Accouplement :: Accouplement (n.) The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union..

Accouplement :: Accouplement (n.) That which couples, as a tie or brace..

Alemannic :: Alemannic (a.) Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes..

Alemannic :: Alemannic (n.) The language of the Alemanni.

Alembic :: Alembic (n.) An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still..

Alembroth :: Alembroth (n.) The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant..

Allemande :: Allemande (n.) A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel..

Allemande :: Allemande (n.) A figure in dancing.

Allemannic :: Allemannic (a.) See Alemannic.

Analemma :: Analemma (n.) An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon..

Analemma :: Analemma (n.) An instrument of wood or brass, on which this projection of the sphere is made, having a movable horizon or cursor; -- formerly much used in solving some common astronomical problems..

Analemma :: Analemma (n.) A scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe..

Anglemeter :: Anglemeter (n.) An instrument to measure angles, esp. one used by geologists to measure the dip of strata..

Babblement :: Babblement (n.) Babble.

Bafflement :: Bafflement (n.) The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check..

Battlement :: Battlement (n.) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.

Battlement :: Battlement (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..

Battlemented :: Battlemented (a.) Having battlements.

Beguilement :: Beguilement (n.) The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled..

Belemnite :: Belemnite (n.) A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages..

Bethlemite :: Bethlemite (n.) An inhabitant of Bethlehem in Judea.

Bethlemite :: Bethlemite (n.) An insane person; a madman; a bedlamite.

Bethlemite :: Bethlemite (n.) One of an extinct English order of monks.

Blemish :: Blemish (v. t.) To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind..

Blemish :: Blemish (v. t.) To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame..

Blemish :: Blemish (n.) Any mark of deformity or injury, whether physical or moral; anything that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which is otherwise well formed; that which impairs reputation..

Blemished :: Blemished (imp. & p. p.) of Blemis.

Blemishes :: Blemishes (pl. ) of Blemis.

Blemishing :: Blemishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blemis.

Blemishless :: Blemishless (a.) Without blemish; spotless.

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