Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 10
Bank bill (n.) 銀行券；（美）鈔票；（英）銀行匯票 In England, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency.
Bank bill (n.) A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes" [syn: bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, greenback].
Bank book (n.) 銀行存摺 A book kept by a depositor, in which an officer of a bank enters the debits and credits of the depositor's account with the bank.
Banker (n.) [C] 銀行家，銀行業者；（賭博的）莊家 One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
Banker (n.) A money changer. [Obs.]
Banker (n.) The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.
Banker (n.) A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland. -- Crabb. -- J. Q. Adams.
Banker (n.) A ditcher; a drain digger. [Prov. Eng.]
Banker (n.) The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work. -- Weale.
Banker (n.) A financier who owns or is an executive in a bank.
Banker (n.) The person in charge of the bank in a gambling game.
Banker (n.), com. law. A banker is one engaged in the business of receiving other persons money in deposit, to be returned on demand discounting other persons' notes, and issuing his own for circulation. One who performs the business usually transacted by a bank. Private bankers are generally not permitted.
Banker (n.) The business of bankers is generally performed through the medium of incorporated banks.
Banker (n.) A banker may be declared a bankrupt by adverse proceedings against him. Act of Congress of 19th Aug. 1841. See 1 Atk. 218; 2 H. Bl. 235; 1 Mont. B. L. 12.
Banker (n.) Among the ancient Romans there were bankers called argentarii, whose office was to keep registers of contracts between individuals, either to loan money, or in relation to sales and stipulations. These bankers frequently agreed with the creditor to pay him the debt due to him by the debtor. Calvini Lex. Jurid.
Bankeress (n.) 女銀行家 A female banker.
Banking (n.) The business of a bank or of a banker.
Bank note (n.) 紙幣；銀行券A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand. See also sense 4.
Note: In the United States popularly called a bank bill.
Bank note (n.) Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; a bank bill. See Bank bill, 2. [Obs.]
Bank note (n.) A promissory note payable at a bank.
Bank note (n.) A promissory note issued by an authorized bank, payable to the bearer on demand and intended to circulate as government-authorized money; in the United States such notes may only be issued by a Federal Reserve Bank; as, he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty banknotes.
Syn: bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, Federal Reserve note, greenback.
Bank note (n.) A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes" [syn: bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, greenback].
Bank note (n.), Contracts. A bank note resembles a common promissory note, (q. v.) issued by a bank or corporation authorized to act as a bank. It is in fact a promissory note, but such notes are not, for many purposes, to be considered as mere securities for money; but are treated as money, in the ordinary course and transactions of business, by the general consent of mankind and, on payment of them, when a receipt is required, the receipts are always given as for money, not as for securities or notes. 1 Burr. R. 457; 12 John. R. 200; 1 John. Ch. R. 231; 9 John. R. 120; 19 John. 144; 1 Sch. & Lef. 318, 319; 11 Ves. 662; 1 Roper, Leg. 3; 1 Ham. R. 189, 524; 15 Pick. 177; 5 G. & John. 58; 3 Hawks, 328; 5 J. J. Marsh. 643.
Bank note (n.) Bank notes are assignable by delivery. Rep. Temp. Hard. 53 9 East, R. 48; 4 East, R. 510 Dougl. 236. The holder of a bank note is prima facie entitled to prompt payment of it, and cannot be affected by the fraud of any former holder in obtaining it, unless evidence be given to bring it home to his privity. 1 Burr. 452; 4 Rawle, 185 13 East, R. 135 Dane's Ab. Index, h. t.; Pow. on Mortg. lndex, h. t. U. S. Dig. h. t. Vide Bouv. Inst. Index, h. t. Note; Promissory note; @Reissuable note.
Bank note (n.) They cannot be taken in execution. Cunning. on Bills, 537; Hardw. Cases, 53; 1 Arch. Pr. 268 1 Wils. Rep. 9 Cro. Eliz. 746, pl. 25
Bankrupt (n.) (Old Eng. Law) 破產者 A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. -- Blackstone.
