Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 20
Baya (n.) (Zool.) 織夢鳥 The East Indian weaver bird ({Ploceus Philippinus).
Baya (n.) Common Indian weaverbird [syn: baya, Ploceus philippinus].
Baya (n.) (pl. -s) (variants: or baya weaver) An East Indian weaverbird (Ploceus philippinus) that feeds on seeds and insects and is sometimes destructive to grain crops.
Compare: Destructive
Destructive (a.) 破壞的；毀滅性的 [（+of/ to）]；消極的，無幫助的 Causing great and irreparable damage.
‘The destructive power of weapons.’
Destructive (a.) Negative and unhelpful.
‘Destructive criticism.’
Compare: Weaver bird
Weaver bird (n.) 織巢鳥 A tropical bird that builds large nests by weaving sticks and pieces of grass together in a complicated way.
Bayad (n.) Alt. of Bayatte.
Bayatte (n.) (Zool.) A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species ({Bagrina bayad and Bagrina docmac).
Bayadere (n.) A female dancer in the East Indies. [Written also bajadere.]
Bay-antler (n.) (Zool.) The second tine of a stag's horn. See under Antler.
Bayard (a.) Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse.
Blind bayard moves the mill. -- Philips.
Bayard (a.) A stupid, clownish fellow. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
Bayard (n.) 貝爾德（法國十六世紀無畏無瑕的騎士） French soldier said to be fearless and chivalrous (1473-1524) [syn: Bayard, Seigneur de Bayard, Chevalier de Bayard, Pierre Terrail, Pierre de Terrail].
Compare: Fearless
Fearless (a.) 不怕的，無畏的；大膽的 Showing a lack of fear.
‘A fearless crusader for animal rights.’
Compare: Chivalrous
Chivalrous (a.) 騎士時代的；騎士的道德準則的；有騎士風範的；俠義的；殷勤的；正直的 (Of a man or his behaviour) Courteous and gallant, especially towards women.
‘Shall I be chivalrous and offer you my coat?’
Chivalrous (a.) Relating to the historical concept of chivalry.
‘The concept of chivalrous combat.’
Compare: Chivalry
Chivalry (n.) [U] (Mass noun) （中世紀）騎士精神；騎士制度；（總稱）騎士；騎士風度；對婦女的殷勤體貼（或彬彬有禮） The medieval knightly system with its religious, moral, and social code.
‘The age of chivalry.’
Chivalry (n.) (Mass noun) The combination of qualities expected of an ideal knight, namely courage, honour, courtesy, justice, and a readiness to help the weak.
‘Tales of chivalry and knightly deeds.’
Chivalry (n.) (Mass noun) Courteous behaviour, especially that of a man towards women.
‘He still retained a sense of chivalry towards women.’
Chivalry (n.) (Mass noun) [Archaic] Knights, noblemen, and horsemen collectively.
‘I fought against the cream of French chivalry.’
Bayardly (a.) Blind; stupid. [Obs.] "A formal and bayardly round of duties." -- Goodman.
Bayberry (n.) (Bot.) The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis.
Bayberry (n.) (Bot.) A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle ({Pimenta acris).
Bayberry (n.) (Bot.) The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree.
Bayberry tallow, A fragrant green wax obtained from the bayberry or wax myrtle; -- called also myrtle wax.
Compare: Candleberry tree
Candleberry tree (n.) (Bot.) A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.
Candleberry (n.) Deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries [syn: {bayberry}, {candleberry}, {swamp candleberry}, {waxberry}, {Myrica pensylvanica}].
Bayberry (n.) West Indian tree; source of bay rum [syn: bayberry, bay-rum tree, Jamaica bayberry, wild cinnamon, Pimenta acris].
Bayberry (n.) Deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries [syn: bayberry, candleberry, swamp candleberry, waxberry, Myrica pensylvanica].
Baybolt (n.) A bolt with a barbed shank.
Compare: Bay
Bay (v. i.) To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.
The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bayed. -- Dryden.
Bayed (a.) Having a bay or bays. "The large bayed barn." -- Drayton.
Compare: Ice
Ice (n.) 冰 [U]；【英】冰淇淋 [C] Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4 [deg] C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.
Note: Water freezes at 32 [deg] F. or 0 [deg] Cent., and ice melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling properties to the large amount of heat required to melt it.
Ice (n.) Concreted sugar. -- Johnson.
Ice (n.) Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.
Ice (n.) Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice.
Anchor ice, Ice which sometimes forms about stones and other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and is thus attached or anchored to the ground.
