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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,136 words match “EH”

A house for baking; a bakery.

Having bare hands.

BAREHEADED; BAREHEAD a.

Having the head uncovered; as, a bareheaded girl.

BEADHOUSE; BEDEHOUSE n.

An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.

,n.Same as Beadhouse.

A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively.

A house for bees; an apiary.

BEETLEHEAD n. 2 definitions

A stupid fellow; a blockhead. Sir W. Scott.

BEFOREHAND adv. 3 definitions

preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison.

Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication. In behalf of his mistress's beauty. Sir P. Sidney. Against whom he had contracted some prejudice in behalf of his nation. Clarendon. In behalf of, in the interest of. -- On behalf of, on account of; on the part of.

To happen to. [Obs.]

BEHAVE v. 3 definitions

To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain. [Obs.] He did behave his anger ere 't was spent. Shak.

Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. A gentleman that is very singular in his behavior. Steele. To be upon one's good behavior, To be put upon…

To sever the head from; to take off the head of.

,n.Beheading. [Modern]

imp. & p. p. of Behold.

An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15- 24.

BEHEN; BEHN n. 3 definitions

The Centaurea behen, or saw-leaved centaury.

BEHEST n. 3 definitions

which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction. To do his master's high behest. Sir W. Scott.

See Behight. [Obs.] Chaucer.