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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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BETORN a.
Torn in pieces; tattered.
BETTOR n.
One who bets; a better. Addison.
BETUTOR v.
To tutor; to instruct. Coleridge.
BIBITORY a.
Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling.
BISECTOR n.
One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle.
BISTORT n.
An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent.
BITTOR; BITTOUR n.
The bittern. Dryden.
BIVECTOR n.
A term made up of the two parts
BLINDSTORY n.
The triforium as opposed to the clearstory.
BOA CONSTRICTOR n.
A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.
BOOKSTORE n.
A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.
BUCCINATOR n.
A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.
CACHINNATORY a.
Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter. Cachinnatory buzzes of approval. Carlyle.
CALCINATORY n.
A vessel used in calcination.
CALCULATOR n.
auses, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects. Ambition is no exact calculator. Burke.
CALCULATORY a.
Belonging to calculation. Sherwood.
CALEFACTOR n.
A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.
CALEFACTORY a. 3 definitions
Making hot; producing or communicating heat.
CALORIMOTOR n.
A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects.
CALORISATOR n.
An apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion.
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