Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 17
Basso-relievo (n.) Same as Bas-relief.
Bassorin (n.) (Chem.) 黃蓍膠糖 A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses. -- Ure.
Bassorin (n.) [U] (Organic chemistry) An amylose that is a constituent part of a species of gum from Basra (<= Bassora), tragacanth, and some gum resins.
Compare: Tragacanth
Tragacanth (n.) 特拉加康斯膠樹（產於亞洲西南部）；特拉加康斯樹膠；黃蓍膠；龍鬚膠；黃芪膠 Tragacanth is a natural gum obtained from the dried sap of several species of Middle legumes of the genus Astragalus, including A. adscendens, A. gummifer, [1] A. brachycalyx, [2] [3] ad A. tragacantha. Some of these species are known collectively under the common names "goat's thorn" and "locoweed". The gum is sometimes called shiraz gum, shiraz, gum lect or gum dragon. [4] the name derives from the Greek words tragos (meaning "goat") and akantha ("thorn") Iran is the biggest producer of this gum.
Compare: Astragalus
Astragalus (n.) Chinese astragalus 黃耆；黃芪，又稱北芪，亦作黃耆，常用中藥之一，一般指豆科黃芪屬（Astragalus）植物。主產於中國大陸的內蒙古、山西、黑龍江等地。春秋兩季採挖，除去鬚根及根頭，曬乾，切片，生用或蜜炙用。[1] [2]
黃芪可分為：內蒙黃芪、膜莢黃芪、綿黃芪、多序岩黃芪（又名「紅芪」）、日本黃芪（又名「和黃芪」）。 Astragalus is a large genus of over 3,000 species [1] of herbs and small shrubs, belonging to the legume family Fabaceae and the subfamily Faboideae. It is the largest genus of plants in terms of described species. [2] The genus is native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Common names include milkvetch (most species), locoweed (in North America, some species) [3] and goat's-thorn (A. gummifer, A. tragacanthus). Some pale-flowered vetches (Vicia spp.) are similar in appearance, but they are more vine-like than Astragalus.
Compare: Cerasin
Cerasin (n.) (Chem.) A gummy mucilaginous substance; -- called also bassorin, tragacanthin, etc.
Bass-relief (n.) Some as Bas-relief.
Bas-relief (n.) 淺浮雕 Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; -- called also bass-relief and basso-rilievo. See Alto-rilievo.
Bass viol (n.) (Mus.) 【音】低音大提琴 A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello.
Bass viol (n.) Viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello [syn: viola da gamba, gamba, bass viol].
Bass viol (n.) Largest and lowest member of the violin family [syn: bass fiddle, bass viol, bull fiddle, double bass, contrabass, string bass].
Basswood (n.) (Bot.) 【植】菩提樹；菩提樹木材 The bass ({Tilia) or its wood; especially, Tilia Americana. See Bass, the lime tree.
All the bowls were made of basswood, White and polished very smoothly. -- Longfellow.
Basswood (n.) Soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork [syn: basswood, linden].
Basswood (n.) Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber [syn: linden, linden tree, basswood, lime, lime tree].
Compare: Deciduous
Deciduous (a.) (Of a tree or shrub) 脫落性的；落葉性的 Shedding its leaves annually.
‘Sun-loving deciduous trees like aspen.’
Often contrasted with Evergreen.
Deciduous (a.) [Informal ] (Of a tree or shrub) Broadleaved.
Deciduous (a.) Denoting the milk teeth of a mammal, which are shed after a time.
‘This is the period when the deciduous teeth are being shed.’
Bast (n.) 韌皮；內皮；韌皮纖維 The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.
Bast (n.) A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.
Bast (n.) Strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants [syn: bast, bast fiber].
Bast (n.) (Botany) Tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes [syn: phloem, bast].
Bast (n.) Cat- or lion-headed Egyptian goddess; represents life-giving power of the sun.
Basta (interj.) [It.] Enough; stop. -- Shak.
Bastard (a.) 私生的；雜種的；品種低劣的；外形（或式樣）異常的，尺碼特殊的 Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.
Bastard (a.) Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.
That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices. -- Barrow.
Bastard (a.) Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin. [Obs.]
Bastard (a.) (Print.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
Bastard ashlar (Arch.), Stones for ashlar work, roughly squared at the quarry.
Bastard file, A file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut.
