Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 21
Bedeswoman (n.) (pl. - women.) Fem. of Beadsman.
Compare: Beadsman
Beadsman (n.) (pl. - men) (Historical) 救濟院之受施人；替他人祈求冥福之人（尤指受僱者）；乞丐 A pensioner provided for by a benefactor in return for prayers, especially one living in an almshouse.
Beadwork (n.) 珠飾細工 Ornamental work in beads.
Beadwork (n.) Ornamentation with beads [syn: beading, beadwork].
Beadwork (n.) A beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture [syn: beading, bead, beadwork, astragal].
Compare: Astragal
Astragal (n.) 半圓飾；串珠飾；（門窗的）半圓形擋水條；通常有裝飾條形式的窄形凸起模型 A moulding or wooden strip of semicircular cross section.
‘Of the 286 planes, the majority, were simple moldings like common ogees, astragals, beads, hollows and rounds.’
‘Each panel has attached astragal beading with curved comers topped by a beaded and fluted moulded cornice.’
Astragal (n.) [Architecture] A narrow semicircular moulding round the top or bottom of a column.
‘A plain astragal ringed the column beneath its plain cap.’
‘There is a thick overlapping astragal running round the columns carrying the vaults and arches.’
Astragal (n.) A bar separating panes of glass in cabinetmaking.
Compare: Cabinetmaking
Cabinetmaking (n.) 傢俱製造；【謔】組閣 See Cabinetmaker.
Compare: Cabinetmaker
Cabinetmaker (n.) 細木工；傢俱工 A skilled joiner who makes furniture or similar high-quality woodwork.
Beady (a.) 像珠子的；飾有珠子的；起泡的 Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening. "Beady eyes." -- Thackeray.
Beady (a.) Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads.
Beady (a.) Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor.
Beady (a.) Small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button; "bright beady eyes"; "black buttony eyes" [syn: beady, beadlike, buttony, buttonlike].
Beady (a.) Covered with beads or jewels or sequins [syn: beady, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly].
Beagle (n.) 小獵犬；密探；警官 A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix.
Beagle (n.) Fig.: A spy or detective; a constable.
Compare: Dog
Dog (n.) [C] (Zool.) 狗；雄狗；（狐，狼等的）雄獸 A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog ({Canis familiaris).
Note: The dog is distinguished above all others of the inferior animals for intelligence, docility, and attachment to man. There are numerous carefully bred varieties, as the akita, beagle, bloodhound, bulldog, coachdog, collie, Danish dog, foxhound, greyhound, mastiff, pointer, poodle, St. Bernard, setter, spaniel, spitz, terrier, German shepherd, pit bull, Chihuahua, etc. There are also many mixed breeds, and partially domesticated varieties, as well as wild dogs, like the dingo and dhole. (See these names in the Vocabulary.)
Dog (n.) A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.
What is thy servant, which is but a dog, that he should do this great thing? -- 2 Kings viii. 13 (Rev. Ver. )
Dog (n.) A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog. [Colloq.]
Dog (n.) (Astron.) One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).
Dog (n.) An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.
Dog (n.) (Mech.) A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them.
Dog (n.) (Mech.) An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill.
Dog (n.) (Mech.) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool.
Dog (n.) An ugly or crude person, especially an ugly woman. [slang]
Dog (n.) A hot dog. [slang]
Note: Dog is used adjectively or in composition, commonly in the sense of relating to, or characteristic of, a dog. It is also used to denote a male; as, dog fox or g-fox, a male fox; dog otter or dog-otter, dog wolf, etc.; -- also to denote a thing of cheap or mean quality; as, dog Latin.
A dead dog, A thing of no use or value. --1 Sam. xxiv. 14.
A dog in the manger, An ugly-natured person who prevents others from enjoying what would be an advantage to them but is none to him.
Dog ape (Zool.), A male ape.
Dog cabbage, or Dog's cabbage (Bot.), A succulent herb, native to the Mediterranean region ({Thelygonum Cynocrambe).
Dog cheap, Very cheap. See under Cheap.
Dog ear (Arch.), An acroterium. [Colloq.]
Dog flea (Zool.), A species of flea ({Pulex canis"> Dog flea (Zool.), A species of flea ({Pulex canis) which infests dogs and cats, and is often troublesome to man. In America it is the common flea. See Flea, and Aphaniptera.
Dog grass (Bot.), A grass ({Triticum caninum"> Dog grass (Bot.), A grass ({Triticum caninum) of the same genus as wheat.
Dog Latin, Barbarous Latin; as, the dog Latin of pharmacy.
