Chapter III: Preface (3)

~2.~ Digest, turn to one's own substance.

~Assist~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Help, aid, support, befriend, patronize, serve, speed, second, abet, back, sustain, co-operate with, take part with, give support to, minister to.

~2.~ Succor, relieve, SPELL.

~Assistance~, _n._ Help, aid, succor, LIFT, support, patronage, relief, helping hand, good offices.

~Assistant~, _n._ Coadjutor, helper, aider, co-operator, co-aid, ally, auxiliary, abettor, ADJUTANT, CLERK, right hand man.

~Assizes~, _n. pl._ Sessions (_of the superior courts in the counties of England_).

~Associate~, _v. a._ Join, conjoin, unite, connect, combine, affiliate, yoke, couple, link, bring into close relation.

~Associate~, _v. n._ Fraternize, sort, consort, keep company, be in familiar intercourse.

~Associate~, _n._ ~1.~ Companion, mate, fellow, yoke-fellow, comrade, peer, compeer, follower, CONSORT.

~2.~ Partner, copartner, coadjutor, COLLEAGUE, confederate, ally.

~Association~, _n._ ~1.~ Union, connection, conjunction, combination.

~2.~ Society, fraternity, partnership, copartnership, sodality, company, band, corporation, body, guild, firm, house, confederacy, confederation, LODGE, club, COTERIE, CLIQUE, joint concern.

~Assort~, _v. a._ Class, classify, rank, group, arrange, distribute, sort.

~Assort~, _v. n._ Agree, consort, suit, be adapted, be suitable.

~Assortment~, _n._ ~1.~ Assorting, arranging, allotment, distribution, arrangement.

~2.~ Class, group, set, batch, lot, parcel, stock, store, collection, pack.

~3.~ Variety of sorts, many kinds.

~Assorted~, _a._ Of various sorts.

~Assuage~, _v. a._ Mitigate, moderate, appease, alleviate, soothe, soften, mollify, pacify, compose, tranquillize, quiet, still, quell, allay, abate, temper, attemper, lessen, qualify, relieve, ease, dull, blunt, lull.

~Assuagement~, _n._ Mitigation, alleviation, pacification, easing, abatement.

~Assuasive~, _a._ Soothing, assuaging, emollient, lenient, lenitive, mitigating, mitigative, mild.

~Assume~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Take, undertake, take on, take upon one's self, be willing to bear.

~2.~ Affect, feign, counterfeit, simulate, pretend to, put on.

~3.~ Arrogate, usurp, claim unduly, make unjust pretensions to.

~4.~ Beg, suppose, presuppose, imply, consider as true, take for granted.

~Assumed name~, Alias.

~Assuming~, _a._ ~1.~ Presuming, presumptuous, forward, audacious, bold, shameless, frontless, unblushing, brazen, brazen-faced.

~2.~ Arrogant, proud, lofty, stately, haughty, supercilious, overbearing, overweening, conceited, consequential, self-conceited, self-sufficient.

~Assumption~, _n._ ~1.~ Assuming, arrogating, usurpation.

~2.~ Presumption, supposition, conjecture, hypothesis, postulate, theory.

~3.~ Haughtiness, loftiness, superciliousness, lordliness, stateliness, conceit, pride, conceitedness, self-conceit, self- importance, vain-glory, arrogance, insolence, HAUTEUR.

~Assurance~, _n._ ~1.~ Security, certainty, conviction, persuasion, pledge of certainty, ground of confidence.

~2.~ Promise, engagement, word of honor.

~3.~ Affirmation, assertion, declaration, protestation, asseveration, averment, avowal.

~4.~ Intrepidity, courage, confidence, firmness, self-reliance.

~5.~ Boldness, effrontery, brass, impudence, impertinence, presumption, CHEEK, face, front.

~6.~ (_Law._) Insurance.

~Assure~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Make certain or sure, free from doubt or uncertainty.

~2.~ Embolden, encourage, enhearten, hearten, make confident.

~3.~ Declare to (_confidently and earnestly_), vouch to, avow to, protest to, warrant.

~4.~ (_Law._) Insure, agree to indemnify for loss, secure against loss.

~Assured~, _a._ ~1.~ Certain, indubitable, unquestionable.

~2.~ Confident, sure, secure, sanguine.

~3.~ (_Law._) Insured.

~Assuredly~, _ad._ Certainly, indubitably, undoubtedly, unquestionably, truly, surely, sure, without doubt.

~Asteism~, _n._ Genteel irony, polite banter or raillery, delicate ridicule.

~Asterisk~, _n._ Star (_in printing_).

~Astern~, _ad._ (_Naut._) ~1.~ Behind, back.

~2.~ Backward, rearward, abaft.

~Asteroid~, _n._ Small planet.

~As though~, As if.

~Astonish~, _v. a._ Amaze, surprise, astound, confound, shock, stagger, stupefy, stun, dumfounder, strike dumb, strike with wonder, petrify with wonder.

~Astonishment~, _n._ Amazement, wonder, surprise, awe, ADMIRATION.

~Astound~, _v. a._ Amaze, ASTONISH.

~Astral~, _a._ Starry, stellar, sidereal.

~Astray~, _ad._ Out of the right way, on the wrong scent.

~Astringent~, _a._ Binding, contracting, styptic.

~Astute~, _a._ ~1.~ Cunning, crafty, intriguing, wily, artful, sly, subtle, arch, deep, Machiavelian.

~2.~ Shrewd, sagacious, acute, sharp, quick, discerning, ingenious, perspicacious, keen, intelligent, long-headed, keen-sighted, clear- sighted, quick-sighted, eagle-eyed.

~Astuteness~, _n._ ~1.~ Cunning, craft, craftiness, subtlety, artfulness, art, artifice, slyness, deceit, duplicity, wiliness, guile.

~2.~ Shrewdness, acuteness, sharpness, perspicacity, discernment, penetration, sagacity, ingenuity, mother-wit, quick parts.

~Asunder~, _ad._ Apart, into two parts.

~Asylum~, _n._ ~1.~ Sanctuary, shelter, retreat, refuge, place of refuge.

~2.~ Charitable institution.

~At a blow~, Suddenly, all at once, by a single stroke, by one effort.

~At all~, In any manner, in any degree, in the least degree, in the least.

~At all events~, At any rate, in any case, whatever be the case, happen what may, come what may, let it be as it will, sink or swim.

~At a loss~, Puzzled, perplexed, embarrassed, staggered, posed, nonplussed, at one's wits' end, hard pressed, at a stand, in doubt, in difficulty, put to it, put to one's shifts, out of one's depth, beyond one's depth, in a quandary, at fault, in a dilemma, not know what to do.

~At any rate~, AT ALL EVENTS.

~At a pinch~, In an emergency, in a difficulty, if things come to the worst.

~At a stand~, ~1.~ Interrupted, stopped.

~2.~ Perplexed, embarrassed, AT A LOSS.

~At dawn~, Early, at break of day, at peep of day, at the opening of day.

~At discretion~, Without conditions or stipulations.

~At ease~, Untroubled, comfortable, free from pain, at rest.

~At fault~, ~1.~ Off the scent, on the wrong track.

~2.~ Puzzled, perplexed, AT A LOSS.

~At first~, In the beginning, at the commencement, in the outset, at the start.

~At hand~, Near, nigh, close by, hard by, close to, close upon, close at hand, within reach.

~At hazard~, Hazarded, AT STAKE.

~At heart~, In principle, in one's true character.

~Atheism~, _n._ Denial of God, disbelief in the existence of God.

~Atheist~, _n._ Unbeliever (_in the existence of God_), INFIDEL, sceptic, free-thinker.

~Atheistic~, _a._ Godless, given to atheism.

~Atheistical~, _a._ Godless, given to atheism.

~Athlete~, _n._ Combatant, champion, contender for victory.

~Athletic~, _a._ ~1.~ Strong, stout, robust, sturdy, brawny, muscular, lusty, sinewy, nervous, stalwart, powerful, strapping, Herculean, able- bodied, made of iron.

~2.~ Gymnastic.

~Athwart~, _prep._ Across, over, from one side of to the other.

~Athwart~, _ad._ ~1.~ Across, crosswise, sidewise, obliquely.

~2.~ Wrong, wrongfully, unseasonably, unsuitably, MALAPROPOS.

~At last~, Finally, in the end, in the upshot.

~At length~, ~1.~ After a long time, after a long while, at last, in the end.

~2.~ In full, to the full extent, IN EXTENSO.

~Atmosphere~, _n._ Air.

~Atmospheric~, _a._ Aerial, of the atmosphere.

~Atmospherical~, _a._ Aerial, of the atmosphere.

~At odds~, Quarrelling, bickering, at variance.

~Atom~, _n._ ~1.~ Molecule, monad, ultimate particle (_of any element_), indivisible particle.

~2.~ Corpuscle, scrap, mite, bit, grain, jot, iota, tittle, whit, ace, scintilla.

~Atomic~, _a._ ~1.~ Of atoms.

~2.~ Small, minute.

~Atomical~, _a._ ~1.~ Of atoms.

~2.~ Small, minute.

~At once~, Immediately, directly, forthwith, straightway, without delay.

~Atone for~, Expiate, make expiation for, make amends for, make reparation for, do penance for, answer for, pay for.

~Atonement~, _n._ ~1.~ [_Rare._] Reconciliation, pacification, concord, agreement.

~2.~ Expiation, propitiation, satisfaction, reparation, amends, peace- offering, atoning sacrifice.

~Atony~, _n._ (_Med._) Weakness, debility, languor.

~Atrabiliary~, _a._ Melancholy, ATRABILIOUS.

~Atrabilious~, _a._ Melancholy, hypochondriacal, hypped, dejected, dispirited, depressed, gloomy, sad, sorrowful, blue, desponding, downcast, down-hearted, chop-fallen, low-spirited, cast down, down in the mouth, in the dumps, with a long face.

~Atramentous~, _a._ Black, inky.

~At random~, By chance, without choice, without selection, just as it happens.

~At rest~, ~1.~ Resting, reposing, quiescent.

~2.~ Untroubled, comfortable, at ease, free from pain.

