BINK

Name Report For First Name BINK:

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

Rhymes with BINK - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming BINK

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES B�NK AS A WHOLE:

NAMES RHYMING WITH B�NK (According to last letters):

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

hlink link

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

burhbank hank burbank frank

NAMES RHYMING WITH B�NK (According to first letters):

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

binah binata bing binga binge bingen binh binta binyamin

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

biaiardo bian bianca biast bibi bibiana bibsbebe bich bick bickford bicoir biddy bidelia bidina bidziil biecaford bienvenida biford bikr bilagaana bilal bilko bill billie billy bilqis bily bimisi bir birch birche bird birde birdena birdhil birdhill birdie birdine birdoswald birdy birgit birj birk birkett birkey birkhe birkhead birkhed birkita birley birney biron birr birte birtel birtle bisgu bishop bishr bitanig biton bittan bitten bittor bitya bixenta

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH B�NK:

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

baldrik barak bardarik bardrick barrak barrick beck bek benwick bercilak berk bernlak berwick berwyk black borak braddock breck brick brik brock broderick broderik brodrick brodrik brok brook buck

English Words Rhyming BINK

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES B�NK AS A WHOLE:

bink

noun (n.) A bench.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH B�NK (According to last letters):

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

bobolink

noun (n.) An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln.

brink

noun (n.) The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig.

chewink

noun (n.) An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and ground robin.

chink	noun (n.) A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
	noun (n.) A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
	noun (n.) Money; cash.
	verb (v. i.) To crack; to open.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
	verb (v. t.) To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
	verb (v. i.) To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.

clink	noun (n.) A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.
	noun (n.) A prison cell; a lockup; -- probably orig. the name of the noted prison in Southwark, England.
	verb (v. i.) To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.
	verb (v. i.) To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.
	verb (v. i.) To rhyme. [Humorous].

countersink	noun (n.) An enlargement of the upper part of a hole, forming a cavity or depression for receiving the head of a screw or bolt.
	noun (n.) A drill or cutting tool for countersinking holes.
	verb (v. t.) To chamfer or form a depression around the top of (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below the surface, either wholly or in part; as, to countersink a hole for a screw.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to sink even with or below the surface; as, to countersink a screw or bolt into woodwork.

dink	adjective (a.) Trim; neat.
	verb (v. t.) To deck; -- often with out or up.

draglink	noun (n.) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
	noun (n.) A drawbar.

drawlink

noun (n.) Same as Drawbar (b).

drink	noun (n.) Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions.
	noun (n.) Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out.
	verb (v. i.) To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.
	verb (v. i.) To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the /se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.
	verb (v. t.) To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water.
	verb (v. t.) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
	verb (v. t.) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
	verb (v. t.) To smoke, as tobacco.

eyewink

noun (n.) A wink; a token.

hink

noun (n.) A reaping hook.

ink	noun (n.) The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.
	noun (n.) A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing.
	noun (n.) A pigment. See India ink, under India.
	verb (v. t.) To put ink upon; to supply with ink; to blacken, color, or daub with ink.

interlink	noun (n.) An intermediate or connecting link.
	verb (v. t.) To link together; to join, as one chain to another.

kink	noun (n.) A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.
	noun (n.) An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
	noun (n.) A fit of coughing; also, a convulsive fit of laughter.
	verb (v. i.) To wind into a kink; to knot or twist spontaneously upon itself, as a rope or thread.

link	noun (n.) A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.
	noun (n.) A single ring or division of a chain.
	noun (n.) Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond.
	noun (n.) Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair.
	noun (n.) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
	noun (n.) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (Steam Engine), the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
	noun (n.) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length. Cf. Chain, n., 4.
	noun (n.) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; -- applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
	noun (n.) Sausages; -- because linked together.
	noun (n.) A hill or ridge, as a sand hill, or a wooded or turfy bank between cultivated fields, etc.
	noun (n.) A winding of a river; also, the ground along such a winding; a meander; -- usually in pl.
	noun (n.) Sand hills with the surrounding level or undulating land, such as occur along the seashore, a river bank, etc.
	noun (n.) Hence, any such piece of ground where golf is played.
	verb (v. t.) To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.
	verb (v. i.) To be connected.

mink

noun (n.) A carnivorous mammal of the genus Putorius, allied to the weasel. The European mink is Putorius lutreola. The common American mink (P. vison) varies from yellowish brown to black. Its fur is highly valued. Called also minx, nurik, and vison.

moonblink

noun (n.) A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia.

