difficult, hard, uncompromising, unrelenting, relentless, ascetic,
straight-laced.
~Austerity~, _n._ Severity, rigor, sternness, harshness, asceticism.
~Authentic~, _a._ ~1.~ Genuine, real, true, veritable, pure,
uncorrupted, unadulterated, not false, not spurious, not fictitious,
not apocryphal, what it purports to be.
~2.~ Trustworthy, RELIABLE, authoritative, of approved authority, to
be depended on, worthy of belief.
~Authenticate~, _v. a._ Verify, seal, attest, give credit or validity
to, prove to be genuine.
~Authentication~, _n._ Verification, attestation, seal, confirmation.
~Authenticity~, _n._ ~1.~ Genuineness.
~2.~ Trustworthiness.
~Author~, _n._ ~1.~ Originator, inventor, maker, creator, father,
former, contriver, first cause.
~2.~ Writer, composer.
~Authoritative~, _a._ ~1.~ Official, commanding, by authority, EX
CATHEDRA.
~2.~ Dictatorial, imperative, imperious, magisterial, oracular,
peremptory, dogmatic.
~Authorities~, _n. pl._ ~1.~ Magistrates, officials, persons in office.
~2.~ Precedents, decisions, judgments.
~Authority~, _n._ ~1.~ Power, sovereignty, dominion, empire, government.
~2.~ Rule, sway, ascendency, supremacy, control, influence, interest.
~3.~ Permission, warrant, warranty, liberty, permit, precept, order,
authorization, sanction.
~4.~ Witness, testimony.
~5.~ Credibility, weight of evidence.
~6.~ Respectability, dignity, weight of character.
~Authorize~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Sanction, justify, warrant, legalize,
support by authority.
~2.~ Empower, commission, permit, allow, give permission to, give
leave to, give authority to.
~Autochthonal~, _a._ Aboriginal, original, primitive, primeval,
pristine, primary, first, native, indigenous.
~Autochthonous~, _a._ Aboriginal, original, primitive, primeval,
pristine, primary, first, native, indigenous.
~Autocracy~, _n._ Dictatorship, absolutism, despotism, tyranny,
arbitrary power, absolute power.
~Autocrat~, _n._ Dictator, despot, tyrant, absolute ruler.
~Autocratic~, _a._ Absolute, despotic.
~Automatic~, _a._ Self-moving, self-acting.
~Autopsy~, _n._ ~1.~ Ocular evidence, personal examination.
~2.~ Post-mortem examination.
~Autumn~, _n._ Fall, fall of the leaf.
~Auxiliary~, _a._ Aiding, helping, assisting, ancillary, subsidiary,
helpful.
~Auxiliary~, _n._ Helper, assistant, coadjutor, adjutant, co-
operative, ally, confederate, right-hand man.
~Avail~, _v. a._ Benefit, profit, be of advantage to.
~Avail one's self of~, Use, employ, take advantage of, turn to
account, make use of.
~Avail~, _v. n._ Be of advantage, do good, be of use, answer the
purpose.
~Avail~, _n._ Profit, advantage, benefit, use, utility, service.
~Avails~, _n. pl._ Proceeds, profits, returns.
~Available~, _a._ ~1.~ To be availed of, to be turned to account.
~2.~ Serviceable, useful, profitable, advantageous, beneficial.
~3.~ Suitable or fit (_for some purpose_), likely to answer the end.
~Avant-courier~, _n._ Harbinger, forerunner, herald.
~Avant-guard~, _n._ Van, advanced guard.
~Avarice~, _n._ Penuriousness, cupidity, niggardliness, closeness,
covetousness.
~Avaricious~, _a._ Miserly, penurious, parsimonious, sordid,
illiberal, niggardly, mercenary, close, stingy, mean, grasping, close-
fisted, hard-fisted, COVETOUS, eager for gain (_for the sake of
hoarding it_).
~Avast~, _interj._ (_Naut._) Hold, stop, stay, enough.
~Avaunt~, _interj._ Hence, begone, be off, get you gone.
~Avenge~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Take satisfaction for, award just punishment for.
~2.~ Revenge, vindicate (_by punishment of an offender_), inflict
punishment in behalf of.
~3.~ [_So used by the translators of the Bible._] Take revenge upon,
treat revengefully.