~Atrocious~, _a._ Infamous, villanous, flagitious, heinous, felonious, flagrant, outrageous, enormous, grievous, diabolical, monstrous, infernal, hellish, horrible, black, very wicked.

~Atrocity~, _n._ ~1.~ Heinousness, atrociousness, enormity, flagrancy, villany, flagitiousness, depravity, wickedness.

~2.~ Atrocious crime, flagitious villany.

~Atrophy~, _n._ Emaciation (_from want of nourishment_), consumption, marasmus, decline, gradual wasting.

~At stake~, Hazarded, risked, pledged, in danger, at hazard.

~Attach~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Fasten, tie, join, connect, cement, affix, fix, append, subjoin, annex, hitch, make fast, set to.

~2.~ Attract, captivate, enamour, endear, charm, win, engage, gain over.

~3.~ (_Law._) Take, seize, distrain, distress.

~Attachment~, _n._ ~1.~ Love, liking, regard, affection, friendship, fondness, predilection, devotedness, devotion, adhesion, adherence.

~2.~ Adjunct, appendage, appurtenance, addition, addendum.

~3.~ (_Law._) Seizure, distress.

~Attack~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Assail, assault, STORM, encounter, invade, charge, engage, oppugn, TACKLE, have at, set upon, fly at, run at, make a run at, rush upon, spring upon, have a fling at, have a cut at, bear down upon, make aggression on, ride full tilt against, PITCH INTO.

~2.~ Impugn, censure, criticise, reflect upon, pass censure on.

~Attack~, _n._ Assault, onset, onslaught, charge, thrust, encounter, invasion, aggression, descent, OFFENCE.

~Attacker~, _n._ Assailer, assailant, assaulter, invader, aggressor.

~Attain~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Procure (_by effort_), acquire, get, obtain, gain, win, secure, achieve, compass, accomplish, effect, hit.

~2.~ Reach, arrive at, come to, attain to.

~Attain to~, Reach, attain, arrive at, come to.

~Attainable~, _a._ Compassable, achievable, practicable, feasible, possible.

~Attainder~, _n._ Corruption of blood.

~Attainment~, _n._ ~1.~ Attaining, getting, acquisition.

~2.~ Acquirement, accomplishment, erudition, learning, information, enlightenment, wisdom, stock of knowledge, mental resources.

~Attaint~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Taint, corrupt, stain.

~2.~ (_Law._) Punish by corruption of blood.

~Attar of roses~, Oil of roses, ottar of roses, otto of roses.

~Attemper~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Temper, moderate, allay, alleviate, soften, mollify, assuage, soothe, qualify, appease.

~2.~ Adapt, suit, fit, proportion.

~Attempt~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Try, assay, essay, make trial or experiment of.

~2.~ Undertake, go about, set about, take in hand, endeavor to accomplish.

~Attempt~, _v. n._ Try, strive, endeavor, seek, aim, make an attempt, make essay, do one's best, do all that in one lies, strain every nerve, leave no stone unturned.

~Attempt~, _n._ Effort, trial, essay, endeavor, experiment, undertaking, enterprise.

~Attend~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Accompany, escort, follow, go with, go along with, keep company with.

~2.~ Guard, watch, have in keeping.

~3.~ Serve, lackey, minister to, wait on, dance attendance on.

~4.~ Be present at.

~5.~ Await, be in store for, be ready for.

~Attend~, _v. n._ ~1.~ Listen, hearken, hear, give ear, pay attention.

~2.~ Tend, serve, wait, be attendant.

~Attendance~, ~1.~ Presence.

~2.~ Service, ministration, waiting on.

~Attendant~, _a._ Accompanying, attending.

~Attendant~, _n._ ~1.~ Follower, satellite, companion, fellow, associate, escort.

~2.~ Servant, vassal, servitor, dependant, retainer, squire, domestic, footman, lackey, VALET, waiter, flunkey, underling, menial, understrapper, tender.

~3.~ Accompaniment, concomitant, attendant circumstance.

~Attend on~, Accompany, serve, wait on, be in waiting upon, be within call of.

~Attend to~, ~1.~ Mind, heed, notice, regard, observe, mark, be attentive to, pay regard to, give heed to, take heed of, take notice of, give or pay attention to, give a thought to, be mindful of.

~2.~ Look after, look to, see to.

~3.~ Practise, pursue, follow.

~Attention~, _n._ ~1.~ Care, heed, regard, heedfulness, mindfulness, notice, observation, consideration, advertence, circumspection, watch, watchfulness.

~2.~ Application, reflection, study.

~3.~ Civility, courtesy, politeness, deference, respect, regard.

~Attentive~, _a._ Mindful, heedful, observant, wary, circumspect, watchful, careful, thoughtful, regardful, awake, alive, wide awake, on the alert, on the lookout.

~Attentive to~, Mindful of, occupied with, taken up with, absorbed in.

~Attenuate~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Dilute, thin, rarefy, make thin, make less dense.

~2.~ Lessen, diminish, contract, reduce.

~Attenuation~, _n._ Thinning, diminishing, contracting.

~Attest~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Witness, certify, endorse, confirm, ratify, corroborate, support, authenticate, seal, vouch for, bear out, set one's hand and seal to.

~2.~ Adjure, invoke, call to witness.

~3.~ Prove, show, exhibit, manifest, confess.

~Attestation~, _n._ Attesting, authentication, confirmation, testimony, witness, proof, evidence, seal.

~Attic~, _a._ Chaste, classic, classical, pure, correct, refined, elegant, polished, in good taste.

~Attic~, _n._ ~1.~ Athenian, Athenian author.

~2.~ Garret, loft, cockloft, upper story.

~Atticism~, _n._ Attic idiom or phrase, elegant or concise expression, happy phrase.

~Attic salt~, Delicate wit.

~Attire~, _v. a._ Dress, clothe, array, apparel, rig, robe, enrobe, accoutre, equip, fit out, TRICK OUT.

~Attire~, _n._ Dress, clothes, clothing, apparel, raiment, ARRAY, habit, garb, gear, costume, habiliment, vesture, vestment, outfit, suit, accoutrement, equipment, toilet, rigging, trappings, TOGGERY, wardrobe.

~Attitude~, _n._ ~1.~ Posture (_with reference to the expression of some sentiment_), position.

~2.~ Situation, aspect, phase, standing, predicament

~Attorney~, _n._ ~1.~ Agent, factor, proxy, deputy, substitute.

~2.~ Lawyer, counsellor, counsel, SOLICITOR, advocate, barrister, attorney-at-law, limb of the law.

~Attract~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Draw, bring into proximity, cause to approach.

~2.~ Allure, invite, entice, engage, win, captivate, fascinate, endear, charm, enamour.

~Attraction~, _n._ ~1.~ Attracting, drawing.

~2.~ Allurement, lure, fascination, charm, enticement, witchery, attractiveness.

~Attractive~, _a._ ~1.~ Alluring, inviting, enticing, fascinating, captivating, charming, winning, bewitching, enchanting, engaging, interesting, prepossessing, taking, pleasing, pleasant, lovely, sweet.

~2.~ Magnetic, magnetical.

~Attributable~, _a._ Ascribable, imputable, referrible, chargeable, traceable, owing, to be charged, to be attributed, to be imputed.

~Attribute~, _v. a._ Ascribe, assign, refer, impute, consider as due.

~Attribute~, _n._ Quality, property, characteristic, peculiarity.

~Attrition~, _n._ Abrasion, friction, rubbing.

~Attune~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Set to a tune, make musical.

~2.~ Tune, accord, harmonize, modulate, put in tune.

~At variance~, Quarrelling, bickering, at odds.

~Auburn~, _a._ Nut-brown, chestnut-colored, reddish-brown.

~Auction~, _n._ Vendue, cant, public sale, auction sale.

~Auctioneer~, _n._ Vendue-master.

~Audacious~, _a._ ~1.~ Bold, daring, fearless, courageous, intrepid, venturesome, dauntless, undaunted, valiant, stout-hearted.

~2.~ Presumptuous, assuming, forward, impudent, insolent.

~Audaciousness~, _n._ AUDACITY.

~Audacity~, _n._ ~1.~ Boldness, daring, fearlessness, courage, intrepidity, venturesomeness, hardihood.

~2.~ Impudence, insolence, impertinence, sauciness, effrontery, presumptuousness, presumption, assurance, face, front, brass, CHEEK.

~Audience~, _n._ ~1.~ Hearing.

~2.~ Auditory, assembly of hearers.

~Audience-chamber~, _n._ Divan, council-chamber, state-chamber.

~Audit~, _v. a._ Examine (_as accounts, to ascertain whether they are correct or not_).

~Audit~, _n._ ~1.~ Examination of accounts.

~2.~ Final account.

~Auditor~, _n._ ~1.~ Hearer, listener.

~2.~ Examiner of accounts.

~Auditory~, _n._ Audience, assembly of hearers.

~Au fait~, [Fr.] Skilful, skilled, expert, at home, in one's element.

~Aught~, _n._ Any thing.

~Augment~, _v. a._ Enlarge, increase, magnify, add to, make larger.

~Augment~, _v. n._ Increase, grow larger.

~Augmentation~, _n._ Increase, enlargement, extension, addition, accession.

~Augur~, _n._ Soothsayer, prophet, fortune-teller.

~Augur~, _v. n._ Prophesy, conjecture, predict, guess.

~Augur~, _v. a._ Portend, forebode, presage, foreshow, foreshadow, prognosticate, betoken, foretell, predict, prophesy, be ominous of.

~Augury~, _n._ ~1.~ Prognostication, prognostic, prediction, prophecy, vaticination.

~2.~ Omen, sign, auspice, portent, presage, prognostic, precursor, forerunner, harbinger, herald.

~August~, _a._ Imposing, awful, solemn, venerable, majestic, stately, pompous, great, regal, noble, dignified, kingly, princely, magnificent, superb.

~Auld lang syne~, [_Scotch._] Antiquity, old times, former times, days of yore, the olden time, time gone by, days gone by.

~Aureate~, _a._ Golden, yellow, gold-colored.

