Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 30
Belle-lettrist (n.) One versed in belles-lettres.
Compare: Versed
Versed (a.) (Formal) Be versed in sth 對…很熟練；通曉；精通 To know a ot about a particular subject or be experienced in a particular skill.
// I'm not sufficiently versed in XML to understand what you're sayng.
Compare: Belles-lettres
Belles-lettres (n.) (pl.) (Literature) (Specialized) 美文學；純文學 Works of literature that are beautiful and pleasing in an artistic way, rather than being very serious or full of information.
Bellerophon (n.) (Paleon.) A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age.
Bellerophon (n.) (Greek mythology) A mythical hero of Corinth who performed miracles on the winged horse Pegasus (especially killing the monster Chimera).
Compare: Mythoogy
Mythology (n.) [U] (Ancient stories) 神話 Myths in general.
// She's fascinated by the stories of classical mythology (= ancient Greek and Roman myths).
Mythology (n.) [U] (Popular belief) 普遍但錯誤的看法 A popular belief that is probably not true.
// It's just a piece of popular mythology that people always get sacked when they are away from the office.
Belles-lettres (n. pl.) Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.
Belletristic (a.) Alt. of Belletristical
Belletristical (a.) Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres. "An unlearned, belletristic trifler." -- M. Arnold.
Bell-faced (a.) Having the striking surface convex; -- said of hammers.
Bellflower (n.) (Bot.) 【植】風鈴草屬植物的俗稱 A plant of the genus Campanula; -- so named from its bell-shaped flowers.
Bellflower (n.) A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple. [Written also bellefleur.]
Compare: Campanula
Campanula (prop. n.) (Bot.) A large genus of plants bearing bell-shaped flowers, often of great beauty; -- also called bellflower.
Bellflower (n.) Any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers [syn: campanula, bellflower].
Bellflower, CA -- U.S. city in California
Population (2000): 72878
Housing Units (2000): 24247
Land area (2000): 6.073422 sq. miles (15.730089 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.074288 sq. miles (0.192406 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.147710 sq. miles (15.922495 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04982
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 33.888165 N, 118.127604 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 90706
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bellflower, CA
Bellflower
Bellflower, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 408
Housing Units (2000): 171
Land area (2000): 0.364913 sq. miles (0.945120 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.364913 sq. miles (0.945120 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04897
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 40.340504 N, 88.526741 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61724
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bellflower, IL
Bellflower
Bellflower, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 427
Housing Units (2000): 184
Land area (2000): 0.549118 sq. miles (1.422210 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.549118 sq. miles (1.422210 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04330
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 39.003891 N, 91.352922 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 63333
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bellflower, MO
Bellflower
Bellibone (n.) A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Bellic (a.) Alt. of Bellical
Bellical (a.) Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial. [Obs.] "Bellic C[ae]sar." -- Feltham.
Compare: Martial
Martial (a.) 戰爭的；軍事的；軍隊的；好戰的；尚武的 Relating to fighting or war.
‘Martial bravery.’
Compare: Epigrammatist
Epigrammatist (n.) 諷刺短詩作者 A writer of epigrams.
‘The Greek poet and epigrammatist Simonides.’
Compare: Epigram
Epigram (n.) [C] 警句，雋語；機智的短詩；諷刺短詩 A pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way.
‘A Wildean epigram.’
Epigram (n.) A short poem, especially a satirical one, with a witty or ingenious ending.
Bellicose (a.) 好鬥的；好戰的 Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.
Arnold was, in fact, in a bellicose vein. -- W. Irving.
Bellicose (a.) Having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature" [syn: battleful, bellicose, combative].
Bellicosely (adv.) 好鬥地，好爭吵地；好戰地 In a bellicose manner.
Bellicosely (adv.) In a bellicose or warlike manner; pugnaciously.
Compare: Pugnaciously
Pugnaciously (adv.) 好鬥地，好爭吵地；好戰地 See Pugnacious.
Pugnaciously (adv.) In an aggressive or combative manner.
Compare: Pugnacious
Pugnacious (a.) 好鬥的；好戰的 Eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight.
‘His public statements became increasingly pugnacious.’
Compare: Combative
Combative (a.) 好戰的；好鬥的，好事的 Ready or eager to fight or argue.
‘He made some enemies with his combative style.’
Bellicous (a.) Bellicose. [Obs.]
Bellied (a.) Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied. Belligerence
Bellied (a.) Having a belly; often used in combination [ant: bellyless, flat-bellied].
Bellied (a.) Curving outward [syn: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant].