pink	noun (n.) A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky.
	noun (n.) A stab.
	adjective (a.) Half-shut; winking.
	adjective (a.) Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.
	verb (v. i.) To wink; to blink.
	verb (v. t.) To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.
	verb (v. t.) To stab; to pierce as with a sword.
	verb (v. t.) To choose; to cull; to pick out.
	verb (v. t.) A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.
	verb (v. t.) A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; -- so called from the common color of the flower.
	verb (v. t.) Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something.
	verb (v. t.) The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer.

rink	noun (n.) The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.
	noun (n.) An artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor.

scink	noun (n.) A skink.
	noun (n.) A slunk calf.

shrink	noun (n.) The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.
	verb (v. i.) To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.
	verb (v. i.) To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
	verb (v. i.) To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.
	verb (v. t.) To draw back; to withdraw.

sink	noun (n.) A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.
	noun (n.) A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen.
	noun (n.) A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole.
	noun (n.) The lowest part of a natural hollow or closed basin whence the water of one or more streams escapes by evaporation; as, the sink of the Humboldt River.
	verb (v. i.) To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west.
	verb (v. i.) To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
	verb (v. i.) Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
	verb (v. i.) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease.
	verb (v. i.) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.
	verb (v. t.) Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation.
	verb (v. t.) To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.
	verb (v. t.) To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.
	verb (v. t.) To conseal and appropriate.
	verb (v. t.) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
	verb (v. t.) To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.

skink	noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family Scincidae, common in the warmer parts of all the continents.
	noun (n.) Drink; also, pottage.
	verb (v. t.) To draw or serve, as drink.
	verb (v. i.) To serve or draw liquor.

slink	noun (n.) The young of a beast brought forth prematurely, esp. a calf brought forth before its time.
	noun (n.) A thievish fellow; a sneak.
	adjective (a.) To creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak.
	adjective (a.) To miscarry; -- said of female beasts.
	adjective (a.) Produced prematurely; as, a slink calf.
	adjective (a.) Thin; lean.
	verb (v. t.) To cast prematurely; -- said of female beasts; as, a cow that slinks her calf.

spink

noun (n.) The chaffinch.

sterrink

noun (n.) The crab-eating seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) of the Antarctic Ocean.

stink	noun (n.) A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench.
	verb (v. i.) To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.

sunblink

noun (n.) A glimpse or flash of the sun.

swink	noun (n.) Labor; toil; drudgery.
	verb (v. i.) To labor; to toil; to salve.
	verb (v. t.) To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.
	verb (v. t.) To acquire by labor.

tink	noun (n.) A sharp, quick sound; a tinkle.
	verb (v. i.) To make a sharp, shrill noise; to tinkle.

trink

noun (n.) A kind of fishing net.

twink	noun (n.) A wink; a twinkling.
	noun (n.) The chaffinch.
	verb (v. i.) To twinkle.

think	noun (n.) Act of thinking; a thought.
	verb (v. t.) To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.
	verb (v. t.) To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties.
	verb (v. t.) To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it.
	verb (v. t.) To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate.
	verb (v. t.) To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow.
	verb (v. t.) To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean.
	verb (v. t.) To presume; to venture.
	verb (v. t.) To conceive; to imagine.
	verb (v. t.) To plan or design; to plot; to compass.
	verb (v. t.) To believe; to consider; to esteem.

zink

noun (n.) See Zinc.

wink	noun (n.) The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment.
	noun (n.) A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.
	verb (v. i.) To nod; to sleep; to nap.
	verb (v. i.) To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion.
	verb (v. i.) To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink.
	verb (v. i.) To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only.
	verb (v. i.) To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at.
	verb (v. i.) To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.
	verb (v. t.) To cause (the eyes) to wink.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH B�NK (According to first letters):

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

bin	noun (n.) A box, frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin.
	verb (v. t.) To put into a bin; as, to bin wine.
	() An old form of Be and Been.

binning

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

binal

adjective (a.) Twofold; double.

binarseniate

noun (n.) A salt having two equivalents of arsenic acid to one of the base.

binary	noun (n.) That which is constituted of two figures, things, or parts; two; duality.
	adjective (a.) Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things).

binate

adjective (a.) Double; growing in pairs or couples.

binaural

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears.

binding	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bind
	noun (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.
	noun (n.) Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.
	adjective (a.) That binds; obligatory.
	(pl.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.

