Name Report For First Name BATT:
BATT
First name BATT's origin is Other. BATT means "ploughman". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BATT below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of batt.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with BATT and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with BATT - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming BATT
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BATT AS A WHOLE:
battista battzion battseeyonNAMES RHYMING WITH BATT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (att) - Names That Ends with att:
arnatt hiatt hyatt matt payatt platt wiatt wyatt wattRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (tt) - Names That Ends with tt:
villett dewitt burnett scott prewitt bridgett downett harriett izett abbott amett amott arnott ascott barrett bennett brett eliott elliott emmett emmitt everett garett garnett garrett hamlett haslett helmutt hewitt hewlett hewlitt huritt jarett jarrett jerett jerrett jett kaden-scott kellett lambrett padgett pruitt rhett talbott truett walcott woolcott hewett hackett leverett burkett wolcott witt westcott prescott merritt estcott birkett barnett arnett anett scarlett lynett alcott bartlett shalott burdett corbettNAMES RHYMING WITH BATT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bat) - Names That Begins with bat:
batair batal bates bathil bathild bathilda bathilde batholomeus bathsheba batool batul batula batyaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ba) - Names That Begins with ba:
baal bab baba babafemi babatunde babette babu babukar bac baccaus baccus backstere bacstair badal badawi bader badi'a badr badra badriyyah badru badu baduna baecere baen baerhloew baethan bagdemagus baghel baha baheera bahir bahira bahiti bahiya baibin baibre baigh bailee bailefour bailey bailintin baillidh bailoch bain bainbridge bainbrydge bairbre baird bairrfhionn bairrfhoinn bakari baker bakkir baladi baladie balasi balbina baldassare baldassario baldemar balder baldhart baldhere baldlice baldric baldrik balduin baldulf baldwin baldwyn baleigh balen balere balfour balgair balgaire balie balin balinda balisarda ballard ballinamore ballindeny balmoral balqis baltasarNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BATT:
First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 't':
bancroft barnet barret bart bast bastet beat beaufort beircheart bemot benat benecroft bennet bent beorht beornet berit bernot berowalt bert biast birgit bliant bogart bogohardt bohort bort brant brendt brent bret briant bridget briet brit bryant burcet burhardt burkhart burnet burtEnglish Words Rhyming BATT
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BATT AS A WHOLE:
| abattis | noun (n.) A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy. |
| abattoir | noun (n.) A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. |
| batting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bat |
| noun (n.) The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball. | |
| noun (n.) Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting. |
| batta | noun (n.) Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India. |
| noun (n.) Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins. |
| battable | adjective (a.) Capable of cultivation; fertile; productive; fattening. |
| battailant | noun (n.) A combatant. |
| verb (v. i.) Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike. |
| battailous | noun (n.) Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike. |
| battalia | noun (n.) Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action. |
| noun (n.) An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body. |
| battalion | noun (n.) A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array. |
| noun (n.) A regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp. when assembled for drill or battle. | |
| noun (n.) An infantry command of two or more companies, which is the tactical unit of the infantry, or the smallest command which is self-supporting upon the battlefield, and also the unit in which the strength of the infantry of an army is expressed. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form into battalions. |
| battel | noun (n.) A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager. |
| noun (n.) Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively. | |
| adjective (a.) Fertile; fruitful; productive. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be supplied with provisions from the buttery. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make fertile. |
| batteler | noun (n.) Alt. of Battler |
| battler | noun (n.) A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. |
| battening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Batten |
| noun (n.) Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall. |
| battering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Batter |
| batter | noun (n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope. |
| noun (n.) One who wields a bat; a batsman. | |
| verb (v. t.) To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart. | |
| verb (v. t.) To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage. | |
| verb (v. t.) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly. | |
| verb (v. t.) A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery. | |
| verb (v. t.) Paste of clay or loam. | |
| verb (v. t.) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form. | |
| verb (v. i.) To slope gently backward. |
| batterer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, batters. |
| battle | noun (n.) To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories. |
| adjective (a.) Fertile. See Battel, a. | |
| verb (v. t.) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat. | |
| verb (v. t.) A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life. | |
| verb (v. t.) A division of an army; a battalion. | |
| verb (v. t.) The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia. | |
| verb (v. t.) To assail in battle; to fight. |