~Aurelia~, _n._ (_Ent._) Chrysalis, pupa, nympha.

~Aureola~, _n._ [L.] Halo, glory.

~Auricle~, _n._ Pavilion, external ear.

~Aurora~, _n._ ~1.~ (_Mythol._) Goddess of Morning.

~2.~ Daybreak, dawn, morning, morn, sunrise, break of day, opening of day, peep of day, first blush of the morning.

~Aurora borealis~, [L.] Northern lights, polar lights.

~Auspice~, _n._ Omen, AUGURY, sign, portent, presage, prognostic.

~Auspices~, _n. pl._ Favor, influence, patronage, protection, support.

~Auspicious~, _a._ ~1.~ Prosperous, successful, fortunate, lucky, happy, red-letter.

~2.~ Propitious, promising, favorable, seasonable, opportune, golden, bright.

~Austere~, _a._ ~1.~ Rough (_to the taste_), sour and astringent.

~2.~ Severe, rigid, strict, formal, stiff, rigorous, harsh, stern, difficult, hard, uncompromising, unrelenting, relentless, ascetic, straight-laced.

~Austerity~, _n._ Severity, rigor, sternness, harshness, asceticism.

~Authentic~, _a._ ~1.~ Genuine, real, true, veritable, pure, uncorrupted, unadulterated, not false, not spurious, not fictitious, not apocryphal, what it purports to be.

~2.~ Trustworthy, RELIABLE, authoritative, of approved authority, to be depended on, worthy of belief.

~Authenticate~, _v. a._ Verify, seal, attest, give credit or validity to, prove to be genuine.

~Authentication~, _n._ Verification, attestation, seal, confirmation.

~Authenticity~, _n._ ~1.~ Genuineness.

~2.~ Trustworthiness.

~Author~, _n._ ~1.~ Originator, inventor, maker, creator, father, former, contriver, first cause.

~2.~ Writer, composer.

~Authoritative~, _a._ ~1.~ Official, commanding, by authority, EX CATHEDRA.

~2.~ Dictatorial, imperative, imperious, magisterial, oracular, peremptory, dogmatic.

~Authorities~, _n. pl._ ~1.~ Magistrates, officials, persons in office.

~2.~ Precedents, decisions, judgments.

~Authority~, _n._ ~1.~ Power, sovereignty, dominion, empire, government.

~2.~ Rule, sway, ascendency, supremacy, control, influence, interest.

~3.~ Permission, warrant, warranty, liberty, permit, precept, order, authorization, sanction.

~4.~ Witness, testimony.

~5.~ Credibility, weight of evidence.

~6.~ Respectability, dignity, weight of character.

~Authorize~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Sanction, justify, warrant, legalize, support by authority.

~2.~ Empower, commission, permit, allow, give permission to, give leave to, give authority to.

~Autochthonal~, _a._ Aboriginal, original, primitive, primeval, pristine, primary, first, native, indigenous.

~Autochthonous~, _a._ Aboriginal, original, primitive, primeval, pristine, primary, first, native, indigenous.

~Autocracy~, _n._ Dictatorship, absolutism, despotism, tyranny, arbitrary power, absolute power.

~Autocrat~, _n._ Dictator, despot, tyrant, absolute ruler.

~Autocratic~, _a._ Absolute, despotic.

~Automatic~, _a._ Self-moving, self-acting.

~Autopsy~, _n._ ~1.~ Ocular evidence, personal examination.

~2.~ Post-mortem examination.

~Autumn~, _n._ Fall, fall of the leaf.

~Auxiliary~, _a._ Aiding, helping, assisting, ancillary, subsidiary, helpful.

~Auxiliary~, _n._ Helper, assistant, coadjutor, adjutant, co- operative, ally, confederate, right-hand man.

~Avail~, _v. a._ Benefit, profit, be of advantage to.

~Avail one's self of~, Use, employ, take advantage of, turn to account, make use of.

~Avail~, _v. n._ Be of advantage, do good, be of use, answer the purpose.

~Avail~, _n._ Profit, advantage, benefit, use, utility, service.

~Avails~, _n. pl._ Proceeds, profits, returns.

~Available~, _a._ ~1.~ To be availed of, to be turned to account.

~2.~ Serviceable, useful, profitable, advantageous, beneficial.

~3.~ Suitable or fit (_for some purpose_), likely to answer the end.

~Avant-courier~, _n._ Harbinger, forerunner, herald.

~Avant-guard~, _n._ Van, advanced guard.

~Avarice~, _n._ Penuriousness, cupidity, niggardliness, closeness, covetousness.

~Avaricious~, _a._ Miserly, penurious, parsimonious, sordid, illiberal, niggardly, mercenary, close, stingy, mean, grasping, close- fisted, hard-fisted, COVETOUS, eager for gain (_for the sake of hoarding it_).

~Avast~, _interj._ (_Naut._) Hold, stop, stay, enough.

~Avaunt~, _interj._ Hence, begone, be off, get you gone.

~Avenge~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Take satisfaction for, award just punishment for.

~2.~ Revenge, vindicate (_by punishment of an offender_), inflict punishment in behalf of.

~3.~ [_So used by the translators of the Bible._] Take revenge upon, treat revengefully.

~Avengement~, _n._ [_Rare._] Avenging.

~Avenue~, _n._ ~1.~ Passage, entrance, entry, access, way of approach, passage-way.

~2.~ Alley, walk, street, road, path.

~3.~ Channel, route, way, pass.

~Aver~, _v. a._ Assert, affirm, declare, asseverate, protest, avouch, allege, say, pronounce, predicate.

~Average~, _n._ ~1.~ Medium, mean proportion, medial sum or quantity.

~2.~ Mediocrity, medial standard, average standard.

~Average~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Equate, reduce to an average, reduce to a mean.

~2.~ (_Com._) Proportion, distribute proportionally.

~Average~, _v. n._ Amount to, or result in, when the mean is taken.

~Average~, _a._ ~1.~ Medial, mean.

~2.~ Middling, ordinary, passable, moderate, tolerable, well enough, pretty well, not bad.

~Averment~, _n._ Affirmation, declaration, assertion, remark, asseveration, protestation, avowal, word.

~Avernus~, _n._ (_Mythol._) Hell, Tartarus, Hades, Erebus, the lower world, the infernal regions, shades below.

~Averse~, _a._ Unwilling, disinclined, indisposed, reluctant, loath, backward, adverse, opposed.

~Aversion~, _n._ ~1.~ Dislike, distaste, disrelish, disinclination, reluctance, unwillingness, repugnance, backwardness.

~2.~ ANTIPATHY, hatred, loathing, disgust, nausea, detestation, abhorrence, horror.

~Avert~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Turn aside, turn away, turn off.

~2.~ Prevent, divert, preclude, FOREFEND, ward off, keep off.

~Avid~, _a._ [_Rare._] Eager, greedy.

~Avidity~, _n._ ~1.~ Eagerness, longing, yearning, intense desire.

~2.~ Greediness, craving, voracity, rapacity, voraciousness, ravenousness, canine appetite.

~Avocation~, _n._ Occasional business (_business that calls aside_).

~Avoid~, _v. a._ ~1.~ SHUN (_in a negative sense, or denoting care only without positive exertion_), eschew, escape, blink, elude, keep away from, keep aloof from, keep out of the way of, withdraw from, keep clear of, be shy of, fight shy of, have nothing to do with.

~2.~ Forbear, help, refrain from.

~Avoset~, _n._ Scooper.

~Avouch~, _v. a._ Affirm, assert, asseverate, declare, protest, allege, say, maintain.

~Avow~, _v. a._ Acknowledge, confess, own, profess, declare, affirm.

~Avowal~, _n._ Acknowledgment, confession, declaration, profession, manifesto.

~Await~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Expect, abide, wait for, stay for, look for, be in readiness for.

~2.~ Attend, be in store for, be prepared for, be ready for.

~Awake~, _a._ ~1.~ Not asleep.

~2.~ Attentive, watchful, vigilant, alive, on the alert.

~Awake~, _v. a._ & _n._ AWAKEN.

~Awaken~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Awake, wake, rouse from sleep.

~2.~ Arouse, excite, kindle, spur, incite, stimulate, provoke, stir up.

~Awaken~, _v. n._ Wake, waken, be awakened, be roused from sleep.

~Awakening~, _n._ Revival.

~Award~, _v. a._ Adjudge, decrees.

~Award~, _n._ Judgment, decree, adjudication, determination, decision.

~Aware~, _a._ Mindful, conscious, cognizant, observant, apprised, sensible, convinced, persuaded.

~Away~, _ad._ ~1.~ Absent, gone, off, from home, at a distance, not present.

~2.~ Begone, let us go.

~Away with~, Take away.

~Awe~, _n._ ~1.~ Reverence, veneration, reverential fear.

~2.~ Dread, fearfulness.

~Awe~, _v. a._ Overawe, intimidate, frighten, affright, daunt, cow, inspire with awe.

~Awe-struck~, _a._ Dismayed, horrified, appalled, terrified, frightened, panic-stricken, horror-struck.

~Awful~, _a._ ~1.~ Venerable, august, grand, stately, imposing, solemn, majestic.

~2.~ Dread, dreadful, fearful, horrible, horrid, terrible, dire, direful, frightful, appalling, tremendous.

~3.~ [_Vulgar._] Ugly, homely, unsightly, ill-looking.

~Awhile~, _ad._ For a time, for some time, some time, for a while.

~Awkward~, _a._ ~1.~ Unskilful, bungling, unhandy, maladroit, inapt, without dexterity.

~2.~ Unwieldy, unmanageable, inconvenient, unfit, lumbering.

~3.~ Uncouth, unrefined, unpolished, uncourtly, rude, rough, clumsy, coarse, wooden, inelegant, ungainly, untoward, ungraceful, stiff, constrained, uneasy, rustic, boorish, clownish, loutish, gawky, lubberly, slouching.

~Awned~, _a._ (_Bot._) Aristate, bearded.

~Awning~, _n._ Canopy, tilt.

~Awry~, _ad._ ~1.~ Obliquely, asquint, askance.

