English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Berme
(n.)
A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and
the ditch.
Berme
(n.)
A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth
that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank.
A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for
pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern
Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch
grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.
A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta, which
lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the
larvae do great injury.
Bernacle
(n.)
See Barnacle.
Bernardine
(a.)
Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the
Cistercian monks.
Bernardine
(n.)
A Cistercian monk.
Bernese
(a.)
Pertaining to the city or canton of Bern, in Switzerland,
or to its inhabitants.
Bernese
(n. sing. & pl.)
A native or natives of Bern.
Bernicle
(n.)
A bernicle goose.
Bernouse
(n.)
Same as Burnoose.
Berob
(v. t.)
To rob; to plunder.
Beroe
(n.)
A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the
Ctenophora.
Berretta
(n.)
A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic
Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is
black, except that a bishop's is lined with green.
Berried
(imp. & p. p.)
of Berry
Berried
(a.)
Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate;
as, a berried shrub.
Berries
(pl. )
of Berry
Berry
(v. i.)
To bear or produce berries.
Berry
(n.)
The coffee bean.
Berry
(n.)
A mound; a hillock.