Bastard type (Print.), Type having the face of a larger or a smaller size than the body; e. g., a nonpareil face on a brevier body.
Bastard wing (Zool.), Three to five quill feathers on a small joint corresponding to the thumb in some mammalia; the alula.
Bastard (n.) [C] 私生子，庶子；雜種；劣等貨；贗品 A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
Note: By the civil and canon laws, and by the laws of many of the United States, a bastard becomes a legitimate child by the intermarriage of the parents at any subsequent time. But by those of England, and of some states of the United States, a child, to be legitimate, must at least be born after the lawful marriage. -- Kent. Blackstone.
Compare: Wedlock
Wedlock (n.) [Mass noun] 婚姻；婚姻生活 The state of being married.
Bastard (n.) (Sugar Refining) An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that have already had several boilings.
Bastard (n.) (Sugar Refining) A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
Bastard (n.) A sweet Spanish wine like muscatel in flavor.
Brown bastard is your only drink. -- Shak.
Bastard (n.) A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
Bastard (v. t.) To bastardize. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Compare: Cod
Cod (n.) (Zool.) 【魚】鱈魚 [C] An important edible fish ({Gadus morrhua), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.
Note: There are several varieties; as shore cod, from shallow water; bank cod, from the distant banks; and rock cod, which is found among ledges, and is often dark brown or mottled with red. The tomcod is a distinct species of small size. The bastard, blue, buffalo, or cultus cod of the Pacific coast belongs to a distinct family. See Buffalo cod, under Buffalo.
Cod fishery, The business of fishing for cod.
Compare: Fishery
Fishery (n. pl. - ies) 漁業，水產業 [U]；漁場；養魚場 [C] A part of the ocean or a river where fish are caught in large quantities.
// A herring fishery.
// Coastal/ fresh water fisheries.
Fishery (n. pl. - ies) = F ish farm.
// A trout fishery.
Compare: Herring
Herring (n.) 鯡，鯡魚 [C] A fairly small silvery fish which is most abundant in coastal waters and is of widespread commercial importance.
Clupea and other genera, family Clupeidae (the herring family): several species, in particular (C. harengus), of the North Atlantic. The herring family also includes the sprats, shads, and pilchards
Compare: Trout
Trout (n.) (Trout, trouts) 鱒魚，鮭鱒魚 [C] A chiefly freshwater fish of the salmon family, found in both Eurasia and North America and highly valued for food and game.
Genera Salmo (several species of true trouts, including the European brown trout), Onchorhyncus (several species including the rainbow trout), and Salvelinus (several North American species), family Salmonidae. See also and lake trout and , and sea trout.
Cod line, An eighteen-thread line used in catching codfish. -- McElrath.
Bastard (a.) Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance [syn: bogus, fake, phony, phoney, bastard].
Bastard (n.) Insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous [syn: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, shit, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, whoreson, son of a bitch, SOB].
Bastard (n.) The illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents [syn: bastard, by-blow, love child, illegitimate child, illegitimate, whoreson].
Bastard (n.) Derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin; "the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not true Gothic" [syn: bastard, mongrel].
Bastard (n.) [ C ] (Unpleasant) (Offensive) 討厭鬼，壞蛋 An unpleasant person.
// He was a bastard to his wife.
// You lied to me, you bastard!
// (Humorous) You won again? You lucky bastard! (= I don't think you deserve it)
// This crossword's a bastard (= very difficult).
Bastard (n.) [ C ] (Child) (Old use) 私生子 A person born to parents who are not married to each other.
// He was born in 1798, the bastard son of a country squire and his mistress.
Compare:
Illegitimate (a.) 非婚生的，私生的 Born of parents not married to each other.
Illegitimate (a.) (Formal) 非法的；不公的 Not legal or fair.
// The rebels regard the official parliament as illegitimate.
Bastardism (n.) 私生子地位；私生 The state of being a bastard; bastardy.
Bastardized (imp. & p. p.) of Bastardize
Bastardizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bastardize
Bastardize (v. t.) 認定……為私生；使品質低落 To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. -- Blackstone.
Compare: Illegitimate
Illegitimate (a.) 非法的，不合法的；私生的；非婚生的；法律不容的；（指辯論等的結論）不合邏輯的 Not authorized by the law; not in accordance with accepted standards or rules.