~2.~ Perversely, wrong.

~Awry~, _a._ Oblique, slanting, distorted, crooked, wry.

~Axilla~, _n._ [L. _pl. Axillæ_.] (_Anat._) Armpit.

~Axiom~, _n._ ~1.~ Truism, self-evident proposition, intuitive truth, necessary truth.

~2.~ Postulate, established principle (_not of necessity true_), proposition commonly received, assumed truth.

~Axiomatic~, _a._ Self-evident, certain, positive, absolute.

~Axiomatical~, _a._ Self-evident, certain, positive, absolute.

~Axis~, _n._ Shaft, spindle, arbor.

~Ay~, _ad._ Yes.

~Aye~, _ad._ Yes.

~Aye~, _ad._ [_Poetical._] Always, for ever.

~Azote~, _n._ Nitrogen.

~Azure~, _a._ Blue, cerulean, sky-colored, sky-blue.

~Azure~, _n._ Blue, sky-color.

B

~Babble~, _v.n._ ~1.~ Prattle, jabber, chatter, talk inarticulately.

~2.~ Prate, chat, gossip, palaver, tattle, be loquacious, talk idly or thoughtlessly.

~Babble~, _v. a._ Tell (_foolishly_), prate, utter, prate about.

~Babble~, _n._ Prattle, palaver, chit-chat, gabble, twaddle, chatter, balderdash, platitude, flummery, wish-wash, stuff, moonshine, fudge, trash, nonsense, small talk, idle talk, childish or foolish talk, frothy discourse.

~Babbling~, _n._ ~1.~ Prattle, BABBLE.

~2.~ Garrulity, loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness.

~Babe~, _n._ Infant, baby, nursling, suckling, chit, brat, bantling, BAIRN, little one.

~Babel~, _n._ Confusion, disorder, tumult, pother, hurly-burly.

~Baby~, _n._ Infant, BABE.

~Babyhood~, _n._ Infancy.

~Baccalaureate~, _n._ Degree of bachelor of arts.

~Baccate~, _a._ (_Bot._) Of a pulpy nature (_like a berry_).

~Bacchanal~, _n._ Reveller, carouser, bacchanalian.

~Bacchanal~, _a._ Riotous, revelling, noisy, bacchanalian.

~Bacchanalian~, _n._ and _a._ BACCHANAL.

~Bacchanals~, _n. pl._ Revelry, revels, orgies, carousal, debauch, drunken frolic, potation, compotation, wassail, Saturnalia, drunken feasts.

~Back~, _n._ ~1.~ Upper part, outer part.

~2.~ Hinder part.

~Back~, _a._ ~1.~ Remote.

~2.~ Hindmost, in the rear.

~3.~ In a backward direction.

~Back~, _ad._ ~1.~ To the place of starting.

~2.~ Backward, rearward, abaft, in the rear, towards what is behind.

~3.~ In return, in recompense.

~Back~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Assist, aid, second, support, countenance, favor, sustain, abet, side with, stand by, take part with, give support to, co-operate with, back up.

~2.~ Move backward.

~Backbite~, _v. a._ Defame, traduce, malign, slander, revile, calumniate, libel, lampoon, asperse, vilify, blacken, abuse, scandalize, run down, speak ill of.

~Backbiter~, _n._ Slanderer, defamer, traducer, calumniator, libeller.

~Backbiting~, _n._ Detraction, defamation, aspersion, slander, calumny, contumely, obloquy.

~Backbone~, _n._ ~1.~ Spine, spinal column, vertebral column.

~2.~ Firmness, nerve, resolution, courage, pluck, hardihood, manhood.

~Backhanded~, _a._ ~1.~ Inclining to the left hand (_as writing_).

~2.~ Outward and backward.

~3.~ Indirect, unfair.

~Back-house~, _n._ Privy, necessary, jakes, water-closet.

~Back out~, [_Colloquial._] Withdraw from a bargain, not keep a promise, not stand to an engagement.

~Backslide~, _v. n._ Apostatize, fall off, fall away, break faith.

~Backslider~, _n._ Apostate, deserter, renegade.

~Backsliding~, _n._ Apostasy.

~Back up~, Support, sustain, assist, aid, help, BACK.

~Backward~, _a._ ~1.~ Averse, unwilling, reluctant, loath, disinclined, indisposed, wavering, hesitating.

~2.~ Dull, sluggish, slow, stupid, stolid.

~3.~ Late, tardy, behindhand, after the usual time.

~Backward~, _ad._ Regressively, rearwards, aback, behind, ABAFT.

~Backwards~, _ad._ Regressively, rearwards, aback, behind, ABAFT.

~Bad~, _a._ ~1.~ Evil, ill, baneful, deleterious, pernicious, mischievous, noxious, hurtful, injurious, detrimental, unwholesome.

~2.~ Wicked, depraved, abandoned, dishonest, unfair, disingenuous, rascally, villanous.

~3.~ Untoward, unlucky, unfortunate, unwelcome.

~4.~ Vile, wretched, sorry, mean, shabby, scurvy, abominable.

~5.~ Poor, inferior.

~Bad blood~, Rancor, venom, bitterness, acrimony, harshness, sternness, asperity, crabbedness, churlishness, moroseness, sullenness, ill temper.

~Bad faith~, Perfidy, dishonesty, unfairness, faithlessness, want of faith, breach of faith.

~Badge~, _n._ Mark of distinction, token of office, sign of authority.

~Badger~, _v. a._ Persecute, tease, worry, harry, annoy, vex, plague, harass, torment, pester, trouble, bother, hector.

~Badinage~, _n._ [Fr.] Raillery, banter, ASTEISM, light talk, small talk, trifling or playful discourse.

~Baffle~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Disconcert, frustrate, foil, elude, balk, circumvent.

~2.~ Confound, bewilder, perplex, out-general, out-manœuvre.

~Bag~, _n._ Sack, pouch.

~Bagatelle~, _n._ [Fr.] Trifle, small matter, thing of no consequence or importance.

~Baggage~, _n._ Luggage, bag and baggage.

~Bagnio~, _n._ ~1.~ Bath, bathing-house.

~2.~ Brothel, stew, bawdy-house, whore-house, house of prostitution, house of ill-fame.

~Bail~, _n._ ~1.~ Security, surety.

~2.~ Handle (_of a pail_, &c.).

~Bail~, _v. a._ Admit to bail.

~Bairn~, _n._ [_Scottish._] Child, BABE.

~Bait~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Put bait upon.

~2.~ Furnish with a meal.

~Bait~, _v. n._ Take refreshment (_on a journey_).

~Bait~, _n._ ~1.~ Lure, decoy, allurement, enticement, temptation.

~2.~ Refreshment (_on a journey_).

~Bake~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Harden (_by heat_).

~2.~ Cook (_by direct heat_).

~Balance~, _n._ ~1.~ Pair of scales.

~2.~ Equipoise, equilibrium, equality of weight.

~3.~ Excess, overplus, surplus.

~4.~ [_Low, U. S._] Rest, residue, remainder.

~Balance~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Poise, keep in equipoise, hold in equilibrium.

~2.~ Counterpoise, counteract, neutralize, countervail, counterbalance, compensate, make up for.

~3.~ (_Com._) Equalize, make equal.

~Balance-fish~, _n._ Hammer-fish, hammer-headed shark (_Zygœna vulgaris_).

~Bald~, _a._ ~1.~ Without hair (_on the head_).

~2.~ Unadorned, inelegant, prosaic, dull, meagre, vapid, tame.

~Balderdash~, _n._ Verbiage, palaver, twaddle, chatter, trash, stuff, moonshine, platitude, flummery, fudge, wish-wash, jargon, nonsense, senseless prate, frothy discourse, idle talk.

~Baldric~, _n._ Shoulder belt.

~Bale~, _n._ Bundle, package.

~Baleen~, _n._ Whalebone.

~Bale-fire~, _n._ Beacon-fire.

~Baleful~, _a._ Hurtful, injurious, noxious, mischievous, pernicious, baneful, ruinous, deadly, fraught with evil.

~Balk~, _v. a._ Disappoint, frustrate, defeat, foil, baffle, disconcert, thwart.

~Balky~, _a._ [_U. S._] Perverse (_said of a horse_), unruly, refractory, wayward, contrary, stubborn, obstinate.

~Ball~, _n._ ~1.~ Globe, sphere.

~2.~ Dance, entertainment of dancing.

~3.~ Game of ball.

~Ballad~, _n._ Light poem, sentimental song.

~Ballast~, _n._ ~1.~ Weight (_for steadiness_), ballasting.

~2.~ Prudence, discretion, judgment, sense, wisdom, TACT, GUMPTION, common sense.

~Ballast~, _v. a._ Put ballast into.

~Ballasting~, _n._ Ballast.

~Ballooning~, _n._ Aëronautics, aërostation.

~Balloonist~, _n._ Aëronaut, aërial navigator.

~Balmy~, _a._ ~1.~ Soothing, refreshing, easing, assuaging, lenitive, sedative.

~2.~ Fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, aromatic, aromatous, ambrosial, spicy, sweet-smelling, sweet-scented.

~Baltimore oriole~, Golden robin, hang-bird, fiery hang-bird (_Icterus Baltimore_ or _Oriolus Baltimore_).

~Bam~, _n._ [_Low._] Cheat, imposition, imposture, fraud, circumvention, trick.

~Bam~, _v. a._ [_Low._] Cheat, BAMBOOZLE.

~Bamboozle~, _v. a._ Deceive, cheat, dupe, beguile, mislead, inveigle, gull, trick, chouse, overreach, circumvent, defraud, diddle, BAM.

~Ban~, _n._ ~1.~ Proclamation, edict.

~2.~ Curse, malediction, excommunication, denunciation, execration, anathema.

~Band~, _n._ ~1.~ Tie, ligature, ligament.

~2.~ Cord, chain, fetter, manacle, shackle, bond.

~3.~ Bandage, fillet, binding.

~4.~ Company (_especially of instrumental musicians_), troop, gang, crew, horde, party, body, club, junto, COTERIE, CLIQUE, society, sodality, association.

~Bandage~, _n._ Fillet, band, binding.

