Name Report For First Name BERN:
BERN
First name BERN's origin is German. BERN means "bear". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BERN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of bern.(Brown names are of the same origin (German) with BERN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with BERN - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming BERN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BERN AS A WHOLE:
bernia bernadette bernadea bernadina bernadine bernarda berneen bernelle bernetta bernette bernice bernicia berniss bernita bernyce ibernia bernard bernardo bernardyn bernd berne bernhard bernon bernot albern bernlakNAMES RHYMING WITH BERN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ern) - Names That Ends with ern:
edern vortigern gwern ahern kern fern lavern elvern hern severn stern kentigern trahern vernRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (rn) - Names That Ends with rn:
caliburn padarn ashburn rayburn thorn eachthighearn rhearn aethelbeorn alburn bjorn bourn brarn claiborn clayburn kearn melborn melburn osburn rayhurn reyhurn sherbourn stearn torn usbeorn welborn welburn arn wellburn washburn sanborn reyburn radburn osborn milburn farn dearborn chadburn burn bradburn ahearn bearn beorn coburn wilburnNAMES RHYMING WITH BERN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ber) - Names That Begins with ber:
ber berakhiah berangari berangaria berchtwald bercilak bercleah berde berdina berdine berdy berend berengaria berenice beresford beretun berford berg bergitte berhane berhanu beric berihun berinhard berit berk berke berkeley berkle berkley berlyn beroe berowalt berrin bersules bert berta bertha berthe berthold berti bertie bertilda bertilde bertin bertina berto berton bertrade bertram bertrand bertrando bertuska beruriah berwick berwyk beryl beryxRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (be) - Names That Begins with be:
beacan beacher beadu beadurinc beadurof beadutun beadwof beagan beagen beal bealantin beale beall bealohydig beaman beamard beamer bean bearacb bearach bearcban bearnard bearrocscir beartlaidh beat beatha beathag beathan beathas beatie beaton beatrice beatricia beatrisa beatriz beattie beatty beau beaufort beaumains beauvais bebNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BERN:
First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'n':
baen baethan baibin bailintin bain bairrfhionn bairrfhoinn balduin baldwin baldwyn balen balin ban banain banan banbhan bannan baran bardan barden bardon baron barran barrington barron bartalan barton bastiaan bastien battseeyon battzion bawdewyn bayen baylen bebeodan bebhinn becan bedrosian beldan belden beldon belen bellerophon beltran ben ben-tziyon bendigeidfran bendision benedictson benen benjamin benkamin benn benon benson benton benzion beomann beorhttun bestandan besyrwan bethann bevan bevin bevyn bharain bheathain bhradain bian bingen binyamin biron biton bittan bitten blagdan blagden blagdon blian boden bodgan bodwyn bogdan bohannon bohdan bolton bonny-jean bordan borden botan bothain bothan bourkan bowden bowdyn bowen bowyn boyden boynton bradanEnglish Words Rhyming BERN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BERN AS A WHOLE:
| bernacle | noun (n.) See Barnacle. |
| bernardine | noun (n.) A Cistercian monk. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks. |
| bernese | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Bern. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the city or canton of Bern, in Switzerland, or to its inhabitants. |
| bernicle | noun (n.) A bernicle goose. |
| bernouse | noun (n.) Same as Burnoose. |
| contubernal | adjective (a.) Alt. of Contubernial |
| contubernial | adjective (a.) Living or messing together; familiar; in companionship. |
| gubernance | noun (n.) Government. |
| gubernation | noun (n.) The act of governing; government |
| gubernative | adjective (a.) Governing. |
| gubernatorial | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a governor, or to government. |
| hibernacle | noun (n.) That which serves for protection or shelter in winter; winter quarters; as, the hibernacle of an animal or a plant. |
| hibernaculum | noun (n.) A winter bud, in which the rudimentary foliage or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales. |
| noun (n.) A little case in which certain insects pass the winter. | |
| noun (n.) Winter home or abiding place. |
| hibernal | adjective (a.) Belonging or relating to winter; wintry; winterish. |
| hibernating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hibernate |
| hibernation | noun (n.) The act or state of hibernating. |
| hibernian | noun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Ireland. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Hibernia, now Ireland; Irish. |
| hibernicism | noun (n.) Alt. of Hibernianism |
| hibernianism | noun (n.) An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish. |
| jabbernowl | noun (n.) Same as Jobbernowl. |
| jobbernowl | noun (n.) A blockhead. |
| limberness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness. |
| soberness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being sober. |
| somberness | noun (n.) Alt. of Sombreness |
| tabernacle | noun (n.) A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent. |
| noun (n.) A portable structure of wooden framework covered with curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the Israelitish exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship. | |
| noun (n.) Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul. | |
| noun (n.) Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept. | |
| noun (n.) The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable. | |
| noun (n.) A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the like. | |
| noun (n.) A tryptich for sacred imagery. | |
| noun (n.) A seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy. | |
| noun (n.) A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc. | |
| verb (v. i.) To dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed. |
| tabernacling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tabernacle |
| tabernacular | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle. |