Dog lichen (Bot.), A kind of lichen ({Peltigera canina"> Dog lichen (Bot.), A kind of lichen ({Peltigera canina) growing on earth, rocks, and tree trunks, -- a lobed expansion, dingy green above and whitish with fuscous veins beneath.
Dog louse (Zool.), A louse that infests the dog, esp. H[ae]matopinus piliferus; another species is Trichodectes latus.
Dog power, A machine operated by the weight of a dog traveling in a drum, or on an endless track, as for churning.
Dog salmon (Zool.), A salmon of northwest America and northern Asia; -- the gorbuscha; -- called also holia, and hone.
Dog shark. (Zool.) See Dogfish.
Dog's meat, Meat fit only for dogs; refuse; offal.
Dog Star. See in the Vocabulary.
Dog wheat (Bot.), Dog grass.
Dog whelk (Zool.), Any species of univalve shells of the family Nassid[ae], esp. the Nassa reticulata of England.
To give to the dogs, or To throw to the dogs, To throw away as useless. "Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it." -- Shak.
To go to the dogs, To go to ruin; to be ruined.
Beagle (n.) A small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound.
Beak (n.) (Zool.) [C]（鷹等的）鳥嘴；（鱉等的）喙狀嘴；（水壺等器皿的）口 The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds.
Beak (n.) (Zool.) A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles.
Beak (n.) (Zool.) The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
Compare: Invertebrate
Invertebrate (n.) 無脊椎動物；無骨氣的人 An animal lacking a backbone, such as an arthropod, mollusc, annelid, coelenterate, etc. The invertebrates constitute an artificial division of the animal kingdom, comprising 95 per cent of animal species and about thirty different phyla.
Invertebrate (a.) 無脊椎的；無骨氣的；柔弱的 Denoting an invertebrate or relating to the invertebrates as a group.
Invertebrate (a.) [Humorous] Irresolute; spineless.
‘So invertebrate is today's Congress regarding foreign policy responsibilities.’
Compare: Irresolute
Irresolute (a.) 優柔寡斷的 Showing or feeling hesitancy; uncertain.
‘She stood irresolute outside his door.’
Compare: Hesitancy
Hesitancy (n.) [Mass noun] 猶豫 The quality or state of being hesitant.
‘Jackson took advantage of some hesitancy in the defence to rifle in a shot.’
Compare: Hesitant
Hesitant (a.) 遲疑的；躊躇的Tentative, unsure, or slow in acting or speaking.
‘Clients are hesitant about buying.’
‘Her slow, hesitant way of speaking.’
Compare: Hesitantly
Hesitantly (adv.) In a tentative or unsure manner.
‘He speaks hesitantly and his voice is shaky.’
‘A young guard hesitantly stepped into the room.’
Compare: Tentative
Tentative (a.) 試驗性的，嘗試的；暫時性的；躊躇的，猶豫的 Not certain or fixed; provisional.
‘A tentative conclusion.’
Tentative (a.) Done without confidence; hesitant.
‘He eventually tried a few tentative steps round his hospital room.’
Compare: Provisional
Provisional (a.) 臨時的，暫時性的，暫定的Arranged or existing for the present, possibly to be changed later.
‘A provisional government.’
‘Provisional bookings.’
Provisional (a.) [British ] (Of a driving licence) To be obtained before starting to learn to drive and upgraded to a full licence on passing a driving test.
‘Norman as yet had only a provisional licence.’
Provisional (a.) (Of a postage stamp) Put into circulation temporarily, usually owing to the unavailability of the definitive issue.
‘Some of the most coveted United States postage stamps are the crude provisional stamps used by early postmasters from 1845 to 1846 before the Stamp Act was legislated.’
‘Provisional stamps are usually made by overprinting, surcharging and occasionally by bisecting pre-existing stamps.’
Provisional (a.) (Also Provisional) Denoting the unofficial wings of the IRA and Sinn Fein established in 1969 and advocating terrorism.
‘The Provisional IRA.’
Provisional (n.) 【美】（正式郵票發行前的）臨時郵票 [C] A provisional stamp.
‘The New Orleans 5c Provisionals are the most common of the CSA provisional stamps and the ones most likely to be acquired by the average collector.’
‘Dr. Maffeo was able to assemble a remarkable number of rare Postmaster's Provisionals, both United States and Confederate as well as two Inverted Jennys.’
Provisional (n.) (Also Provisional) A member of the Provisional wings of the IRA or Sinn Fein.
Beak (n.) (Zool.) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
Beak (n.) (Zool.) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
Beak (n.) Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land.