~Avengement~, _n._ [_Rare._] Avenging.
~Avenue~, _n._ ~1.~ Passage, entrance, entry, access, way of approach,
passage-way.
~2.~ Alley, walk, street, road, path.
~3.~ Channel, route, way, pass.
~Aver~, _v. a._ Assert, affirm, declare, asseverate, protest, avouch,
allege, say, pronounce, predicate.
~Average~, _n._ ~1.~ Medium, mean proportion, medial sum or quantity.
~2.~ Mediocrity, medial standard, average standard.
~Average~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Equate, reduce to an average, reduce to a mean.
~2.~ (_Com._) Proportion, distribute proportionally.
~Average~, _v. n._ Amount to, or result in, when the mean is taken.
~Average~, _a._ ~1.~ Medial, mean.
~2.~ Middling, ordinary, passable, moderate, tolerable, well enough,
pretty well, not bad.
~Averment~, _n._ Affirmation, declaration, assertion, remark,
asseveration, protestation, avowal, word.
~Avernus~, _n._ (_Mythol._) Hell, Tartarus, Hades, Erebus, the lower
world, the infernal regions, shades below.
~Averse~, _a._ Unwilling, disinclined, indisposed, reluctant, loath,
backward, adverse, opposed.
~Aversion~, _n._ ~1.~ Dislike, distaste, disrelish, disinclination,
reluctance, unwillingness, repugnance, backwardness.
~2.~ ANTIPATHY, hatred, loathing, disgust, nausea, detestation,
abhorrence, horror.
~Avert~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Turn aside, turn away, turn off.
~2.~ Prevent, divert, preclude, FOREFEND, ward off, keep off.
~Avid~, _a._ [_Rare._] Eager, greedy.
~Avidity~, _n._ ~1.~ Eagerness, longing, yearning, intense desire.
~2.~ Greediness, craving, voracity, rapacity, voraciousness,
ravenousness, canine appetite.
~Avocation~, _n._ Occasional business (_business that calls aside_).
~Avoid~, _v. a._ ~1.~ SHUN (_in a negative sense, or denoting care
only without positive exertion_), eschew, escape, blink, elude, keep
away from, keep aloof from, keep out of the way of, withdraw from,
keep clear of, be shy of, fight shy of, have nothing to do with.
~2.~ Forbear, help, refrain from.
~Avoset~, _n._ Scooper.
~Avouch~, _v. a._ Affirm, assert, asseverate, declare, protest,
allege, say, maintain.
~Avow~, _v. a._ Acknowledge, confess, own, profess, declare, affirm.
~Avowal~, _n._ Acknowledgment, confession, declaration, profession,
manifesto.
~Await~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Expect, abide, wait for, stay for, look for, be
in readiness for.
~2.~ Attend, be in store for, be prepared for, be ready for.
~Awake~, _a._ ~1.~ Not asleep.
~2.~ Attentive, watchful, vigilant, alive, on the alert.
~Awake~, _v. a._ & _n._ AWAKEN.
~Awaken~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Awake, wake, rouse from sleep.
~2.~ Arouse, excite, kindle, spur, incite, stimulate, provoke, stir up.
~Awaken~, _v. n._ Wake, waken, be awakened, be roused from sleep.
~Awakening~, _n._ Revival.
~Award~, _v. a._ Adjudge, decrees.
~Award~, _n._ Judgment, decree, adjudication, determination, decision.
~Aware~, _a._ Mindful, conscious, cognizant, observant, apprised,
sensible, convinced, persuaded.
~Away~, _ad._ ~1.~ Absent, gone, off, from home, at a distance, not
present.
~2.~ Begone, let us go.
~Away with~, Take away.
~Awe~, _n._ ~1.~ Reverence, veneration, reverential fear.
~2.~ Dread, fearfulness.
~Awe~, _v. a._ Overawe, intimidate, frighten, affright, daunt, cow,
inspire with awe.
~Awe-struck~, _a._ Dismayed, horrified, appalled, terrified,
frightened, panic-stricken, horror-struck.
~Awful~, _a._ ~1.~ Venerable, august, grand, stately, imposing,
solemn, majestic.
~2.~ Dread, dreadful, fearful, horrible, horrid, terrible, dire,
direful, frightful, appalling, tremendous.
