BRED
First name BRED's origin is Other. BRED means "sword". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BRED below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of bred.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with BRED and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming BRED
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BRED AS A WHOLE:
albreda bredbeddle bredon brede bredbeNAMES RHYMING WITH BRED (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (red) - Names That Ends with red:
alred allred jared mildred vared aldred eldred fred gared garred gerred jarred jered jerred modred wilfred zared walfred winfred renfred osred manfred alfred mordred winifred aethelred edred ethelred ulfredRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ed) - Names That Ends with ed:
at'eed ai-wahed fareed fassed majeed wahed mohammed muhanned sa'eed waleed garabed dyfed aethelflaed alhraed beortbtraed mildraed aelfraed ahmed bemossed birkhed blaed creed gofried gottfried hunfried jed joed khaled maed manfried modraed mohamed muhammed ned osraed raed rasheed slaed sped ted waed oved siegfried godfried somerled speed reed yazeed mufeed elfried beorthtraed luned ancenned rheged jochebed yocheved jocheved odedNAMES RHYMING WITH BRED (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bre) - Names That Begins with bre:
bre brea breac breana breanainn breandan breanna breanne breasal brecc breck brecken 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 brent brentan brenten brentley brently brenton breri breslin bressal bret brett bretta brettany brette bretton breuse brewster brewstere breyanna breynne brezzianaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (br) - Names That Begins with br:
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 braleahNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BRED:
First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'd':
baird ballard bamard bannruod bard barend barnard bathild bayard bayhard beamard bearnard behrend berchtwald berend beresford berford berinhard bernard bernd bernhard berthold bertrand bhraghad bickford biecaford biford bird birdoswald birkhead bladud blandford blanford blathnaid bofind bond boulad boyd brand branhard brid brighid brigid brimlad brunhild brygid bud budd burchard burford burghard burhford burnard byford byrd byrtwoldEnglish Words Rhyming BRED
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BRED AS A WHOLE:
brede | noun (n.) Alt. of Breede |
noun (n.) A braid. |
courtbred | adjective (a.) Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly. |
crossbred | adjective (a.) Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel. |
earthbred | adjective (a.) Low; grovelling; vulgar. |
fibred | adjective (a.) Having fibers; made up of fibers. |
hellbred | adjective (a.) Produced in hell. |
inbred | adjective (a.) Bred within; innate; as, inbred worth. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Inbreed |
lowbred | adjective (a.) Bred, or like one bred, in a low condition of life; characteristic or indicative of such breeding; rude; impolite; vulgar; as, a lowbred fellow; a lowbred remark. |
scabredity | noun (n.) Roughness; ruggedness. |
thoroughbred | noun (n.) A thoroughbred animal, especially a horse. |
adjective (a.) Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the like. |
unbred | adjective (a.) Not begotten; unborn. |
adjective (a.) Not taught or trained; -- with to. | |
adjective (a.) Not well-bred; ill-bred. |
underbred | adjective (a.) Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BRED (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (red) - English Words That Ends with red:
acred | adjective (a.) Possessing acres or landed property; -- used in composition; as, large-acred men. |
admired | adjective (a.) Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem. |
adjective (a.) Wonderful; also, admirable. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Admire |
ahungered | adjective (a.) Pinched with hunger; very hungry. |
ambered | adjective (p. p. & p. a.) of Amber |
anchored | adjective (a.) Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue. |
adjective (a.) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Anchor |
anhungered | adjective (a.) Ahungered; longing. |
antlered | adjective (a.) Furnished with antlers. |
arbored | adjective (a.) Furnished with an arbor; lined with trees. |
armored | adjective (a.) Clad with armor. |
assured | noun (n.) One whose life or property is insured. |
adjective (a.) Made sure; safe; insured; certain; indubitable; not doubting; bold to excess. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Assure |
azured | adjective (a.) Of an azure color; sky-blue. |
balustered | adjective (a.) Having balusters. |
bannered | adjective (a.) Furnished with, or bearing, banners. |
beavered | adjective (a.) Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat. |
bewildered | adjective (a.) Greatly perplexed; as, a bewildered mind. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Bewilder |
bicolored | adjective (a.) Of two colors. |
bleared | adjective (a.) Dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Blear |
blubbered | adjective (p. p. & a.) Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Blubber |
bolstered | adjective (a.) Supported; upheld. |
adjective (a.) Swelled out. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Bolster |
briered | adjective (a.) Set with briers. |
bysmottered | adjective (p.a.) Bespotted with mud or dirt. |
cankered | adjective (a.) Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth. |
adjective (a.) Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Canker |
cantred | noun (n.) Alt. of Cantref |
cedared | adjective (a.) Covered, or furnished with, cedars. |
chambered | adjective (a.) Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Chamber |
chartered | adjective (a.) Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter. |
adjective (a.) Hired or let by charter, as a ship. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Charter |
checkered | adjective (a.) Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material. |
adjective (a.) Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Checker |
cinctured | noun (n.) Having or wearing a cincture or girdle. |
claspered | adjective (a.) Furnished with tendrils. |
cloistered | adjective (a.) Dwelling in cloisters; solitary. |
adjective (a.) Furnished with cloisters. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Cloister |
clovered | adjective (a.) Covered with growing clover. |