~Bandit~, _n._ Outlaw, robber, brigand, freebooter, footpad, highwayman, marauder.

~Banditti~, _n. pl._ Band of outlaws or robbers.

~Bandy~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Toss, toss about, toss to and fro.

~2.~ Exchange, interchange, give and take.

~Bane~, _n._ ~1.~ Poison, venom.

~2.~ Pest, scourge, curse, ruin.

~Baneful~, _a._ ~1.~ Poisonous, venomous.

~2.~ Destructive, noxious, hurtful, injurious, pernicious, mischievous, baleful, deadly, ruinous, fraught with evil.

~Banewort~, _n._ Belladonna, dwale, deadly-nightshade (_Atropa Belladonna_).

~Banging~, _a._ [_Low._] Huge, large, great.

~Banian~, _n._ (_Bot._) Indian fig-tree (_Ficus Indicus_).

~Banish~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Exile, expatriate, ostracize, expel from the country.

~2.~ Exclude, shut out, drive away, put out of mind.

~Banishment~, _n._ Exile, expatriation, ostracism, expulsion, proscription.

~Bang~, _v. a._ Beat, thump, pound, strike, knock, maul, pommel, thwack, WALLOP, deal roughly with.

~Bankrupt~, _a._ Insolvent.

~Bankrupt~, _n._ Insolvent debtor.

~Bankruptcy~, _n._ Insolvency.

~Banner~, _n._ Flag, standard, streamer, ensign, pennon, colors.

~Banquet~, _n._ Feast, entertainment, treat.

~Banquet~, _v. n._ Feast, be regaled with good eating and drinking.

~Banquet~, _v. a._ Treat with a banquet or feast.

~Banter~, _v. a._ Jeer, joke, rally, quiz, ridicule, taunt, twit, deride, mock, make fun of, make sport of, make merry with, play upon, make a butt of.

~Banter~, _n._ Raillery, ridicule, mockery, derision, persiflage, pleasantry, BADINAGE, ASTEISM, joking, jesting, quizzing, frivolous talk, small talk.

~Bantling~, _n._ Infant, babe, baby, chit, brat, nursling, suckling, BAIRN, little child, little one, young one.

~Baptize~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Administer baptism to.

~2.~ Christen.

~Bar~, _n._ ~1.~ Obstacle, hinderance, obstruction, barrier, BARRICADE, stop, impediment.

~2.~ Rail, railing.

~3.~ Tribunal, judgment-seat.

~4.~ Body of lawyers.

~Bar~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Fasten with a bar.

~2.~ Hinder, obstruct, stop, prevent.

~3.~ Exclude, shut out.

~Barb~, _n._ ~1.~ Beard (_or excrescences like a beard_), wattles.

~2.~ Horse (_of the Barbary breed_).

~Barbadoes tar~, Petroleum, rock-oil, Seneca oil, mineral pitch, mineral tar, mineral oil.

~Barbarian~, _n._ ~1.~ Savage.

~2.~ Brute, ruffian, brutal monster.

~Barbarian~, _a._ ~1.~ Uncivilized, rude, savage, BARBAROUS, barbaric.

~2.~ Inhuman, brutal, cruel, unfeeling, ruthless, truculent, ferocious, fierce, fell, bloody, brutish.

~Barbaric~, _a._ ~1.~ Foreign, outlandish, exotic, not native.

~2.~ Barbarian, barbarous, uncivilized, rude, savage.

~Barbarism~, _n._ ~1.~ Incivility, rudeness, savageness, Vandalism, Gothicism, barbarous state, uncivilized condition.

~2.~ Vulgarism, slang, unauthorized expression.

~Barbarity~, _n._ Cruelty, savageness, brutality, brutishness, ferociousness, ferocity, inhumanity, truculence, hardness of heart, manners of a barbarian.

~Barbarous~, _a._ ~1.~ Uncivilized, rough, coarse, rude, untutored, ignorant, unlettered, uncultivated, savage, barbarian, barbaric.

~2.~ Cruel, inhuman, brutal, brutish, ferocious, ruthless, fell, truculent, fierce, bloody.

~3.~ Uncouth (_as a word or an expression_), harsh, vulgar, contrary to good usage.

~Barbed~, _a._ ~1.~ Bearded.

~2.~ Clad in armor.

~Barberry~, _n._ Pepperidge-bush.

~Bard~, _n._ ~1.~ Poet, minstrel.

~2.~ Caparison, horse-armor, trappings for a horse.

~Bare~, _a._ ~1.~ Naked, nude, denuded, uncovered, unclothed, undressed.

~2.~ Simple, sheer, mere.

~Bare~, _v. a._ Strip, uncover, make bare.

~Barefaced~, _a._ ~1.~ Undisguised, unreserved, unconcealed, palpable, conspicuous, glaring, notable, notorious.

~2.~ Impudent, presumptuous, shameless, audacious.

~Barely~, _ad._ Merely, simply, only.

~Bargain~, _n._ ~1.~ Compact, agreement, stipulation, covenant, contract, convention, concordat, treaty, indenture.

~2.~ Cheap purchase, purchase on favorable terms, good bargain.

~Bargain~, _v. n._ Contract, agree, stipulate, covenant, make a bargain.

~Barilla~, _n._ Carbonate of soda (_impure_), kelp.

~Bark~, _v. n._ Yelp.

~Bark up the wrong tree~, [_Colloquial._] Mistake, err, make a mistake, BE IN THE WRONG BOX.

~Barm~, _n._ Yeast, ferment, leaven.

~Barmy~, _a._ Yeasty.

~Barren~, _a._ ~1.~ Unprolific, incapable of bearing offspring, not prolific.

~2.~ Unfertile, fruitless, unproductive, sterile, ACARPOUS.

~3.~ Scanty, not copious.

~Barricade~, _n._ Obstruction (_as in the streets of a city to serve as a fortification_), BARRIER.

~Barricade~, _v. a._ Obstruct, block up, stop up.

~Barrier~, _n._ Obstruction, obstacle, hinderance, bar, BARRICADE, stop, impediment.

~Barrister~, _n._ Advocate (_admitted to plead at the bar_), counsellor, counsel, lawyer, attorney, SOLICITOR, attorney at law, limb of the law.

~Barrow~, _n._ ~1.~ Wheelbarrow.

~2.~ Mound, hillock.

~3.~ Hog (_especially a castrated hog_).

~Barter~, _v. n._ Make exchanges, traffic by exchanges.

~Barter~, _v. a._ Give in exchange, barter away.

~Barter~, _n._ Exchange, traffic by exchange.

~Barter away~, BARTER.

~Baryta~, _n._ Oxide of barium.

~Barytes~, _n._ Heavy spar, sulphate of baryta.

~Base~, _a._ ~1.~ Ignoble, plebeian, vulgar, untitled, nameless, unhonored, base-born, of low birth.

~2.~ Vile, low, mean, despicable, contemptible, beggarly, abject, grovelling, sordid, servile, slavish, menial, sorry, worthless, pitiful, low-minded, rascally.

~3.~ Shameful, disreputable, disgraceful, discreditable, dishonorable, scandalous, infamous.

~Base~, _n._ ~1.~ Basis, foundation, ground, groundwork, lowest part.

~2.~ (_Surveying._) Base-line.

~3.~ (_Chem._) Principal element (_of a compound_).

~Base-born~, _a._ BASE, of low birth.

~Base-line~, _n._ (_Surveying._) Base.

~Basement~, _n._ Ground-floor, lowest story.

~Base-minded~, _a._ Mean, low, vile, grovelling, beggarly, pitiful, despicable, abject, low-minded, mean-spirited.

~Baseness~, _n._ ~1.~ Meanness, vileness, despicableness, contemptibleness, abasement, worthlessness, abjectness.

~2.~ Disgrace, ignominy, infamy, shame, dishonor, turpitude.

~Bashful~, _a._ Shy, timid, timorous, coy, diffident, sheepish, shamefaced, over-modest, not self-possessed.

~Bashfulness~, _n._ Shyness, timidity, coyness, diffidence, self- distrust, excessive modesty.

~Basilisk~, _n._ Cockatrice.

~Basis~, _n._ Base, foundation, ground, groundwork, lowest part.

~Bask~, _v. n._ Lie in the sun, be exposed to a pleasant heat.

~Bask~, _v. a._ Expose to sunshine or to a pleasant heat.

~Bass~, _a._ (_Mus._) Low, deep, grave.

~Basset~, _v. n._ (_Geol._) Crop out.

~Bassetting~, _n._ Cropping out, out-crop.

~Bastard~, _n._ Love-child, illegitimate child, natural child.

~Bastard~, _a._ ~1.~ Illegitimate.

~2.~ Spurious, false, counterfeit, not genuine.

~Baste~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Beat (_with a stick_), cudgel, cane, drub, thrash.

~2.~ Moisten with fat.

~3.~ Sew (_with long stitches_).

~Bastinado~, _n._ Cudgelling or beating (_on the soles of the feet_).

~Bastinado~, _v. a._ Cudgel or beat (_on the soles of the feet_).

~Batch~, _n._ Certain quantity (_as of bread, ore, &c., treated at one time_).

~Bate~, _v. a._ Abate, lessen, diminish, decrease, reduce, rebate, remit.

~Bathe~, _v. a._ Wash, lave.

~Bathe~, _v. n._ Wash the body, go into a bath, take a bath.

~Bathos~, _n._ Anticlimax.

~Bating~, _prep._ Except, excepting.

~Batten~, _n._ Thin strip.

~Batten~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Fasten with battens.

~2.~ Fatten, make fat.

~Batten~, _v. n._ Grow fat.

~Batter~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Beat, smite, pelt, dash against.

~2.~ Bruise, break, shatter, shiver, smash, demolish, destroy, strike down, knock down, shake to pieces, shiver to pieces.

~Batter~, _v. n._ (_Masonry._) Slope backward.

~Batter~, _n._ (_Masonry._) Slope backward.

~Battle~, _n._ Combat, engagement, action, conflict, contest, fight, rencontre, collision, skirmish, brush, affair.

~Battle array~, Order of battle.