Bay ice, Ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in extensive fields which drift out to sea.
Ground ice, Anchor ice.
Ice age (Geol.), The glacial epoch or period. See under Glacial.
Ice anchor (Naut.), A grapnel for mooring a vessel to a field of ice. -- Kane.
Ice blink [Dan. iisblink], A streak of whiteness of the horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not yet in sight.
Ice boat. A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on ice by sails; an ice yacht.
Ice boat. A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice.
Ice box or Ice chest, A box for holding ice; a box in which things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator.
Ice brook, A brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic] -- Shak.
Ice cream [For iced cream], Cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen.
Ice field, An extensive sheet of ice.
Ice float, Ice floe, A sheet of floating ice similar to an ice field, but smaller.
Ice foot, Shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. -- Kane.
Ice house, A close-covered pit or building for storing ice.
Ice machine (Physics), A machine for making ice artificially, as by the production of a low temperature through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid.
Ice master. See Ice pilot (below).
Ice pack, An irregular mass of broken and drifting ice.
Ice paper, A transparent film of gelatin for copying or reproducing; papier glac['e].
Ice petrel (Zool.), The Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice.
Ice pick, A sharp instrument for breaking ice into small pieces.
Ice pilot, A pilot who has charge of a vessel where the course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called also ice master.
Ice pitcher, A pitcher adapted for ice water.
Ice plow, A large tool for grooving and cutting ice.
Ice (v. t.) （用冰）冷卻，冷凍；在（糕餅等）上面塗上糖霜（或糖衣） To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice.
Ice (v. t.) To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.; as, iced cupcakes with a pink icing look delicious.
Ice (v. t.) To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.
Ice (v. t.) To kill. [slang]
Ice (n.) Water frozen in the solid state; "Americans like ice in their drinks" [syn: ice, water ice].
Ice (n.) The frozen part of a body of water.
Ice (n.) Diamonds; "look at the ice on that dame!" [syn: ice, sparkler].
Ice (n.) A flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes [syn: frosting, icing, ice].
Ice (n.) A frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk) [syn: ice, frappe].
Ice (n.) An amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant [syn: methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, meth, deoxyephedrine, chalk, chicken feed, crank, glass, ice, shabu, trash].
Ice (n.) A heat engine in which combustion occurs inside the engine rather than in a separate furnace; heat expands a gas that either moves a piston or turns a gas turbine [syn: internal-combustion engine, ICE].
Ice (n.) A rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating; "the crowd applauded when she skated out onto the ice" [syn: ice rink, ice-skating rink, ice].
Ice (v.) Decorate with frosting; "frost a cake" [syn: frost, ice].
Ice (v.) (v. i.) 結冰 [（+up/ over）] Cause to become ice or icy; "an iced summer drink."
Ice (v.) Put ice on or put on ice; "Ice your sprained limbs."
Bay ice () See under Ice.
Bay leaf () See under 3d Bay.
Bayonet (v. t.) 用刺刀刺 To stab with a bayonet.
Bayonet (v. t.) To compel or drive by the bayonet.
To bayonet us into submission. -- Burke.
Bayonet (n.) [C] (Mil.) 刺刀；（用以固定插入的部件的）卡釘，卡銷，卡栓 A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.
Note: Originally, the bayonet was made with a handle, which required to be fitted into the bore of the musket after the soldier had fired.
Bayonet (n.) (Math.) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.
Bayonet clutch. See Clutch.
Bayonet joint, A form of coupling similar to that by which a bayonet is fixed on the barrel of a musket. -- Knight.
Bayonet mount, (Photography) A coupling mechanism for attaching removable lenses to the body of a camera, using a bayonet socket.
Bayonet socket, A coupling mechanism for attaching matching cylindrical parts to each other, where each of which has an arced L-shaped slot with the longer side perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder, such that the slots slide inside each other. There is also usually a knoblike projection on the mount so that when the two parts to be connected are fully inserted in proper alignment, they are locked in place. It is designed for rapid coupling and decoupling, requiring the turning of one part through only a small arc, in place of a screw-type arrangement, which requires several full turns.
Bayonet (n.) A knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon.
Bayonet (v.) Stab or kill someone with a bayonet.
Bayoneted (imp. & p. p.) of Bayonet.
Bayoneting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bayonet.
Bayous (n. pl. ) of Bayou.
Bayou (n.) 海灣；支流；河口；湖的流出口 An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind. [Southern U. S.]
A dark slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. -- G. W. Cable.