Beak (n.) (Antiq.) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
Beak (n.) (Naut.) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
Beak (n.) (Arch.) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
Beak (n.) (Bot.) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
Beak (n.) (Far.) A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.).
Beak (n.) A magistrate or policeman. [Slang, Eng.]
Compare: Magistrate
Magistrate (n.) [C] 地方行政官；文職官員；地方法官；治安推事 A civil officer who administers the law, especially one who conducts a court that deals with minor offences and holds preliminary hearings for more serious ones.
Compare: Clip
Clip (v. i.) 剪下，剪短；剪輯；〔口語〕急走，飛跑，快速動作 To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.
Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind. -- Dryden.
Compare: Swiftly
Swiftly (adv.) 迅速地，敏捷地 At high speed; quickly.
‘She got up and walked swiftly to the door.’
‘A swiftly flowing river.’
Swiftly (adv.) Without delay; after a very short time.
‘They acted swiftly in response to the invasion.’
‘This comment was swiftly followed by an apology for such a poor choice of words.’
Clip (n.) 剪短，修剪；〔pl.〕剪刀，指甲刀；一剪，(一季或一次的) 剪毛量；〔美俚〕痛打；鞭子的一抽；〔口語〕快速動作，進度，速度；〔美口〕一次，一度 An embrace. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Clip (n.) A cutting; a shearing.
Clip (n.) The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
Clip (n.) A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
Clip (n.) An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree. -- Knight.
Compare: Whiffletree
Whiffletree (n.) (North American) 馬車前端用以繫曳繩的橫木 A swingletree.
Compare: Swingletree
Swingletree (n.) (British) (= Whiffletree) A crossbar pivoted in the middle, to which the traces are attached in a horse-drawn cart or plough.
Clip (n.) (Far.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak. -- Youatt.
Clip (n.) A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip. [Colloq. U. S.]
Clip (n.) (Mach.) A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing, clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc.
Clip (n.) (Angling) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
Clip (n.) A rapid gait. "A three-minute clip." -- Kipling.
Clip (v. t.) (clipped; clipped, clipt; clipping) 剪去，剪短，修剪；剪取；軋 (車票等)；〔美國〕剪輯 (報紙等)；刪削；削減； (拼法，發音等) 省略，縮略，說漏 (語音)；〔美俚〕毆打，痛打；〔俚語〕詐騙 (錢財) To embrace, hence; to encompass.
O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself. -- Shak.
Clip (v. t.) To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
Sentenced to have his ears clipped. -- Macaulay.
Clip (v. t.) To curtail; to cut short.
All my reports go with the modest truth; No more nor clipped, but so. -- Shak.
In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs. -- Swift.
Clip (n.) A metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun [syn: cartridge holder, cartridge clip, clip, magazine].
Clip (n.) An instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip" [syn: time, clip].
Clip (n.) Any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together.
Clip (n.) An article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress.
Clip (n.) The act of clipping or snipping [syn: clip, clipping, snip].
Clip (n.) A sharp slanting blow; "he gave me a clip on the ear".
Clip (v.) Sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers" [syn: nip, nip off, clip, snip, snip off].
Clip (v.) Run at a moderately swift pace [syn: trot, jog, clip].
Clip (v.) Attach with a clip; "clip the papers together" [ant: unclip].
Clip (v.) Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back].
Clip (v.) Terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries" [syn: clip, curtail, cut short].
CLIP () Compiler Language for Information Processing.
CLIP () Common LISP in Parallel.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (18 March 2015) :
CLiP () A documentation extractor by Eric W. van Ammers that recognises a particular style of comments. This style can be adjusted to suit virtually any programming language and target documentation language. CLiP was designed to be compatible with hypertext systems.
MS-DOS,+MS-DOS, VAX/{VMS and Unix
ftp://sun01.info.wau.nl/clip/)"> (ftp://sun01.info.wau.nl/clip/). (1993-11-18)
Beak (n.) Beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles)
Beak (n.) Horny projecting mouth of a bird [syn: beak, bill, neb, nib, pecker].
Beak (n.) A beaklike, tapering tip on certain plant structures.
Beak (n.) Informal terms for the nose [syn: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, snoot, snout, schnozzle, schnoz].
Beak (v.) Hit lightly with a picking motion [syn: peck, pick, beak].
Beaked (a.) Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.
Beaked (a.) Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate.
Beaker (n.) 大杯子；【化】燒杯 A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.
Beaker (n.) An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat. -- Knight.
Beaker (n.) A flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for chemistry.
