Part 8

h, greet, salute. bidding, n. command, order, behest, dictation; offer, bid. big, a. large, huge, bulky, massive, immense, gross, voluminous, capacious, extensive; pregnant; arrogant, overbearing, lordly, magisterial, pompous; bombastic, grandiose, grandiloquent, highflown, sesquipedalian, inflated, turgid. bigamy, n. polygamy, polygyny. big-bellied, a. abdominous, paunchy, pot-bellied. bigness, n. size, bulk, largeness, magnitude, dimensions, volume, amplitude. bigot, n. fanatic, zealot, dogmatist. bigoted, a. dogmatic, narrow-minded, illiberal, intolerant. bigotry, n. intolerance, dogmatism, narrow-mindedness. bile, n. Associated Words: acholia, acholous, biliation, biliferous, cholecystis, Ibilious, cholagogue, choleric, choledology, fellinic, hypercholia, biliary, bilin, choleic. bile, n. choler, bitterness:, anger, spleen, rancor, acrimony. bill, n. circular, placard, dodger, poster, broadside, bulletin; invoice; statement; beak, nib, mandible. billingsgate, n. vituperation, tirade, invective, ribaldry, abuse. bill of fare. menu. bin, n. crib, bunker, recepotacle. bind, v. fetter, tie, fasten, secure, gird, confine, restrict, restrain; bandage, swathne; oblige, obligate, lay under, obligation; indenture, apprentice; confirm, sanction, ratify; swaddle. Antonyms: unbind, loose. binding, n. ligature, ligsation, astriction, constriction bandage; obligation, reestraint, restriction; galloon swaddling. binding, a. astringent, astrictive; obligatory, valid. Antonyms: optional, elective. bird, n. (young) fledgeling, nestling; (one year old) annotine; squab; _rara avris_ (rare bird). bird-catcher, n. fowler. bird-catching, n. fowling, birding. birds, n. pl. Aves; Avifauma. Associated Words: ornithology, ornithologist, ornithological, ornithotomy, ornithography, ornithoid, ornitholite, ornithon, ornithophilous, game, ornithic, aviary, avicular, aviculture, covey, neossology paleornithollogy, taxidermy, taxidermist, preen, rookery, cote, hutch, coop, cage, avian, poult, auspice, ariel, mute, Mallophaga. birr. n. whirring. birth n. nativity; origin, beginning, nascency, genesis; extraction, lineage; (new birth) regeneration, renaissance, regenesis, palingenesis. Associated Words: natal, native, pre-natal, post-natal, ante-natal, abortion, congenital, connate, connascent, connascence, horoscope, genial, genethliac, genethlialogy, genethliacs, sooterkin, uniparous, biparous, pluriparous, viable, viability, primiparous, natality. birthday poem. genethliac. birthmark, n. nævus. birthright, n. inheritance. bisexual, a. hermaphrodite. bishop, n. diocesan, prelate; suffragan, coadjutor, metropolitan. Associated Words: episcopal, episcopacy, bishopdom, episcopicide, crosier, chimere, episcopate, rochet, gremial. bishopric, n. diocese, see. bit, n. morsel, fragment, scrap, crumb; mite, ace, scintilla, particle, whit, iota, tittle, grain, atom, jot, molecule, speck, mote. bit by bit. piecemeal. bitch, n. slut; whore. bite, v. champ, nibble, chew; sting, smart, tingle; take hold of, adhere; nip, blight, blast. bite, n. mouthful; wheal. biting, a. stinging, sharp, cutting, sarcastic, caustic, scathing, bitter, satirical, pungent, piquant; nipping, blasting; erosive, corrosive, acrid, mordant. bitter, a. acrid, acerb; poignant, intense; calamitous, distressing, virulent, acrimonious; implacable. bitterness, n. acridity, acerbity; gall, wormwood; poignancy, intensity, severity; rancor, malice, malignity, implacableness. bizarre, a. fantastic, whimsical, grotesque. blab, n. babbler, blabber, telltale.