Part 7

gy balneotherapy, laver. bathe, v. lave, wash; foment; surround, envelop, enwrap, suffuse. bathing, n. ablution, lavement. baton, n. staff, wand, sceptre, truncheon. batten, v. fatten. batter, v. smite, pelt, assault; demolish, raze, shatter. battle, n. engagement, fight, encounter, skirmish, contest, combat, tournament, strife. battle array. battalia. bauble, n. gewgaw, gimcrack, kickshaws, trinket, plaything. bawdy-house, n. brothel. bay, n. bight, frith, estuary, fiord, bayou; recess, alcove, sinus, oriel (bay window); bay-tree, sweet laurel; last resort, desperation; pl. honors, garland, renown. beach, n. shore, strand, shingle, marge. beached, a. stranded, aground. beacon, n. balefire, signal fire; signal, pharos. Associated Word: pharology. beadle, n. apparitor, summoner, servitor. beads, n. pl. rosary; passementerie (beaded trimming); chaplet; wampum, suckanhock, peag. beak, n. bill, nib, neb, mandible; prow, bow, rostrum. Associated word: cere. beam, n. girder, joist; ray, gleam. beam, v. gleam, shine, glitter, glisten, scintillate. beaming, a. radiant, shining. beanlike, a. fabaceous. bear, n. Bruin; Ursus; Ephraim; cub, whelp; grumbler, growler, boor; musquaw. bear, v. endure, tolerate, stand, undergo, brook, submit to, suffer, bear with; harbor, cherish, entertain; support, sustain, uphold; carry, convey, transport, waft; render, produce, yield; bring forth, teem; relate, refer, concern; press, push, oppress. bearable, a. sufferable, tolerable, endurable. Antonyms: unbearable, intolerable. beard, n. whiskers; goatee, mustache; awn, arista (beard of grain). beard, v. defy, encounter, oppose. bearded, a. whiskered; aristate, awned. bearing, n. mien, carriage, port, demeanor, air, deportment; endurance, forbearance, long-suffering, toleration, sufferance; relation, connection, dependency; course, aim, direction; bringing forth, yielding. bearish, a. discourteous, boorish, uncivil, rude; ursine, ursiform. bear out. sustain, support, corroborate, confirm, uphold. beast, n. brute; quadruped; monster, brute. beastly, a. bestial, irrational, brutal; (Colloq.) abominable, disagreeable, nasty. beat, v. forge, malleate, beetle, weld, hammer; belabor, maul, buffet, smite, flagellate, whack, pelt, strike; See whip; overcome, vanquish, surpass, conquer, eclipse, subdue, checkmate, rout, excel, outdo; cheat, swindle, defraud; throb, pulsate; pulverize, comminute, bruise, bray, triturate; perplex, pose, nonplus. beat, n. throb, pulsation; round; superior. beat, a. (Colloq.) exhausted, weary, fatigued, beaten. beat back. repel, repulse, resist. beaten, a. conquered, defeated, vanquished. beating, n. flagellation, drubbing, flogging, fustigation, castigation, thumping, mauling, verberation, pommeling; pulsation, throb, throbbing, saltation; defeat, repulse; malleation, forging, welding. beating, a. pulsating, throbbing, pulsatile. beau, n. lover, sweetheart, gallant, swain, flame, cicisbeo, admirer, suitor, inamorato; dandy, popinjay, dude, fop, coxcomb, exquisite, blade. beautiful, a. fair, lovely, handsome, comely, personable, beauteous, elegant, exquisite. Antonyms: homely, ugly, repulsive, unlovely, hideous, uncomely, inelegant. beautify, v. embellish, adorn, grace, garnish. beauty, n. loveliness, fairness, elegance, comeliness, pulchritude, grace, exquisiteness, charm, attraction. Associated Words: æsthetics, æsthetician, æstheticism, æsthete, æsthetic, esthetology, Apollo, Adonis, Venus, Hebe, Hyperion, Houri, Aphrodite. becloud, v. dim, cloud, obscure, adumbrate, obfuscate. becoming, a. appropriate, fit, seemly, befitting, comely. Antonyms: See unbecoming. bed, n. berth, bunk, couch, cot; pallet, paillasse, mattress; cradle, trundle-bed; deposit, seam, vein, stratum. Associated Words: