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Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.

One who banters or rallies.

One who barters.

The heavy interior portion of the earth, within the lithosphere.

One who, or that which, batters.

A female dancer in the East Indies. [Written also bajadere.]

Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare). [Obs. except in North of Eng. and Scot.]

A father. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat. "His beavered brow." Pope.

Radiations first observed by the French physicist Henri Becquerel, in working with uranium and its compounds. They consist of a mixture of alpha, beta, and gamma rays.

A bedfellow. [Obs.] Chapman.

See Bedfere. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Sour beer. [Obs.]

A beggar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who beleaguers.

The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare.

Waging war; carrying on war. "Belligerent powers." E. Everett.

In a belligerent manner; hostilely.

A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect.

, v. t. Etym: [Cf. OIcel. berja to strike.] To pierce. [Obs.] Chaucer.