--v. tell, tattle. black, a. sable, ebon, inky, Stygian, Cimmerian, lowering, murky; Ethiopian, Papuan, negro. black, n. stain, smooch; Ethiopian, Papuan, negro. black and blue. livid, ecchymosed. black and blue spot. ecchymosis, suggillation. black art. necromancy, conjuration, magic, sorcery. blacken, v. darken, denigrate; begrime, besmirch, tarnish, discolor; defame, malign. blackguard, n. scoundrel, rascal, villain, ruffian. blackguard, a. vicious, scurrilous, opprobrious, foul. blackguardism, n. ruffianism, scoundrelism, rascality; scurrility, billingsgate. blackhearted, a. villainous, abandoned, reprobate, diabolical, base, depraved. black lead. graphite, plumbago. blackleg, n. (Colloq.) gambler, gamester (disreputable). blackness, n. black, nigritude; atrocity, heinousness, depravity. Black Sea. Euxine. blacksmith, n. ironsmith, farrier, horseshoer. Associated Words: Hephestian, anvil. blacksmith's shop. smithy, smithery, farriery, stithy, forge. black vomit. melenemesis. bladder, n. Associated Words: cystitis, cystic, cystocele, cystose, cystolith, cystotomy, lithotomy, lithotomist, endoscope, endoscopy, prostate, catheter, litholysis, utricular, lithotrity, lithotome, utriculate. blade, n. leaf (of a plant), spire (of grass); buck, gallant, dandy. blamable, a. culpable, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy. blame, v. censure, reproach. blame, n. censure, reproach, reprehension, condemnation, stricture, animadversion, reproof; culpability, reprehensibility, demerit, wrongdoing, fault. blameless, a. guiltless, irreprehensible, inculpable, unimpeachable, faultless, irreproachable. blameworthy, a. censurable, blamable. bland, a. suave, mollifying, affable, complaisant; soothing, emollient, demulsive, assuasive. blandish, v. flatter, cajole, caress. blandishment, n. cajolery, wheedling, caresses, blandiloquence. blank, a. void, empty, unfilled; expressionless, vacant: confounded, nonplused, astounded; unmitigated, absolute, downright. blarney, n. (Colloq.) blandiloquence, palaver, blandishment, cajolery, flattery. blamey, v. flatter, cajole, palaver, wheedle, blandish. blasé, a. surfeited (with pleasure), sated, palled. blasphemy, n. sacrilege, calumny, profanity. blast, n. squall, gust; peal, blare, clang; explosion, discharge. blast, v. blight, destroy; frustrate, ruin; explode, rend, open. blasting, n. blighting, carbunculation; frustration, ruination. blat, v. bleat. blatant, a. brawling, clamorous, obstreperous, bawling braying. blaze, n. flame. blazing, a. flaming, ablaze, aflame. Antonym: smoldering. blazon, v. emblazon; publish, display, exhibit. bleach, v. etiolate, whiten, blanch. bleaching, n. blanching, whitening, etiolation. bleak, a. windswept, cheerless, raw, penetrating, desolate, dreary. bleared, a. rheumy. blearedness, n. lippitude, glama, epiphora. bleed, v. exude. bleeding, n. hemorrhage; phlebotomy, bloodletting, venesection. Associated Words: tourniquet, garrot, styptic. blemish, v. deface, mar, disfigure, sully. blemish, n. defect, fault, imperfection, eyesore, disfigurement, blot. blench, v. flinch, recoil, shrink from. blend, v. intermingle, fuse, merge, combine, mix, assimilate. blend, n. mixture, merging, fusion, assimilation, synthesis. blessing, n. benediction, benison, beatitude; boon, God-send. blight, v. blast; ruin, frustrate, fowart. blind, a. unseeing, sightless, purblind; oblivious, undiscriminating, inconsiderate, unmindful; unintelligible, illegible; obscure, intricate, involved. blind, n. shade, curtain, screen; blinder, blinker; subterfuge, pretext, ruse, stratagem, pretense, feint sophistry. blind alley. cul-de-sac, _impasse_. blind gut. cæcum. blinding, a. obscuring. blindness, n. sightlessness, anopsia, purblindness; amaurosis. blink, v. wink; connive at, disregard, overlook. bliss, n. felicity, transport, rapture, beatitude, happiness, ecstasy. blissful, a. felicitous, ecstatic, rapturous, beatific. blister, n. vesicle, pustule, pustulation, bleb; vesicatory, vesicant, epispastic, pustulant.--v. vesicate, pustulate. blistering, a. vesicatory, epispastic, pustulant.