Bargeboard :: Bargeboard (n.) A vergeboard.

Baseboard :: Baseboard (n.) A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard..

Bemoan :: Bemoan (v. t.) To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with.

Bemoaned :: Bemoaned (imp. & p. p.) of Bemoa.

Bemoaner :: Bemoaner (n.) One who bemoans.

Bemoaning :: Bemoaning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bemoa.

Benzoate :: Benzoate (n.) A salt formed by the union of benzoic acid with any salifiable base.

Bezoar :: Bezoar (n.) A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea..

Bezoardic :: Bezoardic (a.) Pertaining to, or compounded with, bezoar..

Bezoardic :: Bezoardic (n.) A medicine containing bezoar.

Bezoartic :: Bezoartic (a.) Alt. of Bezoartica.

Bezoartical :: Bezoartical (a.) Having the qualities of an antidote, or of bezoar; healing..

Billboard :: Billboard (n.) A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on..

Billboard :: Billboard (n.) A flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board..

Billy Goat :: Billy goat () A male goat.

Blackboard :: Blackboard (n.) A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools..

Blackcoat :: Blackcoat (n.) A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat..

Bloat :: Bloat (v. t.) To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness..

Bloat :: Bloat (v. t.) To inflate; to puff up; to make vain.

Bloat :: Bloat (v. i.) To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.

Bloat :: Bloat (a.) Bloated.

Bloat :: Bloat (n.) A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow..

Bloat :: Bloat (v. t.) To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.

Bloated :: Bloated (imp. & p. p.) of Bloa.

Bloated :: Bloated (p. a.) Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous..

Bloatedness :: Bloatedness (n.) The state of being bloated.

Bloater :: Bloater (n.) The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring..

Bloating :: Bloating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bloa.

Bluecoat :: Bluecoat (n.) One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc..

Bluethroat :: Bluethroat (n.) A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia (Cyanecula Suecica), related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler..

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