~3.~ [_Vulgar._] Ugly, homely, unsightly, ill-looking.
~Awhile~, _ad._ For a time, for some time, some time, for a while.
~Awkward~, _a._ ~1.~ Unskilful, bungling, unhandy, maladroit, inapt,
without dexterity.
~2.~ Unwieldy, unmanageable, inconvenient, unfit, lumbering.
~3.~ Uncouth, unrefined, unpolished, uncourtly, rude, rough, clumsy,
coarse, wooden, inelegant, ungainly, untoward, ungraceful, stiff,
constrained, uneasy, rustic, boorish, clownish, loutish, gawky,
lubberly, slouching.
~Awned~, _a._ (_Bot._) Aristate, bearded.
~Awning~, _n._ Canopy, tilt.
~Awry~, _ad._ ~1.~ Obliquely, asquint, askance.
~2.~ Perversely, wrong.
~Awry~, _a._ Oblique, slanting, distorted, crooked, wry.
~Axilla~, _n._ [L. _pl. Axillæ_.] (_Anat._) Armpit.
~Axiom~, _n._ ~1.~ Truism, self-evident proposition, intuitive truth,
necessary truth.
~2.~ Postulate, established principle (_not of necessity true_),
proposition commonly received, assumed truth.
~Axiomatic~, _a._ Self-evident, certain, positive, absolute.
~Axiomatical~, _a._ Self-evident, certain, positive, absolute.
~Axis~, _n._ Shaft, spindle, arbor.
~Ay~, _ad._ Yes.
~Aye~, _ad._ Yes.
~Aye~, _ad._ [_Poetical._] Always, for ever.
~Azote~, _n._ Nitrogen.
~Azure~, _a._ Blue, cerulean, sky-colored, sky-blue.
~Azure~, _n._ Blue, sky-color.
B
~Babble~, _v.n._ ~1.~ Prattle, jabber, chatter, talk inarticulately.
~2.~ Prate, chat, gossip, palaver, tattle, be loquacious, talk idly or
thoughtlessly.
~Babble~, _v. a._ Tell (_foolishly_), prate, utter, prate about.
~Babble~, _n._ Prattle, palaver, chit-chat, gabble, twaddle, chatter,
balderdash, platitude, flummery, wish-wash, stuff, moonshine, fudge,
trash, nonsense, small talk, idle talk, childish or foolish talk,
frothy discourse.
~Babbling~, _n._ ~1.~ Prattle, BABBLE.
~2.~ Garrulity, loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness.
~Babe~, _n._ Infant, baby, nursling, suckling, chit, brat, bantling,
BAIRN, little one.
~Babel~, _n._ Confusion, disorder, tumult, pother, hurly-burly.
~Baby~, _n._ Infant, BABE.
~Babyhood~, _n._ Infancy.
~Baccalaureate~, _n._ Degree of bachelor of arts.
~Baccate~, _a._ (_Bot._) Of a pulpy nature (_like a berry_).
~Bacchanal~, _n._ Reveller, carouser, bacchanalian.
~Bacchanal~, _a._ Riotous, revelling, noisy, bacchanalian.
~Bacchanalian~, _n._ and _a._ BACCHANAL.
~Bacchanals~, _n. pl._ Revelry, revels, orgies, carousal, debauch,
drunken frolic, potation, compotation, wassail, Saturnalia, drunken
feasts.
~Back~, _n._ ~1.~ Upper part, outer part.
~2.~ Hinder part.
~Back~, _a._ ~1.~ Remote.
~2.~ Hindmost, in the rear.
~3.~ In a backward direction.
~Back~, _ad._ ~1.~ To the place of starting.
~2.~ Backward, rearward, abaft, in the rear, towards what is behind.
~3.~ In return, in recompense.
~Back~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Assist, aid, second, support, countenance, favor,
sustain, abet, side with, stand by, take part with, give support to,
co-operate with, back up.
~2.~ Move backward.
~Backbite~, _v. a._ Defame, traduce, malign, slander, revile,
calumniate, libel, lampoon, asperse, vilify, blacken, abuse,
scandalize, run down, speak ill of.
~Backbiter~, _n._ Slanderer, defamer, traducer, calumniator, libeller.