~Bawble~, _n._ Trinket, gewgaw, toy, trifle, plaything, gimcrack, knack, knick-knack, JIGGUMBOB.

~Bawd~, _n._ Procurer, pander, pimp.

~Bawdy~, _a._ Obscene, filthy, indecent, impure, smutty, lewd.

~Bawdy-house~, _n._ Brothel, stew, bagnio, whore-house, house of prostitution, house of ill fame.

~Bawl~, _v. n._ Hoot, shout, vociferate, yell, howl, roar, cry, squall.

~Bay~, _a._ Reddish-brown.

~Bay~, _n._ ~1.~ Bight, inlet of the sea.

~2.~ Recess (_as in a room_), opening.

~3.~ Compartment.

~4.~ Bay-tree, laurel-tree (_Laurus nobilis_).

~Bay~, _v. n._ Bark.

~Bayberry~, _n._ Wax-myrtle (_Myrica cerifera_).

~Bay-rum~, _n._ Spirit of Myrcia (_rum distilled with the leaves of Myrcia acris_).

~Bays~, _n. pl._ Crown, garland, wreath, honorary distinction.

~Bay-salt~, _n._ Common salt (_as obtained by evaporation of sea- water_), chloride of sodium.

~Bay-tree~, _n._ BAY, laurel-tree.

~Bazaar~, _n._ Market-place.

~Be~, _v. n._ Exist (_whether in fact or in imagination_), subsist, have existence, have being.

~Beach~, _n._ Shore, coast, strand, seaboard, seacoast.

~Beacon~, _n._ ~1.~ Signal-fire.

~2.~ Mark, sign, signal.

~Beak~, _n._ ~1.~ Bill, mandible, neb.

~2.~ Prow, bow, stem.

~Beam~, _n._ ~1.~ GIRDER, piece of timber.

~2.~ Ray, pencil, streak, gleam, GLIMMER.

~Beam~, _v. n._ Shine, emit rays.

~Beam~, _v. a._ Shoot forth, emit in rays or beams.

~Beamy~, _a._ Radiant, beaming.

~Bear~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Uphold, support, sustain, hold up.

~2.~ Carry, transport, convey, waft.

~3.~ Possess, have, hold.

~4.~ Endure, suffer, undergo, brook, tolerate, abide, put up with, bear with, take patiently or easily, have patience with, submit to.

~5.~ Admit, permit, allow, admit of, be capable of.

~6.~ Maintain, keep up, carry on.

~7.~ Entertain, cherish, harbor.

~8.~ Be answerable for, be charged with.

~9.~ Produce, yield.

~10.~ Generate, beget, bring forth, give birth to.

~11.~ Exhibit, utter, show, give.

~Bear~, _v. n._ ~1.~ Suffer, submit.

~2.~ Press, push, be oppressive.

~3.~ Be fruitful, be prolific.

~4.~ [_Rare._] Imply, intimate.

~5.~ (_Naut._) Be situated (_with respect to the point of compass_).

~Bear~, _n._ BRUIN.

~Bearable~, _a._ Tolerable, endurable, supportable.

~Bear a hand~, (_Naut._) Be quick, make haste.

~Beard~, _v. a._ Defy, challenge, dare, take or pluck by the beard, oppose to the face.

~Bearded~, _a._ ~1.~ Barbed.

~2.~ (_Bot._) Aristate, awned.

~Bear date~, Be dated.

~Bear down~, Overwhelm, oppress, crush.

~Bear down upon~, ATTACK, assail, assault, charge, march upon, march against, set upon, rush upon, fall upon.

~Bear-grass~, _n._ Yucca, Adam's needle, Spanish bayonet.

~Bearing~, _n._ ~1.~ Deportment, demeanor, behavior, conduct, carriage, mien, air, port.

~2.~ Relation, dependency, connection.

~3.~ Endurance, suffering.

~4.~ Direction, course, aim, aspect, point of compass.

~Bearings~, _n. pl._ Charges (_in coats of arms_).

~Bearish~, _a._ Rough, rude, coarse, savage, boorish, uncivil, uncourteous, discourteous, impolite, ungentlemanly.

~Bear one's self~, Behave, acquit one's self, conduct one's self.

~Bear out~, Maintain, support, defend, uphold, justify, make good.

~Bear the bell~, Be the leader.

~Bear the cross~, Take up the cross, submit to trials or afflictions.

~Bear the palm~, Excel, be superior.

~Bear up~, ~1.~ (_Active._) Support, uphold; sustain, keep from falling.

~2.~ (_Passive._) Stand firm, show fortitude.

~Bear with~, Endure, BEAR, tolerate, put up with, have patience with.

~Bear witness~, Testify, depose, state, affirm, declare, aver, avow, say, SWEAR.

~Beast~, _n._ BRUTE (_fit for the service of man_), quadruped, beast of the field, four-footed animal, irrational animal.

~Beastly~, _a._ Brutish, brutal, bestial, sensual, irrational.

~Beat~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Strike, knock, hit, thump, belabor, drub, maul, pommel, BASTE, thrash, thwack, bang, lay blows upon.

~2.~ Hammer, forge.

~3.~ Pound, bruise, pulverize, comminute, bray, break in pieces.

~4.~ Batter, smite, pelt, dash against.

~5.~ Conquer, overcome, subdue, vanquish, overpower, defeat, checkmate.

~6.~ [_Colloquial._] Excel, surpass, outdo, cut out.

~Beat~, _v. n._ ~1.~ Pulsate, throb.

~2.~ Dash, strike.

~3.~ (_Naut._) Go against the wind, go a zigzag course.

~Beat~, _n._ ~1.~ Stroke, striking, blow.

~2.~ Pulsation, throb, beating.

~3.~ Round, course.

~Beat all hollow~, [_Low._] Surpass completely, excel beyond all question.

~Beat back~, Repulse, repel, drive back.

~Beat down~, ~1.~ Batter, overturn, destroy, break, throw down.

~2.~ Subdue, overpower, overcome, crush, put down.

~3.~ Press down (_by blows_), lay flat.

~Beaten~, _a._ ~1.~ Worn by use, much travelled.

~2.~ Hackneyed, trite, common, common-place.

~Beatific~, _a._ Ravishing, enchanting.

~Beatification~, _n._ ~1.~ Beatifying (_especially the act of the pope in declaring a person happy after death_).

~2.~ Bliss, BEATITUDE.

~Beatify~, _v. a._ Enrapture, enchant, transport, enravish, make happy.

~Beating~, _n._ ~1.~ Striking, drubbing, flogging, thrashing, cudgelling, pommelling, caning, flagellation, BASTINADO.

~2.~ Beat, pulsation, throb, throbbing.

~Beat into~, [_Colloquial._] Teach (_by laborious effort_), instil, inculcate, implant.

~Beatitude~, _n._ Happiness, bliss, felicity, blessedness, blissfulness, beatification, transport, rapture, heavenly joy.

~Be at loggerheads~, Come to blows, fall to loggerheads, go to loggerheads.

~Beat out~, ~1.~ Flatten (_by hammering_).

~2.~ Exhaust, overcome (_with fatigue_).

~Beat the air~, Make vain efforts, try in vain, lash the waves, fish in the air, milk the ram.

~Beau~, _n._ ~1.~ Fop, dandy, coxcomb, exquisite, macaroni, popinjay, jackanapes, jack-a-dandy, man of dress.

~2.~ Gallant, lover, admirer, suitor, sweetheart, CICISBEO.

~Beau ideal~, [Fr.] Ideal beauty, ideal excellence, ideal standard.

~Beau-monde~, _n._ [Fr.] Gay world, fashionable world, people of fashion, genteel people.

~Beauteous~, _a._ [_Poetical._] BEAUTIFUL.

~Beauties~, _n. pl._ ~1.~ Anthology, selections, elegant extracts.

~2.~ Beautiful persons (_especially beautiful women_).

~Beautiful~, _a._ Handsome, fair, fine, elegant, graceful, PRETTY, BEAUTEOUS.

~Beautify~, _v. a._ Adorn, decorate, embellish, deck, bedeck, BEDIZEN, ornament, emblazon, gild, array, garnish, grace, set, TRICK OUT, set off, make beautiful.

~Beauty~, _n._ ~1.~ Elegance, grace, symmetry.

~2.~ Comeliness, seemliness, fairness, loveliness, attractiveness.

~3.~ Fine part, special grace, particular excellence.

~4.~ Beautiful person (_especially a beautiful woman_).

~Beaux-esprits~, _n. pl._ [Fr.] Men of wit, men of genius.

~Beaver~, _n._ ~1.~ Fur of the beaver.

~2.~ Hat.

~3.~ Face-guard (_of a helmet_).

~Be beat out~, Be exhausted, be fagged, be greatly fatigued.

~Be brought to bed~, Be confined, lie in, be in child-bed.

~Becafico~, _n._ Fig-eater, fig-pecker, greater pettychaps, garden warbler (_Sylvia hortensis_).

~Be called~, Be named, go by the name of, take the name of, pass under the name of.

~Becalm~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Quiet, soothe, calm, tranquillize, pacify, make calm, make tranquil.

~2.~ Detain by a calm (_as a ship_).

~Be cast away~, ~1.~ Be thrown aside.

~2.~ Be shipwrecked.

~Because~, _conj._ ~1.~ For, since, as, for the cause that, for the reason that, on this account that, inasmuch as.

~2.~ On account, by reason.

~Bèche-de-mer~, _n._ [Fr.] Trepang, sea-cucumber, sea-slug.

~Beck~, _n._ Nod, bow.

~Beckon~, _v. n._ Make a sign, give a signal.

~Beckon~, _v. a._ Call by a sign or signal.

~Becloud~, _v. a._ Dim, bedim, obscure, darken, cloud.

~Become~, _v. n._ ~1.~ Be.

~2.~ Change to, be changed to, be converted into, get to be, come to be.

~Become~, _v. a._ Suit, befit, be suitable to, be proper for, be appropriate to.

~Becoming~, _a._ ~1.~ Fit, proper, suitable, meet, appropriate, congruous, right, seemly.