Beaker (n.) A cup (usually without a handle).
Beakhead (n.) (Arch.)（艦船的）撞角；（船首樓前的）溝形廁所；鳥嘴頭飾；海角；岬 An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak. -- Parker.
Beakhead (n.) (Naut.) A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew.
Beakhead (n.) (Naut.) (Antiq.) Same as Beak, 3.
Beakhead (n.) A projection at the prow of an ancient warship, typically shaped to resemble the head of a bird or other animal.
Beakiron (n.) 鐵角砧 A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.
Bealed (imp. & p. p.) of Beal
Bealing (p. pr & vb. n.) of Beal
Beal (n.) (Med.) A small inflammatory tumor; a pustule. [Prov. Eng.]
Compare: Inflammatory
Inflammatory (a.) 激動的；炎症性的Relating to or causing inflammation of a part of the body.
‘Inflammatory cells.’
‘Inflammatory diseases.’
Inflammatory (a.) (Especially of speech or writing) Arousing or intended to arouse angry or violent feelings.
‘Inflammatory remarks.’
Beal (v. i.) To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple. [Prov. Eng.]
Compare: Pimple
Pimple (n.) 丘疹；面皰；疙瘩；粉刺；青春痘 A small hard inflamed spot on the skin.
‘He had a pimple at the corner of his mouth.’
‘I can see the hut down there, just a tiny pimple.’
Be-all (n.) The whole; all that is to be.
Beam (n.) [C] 樑；桁；（船等的）橫樑；秤杆，天平橫杆；傳動杆；吊杆；帆桁；光線，光束，光柱；（定向發出的）電波；笑容，喜色 Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
Beam (n.) One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship.
The beams of a vessel are strong pieces of timber stretching across from side to side to support the decks. -- Totten.
Beam (n.) The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another.
Beam (n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
The doubtful beam long nods from side to side. -- Pope.
Beam (n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches.
Beam (n.) The pole of a carriage. [Poetic] -- Dryden.
Beam (n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam.
Beam (n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor.
Beam (n.) The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
Beam (n.) (Steam Engine) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam.
Beam (n.) A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat.
How far that little candle throws his beams! -- Shak.
Beam (n.) Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort.
Mercy with her genial beam. -- Keble.
Beam (n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather.
Abaft the beam (Naut.), In an arc of the horizon between a line that crosses the ship at right angles, or in the direction of her beams, and that point of the compass toward which her stern is directed.
Beam center (Mach.), The fulcrum or pin on which the working beam of an engine vibrates.
Beam compass, An instrument consisting of a rod or beam, having sliding sockets that carry steel or pencil points; -- used for drawing or describing large circles.
Beam engine, A steam engine having a working beam to transmit power, in distinction from one which has its piston rod attached directly to the crank of the wheel shaft.
Before the beam (Naut.), In an arc of the horizon included between a line that crosses the ship at right angles and that point of the compass toward which the ship steers.
On the beam, In a line with the beams, or at right angles with the keel.
On the weather beam, On the side of a ship which faces the wind.
To be on her beam ends, To incline, as a vessel, so much on one side that her beams approach a vertical position.
Beamed (imp. & p. p.) of Beam.
Beaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beam.
Beam (v. t.) 以樑支撐；用……照射；將……對準 [O]；流露，發出；（定向）播送，發送 [O] To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light.
Beam (v. i.) 照射，照耀；堆滿笑容，眉開眼笑 To emit beams of light.
He beamed, the daystar of the rising age. -- Trumbull.
Beam (n.) A signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather [syn: radio beam, beam].
Beam (n.) Long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in Construction.
Beam (n.) A group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation [syn: beam, ray, electron beam].
Beam (n.) A column of light (as from a beacon) [syn: beam, beam of light, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, irradiation].
Beam (n.) (Nautical) breadth amidships.
Beam (n.) The broad side of a ship; "they sighted land on the port beam".
Beam (n.) A gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts [syn: balance beam, beam].
Beam (v.) Smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression
Beam (v.) Emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light; "The sun shone bright that day"; "The fire beamed on their faces" [syn: shine, beam].
Beam (v.) Express with a beaming face or smile; "he beamed his approval".
Beam (v.) Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song" [syn: air, send, broadcast, beam, transmit].
Beam (v.) Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink; "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna" [syn: glow, beam, radiate, shine].
Beam (v.) Experience a feeling
of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion;
"She was beaming with joy"; "Her face radiated with
happiness" [syn: glow, beam, radiate, shine].
