English English Dictionary

An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.

See Barberry.

A kind of neckcloth.

Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare).

To pierce.

See Bear, barley.

To take away from.

To take away.

To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.

of Bereave

The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.

One who bereaves.

of Bereave

imp. & p. p. of Bereave.

of Bereave

Same as Berretta.

A large mass or hill, as of ice.

A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit.

A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.

A variety of pear.