| bean caper | <botany> A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow colour, of the genus Zygophyllum. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| bean trefoil | <botany> A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bean-shaped plasma | <radiobiology> A toroidal plasma indented on the inboard side (the side with the donut hole), that results in additional stability to ballooning modes. Moderate indentation may provide access to the second-stability region (high beta). (13 Nov 1997) |
| bear | 1. To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. "This age to blossom, and the next to bear." (Dryden) 2. To suffer, as in carrying a burden. "But man is born to bear." (Pope) 3. To endure with patience; to be patient. "I can not, can not bear." (Dryden) 4. To press; with on or upon, or against. "These men bear hard on the suspected party." (Addison) 5. To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear. 6. To relate or refer; with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question? 7. To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect. "Her sentence bore that she should stand a certain time upon the platform." (Hawthorne) 8. To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. By E. To bear against, to approach for attack or seizure; as, a lion bears against his prey. To bear away, to be pointed or situated so as to affect; to be pointed directly against, or so as to hit (the object); as, to bring or plant guns so as to bear upon a fort or a ship; the artillery bore upon the center. To bear up to, to tend or move toward; as, to bear up to one another. To bear with, to endure; to be indulgent to; to forbear to resent, oppose, or punish. 1. To support or sustain; to hold up. 2. To support and remove or carry; to convey. "I 'll bear your logs the while." (Shak) 3. To conduct; to bring; said of persons. "Bear them to my house." (Shak) 4. To possess and use, as power; to exercise. "Every man should bear rule in his own house." (Esther i. 22) 5. To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription. 6. To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name. 7. To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor "The ancient grudge I bear him." (Shak) 8. To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer. "Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne." (Pope) "I cannot bear The murmur of this lake to hear." (Shelley) "My punishment is greater than I can bear." (Gen. Iv. 13) 9. To gain or win. "Some think to bear it by speaking a great word." (Bacon) "She was . . . Found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge." (Latimer) 10. To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc. "He shall bear their iniquities." (Is. Liii. 11) "Somewhat that will bear your charges." (Dryden) 11. To render or give; to bring forward. "Your testimony bear" 12. To carry on, or maintain; to have. "The credit of bearing a part in the conversation." 13. To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change. "In all criminal cases the most favorable interpretation should be put on words that they can possibly bear." (Swift) 14. To manage, wield, or direct. "Thus must thou thy body bear." . Hence: To behave; to conduct. "Hath he borne himself penitently in prison ?" (Shak) 15. To afford; to be to; to supply with. "is faithful dog shall bear him company." (Pope) 16. To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest. "Here dwelt the man divine whom Samos bore." (Dryden) In the passive form of this verb, the best modern usage restricts the past participle born to the sense of brought forth, while borne is used in the other senses of the word. In the active form, borne alone is used as the past participle. To bear down. To force into a lower place; to carry down; to depress or sink. "His nose, . . . Large as were the others, bore them down into insignificance." . To overthrow or crush by force; as, to bear down an enemy. To bear a hand. To help; to give assistance. To remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against anything; as, to bear off a blow; to bear off a boat. To gain; to carry off, as a prize. To bear one hard, to owe one a grudge. "Caesar doth bear me hard." . To bear out. To maintain and support to the end; to defend to the last. "Company only can bear a man out in an ill thing." . To corroborate; to confirm. To bear up, to support; to keep from falling or sinking. "Religious hope bears up the mind under sufferings." . Synonym: To uphold, sustain, maintain, support, undergo, suffer, endure, tolerate, carry, convey, transport, waft. Origin: Bore (formerly Bare); Born, Borne; Bearing] [OE. Beren, AS. Beran, beoran, to bear, carry, produce; akin to D. Baren to bring forth, G. Gebaren, Goth. Bairan to bear or carry, Icel. Bera, Sw. Bara, Dan. Baere, OHG. Beran, peran, L. Ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr, OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. Berim I bear, Skr. Bh to bear. Cf. Fertile. 1. <zoology> Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects. The European brown bear (U. Arctos), the white polar bear (U. Maritimus), the grizzly bear (U. Horribilis), the American black bear, and its variety the cinnamon bear (U. Americanus), the Syrian bear (Ursus Syriacus), and the sloth bear, are among the notable species. 2. <zoology> An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear. 3. <astronomy> One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. 4. Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person. 5. A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market. The bears and bulls of the Stock Exchange, whose interest it is, the one to depress, and the other to raise, stocks, are said to be so called in allusion to the bear's habit of pulling down, and the bull's of tossing up. 6. <machinery> A portable punching machine. 7. A block covered with coarse matting; used to scour the deck. Australian bear. <zoology> The hairy larva of a moth, especially. Of the genus Euprepia. Bear garden. A place where bears are kept for diversion or fighting. Any place where riotous conduct is common or permitted. Bear leader, one who leads about a performing bear for money; hence, a facetious term for one who takes charge of a young man on his travels. Origin: OE. Bere, AS. Bera; akin to D. Beer, OHG. Bero, pero, G. Bar, Icel. & Sw. Bjorn, and possibly to L. Fera wild beast, Gr. Beast, Skr. Bhalla bear. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bear's-breech | <botany> See Acanthus. The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bear's-ear | <botany> A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bear's-foot | <botany> A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bear's-paw | <zoology> A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bearberry | <botany> A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bearbind | <botany> The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| beard | 1. To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt. 2. To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance. "No admiral, bearded by three corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial." (Macaulay) 3. To deprive of the gills; used only of oysters and similar shellfish. Origin: Bearded; Bearding. 