~Backbiting~, _n._ Detraction, defamation, aspersion, slander,
calumny, contumely, obloquy.
~Backbone~, _n._ ~1.~ Spine, spinal column, vertebral column.
~2.~ Firmness, nerve, resolution, courage, pluck, hardihood, manhood.
~Backhanded~, _a._ ~1.~ Inclining to the left hand (_as writing_).
~2.~ Outward and backward.
~3.~ Indirect, unfair.
~Back-house~, _n._ Privy, necessary, jakes, water-closet.
~Back out~, [_Colloquial._] Withdraw from a bargain, not keep a
promise, not stand to an engagement.
~Backslide~, _v. n._ Apostatize, fall off, fall away, break faith.
~Backslider~, _n._ Apostate, deserter, renegade.
~Backsliding~, _n._ Apostasy.
~Back up~, Support, sustain, assist, aid, help, BACK.
~Backward~, _a._ ~1.~ Averse, unwilling, reluctant, loath,
disinclined, indisposed, wavering, hesitating.
~2.~ Dull, sluggish, slow, stupid, stolid.
~3.~ Late, tardy, behindhand, after the usual time.
~Backward~, _ad._ Regressively, rearwards, aback, behind, ABAFT.
~Backwards~, _ad._ Regressively, rearwards, aback, behind, ABAFT.
~Bad~, _a._ ~1.~ Evil, ill, baneful, deleterious, pernicious,
mischievous, noxious, hurtful, injurious, detrimental, unwholesome.
~2.~ Wicked, depraved, abandoned, dishonest, unfair, disingenuous,
rascally, villanous.
~3.~ Untoward, unlucky, unfortunate, unwelcome.
~4.~ Vile, wretched, sorry, mean, shabby, scurvy, abominable.
~5.~ Poor, inferior.
~Bad blood~, Rancor, venom, bitterness, acrimony, harshness,
sternness, asperity, crabbedness, churlishness, moroseness,
sullenness, ill temper.
~Bad faith~, Perfidy, dishonesty, unfairness, faithlessness, want of
faith, breach of faith.
~Badge~, _n._ Mark of distinction, token of office, sign of authority.
~Badger~, _v. a._ Persecute, tease, worry, harry, annoy, vex, plague,
harass, torment, pester, trouble, bother, hector.
~Badinage~, _n._ [Fr.] Raillery, banter, ASTEISM, light talk, small
talk, trifling or playful discourse.
~Baffle~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Disconcert, frustrate, foil, elude, balk,
circumvent.
~2.~ Confound, bewilder, perplex, out-general, out-manœuvre.
~Bag~, _n._ Sack, pouch.
~Bagatelle~, _n._ [Fr.] Trifle, small matter, thing of no consequence
or importance.
~Baggage~, _n._ Luggage, bag and baggage.
~Bagnio~, _n._ ~1.~ Bath, bathing-house.
~2.~ Brothel, stew, bawdy-house, whore-house, house of prostitution,
house of ill-fame.
~Bail~, _n._ ~1.~ Security, surety.
~2.~ Handle (_of a pail_, &c.).
~Bail~, _v. a._ Admit to bail.
~Bairn~, _n._ [_Scottish._] Child, BABE.
~Bait~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Put bait upon.
~2.~ Furnish with a meal.
~Bait~, _v. n._ Take refreshment (_on a journey_).
~Bait~, _n._ ~1.~ Lure, decoy, allurement, enticement, temptation.
~2.~ Refreshment (_on a journey_).
~Bake~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Harden (_by heat_).
~2.~ Cook (_by direct heat_).
~Balance~, _n._ ~1.~ Pair of scales.
~2.~ Equipoise, equilibrium, equality of weight.
~3.~ Excess, overplus, surplus.
~4.~ [_Low, U. S._] Rest, residue, remainder.
~Balance~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Poise, keep in equipoise, hold in equilibrium.
~2.~ Counterpoise, counteract, neutralize, countervail,
counterbalance, compensate, make up for.
~3.~ (_Com._) Equalize, make equal.
~Balance-fish~, _n._ Hammer-fish, hammer-headed shark (_Zygœna
vulgaris_).
~Bald~, _a._ ~1.~ Without hair (_on the head_).
~2.~ Unadorned, inelegant, prosaic, dull, meagre, vapid, tame.