| adjective (a.) Formed in latticework; latticed. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low. |
| torbernite | noun (n.) A mineral occurring in emerald-green tabular crystals having a micaceous structure. It is a hydrous phosphate of uranium and copper. Called also copper uranite, and chalcolite. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BERN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ern) - English Words That Ends with ern:
| alatern | noun (n.) Alt. of Alaternus |
| aldern | adjective (a.) Made of alder. |
| altern | adjective (a.) Acting by turns; alternate. |
| bickern | noun (n.) An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself. |
| bittern | noun (n.) A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species. |
| adjective (a.) The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains. | |
| adjective (a.) A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer. |
| casern | noun (n.) A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks. |
| cavern | noun (n.) A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave. |
| cistern | noun (n.) An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids. |
| noun (n.) A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water. |
| cithern | noun (n.) See Cittern. |
| cittern | noun (n.) An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum. |
| concern | noun (n.) That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair. |
| noun (n.) That which affects the welfare or happiness; interest; moment. | |
| noun (n.) Interest in, or care for, any person or thing; regard; solicitude; anxiety. | |
| noun (n.) Persons connected in business; a firm and its business; as, a banking concern. | |
| verb (v. t.) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to. | |
| verb (v. t.) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be of importance. |
| dern | noun (n.) A gatepost or doorpost. |
| adjective (a.) Hidden; concealed; secret. | |
| adjective (a.) Solitary; sad. |
| eastern | adjective (a.) Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries. |
| adjective (a.) Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage. |
| eldern | adjective (a.) Made of elder. |
| ern | noun (n.) Alt. of Erne |
| verb (v. i.) To stir with strong emotion; to grieve; to mourn. [Corrupted into yearn in modern editions of Shakespeare.] |
| etern | adjective (a.) Alt. of Eterne |
| extern | noun (n.) A pupil in a seminary who lives without its walls; a day scholar. |
| noun (n.) Outward form or part; exterior. | |
| adjective (a.) External; outward; not inherent. |
| fern | noun (n.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size. |
| adjective (a.) Ancient; old. [Obs.] "Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes." [saints]. | |
| adverb (adv.) Long ago. |
| flittern | adjective (a.) A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees. |
| gittern | noun (n.) An instrument like a guitar. |
| verb (v. i.) To play on gittern. |
| hardfern | noun (n.) A species of fern (Lomaria borealis), growing in Europe and Northwestern America. |
| hern | noun (n.) A heron; esp., the common European heron. |
| hestern | adjective (a.) Alt. of Hesternal |
| hodiern | adjective (a.) Alt. of Hodiernal |
| intern | adjective (a.) Internal. |
| adjective (a.) To put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality; as, to intern troops which have fled for refuge to a neutral country. |
| kern | noun (n.) A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; -- distinguished from gallowglass, and often used as a term of contempt. |
| noun (n.) Any kind of boor or low-lived person. | |
| noun (n.) An idler; a vagabond. | |
| noun (n.) A part of the face of a type which projects beyond the body, or shank. | |
| noun (n.) A churn. | |
| noun (n.) A hand mill. See Quern. | |
| noun (n.) Kernel; corn; grain. | |
| noun (n.) The last handful or sheaf reaped at the harvest. | |
| noun (n.) The harvest-home. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form with a kern. See 2d Kern. | |
| verb (v. i.) To harden, as corn in ripening. | |
| verb (v. i.) To take the form of kernels; to granulate. |
| knoppern | noun (n.) A kind of gall produced by a gallfly on the cup of an acorn, -- used in tanning and dyeing. |
| lampern | noun (n.) The river lamprey (Ammocoetes, / Lampetra, fluviatilis). |
| lantern | noun (n.) Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light. |
| noun (n.) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior. | |
| noun (n.) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns. | |
| noun (n.) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral. | |
| noun (n.) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below). | |
| noun (n.) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass. | |
| noun (n.) A perforated barrel to form a core upon. | |
| noun (n.) See Aristotle's lantern. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with a lantern; as, to lantern a lighthouse. |
| leathern | adjective (a.) Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse. |
| lectern | noun (n.) See Lecturn. |
| lettern | noun (n.) See Lecturn. |
| lucern | noun (n.) A sort of hunting dog; -- perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland. |
| noun (n.) An animal whose fur was formerly much in request (by some supposed to be the lynx). | |
| noun (n.) A leguminous plant (Medicago sativa), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; -- called also alfalfa. | |
| noun (n.) A lamp. |
| lusern | noun (n.) A lynx. See 1st Lucern and Loup-cervier. |
| luthern | noun (n.) A dormer window. See Dormer. |
| martern | noun (n.) Same as Marten. |
| modern | noun (n.) A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. | |
| adjective (a.) New and common; trite; commonplace. |
| northeastern | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the northeast; northeasterly. |
| northern | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west. |
| adjective (a.) In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. |
| northwestern | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course. |
