Name Report For First Name BEAT:
BEAT
First name BEAT's origin is Europe. BEAT means "blessed". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BEAT below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of beat.(Brown names are of the same origin (Europe) with BEAT and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with BEAT - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming BEAT
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BEAT AS A WHOLE:
beatricia beattie beatha beathas beatrisa beatriz beathan beaton beatty beatie beatrice beathagNAMES RHYMING WITH BEAT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (eat) - Names That Ends with eat:
skeatRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (at) - Names That Ends with at:
effiwat talawat hayat najat ni'mat sirvat anat maat tamirat sadaqat ameretat dat nhat astolat cat desirat enat feenat gilat gobnat gubnat kat keenat kinnat omat rinat akshat ayawamat benat etlelooaat gilmat lamorat nat nawat pat payat plat wat wemilat xabat siolat carlat donat ailat angharat khayyat rahimat ronat efratNAMES RHYMING WITH BEAT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bea) - Names That Begins with bea:
beacan beacher beadu beadurinc beadurof beadutun beadwof beagan beagen beal bealantin beale beall bealohydig beaman beamard beamer bean bearacb bearach bearcban bearn bearnard bearrocscir beartlaidh beau beaufort beaumains beauvaisRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (be) - Names That Begins with be:
beb bebeodan bebhinn bebti becan becca beceere beck beckham becki becky beda bede bedegrayne bedivere bednar bedrosian bedver bedwyr beecher behdeti behrend behula beinvenido beircheart beiste beitris bek bekele bekki bel bela belakane belda beldan beldane belden beldene beldon belen belia belina belinda belisarda bell bella bellamy bellance bellangere belle bellerophon bellinus beltane beltran beluchi belva bem bemabe bemadette bembe bemeere bemelle bemia bemossed bemot ben ben-ami ben-aryeh ben-tziyon bena benciNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BEAT:
First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 't':
baldhart bancroft barnet barnett barret barrett bart bartlett bast bastet batt benecroft bennet bennett bent beorht beornet berit bernot berowalt bert biast birgit birkett bliant bogart bogohardt bohort bort brant brendt brent bret brett briant bridget bridgett briet brit bryant burcet burdett burhardt burkett burkhart burnet burnett burtEnglish Words Rhyming BEAT
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BEAT AS A WHOLE:
| beating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beat |
| noun (n.) The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows. | |
| noun (n.) Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart. | |
| noun (n.) Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n. | |
| noun (n.) The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| beater | noun (n.) One who, or that which, beats. |
| noun (n.) A person who beats up game for the hunters. |
| beatific | adjective (a.) Alt. of Beatifical |
| beatifical | adjective (a.) Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. |
| 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. |
| beatifying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beatify |
| beatitude | noun (n.) Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss. |
| noun (n.) Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues. | |
| noun (n.) Beatification. |
| browbeating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Browbeat |
| noun (n.) The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions. |
| chalybeate | noun (n.) Any water, liquid, or medicine, into which iron enters as an ingredient. |
| adjective (a.) Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs. |
| crabeater | noun (n.) The cobia. |
| noun (n.) An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus). | |
| noun (n.) A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species). |
| deadbeat | adjective (a.) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation. |
| drumbeat | noun (n.) The sound of a beaten drum; drum music. |
| trabeated | adjective (a.) Furnished with an entablature. |
| trabeation | noun (n.) Same as Entablature. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BEAT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (eat) - English Words That Ends with eat:
| bakemeat | noun (n.) Alt. of Baked-meat |
| bellycheat | noun (n.) An apron or covering for the front of the person. |
| bleat | noun (n.) A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep. |
| verb (v. i.) To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf. |
| buckwheat | noun (n.) A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food. |
| noun (n.) The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc. |
| caveat | noun (n.) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc. |
| noun (n.) A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention. | |
| noun (n.) Intimation of caution; warning; protest. |
| cheat | noun (n.) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture. |
| noun (n.) One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater. | |
| noun (n.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess. | |
| noun (n.) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth. | |
| noun (n.) To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle. | |
| noun (n.) To beguile. | |
| noun (n.) Wheat, or bread made from wheat. | |
| verb (v. i.) To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards. |
| cleat | noun (n.) A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc. |
| noun (n.) A device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope. | |
| verb (v. t.) To strengthen with a cleat. |
| cowwheat | noun (n.) A weed of the genus Melampyrum, with black seeds, found on European wheatfields. |
| creat | noun (n.) An usher to a riding master. |
| duckmeat | noun (n.) Alt. of Duck's-meat |
| entheat | adjective (a.) Divinely inspired. |
| entreat | noun (n.) Entreaty. |
| verb (v. t.) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use. | |
| verb (v. t.) To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune. | |
| verb (v. t.) To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade. | |
| verb (v. t.) To invite; to entertain. | |
| verb (v. i.) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make an earnest petition or request. |
| escheat | noun (n.) The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder. |
| noun (n.) The reverting of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor, by reason of a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same. | |
| noun (n.) A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession. | |
| noun (n.) Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat. | |
| noun (n.) That which falls to one; a reversion or return | |
| verb (v. i.) To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture. | |
| verb (v. t.) To forfeit. |
| estreat | noun (n.) A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, esp. of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer. |
| verb (v. t.) To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine. |
| excheat | noun (n.) See Escheat. |