1. The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults. 2. <ornithology, zoology> The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat. The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes. The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle. The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster. In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies. 3. <botany> Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain. 4. A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out. 5. That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle. 6. That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face. 7. An imposition; a trick. <botany> Beard grass, a coarse, perennial grass of different species of the genus Andropogon. To one's beard, to one's face; in open defiance. Origin: OE. Berd, AS. Beard; akin to Fries. Berd, D. Baard, G. Bart, Lith. Barzda, OSlav. Brada, Pol. Broda, Russ. Boroda, L. Barba, W. Barf. Cf. 1st Barb. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bearded | Having a beard. "Bearded fellow." . "Bearded grain." . Bearded vulture, Bearded eagle. <zoology> See Matamata. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| beardie | <zoology> The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe. Origin: From Beard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bearer | 1. One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries. "Bearers of burdens." . "The bearer of unhappy news." 2. Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer. 3. A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant. 4. A tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer. 5. One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer. 6. A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bearing | 1. The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage. "I know him by his bearing." (Shak) 2. Patient endurance; suffering without complaint. 3. The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection. "But of this frame, the bearings and the ties, The strong connections, nice dependencies." (Pope) 4. Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect. 5. The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing. "[His mother] in travail of his bearing." (R. Of Gloucester) 6. That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall. The portion of a support on which anything rests. Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports. 7. <machinery> The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal. The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates. 8. Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms commonly in the pl. "A carriage covered with armorial bearings." (Thackeray) 9. The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W. Pl. The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast. Ball bearings. See Ball. To bring one to his bearings, to bring one to his senses. To lose one's bearings, to become bewildered. To take bearings, to ascertain by the compass the position of an object; to ascertain the relation of one object or place to another; to ascertain one's position by reference to landmarks or to the compass; hence, to ascertain the condition of things when one is in trouble or perplexity. Synonym: Deportment, gesture, mien, behavior, manner, carriage, demeanor, port, conduct, direction, relation, tendency, influence. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| beat |
come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast" shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares" drum: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us" move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind" stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream" strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically" be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!" avoid paying; "beat the subway fare" a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name" tick: make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" pulse: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart" move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping" rhythm: the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm" a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations pulsate: move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement" beatnik: a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest" produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum" the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum" meter: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat" outwit: beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" perplex: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe" the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing exhaust: wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" all in(p): very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip"
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a small ball with a hole through the middle form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example decorate by sewing beads onto; "bead the wedding gown" drop: a shape that is spherical and small; "he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"; "beads of sweat on his forehead" string together like beads beading: a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture
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| Beadle |
a minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves order at services United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989)
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| beaded lizard |
lizard with black and yellowish beadlike scales; of western Mexico
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| bearberry |
Bearberries are three species of dwarf shrubs in the genus Arctostaphylos. Unlike the other species of Arctostaphylos (see Manzanita), they are adapted to arctic and sub-arctic climates, and have a circumpolar distribution in northern North America, Asia and Europe, one with a small highly disjunct population in Central America. The name bearberry derives from the edible fruit, said to be greatly enjoyed by bears. Other names include Kinnikinnick and Mealberry. ...
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| BEA | herb with grayish leaves found along the east coast of North America |
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| BEA | a vagrant living on a beach |
| BEA | on a beach |
| BEA | a strip of land running along a beach |
| BEA | situated on a beach or having direct access to a beach |
| BEA | an area in hostile territory that has been occupied and is held for further troops and supplies |
| BEA | (of a shore or shoreline) having an extensive gently sloping area covered with sand or gravel or shingle down to the water line |
| BEA | clothing to be worn at a beach |
| BEA | (of a shore or shoreline) having an extensive gently sloping area covered with sand or gravel or shingle down to the water line |
| BEA | a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships |
| BEA | a radio station that broadcasts a directional signal for navigational purposes |
| BEA | a fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance |