Accolade :: Accolade (n.) A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword..

Accolade :: Accolade (n.) A brace used to join two or more staves.

Air Bladder :: Air bladder () An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus..

Air Bladder :: Air bladder () A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.

Aladinist :: Aladinist (n.) One of a sect of freethinkers among the Mohammedans.

Amontillado :: Amontillado (n.) A dry kind of cherry, of a light color..

Ballad :: Ballad (n.) A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas..

Ballad :: Ballad (v. i.) To make or sing ballads.

Ballad :: Ballad (v. t.) To make mention of in ballads.

Ballad Monger :: Ballad monger () A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster.

Ballade :: Ballade (n.) A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy..

Ballader :: Ballader (n.) A writer of ballads.

Balladry :: Balladry (n.) Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads.

Barraclade :: Barraclade (n.) A home-made woolen blanket without nap.

Belladonna :: Belladonna (n.) An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade..

Belladonna :: Belladonna (n.) A species of Amaryllis (A. belladonna); the belladonna lily.

Bladder :: Bladder (n.) A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air..

Bladder :: Bladder (n.) Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid..

Bladder :: Bladder (n.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp..

Bladder :: Bladder (n.) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound..

Bladder :: Bladder (v. t.) To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.

Bladder :: Bladder (v. t.) To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard..

Bladdered :: Bladdered (imp. & p. p.) of Bladde.

Bladdering :: Bladdering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bladde.

Bladderwort :: Bladderwort (n.) A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium..

Bladdery :: Bladdery (a.) Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder..

Blade :: Blade (n.) Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses..

Blade :: Blade (n.) The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword..

Blade :: Blade (n.) The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller..

Blade :: Blade (n.) The scapula or shoulder blade.

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