Belligerence (n.) Alt. of Belligerency
Belligerency (n.) [U] 交戰（狀態）；好戰性，敵對態度 The quality of being belligerent.
Belligerency (n.) The act or state of being engaged in war or a warlike conflict; warfare.
Syn: Hostilities.
Belligerency (n.) An aggressively hostile or warlike attitude or nature; a readiness to fight or offend, with little or no provocation.
Belligerency (n.) Hostile or warlike attitude or nature [syn: {belligerence}, {belligerency}].
Belligerency (n.) Fighting; acts of overt warfare; "the outbreak of hostilities" [syn: {hostilities}, {belligerency}].
Belligerent (a.) 好戰的；好鬥的；交戰中的；交戰國的 Waging war; carrying on war.
Belligerent (a.) Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights.
Belligerent (n.) [C] 交戰國；參加鬥毆的人（或集團） A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare.
Belligerent (a.) Characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight; "aggressive acts against another country"; "a belligerent tone" [syn: {aggressive}, {belligerent}].
Belligerent (a.) Engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations" [syn: {belligerent}, {militant}, {war-ridden}, {warring}].
Belligerent (n.) Someone who fights (or is fighting) [syn: {combatant}, {battler}, {belligerent}, {fighter}, {scrapper}].
Belligerent (a.) (Disapproving) 好戰的，挑起戰爭的；挑撥的 Wishing to fight or argue.
// A belligerent person.
// A belligerent gesture.
// Watch out! Lee's in a belligerent mood.
Belligerent (a.) (Formal) 交戰的 Fighting a war.
// The belligerent countries are having difficulties funding the war.
Belligerently (adv.) 好戰地，好鬥地 In a belligerent manner; hostilely.
Compare: Hostilely
Hostilely (adv.) 敵對地 See Hostile
Hostilely (adv.) (Comparative more hostilely, superlative most hostilely) In a hostile manner.
Compare: Hostile
Hostile (a.) 敵人的，敵方的；懷敵意的；不友善的 [（+to）] Showing or feeling opposition or dislike; unfriendly.
‘A hostile audience.’
‘He wrote a ferociously hostile attack.’
Hostile (a.) Of or belonging to a military enemy.
‘Hostile aircraft.’
Hostile (a.) [Predicative ] Opposed.
‘People are very hostile to the idea.’
Hostile (a.) (Of a takeover bid) Opposed by the company to be bought.
‘The brewery fought off a hostile takeover bid last year.’
Belling (n.) A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time.
Bellipotent (a.) 戰力強大的 Mighty in war; armipotent. [R.] -- Blount.
Compare: Armipotent
Armipotent (a.) (Poetic) 兵力強大的, 軍備充實的 Powerful in the use of arms; mighty in battle.
Compare: Poetically
Poetically (adv.) 有詩意地, 用韻文By means of or in relation to poetry.
‘He strove to express poetically the voice of the new country.’
‘A poetically talented artist.’
Poetically (adv.) With an imaginative or sensitively emotional style of expression.
‘A poetically phrased tribute.’
Bell jar () A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view.
Bellman (n.) 鳴鐘者；更夫；傳達員 A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. -- Milton.
Bellman (n.) Someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels [syn: bellboy, bellman, bellhop].
Bell metal () A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells.
Bell metal ore, A sulphide of tin, copper, and iron; the mineral stannite.
Bell metal (n.) Bronze with 3 or 4 parts copper to 1 part tin; used in making bells.
Bell-mouthed (a.) Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun. -- Byron.
Bellon (n.) Lead colic.
Bellona (n.) (Rom. Myth.) The goddess of war.
Bellowed (imp. & p. p.) of Bellow
Bellowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bellow
Bellow (v. i.) （公牛等）吼叫；（人，海等）怒吼；（雷，砲等）轟鳴 To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.
Bellow (v. i.) To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor. -- Dryden.
Bellow (v. i.) To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound.
The bellowing voice of boiling seas. -- Dryden.
Bellow (v. t.) 大聲發出；大聲喝道 [（+out/ forth）] To emit with a loud voice; to shout; -- used with out. "Would bellow out a laugh." -- Dryden.
Bellow (n.) A loud resounding outcry or noise, as of an enraged bull; a roar.
Bellow (n.) A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway" [syn: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl].
Bellow (n.) United States author (born in Canada) whose novels influenced American literature after World War II (1915-2005) [syn: Bellow, Saul Bellow, Solomon Bellow].
Bellow (v.) Shout loudly and without restraint [syn: bawl, bellow].
Bellow (v.) Make a loud noise, as of animal; "The bull bellowed" [syn: bellow, roar].