| battling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Battle |
| battledoor | noun (n.) An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock. |
| noun (n.) A child's hornbook. |
| battlement | noun (n.) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications. |
| noun (n.) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches. |
| battlemented | adjective (a.) Having battlements. |
| battologist | noun (n.) One who battologizes. |
| battology | noun (n.) A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing. |
| batton | noun (n.) See Batten, and Baton. |
| batture | noun (n.) An elevated river bed or sea bed. |
| battuta | noun (n.) The measuring of time by beating. |
| batty | adjective (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat. |
| combattant | adjective (a.) In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant. |
| embattling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embattle |
| embattled | adjective (a.) Having indentations like a battlement. |
| adjective (a.) Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like. | |
| adjective (a.) Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Embattle |
| embattlement | noun (n.) An intended parapet; a battlement. |
| noun (n.) The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements. |
| enbattled | adjective (a.) Embattled. |
| overbattle | adjective (a.) Excessively fertile; bearing rank or noxious growths. |
| thermobattery | noun (n.) A thermoelectric battery; a thermopile. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BATT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (att) - English Words That Ends with att:
| hallstatt | adjective (a.) Alt. of Hallstattian |
| kilowatt | noun (n.) One thousand watts. |
| matt | noun (n.) See Matte. |
| platt | noun (n.) See Lodge, n. |
| scatt | noun (n.) Tribute. |
| slatt | noun (n.) A slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry. |
| turatt | noun (n.) The hare kangaroo. |
| watt | noun (n.) A unit of power or activity equal to 107 C.G.S. units of power, or to work done at the rate of one joule a second. An English horse power is approximately equal to 746 watts. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BATT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bat) - Words That Begins with bat:
| bat | noun (n.) A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc. |
| noun (n.) Shale or bituminous shale. | |
| noun (n.) A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting. | |
| noun (n.) A part of a brick with one whole end. | |
| noun (n.) One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Tical, n., 1. | |
| noun (n.) In badminton, tennis, and similar games, a racket. | |
| noun (n.) A stroke; a sharp blow. | |
| noun (n.) A stroke of work. | |
| noun (n.) Rate of motion; speed. | |
| noun (n.) A spree; a jollification. | |
| noun (n.) Manner; rate; condition; state of health. | |
| verb (v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat. | |
| verb (v. i.) To use a bat, as in a game of baseball. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To bate or flutter, as a hawk. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To wink. |
| batable | adjective (a.) Disputable. |
| batailled | adjective (a.) Embattled. |
| batardeau | noun (n.) A cofferdam. |
| noun (n.) A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall. |
| batatas | noun (n.) Alt. of Batata |
| batata | noun (n.) An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas). |
| batavian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Batavia or Holland. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe; or to (b) /atavia or Holland; as, a Batavian legion. |
| bate | noun (n.) Strife; contention. |
| noun (n.) See 2d Bath. | |
| noun (n.) An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower. | |
| verb (v. t.) To allow by way of abatement or deduction. | |
| verb (v. t.) To leave out; to except. | |
| verb (v. t.) To remove. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deprive of. | |
| verb (v. i.) To remit or retrench a part; -- with of. | |
| verb (v. i.) To waste away. | |
| verb (v. t.) To attack; to bait. | |
| verb (v. i.) To flutter as a hawk; to bait. | |
| verb (v. t.) To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather. | |
| () imp. of Bite. |
| bating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bate |
| prep (prep.) With the exception of; excepting. |
| bateau | noun (n.) A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers. |
| bated | adjective (a.) Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Bate |
| bateful | adjective (a.) Exciting contention; contentious. |
| bateless | adjective (a.) Not to be abated. |
| batement | noun (n.) Abatement; diminution. |
| batfish | noun (n.) A name given to several species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.) |
| batfowler | noun (n.) One who practices or finds sport in batfowling. |
| batfowling | noun (n.) A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise. |
| bath | noun (n.) The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath. |
| noun (n.) Water or other liquid for bathing. | |
| noun (n.) A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water. | |
| noun (n.) A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing. | |
| noun (n.) A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body. | |
| noun (n.) A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution. | |
| noun (n.) A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure. | |
| noun (n.) A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects. |
| bathing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bathe |
| noun (n.) Act of taking a bath or baths. |
| bathe | noun (n.) The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe. |
| verb (v. t.) To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lave; to wet. | |
| verb (v. t.) To moisten or suffuse with a liquid. | |
| verb (v. t.) To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with camphor. | |