~Balderdash~, _n._ Verbiage, palaver, twaddle, chatter, trash, stuff,
moonshine, platitude, flummery, fudge, wish-wash, jargon, nonsense,
senseless prate, frothy discourse, idle talk.
~Baldric~, _n._ Shoulder belt.
~Bale~, _n._ Bundle, package.
~Baleen~, _n._ Whalebone.
~Bale-fire~, _n._ Beacon-fire.
~Baleful~, _a._ Hurtful, injurious, noxious, mischievous, pernicious,
baneful, ruinous, deadly, fraught with evil.
~Balk~, _v. a._ Disappoint, frustrate, defeat, foil, baffle,
disconcert, thwart.
~Balky~, _a._ [_U. S._] Perverse (_said of a horse_), unruly,
refractory, wayward, contrary, stubborn, obstinate.
~Ball~, _n._ ~1.~ Globe, sphere.
~2.~ Dance, entertainment of dancing.
~3.~ Game of ball.
~Ballad~, _n._ Light poem, sentimental song.
~Ballast~, _n._ ~1.~ Weight (_for steadiness_), ballasting.
~2.~ Prudence, discretion, judgment, sense, wisdom, TACT, GUMPTION,
common sense.
~Ballast~, _v. a._ Put ballast into.
~Ballasting~, _n._ Ballast.
~Ballooning~, _n._ Aëronautics, aërostation.
~Balloonist~, _n._ Aëronaut, aërial navigator.
~Balmy~, _a._ ~1.~ Soothing, refreshing, easing, assuaging, lenitive,
sedative.
~2.~ Fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, aromatic, aromatous, ambrosial,
spicy, sweet-smelling, sweet-scented.
~Baltimore oriole~, Golden robin, hang-bird, fiery hang-bird (_Icterus
Baltimore_ or _Oriolus Baltimore_).
~Bam~, _n._ [_Low._] Cheat, imposition, imposture, fraud,
circumvention, trick.
~Bam~, _v. a._ [_Low._] Cheat, BAMBOOZLE.
~Bamboozle~, _v. a._ Deceive, cheat, dupe, beguile, mislead, inveigle,
gull, trick, chouse, overreach, circumvent, defraud, diddle, BAM.
~Ban~, _n._ ~1.~ Proclamation, edict.
~2.~ Curse, malediction, excommunication, denunciation, execration,
anathema.
~Band~, _n._ ~1.~ Tie, ligature, ligament.
~2.~ Cord, chain, fetter, manacle, shackle, bond.
~3.~ Bandage, fillet, binding.
~4.~ Company (_especially of instrumental musicians_), troop, gang,
crew, horde, party, body, club, junto, COTERIE, CLIQUE, society,
sodality, association.
~Bandage~, _n._ Fillet, band, binding.
~Bandit~, _n._ Outlaw, robber, brigand, freebooter, footpad,
highwayman, marauder.
~Banditti~, _n. pl._ Band of outlaws or robbers.
~Bandy~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Toss, toss about, toss to and fro.
~2.~ Exchange, interchange, give and take.
~Bane~, _n._ ~1.~ Poison, venom.
~2.~ Pest, scourge, curse, ruin.
~Baneful~, _a._ ~1.~ Poisonous, venomous.
~2.~ Destructive, noxious, hurtful, injurious, pernicious,
mischievous, baleful, deadly, ruinous, fraught with evil.
~Banewort~, _n._ Belladonna, dwale, deadly-nightshade (_Atropa
Belladonna_).
~Banging~, _a._ [_Low._] Huge, large, great.
~Banian~, _n._ (_Bot._) Indian fig-tree (_Ficus Indicus_).
~Banish~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Exile, expatriate, ostracize, expel from the
country.
~2.~ Exclude, shut out, drive away, put out of mind.
~Banishment~, _n._ Exile, expatriation, ostracism, expulsion,
proscription.
~Bang~, _v. a._ Beat, thump, pound, strike, knock, maul, pommel,
thwack, WALLOP, deal roughly with.
~Bankrupt~, _a._ Insolvent.
~Bankrupt~, _n._ Insolvent debtor.
~Bankruptcy~, _n._ Insolvency.
~Banner~, _n._ Flag, standard, streamer, ensign, pennon, colors.
