English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Baenosome (n.)

The thorax of Arthropods.

Baff (n.)

A blow; a stroke.

Baffle (v. t.)

To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

Baffle (n.)

A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.

Baffle (v. i.)

To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.

Baffle (v. i.)

To practice deceit.

Baffle (v. t.)

To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.

Baffle (v. t.)

To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

Baffled (imp. & p. p.)

of Baffle

Bafflement (n.)

The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.

Baffler (n.)

One who, or that which, baffles.

Baffling (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Baffle

Baffling (a.)

Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks.

Baft (n.)

Same as Bafta.

Bafta (n.)

A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.

Bag (v. t.)

To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.

Bag (v. t.)

To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.

Bag (v. t.)

To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.

Bag (v. i.)

To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.

Bag (v. i.)

To swell with arrogance.