| verb (v. t.) To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed. | |
| verb (v. i.) To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths. | |
| verb (v. i.) To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath. | |
| verb (v. i.) To bask in the sun. |
| bather | noun (n.) One who bathes. |
| bathetic | adjective (a.) Having the character of bathos. |
| bathmism | noun (n.) See Vital force. |
| bathometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line. |
| bathorse | noun (n.) A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign. |
| bathos | noun (n.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax. |
| bathybius | noun (n.) A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin. |
| bathymetric | adjective (a.) Alt. of Bathymetrical |
| bathymetrical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea. |
| bathymetry | noun (n.) The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea. |
| batiste | noun (n.) Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton. |
| batlet | noun (n.) A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff. |
| batman | noun (n.) A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds. |
| noun (n.) A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load. |
| batoidei | noun (n. pl.) The division of fishes which includes the rays and skates. |
| baton | noun (n.) A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances. |
| noun (n.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister. |
| batoon | noun (n.) See Baton, and Baston. |
| batrachia | noun (n. pl.) The order of amphibians which includes the frogs and toads; the Anura. Sometimes the word is used in a wider sense as equivalent to Amphibia. |
| batrachian | noun (n.) One of the Batrachia. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Batrachia. |
| batrachoid | adjective (a.) Froglike. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the Batrachidae, a family of marine fishes, including the toadfish. Some have poisonous dorsal spines. |
| batrachomyomachy | noun (n.) The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship. |
| batrachophagous | adjective (a.) Feeding on frogs. |
| batsman | noun (n.) The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc. |
| batwing | adjective (a.) Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner. |
| batule | noun (n.) A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also batule board. |
| batz | noun (n.) A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about four cents. |
| bathygraphic | adjective (a.) Descriptive of the ocean depth; as, a bathygraphic chart. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BATT:
English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 't':
| baalist | noun (n.) Alt. of Baalite |
| babblement | noun (n.) Babble. |
| babist | noun (n.) A believer in Babism. |
| baccarat | noun (n.) A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters. |
| bacchant | noun (n.) A priest of Bacchus. |
| noun (n.) A bacchanal; a reveler. | |
| adjective (a.) Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing. |
| backcast | noun (n.) Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse. |
| backjoint | noun (n.) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling. |
| backset | noun (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback. |
| noun (n.) Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water. | |
| verb (v. i.) To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring. |
| backsight | noun (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3. |
| bacteriologist | noun (n.) One skilled in bacteriology. |
| bacterioscopist | noun (n.) One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations. |
| bafflement | noun (n.) The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check. |
| baft | noun (n.) Same as Bafta. |
| baguet | noun (n.) Alt. of Baguette |
| bailment | noun (n.) The action of bailing a person accused. |
| noun (n.) A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed. |
| bakemeat | noun (n.) Alt. of Baked-meat |
| balancement | noun (n.) The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. |
| ballast | adjective (a.) Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing. |
| adjective (a.) Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness. | |
| adjective (a.) Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid. | |
| adjective (a.) The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete. | |
| adjective (a.) Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security. | |
| verb (v. t.) To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid. | |
| verb (v. t.) To keep steady; to steady, morally. |
| ballet | noun (n.) An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing. |
| noun (n.) The company of persons who perform the ballet. | |
| noun (n.) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers. | |
| noun (n.) A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color. |
| balloonist | noun (n.) An aeronaut. |
| ballot | noun (n.) Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting. |
| noun (n.) The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets. | |
| noun (n.) The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district. | |
| noun (n.) To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To vote for or in opposition to. |
| banat | noun (n.) The territory governed by a ban. |
| bandelet | noun (n.) Alt. of Bandlet |
| bandlet | noun (n.) A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring. |
| noun (n.) Same as Bandelet. |
| bandicoot | noun (n.) A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens. |
| noun (n.) A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania. |
| bandit | noun (n.) An outlaw; a brigand. |
| banewort | noun (n.) Deadly nightshade. |
| banishment | noun (n.) The act of banishing, or the state of being banished. |
| bankrupt | noun (n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. |
| noun (n.) A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person. | |