Bay rum (ph.) 貝蘭香水 A liquid, used for cosmetic and medicinal purposes.
Bays (n.) Alt. of Bayze.
Bayze (n.) See Baize.
Bay salt () Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large crystalline salt of commerce.
Bay tree () A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis).
Bay window () A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window.
Bay yarn () Woolen yarn.
Bazaar (n.) Alt. of Bazar.
Bazar (n.) [C] （中東國家等的）市場；商店街；洋雜店；小工藝品商店；義賣；義賣市場 In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale.
Bazar (n.) A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods, as at a fair.
Bazar (n.) A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly for a charitable purpose. -- Macaulay. BC
Bazaar (n.) A shop where a variety of goods are sold [syn: bazaar, bazar].
Bazaar (n.) A street of small shops (especially in Orient) [syn: bazaar, bazar].
Bazaar (n.) A sale of miscellany; often for charity; "the church bazaar" [syn: bazaar, fair].
Bazaar (n., adj.) In 1997, after meditating on the success of Linux for three years, the Jargon File's own editor ESR wrote an analytical paper on hacker culture and development models titled The Cathedral and the Bazaar. The main argument of the paper was that Brooks's Law is not the whole story; given the right social machinery, debugging can be efficiently parallelized across large numbers of programmers. The title metaphor caught on (see also cathedral), and the style of development typical in the Linux community is now often referred to as the bazaar mode. Its characteristics include releasing code early and often, and actively seeking the largest possible pool of peer reviewers. After 1998, the evident success of this way of doing things became one of the strongest arguments for {open source}.
BBC (n.) Broadband Bearer Capability (B-ISDN) 英國廣播公司，是英國一家獨立運作的公共媒體，亦是全球最大的新聞媒體，資金主要來自於英國國民所繳納的電視牌照費。 BBC於1936年開始提供電視服務，是世界上第一家電視台。1967年，BBC首次採用彩色信號播報溫網球錦標賽，從而開啟了彩色電視時代。
British Broadcasting Corporation
BBC
(BBC) The non-commercial UK organisation that commissions, produces and broadcasts television and radio programmes.
The BBC commissioned the "{BBC Micro" from Acorn Computers for use in a television series about using computers. They also have one of the world's most respected news websites (on which I work!).
(2003-07-02)
Bdellium (n.) An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia.
Bdellium (n.) A gum resin of reddish brown color, brought from India, Persia, and Africa.
Bdelloidea (n. pl.) The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea.
Bdellometer (n.) A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and an exhausting syringe.
Bdellomorpha (n.) An order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams.
Was (imp.) of Be.
Been (p. p.) of Be.
Being (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Be.
Be (v. i.) To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have existence.
To be contents his natural desire. -- Pope.
To be, or not to be: that is the question. -- Shak.
Be (v. i.) To exist in a certain manner or relation, -- whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, -- a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man.
Be (v. i.) To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday.
Be (v. i.) To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to.
The field is the world. -- Matt. xiii. 38.
The seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. -- Rev. i. 20.
Note: The verb to be (including the forms is, was, etc.) is used in forming the passive voice of other verbs; as, John has been struck by James. It is also used with the past participle of many intransitive verbs to express a state of the subject. But have is now more commonly used as the auxiliary, though expressing a different sense; as, "Ye have come too late -- but ye are come. " "The minstrel boy to the war is gone." The present and imperfect tenses form, with the infinitive, a particular future tense, which expresses necessity, duty, or purpose; as, government is to be supported; we are to pay our just debts; the deed is to be signed to-morrow.
Note: Have or had been, followed by to, implies movement. "I have been to Paris." --Sydney Smith. "Have you been to Franchard ?" -- R. L. Stevenson.
Note: Been, or ben, was anciently the plural of the indicative present. "Ye ben light of the world." -- Wyclif, Matt. v. 14. Afterwards be was used, as in our Bible: "They that be with us are more than they that be with them." --2 Kings vi. 16. Ben was also the old infinitive: "To ben of such power." --R. of Gloucester. Be is used as a form of the present subjunctive: "But if it be a question of words and names." --Acts xviii. 15. But the indicative forms, is and are, with if, are more commonly used.
Be it so, A phrase of supposition, equivalent to suppose it to be so; or of permission, signifying let it be so. -- Shak.
If so be, In case.
To be from, To have come from; as, from what place are you?
I am from Chicago.
To let be, To omit, or leave untouched; to let alone. "Let be, therefore, my vengeance to dissuade." -- Spenser.
Syn: To be, Exist.