| quartern | noun (n.) A quarter. Specifically: (a) The fourth part of a pint; a gill. (b) The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.). |
| noun (n.) A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds; -- called also quartern loaf. | |
| noun (n.) A quarter. Specifically: (a) The fourth part of a pint; a gill. (b) The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.). | |
| noun (n.) A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds; -- called also quartern loaf. |
| quern | noun (n.) A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills. |
| noun (n.) A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills. |
| pastern | noun (n.) The part of the foot of the horse, and allied animals, between the fetlock and the coffin joint. See Illust. of Horse. |
| noun (n.) A shackle for horses while pasturing. | |
| noun (n.) A patten. |
| pattern | noun (n.) Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine. |
| noun (n.) A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance. | |
| noun (n.) Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern. | |
| noun (n.) Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern. | |
| noun (n.) Something made after a model; a copy. | |
| noun (n.) Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern. | |
| noun (n.) A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it. | |
| noun (n.) A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To serve as an example for; also, to parallel. |
| pern | noun (n.) The honey buzzard. |
| verb (v. t.) To take profit of; to make profitable. |
| postern | noun (n.) Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate. |
| noun (n.) A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks. | |
| adjective (a.) Back; being behind; private. |
| pottern | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to potters. |
| saltern | noun (n.) A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works. |
| shern | noun (n.) See Shearn. |
| silvern | adjective (a.) Made of silver. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BERN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ber) - Words That Begins with ber:
| bere | noun (n.) Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare). |
| noun (n.) See Bear, barley. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pierce. |
| beraining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Berain |
| berating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Berate |
| berbe | noun (n.) An African genet (Genetta pardina). See Genet. |
| berber | noun (n.) A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people. |
| berberine | noun (n.) An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants. |
| berberry | noun (n.) See Barberry. |
| berdash | noun (n.) A kind of neckcloth. |
| bereaving. | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bereave |
| bereavement | noun (n.) The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death. |
| bereaver | noun (n.) One who bereaves. |
| beretta | noun (n.) Same as Berretta. |
| berg | noun (n.) A large mass or hill, as of ice. |
| 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. |
| bergander | noun (n.) A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake. |
| bergeret | noun (n.) A pastoral song. |
| bergh | noun (n.) A hill. |
| bergmaster | noun (n.) See Barmaster. |
| bergmeal | noun (n.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite. |
| bergmote | noun (n.) See Barmote. |
| bergomask | noun (n.) A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness. |
| bergylt | noun (n.) The Norway haddock. See Rosefish. |
| berhyming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Berhyme |
| beriberi | noun (n.) An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy. |
| berkeleian | adjective (a.) Of or relating to Bishop Berkeley or his system of idealism; as, Berkeleian philosophy. |
| berlin | noun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin. |
| noun (n.) Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool. |
| berm | noun (n.) Alt. of Berme |
| berme | noun (n.) A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch. |
| noun (n.) A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank. |
| beroe | noun (n.) A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora. |
| berretta | noun (n.) A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green. |
| berried | adjective (a.) Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate; as, a berried shrub. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Berry |
| berry | noun (n.) Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc. |
| noun (n.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry. | |
| noun (n.) The coffee bean. | |
| noun (n.) One of the ova or eggs of a fish. | |
| noun (n.) A mound; a hillock. | |
| verb (v. i.) To bear or produce berries. |
| berrying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Berry |
| noun (n.) A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild. |
| berserk | noun (n.) Alt. of Berserker |
| berserker | noun (n.) One of a class of legendary heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds. |
| noun (n.) One who fights as if frenzied, like a Berserker. |
| berstle | noun (n.) See Bristle. |
| berth | noun (n.) Convenient sea room. |
| noun (n.) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside. | |
| noun (n.) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf. | |
| noun (n.) An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. | |
| noun (n.) A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide. | |
| verb (v. t.) To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company. |
| berthing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Berth |
| noun (n.) The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake. |
| bertha | noun (n.) A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies. |
| berthage | noun (n.) A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor. |
| berthierite | noun (n.) A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color. |
| bertram | noun (n.) Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum). |
| berycoid | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Berycidae, a family of marine fishes. |
| beryl | noun (n.) A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium. |
