Part 6

lk. babble, n. prattle, gabble, chatter, prating; murmur, purl. babbler, n. prater, chatterer, prattler, tattler. baby, n. infant, babe, suckling, nursling. See child. baby, v. humor, fondle, indulge, coddle, pet, cosset. baby, a. infantine, infantile, babyish. babyhood, n. infancy. bachelor, n. celibate. bachelorhood, n. bachelorship, bachelorism, celibacy. back, n. reverse; posteriors, fundament, buttocks, seat, rump, breech; ridge. Associated Words: supine, resupine, resupination, dorsigerous, dorsiferous, crick, dorsiparous, _dos-à-dos_, tergiferous, lumbago, notalgia, lumbar, aitchbone, loins, dorsicumbent. back, a. posterior, dorsal, notal, tergal, neural; remote, distant, frontier; rear, reverse. back, adv. backward, rearward; in arrear; in return, in restitution, in requital. back, v. support, second, maintain, abet, subsidize, coöperate, with; mount; indorse. backbite, v. defame (clandestinely), malign, traduce, vilify, calumniate, scandalize. backbiter, n. defamer, detractor, maligner, vilifier, slanderer, calumniator. backbiting, n. defamation, vilification, traducement, calumny, slander (secret). backbone, n. spine, spinal column, rachis, chine. Associated Words: vertebræ, Vertebrata, vertebra, vertebral spinal. See spine. backbone, n. moral principle, steadfastness, stability, firmness, stamina. backboned, a. vertebrate, vertebrated. Antonyms: invertebrate, invertebrated. backdown, n. surrender, recession, withdrawal. backhouse, n. outhouse, privy, necessary, water-closet, jakes, latrine (in camp or hospital). backing, n. support, coöperation, seconding, assistance, subsidy. backing out. withdrawal, retreat, recession, retirement. back out. (Colloq.) withdraw, retreat, resile, recede, retire. backset, n. discouragement, setback, check, repulse, rebuff. backslide, v. break faith, apostatize, retrograde, relapse, desert, fall away. backslider, n. apostate, renegade, deserter, recreant, pervert. backsliding, n. apostasy, defection, relapse, recidivism, recreancy, retrogradation. backsliding, a. apostate, renegade, retrogressive, recidivous, recreant, unfaithful. backward, a. retrograde, retrogressive, reverse, regressive; retrospective; reluctant, averse, loath, disinclined, unwilling; dull, inapt; late, tardy, delayed; undeveloped. backwardness, n. reluctance, averseness, unwillingness, disinclination, hesitancy; inaptness, dullness; lateness, tardiness; undevelopment. bacon, n. Associated Words: lardoon, bard, flitch, gammon, lard. bad, a. evil, wicked, immoral, iniquitous, arrant, corrupt, depraved, sinful, base, demoralized, sinister, licentious, unprincipled, abandoned, graceless, vicious, incorrigible, unscrupulous, miscreant, reprobate, disreputable, rascal, scoundrel, profligate, knavish, naughty, malevolent, malicious, unrighteous, degrading, dissolute, libertine, hardened, wanton; injurious, prejudicial, pernicious, detrimental, baneful, unwholesome, baleful, deleterious, mischievous, noisome, malign, malignant, noxious, unpropitious, disadvantageous; offensive, serious, grave, severe, mortal; defective, imperfect, incompetent, inferior; untoward, depressing, unwelcome, adverse, grievous, unfavorable, inauspicious; infertile, inarable; barren, unproductive, worthless; hard, heavy, serious, irreparable, egregious; nefarious, felonious, infamous, villainous, heinous, flagrant, atrocious, flagitious. badge, n. device, cognizance, emblem, ensign, brassard, cordon, star, insignia. badinage, n. raillery (innocent), banter, persiflage, asteism. badly, adv. poorly, unskillfully, wretchedly, grievously, imperfectly; very