Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 2
Baccated (a.) Set or adorned with pearls. [Obs.]
Bacchanal (a.) 酒神節的；狂歡鬧飲的 Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
Bacchanal (a.) Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.
Bacchanal (n.) 狂歡作樂；紀念酒神的歌舞 A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser. "Tipsy bacchanals." -- Shak.
Bacchanal (n.) (pl.) The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.
Bacchanal (n.) Drunken revelry; an orgy.
Bacchanal (n.) A song or dance in honor of Bacchus.
Bacchanal (a.) Used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" [syn: bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic].
Bacchanal (n.) Someone who engages in drinking bouts [syn: drunken reveler, drunken reveller, bacchanal, bacchant].
Bacchanal (n.) A drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus [syn: bacchant, bacchanal].
Bacchanal (n.) A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry].
Bacchanalia (n. pl.) (Myth.) （pl.）（古羅馬）酒神節；（b-）大酒宴 A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.
Bacchanalia (n. pl.) Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler; an orgy.
Bacchanalia (n.) An orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus) [syn: Dionysia, Bacchanalia].
Bacchanalia (n.) A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry].
Bacchanalian (a.) 酒神節的；狂飲作樂的 Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.
Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. -- Cowper.
Bacchanalian (n.) 發酒瘋的人 A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
Bacchanalian (a.) Used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" [syn: bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic].
Bacchanalianism (n.) The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry.
Bacchants (n. pl. ) of Bacchant
Bacchantes (n. pl. ) of Bacchant
Bacchant (n.) 酒神的女祭司；酒神的女信徒；酒神的讚頌者；發酒瘋的人 A priest of Bacchus.
Bacchant (n.) A bacchanal; a reveler. -- Croly.
Bacchant (a.) 崇拜酒神的；嗜酒的 Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing. -- Byron.
Bacchant (n.) Someone who engages in drinking bouts [syn: drunken reveler, drunken reveller, bacchanal, bacchant].
Bacchant (n.) A drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus [syn: bacchant, bacchanal].
Bacchant (n.) (Classical mythology) A priest or votary of Bacchus.
Bacchantes (n. pl. ) of Bacchante
Bacchante (n.) 酒神巴克斯（Bacchus）的女祭司或女崇拜者；參加狂歡鬧酒的女子 A priestess of Bacchus.
Bacchante (n.) A female bacchanal.
Bacchante (n.) (Classical mythology) A priestess or votary of Bacchus.
Bacchantic (a.) Bacchanalian.
Bacchic (a.) Alt. of Bacchical
Bacchical (a.) Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous,with intoxication.
Bacchii (n. pl. ) of Bacchius
Bacchius (n.) A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.
Bacchus (n.) The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.
Bacciferous (a.) Producing berries.
Bacciform (a.) Having the form of a berry.
Baccivorous (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds.
Bace (n., a., & v.) See Base.
Bacharach (n.) Alt. of Backarack
Backarack (n.) A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.
Compare: Holluschickie
Holluschickie (n. sing. & pl.) (Zool.) A young male fur seal, esp. one from three to six years old; -- called also bachelor, because prevented from breeding by the older full-grown males.
Note: The holluschickie are the seals that may legally be killed for their skins.
But he'll lie down on the killing grounds where the holluschickie go. -- Kipling.
Bachelor (n.) 單身男子，單身漢；未婚者；鰥夫；（常大寫）學士學位；（尚未交配的）小雄獸 A man of any age who has not been married.
As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound. -- W. Irving.
Bachelor (n.) An unmarried woman. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Bachelor (n.) A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts.
Bachelor (n.) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight.
Bachelor (n.) In the companies of
Bachelor (n.) (Zool.) A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish ({Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.
Bachelor (n.) A man who has never been married [syn: bachelor, unmarried man].
Bachelor (n.) A knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon [syn: knight bachelor, bachelor-at-arms, bachelor].
Bachelor (v.) 過獨身生活 Lead a bachelor's existence [syn: bachelor, bach].
Bachelordom (n.) The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.
Bachelorhood (n.) The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship.
Bachelorism (n.) Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors.
Bachelor's button () A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena).
Bachelorship (n.) The state of being a bachelor.
Bachelry (n.) The body of young aspirants for knighthood.
Bacillar (a.) Shaped like a rod or staff.
Bacillariae (n. pl.) See Diatom.
Bacillary (a.) Of or pertaining to little rods; rod-shaped.
Bacilliform (a.) Rod-shaped.
Bacilli (n. pl. ) of Bacillus
Bacillus (n.) A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.
Back (n.) A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
Back (n.) A ferryboat. See Bac, 1.
Back (n.) In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.
Back (n.) An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge.
Back (n.) The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail.
Back (n.) The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney.
Back (n.) The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.
Back (n.) The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.
Back (n.) A support or resource in reserve.
Back (n.) The keel and keelson of a ship.
Back (n.) The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.
Back (n.) A garment for the back; hence, clothing.
Back (a.) Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements.
Back (a.) Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent.
Back (a.) Moving or operating backward; as, back action.
Backed (imp. & p. p.) of Back
Backing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Back
Back (v. i.) To get upon the back of; to mount.
Back (v. i.) To place or seat upon the back.
Back (v. i.) To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.
Back (v. i.) To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.
Back (v. i.) To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
Back (v. i.) To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.
Back (v. i.) To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend.
Back (v. i.) To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.
Back (v. i.) To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.
Back (v. i.) To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.
Back (v. i.) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog.
Back (adv.) In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.
Back (adv.) To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it.
Back (adv.) To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.
Back (adv.) (Of time) In times past; ago.
Back (adv.) Away from contact; by reverse movement.
Back (adv.) In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.
Back (adv.) In a state of restraint or hindrance.
Back (adv.) In return, repayment, or requital.
Back (adv.) In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.
Back (adv.) In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent.
Backarack (n.) See Bacharach.
Backare (interj.) Same as Baccare.
Back away (phrasal verb with back verb) 後退；退卻 To move backwards away from something or someone, usually because you are frightened.
// She saw that he had a gun and backed away.
Back away (phrasal verb with back verb) To show that you do not support a plan or idea any longer and do not want to be involved with it.
// The government has backed away from plans to increase taxes.
Backband (n.) The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.
Backbite (v. i.) 中傷；〔口語〕背後罵人 To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). -- Spenser.
Backbite (v. i.) To censure or revile the absent.
They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. -- Shak.
Backbite (v.) Say mean things [syn: backbite, bitch].
Backbite () In Ps. 15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Prov. 25:23, secret talebearing or slandering; in Rom. 1:30 and 2 Cor. 12:20, evil-speaking, maliciously defaming the absent.
Backbite (v. t.) 〔口語〕暗罵，背地裡罵 To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
Backbiter (n.) 背地罵人的人 One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
Backbiter (n.) One who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel [syn: defamer, maligner, slanderer, vilifier, libeler, backbiter, traducer].
Backbiting (n.) 背後誹謗，背後中傷 [U]；backbite 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 Secret slander; detraction.
Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. -- Piers Plowman.
Backboard (n.) 後部擋板；靠背板；【籃】籃板 A board which supports the back when one is sitting; specifically, the board athwart the after part of a boat.
Backboard (n.) A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon.
Backboard (n.) A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc.
Backboard (n.) A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel. -- W. Nicholson.
Backboard (n.) A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure. -- Thackeray.
Backboard (n.) A raised vertical board with basket attached; used to play basketball; "he banked the shot off the backboard" [syn: backboard, basketball backboard].
Backboard (n.) A board used to support the back of someone or something.