bind	noun (n.) That which binds or ties.
	noun (n.) Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.
	noun (n.) Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron.
	noun (n.) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
	verb (v. t.) To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.
	verb (v. t.) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams.
	verb (v. t.) To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.
	verb (v. t.) To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part.
	verb (v. t.) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.
	verb (v. t.) To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
	verb (v. t.) To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.
	verb (v. t.) Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other.
	verb (v. t.) To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
	verb (v. t.) To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service.
	verb (v. i.) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
	verb (v. i.) To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.
	verb (v. i.) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
	verb (v. i.) To exert a binding or restraining influence.

binder	noun (n.) One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.
	noun (n.) Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.

bindery

noun (n.) A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.

bindheimite

noun (n.) An amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite.

bindingness

noun (n.) The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality.

bindweed

noun (n.) A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed.

bine

noun (n.) The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.

binervate	adjective (a.) Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves.
	adjective (a.) Having only two nerves, as the wings of some insects.

bing

noun (n.) A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood.

biniodide

noun (n.) Same as Diiodide.

binnacle

noun (n.) A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night.

binny

noun (n.) A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile, and much esteemed for food.

binocle

noun (n.) A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double-barreled field glass or an opera glass.

binocular	noun (n.) A binocular glass, whether opera glass, telescope, or microscope.
	adjective (a.) Having two eyes.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to both eyes; employing both eyes at once; as, binocular vision.
	adjective (a.) Adapted to the use of both eyes; as, a binocular microscope or telescope.

binoculate

adjective (a.) Having two eyes.

binomial	noun (n.) An expression consisting of two terms connected by the sign plus (+) or minus (-); as, a + b, or 7 - 3.
	adjective (a.) Consisting of two terms; pertaining to binomials; as, a binomial root.
	adjective (a.) Having two names; -- used of the system by which every animal and plant receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the other the species, to which it belongs.

binominal

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to two names; binomial.

binominous

adjective (a.) Binominal.

binotonous

adjective (a.) Consisting of two notes; as, a binotonous cry.

binous

adjective (a.) Same as Binate.

binoxalate

noun (n.) A salt having two equivalents of oxalic acid to one of the base; an acid oxalate.

binoxide

noun (n.) Same as Dioxide.

binturong

noun (n.) A small Asiatic civet of the genus Arctilis.

binuclear

adjective (a.) Alt. of Binucleate

binucleate

adjective (a.) Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells.

binucleolate

adjective (a.) Having two nucleoli.

binbashi

noun (n.) A major in the Turkish army.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH B�NK:

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

backarack	noun (n.) A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.
	noun (n.) See Bacharach.

back	noun (n.) A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
	noun (n.) A ferryboat. See Bac, 1.
	noun (n.) In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.
	noun (n.) An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge.
	noun (n.) The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail.
	noun (n.) The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney.
	noun (n.) The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.
	noun (n.) The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.
	noun (n.) A support or resource in reserve.
	noun (n.) The keel and keelson of a ship.
	noun (n.) The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.
	noun (n.) A garment for the back; hence, clothing.
	adjective (a.) Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements.
	adjective (a.) Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent.
	adjective (a.) Moving or operating backward; as, back action.
	verb (v. i.) To get upon the back of; to mount.
	verb (v. i.) To place or seat upon the back.
	verb (v. i.) To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.
	verb (v. i.) To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.
	verb (v. i.) To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
	verb (v. i.) To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.
	verb (v. i.) To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend.
	verb (v. i.) To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.
	verb (v. i.) To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.
	verb (v. i.) To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.
	verb (v. i.) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog.
	adverb (adv.) In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.
	adverb (adv.) To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it.
	adverb (adv.) To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.
	adverb (adv.) (Of time) In times past; ago.
	adverb (adv.) Away from contact; by reverse movement.
	adverb (adv.) In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.
	adverb (adv.) In a state of restraint or hindrance.
	adverb (adv.) In return, repayment, or requital.
	adverb (adv.) In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.
	adverb (adv.) In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent.

backrack

noun (n.) Alt. of Backrag

bailiffwick

noun (n.) See Bailiwick.

bailiwick

noun (n.) The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.

bank	noun (n.) A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.
	noun (n.) A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.
	noun (n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.
	noun (n.) The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.
	noun (n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.
	noun (n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
	noun (n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
	noun (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank.
	noun (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
	noun (n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.
	noun (n.) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc.
	noun (n.) A sort of table used by printers.
	noun (n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
	noun (n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.
	noun (n.) The building or office used for banking purposes.
	noun (n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
	noun (n.) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.
	noun (n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
	noun (n.) A group or series of objects arranged near together; as, a bank of electric lamps, etc.
	noun (n.) The lateral inclination of an aeroplane as it rounds a curve; as, a bank of 45� is easy; a bank of 90� is dangerous.
	verb (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
	verb (v. t.) To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.
	verb (v. t.) To pass by the banks of.
	verb (v. t.) To deposit in a bank.
	verb (v. i.) To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.
	verb (v. i.) To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.
	verb (v. i.) To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; -- said of a flying machine, an aerocurve, or the like.

