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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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27,182 words match “BE”

BERGH n.
A hill. [Obs.]
BERGMASTER n.
See Barmaster.
BERGMEAL n.
(Min.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite.
BERGMOTE n.
See Barmote.
BERGOMASK n.
A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.
BERGSCHRUND n.
The crevasse or series of crevasses, usually deep and often broad, frequently occurring near the head of a mountain glacier, about where the névé field joins the valley portion of the glacier.
BERGSTOCK n.
A long pole with a spike at the end, used in climbing mountains; an alpenstock.
BERGYLT n.
The Norway haddock. See Rosefish.
BERHYME v.
To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about.
BERIBERI n.
An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.
BERIME v.
To berhyme.
BERING SEA CONTROVERSY n.
A controversy (1886 --93) between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the clai…
BERKELEIAN n.
,a.Of or relating to Bishop Berkeley or his system of idealism; as, Berkeleian philosophy. -- Berke"ley*ism, n.
BERLIN n. 2 definitions
A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.
BERM; BERME n. 2 definitions
A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.
BERMUDA GRASS n.
ern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.
BERMUDA LILY n.
te lily (Lilium longiflorum eximium, syn. L. Harrisii) which is extensively cultivated in Bermuda.
BERNA FLY n.
insect of the genus Trypeta, which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvæ do great injury.
BERNACLE n.
See Barnacle.
BERNARDINE a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks. -- n.
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