‘Defending workers against illegitimate managerial practices.’
Compare: Managerial
Managerial (a.) 管理人的；經理的；管理方面的 Relating to management or managers.
‘The division of managerial responsibilities.’
Illegitimate (a.) (Of a child) Born of parents not lawfully married to each other.
Illegitimate (n.) 非嫡出子 A person who is illegitimate by birth.
Bastardize (v. t.) To beget out of wedlock. [R.] -- Shak.
Bastardize (v. t.) To change something (for example, art forms) so that its value declines; to debase.
Syn: bastardise.
Bastardize (v.) (v. i.) 墮落 Change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms [syn: bastardize, bastardise].
Bastardize (v.) Declare a child to be illegitimate [syn: bastardize, bastardise].
Bastardize (v.) [ T ] (UK usually bastardise) 使不純，使品質變壞 To change something in a way that makes it fail to represent the values and qualities that it is intended to represent.
Bastardly (a.) 私生的；庶出的；出身微賤的；偽造的；贗製的；卑鄙的 Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt. [Obs.]
Bastardly (adv.) In the manner of a bastard; spuriously. [Obs.] -- Shak. Donne.
Bastardly (a.) Born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E. A. Freeman [syn: bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten, spurious].
Bastardly (a.) Of no value or worth; "I was caught in the bastardly traffic" [syn: bastardly, mean].
Bastardy (n.) 私生子地位；私生 The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.
Compare: Illegitimacy
Illegitimacy (n.) [Mass noun] 非法，不法；私生；不規則，反常 The state of not being in accordance with accepted standards or rules; lack of authorization by the law.
‘She talks with anger about the illegitimacy of the election.’
Illegitimacy (n.) [Mass noun] The state of being born to parents not lawfully married to each other.
‘The citizens refuse to believe Buckingham's stories about the princes' illegitimacy.’
[As modifier ]‘The illegitimacy rate.’
Bastardy (n.) The procreation of a bastard child. -- Wharton.
Bastardy (n.) The status of being born to parents who were not married [syn: bastardy, illegitimacy, bar sinister].
Bastardy (n.), Crim. law. The offence of begetting a bastard child.
Bastardy (n.), Persons. The state or condition of a bastard. The law presumes every child legitimate, when born of a woman in a state of wedlock, and casts the onus probandi (q. v.) on the party who affirms the bastardy. Stark. Ev. h. t.
Basted (imp. & p. p.) of Baste
Basting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Baste
Baste (v. t.) 狠揍，毒打；痛斥，大罵 To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters. -- Pepys.
Baste (v. t.) (Cookery) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
Baste (v. t.) To mark with tar, as sheep. [Prov. Eng.]
Baste (v. t.) To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly. -- Shak. Bastile
Baste (n.) A loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together [syn: baste, basting, basting stitch, tacking].
Baste (v.) (v. t.) （烤炙時）在……上塗油脂Cover with liquid before cooking; "baste a roast".
Baste (v.) Strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her" [syn: clobber, baste, batter].
Baste (v.) (v. t.) 用長針腳疏縫，粗縫 Sew together loosely, with large stitches; "baste a hem" [syn: baste, tack].
Bastile Bastille (n.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place.
Bastile Bastille (n.) "The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.
Bastinade (n.) See Bastinado, n.
Bastinade (v. t.) To bastinado.
Bastinadoes (n. pl. ) of Bastinado
Bastinado (n.) A blow with a stick or cudgel.
Bastinado (n.) A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet.
Bastinadoes (imp. & p. p.) of Bastinado
Bastinadoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bastinado
Bastinado (v. t.) To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.
Bastion (n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.
Bastioned (a.) Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
Basto (n.) The ace of clubs in quadrille and omber.
Baston (n.) A staff or cudgel.
Baston (n.) See Baton.
Baston (n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court.
Basyle (n.) A positive or nonacid constituent of compound, either elementary, or, if compound, performing the functions of an element.
Basylous (a.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, a basyle; electro-positive; basic; -- opposed to chlorous.
Bat (n.) A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
Bat (n.) Shale or bituminous shale.
Bat (n.) A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
Bat (n.) A part of a brick with one whole end.
Batted (imp. & p. p.) of Bat
Batting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bat
Bat (v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
Bat (v. i.) To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
Bat (n.) 蝙蝠 [C] One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire.