Bankrupt (n.) A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person. -- M`Culloch.
Bankrupt (n.) (Law) A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.
Note: In England, until the year 1861 none but a "trader" could be made a bankrupt; a non-trader failing to meet his liabilities being an "insolvent". But this distinction was abolished by the Bankruptcy Act of 1861. The laws of 1841 and 1867 of the United States relating to bankruptcy applied this designation bankrupt to others besides those engaged in trade.
Bankrupt (a.) 破產的；有關破產的；已完全失敗的，枯竭了的；徹底缺乏的，喪失……的 [（+of/ in）] Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.
Bankrupt (a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.
Bankrupt (a.) Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.
Bankrupt (a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess). "Bankrupt in gratitude." -- Sheridan.
Bankrupt law, A law by which the property of a person who is unable or unwilling to pay his debts may be taken and distributed to his creditors, and by which a person who has made a full surrender of his property, and is free from fraud, may be discharged from the legal obligation of his debts. See Insolvent, a.
Bankruptcy law, 破產法 Bankruptcy is a legal procedure initiated by an individual or a business that cannot pay their debts and seeks to have the debts discharged or reorganized by the courts. The three most common types of bankruptcy proceedings are Chapter 7 individual petitions, Chapter 11 business reorganization and rehabilitation petitions, and Chapter 13 wage earner's plans.
Bankruptcy cases almost exclusively fall under federal law, though states may pass laws governing issues that federal law doesn't address. Special bankruptcy courts nationwide handle only debtor-creditor cases. Generally, any bankruptcy-related claim must be filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
Bankrupted (imp. & p. p.) of Bankrupt
Bankrupting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bankrupt
Bankrupt (v. t.) 使破產；使赤貧； 使枯竭 To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.
Bankrupt (a.) Financially ruined; "a bankrupt company"; "the company went belly-up" [syn: bankrupt, belly-up(p)].
Bankrupt (n.) Someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts [syn: bankrupt, insolvent].
Bankrupt (v.) Reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him" [syn: bankrupt, ruin, break, smash].
Bankruptcies (n. pl. ) of Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy (n.) 破產，倒閉 [U] [C]；徹底失敗；（名譽等的）完全喪失 [U] [（+in/of）] The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.
Bankruptcy (n.) The act or process of becoming a bankrupt.
Bankruptcy (n.) Complete loss; -- followed by of.
Bankruptcy (n.) A state of complete lack of some abstract property; "spiritual bankruptcy"; "moral bankruptcy"; "intellectual bankruptcy".
Bankruptcy (n.) Inability to discharge all your debts as they come due; "the company had to declare bankruptcy"; "fraudulent loans led to the failure of many banks" [syn: bankruptcy, failure].
Bankruptcy (n.) A legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent.
Bankruptcy proceedings (n. pl.) 破產程序 The bankruptcy procedure is: a) filing a petition (voluntary or involuntary) to declare a debtor person or business bankrupt, or, under Chapter 11 or 13, to allow reorganization or refinancing under a plan to meet the debts of the party unable to meet his/ her/ its obligations. This petition is supposed to include a schedule of debts, assets and income potential. b) A hearing called "first meeting of creditors" with notice to all known creditors. This is usually brief and the judge assignes the matter to a professional trustee. c) Later the trustee reports and there is a determination of what debts are dischargeable, what assets are exempt, and what payments are possible. d) If there are assets available then the creditors are requested in writing to file a "creditor's claim." e) There may be other hearings, reports, proposals, hearings on claims of fraudulent debts, petitions for removing the stay on foreclosures and other matters. f) The final step is a hearing on discharge of the bankrupt, which wipes out unsecured debts (or a pro rata share of them).