collared | adjective (a.) Wearing a collar. |
adjective (a.) Wearing a collar; -- said of a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins. | |
adjective (a.) Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Collar |
colored | adjective (a.) Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained. |
adjective (a.) Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. | |
adjective (a.) Of some other color than black or white. | |
adjective (a.) Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people. | |
adjective (a.) Of some other color than green. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Color |
contextured | adjective (a.) Formed into texture; woven together; arranged; composed. |
cornered | adjective (p. a.) 1 Having corners or angles. |
adjective (p. a.) In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Corner |
covered | adjective (a.) Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Cover | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Covet |
crosiered | adjective (a.) Bearing a crosier. |
crossbarred | adjective (a.) Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars. |
adjective (a.) Made or patterned in lines crossing each other; as, crossbarred muslin. |
croziered | adjective (a.) Crosiered. |
cultured | adjective (a.) Under culture; cultivated. |
adjective (a.) Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Culture |
debentured | adjective (a.) Entitled to drawback or debenture; as, debentured goods. |
deminatured | adjective (a.) Having half the nature of another. |
discolored | adjective (a.) Altered in color; /tained. |
adjective (a.) Variegated; of divers colors. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Discolor |
disembowered | adjective (a.) Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. |
disnatured | adjective (a.) Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. |
disordered | adjective (a.) Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment. |
adjective (a.) Disorderly. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Disorder |
doddered | adjective (a.) Shattered; infirm. |
dowered | adjective (p. a.) Furnished with, or as with, dower or a marriage portion. |
eared | adjective (a.) Having (such or so many) ears; -- used in composition; as, long-eared-eared; sharp-eared; full-eared; ten-eared. |
adjective (a.) Having external ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Ear |
encindered | adjective (a.) Burnt to cinders. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BRED (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bre) - Words That Begins with bre:
breach | noun (n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense. |
noun (n.) Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise. | |
noun (n.) A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture. | |
noun (n.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf. | |
noun (n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture. | |
noun (n.) A bruise; a wound. | |
noun (n.) A hernia; a rupture. | |
noun (n.) A breaking out upon; an assault. | |
verb (v. t.) To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city. | |
verb (v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale. |
breaching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breach |
breachy | adjective (a.) Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle. |
bread | noun (n.) An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking. |
noun (n.) Food; sustenance; support of life, in general. | |
adjective (a.) To spread. | |
verb (v. t.) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets. |
breadbasket | noun (n.) The stomach. |
breaded | adjective (a.) Braided |
breaden | adjective (a.) Made of bread. |
breadfruit | noun (n.) The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name. |
noun (n.) The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. |
breadless | adjective (a.) Without bread; destitute of food. |
breadroot | noun (n.) The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food. |
breadstuff | noun (n.) Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made. |
breadth | adjective (a.) Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width. |
breadthless | adjective (a.) Without breadth. |
breadthwinner | noun (n.) The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living. |
breaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Break |
break | noun (n.) See Commutator. |
verb (v. t.) To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock. | |
verb (v. t.) To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods. | |
verb (v. t.) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate. | |
verb (v. t.) To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise. | |
verb (v. t.) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey. | |
verb (v. t.) To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set. | |
verb (v. t.) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares. | |
verb (v. t.) To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments. | |
verb (v. t.) To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill. | |
verb (v. t.) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax. | |
verb (v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind. | |
verb (v. t.) To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow. | |
verb (v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend. | |
verb (v. t.) To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle. | |
verb (v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin. | |
verb (v. t.) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss. | |
verb (v. i.) To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder. | |
verb (v. i.) To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag. | |
verb (v. i.) To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn. | |
verb (v. i.) To burst forth violently, as a storm. | |
verb (v. i.) To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking. | |
verb (v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength. | |
verb (v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking. | |
verb (v. i.) To fall in business; to become bankrupt. | |
verb (v. i.) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop. | |
verb (v. i.) To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty. | |
verb (v. i.) To fall out; to terminate friendship. | |
verb (v. t.) An opening made by fracture or disruption. | |
verb (v. t.) An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship. | |