much; greatly. badness, n. depravity, improbity, unscrupulousness, iniquity, immorality, turpitude, knavishness, villainy, peccancy, baseness, profligacy, venality, licentiousness, obliquity, pravity, degeneracy, viciousness, wantonness, criminality, libertinism, malevolence, incorrigibility, rascality, malignity, noxiousness, infamy, mischief. baffle, v. foil, balk, checkmate, disconcert, frustrate, thwart, circumvent, nonplus. bafflement, n. frustration, foiling, thwarting, circumvention, defeat, disconcertion. baffling, a. disconcerting, frustrating, confusing, perplexing. bag, n. sack, pouch, wallet, reticule, knapsack, pocket, cul-de-sac, haversack, portmanteau, poke, scrip, satchel, suitcase, quiver, valise, sporran, gunny sack; udder; cyst, vesicle, saccule, utricle, bladder. bag, v. capture, entrap, catch. baggage, n. luggage, traps. baggage truck. lorrie, lorry. baggy, a. unshapely, flabby. bagpipe, n. doodlesack. bail, n. security, surety, vadium. bait, n. lure, enticement, inducement, temptation, decoy, allurement; kibblings. balance, v. poise, librate; equal, counterpoise, counteract, counterbalance, countervail; adjust, equalize, square. Antonyms: unbalance, derange, preponderate. balance, n. scales; equipoise, equilibrium, steadiness; surplus, excess, remainder, overplus; poise, equipoise; weighing, estimate. Antonyms: preponderance, deficit, deficiency. balcony, n. gallery, terrace. bald, a. hairless, polled; tonsured; unadorned, literal, undisguised, unvarnished, unqualified; uncorroborated, unsupported, glaring, mere. balderdash, n. flummery, nonsense, jargon, fustian, moonshine, twaddle, fudge. baldness, n. alopecia. Associated Word: alopecist. balk, v. frustrate, baffle, foil, thwart, disappoint; jib. balky, a. refractory, perverse, recalcitrant, contrary, stubborn. ball, n. sphere, globe, orb, pellet; pome, pommel; base-ball, football, lacrosse, basket-ball, tether-ball; bullet, projectile, dejectile, missile; glomeration, conglobation; fandango (Mexico). ballarag, v. (Slang) bully, threaten, browbeat, overbear, intimidate. ballast, n. steadiness, self-control, equipoise, stability, judgment. ballet, n. Associated Words: choreograph, choreographer. ballet-dancer, n. _danseuse_, _coryphee_, _figurante_. balloon, n. aërostat. ballooning, n. aëronautics, aërostation, balloonery. balloonist, n. aëronaut, aërostat, ballooner. balm, n. unguent, ointment; mitigant, anodyne, assuager, nepenthe, balsam. balmy, a. aromatic, odoriferous, sweet-smelling, odorous, balsamic. bamboozle, v. (Colloq.) cheat, humbug, impose upon, dupe. ban, n. announcement, notice; curse, anathema, denunciation, malediction, execration; interdiction, proscription, interdict, taboo. ban, v. curse, anathematize, execrate; interdict, forbid, proscribe, taboo. banal, a. commonplace, platitudinous, hackneyed, trite. banality, n. platitude, commonplace. band, n. fillet, fetter, manacle, shackle, gyve; cincture, girth, swaddle; belt, zone, cestus; bandage, link, bond, vinculum, withe; company, crew, troop, gang, coterie; cabal, clique, club, junto, league; orchestra. band, v. league, confederate, unite, clique. bandage, n. ligature, deligation, fillet; capeline, fasciation, fascia, spica. bandage, v. deligate, swathe. bandit, n. outlaw, brigand, footpad, highwayman, marauder, desperado. bang, v. thump, cudgel, maul; slam; resound, reëcho. bang, n. thump, whack, rap, knock; clangor, clang. banish, v. exile, expatriate, relegate; drive away, dismiss, expel. banished person. exile, expatriate. banishment, n. exile, expatriation, relegation, proscription, expulsion. banister, n. baluster; pl. balustrade. bank, n. mound, pile, ridge, dike, heap, drift, embankment, brink, shore, rivage, rim, brim, marge, strand; shallow, shoal, bar; levee; terreplein. bank, v. embank, dike; pile up, heap up. bankrupt, a. insolvent; depleted, impoverished. Antonym: solvent. bankrupt, v. impoverish, ruin, break. bankruptcy, n. insolvency. Antonym: solvency. banner, n. flag, standard, gonfalon, ensign, oriflame, vexillum, banderole, colors, pavilion. banquet, n. junket, regalement, feast.