Afterbirth :: Afterbirth (n.) The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery..

Bitterbump :: Bitterbump (n.) the butterbump or bittern.

Butterball :: Butterball (n.) The buffel duck.

Butterbird :: Butterbird (n.) The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.

Butterbump :: Butterbump (n.) The European bittern.

Butterbur :: Butterbur (n.) A broad-leaved plant (Petasites vulgaris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter..

Canterbury :: Canterbury (n.) A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas a Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made..

Canterbury :: Canterbury (n.) A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose papers, etc..

Centerbit :: Centerbit (n.) Alt. of Centrebi.

Centerboard :: Centerboard (n.) Alt. of Centreboar.

Counterbalance :: Counterbalance (v. t.) To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.

Counterbalance :: Counterbalance (n.) A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another.

Counterbalance :: Counterbalance (n.) A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel.

Counterbalance :: Counterbalance (n.) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam..

Counterbalanced :: Counterbalanced (imp. & p. p.) of Counterbalanc.

Counterbalancing :: Counterbalancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counterbalanc.

Counterbore :: Counterbore (n.) A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head..

Counterbore :: Counterbore (n.) A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth..

Counterbore :: Counterbore (v. t.) To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore..

Counterbrace :: Counterbrace (v. t.) To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another..

Counterbrace :: Counterbrace (v. t.) To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to.

Counterbuff :: Counterbuff (v. t.) To strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front.

Counterbuff :: Counterbuff (n.) A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.

Interbastation :: Interbastation (n.) Patchwork.

Interbrachial :: Interbrachial (a.) Between the arms.

Interbrain :: Interbrain (n.) See Thalamencephalon.

Interbranchial :: Interbranchial (a.) Between the branchiae.

Interbreed :: Interbreed (v. t. & i.) To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants.

Terbic :: Terbic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, terbium; also, designating certain of its compounds..

Terbium :: Terbium (n.) A rare metallic element, of uncertain identification, supposed to exist in certain minerals, as gadolinite and samarskite, with other rare ytterbium earth. Symbol Tr or Tb. Atomic weight 150..

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