| noun (n.) A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities. | |
| adjective (a.) Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant. | |
| adjective (a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury. | |
| adjective (a.) Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy. | |
| adjective (a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess). | |
| verb (v. t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish. |
| banneret | noun (n.) Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank. |
| noun (n.) A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank. | |
| noun (n.) A civil officer in some Swiss cantons. | |
| noun (n.) A small banner. |
| banquet | noun (n.) A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches. |
| noun (n.) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats. | |
| verb (v. t.) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast. | |
| verb (v. i.) To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast. | |
| verb (v. i.) To partake of a dessert after a feast. |
| baphomet | noun (n.) An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites. |
| baptist | noun (n.) One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ. |
| noun (n.) One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist. |
| baptizement | noun (n.) The act of baptizing. |
| barbet | noun (n.) A variety of small dog, having long curly hair. |
| noun (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa. | |
| noun (n.) A larva that feeds on aphides. |
| barghest | noun (n.) A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune. |
| barillet | noun (n.) A little cask, or something resembling one. |
| baronet | noun (n.) A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners. |
| barouchet | noun (n.) A kind of light barouche. |
| barpost | noun (n.) A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field. |
| barrenwort | noun (n.) An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific. |
| barret | noun (n.) A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers; -- called also barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics. |
| barringout | noun (n.) The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools. |
| barrowist | noun (n.) A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953. |
| barrulet | noun (n.) A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width. |
| bartlett | noun (n.) A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchretien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts. |
| basalt | noun (n.) A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated. |
| noun (n.) An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain. |
| bascinet | noun (n.) A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor. |
| basement | adjective (a.) The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively. |
| basenet | noun (n.) See Bascinet. |
| basinet | noun (n.) Same as Bascinet. |
| basket | noun (n.) A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. |
| noun (n.) The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches. | |
| noun (n.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. | |
| noun (n.) The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put into a basket. |
| basnet | noun (n.) Same as Bascinet. |
| basset | noun (n.) A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice. |
| noun (n.) The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop. | |
| adjective (a.) Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata. | |
| verb (v. i.) To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets. |
| bassinet | noun (n.) A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in which young children are placed as in a cradle. |
| noun (n.) See Bascinet. |
| bassoonist | noun (n.) A performer on the bassoon. |
| bast | noun (n.) The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom. |
| noun (n.) A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2. |
| baybolt | noun (n.) A bolt with a barbed shank. |
| bayonet | noun (n.) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense. |
| noun (n.) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery. | |
| verb (v. t.) To stab with a bayonet. | |
| verb (v. t.) To compel or drive by the bayonet. |
| beamlet | noun (n.) A small beam of light. |
| beast | noun (n.) Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc. |
| noun (n.) Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden. | |
| noun (n.) As opposed to man: Any irrational animal. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow. | |
| noun (n.) A game at cards similar to loo. | |
| noun (n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc. |
| beat | noun (n.) A stroke; a blow. |
| noun (n.) A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse. | |
| noun (n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit. | |
| noun (n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament. | |
| noun (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8. | |
| noun (n.) One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him. | |
| noun (n.) The act of one that beats a person or thing | |
| noun (n.) The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; a scoop. | |
| noun (n.) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively. | |
| noun (n.) A smart tap on the adversary's blade. | |
| adjective (a.) Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted. | |
| verb (v. t.) To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. | |
| verb (v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash. | |
| verb (v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. | |
| verb (v. t.) To tread, as a path. | |
| verb (v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. | |
| verb (v. t.) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc. | |
| verb (v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move with pulsation or throbbing. | |
| verb (v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be in agitation or doubt. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters. | |
