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The quality of being awesome.

The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place. The awfulness of grandeur. Johnson.

The quality of being awless.

erior breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk.

The quality of being a baby; the personality of an infant.

An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account. " A balance at the banker's. " Thackeray. I still think the balance of probabilities leans towards the account given in the text. J. Peile.…

The quality or state of being baleful.

Having the quality of balsam; containing balsam. "A balsamous substance." Sterne.

That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality. [Obs. except in combination, as in ratsbane, henbane, etc.]

The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism.

The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.

The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness. I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Shak.

The quality of being bashful.

The quality or state of being a base.

An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that

The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.

The state or quality of being destitute of beard.

The state or quality of being beastly.

The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.

The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.