Beam (v. t.) To transfer softcopy of a file electronically; most
often in combining forms such as beam me a copy or beam that over to his site.
Beam (v. t.) Palm Pilot users very commonly use this term for the act of exchanging bits via the infrared links on their machines (this term seems to have originated with the ill-fated Newton Message Pad). Compare blast, snarf , BLT.
Beam (From Star Trek Classic's "Beam me up, Scotty!") To transfer softcopy of a file electronically; most often in combining forms such as "beam me a copy" or "beam that over to his site". Compare blast, snarf, BLT. [{Jargon File] (2009-06-09)
Beam () Occurs in the Authorized Version as the rendering of various Hebrew words. In 1 Sam. 17:7, it means a weaver's frame or principal beam; in Hab. 2:11, a crossbeam or girder; 2 Kings 6:2, 5, a cross-piece or rafter of a house; 1 Kings 7:6, an architectural ornament as a projecting step or moulding; Ezek. 41:25, a thick plank. In the New Testament the word occurs only in Matt. 7:3, 4, 5, and Luke 6:41, 42, where it means (Gr. dokos) a large piece of wood used for building purposes, as contrasted with "mote" (Gr. karphos), a small piece or mere splinter. "Mote" and "beam" became proverbial for little and great faults.
Beambird (n.) (Zool.) A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building.
Compare: Flycatcher
Flycatcher (n.) 捕蠅器；【鳥】鶲（飛行時捕食蠅等） A perching bird that catches flying insects, especially in short flights from a perch.
Typical Old World flycatchers belong to the family Muscicapidae. Many others belong to the Old World family Monarchidae (monarch and paradise flycatchers) and the New World family Tyrannidae (tyrant flycatchers), while some belong to families Eopsaltridae (Australasia), Platysteiridae (Africa), and Bombycillidae (America).
Beamed (a.) 有樑的；有支撐的；Beam的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag.
Tost his beamed frontlet to the sky. -- Sir W. Scott.
Beamful (a.) Beamy; radiant; luminous.
Beamily (adv.) In a beaming manner.
Beaminess (n.) The state of being beamy.
Beaming (a.) Emitting beams; radiant.
Beaming (a.) 發光的；耀眼的；笑容滿面的；心情愉快的 cheerful and bright; "a beaming smile"; "a glad May morning" [syn: beaming, glad].
Beaming (a.) Pleased and proud; "beaming parents".
Beaming (a.) Radiating or as if radiating light; "the beaming sun"; "the effulgent daffodils"; "a radiant sunrise"; "a refulgent sunset" [syn: beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent].
Compare: Cheerful
Cheerful (a.) 興高采烈的；情緒好的；使人感到愉快的 Noticeably happy and optimistic.
‘How can she be so cheerful at six o'clock in the morning?’
‘A cheerful voice.’
Cheerful (a.) Causing happiness by its nature or appearance.
‘Cheerful news.’
‘The room was painted in cheerful colours.’
Beamingly (adv.) In a beaming manner; radiantly.
Compare: Radiantly
Radiantly (adv.) 輝煌地；清朗地See Radiant.
Compare: Radiant
Radiant (a.) 光芒四射的；明亮照耀的 [B]；容光煥發的；（面容，目光）洋溢著幸福的 [（+with）] Sending out light; shining or glowing brightly.
‘A bird with radiant green and red plumage.’
Radiant (a.) (Of a person or their expression) Clearly emanating great joy, love, or health.
‘She gave him a radiant smile.’
Radiant (a.) (Of an emotion or quality) Emanating powerfully from someone or something; very conspicuous.
‘He praised her radiant self-confidence.’
Radiant (a.) [Attributive] (Of electromagnetic energy, especially heat) Transmitted by radiation, rather than conduction or convection.
‘Plants convert the radiant energy of the sun into chemical energy.’
Radiant (a.) (Of an appliance) Designed to emit radiant energy, especially for cooking or heating.
‘A radiant heater.’
Radiant (n.) 發光（或發熱）的物體，光點；（電爐等的）白熾部分 A point or object from which light or heat radiates, especially a heating element in an electric or gas heater.
‘I sat down by my hissing gas fire—one of the radiants was missing.’
Radiant (n.) (Astronomy) A radiant point.
‘Don't assume that you should stare toward the radiant to see the most meteors.’
Compare: Meteor
Meteor (n.) 【天】流星；隕星 [C]；【廢】【氣】大氣現象 A small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth's atmosphere, becoming incandescent as a result of friction and appearing as a streak of light.
Compare: Incandescent
Incandescent (a.) 熾熱的，白熱的；光亮的；燦爛的；閃閃發光的 Emitting light as a result of being heated.