bannock

noun (n.) A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England.

baresark

noun (n.) A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor.

bark	noun (n.) The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.
	noun (n.) Alt. of Barque
	verb (v. t.) To strip the bark from; to peel.
	verb (v. t.) To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.
	verb (v. t.) To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.
	verb (v. t.) To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.
	verb (v. i.) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.
	verb (v. i.) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.

barleybreak

noun (n.) An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal.

barrack	noun (n.) A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
	noun (n.) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
	verb (v. t.) To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops.
	verb (v. i.) To live or lodge in barracks.

basilicok

noun (n.) The basilisk.

basilisk	noun (n.) A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.
	noun (n.) A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidae.
	noun (n.) A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size.

bassock

noun (n.) A hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.

baudrick

noun (n.) A belt. See Baldric.

bauk

noun (n. & v.) Alt. of Baulk

baulk

noun (n. & v.) See Balk.

bawcock

noun (n.) A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment.

bawdrick

noun (n.) A belt. See Baldric.

beadwork

noun (n.) Ornamental work in beads.

beak	noun (n.) The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds.
	noun (n.) A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles.
	noun (n.) The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
	noun (n.) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
	noun (n.) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
	noun (n.) Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land.
	noun (n.) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
	noun (n.) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
	noun (n.) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
	noun (n.) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
	noun (n.) A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.).
	noun (n.) A magistrate or policeman.

beck	noun (n.) See Beak.
	noun (n.) A small brook.
	noun (n.) A vat. See Back.
	noun (n.) A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command.
	verb (v. i.) To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand.
	verb (v. t.) To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to.

bedstock

noun (n.) The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead.

bedtick

noun (n.) A tick or bag made of cloth, used for inclosing the materials of a bed.

beefsteak

noun (n.) A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling.

beetlestock

noun (n.) The handle of a beetle.

benedick

noun (n.) A married man, or a man newly married.

bergomask

noun (n.) A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.

berserk

noun (n.) Alt. of Berserker

bespeak	noun (n.) A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.)
	verb (v. t.) To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.
	verb (v. t.) To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate.
	verb (v. t.) To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances.
	verb (v. t.) To speak to; to address.
	verb (v. i.) To speak.

bibcock

noun (n.) A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle.

bierbalk

noun (n.) A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals.

bilcock

noun (n.) The European water rail.

bilk	noun (n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
	noun (n.) A cheat; a trick; a hoax.
	noun (n.) Nonsense; vain words.
	noun (n.) A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person.
	verb (v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor.

billhook

noun (n.) A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.

birk	noun (n.) A birch tree.
	noun (n.) A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus).

birthmark

noun (n.) Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth.

bisk	noun (n.) Soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh together.
	noun (n.) See Bisque.

bitstock

noun (n.) A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.

bittock

noun (n.) A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance.

black	noun (n.) That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black.
	noun (n.) A black pigment or dye.
	noun (n.) A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.
	noun (n.) A black garment or dress; as, she wears black
	noun (n.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
	noun (n.) The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
	noun (n.) A stain; a spot; a smooch.
	adjective (a.) Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.
	adjective (a.) In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.
	adjective (a.) Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.
	adjective (a.) Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
	adjective (a.) To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
	adjective (a.) To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.
	adverb (adv.) Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.

blackcock

noun (n.) The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); -- so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.

blackwork

noun (n.) Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths.

blank	noun (n.) Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.
	noun (n.) A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
	noun (n.) A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form.
	noun (n.) A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.
	noun (n.) The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.
	noun (n.) Aim; shot; range.
	noun (n.) A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence.
	noun (n.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
	noun (n.) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank."
	adjective (a.) Of a white or pale color; without color.
	adjective (a.) Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.
	adjective (a.) Utterly confounded or discomfited.
	adjective (a.) Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.
	adjective (a.) Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.
	adjective (a.) Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant.
	adjective (a.) Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.
	verb (v. t.) To make void; to annul.
	verb (v. t.) To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.

blaubok

noun (n.) The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue.

bleak	adjective (a.) Without color; pale; pallid.
	adjective (a.) Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
	adjective (a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.
	adjective (a.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.

blesbok

noun (n.) A South African antelope (Alcelaphus albifrons), having a large white spot on the forehead.