--v. feast, junket, regale. banter, n. joking, jesting, pleasantry, badinage, chaff, raillery, persiflage, asteism. banter, v. jest, chaff, rally, roast. baptism, n. baptizing; parabaptism, pedobaptism; hypothetical, baptism. Associated Words: baptize, christen, font, baptistery, baptismal. bar, n. obstruction, barrier, impediment, obstacle, barricade, hindrance; shoal, sandbar, bank; ingot; lever, pole, rod; tribunal, judgment-seat; jimmy, betty. bar, v. debar, except, exclude; obstruct, restrain, hinder. barbarian, a. barbarous, savage, rude, uncivilized.--n. savage. barbarism, n. savagery, savagism; outrage, brutality, atrocity; vulgarism, impropriety (of speech), solecism. barbarity, n. barbarism, barbarousness, inhumanity, brutality. barbarous, a. uncivilized, barbarian, inhuman, truculent, brutal. barber, n. tonsor. Associated Word: tonsorial. barber's itch. sycosis. bare, a. naked, nude, undressed, denuded, unveiled, exposed, undraped, _in puris naturalibus_; unadorned, bald, meager, unembellished, uncolored, unvarnished; empty, destitute, unfurnished; threadbare, pileworn, napless; meer, alone, sheer. bare, v. denude, strip, divest, expose, undress, unmask. barefaced, a. unmasked, undisguised, glaring, notorious; shameless, unabashed, brazen, audacious. barefooted, a. unshod, discalced, discalceated. bareness, n. nakedness, nudity. bargain, v. stipulate, agree, contract, covenant; barter. bark, n. cortex. Associated Words: cortical, corticate, corticiferous, corticiform, phleophagus, corticose, periderm, liber, decortication, decorticator. bark, v. peel, flay, skin, decorticate; bay, yelp, yap. barn, n. stable. barrel, n. cask, cade, butt, puncheon, tierce, hogshead, keg, rundlet; (of wine) 31-1/2 gallons; (of flour) 196 pounds. Associated words: gauntree, cooper, bilge, stave, hoop, chine. barren, a. sterile, agenestic, infecund, unprolific, unprocreant; unproductive, unfruitful, unfertile, effete, desert; unprofitable, fruitless, unremunerative, empty; stupid, dull, unimaginative, prosaic, devoid, uninspiring, uninteresting. Antonyms: prolific, fecund, virile, fruitful, fertile, teeming. barrenness, n. sterility, infecundity, unprolificness, infertility. Antonyms: fecundity, prolificness, fertility. barrier, n. obstruction, impediment, obstacle, hindrance, barricade. barter, n. traffic, exchange, trade, business.--v. traffic, trade, exchange. base, a. debased, impure, spurious, alloyed, counterfeit; low-minded, unworthy, ignoble, mean, servile, groveling; despicable, discreditable, disgraceful, venal; plebeian, obscure, untitled, unhonored. base, n. basis, bottom, foundation, groundwork; pedestal; plinth. baseboard, n. mopboard, scrubboard. baseborn, a. plebeian. baseless, a. unfounded, groundless. basement, n. cellar. Associated Word: area. bashful, a. over-modest, diffident, coy, shamefaced, sheepish, retiring. bashfulness, n. modesty, diffidence, shyness, over-modesty. basis, n. foundation. bask, v. luxuriate, revel. basket, n. hamper, creel, hanaper, pannier, corb, tumbril, dosser, canister, prickle, corf, bassinet, voider, flasket, punnet, wicker, wicker-work, scuttle. basket-bearer, n. canephore, canephorus. (Gr. Antiq.) bastard, n. illegitimate child, love-child, whoreson; mamzer (Mosaic law). bastard, a. illegitimate, adulterine; spurious, false, counterfeit, supposititious. bastardize, v. illegitimatize, Antonyms: legitimate, legitimatize. baste, v. beat, cudgel, pound, pommel, buffet, thrash, maul, strike. bat, n. club, cudgel; brickbat; cheiropter, vampire; racket; (Slang) blow, stroke, buffet; (Slang) spree, jollification. batch, n. quantity, collection, lot, assortment. bate, n. puer, grainer. bath, n. ablution, lavement; bathroom, lavatory. Associated Words: balneal, balneary, balneography, balneolo