‘Plumes of incandescent liquid rock.’
Incandescent (a.) (Of an electric light) Containing a filament which glows white-hot when heated by a current passed through it.
‘An incandescent lamp.’
Incandescent (a.) Full of strong emotion; passionate.
‘She felt an incandescent love for life.’
Incandescent (a.) Extremely angry.
‘I am incandescent at the way I've been treated.’
Beamless (a.) 無樑的 Not having a beam.
Beamless (a.) Not emitting light.
Compare: Emit
Emit (v.) (Emits, emitting, emitted) [With object] 散發，放射；發出；發表（意見等）；發出聲音 Produce and discharge (something, especially gas or radiation).
‘Even the best cars emit carbon dioxide.’
Emit (v.) (Emits, emitting, emitted) [With object] Make (a sound).
‘She emitted a sound like laughter.’
Beamless (a.) Being without a beam or ray.
Beamlet (n.) 子束波；細光束 A small beam of light.
Compare: Whitebeam
Whitebeam (n.) (Bot.) 花楸屬；白面子樹 The common beam tree of England ({Pyrus Aria); -- so called from the white, woolly under surface of the leaves.
Compare: Woolly
Woolly (a.) (US Wooly) (Woollier, woolliest) [Z] 羊毛（製）的；長滿羊毛的；羊毛狀的，毛茸茸的；【美】粗獷的（指具有早期美國西部生活特色的）Made of wool.
‘A red woolly hat.’
Woolly (a.) (Of an animal, plant, or part) Bearing or naturally covered with wool or hair resembling wool.
‘Woolly grey-green foliage.’
‘The woolly aphid.’
Woolly (a.) Resembling wool in texture or appearance.
‘Woolly wisps of cloud.’
Woolly (a.) Vague or confused in expression or character.
‘Woolly thinking.’
Woolly (a.) (Of a sound) Indistinct or distorted.
‘An opaque and woolly recording.’
Woolly (n.) (pl. Woollies) (Informal) (British) [C] 毛絨衣；毛織衣服；【美】【方】羊 A garment made of wool, especially a pullover.
Woolly (n.) (Australian, New Zealand) A sheep.
‘Pioneer historians were quick to notice that bighorn epidemics regularly followed the arrival of tame woollies.’
‘By the early 1900s, sheep were big business in Montana with 4.2 million of the woollies grazing the immense open ranges of the Big Sky Country.’
Beam tree (n.) (Bot.) A tree ({Pyrus aria) related to the apple.
Beamy (a.) 發亮的，光亮的；像樑一樣的；【海】船身闊的 Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining. "Beamy gold." -- Tickell.
Beamy (a.) Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy.
His double-biting ax, and beamy spear. -- Dryden.
Beamy (a.) Having horns, or antlers.
Beamy stags in toils engage. -- Dryden.
Beamy (a.) Broad in the beam; "a beamy cargo ship".
Beamy (a.) Radiating or as if radiating light; "the beaming sun"; "the effulgent daffodils"; "a radiant sunrise"; "a refulgent sunset" [syn: beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent].
Bean (n.) (Bot.) 豆子，蠶豆；少量；腦袋；錢財 A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.
Note: The origin and classification of many kinds are still doubtful. Among true beans are: the black-eyed bean and China bean, included in Dolichos Sinensis; black Egyptian bean or hyacinth bean, Dolichos Lablab; the common haricot beans, kidney beans, string beans, and pole beans, all included in Phaseolus vulgaris; the lower bush bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, variety nanus; Lima bean, Phaseolus lunatus; Spanish bean and scarlet runner, Phaseolus multiflorus; Windsor bean, the common bean of England, Faba vulgaris.
As an article of food beans are classed with vegetables.
Bean (n.) The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans.
Bean aphis (Zool.), A plant louse ({Aphis fab[ae]"> Bean aphis (Zool.), a plant louse ({Aphis fab[ae]) which infests the bean plant.
Bean fly (Zool.), A fly found on bean flowers.
Bean goose (Zool.), A species of goose ({Anser segetum"> Bean goose (Zool.), a species of goose ({Anser segetum).
Bean weevil (Zool.), A small weevil that in the larval state destroys beans. The American species is Bruchus fab[ae].
Florida bean (Bot.), The seed of Mucuna urens, a West Indian plant. The seeds are washed up on the Florida shore, and are often polished and made into ornaments.
Ignatius bean, or St. Ignatius's bean (Bot.), A species of Strychnos.