verb (v. t.) A projection or recess from the face of a building. | |
verb (v. t.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current. | |
verb (v. t.) An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation. | |
verb (v. t.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn. | |
verb (v. t.) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind. | |
verb (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10. |
breakable | adjective (a.) Capable of being broken. |
breakage | noun (n.) The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken. |
noun (n.) An allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use. |
breakdown | noun (n.) The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall. |
noun (n.) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down. | |
noun (n.) Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time. |
breaker | noun (n.) One who, or that which, breaks. |
noun (n.) Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed. | |
noun (n.) A small water cask. | |
noun (n.) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface. |
breakfast | noun (n.) The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal. |
noun (n.) A meal after fasting, or food in general. | |
verb (v. i.) To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day. | |
verb (v. t.) To furnish with breakfast. |
breakfasting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breakfast |
breakman | noun (n.) See Brakeman. |
breakneck | noun (n.) A fall that breaks the neck. |
noun (n.) A steep place endangering the neck. | |
adjective (a.) Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed. |
breakwater | noun (n.) Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence. |
bream | noun (n.) A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known. |
noun (n.) An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish. | |
noun (n.) A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream. | |
verb (v. t.) To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping. |
breaming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bream |
breast | noun (n.) The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse. |
noun (n.) Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat. | |
noun (n.) Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill. | |
noun (n.) The face of a coal working. | |
noun (n.) The front of a furnace. | |
noun (n.) The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart. | |
noun (n.) The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast. | |
noun (n.) A torus. | |
verb (v. t.) To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves. |
breasting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breast |
noun (n.) The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel. |
breastband | noun (n.) A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding. |
breastbeam | noun (n.) The front transverse beam of a locomotive. |
breastbone | noun (n.) The bone of the breast; the sternum. |
breasted | adjective (a.) Having a breast; -- used in composition with qualifying words, in either a literal or a metaphorical sense; as, a single-breasted coat. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Breast |
breastfast | noun (n.) A large rope to fasten the midship part of a ship to a wharf, or to another vessel. |
breastheight | noun (n.) The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing. |
breasthook | noun (n.) A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side. |
breastknot | noun (n.) A knot of ribbons worn on the breast. |
breastpin | noun (n.) A pin worn on the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch. |
breastplate | noun (n.) A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor. |
noun (n.) A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool. | |
noun (n.) A strap that runs across a horse's breast. | |
noun (n.) A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod. |
breastplow | noun (n.) Alt. of Breastplough |
breastplough | noun (n.) A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf. |
breastrail | noun (n.) The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc. |
breastrope | noun (n.) See Breastband. |
breastsummer | noun (n.) A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows. |
breastwheel | noun (n.) A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight. |
breastwork | noun (n.) A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material. |
noun (n.) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle. |
breath | noun (n.) The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc. |
noun (n.) The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath. | |
noun (n.) The power of respiration, and hence, life. | |
noun (n.) Time to breathe; respite; pause. | |
noun (n.) A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant. | |
noun (n.) Fig.: That which gives or strengthens life. | |
noun (n.) A single word; the slightest effort; a trifle. | |
noun (n.) A very slight breeze; air in gentle motion. | |
noun (n.) Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume. | |
noun (n.) Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration. |
breathable | adjective (a.) Such as can be breathed. |
breathableness | noun (n.) State of being breathable. |
breathing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breathe |
noun (n.) Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air. | |
noun (n.) Air in gentle motion. | |
noun (n.) Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit. | |
noun (n.) Aspiration; secret prayer. | |
noun (n.) Exercising; promotion of respiration. | |
noun (n.) Utterance; communication or publicity by words. | |
noun (n.) Breathing place; vent. | |
noun (n.) Stop; pause; delay. | |
noun (n.) Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed by the letter h. | |
noun (n.) A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See Rough breathing, Smooth breathing, below. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BRED:
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. |
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. |
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. |
bellbird | noun (n.) A South American bird of the genus Casmarhincos, and family Cotingidae, of several species; the campanero. |
noun (n.) The Myzantha melanophrys of Australia. |
belled | adjective (a.) Hung with a bell or bells. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Bell |
bellied | adjective (a.) Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Belly |