~Banquet~, _n._ Feast, entertainment, treat.
~Banquet~, _v. n._ Feast, be regaled with good eating and drinking.
~Banquet~, _v. a._ Treat with a banquet or feast.
~Banter~, _v. a._ Jeer, joke, rally, quiz, ridicule, taunt, twit,
deride, mock, make fun of, make sport of, make merry with, play upon,
make a butt of.
~Banter~, _n._ Raillery, ridicule, mockery, derision, persiflage,
pleasantry, BADINAGE, ASTEISM, joking, jesting, quizzing, frivolous
talk, small talk.
~Bantling~, _n._ Infant, babe, baby, chit, brat, nursling, suckling,
BAIRN, little child, little one, young one.
~Baptize~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Administer baptism to.
~2.~ Christen.
~Bar~, _n._ ~1.~ Obstacle, hinderance, obstruction, barrier,
BARRICADE, stop, impediment.
~2.~ Rail, railing.
~3.~ Tribunal, judgment-seat.
~4.~ Body of lawyers.
~Bar~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Fasten with a bar.
~2.~ Hinder, obstruct, stop, prevent.
~3.~ Exclude, shut out.
~Barb~, _n._ ~1.~ Beard (_or excrescences like a beard_), wattles.
~2.~ Horse (_of the Barbary breed_).
~Barbadoes tar~, Petroleum, rock-oil, Seneca oil, mineral pitch,
mineral tar, mineral oil.
~Barbarian~, _n._ ~1.~ Savage.
~2.~ Brute, ruffian, brutal monster.
~Barbarian~, _a._ ~1.~ Uncivilized, rude, savage, BARBAROUS, barbaric.
~2.~ Inhuman, brutal, cruel, unfeeling, ruthless, truculent,
ferocious, fierce, fell, bloody, brutish.
~Barbaric~, _a._ ~1.~ Foreign, outlandish, exotic, not native.
~2.~ Barbarian, barbarous, uncivilized, rude, savage.
~Barbarism~, _n._ ~1.~ Incivility, rudeness, savageness, Vandalism,
Gothicism, barbarous state, uncivilized condition.
~2.~ Vulgarism, slang, unauthorized expression.
~Barbarity~, _n._ Cruelty, savageness, brutality, brutishness,
ferociousness, ferocity, inhumanity, truculence, hardness of heart,
manners of a barbarian.
~Barbarous~, _a._ ~1.~ Uncivilized, rough, coarse, rude, untutored,
ignorant, unlettered, uncultivated, savage, barbarian, barbaric.
~2.~ Cruel, inhuman, brutal, brutish, ferocious, ruthless, fell,
truculent, fierce, bloody.
~3.~ Uncouth (_as a word or an expression_), harsh, vulgar, contrary
to good usage.
~Barbed~, _a._ ~1.~ Bearded.
~2.~ Clad in armor.
~Barberry~, _n._ Pepperidge-bush.
~Bard~, _n._ ~1.~ Poet, minstrel.
~2.~ Caparison, horse-armor, trappings for a horse.
~Bare~, _a._ ~1.~ Naked, nude, denuded, uncovered, unclothed, undressed.
~2.~ Simple, sheer, mere.
~Bare~, _v. a._ Strip, uncover, make bare.
~Barefaced~, _a._ ~1.~ Undisguised, unreserved, unconcealed, palpable,
conspicuous, glaring, notable, notorious.
~2.~ Impudent, presumptuous, shameless, audacious.
~Barely~, _ad._ Merely, simply, only.
~Bargain~, _n._ ~1.~ Compact, agreement, stipulation, covenant,
contract, convention, concordat, treaty, indenture.
~2.~ Cheap purchase, purchase on favorable terms, good bargain.
~Bargain~, _v. n._ Contract, agree, stipulate, covenant, make a bargain.
~Barilla~, _n._ Carbonate of soda (_impure_), kelp.
~Bark~, _v. n._ Yelp.
~Bark up the wrong tree~, [_Colloquial._] Mistake, err, make a
mistake, BE IN THE WRONG BOX.
~Barm~, _n._ Yeast, ferment, leaven.
~Barmy~, _a._ Yeasty.
~Barren~, _a._ ~1.~ Unprolific, incapable of bearing offspring, not
prolific.