~2.~ Comely, graceful, neat, pretty.

~Become of~, Be the fate of, be the end of, be the final condition of.

~Be confined~, ~1.~ Be restrained, be shut up, be shut in.

~2.~ Be brought to bed, lie in, be in child-bed.

~Bed~, _n._ ~1.~ Couch, BERTH, resting-place, place to sleep in.

~2.~ Raised plot (_of ground_).

~3.~ Layer, stratum, seam, vein.

~Bed~, _v. a._ Embed.

~Bedaub~, _v. a._ Smear, daub, besmear, soil, daub over.

~Bedeck~, _v. a._ Adorn, decorate, embellish, beautify, ornament, deck, emblazon, gild, array, garnish, grace, BEDIZEN, set out, set off, TRICK OUT.

~Bedew~, _v. a._ Moisten, wet, damp, dampen.

~Bedim~, _v. a._ Darken, dim, obscure, cloud, becloud.

~Bedizen~, _v. a._ Adorn (_gaudily_), deck, BEDECK.

~Bedlam~, _n._ Madhouse, lunatic hospital, lunatic asylum, hospital for the insane.

~Bedlamite~, _n._ Madman, lunatic, maniac, crazy person, insane person.

~Bedouin~, _n._ Nomadic Arab.

~Bedridden~, _a._ Confined to the bed.

~Beef~, _n._ Flesh of neat-cattle.

~Bee-house~, _n._ Apiary, beehive.

~Bee-line~, _n._ Straight line, right line, shortest distance, most direct line.

~Bee-moth~, _n._ Wax-moth.

~Beetle~, _v. n._ Protrude, project, jut, jut out, hang over.

~Beetle-head~, _n._ Simpleton, fool, DUNCE.

~Beetle-headed~, _a._ Dull, stupid, obtuse, foolish, senseless, witless, insensible, sluggish, slow of apprehension, void of understanding.

~Beeves~, _n. pl._ Neat-cattle.

~Befall~, _v. a._ Betide, overtake, happen to.

~Befall~, _v. n._ Happen, occur, take place.

~Befit~, _v. a._ Suit, fit, become, be suitable or proper for, be appropriate for.

~Befitting~, _a._ Becoming, suitable, fit, proper, right, meet, seemly, appropriate, congruous.

~Befool~, _v. a._ Infatuate, dupe, deceive, delude, cheat, chouse, trick, diddle, hoax, stultify, hoodwink, circumvent, overreach, beguile, bamboozle, impose upon, practise upon, play upon, make a fool of.

~Before~, _prep._ ~1.~ Preceding.

~2.~ Prior to, previous to.

~3.~ In the presence of, face to face with.

~4.~ Near the front of, in front of.

~Before~, _ad._ ~1.~ Toward the front.

~2.~ In advance, farther onward.

~3.~ Formerly, in time past, of old.

~4.~ Hitherto, up to that time.

~5.~ Above, in a former part.

~Beforehand~, _ad._ Previously, in anticipation, in advance.

~Beforehand~, _a._ Forehanded, in comfortable circumstances (_as respects property_), well off, well to do.

~Before the wind~, With the wind, in the direction of the wind.

~Befoul~, _v. a._ Soil, pollute, daggle, draggle, foul, bemire, dirty.

~Befriend~, _v. a._ Favor, encourage, patronize, countenance, assist, help, aid, benefit, act as a friend to, do a good turn for, be kind to.

~Beg~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Crave, solicit, beseech, implore, supplicate, conjure, pray for, petition for, seek by petition, ask earnestly.

~2.~ Assume, take for granted, consider as true.

~Beg~, _v. n._ Solicit charity, ask alms.

~Beget~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Generate, procreate, engender, breed, get, be the father of.

~2.~ Produce, originate, give rise to.

~Beggar~, _n._ Mendicant, pauper, starveling, poor or indigent person.

~Beggar~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Impoverish, ruin, render poor, reduce to poverty, bring to want.

~2.~ Surpass, exceed, go beyond, be above, put at fault, show to be inadequate.

~Beggarly~, _a._ ~1.~ Destitute, indigent, needy, poor.

~2.~ Sorry, mean, abject, base, low, paltry, shabby, vile, scurvy, miserable, contemptible, despicable, pitiful, pitiable, servile, slavish, grovelling, base-minded, low-minded, mean-spirited.

~Beggary~, _n._ Poverty, indigence, penury, destitution, want, distress, mendicancy, mendicity.

~Begin~, _v. n._ ~1.~ Originate, arise, take rise.

~2.~ Commence, make a beginning, take the first step, break ground, break the ice.

~Begin~, _v. a._ Commence, institute, originate, enter upon, set about, set on foot, set in operation.

~Beginner~, _n._ Tyro, novice.

~Beginning~, _n._ ~1.~ Commencement, outset, opening, start.

~2.~ Origin, source, rise.

~Begird~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Gird, bind with a girdle.

~2.~ Surround, encompass, environ, encircle, enclose, engird.

~Begone~, _interj._ ~1.~ Depart, go away, haste away, be off, get thee gone.

~2.~ Away, let us go, let us be off.

~Begrudge~, _v. a._ Grudge, envy the possession of.

~Beguile~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Delude, cheat, deceive, BEFOOL.

~2.~ Divert, amuse, entertain, cheer, solace.

~Behalf~, _n._ Benefit, advantage, profit, interest, account, behoof.

~Be hanged~, Come to the gallows.

~Behave~, _v. n._ Act, conduct one's self, demean one's self, acquit one's self, behave one's self.

~Behave one's self~, BEHAVE.

~Behavior~, _n._ Deportment (_on particular occasions_), conduct, bearing, demeanor, carriage, manner, mien, air, port.

~Behead~, _v. a._ Decapitate, decollate, deprive of the head.

~Beheading~, _n._ Decapitation, decollation.

~Behest~, _n._ Command, commandment, mandate, order, precept, injunction, direction, charge, bidding.

~Behind~, _prep._ ~1.~ ABAFT, at the back of, in the rear of.

~2.~ After, following.

~Behind~, _ad._ ~1.~ Backward, back.

~2.~ ABAFT, aft, ASTERN, rearward, in the rear, at the back.

~Behindhand~, _a._ Backward, late, tardy, after the usual time.

~Behind the curtain~, Hid, concealed, in concealment.

~Behold~, _v. a._ See, observe, view, descry, discern, look upon, set one's eyes on.

~Behold~, _interj._ See, look, observe, lo.

~Beholden~, _a._ Obliged, indebted, grateful, thankful, under obligation.

~Beholder~, _n._ Observer, spectator, looker-on.

~Behoof~, _n._ Advantage, benefit, profit, interest, account, behoof.

~Behoove~, _v. a._ Become, befit, beseem, be fit for, be proper for, be meet for.

~Be in earnest~, Be serious, be not jesting.

~Being~, ~1.~ Existence, subsistence.

~2.~ Creature, substance, thing.

~Be in the ascendant~, Have superior influence, have commanding influence.

~Be in the wrong box~, Mistake, err, make a mistake, BARK UP THE WRONG TREE.

~Be it so~, ~1.~ Suppose it to be so.

~2.~ Amen, so be it, let it be so.

~Belabor~, _v. a._ Thump, beat, strike, knock, lay blows upon.

~Belated~, _a._ Retarded, hindered, made late.

~Belay~, _v. a._ (_Naut._) Fasten, make fast.

~Belch~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Eject (_as wind from the stomach_), discharge.

~2.~ Throw out violently, cast forth.

~Belch~, _v. n._ ~1.~ ERUCTATE, eject wind from the stomach.

~2.~ Be ejected violently.

~Belching~, _n._ Eructation.

~Beldam~, _n._ Hag, Jezebel, virago, vixen, fury, she-monster, ugly old woman.

~Beleaguer~, _v. a._ Besiege, invest, beset, lay siege to.

~Bel-esprit~, _n._ [Fr. _pl._ _Beaux-esprits_.] Wit, man of wit, man of genius.

~Belfry~, _n._ Campanile.

~Belial~, _n._ Satan, DEVIL, Apollyon, arch-fiend.

~Belie~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Falsify, misrepresent, represent falsely.

~2.~ Give the lie to, convict of falsehood, show to be false, charge with falsehood.

~Belief~, _n._ ~1.~ Credence, credit, confidence, trust, reliance, persuasion, FAITH.

~2.~ Doctrine, tenet, dogma, opinion, creed, article of faith, profession of faith.

~Believe~, _v. a._ Credit, give credit to, think to be true, give faith to, put faith in, rely upon, make no doubt of, put confidence in.

~Believe~, _v. n._ ~1.~ Exercise faith, have faith, have a firm persuasion.

~2.~ Think, suppose, conceive, fancy, apprehend, imagine, hold. OPINE, be of opinion, entertain the idea, take it.

~Belike~, _ad._ [_Colloquial._] Probably, perhaps, mayhap, it may be, it is likely.

~Belladonna~, _n._ Banewort, dwale, deadly nightshade (_Atropa belladonna_).

~Belle~, _n._ Beautiful young lady, fair damsel.

~Belles-lettres~, _n. pl._ [Fr.] Polite literature, elegant literature, the humanities.

~Belligerent~, _a._ ~1.~ Carrying on war, engaged in war, waging war.

~2.~ Of belligerents.

~3.~ Warlike, hostile.

~Belligerent~, _n._ Belligerent state or nation.

~Bellow~, _v. n._ ~1.~ Roar (_as a beast_).

~2.~ Vociferate, clamor, yell, howl, cry, bawl, make a loud outcry.

~Bell-pepper~, _n._ Red pepper (_of the garden._ _Capsicum annuum_).

~Bell-shaped~, _a._ (_Bot._) Campanulate.

~Belly~, _n._ ~1.~ Abdomen, paunch.

~2.~ Convexity, swell, swelling, bulge, protuberance.

~Belly-ache~, _n._ Colic, pain in the bowels.

~Belong to~, ~1.~ Be the property of, be possessed by.

~2.~ Regard, appertain to, pertain to, relate to, refer to, be related to, have reference to.

~3.~ Be appendent to, constitute a part of, be connected with.