Compare: Cheiroptera
Cheiroptera (n.) Obsolete spelling of Chiroptera.
Compare: Chiroptera
Chiroptera (pl. n.) (Zoology) 【動】翼手目 An order of mammals that comprises the bats.
Batable (a.) Disputable. [Obs.]
Note: The border land between England and Scotland, being formerly a subject of contention, was called batable or debatable ground.
Compare: Disputable
Disputable (a.) 有討論餘地的；真假可疑的 Not established as a fact, and so open to question or debate.
‘Whether it can be described as art criticism may be disputable.’
Batailled (a.) Embattled.
Batardeau (n.) A cofferdam.
Batardeau (n.) A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall.
Batatas (n.) Alt. of Batata
Batata (n.) An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas).
Batavian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe.
Batavian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Batavia or Holland; as, a Batavian legion.
{Batavian Republic}, The name given to Holland by the French after its conquest in 1795.
Batavian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Batavia or Holland. [R.] -- Bancroft.
Batch (n.) [C] [(+of)] 一批生產量；一批投料量；一批，一組，一群；一爐（烘出的麵包等） The quantity of bread baked at one time.
Batch (n.) A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business. "A new batch of Lords." -- Lady M. W. Montagu.
Batch (n.) All the loaves of bread baked at the same time.
Batch (n.) (Often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad].
Batch (n.) A collection of things or persons to be handled together [syn: batch, clutch].
Batch (v.) Batch together; assemble or process as a batch.
Compare: Grainer
Grainer (n.) 刮毛刀；漆（或畫）木紋者；起紋器 An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.
Grainer (n.) A knife for taking the hair off skins.
Grainer (n.) One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.; also, the brush or tool used in graining.
Bate (v. i.) To flutter as a hawk; to bait. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Bate (n.) See 2d Bath.
Bate (n.) An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer. -- Knight.
Bate (v. t.) To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.
Bate (v. t.) [From abate.] To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
He must either bate the laborer's wages, or not employ or not pay him. -- Locke.
Bate (v. t.) To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
To whom he bates nothing of what he stood upon with the parliament. -- South.
Bate (v. t.) To leave out; to except. [Obs.]
Bate me the king, and, be he flesh and blood, He lies that says it. -- Beau. & Fl.
Bate (v. t.) To remove. [Obs.]
About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare. -- Holland.
Bate (v. t.) To deprive of. [Obs.]
When baseness is exalted, do not bate The place its honor for the person's sake. -- Herbert.
Bate (v. i.) To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.
Abate thy speed, and I will bate of mine. -- Dryden.
Bate (v. i.) To waste away. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Bate (v. t.) To attack; to bait. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Bate (n.) Strife; contention. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Bate () imp. of Bite. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Bate (v.) Moderate or restrain; lessen the force of; "He bated his breath when talking about this affair"; "capable of bating his enthusiasm".
Bate (v.) Flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons.
Bate (v.) Soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins".
Compare: Strife
Strife (n.) [Mass noun] 衝突，爭鬥，傾軋；吵架，不和
Angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues; conflict.
‘Strife within the community.’
‘Decades of civil strife.’
Strife (n.) [Mass noun] [Australian, New Zealand ] Trouble or difficulty of any kind.
Bated (imp. & p. p.) of Bate
Bating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bate
Bateaux (n. pl. ) of Bateau
Bateau (n.) （平底而前後細長的）小舟 A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers. [Written also, but less properly, batteau.]
Bateau bridge, A floating bridge supported by bateaux.
Bated (a.) Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.
Bateful (a.) Exciting contention; contentious.
Bateless (a.) Not to be abated.
Batement (n.) Abatement; diminution.
Batfish (n.) (Zool.) 【魚】蝙蝠魚；匍魚 A name given to several species of fishes:
Batfish (n.) (Zool.) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast.
Batfish (n.) (Zool.) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic ({Cephalacanthus spinarella).
Batfish (n.) (Zool.) The California batfish or sting ray ({Myliobatis Californicus.)
Batfish (n.) Bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins.
Batfowler (n.) One who practices or finds sport in batfowling.
Batfowling (n.) A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise.
Batful (v. i.) Rich; fertile.
Baths (n. pl. ) of Bath
Bath (n.) The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath.
Bath (n.) Water or other liquid for bathing.
Bath (n.) A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.