block	noun (n.) To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor.
	noun (n.) To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.
	noun (n.) To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat.
	noun (n.) In Australia, one of the large lots into which public land, when opened to settlers, is divided by the government surveyors.
	noun (n.) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
	noun (n.) A block hole.
	noun (n.) The popping crease.
	verb (v. t.) A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc.
	verb (v. t.) The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded.
	verb (v. t.) The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
	verb (v. t.) The pattern or shape of a hat.
	verb (v. t.) A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops.
	verb (v. t.) A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not.
	verb (v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles.
	verb (v. t.) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
	verb (v. t.) Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way.
	verb (v. t.) A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work.
	verb (v. t.) A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.
	verb (v. t.) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
	verb (v. t.) A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below.

bloodstick

noun (n.) A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein.

blueback	noun (n.) A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine.
	noun (n.) A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and northward.
	noun (n.) An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife.

bobbinwork

noun (n.) Work woven with bobbins.

bodock

noun (n.) The Osage orange.

boneblack

noun (n.) See Bone black, under Bone, n.

bontebok

noun (n.) The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga). Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni.

book	noun (n.) A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.
	noun (n.) A composition, written or printed; a treatise.
	noun (n.) A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."
	noun (n.) A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.
	noun (n.) Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.
	verb (v. t.) To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
	verb (v. t.) To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.
	verb (v. t.) To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory.

bookmark

noun (n.) Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

bookwork	noun (n.) Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work.
	noun (n.) Study; application to books.

bootblack

noun (n.) One who blacks boots.

bootjack

noun (n.) A device for pulling off boots.

bootlick

noun (n.) A toady.

boshbok

noun (n.) A kind of antelope. See Bush buck.

boshvark

noun (n.) The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket.

bosk

noun (n.) A thicket; a small wood.

bouk	noun (n.) The body.
	noun (n.) Bulk; volume.

boulework

noun (n.) Same as Buhl, Buhlwork.

brack	noun (n.) An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.
	noun (n.) Salt or brackish water.

brainsick

adjective (a.) Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.

brank	noun (n.) Buckwheat.
	noun (n.) Alt. of Branks
	verb (v. i.) To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit.
	verb (v. i.) To prance; to caper.

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.

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.

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.

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.

breechblock

noun (n.) The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.

brick	noun (n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.
	noun (n.) Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
	noun (n.) Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).
	noun (n.) A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.
	verb (v. t.) To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.
	verb (v. t.) To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them.

brickwork	noun (n.) Anything made of bricks.
	noun (n.) The act of building with or laying bricks.

brisk	adjective (a.) Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
	adjective (a.) Full of spirit of life; effervesc/ng, as liquors; sparkling; as, brick cider.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up.

brock	noun (n.) A badger.
	noun (n.) A brocket.

broomstick

noun (n.) A stick used as a handle of a broom.

brownback

noun (n.) The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.

brusk

adjective (a.) Same as Brusque.

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.

buhlwork

noun (n.) Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc.

bulk	noun (n.) Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.
	noun (n.) The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.
	noun (n.) The cargo of a vessel when stowed.
	noun (n.) The body.
	verb (v. i.) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.
	verb (v.) A projecting part of a building.

bullock	noun (n.) A young bull, or any male of the ox kind.
	noun (n.) An ox, steer, or stag.
	verb (v. t.) To bully.

bullyrock

noun (n.) A bully.

bulwark	noun (n.) A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.
	noun (n.) That which secures against an enemy, or defends from attack; any means of defense or protection.
	noun (n.) The sides of a ship above the upper deck.
	verb (v. t.) To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect.

bunk	noun (n.) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
	noun (n.) One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.
	noun (n.) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
	verb (v. i.) To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in.

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.

burrock

noun (n.) A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed.

busk	noun (n.) A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.
	noun (n.) Among the Creek Indians, a feast of first fruits celebrated when the corn is ripe enough to be eaten. The feast usually continues four days. On the first day the new fire is lighted, by friction of wood, and distributed to the various households, an offering of green corn, including an ear brought from each of the four quarters or directions, is consumed, and medicine is brewed from snakeroot. On the second and third days the men physic with the medicine, the women bathe, the two sexes are taboo to one another, and all fast. On the fourth day there are feasting, dancing, and games.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
	verb (v. t. & i.) To go; to direct one's course.

buttermilk

noun (n.) The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.

buttock	noun (n.) The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump.
	noun (n.) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.

bywork

noun (n.) Work aside from regular work; subordinate or secondary business.

bergstock

noun (n.) A long pole with a spike at the end, used in climbing mountains; an alpenstock.

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