Bellower (n.) One who, or that which, bellows.
Bellows (n. sing. & pl.) An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind.
Bellows fish () A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.
Bell pepper () A species of Capsicum, or Guinea pepper (C. annuum). It is the red pepper of the gardens.
Bell-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a wide-mouthed bell; campanulate.
Belluine (a.) Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal.
Bellwether (n.) 繫鈴羊 A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck.
Bellwether (n.) 前導者 Hence: A leader. [Contemptuous] -- Swift.
Bellwether (n.) Someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity.
Bellwether (n.) Sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell.
Bellwether (n.) [ C ] 前導；領頭者 Someone or something that shows how a situation will develop or change.
// The report is viewed as a bellwether for economic trends.
Bellwort (n.) (Bot.) 任何北美洲東部產的桔梗科植物；（開黃色鐘形花之）百合科植物 A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.
Bellwort (n.) Any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers [syn: bellwort, merry bells, wild oats].
Bellies (n. pl. ) of Belly
Belly (n.) 腹，腹部，腹腔；肚子 [C]；胃 [C]；食慾 [U] That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.
Note: Formerly all the splanchnic or visceral cavities were called bellies; -- the lower belly being the abdomen; the middle belly, the thorax; and the upper belly, the head. -- Dunglison.
Belly (n.) The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly.
Underneath the belly of their steeds. -- Shak.
Belly (n.) The womb. [Obs.]
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee. -- Jer. i. 5.
Belly (n.) The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship.
Out of the belly of hell cried I. -- Jonah ii. 2.
Belly (n.) (Arch.) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
Belly doublet, A doublet of the 16th century, hanging down so as to cover the belly. -- Shak.
Belly fretting, The chafing of a horse's belly with a girth. -- Johnson.
Belly timber, Food. [Ludicrous] -- Prior.
Belly worm, A worm that breeds or lives in the belly (stomach or intestines). -- Johnson.
Bellied (imp. & p. p.) of Belly
Bellying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Belly
Belly (v. t.) 使鼓起，使脹滿 [（+out）] To cause to swell out; to fill. [R.]
Your breath of full consent bellied his sails. -- Shak.
Belly (v. i.) To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge.
The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. -- Dryden.
Belly
(n.) The
region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis [syn:
abdomen, venter, stomach, belly].
Belly (n.) A protruding abdomen [syn: belly, paunch].
Belly (n.) A part that bulges deeply; "the belly of a sail".
Belly (n.) The hollow inside of something; "in the belly of the ship".
Belly (n.) The underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish.
Belly (v.) Swell out or bulge out [syn: belly, belly out].
Belly, () The seat of the carnal affections (Titus 1:12; Phil. 3:19; Rom. 16:18). The word is used symbolically for the heart (Prov. 18:8; 20:27; 22:18, marg.). The "belly of hell" signifies the grave or underworld (Jonah 2:2).
Bellyache (n.) 腹痛 Pain in the bowels; colic.
Bellyache (v. i.) 【美】【口】嘀咕抱怨，發牢騷 To complain, especially in a whining or grumbling manner; to gripe.
Syn: gripe, whine, complain, moan, snivel, grumble, squawk.
Bellyache (n.) An ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region [syn: stomachache, stomach ache, bellyache, gastralgia].
Bellyache (v.) Complain; "What was he hollering about?" [syn: gripe, bitch, grouse, crab, beef, squawk, bellyache, holler].
Bellyband (n.) 腹帶 A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth.
Bellyband (n.) A band of flannel or other cloth about the belly.
Bellyband (n.) (Naut.) A band of canvas, to strengthen a sail.
Bellyband (n.) A cloth band that is worn around the waist (as on infants until the navel has healed).
Bellyband (n.) A strap around the belly of a draft animal holding the shafts of a wagon.
Bellybound (a.) Costive; constipated. Bellybutton
Bellycheat (n.) An apron or covering for the front of the person. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Bellycheer (n.) Good cheer; viands. [Obs.] "Bellycheer and banquets." -- Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." -- Milton.
Bellycheer (v. i.) To revel; to feast. [Obs.]
Bellyful (n.) 一肚子，滿腹；過量 As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough. -- Lloyd.
King James told his son that he would have his bellyful of parliamentary impeachments. -- Johnson.
Bellyful (n.) An undesirable overabundance; "a bellyful of your complaints".
Belly-god (n.) 美食家 One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.
Belly-pinched (a.) 挨餓的 Pinched with hunger; starved. "The belly-pinched wolf." -- Shak.
