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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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10,478 words match “EST”

p. p. of Bestrew.

imp. & p. p. Bestick.

To set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set thickly; to stud; as, to bestud with stars. Milton.

BHEESTY; BHEESTIE n.

A water carrier, as to a household or a regiment. [India]

BIESTINGS; BEESTINGS n.

given by a cow after calving. B. Jonson. The thick and curdy milk . . . commonly called biestings. Newton. (1574).

, superl. of Big.

A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary. E. Darwin.

Continuing two months. [R.]

BIRD'S NEST; BIRD'S-NEST n. 3 definitions

The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young.

BIRD'S-NESTING n.

Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents.

Blessed. "This patriarch blest." Milton. White these blest sounds my ravished ear assail. Trumbull.

BLUESTOCKING n. 2 definitions

A literary lady; a female pedant. [Colloq.]

BLUESTOCKINGISM n.

The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry. [Colloq.]

BLUESTONE n. 2 definitions

Blue vitriol. Dunglison.

for Bursteth. [Obs.]

BREST; BREAST n.

A torus. [Obs.]

To burst. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Breastsummer.

A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round. Divide the broad bridecake Round about the bridestake. B. Jonson.

One of a tribe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larvæ are usually bores in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very destructive to trees.