English Wordbook/B

Staff B of the English Wordbook.

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babble n clatter, drivel bakery n bakehouse banish vb cast out, fleme bandage n swaddle bandage vb swathe banner n fane baptism n christening, forwashing baptize vb christen, forwash, depe, dip barometer n airmeter barrel n coop barrelmaker n cooper base n bottom, (for Basis, see staddle) base vb take from, bestaddle, ground baseless adj ungrounded, groundless basis n groundwork, staddle batter vb beat battle n hurly-burly, clash, struggle battlefield n fightfield, hurlyburlyfield bay n inlet, cove(sheltered), bight beau n swain, ladfriend, fop beautiful adj pretty, lovely, comely, fair, sheen, eyesome, fairsome beauty n comeliness, fairhood, loveliness, prettiness, sheen, because conj for, for that, since, as bedroom n bower, sleepern beef n cowflesh, cow, cowmeat bellicose adj warlike belligerent adj war-waging, war-making benefit n behoof, welfare benevolence n goodwill benevolent adj good-willing berate vb scold besiege vb beleaguer betray vb sellout betrayal n sellout beverage n drink biannual adj twice-yearly, twiyearly, halfyearly bibulous adj soaksome bicycle n twiwheel, two-wheeler bidirectional adj two-way bidet n saddlebath biennial adj twinterly, two-yearly bilateral adj two-sided binoculars n farlooker biography n lifetale biology n lifelore bipedal adj two-legged bisect vb cut in half, cut in two, halfcut, twicut bizarre adj weird, freakish blame n edwite, edwiting blame vb guilt, pick on Blairite n Blairtrothen blemish vb mar blemish n mar, flaw, fleck blemishless adj'' fair, fleckless blondish adj fair, flaxen, golden-brown, light, snowy bog n mire boil vb seethe bong n waterpipe bordello n whorehouse, brothel border, political n threshold boss n knob botany n wortlore bother n ado boulevardier n man about town bourbon n kentucky lifewater bovine adj cowlike boy n lad, knave, knape branch n bough, twig, prong, fork, arm, limb branch vb fork brave adj doughty, fearless, bold, dow, egleche breakable n brittle, brickle, breaksome brewery n brewhouse, brewern brutal adj harsh brutality n harshness buddhism n buddhendom (analogy with christendom) buddhist adj buddhish buddhist n buddhisher bullion n ingots bully vb browbeat bungalow n lowhouse burglar n housebreaker burglary n housebreaking, housebreaching burgle vb housebreak, housebreach butcher n meatcutter, flesher, fleshmonger button n knob, key byte n eightcleft