Alkalimeter :: Alkalimeter (n.) An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture..

Alkalimetric :: Alkalimetric (a.) Alt. of Alkalimetrica.

Alkalimetrical :: Alkalimetrical (a.) Of or pertaining to alkalimetry.

Alkalimetry :: Alkalimetry (n.) The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures..

Anticlimax :: Anticlimax (n.) A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect..

Appliment :: Appliment (n.) Application.

Baalim :: Baalim (pl. ) of Baa.

Belime :: Belime (v. t.) To besmear or insnare with birdlime.

Belimed :: Belimed (imp. & p. p.) of Belim.

Beslime :: Beslime (v. t.) To daub with slime; to soil.

Bilimbi :: Bilimbi (n.) Alt. of Bilimbin.

Bilimbing :: Bilimbing (n.) The berries of two East Indian species of Averrhoa, of the Oxalideae or Sorrel family. They are very acid, and highly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases..

Biliment :: Biliment (n.) A woman's ornament; habiliment.

Birdlime :: Birdlime (n.) An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares..

Birdlime :: Birdlime (v. t.) To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.

Blimbi :: Blimbi (n.) Alt. of Blimbin.

Blimbing :: Blimbing (n.) See Bilimbi, etc..

Brooklime :: Brooklime (n.) A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana..

Bulimia :: Bulimia (n.) Alt. of Bulim.

Bulimus :: Bulimus (n.) A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous and abundant in tropical America..

Bulimy :: Bulimy (n.) A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.

Clean-limbed :: Clean-limbed (a.) With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow..

Cliff Limestone :: Cliff limestone () A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian..

Climacter :: Climacter (n.) See Climacteric, n..

Climacteric :: Climacteric (a.) Relating to a climacteric; critical.

Climacteric :: Climacteric (n.) A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year..

Climacteric :: Climacteric (n.) Any critical period.

Climacterical :: Climacterical (a. & n.) See Climacteric.

Climatal :: Climatal (a.) Climatic.

Climatarchic :: Climatarchic (a.) Presiding over, or regulating, climates..

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