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BITTERING n.
A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern.
BLATTERING n.
Senseless babble or boasting.
BLUBBERING n.
The act of weeping noisily. He spake well save that his blubbering interrupted him. Winthrop.
BLUNDERING a.
Characterized by blunders.
BLUNDERINGLY adv.
In a blundering manner.
BLUSTERING a. 2 definitions
Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. A tempest and a blustering day. Shak.
BLUSTERINGLY adv.
In a blustering manner.
BORING n. 3 definitions
The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks. One of the most important applications of boring is in the formation of artesian wells. Tomlinson.
BOROUGHMONGERING; BOROUGHMONGERY n.
The practices of a boroughmonger.
BOWSTRING n. 3 definitions
The string of a bow.
BOWSTRINGED p. 2 definitions
Furnished with bowstring.
BRING v. 6 definitions
a nearer place; to fetch. And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread. 1 Kings xvii. 11. To France shall we convey you safe, And bring you back. Shak.
BRINGER n.
One who brings. Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office. Shak. Bringer in, one who, or that which, introduces.
BURRING MACHINE n.
A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
BUTCHERING n. 2 definitions
The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison.
CANNONERING n.
The use of cannon. Burke.
CARPENTERING n.
The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of workingin timber; carpentry.
CENTERING n.
Same as Center, n., 6. [Written also centring.]
CENTRING n.
See Centring.
CHAMBERING n.
Lewdness. [Obs.] Rom. xiii. 13.
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