Usage: The verb to be, except in a few rare cases, like that of Shakespeare's "To be, or not to be", is used simply as a copula, to connect a subject with its predicate; as, man is mortal; the soul is immortal. The verb to exist is never properly used as a mere copula, but points to things that stand forth, or have a substantive being; as, when the soul is freed from all corporeal alliance, then it truly exists. It is not, therefore, properly synonymous with to be when used as a copula, though occasionally made so by some writers for the sake of variety; as in the phrase "there exists [is] no reason for laying new taxes." We may, indeed, say, "a friendship has long existed between them," instead of saying, "there has long been a friendship between them;" but in this case, exist is not a mere copula. It is used in its appropriate sense to mark the friendship as having been long in existence.
Be- () A prefix, originally the same word as by ; joined with verbs, it serves:
Be- () To intensify the meaning; as, bespatter, bestir.
Be- () To render an intransitive verb transitive; as, befall (to fall upon); bespeak (to speak for).
Be- () To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around).
Note: It is joined with certain substantives, and a few adjectives, to form verbs; as, bedew, befriend, benight, besot; belate (to make late); belittle (to make little). It also occurs in certain nouns, adverbs, and prepositions, often with something of the force of the preposition by, or about; as, belief (believe), behalf, bequest (bequeath); because, before, beneath, beside, between.
In some words the original force of be is obscured or lost; as, in become, begin, behave, behoove, belong.
Be (n.) A light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element [syn: beryllium, Be, glucinium, atomic number 4].
Be (v.) Have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer."
Be (v.) Be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house."
Be (v.) Occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"
Be (v.) Have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn: exist, be].
Be (v.) Happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the kitchen."
Be (v.) Be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!" [syn: equal, be] [ant: differ].
Be (v.) Form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute, represent, make up, comprise, be].
Be (v.) Work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher" [syn: be, follow].
Be (v.) Represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify].
Be (v.) Spend or use time;
"I may be an hour."
Be (v.) Have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no
more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"
[syn: be, live].
Be (v.) To remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form; "let her be."
Be (v.) Be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" [syn: cost, be].
Be, () The country code for Belgium. (1999-01-27)
BEE. () The name of a well known insect.
BEE. () Bees are considered ferae naturae while unreclaimed; and they are not more subjects of property while in their natural state, than the birds which have their nests on the tree of an individual. 3 Binn. R. 546 5 Sm. & Marsh. 333. This agrees with the Roman law. Inst. 2 1, 14; Dig. 41, 1, 5, 2; 7 Johns. Rep. 16; 2 Bl. Com. 392 Bro. Ab. Propertie, 37; Coop. Justin. 458.
BEE. () In New York it has been decided that bees in a tree belong, to the owner of the soil, while unreclaimed. When they have been reclaimed, and the owner can identify them, they belong to him, and not to the owner of the soil. 15 Wend. R. 550. See 1 Cowen, R. 243.
Beaches (n. pl. ) of Beach.
Beach (n.) Pebbles, collectively; shingle.
Beach (n.) The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand.
Beached (imp. & p. p.) of Beach.
Beaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beach.
Beach (v. t.) To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.
Beach comber () A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber.
Beached (p. p. & a.) Bordered by a beach.
Beached (p. p. & a.) Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached.
Beachy (a.) Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly.
Beacon (v. t.) 明亮，指引；為……設置信標 To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.
That beacons the darkness of heaven. -- Campbell.
Beacon (v. t.) To furnish with a beacon or beacons.
Beacon (n.) 烽火；烽火臺；燈塔；信號浮標；（飛機場的）燈標 ；指路明燈；指路人 A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
No flaming beacons cast their blaze afar. -- Gay.
Beacon (n.) A signal, such as that from a lighthouse, or a conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.
Beacon (n.) A high hill near the shore. [Prov. Eng.]
Beacon (n.) That which gives notice of danger.
Modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise. -- Shak.
Beacon (n.) (Navigation) A radio transmitter which emits a characteristic signal indication its location, so that vehicles may determine their exact location by locating the beacon with a radio compass; -- also called radio beacon.
Beacon (n.) [Fig.] That which provides guidance or inspiration; the Constitution has been a beacon for civil rights activists.
Beacon fire, A signal fire.
Beacon (n.) A fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance [syn: beacon, beacon fire].
Beacon (n.) A radio station that broadcasts a directional signal for navigational purposes [syn: radio beacon, beacon].
Beacon (n.) A tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships [syn: beacon, lighthouse, beacon light, pharos].