Under Chapter 11 and 13 proceedings, the process will be more drawn out and can go on for years as plans are proposed, possibilities of refinancing are considered and, in effect, the debtor tries either to legitimately get out from under his/ her/ its financial woes or delay while current profits are made and prayers for economic salvation are made. (See: bankruptcy, claim in bankruptcy)
Bankside (n.) 河岸斜坡 The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.
Bank-sided (a.) (Naut.) Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; -- opposed to wall-sided.
Compare: Wall-sided
Wall-sided (a.) (Naut.) Having sides nearly perpendicular; - said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those having flaring sides, or sides tumbling home (see under Tumble, v. i.)
Compare: Perpendicular
Perpendicular (a.) 垂直的，成直角的，正交的 [F] [（+to）]；直立的；險陡的；【建】（常大寫）垂直式的 At an angle of 90° to a given line, plane, or surface or to the ground.
‘Dormers and gables that extend perpendicular to the main roofline.’
Perpendicular (a.) At an angle of 90° to the ground; vertical.
‘The perpendicular cliff.’
Perpendicular (a.) So steep as to be almost vertical.
‘Houses seem to cling by blind faith to the perpendicular hillside.’
Perpendicular (a.) (Also Perpendicular) Denoting the latest stage of English Gothic church architecture, prevalent from the late 14th to mid 16th centuries and characterized by broad arches, elaborate fan vaulting, and large windows with vertical tracery.
‘The handsome Perpendicular church of St Andrew.’
‘The Perpendicular style.’
Perpendicular (n.) 垂線；垂直面 [C]；垂直的位置 [the S] A straight line at an angle of 90° to a given line, plane, or surface.
‘At each division draw a perpendicular representing the surface line’
Perpendicular (n.) (Usually the perpendicular) [Mass noun ] Perpendicular position or direction.
‘The wall declines from the perpendicular a little inward.’
Bank swallow (n.) See under 1st Bank, n.
Bank swallow (n.) A small swallow (Riparia riparia) of the northern hemisphere that nests in a hole it makes in a bank -- called also Bank martin.
Compare: Bank martin
Bank martin (n.) Swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks.
Compare: Sand martin
Sand martin (n.) Swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks.
Compare: Riapria riparia
Riapria riparia (n.) Swallow of the northern hemisphere that nets in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks.
Riapria riparia (n.) 灰沙燕 Sand martin
學名: Riparia riparia
英名: Sand martin
Family : Hirundinidae (燕科). Length: 11-14cm.
灰沙燕（Riparia riparia）又名崖沙燕，為燕科燕屬的鳥類，體長約11-14厘 米，背羽褐色或砂灰褐色；胸具灰褐色橫帶，腹與尾下覆羽白毛，尾羽不具白斑。成鳥上體暗灰褐色，額、腰及尾上覆羽略淡；眼先黑褐；耳羽灰褐；至頸側灰白； 灰褐色胸帶完整；覆及尾下覆羽白毛；兩翅內側飛羽和覆羽與背同色，外側飛羽和覆羽黑褐；腋羽灰褐色；尾羽黑褐沾棕。兩性同形。虹膜深褐；嘴黑褐；趾灰褐 色，爪褐色。
分佈於全世界，澳大利亞除外。
The sand martin is brown above, white below with a narrow brown band on the breast; the bill is black, the legs brown. The young have rufous tips to the coverts and margins to the secondaries.
Its brown back, white throat, small size and quick jerky flight separate it at once from similar swallows, such as the house martin
The sand martin (Riparia riparia) is a migratory passerine bird in the swallow family. It has a wide range in summer, embracing practically the whole of Europe and the Mediterranean countries, part of northern Asia and also North America.
Banlieue (n.) 郊區，市郊 The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city. -- Brande & C.
Banlieue (n.) (Feminine) Outskirts, suburb.
Banned (a.) 被禁的，被取締的；ban的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Forbidden by law. [syn: banned, prohibited].
Banner (n.) [C] 旗幟；（張掛在街頭或遊行隊伍等用的）橫幅 A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.
Hang out our banners on the outward walls. -- Shak.
