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 London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member. [Obs.]

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.

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.

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