English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Bezant
(n.)
A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt,
representing circular disks lapping one upon another.
Bezant
(n.)
A circle in or, i. e., gold, representing the gold coin
called bezant.
Bezant
(n.)
A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in
weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a
sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver
bezants.
Bezel
(n.)
The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other
object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.
Bezique
(n.)
A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in
the hand, when declared, score points.
Bezoar
(n.)
A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain
ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian
llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a
certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence:
Any antidote or panacea.
Bezoardic
(a.)
Pertaining to, or compounded with, bezoar.
Bezoardic
(n.)
A medicine containing bezoar.
Bezoartic
(a.)
Alt. of Bezoartical
Bezoartical
(a.)
Having the qualities of an antidote, or of bezoar;
healing.
Bezonian
(n.)
A low fellow or scoundrel; a beggar.
Bezzle
(v. t.)
To plunder; to waste in riot.
Bezzle
(v. i.)
To drink to excess; to revel.
Bezzled
(imp. & p. p.)
of Bezzle
Bezzling
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Bezzle
Bhang
(n.)
An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves
and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked
in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.
Bhunder
(n.)
An Indian monkey (Macacus Rhesus), protected by the
Hindoos as sacred. See Rhesus.
In most branches of science bi- in composition denotes two,
twice, or doubly; as, bidentate, two-toothed; biternate, doubly
ternate, etc.
In the composition of chemical names bi- denotes two atoms,
parts, or equivalents of that constituent to the name of which it is
prefixed, to one of the other component, or that such constituent is
present in double the ordinary proportion; as, bichromate, bisulphide.
Be- and di- are often used interchangeably.
Biacid
(a.)
Having two hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by negative
atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of bases. See Diacid.