| berylline | adjective (a.) Like a beryl; of a light or bluish green color. |
| beryllium | noun (n.) A metallic element found in the beryl. See Glucinum. |
| berylloid | noun (n.) A solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl. |
| berceuse | noun (n.) A vocal or instrumental composition of a soft tranquil character, having a lulling effect; a cradle song. |
| bergschrund | noun (n.) The crevasse or series of crevasses, usually deep and often broad, frequently occurring near the head of a mountain glacier, about where the neve field joins the valley portion of the glacier. |
| bergstock | noun (n.) A long pole with a spike at the end, used in climbing mountains; an alpenstock. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BERN:
English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 'n':
| babian | noun (n.) Alt. of Babion |
| babion | noun (n.) A baboon. |
| baboon | noun (n.) One of the Old World Quadrumana, of the genera Cynocephalus and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape. |
| babylonian | noun (n.) An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean. |
| noun (n.) An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean. |
| bacchanalian | noun (n.) A bacchanal; a drunken reveler. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness. |
| backdown | noun (n.) A receding or giving up; a complete surrender. |
| backgammon | noun (n.) A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables. |
| verb (v. i.) In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first "table". |
| backwardation | noun (n.) The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. |
| backwoodsman | noun (n.) A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States. |
| bacon | noun (n.) The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. |
| baconian | noun (n.) One who adheres to the philosophy of Lord Bacon. |
| noun (n.) One who maintains that Lord Bacon is the author of the works commonly attributed to Shakespeare. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. |
| bactrian | noun (n.) A native of Bactria. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia. |
| badian | noun (n.) An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise. |
| badigeon | noun (n.) A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface. |
| noun (n.) A cement or distemper paste (as of plaster and powdered freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, etc. |
| badminton | noun (n.) A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks. |
| noun (n.) A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened. |
| bagman | noun (n.) A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen. |
| bain | noun (n.) A bath; a bagnio. |
| bairn | noun (n.) A child. |
| balcon | noun (n.) A balcony. |
| baldachin | noun (n.) A rich brocade; baudekin. |
| noun (n.) A structure in form of a canopy, sometimes supported by columns, and sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter's. | |
| noun (n.) A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession. |
| baldwin | noun (n.) A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple. |
| baleen | noun (n.) Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth. |
| balloon | noun (n.) A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation. |
| noun (n.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. | |
| noun (n.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form. | |
| noun (n.) A bomb or shell. | |
| noun (n.) A game played with a large inflated ball. | |
| noun (n.) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon. | |
| verb (v. i.) To go up or voyage in a balloon. | |
| verb (v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon. |
| ballotation | noun (n.) Voting by ballot. |
| ballotin | noun (n.) An officer who has charge of a ballot box. |
| balneation | noun (n.) The act of bathing. |
| balsamation | noun (n.) The act of imparting balsamic properties. |
| noun (n.) The art or process of embalming. |
| ban | noun (n.) A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation. |
| noun (n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army. | |
| noun (n.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense). | |
| noun (n.) An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription. | |
| noun (n.) A curse or anathema. | |
| noun (n.) A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes. | |
| noun (n.) An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia. | |
| verb (v. t.) To curse; to invoke evil upon. | |
| verb (v. t.) To forbid; to interdict. | |
| verb (v. i.) To curse; to swear. |
| bandon | noun (n.) Disposal; control; license. |
| banian | noun (n.) A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer. |
| noun (n.) A man's loose gown, like that worn by the Banians. | |
| noun (n.) The Indian fig. See Banyan. |
| bannition | noun (n.) The act of expulsion. |
| banyan | noun (n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men. |
| baptization | noun (n.) Baptism. |
| barbacan | noun (n.) See Barbican. |
| noun (n.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own. | |
| noun (n.) An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy. |
| barbadian | noun (n.) A native of Barbados. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Barbados. |
| barbarian | noun (n.) A foreigner. |
| noun (n.) A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state. | |
| noun (n.) A person destitute of culture. | |
| noun (n.) A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity. | |
| adjective (a.) Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations. |
| barbican | noun (n.) Alt. of Barbacan |
| barbiton | noun (n.) An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre. |
| barcon | noun (n.) A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean. |
| bargain | noun (n.) An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration. |
| noun (n.) An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge. | |
| noun (n.) A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain. | |
| noun (n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap. | |
| noun (n.) To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow. | |