decumbiture, lectual, clinic, clinical, valance, alcove. bedbug, n. chinch. bedclothes, n. pl. Associated Words: floccillation, carphology, tilmus. bedim, v. obscure, becloud, adumbrate, overcast. bedlam, n. madhouse, insane asylum; babel, pandemonium. bedroom, n. chamber. bedsore, n. decubitus. bedspread, n. counterpane, coverlet. bed-wetting, n. enuresis. beehive, n. beehouse, apiary, alveary. bees, n. pl. Associated Words: apiology, apiculture, apiologist, apian, apiarian, apiarist, apivorous, hive, swarm, cerago, beebread. beetle, n. mallet (heavy); scarabee, clock, coleopter, scarab. Associated Words:: coleopterist, coleopteral. beetle, v. overhang, jut out, protrude, project. befall, v. happen, supervene, betide, bechance. befitting, a. suitable, proper, becoming, appropriate, seemly, meet, applicable, congruous. before, prep. preceding, ahead of, anterior to, previously to, prior. before death. ante-mortem. before the flood. antediluvian, antediluvial. before the war. ante-bellum. befuddle, v. confuse, mystify, bewilder. beg, v. beseech, supplicate, implore; ask alms. beget, v. procreate, engender, generate, get. begetter, n. procreator, generator, father. beggar, n. mendicant, starveling, fakir, vagrant, eleemosynary, prog, tramp, bezonian, mumper, schnorrer (Jewish). beggar, v. impoverish, ruin; exhaust, surpass, go beyond. beggarly, a. indigent, destitute; despicable, pitiable, paltry. beggary, n. mendicancy, indigence, penury, want, pauperism. begging letter or drawing. screeve. begin, v. commence; arise, spring, originate. begin again. resume, recommence. beginner, n. tyro, novice, neophyte, learner, apprentice, understudy, novitiate, probationer, catechumen, recruit. beginning, n. commencement, inception, opening, outset, initiation, indication, incipience, nascency, incipiency, threshold, tyronism, novitiate; origin, source. beginning again. resumption, recommencement. begone, interj. avaunt. beguile, v. insnare, mislead, lure, deceive, cheat; while away. beguilement, n. imposition, deception. behave, v. deport one's self, act, bear. behavior, n. conduct, deportment, actions, demeanor. behead v. decapitate, decollate, execute. beheading, n. decapitation, decollation, execution. behindhand, a. and adv. in arrears; dilatory, late, tardy, unpunctual. beholden, a. obliged, indebted, bound. beholder, n. spectator, witness, onlooker, eye-witness. being, n. existence, entity. Antonyms: nonexistence, nonentity. Associated Words: ontology, metaphysics, ontological, ontologist. belch, v. eruct, expel, throw up; eructate. belching, n. eructation. belfry, n. bell-tower, campanile. Associated Words: louver boarding. belief, n. credence; persuasion, faith; conviction, assurance, confidence; tenet, dogma, creed, opinion, doctrine, cult, view, principle; intuition; superstition, fanaticism. Antonyms: doubt, disbelief, skepticism, misgiving, incredulity. Associated Words: credulous, incredulous, credulity, credibility, incredibility, gull, gullible, gullibility. believable, a. credible. belittle, v. decry, disparage, underrate, depreciate. bell, n. campana, carillon, curfew, tocsin, gong. Associated Words: campanology, campanologist, peal, ring, knell, toll, chime. bellicose, a. pugnacious, belligerent. belligerent, a. at war, warring, militant; bellicose, pugnacious. bell-ringer, n. sexton, campanologist. bell-shaped, a. campaniform, campanulate, campaniliform. bell-tower, n. belfry, campanile. belly, n. abdomen, paunch; recesses, _penetralia_, depths. belly-ache, n. colic, gripes, tormina, enteralgia. belly-band, n. girth, surcingle. belly-god, n. glutton, epicure, gourmand, sybarite, voluptuary. belonging, n. appendage, appurtenance, adjunct concomitant, accessary, attribute. below, adv. under, beneath, underneath. below, prep. under, beneath, underneath; inferior to; unworthy