Belocked (imp. & p. p.) of Belock
Belock (v. t.) 鎖閉 To lock, or fasten as with a lock. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Belomancy (n.) 箭卜術 A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future. -- Encyc. Brit.
Belonged (imp. & p. p.) of Belong
Belonging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Belong
Belong (v. i.) [W] 應被放置（在某處）[Q] ；合適；適用；適宜 [Q]；（在分類上）屬，應歸入；（在關係方面）屬（於）[Q] To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.
Belong (v. i.) To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service.
Belong (v. i.) To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to. "Do not interpretations belong to God ?" -- Gen. xl. 8.
Belong (v. i.) To be suitable for; to be due to.
Belong (v. i.) To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town.
Belong (v. t.) To be deserved by. [Obs.]
Belong (v.) Be owned by; be in the possession of; "This book belongs to me".
Belong (v.) Be suitable or acceptable; "This student somehow doesn't belong".
Belong (v.) Be in the right place or situation; "Where do these books belong?"; "Let's put health care where it belongs--under the control of the government"; "Where do these books go?" [syn: {belong}, {go}].
Belong (v.) Be rightly classified in a class or category; "The whales belong among the mammals".
Belong (v.) Be a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (of a group, organization, or place); "They belong to the same political party".
Belong (v.) Be a part or adjunct; "the uniform looks like it belonged to a museum collection"; "These pages don't belong" [syn: {belong to}, {belong}].
Belonging (n.) （團體成員間）親密而安全的關係；belong 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." -- Shak.
Belonging (n.) That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance.
Belonging (n.) Family; relations; household.
Belonging (n.) Happiness felt in a secure relationship; "with his classmates he felt a sense of belonging".
Belongings (n.) 財產，所有物，行李 Something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone; "that hat is my property"; "he is a man of property"; [syn: {property}, {belongings}, {holding}].
Belonite (n.) (Min.) 棒皺晶；晶桿；棒雛晶；針雛晶；針硫鉍鉛礦；針狀長石；柱狀火山；鉭雛晶 Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.
Belooche Beloochee (a.) Of or pertaining to Beloochistan, or to its inhabitants.
Belooche Beloochee (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Beloochistan.
Belord (v. t.) 作威作福 To act the lord over.
Belord (v. t.) 加封（某人）為貴族 To address by the title of "lord".
Beloved (imp. & p. p.) of Belove
Belove (v. t.) 愛 To love. [Obs.] -- Wodroephe.
Beloved (p. p. & a.) Greatly loved; dear to the heart.
Beloved (n.) One greatly loved.
Below (prep.) （指位置）在……下面；到……下面；（指數量，程度等）在……以下 Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee. --Shak.
Below (prep.) Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality. "One degree below kings." -- Addison.
Below (prep.) Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath.
They beheld, with a just loathing and disdain, . . . how below all history the persons and their actions were. -- Milton.
Who thinks no fact below his regard. -- Hallam.
Syn: Underneath; under; beneath.
Below (adv.) 在下面；到下面；在下方；在樓下；在甲板下；在下級；在某一級以下 In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath.
Lord Marmion waits below. -- Sir W. Scott.
Below (adv.) On the earth, as opposed to the heavens.
The fairest child of Jove below. -- Prior.
Below (adv.) In hell, or the regions of the dead.
What business brought him to the realms below. -- Dryden.
Below (adv.) In court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial below. -- Wheaton.
Below (adv.) In some part or page following.
Below (adv.) In or to a place that is lower [syn: below, at a lower place, to a lower place, beneath] [ant: above, higher up, in a higher place, to a higher place].
Below (adv.) At a later place; "see below" [ant: above, supra].
Below (adv.) (In writing) See below; "vide infra" [syn: below, infra].
Below (adv.) On a floor below; "the tenants live downstairs" [syn: downstairs, down the stairs, on a lower floor, below] [ant: on a higher floor, up the stairs, upstairs].
Below (adv.) Further down; "see under for further discussion" [syn: under, below].
Below. Lower in place, beneath, not so high as some other thing spoken of, of tacitly referred to.
Below. The court below is an inferior court, whose, proceedings may be examined on error by a superior court, which is called the court above.
Below. Bail below is that given to the sheriff in bailable actions, which is so called to distinguish it from bail to t-he action, which is called bail above. See Above; Bail above; Bail below.
Belowt (v. t.) To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to. [Obs.] -- Camden.
Belsire (n.) A grandfather, or ancestor. "His great belsire Brute." [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Belswagger (n.) A lewd man; also, a bully. [Obs.] -- Dryden.