~4.~ Be incumbent on, be the duty of, devolve on.

~5.~ Be a resident of, have a legal residence in.

~Beloved~, _a._ Dear, darling, much loved.

~Below~, _prep._ ~1.~ Under, beneath, underneath.

~2.~ Unbecoming, unworthy of.

~Below~, _ad._ ~1.~ Under, beneath, underneath.

~2.~ On the earth.

~3.~ In hell, in the lower regions, in the regions of the dead.

~Belt~, _n._ Girdle, cincture, cestus, band.

~Bemire~, _v. a._ Daggle, draggle, befoul, foul, dirty, soil.

~Bemoan~, _v. a._ Bewail, lament, deplore, moan over, mourn over, express sorrow for.

~Bemused~, _a._ Stupefied, confused, bewildered, MUZZY, half-drunk.

~Bench~, _n._ ~1.~ Long seat.

~2.~ Court, tribunal, body of judges.

~Bend~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Curve, crook, bow, incurvate, make crooked.

~2.~ Direct, turn towards, incline towards.

~3.~ Exert, apply earnestly, direct attentively.

~4.~ Subdue, cause to yield, bring to submission, make submissive.

~5.~ (_Naut._) Fasten, make fast.

~Bend~, _v. n._ ~1.~ Crook, be crooked, be bent, be curved.

~2.~ Lean, incline, turn.

~Bend~, _n._ ~1.~ Curve, curvity, curvature, flexure, angle, elbow, crook, incurvation, ARCUATION.

~2.~ Bight, coil.

~Beneath~, _prep._ ~1.~ Under, underneath, below.

~2.~ Unbecoming, unbefitting, unworthy of.

~Beneath~, _ad._ Below.

~Benedict~, _n._ Married man.

~Benediction~, _n._ Blessing, benison, invocation of happiness.

~Benefaction~, _n._ Gift, donation, gratuity, grant, offering, contribution, boon, present, alms, charity.

~Benefice~, _n._ Ecclesiastical living.

~Beneficence~, _n._ Charity, bounty, liberality, generosity, alms- giving, active goodness, kind action, doing of good.

~Beneficient~, _a._ Bountiful, munificent, liberal, generous, bounteous, princely, kind.

~Beneficial~, _a._ Useful, profitable, advantageous, helpful, serviceable, salutary, good, for one's advantage, for one's good, for one's interest.

~Benefit~, _n._ ~1.~ Favor, service, act of kindness, good turn, kind office.

~2.~ Advantage, profit, avail, gain, good, utility, behalf, behoof, account, interest.

~Benefit~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Befriend, help, serve, do good to, be useful to, advance the interest of, confer a favor on.

~2.~ Profit, advantage, avail, be of advantage to.

~Benevolence~, _n._ Kindness, benignity, kind-heartedness, humanity, tenderness, charitableness, good-will, disposition to do good, milk of human kindness.

~Benevolent~, _a._ Kind, benignant, benign, kind-hearted, obliging, humane, tender, charitable, disposed to do good.

~Benighted~, _a._ ~1.~ Overtaken with night.

~2.~ Involved in darkness.

~Benign~, _a._ ~1.~ Kind, benevolent, gracious, complaisant, humane, obliging, benignant, good, amiable, friendly, kind-hearted, tender- hearted, of a gentle disposition.

~2.~ (_Med._) Mild, of a mild nature.

~Benignant~, _a._ Kind, BENIGN.

~Benignity~, _n._ ~1.~ Kindness, graciousness, benevolence, complaisance, humanity, amiability, amenity, friendliness, kind- heartedness, fellow-feeling, good feeling, good humor, good temper, obliging manner.

~2.~ [_Rare._] Mildness.

~Benison~, _n._ Blessing, benediction.

~Benne~, _n._ Sesame, oil-plant.

~Bent~, _n._ Disposition, inclination, tendency, turn, PENCHANT, leaning, bias, propensity, proclivity, predisposition, predilection, partiality, liking, fondness, proneness, appetency.

~Bent~, _a._ Crooked, hooked, bowed, curved, aduncous, ARCUATE, INCURVATE.

~Benumb~, _v. a._ Stupefy, paralyze, deaden, blunt, make torpid, render insensible.

~Be of opinion~, Think, believe, conclude, judge, suppose, imagine, fancy, deem, WERN, OPINE, hold, entertain the idea, take it.

~Be on the carpet~, Be under consideration, be upon the tapis.

~Bequeath~, _v. a._ Leave, demise, devise, will, give by will.

~Bequest~, _n._ Legacy, devise.

~Berate~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Scold, chide, reprimand, rate.

~2.~ ABUSE, vilify, defame.

~Bereave~, _v. a._ Deprive (_of something that cannot be restored_), dispossess, divest, take away from.

~Bereavement~, _n._ Deprivation, loss (_especially of friends by death_).

~Berth~, _n._ (_Naut._) ~1.~ Ship's station.

~2.~ Bed, place to sleep in.

~3.~ Situation, office, post, employment, place.

~Beseech~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Entreat, beg, implore, supplicate, petition, conjure, ADJURE, pray to.

~2.~ Solicit, ask, petition for, pray for, beg for.

~Beseem~, _v. a._ Become, bent, be proper for, be appropriate for, be meet for.

~Be seized of~, Possess, have possession of, be possessed of.

~Be selfish~, Indulge one's self, coddle one's self, consult one's own wishes, interest, or pleasure; take care of, or look after, number one; have an eye to the main chance.

~Beset~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Surround, encompass, environ, encircle, enclose, besiege, hem in.

~2.~ Embarrass, perplex, entangle.

~Beshrew~, _v. a._ Execrate, wish evil to, implore a curse upon.

~Beside~, _prep._ ~1.~ Near, close to, at the side of, by the side of.

~2.~ Except, save, over and above, in addition to, distinct from.

~3.~ Aside from, out of the way of, out of the course of, not according to.

~4.~ Out of, not in possession of.

~Besides~, _prep._ ~1.~ Near, close to, at the side of, by the side of.

~2.~ Except, save, over and above, in addition to, distinct from.

~3.~ Aside from, out of the way of, out of the course of, not according to.

~4.~ Out of, not in possession of.

~Beside~, _ad._ ~1.~ Moreover, yet, too, also, furthermore, more than that, over and above, in addition.

~2.~ Else.

~Besides~, _ad._ ~1.~ Moreover, yet, too, also, furthermore, more than that, over and above, in addition.

~2.~ Else.

~Besiege~, _v. a._ Surround (_with a military force_), beset, beleaguer, invest, lay siege to.

~Besmear~, _v. a._ Bedaub, daub, smear, soil, bespatter, daub over.

~Besot~, _v. a._ Infatuate, stultify, stupefy, befool, make sottish, make foolish.

~Bespatter~, _v. a._ Spatter (_with something filthy_), bedaub, BESMEAR.

~Bespeak~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Order, speak for beforehand.

~2.~ [_Rare._] Forebode, foretell, predict.

~3.~ Indicate, imply, proclaim, declare, betoken, show.

~Best~, _a._ ~1.~ Most good, most excellent, superlatively good, good in the highest degree.

~2.~ Most wise, most judicious, most expedient.

~Best~, _ad._ ~1.~ Most of all, in the highest degree, beyond all others.

~2.~ With most propriety, most profitably or advantageously, to the greatest advantage.

~3.~ Most intimately, most thoroughly, most completely.

~4.~ With the highest qualification, by the clearest title.

~Best~, _n._ ~1.~ Highest perfection.

~2.~ Utmost, greatest effort, highest endeavor, the most that can be done.

~Bestial~, _a._ Beastly, brutal, brutish, irrational, sensual.

~Bestir one's self~, Labor, work, toil, strive, fall to work, exert one's self, rouse one's self, trouble one's self, busy one's self, take pains, be busy, be active, be quick, BEAR A HAND.

~Bestow~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Put, place, stow, deposit, lay up in store.

~2.~ Give, accord, grant, impart, CONFER.

~3.~ Use, apply, make use of.

~Bestower~, _n._ Giver, disposer, donor, DONATOR.

~Bestride~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Straddle, stride over.

~2.~ Ride upon astraddle.

~Bet~, _n._ Wager, stake.

~Bet~, _v. n._ Wager, lay a wager, make a bet.

~Bet~, _v. a._ Stake, pledge, wager, lay, wage.

~Betake one's self~, Resort, repair, apply, have recourse.

~Bethink one's self~, Consider, reflect, take thought.

~Betide~, _v. a._ Befall, overtake, happen to, come to.

~Betime~, _ad._ Seasonably, early, before it is too late.

~Betimes~, _ad._ Seasonably, early, before it is too late.

~Betoken~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Signify, denote, indicate, represent, typify, imply, prove, show, argue.

~2.~ Prefigure, foreshow, foreshadow, portend, augur, presignify.

~Betray~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Deliver up (_by breach of trust_), give up treacherously.

~2.~ Violate the confidence of, disclose the secrets of, deceive by treachery.

~3.~ Discover, divulge, reveal, tell, blab, show, make known.

~4.~ Mislead, lure, insnare, entrap, inveigle.

~Betroth~, _v. a._ Affiance, pledge in marriage, engage to marry.

~Betrothment~, _n._ Engagement.

~Better~, _a._ ~1.~ More good, more excellent, good in a higher degree.

~2.~ More useful, more valuable.

~3.~ Preferable, more desirable, more acceptable.

~4.~ More fit, more appropriate, more suitable.

~5.~ Improved in health, less ill.

~6.~ More familiar, more intimate.

~Better~, _n._ ~1.~ Superiority, advantage.

~2.~ Improvement, greater good.

~3.~ Superior.

~Better~, _ad._ ~1.~ In a superior manner, in a more excellent way, more fully, more completely.

~2.~ With greater advantage, more usefully or profitably.

~3.~ More, in a higher degree.

~Better~, _v. a._ Improve, amend, emend, meliorate, ameliorate, reform, make or render better.

~Better-half~, _n._ [_Colloquial._] Wife.

~Bettering~, _n._ Improvement, amendment, melioration, amelioration.

~Between~, _prep._ BETWIXT.