Banner (n.) A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.
Banner (n.) Any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner.
Banner fish (Zool.), A large fish of the genus Histiophorus, of the Swordfish family, having a broad bannerlike dorsal fin; the sailfish. One species ({Histiophorus Americanus) inhabits the North Atlantic.
Banner (a.) 【美】傑出的，第一流的 [B] Unusually good; outstanding; "a banner year for the company".
Banner (n.) Long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising [syn: banner, streamer].
Banner (n.) A newspaper headline that runs across the full page [syn: streamer, banner].
Banner (n.) Any distinctive flag [syn: standard, banner].
Banner (n.) A piece of cloth attached by one edge to a staff and used by a leader (such as a monarch or feudal lord) as a standard (see STANDARD entry 1sense 1)
Banner (n.) FLAG entry 2 sense 1
// Our nation's beloved banner.
Banner (n.) An ensign displaying a distinctive or symbolic device or legend (see LEGEND sense 2a)
Especially : one presented as an award of honor or distinction.
Banner (n.) A headline in large type running across a newspaper page.
// The banner read "Kennedy Wins."
Banner (n.) A strip of cloth on which a sign is painted.
// welcome banners stretched across the street.
Banner (n.) A name, slogan, or goal associated with a particular group or ideology.
// The new banner is "community control." -- F. M. Hechinger -- often used with under
// Every new administration arrives … under the banner of change -- John Cogley
Banner (n.) Or banner ad or banner advertisement : an advertisement graphic (see GRAPHIC entry 2 sense 2b) that runs usually across the top of a World Wide Web page.
Banner (v.) (bannered; bannering; banners) (v. t.) To furnish with a banner.
// A bannered storefront.
Banner (v. t.) (Journalism) : To print (a news story) under a headline in large type usually on the front page.
// News of the defeat was bannered in newspapers throughout the country.
Banner (a.) 【美】傑出的，第一流的 [B] Prominent in support of a political party.
// A banner Democratic county.
Banner (a.) Distinguished from all others especially in excellence.
// A banner year for business.
Bannered (a.) Furnished with, or bearing, banners.
Banneret (n.) 方旗武士 Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.
Banneret (n.) 爵位 A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.
Note: The usual mode of conferring the rank on the field of battle was by cutting or tearing off the point of the pennon or pointed flag on the spear of the candidate, thereby making it a banner.
Banneret (n.) A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
Banneret (n.) 小旗幟 A small banner. -- Shak.
Banneret (n.) A knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command [syn: {knight banneret}, {knight of the square flag}, {banneret}].
Bannerol (n.) 小旗；葬旗 A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.
Banderole, Bandrol, (n.) A little banner, flag, or streamer. [Written also {Bannerol}.]
From the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole or streamer bearing a cross. -- Sir W. Scott.
Bannerol (n.) A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See {Banderole}.
Bannition (n.) (Obsolete) The act of expulsion.
Compare: Expulsion
Expulsion (n.) [Mass noun] 驅逐；開除；排除 [U] [C] [（+from/ of）] The action of forcing someone to leave an organization.
‘His expulsion from the union.’
[Count noun ]‘A rise in the number of pupil expulsions.’
Expulsion (n.) [Mass noun] The action or process of forcing someone to leave a place.
‘The expulsion of two diplomats from the embassy.’
Expulsion (n.) [Mass noun] The action of forcing something out of the body.
‘Oxytocin causes expulsion of milk from the lactating mammary gland.’
Bannock (n.) （英國北部的）一種薄麥餅 A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England.
Compare: Oatmeal
Oatmeal (n.) [Mass noun] [U] 燕麥粉，燕麥片；燕麥粥 Meal made from ground oats, used in porridge, oatcakes, or other food.
‘Medium Scottish oatmeal.’
[As modifier ]‘Oatmeal porridge.’
Oatmeal (n.) [Mass noun] [North American] Porridge made from oatmeal or rolled oats.