Navy bean, The common dried white bean of commerce; probably so called because an important article of food in the navy.
Pea bean, A very small and highly esteemed variety of the edible white bean; -- so called from its size.
Sacred bean. See under Sacred.
Screw bean. See under Screw.
Sea bean. (a) Same as Florida bean.
Sea bean. (b) A red bean of unknown species used for ornament.
Tonquin bean, or Tonka bean, The fragrant seed of Dipteryx odorata, a leguminous tree.
Vanilla bean. See under Vanilla.
Bean (n.) Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food [syn: bean, edible bean].
Bean (n.) Any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans.
Bean (n.) Any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods [syn: bean, bean plant].
Bean (n.) Informal terms for a human head [syn: attic, bean, bonce, noodle, noggin, dome].
Bean (v.) Hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball.
Idiom of the Day: A hill of beans Something of little or no importance, value, or worth.
Bean caper () A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum.
Compare: Deciduous
Deciduous (a.) 脫落性的；落葉性的 (Of a tree or shrub) 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.’
Compare: Evergreen
Evergreen (a.) 常綠的，常青的 Relating to or denoting a plant that retains green leaves throughout the year.
‘The glossy laurel is fully hardy and evergreen.’
Often contrasted with Deciduous
‘Evergreen shrubs.’
Evergreen (a.) Having an enduring freshness, success, or popularity.
‘This symphony is an evergreen favourite.’
Evergreen (n.) 常綠樹；萬年青 [C]；裝飾用的常綠樹樹枝 [P] A plant that retains green leaves throughout the year.
‘Evergreens planted to cut off the east wind.’
Evergreen (n.) A person or thing of enduring freshness, success, or popularity.
‘Monty Python and other TV evergreens.’
Zygophyllum (n.) 霸王屬（學名：Zygophyllum）是蒺藜科下的一個屬，為多年生草本或矮小灌木植物。該屬共有100種，分布於地中海地區、中亞、南非及大洋洲。[3]
Zygophyllum is the type genus of the flowering plant family Zygophyllaceae. The generic name is derived from the Greek words ζυγόν (zygon), meaning "double", and φυλλον (phyllon), meaning "leaf". [citation needed] It refers to the leaves, each of which have two leaflets. The genus is distributed in arid and semi-arid regions of Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, central Asia and Australia.
Molecular phylogenetic analysis suggested that as previously circumscribed, Zygophyllum was not monophyletic, and the genus was split among a number of other genera, including Augea, Fagonia, Roepera and Tetraena. [3]
Bean trefoil () A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida).
Bore (imp.) of Bear.
Bare () of Bear.
Born (p. p.) of Bear.
Borne () of Bear.
Bearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bear.
Bear (v. t.) 支持，承受；承擔；運送；攜帶；帶走 [O]；忍受；經得起 [+to-v] [+v-ing] [+that] [O2] To support or sustain; to hold up.
Bear (v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey.
I 'll bear your logs the while. -- Shak.
Bear (v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. [Obs.]
Bear them to my house. -- Shak.
Bear (v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
Every man should bear rule in his own house. -- Esther i. 22.
Bear (v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
Bear (v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
Bear (v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor. -- Dryden.
The ancient grudge I bear him. -- Shak.
Bear (v. t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
Should such a man, too fond to rule alone,
Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. -- Pope.
I cannot bear The murmur of this lake to hear. -- Shelley.
My punishment is greater than I can bear. -- Gen. iv. 13.
Bear (v. t.) To gain or win. [Obs.]
Some think to bear it by speaking a great word. -- Bacon.
She was . . . found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge. -- Latimer.
Bear (v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.
He shall bear their iniquities. -- Is. liii. 11.
Somewhat that will bear your charges. -- Dryden.
Bear (v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward. "Your testimony bear" -- Dryden.
Bear (v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have. "The credit of bearing a part in the conversation." -- Locke.
Bear (v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
In all criminal cases the most favorable interpretation should be put on words that they can possibly bear. -- Swift.
Bear (v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct. "Thus must thou thy body bear." -- Shak. Hence: To behave; to conduct.
Hath he borne himself penitently in prison? -- Shak.
Bear (v. t.) To behave; to conduct.
Bear (v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with.
His faithful dog shall bear him company. -- Pope.
Bear (v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
Here dwelt the man divine whom Samos bore. -- Dryden.
Note: In the passive form of this verb, the best modern usage restricts the past participle born to the sense of brought forth, while borne is used in the other senses of the word. In the active form, borne alone is used as the past participle.