of, unbefitting. belt, n. girdle; girth, surcingle, cincture, cestus; zone; bandolier. belt, v. encircle, begird, encompass, surround. bemoan, v. lament, bewail, deplore. bench, n. form; workbench. bend, v. curve, flex, deflect, crook; direct, turn, apply; stoop, incline; yield, condescend. bend, n. curve, deflection, crook, curvature, bight, coil, flexure, incurvation. bendable, a. flexible, supple, lithe, pliable, pliant. Antonyms: See inflexible. benefice, n. living (Eccl.); sinecure. Associated Words: advowson, simony, donative. beneficent, a. benevolent, charitable, philanthropic, magnanimous, benignant. beneficial, a. advantageous, salutary, profitable, useful, wholesome. benefit, n. avail, profit, behalf, advantage, service. benefit, v. help, conduce, avail, advantage, be useful to, do good to. benevolence, n. beneficence, bounty, benignity, charity. benevolent, a. benign, beneficent, bountiful, charitable, philanthropic. benighted, a. unenlightened; belated. bent, a. crooked, flexed, hooked; determined. bent, n. leaning, bias, proclivity, tendency, predilection, predisposition. benumb, v. stupefy, blunt, hebetate. benumbed, a. torpid, unfeeling, stupefied. bequeath, v. devise, will. bequest, n. legacy. berate, v. upbraid, rate, reprimand, censure. berry, n. Associated Words: baccate, baccated, baccivorous, bacciferous, cocciferous, bacciform. beseech, v. entreat, implore, adjure, supplicate. beset, v. besiege, obsess, beleaguer, environ, encompass; perplex, harass. besides, adv. moreover, furthermore, further, too. besiege, v. obsess, environ, beset, beleaguer, encompass. besieging, n. obsession. best, a. supreme, consummate, superlative, crowning, incomparable, utmost. bet, v. wager, stake.--n. wager. betoken, v. foreshadow, portend, presage, foreshow, indicate, augur. betray, v. seduce, mislead, delude, beguile, inveigle; reveal, disclose; give up treacherously, give over to the enemy, act the traitor, be false to. betrayal, n. treason, treachery, perfidy; revelation, exposure; seduction. betrayer, n. traitor, seducer; Judas. betroth, v. affiance. betrothal, n. affiance, betrothment. better, n. upper hand, domination, advantage, control, superiority; improvement. better, v. ameliorate, improve, emend, promote, reform, meliorate, amend. betterment, n. amelioration, improvement, promotion, amendment, reformation. between, prep. betwixt (Obsolescent).--a. interjacent, intervening. betwixt and between. (Colloq.) so-so, mediocre, average, ordinary, indifferent. bevy, n. (of birds) flock, covey; (of deer) herd; (of girls) group. bewail, v. deplore, lament, bemoan, wail over. bewilder, v. confuse, perplex, nonplus, obfuscate, confound, mystify, embarrass. bewildered, a. perplexed, confused, mystified, nonplused, obfuscated. bewildering, a. perplexing, confusing, puzzling, mystifying. bewilderment, n. perplexity, confusion, mystification, obfuscation. bewitch, v. charm, fascinate, captivate, enamor. Antonyms: disillusionize, repel, disabuse. bewitchery, n. bewitchment, charm, fascination, witchery. bewitching, a. enchanting, captivating, charming, irresistible. bias, n. bent, proneness, predisposition, prejudice. Bible, n. the Scriptures, the Word of God; (Catholic) Douay Bible, Vulgate; (Mohammedan) Koran. Associated Words: canonics, canon, canonical, anagogics, anagoge, exegesis, biblical, biblicist, bibliolater, bibliolatry, bibliology, biblist, bibliomancy, Hagiographa, hagiographer, hagiologist, hagiology, commentator, Heptateuch, Hexapla, Octapla, Apocrypha, Hexateuch, apologetics, concordance, synoptist, uncanonical, Homologoumena, Antilegomena. bibulous, a. absorbent; intemperate, cup-loving, bibacious. bickering, n. altercation, contention, wrangling, sparring, dissension, quarrel. bid, v. offer, proffer; order, direct, enjoin, command; invite, ask; wis