| exeat | noun (n.) A license for absence from a college or a religious house. |
| noun (n.) A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese. |
| extreat | noun (n.) Extraction. |
| feat | noun (n.) An act; a deed; an exploit. |
| noun (n.) A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity. | |
| noun (n.) Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form; to fashion. |
| forcemeat | noun (n.) Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing. |
| geat | noun (n.) The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting. |
| great | noun (n.) The whole; the gross; as, a contract to build a ship by the great. |
| superlative (superl.) Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length. | |
| superlative (superl.) Large in number; numerous; as, a great company, multitude, series, etc. | |
| superlative (superl.) Long continued; lengthened in duration; prolonged in time; as, a great while; a great interval. | |
| superlative (superl.) Superior; admirable; commanding; -- applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings. | |
| superlative (superl.) Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble; as, a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, etc. | |
| superlative (superl.) Holding a chief position; elevated: lofty: eminent; distingushed; foremost; principal; as, great men; the great seal; the great marshal, etc. | |
| superlative (superl.) Entitled to earnest consideration; weighty; important; as, a great argument, truth, or principle. | |
| superlative (superl.) Pregnant; big (with young). | |
| superlative (superl.) More than ordinary in degree; very considerable in degree; as, to use great caution; to be in great pain. | |
| superlative (superl.) Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great-grandson, etc. |
| heat | noun (n.) A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric. |
| noun (n.) The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold. | |
| noun (n.) High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Indication of high temperature; appearance, condition, or color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color; flush; degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated by appearance, condition, or otherwise. | |
| noun (n.) A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats. | |
| noun (n.) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort; a single course in a race that consists of two or more courses; as, he won two heats out of three. | |
| noun (n.) Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party. | |
| noun (n.) Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation. | |
| noun (n.) Animation, as in discourse; ardor; fervency. | |
| noun (n.) Sexual excitement in animals. | |
| noun (n.) Fermentation. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like. | |
| verb (v. t.) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish. | |
| verb (v. t.) To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions. | |
| verb (v. i.) To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction, etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats slowly. | |
| verb (v. i.) To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) Heated; as, the iron though heat red-hot. |
| ideat | noun (n.) Alt. of Ideate |
| jeat | noun (n.) See Jet. |
| leat | noun (n.) An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill. |
| meat | noun (n.) Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg. |
| noun (n.) The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat. | |
| noun (n.) Specifically, dinner; the chief meal. | |
| verb (v. t.) To supply with food. |
| neat | noun (n. sing. & pl.) Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot. |
| noun (n.) Of or pertaining to the genus Bos, or to cattle of that genus; as, neat cattle. | |
| adjective (a.) Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy. | |
| adjective (a.) Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress. | |
| adjective (a.) Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as, neat brandy. | |
| adjective (a.) Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief. | |
| adjective (a.) With all deductions or allowances made; net. [In this sense usually written net. See Net, a., 3.] |
| notwheat | noun (n.) Wheat not bearded. |
| orangeat | noun (n.) Candied orange peel; also, orangeade. |
| orgeat | noun (n.) A sirup in which, formerly, a decoction of barley entered, but which is now prepared with an emulsion of almonds, -- used to flavor beverages or edibles. |
| overgreat | adjective (a.) Too great. |
| overneat | adjective (a.) Excessively neat. |
| peat | noun (n.) A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously. |
| noun (n.) A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel. |
| pleat | noun (n. & v. t.) See Plait. |
| recheat | noun (n.) A strain given on the horn to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game. |
| verb (v. i.) To blow the recheat. |
| repeat | noun (n.) The act of repeating; repetition. |
| noun (n.) That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.). | |
| noun (n.) A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance. | |
| verb (v. t.) To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. | |
| verb (v. t.) To repay or refund (an excess received). |
| retreat | noun (n.) The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable. |
| noun (n.) The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy or safety; a refuge; an asylum. | |
| noun (n.) The retiring of an army or body of men from the face of an enemy, or from any ground occupied to a greater distance from the enemy, or from an advanced position. | |
| noun (n.) The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat. | |
| noun (n.) A signal given in the army or navy, by the beat of a drum or the sounding of trumpet or bugle, at sunset (when the roll is called), or for retiring from action. | |
| noun (n.) A special season of solitude and silence to engage in religious exercises. | |
| noun (n.) A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion; as, to appoint or observe a retreat. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field. |
| seat | noun (n.) The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like. |
| noun (n.) The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation. | |
| noun (n.) That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons. | |
| noun (n.) A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house. | |
| noun (n.) Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback. | |
| noun (n.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat. | |
| verb (v. t.) To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle. | |
| verb (v. t.) To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fix; to set firm. | |
| verb (v. t.) To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair. | |
| verb (v. i.) To rest; to lie down. |
| superheat | noun (n.) The increase of temperature communicated to steam by superheating it. |
| verb (v. t.) To heat too much, to overheat; as, to superheat an oven. | |
| verb (v. t.) To heat, as steam, apart from contact with water, until it resembles a perfect gas. | |
| verb (v. t.) To heat a liquid above its boiling point without converting it into vapor. |
