| hag | noun (n.) A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. |
| | noun (n.) An ugly old woman. |
| | noun (n.) A fury; a she-monster. |
| | noun (n.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken. |
| | noun (n.) The hagdon or shearwater. |
| | noun (n.) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair. |
| | noun (n.) A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled. |
| | noun (n.) A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut. |
| | verb (v. t.) To harass; to weary with vexation. |
| beat | noun (n.) A stroke; a blow. |
| | noun (n.) A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse. |
| | noun (n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit. |
| | noun (n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament. |
| | noun (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8. |
| | noun (n.) One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him. |
| | noun (n.) The act of one that beats a person or thing |
| | noun (n.) The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; a scoop. |
| | noun (n.) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively. |
| | noun (n.) A smart tap on the adversary's blade. |
| | adjective (a.) Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted. |
| | verb (v. t.) To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. |
| | verb (v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash. |
| | verb (v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. |
| | verb (v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. |
| | verb (v. t.) To tread, as a path. |
| | verb (v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. |
| | verb (v. t.) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. |
| | verb (v. t.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc. |
| | verb (v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move with pulsation or throbbing. |
| | verb (v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be in agitation or doubt. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters. |
| | verb (v. i.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison. |
| | verb (v. i.) A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat. |
| | verb (v. i.) A place of habitual or frequent resort. |
| | verb (v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat. |
| | (imp.) of Beat |
| | (p. p.) of Beat |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| beam | noun (n.) Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use. |
| | noun (n.) One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship. |
| | noun (n.) The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another. |
| | noun (n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended. |
| | noun (n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches. |
| | noun (n.) The pole of a carriage. |
| | noun (n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam. |
| | noun (n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor. |
| | noun (n.) The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it. |
| | noun (n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam. |
| | noun (n.) A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort. |
| | noun (n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather. |
| | verb (v. t.) To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light. |
| | verb (v. i.) To emit beams of light. |
| bearing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bear |
| | noun (n.) The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage. |
| | noun (n.) Patient endurance; suffering without complaint. |
| | noun (n.) The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection. |
| | noun (n.) Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect. |
| | noun (n.) The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing. |
| | noun (n.) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall. |
| | noun (n.) The portion of a support on which anything rests. |
| | noun (n.) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports. |
| | noun (n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal. |
| | noun (n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates. |
| | noun (n.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. |
| | noun (n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W. |
| | noun (n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. |
| | noun (n.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast. |
| bear | noun (n.) A bier. |
| | noun (n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects. |
| | noun (n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear. |
| | noun (n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. |
| | noun (n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person. |
| | noun (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market. |
| | noun (n.) A portable punching machine. |
| | noun (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck. |
| | noun (n.) Alt. of Bere |
| | verb (v. t.) To support or sustain; to hold up. |
| | verb (v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey. |
| | verb (v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. |
| | verb (v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise. |
| | verb (v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription. |
| | verb (v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name. |
| | verb (v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor |
| | verb (v. t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer. |
| | verb (v. t.) To gain or win. |
| | verb (v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward. |
| | verb (v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have. |
| | verb (v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change. |
| | verb (v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct. |
| | verb (v. t.) To behave; to conduct. |
| | verb (v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest. |
| | verb (v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. |
| | verb (v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden. |
| | verb (v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient. |
| | verb (v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against. |
| | verb (v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear. |
| | verb (v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question? |
| | verb (v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E. |
| | verb (v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market. |
| 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. |
