| web | noun (n.) A weaver. |
| | noun (n.) That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom. |
| | noun (n.) A whole piece of linen cloth as woven. |
| | noun (n.) The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication. |
| | noun (n.) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood. |
| | noun (n.) A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead. |
| | noun (n.) The blade of a sword. |
| | noun (n.) The blade of a saw. |
| | noun (n.) The thin, sharp part of a colter. |
| | noun (n.) The bit of a key. |
| | noun (n.) A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object. |
| | noun (n.) The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail. |
| | noun (n.) A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist. |
| | noun (n.) The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot. |
| | noun (n.) Pterygium; -- called also webeye. |
| | noun (n.) The membrane which unites the fingers or toes, either at their bases, as in man, or for a greater part of their length, as in many water birds and amphibians. |
| | noun (n.) The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feather. |
| | verb (v. t.) To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle. |
| 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. |
| barb | noun (n.) Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it. |
| | noun (n.) A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners. |
| | noun (n.) Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen. |
| | noun (n.) The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else. |
| | noun (n.) A bit for a horse. |
| | noun (n.) One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather. |
| | noun (n.) A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting. |
| | noun (n.) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook. |
| | noun (n.) The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors. |
| | noun (n.) A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary. |
| | noun (n.) Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n., 1. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shave or dress the beard of. |
| | verb (v. t.) To clip; to mow. |
| | verb (v. t.) To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc. |
| bob | noun (n.) Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail. |
| | noun (n.) A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait. |
| | noun (n.) A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float. |
| | noun (n.) The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line. |
| | noun (n.) A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head. |
| | noun (n.) A working beam. |
| | noun (n.) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig. |
| | noun (n.) A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells. |
| | noun (n.) The refrain of a song. |
| | noun (n.) A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist. |
| | noun (n.) A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick. |
| | noun (n.) A shilling. |
| | noun (n.) To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob. |
| | noun (n.) To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap. |
| | noun (n.) To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch. |
| | noun (n.) To mock or delude; to cheat. |
| | noun (n.) To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail. |
| | verb (v. i.) To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything. |
| | verb (v. i.) To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3. |
| bulb | noun (n.) A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid. |
| | noun (n.) A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta. |
| | noun (n.) An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, curved, etc. |
| | verb (v. i.) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell. |