| sweetmeat | noun (n.) Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection. |
| noun (n.) The paint used in making patent leather. | |
| noun (n.) A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast. |
| teat | noun (n.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit. |
| noun (n.) A small protuberance or nozzle resembling the teat of an animal. |
| threat | noun (n.) The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation. |
| noun (n.) To threaten. |
| treat | noun (n.) A parley; a conference. |
| noun (n.) An entertainment given as an expression of regard. | |
| noun (n.) That which affords entertainment; a gratification; a satisfaction; as, the concert was a rich treat. | |
| verb (v. t.) To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly. | |
| verb (v. t.) To discourse on; to handle in a particular manner, in writing or speaking; as, to treat a subject diffusely. | |
| verb (v. t.) To entertain with food or drink, especially the latter, as a compliment, or as an expression of friendship or regard; as, to treat the whole company. | |
| verb (v. t.) To negotiate; to settle; to make terms for. | |
| verb (v. t.) To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient. | |
| verb (v. t.) To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid. | |
| verb (v. t.) To entreat; to beseech. | |
| verb (v. i.) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to make discussion; -- usually with of; as, Cicero treats of old age and of duties. | |
| verb (v. i.) To negotiate; to come to terms of accommodation; -- often followed by with; as, envoys were appointed to treat with France. | |
| verb (v. i.) To give a gratuitous entertainment, esp. of food or drink, as a compliment. |
| wheat | noun (n.) A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BEAT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bea) - Words That Begins with bea:
| beauxite | noun (n.) A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat. |
| noun (n.) See Bauxite. |
| beach | noun (n.) Pebbles, collectively; shingle. |
| noun (n.) The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand. | |
| verb (v. t.) To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship. |
| beaching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beach |
| beached | adjective (p. p. & a.) Bordered by a beach. |
| adjective (p. p. & a.) Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Beach |
| beachy | adjective (a.) Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly. |
| 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. |
| beaconing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beacon |
| beaconage | noun (n.) Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively. |
| beaconless | adjective (a.) Having no beacon. |
| 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. |
| beading | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bead |
| noun (n.) Molding in imitation of beads. | |
| noun (n.) The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky. |
| beadhouse | noun (n.) Alt. of Bedehouse |
| beadlery | noun (n.) Office or jurisdiction of a beadle. |
| beadleship | noun (n.) The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle. |
| beadroll | noun (n.) A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. |
| beadsman | noun (n.) Alt. of Bedesman |
| beadsnake | noun (n.) A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black. |
| beadswoman | noun (n.) Alt. of Bedeswoman |
| beadwork | noun (n.) Ornamental work in beads. |
| beady | adjective (a.) Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening. |
| adjective (a.) Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads. | |
| adjective (a.) Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor. |
| beagle | noun (n.) A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: A spy or detective; a constable. |
| 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. |
| beaked | adjective (a.) Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped. |
| adjective (a.) Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate. |
| beaker | noun (n.) A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard. |
| noun (n.) An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat. |
| beakhead | noun (n.) An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak. |
| noun (n.) A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Beak, 3. |
| 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. |
| bealing | noun (p. pr & vb. n.) of Beal |
| 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. |
| beaming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beam |
| adjective (a.) Emitting beams; radiant. |
| beambird | noun (n.) A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building. |
| beamed | adjective (a.) Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Beam |
| beamful | adjective (a.) Beamy; radiant. |
| beaminess | noun (n.) The state of being beamy. |
| beamless | adjective (a.) Not having a beam. |
| adjective (a.) Not emitting light. |
| beamlet | noun (n.) A small beam of light. |
| beamy | adjective (a.) Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining. |
| adjective (a.) Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy. | |
| adjective (a.) Having horns, or antlers. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| bearable | adjective (a.) Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. |
| bearberry | noun (n.) A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond. |
| bearbind | noun (n.) The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis). |
| 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. |
| bearding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beard |
| bearded | adjective (a.) Having a beard. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Beard |
| beardie | noun (n.) The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe. |
| beardless | adjective (a.) Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful. |
| adjective (a.) Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat. |
| beardlessness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being destitute of beard. |
| bearer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries. |
| noun (n.) Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer. | |
| noun (n.) A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant. | |
| noun (n.) A tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer. | |
| noun (n.) One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer. | |
| noun (n.) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved. |
| bearherd | noun (n.) A man who tends a bear. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BEAT:
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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| batement | noun (n.) Abatement; diminution. |
| batlet | noun (n.) A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff. |
| battailant | noun (n.) A combatant. |
| verb (v. i.) Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike. |
| 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. |
| battologist | noun (n.) One who battologizes. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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