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
Bacchantic (a.) Of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler.
Bacchic (a.) Alt. of Bacchical.
Bacchical (a.) Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous, with intoxication; riotously drunken; -- used of revelrous gatherings.
Syn: bacchanalian, bacchanal, bibulous, carousing, drunken (prenominal), orgiastic, riotous
Bacchic (a.) Used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" [syn: bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic].
Bacchii (n. pl. ) of Bacchius.
Bacchius (n.) (Pros.) A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.
Bacchus (n.) (Myth.) The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.
Bacchus (n.) (Classical mythology) God of wine; equivalent of Dionysus.
Bacchus, (n.) A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
Is public worship, then, a sin, That for devotions paid to Bacchus.
The lictors dare to run us in, And resolutely thump and whack us?
Bacciferous (a.) Producing berries. " Bacciferous trees." -- Ray.
Bacciferous (a.) Producing or bearing berries [syn: berried, baccate, bacciferous].
Bacciform (a.) Having the form of a berry.
Baccivorous (a.) (Zool.) Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds.
Baccivorous (a.) Feeding on berries.
Bace (n., a., & v.) See Base. [Obs.] --Spenser. Bacharach
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.
Bachelorhood (n.) The time of a man's life prior to marriage.
Bachelorhood (n.) The state of being an unmarried man.
Bachelorism (n.) Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors. -- W. Irving.
Bachelor's button () (Bot.) A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower ({Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth ({Gomphrena).
Note: Bachelor's buttons, a name given to several flowers "from their similitude to the jagged cloathe buttons, anciently worne in this kingdom," according to Johnson's -- Gerarde, p. 472 (1633); but by other writers ascribed to "a habit of country fellows to carry them in their pockets to divine their success with their sweethearts." -- Dr. Prior.
Bluebottle, blue-bottle (n.) (Bot.) An annual Eurasian plant ({Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields; -- called also bachelor's button.
It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers. Varieties cultivated in North America have showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers.
Syn: cornflower, bachelor's button.
Bluebottle, blue-bottle (n.) (Zool.) A large and troublesome species of blowfly ({Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue.
Bluebottle (n.) An annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers [syn: cornflower, bachelor's button, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus].
Bluebottle (n.) Blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight [syn: bluebottle, Calliphora vicina].
Bachelorship (n.) The state of being a bachelor.
Bachelry (n.) The body of young aspirants for knighthood. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Bacillar (a.) (Biol.) Shaped like a rod or staff.
Bacillar (a.) (Biol.) Pertaining to, or produced by, the organism bacillus; bacillary.
Bacillar (a.) Relating to or produced by or containing bacilli [syn: bacillar, bacillary].
Bacillar (a.) Formed like a bacillus [syn: bacillar, bacillary, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped].
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.
Hop back, Jack back, The cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper.
Wash back, A vat in which distillers ferment the wort to form wash.
Water back, A cistern to hold a supply of water; esp. a small cistern at the back of a stove, or a group of pipes set in the fire box of a stove or furnace, through which water circulates and is heated.
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.
[The mountains] their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds. -- Milton.
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.
Methought Love pitying me, when he saw this, Gave me your hands, the backs and palms to kiss. -- Donne.
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.
This project Should have a back or second, that might hold, If this should blast in proof. -- Shak.
Back (n.) (Naut.) The keel and keelson of a ship.
Back (n.) (Mining) The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.
Back (n.) A garment for the back; hence, clothing. [Obs.]
A bak to walken inne by daylight. -- Chaucer.
Behind one's back, When one is absent; without one's knowledge; as, to ridicule a person behind his back.
Full back, Half back, Quarter back (Football), Players stationed behind those in the front line.
To be on one's back or To lie on one's back, To be helpless.
To put one's back up or to get one's back up, To assume an attitude of obstinate resistance (from the action of a cat when attacked). [Colloq.]
To see the back of, To get rid of.
To turn the back, To go away; to flee.
To turn the back on one, To forsake or neglect him.
Backed (imp. & p. p.) of Back.
Backing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Back.
Back (v. t.) To get upon the back of; to mount.
I will back him [a horse] straight. -- Shak.
Back (v. t.) To place or seat upon the back. [R.]
Great Jupiter, upon his eagle backed, Appeared to me. -- Shak.
Back (v. t.) To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.
Back (v. t.) To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.
Back (v. t.) To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
A garden . . . with a vineyard backed. -- Shak.
The chalk cliffs which back the beach. -- Huxley.
Back (v. t.) To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.
Back (v. t.) To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend. "The Parliament would be backed by the people." -- Macaulay.
Have still found it necessary to back and fortify their laws with rewards and punishments. -- South.
The mate backed the captain manfully. -- Blackw. Mag.
Back (v. t.) To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.
To back an anchor (Naut.), To lay down a small anchor ahead of a large one, the cable of the small one being fastened to the crown of the large one.
To back the field, In horse racing, to bet against a particular horse or horses, that some one of all the other horses, collectively designated "the field", will win.
To back the oars, To row backward with the oars.
To back a rope, To put on a preventer.
To back the sails, To arrange them so as to cause the ship to move astern.