| verb (v. t.) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another. |
| bargeman | noun (n.) The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge. |
| barken | adjective (a.) Made of bark. |
| barleycorn | noun (n.) A grain or "corn" of barley. |
| noun (n.) Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch. |
| barn | noun (n.) A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables. |
| noun (n.) A child. [Obs.] See Bairn. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lay up in a barn. |
| baron | noun (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount. |
| noun (n.) A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. |
| barracan | noun (n.) A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant. |
| barracoon | noun (n.) A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily. |
| barren | noun (n.) A tract of barren land. |
| noun (n.) Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile. | |
| adjective (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals. | |
| adjective (a.) Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile. | |
| adjective (a.) Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty. | |
| adjective (a.) Mentally dull; stupid. |
| bartizan | noun (n.) A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway. |
| barton | noun (n.) The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself. |
| noun (n.) A farmyard. |
| basan | noun (n.) Same as Basil, a sheepskin. |
| baseborn | adjective (a.) Born out of wedlock. |
| adjective (a.) Born of low parentage. | |
| adjective (a.) Vile; mean. |
| basilican | adjective (a.) Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical. |
| basilicon | noun (n.) An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance. |
| basin | noun (n.) A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses. |
| noun (n.) The quantity contained in a basin. | |
| noun (n.) A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay. | |
| noun (n.) A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river. | |
| noun (n.) The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake. | |
| noun (n.) An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields. |
| basion | noun (n.) The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull. |
| bason | noun (n.) A basin. |
| basset horn | adjective (a.) An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves. |
| () The corno di bassetto. |
| bassoon | noun (n.) A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc. |
| bassorin | noun (n.) A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses. |
| bastion | noun (n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin. |
| baston | noun (n.) A staff or cudgel. |
| noun (n.) See Baton. | |
| noun (n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| batrachian | noun (n.) One of the Batrachia. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Batrachia. |
| batsman | noun (n.) The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc. |
| 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. |
| batton | noun (n.) See Batten, and Baton. |
| baudekin | noun (n.) The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad. |
| bavarian | noun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bavaria. |
| bavian | noun (n.) A baboon. |
| bavin | noun (n.) A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood. |
| noun (n.) Impure limestone. |
| bawn | noun (n.) An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure. |
| noun (n.) A large house. |
| bawsin | noun (n.) Alt. of Bawson |
| bawson | noun (n.) A badger. |
| noun (n.) A large, unwieldy person. |
| beacon | noun (n.) A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning. |
| noun (n.) A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners. | |
| noun (n.) A high hill near the shore. | |
| noun (n.) That which gives notice of danger. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with a beacon or beacons. |
| beadsman | noun (n.) Alt. of Bedesman |
| bedesman | noun (n.) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. |
| noun (n.) Same as Beadsman. |
| beadswoman | noun (n.) Alt. of Bedeswoman |
| bedeswoman | noun (n.) Fem. of Beadsman. |
| beakiron | noun (n.) A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil. |
| bean | noun (n.) A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs. |
| noun (n.) The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans. |
| bearn | noun (n.) See Bairn. |
| bearskin | noun (n.) The skin of a bear. |
| noun (n.) A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats. | |
| noun (n.) A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers. |
| beaten | adjective (a.) Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. |
| adjective (a.) Vanquished; conquered; baffled. | |
| adjective (a.) Exhausted; tired out. | |
| adjective (a.) Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase. | |
| adjective (a.) Tried; practiced. | |
| () of Beat |
| beatification | noun (n.) The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization. |
| beaufin | noun (n.) See Biffin. |
| beaverteen | noun (n.) A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. |
| beckon | noun (n.) A sign made without words; a beck. |
| verb (v. t.) To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand. |
| beden | noun (n.) The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible. |
| bedgown | noun (n.) A nightgown. |
| bedouin | noun (n.) One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Bedouins; nomad. |
| bedpan | noun (n.) A pan for warming beds. |
| noun (n.) A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed. |
| beduin | noun (n.) See Bedouin. |
| beechen | adjective (a.) Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech. |
| begin | noun (n.) Beginning. |
| verb (v. i.) To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. | |
| verb (v. i.) To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start. | |
| verb (v. t.) To enter on; to commence. | |
| verb (v. t.) To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of. |
| beguin | noun (n.) See Beghard. |
| behen | noun (n.) Alt. of Behn |
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