--n. vesication, pustulation. bloat, v. inflate, distend. bloated, a. distended, turgid, intumescent, tumefied. bloating, n. dilatation, intumescence, turgidity. block, v. obstruct, blockade.--n. obstruction, obstacle, barrier. blockhead, n. dolt, dunce, simpleton, ninny, numskull. blood, n. lifeblood; gore. Associated Words: hematology, hemorrhage, hemal, hematic, plethora, anæmia, sanguification, sanguify, clot, corpuscle, styptic, hematosis, sanguiferous, hematin, sanguine, sanguineous, sanguinivorous, hematophobia, hyperæmia. blood, n. blade, spark. bloodhound, n. sleuthhound. bloodless, a. exsanguineous, exsanguious, anæmic. bloodletting, n. venesection, bleeding, phlebotomy. blood of the gods. ichor. blood poisoning. toxæmia, septicæmia. bloodshed, n. carnage, massacre, slaughter, bloodshedding. bloodsucker, n. leech, sanguisuge; (Slang) extortioner; vampire. bloodthirsty, a. sanguinary, truculent, ferocious, cruel. blood vessel. artery; vein; capillary. Associated Words: angiology, angiography, angiotomy, intrafusion, embolism, embolus, thrombosis, thrombolism, rete, hillus, endothelium, epithelium. bloody, a. gory, sanguinary, exsanguined, blood-stained. bloom, n. blossom, blow; prime, vigor, heyday, flush; fuzz, down. blossom, n. flower, florescence, inflorescence, efflorescence, bloom, blow, anthesis.--v. bloom, blow. blot, n. stain, blemish, smutch, smooch, reproach; erasure, obliteration. blot, v. stain, spot, blur, blemish, sully, disgrace, tarnish, dishonor; efface, erase, delete, obliterate, expunge; obscure, eclipse. blotch, n. eruption, blain, bulla, pustule, bleb; splotch, smutch, blot. blow, n. blossom, bloom; whack, knock, thwack, rap, thump, assault, stroke; buffet, calamity, disaster, reverse, misfortune. blow, v. blossom, bloom; pant, puff, gasp; spout; inflate, puff up, distend; explode, shatter; (Colloq.) boast, brag, bluster, vaunt, gasconade; rant, scold, censure. blower, n. (Slang) braggart, boaster, vaunter. blowhole, n. spiracle. blow out. extinguish. blow-out, n. (Colloq.) jollification, celebration, feast, merry-making. blowpipe analysis. Associated Word: pyritology. blue, a. azure, cerulean, cerulific, sapphire, sapphirine, amethystine, turquoise, ultramarine, sky-colored; livid, ecchymosed; rigorous, severe; (Colloq.) melancholy, downhearted, depressed, despondent, dejected, low-spirited, dispirited, hypochondriac, chapfallen, gloomy, (Colloq.) gloomy, inauspicious, dismal, depressing; (Colloq.) pedantic, literary. blue, n. azure, amethystine, sapphirine, cerulean; cyanin, anthokyan, anthocyanin. blue jaundice. cyanopathy, cyanosis. blues, n. pl. (Colloq.) despondency, melancholy, dismals, vapors, depression, blue devils, hypochondria, dumps, megrims. bluff, a. abrupt, unceremonious, brusque; gruff, surly; precipitous, steep, abrupt. bluff, v. (Colloq.) frighten, deter, intimidate. blunder, n. bull, error, mistake, impropriety, slip, solecism, _faux pas_. blundering, a. bungling, awkward, stupid, floundering. blunt, a. dull, obtuse; abrupt, brusque, unceremonious, uncivil, ungracious, discourteous; stupid, stolid. blunt, v. dull, deaden, stupefy; assuage, alleviate, mitigate. blur, v. dim, bedim, obscure; sully, blemish; mackle, macule. blur, n. blot, indistinctness; mackle, macule. blurred, a. indistinct, obscure, dim, bedimmed, sullied. blurt, v. ejaculate. blushing, n. blush, erubescence. bluster, v. swagger, storm, rage, gasconade, roister. bluster, n. swaggering, gasconade, boasting; wind, storm. blusterer, n. swaggerer, braggart, rodomont, roisterer, vaunter. blustering, a. stormy, windy, tempestuous; swaggering, bullying, boastful, roistering. boar, n. male hog; barrow (castrated); hogget (young boar). boast, v. brag, vaunt, vapor, gasconade. Antonyms: belittle, decry, disparage. boaster, n. braggart, vaunter, b