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Purbeck Beds :: Purbeck beds () The strata of the Purbeck stone, or Purbeck limestone, belonging to the Oolitic group. See the Chart of Geology..

Becking :: Becking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bec.

Becker :: Becker (n.) A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.

Purbeck Stone :: Purbeck stone () A limestone from the Isle of Purbeck in England.

Beck :: Beck (v. i.) To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand..

Beck :: Beck (n.) A vat. See Back.

Thimbleweed :: Thimbleweed (n.) Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles..

Beck :: Beck (n.) A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command..

Wave :: Wave (v. t.) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate..

Beck :: Beck (v. t.) To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to..

Braize :: Braize (n.) A European marine fish (Pagrus vulgaris) allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.

Canonize :: Canonize (v. t.) To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized..

Skilling :: Skilling (n.) A money od account in Sweden, Norwey, Denmark, and North Germany, and also a coin. It had various values, from three fourths of a cent in Norway to more than two cents in Lubeck..

Beck :: Beck (n.) A small brook.

Supinity :: Supine (n.) A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine..

Pinchbeck :: Pinchbeck (n.) An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry..

Tulipomania :: Tulipomania (n.) A violent passion for the acquisition or cultivation of tulips; -- a word said by Beckman to have been coined by Menage.

Nub :: Nub (v. t.) To push; to nudge; also, to beckon..

Beck :: Beck (n.) See Beak.

Beckoned :: Beckoned (imp. & p. p.) of Becko.

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