Beacon (v.) (v. i.) 像燈塔般照耀 Shine like a beacon.
Beacon (v.) Guide with a beacon.
Beacon (n.) A pole (Heb. to'ren) used as a standard or ensign set on the tops of mountains as a call to the people to assemble themselves for some great national purpose (Isa. 30:17). In Isa. 33:23 and Ezek. 27:5, the same word is rendered "mast." (See Banner.)
Beacon (n.) A signal erected as a sea mark for the use of mariners; also, to give warning of the approach of an enemy. 1 Com. Dig. 259; 5 Com. Dig. 173.
Beacon, NY -- U.S. city in New York
Population (2000): 13808
Housing Units (2000): 5406
Land area (2000): 4.775167 sq. miles (12.367626 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.113614 sq. miles (0.294258 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.888781 sq. miles (12.661884 sq. km)
FIPS code: 05100
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 41.504243 N, 73.965576 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 12508
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Beacon, NY
Beacon
Beacon, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 518
Housing Units (2000): 217
Land area (2000): 1.006822 sq. miles (2.607656 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.006822 sq. miles (2.607656 sq. km)
FIPS code: 05050
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.275948 N, 92.680733 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 52534
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Beacon, IA
Beacon
Beaconed (imp. & p. p.) of Beacon.
Beaconing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beacon.
Beaconage (n.) Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.
Beaconless (a.) Having no beacon.
Bead (n.) A prayer. [Obs.]
Bead (n.) [C] 有孔小珠；（一串）念珠；（一串）珠子項鍊 [P] A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads,
To be at one's beads,
To bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.
Compare: Perforate
Perforate (v.) [With object] (Often as adjective perforated) 穿孔於，打眼於 Pierce and make a hole or holes in.
‘A perforated appendix.’
Perforate (v.) [With object] Make a row of small holes in (paper) so that a part may be torn off easily.
‘Continuous stationery is perforated to allow separation into single sheets.’
‘A perforate shell.’
Bead (n.) Any small globular body; as,
Bead (n.) A bubble in spirits.
Bead (n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid. "Cold beads of midnight dew." -- Wordsworth.
Bead (n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).
Bead (n.) (Arch.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.
Bead (n.) (Chem.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc.
Bead and butt (Carp.), Framing in which the panels are flush, having beads stuck or run upon the two edges. -- Knight.
Bead mold, A species of fungus or mold, the stems of which consist of single cells loosely jointed together so as to resemble a string of beads. [Written also bead mould.]
Bead tool, A cutting tool, having an edge curved so as to make beads or beading.
Bead tree (Bot.), A tree of the genus Melia, the best known species of which ({Melia azedarach), has blue flowers which are very fragrant, and berries which are poisonous.
Beaded (imp. & p. p.) of Bead.
Beading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bead.
Bead (v. t.) 使成串珠狀；用珠裝飾 To ornament with beads or beading.
Bead (v. i.) 形成珠狀；起泡 To form beadlike bubbles.
Bead (n.) A small ball with a hole through the middle.
Bead (n.) A shape that is spherical and small; "he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"; "beads of sweat on his forehead" [syn: drop, bead, pearl].
Bead (n.) A beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture [syn: beading, bead, beadwork, astragal].
Bead (v.) Form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example.
Bead (v.) Decorate by sewing beads onto; "bead the wedding gown."
Bead (v.) String together like beads.
Beadhouse (n.) Alt. of Bedehouse.
Bedehouse (n.) An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.
Beading (n.) Molding in imitation of beads.
Beading (n.) The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.
Beadle (n.) A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.
Beadle (n.) An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students. [Eng.]
Note: In this sense the archaic spellings bedel (Oxford) and bedell (Cambridge) are preserved.
Beadle (n.) 儀仗官 An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.
Beadle (n.) 教區執事A minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function.
Beadle (n.) United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989) [syn: Beadle, George Beadle, George Wells Beadle].
Beadledom (n.) 小吏輩；小官僚作風 A stupid or officious display or exercise of authority, as by petty officials.
Beadlery (n.) Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.
Beadleship (n.) The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle.
Bead proof () Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters.
Bead proof () A degree of strength in alcoholic liquor as shown by beads or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side of the glass, when shaken.
Beadroll (n.) A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general.
-men (n. pl. ) of Bedesman.
Beadsman (n.) Alt. of Bedesman.
Bedesman (n.) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.
Beadsnake (n.) A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black.
-women (n. pl. ) of Bedeswoman.
Beadswoman (n.) Alt. of Bedeswoman.
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