To back up, to support; to sustain; as, To back up one's friends.
To back a warrant (Law), Is for a justice of the peace, in the county where the warrant is to be executed, to sign or indorse a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender.
To back water (Naut.), To reverse the action of the oars, paddles, or propeller, so as to force the boat or ship backward.
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.
Back blocks, Australian pastoral country which is remote from the seacoast or from a river.
Back charges, Charges brought forward after an account has been made up.
Back filling (Arch.), The mass of materials used in filling up the space between two walls, or between the inner and outer faces of a wall, or upon the haunches of an arch or vault.
Back pressure. (Steam Engine) See under Pressure.
Back rest, A guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work, to steady it in turning.
Back slang, A kind of slang in which every word is written or pronounced backwards; as, nam for man.
Back stairs, Stairs in the back part of a house; private stairs. Also used adjectively. See Back stairs,
Backstairs, and Backstair, In the Vocabulary.
Back step (Mil.), The retrograde movement of a man or body of men, without changing front.
Back stream, A current running against the main current of a stream; an eddy.
To take the back track, To retrace one's steps; to retreat. [Colloq.]
Back (v. i.) To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.
Back (v. i.) (Naut.) To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.
Back (v. i.) (Sporting) To stand
still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog. [Eng.]
To back and fill, To manage the sails of a ship so that the wind
strikes them alternately in front and behind, in order to keep the ship in the
middle of a river or channel while the current or tide carries the vessel
against the wind. Hence: (Fig.) To take opposite positions alternately; To assert and deny. [Colloq.]
To back out, To back down, To retreat or withdraw from a promise, engagement, or contest; to recede. [Colloq.]
Cleon at first . . . was willing to go; but, finding that he [Nicias] was in earnest, he tried to back out. -- Jowett (Thucyd. )
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. "Sixty or seventy years back." -- Gladstone.
Back (adv.) Away from contact; by reverse movement.
The angel of the Lord . . . came, and rolled back the stone from the door. -- Matt. xxviii. 2.
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.
The Lord hath kept thee back from honor. -- Numb. xxiv. 11.
Back (adv.) In return, repayment, or requital.
What have I to give you back? -- Shak.
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. [Colloq.]
Back and forth, Backwards and forwards; to and fro.
To go back on, To turn back from; To abandon; to betray; as, to go back on a friend; to go back on one's professions. [Colloq.]
Back (adv.) In or to or toward a former location; "she went back to her parents' house."
Back (adv.) At or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car" [syn: back, backward, backwards, rearward, rearwards] [ant: forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards].
Back (adv.) In or to or toward an original condition; "he went back to sleep."
Back (adv.) In or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly backward" [syn: back, backward] [ant: ahead, forward].
Back (adv.) In reply; "he wrote back three days later."
Back (adv.) In repayment or retaliation; "we paid back everything we had borrowed"; "he hit me and I hit him back"; "I was kept in after school for talking back to the teacher."
Back (a.) Related to or located at the back; "the back yard"; "the back entrance" [ant: front(a)].
Back (a.) Located at or near the back of an animal; "back (or hind) legs"; "the hinder part of a carcass" [syn: back(a), hind(a), hinder(a)].
Back (a.) Of an earlier date; "back issues of the magazine."
Back (n.) The posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine; "his back was nicely tanned" [syn: back, dorsum].
Back (n.) The side that goes last or is not normally seen; "he wrote the date on the back of the photograph" [syn: rear, back] [ant: front].
Back (n.) The part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer; "he stood at the back of the stage"; "it was hidden in the rear of the store" [syn: back, rear] [ant: front].
Back (n.) (Football) A person who plays in the backfield.
Back (n.) The series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back" [syn: spinal column, vertebral column, spine, backbone, back, rachis].
Back (n.) The protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book; "the book had a leather binding" [syn: binding, book binding, cover, back].
Back (n.) The part of a garment that covers the back of your body; "they pinned a `kick me' sign on his back."
Back (n.) A support that you can lean against while sitting; "the back of the dental chair was adjustable" [syn: back, backrest].
Back (n.) (American football) The position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
Back (v.) Be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960" [syn: back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support].
Back (v.) Travel backward; "back into the driveway"; "The car backed up and hit the tree."
Back (v.) Give support or one's approval to; "I'll second that motion"; "I can't back this plan"; "endorse a new project" [syn:
second, back, endorse, indorse].
Back (v.) Cause to travel backward; "back the car into the parking spot" [ant: advance, bring forward].
Back (v.) Support financial backing for; "back this enterprise."
Back (v.) Be in back of; "My garage backs their yard" [ant: face, front, look].
Back (v.) Place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse" [syn: bet on, back, gage, stake, game, punt].
Back (v.) Shift to a counterclockwise direction; "the wind backed" [ant: veer].
Back (v.) Establish as valid or genuine; "Can you back up your claims?" [syn: back, back up].
Back (v.) Strengthen by providing with a back or backing.
Back (n.) That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.
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.) (Saddlery) The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.
Backband (n.) A broad band that passes over the back of a horse and supports the shafts of a vehicle.
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.