English English Dictionary

A blue color, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.

To color blue.

Of an azure color; sky-blue.

Of a fine blue color; azure.

Azure.

The blue roach of Europe (Leuciscus caeruleus); -- so called from its color.

Blue carbonate of copper; blue malachite.

Azure.

Odd; having no fellow; not one of a pair; single; as, the azygous muscle of the uvula.

Alt. of Azyme

Unleavened bread.

Azymous.

One who administered the Eucharist with unleavened bread; -- a name of reproach given by those of the Greek church to the Latins.

Unleavened; unfermented. B () is the second letter of the English alphabet. (See Guide to Pronunciation, // 196, 220.) It is etymologically related to p, v, f, w and m , letters representing sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. ferre; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr."epta`, Sanskrit saptan. The form of letter B is Roman, from Greek B (Beta), of Semitic origin. The small b was formed by gradual change from the capital B.

To kiss.

To cry baa, or bleat as a sheep.

The cry or bleating of a sheep; a bleat.

The bleating of a sheep.

The supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations.

The whole class of divinities to whom the name Baal was applied.