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An awakening. [R.]

Babble. Hawthorne.

The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.

The action of bailing a person accused. Bailment . . . is the saving or delivery of a man out of prison before he hath satisfied the law. Dalton.

The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. [R.] Darwin.

The act of banishing, or the state of being banished. He secured himself by the banishment of his enemies. Johnson. Round the wide world in banishment we roam. Dryden.

The act of baptizing.[R.]

bstructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively. Basement membrane (Anat.), a delicate membrane composed of a single layer of flat cells, forming the substratum upon which, in many organs, the epithelioid cells are disposed.

Abatement; diminution. Moxon. Batement light (Arch.), a window or one division of a window having vertical sides, but with the sill not horizontal, as where it follows the rake of a staircase.

One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.

Having battlements. A battlemented portal. Sir W. Scott.

The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble. [Colloq.]

That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.

Act of befriending. [R.]

The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled.

The condition of being benighted.

Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor. Kirby.

The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest.

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

The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly. [R.] Goodwin.