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tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine. [Written also bibirine.]

-- mostly used impersonally. And thus it behooved Christ to suffer. Luke xxiv. 46. [Also written behove.]

A place of shelter; protection; refuge. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] [Also written bield and beeld.] The random beild o' clod or stane. Burns.

A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple. [Written also bellefleur.]

ic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds. [Formerly written also benzule.]

A bernicle goose. [Written also barnacle.] Bernicle goose (Zoöl.), a goose (Branta leucopsis), of Arctic Europe and America. It was formerly believed that it hatched from the cirripeds of the sea (Lepas), which were, therefore, called barnacles, goose barnacles, or Anatifers. The name is also applied to other related s…

A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages.

A bright star of the first magnitude, near one shoulder of Orion. [Written also Betelgeux and Betelgeuse.]

A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open. [Written also bettee.] The powerful betty, or the artful picklock. Arbuthnot.

land) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants. [Written also besant, byzant, etc.]

A great drinker; a tippler. [Written also bibbler and bibbeler.]

hly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases. [Written also blimbi and blimbing.]

A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill. She put up the bill in her parlor window. Dickens.

An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish. [Written also billet and billit.]

The written history of a person's life.

A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law. [Written also byrlaw, birlie, birley.]

A fish of the turbot kind; the brill. [Written also burt, bret, or brut.] [Prov. Eng.]

An adjuration or exclamation common among the Mohammedans. [Written also Bizmillah.]

Hydrous carbonate of bismuth, an earthy mineral of a dull white or yellowish color. [Written also bismuthite.]

The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.