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BATEMENT n.
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.
BATTLEMENT n. 2 definitions
One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
BATTLEMENTED a.
Having battlements. A battlemented portal. Sir W. Scott.
BEEM n.
A trumpet. [Obs.]
BEEMASTER n.
One who keeps bees.
BEGEM v.
To adorn with gems, or as with gems. Begemmed with dewdrops. Sir W. Scott. Those lonely realms bright garden isles begem. Shelley.
BEGUILEMENT n.
The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled.
BEHEMOTH n.
An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15- 24.
BELEMNITE n.
A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell o…
BELL SYSTEM OF CONTROL n.
See Cloche.
BEMA n. 3 definitions
A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. Mitford.
BEMAD v.
To make mad. [Obs.] Fuller.
BEMANGLE v.
To mangle; to tear asunder. [R.] Beaumont.
BEMASK v.
To mask; to conceal.
BEMASTER v.
To master thoroughly.
BEMAUL v.
To maul or beat severely; to bruise. "In order to bemaul Yorick." Sterne.
BEMAZE v.
To bewilder. Intellects bemazed in endless doubt. Cowper.
BEMEAN v.
To make mean; to lower. C. Reade.
BEMEET v.
To meet. [Obs.] Our very loving sister, well bemet. Shak.
BEMETE v.
To mete. [Obs.] Shak.
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