verb (v. t.) To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit. | |
| verb (v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change. |
| benevolent | adjective (a.) Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. |
| benightment | noun (n.) The condition of being benighted. |
| benignant | adjective (a.) Kind; gracious; favorable. |
| bennet | adjective (a.) The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc. |
| bent | noun (n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass. |
| noun (n.) A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America. | |
| noun (n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor. | |
| adjective (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever. | |
| adjective (a. & p. p.) Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief. | |
| verb (v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow. | |
| verb (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill. | |
| verb (v.) A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim. | |
| verb (v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course. | |
| verb (v.) A transverse frame of a framed structure. | |
| verb (v.) Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus. | |
| () of Bend | |
| () imp. & p. p. of Bend. |
| benumbment | noun (n.) Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor. |
| bequeathment | noun (n.) The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest. |
| bequest | noun (n.) The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B. |
| noun (n.) That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bequeath, or leave as a legacy. |
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