Oatmeal (n.) [Mass noun] A greyish-fawn colour flecked with brown.
[As modifier ]‘An oatmeal jacket.’
Compare: Barley
Barley (n.) [Mass noun] 大麥 [U] A hardy cereal with coarse bristles extending from the ears, cultivated especially for use in brewing and stockfeed.
// Genus Hordeum, family Gramineae.
Barley (n.) [Mass noun] The grain of barley.
Banns (n. pl.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place.
Banns (n.) (pl.) （教堂發布的） 結婚公告 A public announcement made in a church, especially in the UK, that two people are going to get married.
// The banns were published in their local parish church.
Compare: Parish
Parish (n.) [C] 教區；【英】地方行政區；（總稱）教區居民 (In the Christian Church) A small administrative district typically having its own church and a priest or pastor.
[As modifier ]‘A parish church.’
Parish (n.) [British ] The smallest unit of local government, constituted only in rural areas.
[As modifier ]‘A parish councilor.’
Parish (n.) [US ] (In Louisiana) A territorial division corresponding to a county in other states.
Banquet (v. i.) 參加宴會 To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.
Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets, I would not taste thy treasonous offer. -- Milton.
Banquet (v. i.) To partake of a dessert after a feast. [Obs.]
Where they did both sup and banquet. -- Cavendish.
Banquet (n.) A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.
Banquet (n.) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats. [Obs.]
We'll dine in the great room, but let the music And banquet be prepared here. -- Massinger.
Banquet (v. t.) 宴請，設宴款待 To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
Just in time to banquet The illustrious company assembled there. -- Coleridge.
Banqueted (imp. & p. p.) of Banquet
Banqueting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Banquet
Banquet (n.) [C] 宴會，盛宴；宴請，款待 A ceremonial dinner party for many people [syn: banquet, feast].
Banquet (n.) A meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed; "a banquet for the graduating seniors"; "the Thanksgiving feast"; "they put out quite a spread" [syn: banquet, feast, spread].
Banquet (v.) Provide a feast or banquet for [syn: feast, banquet, junket].
Banquet (v.) Partake in a feast or banquet [syn: feast, banquet, junket].
Banquetter (n.) One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts.
Banquette (n.) A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.
Banquette (n.) A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.
Banquette (n.) [ C ] （餐館等處沿牆設置的）長條形軟座 A long seat covered with cloth or similar material and put against a wall, especially with tables and chairs facing it in a restaurant
She sat on the banquette because she likes to look at everyone in the restaurant.
Banshee (n.) 報喪女妖 Alt. of Banshie
Banshie (n.) （愛爾蘭和蘇格蘭傳說中）預告死亡的女妖精 A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.
Banshee (n.) (Irish folklore) A female spirit who wails to warn of impending death [syn: {banshee}, {banshie}].
Banshee (n.) [ C ] （愛爾蘭傳統故事中以哭聲預報死訊的）報喪女妖 A female spirit in traditional Irish stories whose crying sound tells you that someone in your family is going to die.
Banstickle (n.) (Zool.) A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.
Bantam (n.) A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.
Bantam (a.) Very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy" [syn: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny, flyspeck].
Bantam (n.) Any of various small breeds of fowl.
Bantam, CT -- U.S. borough in Connecticut
Population (2000): 802
Housing Units (2000): 376
Land area (2000): 1.010797 sq. miles (2.617953 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.010797 sq. miles (2.617953 sq. km)
FIPS code: 02690
Located within: Connecticut (CT), FIPS 09
Location: 41.723320 N, 73.240629 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 06750
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bantam, CT
Bantam
Bantam work () Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware.
Banteng (n.) (Zool.) The wild ox of Java ({Bibos Banteng).
Bantered (imp. & p. p.) of Banter
Bantering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Banter
Banter (n.) （善意的）取笑，戲謔，逗弄 [U] The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.
Part banter, part affection. -- Tennyson.