| verb (v. i.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison. | |
| verb (v. i.) A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat. | |
| verb (v. i.) A place of habitual or frequent resort. | |
| verb (v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat. | |
| (imp.) of Beat | |
| (p. p.) of Beat |
| beaufet | noun (n.) A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet. |
| beauseant | noun (n.) The black and white standard of the Knights Templars. |
| becket | noun (n.) A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope. |
| noun (n.) A spade for digging turf. |
| bedagat | noun (n.) The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah. |
| bedevilment | noun (n.) The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble. |
| bedizenment | noun (n.) That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily. |
| bedpost | noun (n.) One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead. |
| noun (n.) Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff. |
| bedquilt | noun (n.) A quilt for a bed; a coverlet. |
| beechnut | noun (n.) The nut of the beech tree. |
| beet | noun (n.) A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year. |
| noun (n.) The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar. |
| befriendment | noun (n.) Act of befriending. |
| beguilement | noun (n.) The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled. |
| behest | noun (n.) That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction. |
| noun (n.) A vow; a promise. | |
| verb (v. t.) To vow. |
| behight | noun (n.) A vow; a promise. |
| verb (v.) To promise; to vow. | |
| verb (v.) To give in trust; to commit; to intrust. | |
| verb (v.) To adjudge; to assign by authority. | |
| verb (v.) To mean, or intend. | |
| verb (v.) To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be. | |
| verb (v.) To call; to name; to address. | |
| verb (v.) To command; to order. | |
| (imp.) of Behight | |
| (p. p.) of Behight |
| belligerent | noun (n.) A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare. |
| (p. pr.) Waging war; carrying on war. | |
| (p. pr.) Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights. |
| bellwort | noun (n.) A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers. |
| bellycheat | noun (n.) An apron or covering for the front of the person. |
| belt | noun (n.) That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt. |
| noun (n.) That which restrains or confines as a girdle. | |
| noun (n.) Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt. | |
| noun (n.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds. | |
| noun (n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea. | |
| noun (n.) A token or badge of knightly rank. | |
| noun (n.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other. | |
| noun (n.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges. | |
| verb (v. t.) To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep. |
| bendlet | noun (n.) A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend. |
| benedict | noun (n.) Alt. of Benedick |
| adjective (a.) Having mild and salubrious qualities. |
| benedight | adjective (a.) Blessed. |
| beneficent | adjective (a.) Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. |
| beneficient | adjective (a.) Beneficent. |
| benefit | noun (n.) An act of kindness; a favor conferred. |
| noun (n.) Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit. | |
| noun (n.) A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use. | |
| noun (n.) Beneficence; liberality. | |
| noun (n.) Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments. | |
| verb (v. t.) To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit. | |
| verb (v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change. |
| benevolent | adjective (a.) Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. |
| benightment | noun (n.) The condition of being benighted. |
| benignant | adjective (a.) Kind; gracious; favorable. |
| bennet | adjective (a.) The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc. |
| bent | noun (n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass. |
| noun (n.) A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America. | |
| noun (n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor. | |
| adjective (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever. | |
| adjective (a. & p. p.) Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief. | |
| verb (v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow. | |
| verb (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill. | |
| verb (v.) A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim. | |
| verb (v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course. | |
| verb (v.) A transverse frame of a framed structure. | |
| verb (v.) Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus. | |
| () of Bend | |
| () imp. & p. p. of Bend. |
| benumbment | noun (n.) Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor. |
| bequeathment | noun (n.) The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest. |
| bequest | noun (n.) The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B. |
| noun (n.) That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bequeath, or leave as a legacy. |
| bereavement | noun (n.) The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death. |
| bergamot | noun (n.) A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit. |
| noun (n.) A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata). | |
| noun (n.) The essence or perfume made from the fruit. | |
| noun (n.) A variety of pear. | |
| noun (n.) A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot. | |
| noun (n.) A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit. |
| bergeret | noun (n.) A pastoral song. |
| bergylt | noun (n.) The Norway haddock. See Rosefish. |
| besant | noun (n.) See Bezant. |
| beseechment | noun (n.) The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly. |
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