~2.~ Unfertile, fruitless, unproductive, sterile, ACARPOUS.
~3.~ Scanty, not copious.
~Barricade~, _n._ Obstruction (_as in the streets of a city to serve
as a fortification_), BARRIER.
~Barricade~, _v. a._ Obstruct, block up, stop up.
~Barrier~, _n._ Obstruction, obstacle, hinderance, bar, BARRICADE,
stop, impediment.
~Barrister~, _n._ Advocate (_admitted to plead at the bar_),
counsellor, counsel, lawyer, attorney, SOLICITOR, attorney at law,
limb of the law.
~Barrow~, _n._ ~1.~ Wheelbarrow.
~2.~ Mound, hillock.
~3.~ Hog (_especially a castrated hog_).
~Barter~, _v. n._ Make exchanges, traffic by exchanges.
~Barter~, _v. a._ Give in exchange, barter away.
~Barter~, _n._ Exchange, traffic by exchange.
~Barter away~, BARTER.
~Baryta~, _n._ Oxide of barium.
~Barytes~, _n._ Heavy spar, sulphate of baryta.
~Base~, _a._ ~1.~ Ignoble, plebeian, vulgar, untitled, nameless,
unhonored, base-born, of low birth.
~2.~ Vile, low, mean, despicable, contemptible, beggarly, abject,
grovelling, sordid, servile, slavish, menial, sorry, worthless,
pitiful, low-minded, rascally.
~3.~ Shameful, disreputable, disgraceful, discreditable, dishonorable,
scandalous, infamous.
~Base~, _n._ ~1.~ Basis, foundation, ground, groundwork, lowest part.
~2.~ (_Surveying._) Base-line.
~3.~ (_Chem._) Principal element (_of a compound_).
~Base-born~, _a._ BASE, of low birth.
~Base-line~, _n._ (_Surveying._) Base.
~Basement~, _n._ Ground-floor, lowest story.
~Base-minded~, _a._ Mean, low, vile, grovelling, beggarly, pitiful,
despicable, abject, low-minded, mean-spirited.
~Baseness~, _n._ ~1.~ Meanness, vileness, despicableness,
contemptibleness, abasement, worthlessness, abjectness.
~2.~ Disgrace, ignominy, infamy, shame, dishonor, turpitude.
~Bashful~, _a._ Shy, timid, timorous, coy, diffident, sheepish,
shamefaced, over-modest, not self-possessed.
~Bashfulness~, _n._ Shyness, timidity, coyness, diffidence, self-
distrust, excessive modesty.
~Basilisk~, _n._ Cockatrice.
~Basis~, _n._ Base, foundation, ground, groundwork, lowest part.
~Bask~, _v. n._ Lie in the sun, be exposed to a pleasant heat.
~Bask~, _v. a._ Expose to sunshine or to a pleasant heat.
~Bass~, _a._ (_Mus._) Low, deep, grave.
~Basset~, _v. n._ (_Geol._) Crop out.
~Bassetting~, _n._ Cropping out, out-crop.
~Bastard~, _n._ Love-child, illegitimate child, natural child.
~Bastard~, _a._ ~1.~ Illegitimate.
~2.~ Spurious, false, counterfeit, not genuine.
~Baste~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Beat (_with a stick_), cudgel, cane, drub, thrash.
~2.~ Moisten with fat.
~3.~ Sew (_with long stitches_).
~Bastinado~, _n._ Cudgelling or beating (_on the soles of the feet_).
~Bastinado~, _v. a._ Cudgel or beat (_on the soles of the feet_).
~Batch~, _n._ Certain quantity (_as of bread, ore, &c., treated at one
time_).
~Bate~, _v. a._ Abate, lessen, diminish, decrease, reduce, rebate,
remit.
~Bathe~, _v. a._ Wash, lave.
~Bathe~, _v. n._ Wash the body, go into a bath, take a bath.
~Bathos~, _n._ Anticlimax.
~Bating~, _prep._ Except, excepting.
~Batten~, _n._ Thin strip.
~Batten~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Fasten with battens.
~2.~ Fatten, make fat.
~Batten~, _v. n._ Grow fat.
~Batter~, _v. a._ ~1.~ Beat, smite, pelt, dash against.