Banter (v. t.) （善意地）取笑，逗弄 To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.
Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day. -- W. Irving.
Banter (v. t.) To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like. [Archaic]
If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them. -- Chatham.
Banter (v. t.) To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest. [Obs.]
We diverted ourselves with bantering several poor scholars with hopes of being at least his lordship's chaplain. -- De Foe.
Banter (v. t.) To challenge or defy to a match. [Colloq. Southern and Western U. S.].
Banter (n.) Light teasing repartee [syn: banter, raillery, give- and-take, backchat].
Banter (v.) Be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around" [syn: kid, chaff, jolly, josh, banter].
Banterer (n.) One who banters or rallies.
Bantingism (n.) 班亭式減肥療法（忌食糖、澱粉和高脂類） A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.
Compare: Corpulence
Corpulence (n.) or Corpulency [Mass noun] 肥胖；發福 The state of being fat; obesity.
‘Her corpulence is the butt of every joke.’
Bantling (n.) 嬰孩，小孩 A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.]
Compare: Contemptuous
Contemptuous (a.) 表示輕蔑的；瞧不起的，藐視的 [（+of）] Showing contempt; scornful.
‘She was intolerant and contemptuous of the majority of the human race.’
Compare: Depreciatory
Depreciatory (a.) 跌價的 Diminishing in value.
Depreciatory (a.) 輕視的 Disparaging; belittling.
Banxring (n.) (Zool.) An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia.
Banyan (n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.
Baobab (n.) (Bot.) A gigantic African tree ({Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.
Baobab (n.) African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread [syn: baobab, monkey-bread tree, Adansonia digitata].
Baphomet (n.) 巴風特 An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.
Baptism (n.) [U] [C]【宗】浸禮，洗禮；【喻】洗禮，考驗；初次經歷 The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.
Baptism (n.) A Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth; "most churches baptize infants but some insist on adult baptism".
Baptismal (a.) Pertaining to baptism; as, baptismal vows.
Baptismal name, The Christian name, which is given at baptism.
Baptismal (a.) 浸禮的；洗禮的 Of or relating to baptism; "baptismal font".
Baptismally (adv.) 洗禮地 In a baptismal manner.
Baptist (n.) 施洗者約翰，施洗者，浸信會教友 One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ.
Baptist (n.) One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.
Baptist (n.) Follower of Baptistic doctrines.
Baptisteries (n. pl. ) of Baptistry
-tries (n. pl. ) of Baptistry
Baptistery (n.) Alt. of Baptistry
Baptistry (n.) (Arch.) In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near.
Baptistry (n.) (Arch.) A part of a church containing a font and used for baptismal services.
Baptistery (n.) Bowl for baptismal water [syn: baptismal font, baptistry, baptistery, font].
Baptistic (a.) Of or for baptism; baptismal.
Baptistic (a.) Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Baptist church; "Baptistis baptismal practices".
Baptistical (a.) Baptistic. [R.]
Baptizable (a.) Capable of being baptized; fit to be baptized. -- Baxter.
Baptization (n.) Baptism. [Obs.]
Their baptizations were null. -- Jer. Taylor.
Baptized (imp. & p. p.) of Baptize
Baptizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Baptize
Baptize (v. t.) To administer the sacrament of baptism to.
Baptize (v. t.) To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name.
I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. -- Shak.
Baptize (v. t.) To sanctify; to consecrate.
Baptize (v.) Administer baptism to; "The parents had the child baptized" [syn: baptize, baptise, christen].
Baptizement (n.) The act of baptizing. [R.]
Baptizer (n.) One who baptizes.
Bar (n.) [C] 棒，條；（長方或橢圓形的）條狀物；閂，橫槓 A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.
Thou shalt make bars of shittim wood. -- Ex. xxvi. 26.
Bar (n.) An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.
Bar (n.) Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
Must I new bars to my own joy create? -- Dryden.
Bar (n.) A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.
Bar (n.) Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.
Bar (n.) (Law) The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court.