To bear down. To force into a lower place; to carry down; to depress or sink. "His nose, . . . large as were the others, bore them down into insignificance." -- Marryat.
To bear down. To overthrow or crush by force; as, to bear down an enemy.
To bear a hand. To help; to give assistance.
To bear a hand. (Naut.) To make haste; to be quick.
To bear in hand, To keep (one) up in expectation, usually by promises never to be realized; to amuse by false pretenses; to delude. [Obs.] "How you were borne in hand, how crossed." -- Shak.
To bear in mind, To remember.
To bear off. To restrain; to keep from approach.
To bear off. (Naut.) To remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against anything; as, to bear off a blow; to bear off a boat.
To bear off. To gain; to carry off, as a prize.
To bear off. (Backgammon) To remove from the backgammon board into the home when the position of the piece and the dice provide the proper opportunity; -- the goal of the game is to bear off all of one's men before the opponent.
To bear one hard, To owe one a grudge. [Obs.] "C[ae]sar doth bear me hard." -- Shak.
To bear out. To maintain and support to the end; to defend to the last. "Company only can bear a man out in an ill thing." -- South.
To bear out. To corroborate; to confirm.
To bear up, To support; to keep from falling or sinking. "Religious hope bears up the mind under sufferings." -- Addison.
Syn: To uphold; sustain; maintain; support; undergo; suffer; endure; tolerate; carry; convey; transport; waft.
Bear (v. i.) 承受重量（或壓力）；用力推（或擠，壓）；開花結果 To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
This age to blossom, and the next to bear. -- Dryden.
Bear (v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
But man is born to bear. -- Pope.
Bear (v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient.
I can not, can not bear. -- Dryden.
Bear (v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against.
These men bear hard on the suspected party. -- Addison.
Bear (v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
Bear (v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?
Bear (v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
Her sentence bore that she should stand a certain time upon the platform. -- Hawthorne.
Bear (v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
To bear against, To approach for attack or seizure; as, a lion bears against his prey. [Obs.]
To bear away (Naut.), To change the course of a ship, and make her run before the wind.
To bear back, To retreat. "Bearing back from the blows of their sable antagonist." -- Sir W. Scott.
To bear down upon (Naut.), To approach from the windward side; as, the fleet bore down upon the enemy.
To bear in with (Naut.), To run or tend toward; as, a ship bears in with the land.
To bear off (Naut.), To steer away, as from land.
To bear up. To be supported; to have fortitude; to be firm; not to sink; as, to bear up under afflictions.
To bear up. (Naut.) To put the helm up (or to windward) and so put the ship before the wind; to bear away. --Hamersly.
To bear upon (Mil.), To be pointed or situated so as to affect; to be pointed directly against, or so as to hit (the object); as, to bring or plant guns so as to bear upon a fort or a ship; the artillery bore upon the center.
To bear up to, To tend or move toward; as, to bear up to one another.
To bear with, To endure; to be indulgent to; to forbear to resent, oppose, or punish.
Bear (n.) A bier. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Compare: Bier
Bier (n.) [C] 棺架；屍架；（連架的）棺材 A movable frame on which a coffin or a corpse is placed before burial or cremation or on which they are carried to the grave.
Bear (n.) (Zool.) 熊；似熊的動物 Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
Note: The European brown bear ({Ursus arctos), the white polar bear ({Ursus maritimus), the grizzly bear ({Ursus horribilis), the American black bear, and its variety the cinnamon bear ({Ursus Americanus), the Syrian bear ({Ursus Syriacus), and the sloth bear, are among the notable species.
Compare: Plantigrade
Plantigrade (a.)【動】（人、熊等）蹠行的 (Of a mammal) Walking on the soles of the feet, like a human or a bear.
Plantigrade (n.) (Zoology) 蹠行動物 A plantigrade animal.
Compare: Carnivora
Carnivora (n.) (pl.) (Zoology) 食肉目；食肉目動物；食蟲植物Carnivorous animals collectively.
Compare: Carnivorous
Carnivorous (a.) 肉食性的 (Of an animal) Feeding on other animals.
Carnivorous (a.) (Of a plant) Able to trap and digest small animals, especially insects.
Bear (n.) (Zool.) 似熊的動物 An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.
Bear (n.) (Astron.) [the B~]‘天文’熊座 → Great Bear, Little Bear, One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
Compare: Constellation
Constellation (n.) 星座；星座區域 [C]；薈萃；群集 [C] [（+of）]；（占星學中的）星宿 [C] A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure.
Constellation (n.) A group of associated or similar people or things.
‘No two patients ever show exactly the same constellation of symptoms.’