Name Report For First Name BRIK:

BRIK

First name BRIK's origin is English. BRIK means "bridge". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BRIK below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of brik.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with BRIK and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with BRIK - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming BRIK

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BRİK AS A WHOLE:

 

NAMES RHYMING WITH BRİK (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (rik) - Names That Ends with rik:

erik frederik ulrik tarik adrik adalrik alarik aldrik alhrik alrik arik aurik baldrik bardarik broderik brodrik caddarik catterik cynerik cynrik dedrik edrik henrik kendrik kenrik meldrik orik orrik osrik rodrik wolfrik yerik ruodrik varik derik derrik roderik

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ik) - Names That Ends with ik:

menelik rafik wathik abdul-malik malik eznik otik pepik reznik tomik itzik azmik ahmik ashvik chadwik dominik koushik ludwik megedagik sedgewik selik stanwik ulvelaik wattik nik

NAMES RHYMING WITH BRİK (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bri) - Names That Begins with bri:

bri bria brian briana briann brianna briannah brianne briannon briant briar briareus briaunna brice brick brickman bricriu bricta brid bride bridger bridget bridgett bridgette briefbras briella brielle brien brienna brienne briet brietta brigantia brigbam brigette briggebam briggeham briggere brigham brighde brighid brighton brigid brigida brigidia brigitta brigitte brigliadoro brilynn brimlad brin brina brinleigh brinley brinton brion briona brione brioni brionna brionne briony brisa briseis brisha brishen brisia brissa brit brita britani brite brites britlee britney britomartus britta brittain brittan brittaney brittani brittanie brittany brittnee brittney brittni brittny britto britton brittyn briza

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (br) - Names That Begins with br:

bra brachah brad bradach bradaigh bradamate bradan bradana bradbourne

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BRİK:

First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'k':

barak bardrick barrak barrick beck bek benwick bercilak berk bernlak berwick berwyk bick bink birk black borak braddock breck brock broderick brodrick brok brook buck burbank burhbank

English Words Rhyming BRIK

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BRİK AS A WHOLE:

brikenoun (n.) A breach; ruin; downfall; peril.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BRİK (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (rik) - English Words That Ends with rik:


ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BRİK (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bri) - Words That Begins with bri:


briarnoun (n.) Same as Brier.
 noun (n.) A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.
 noun (n.) Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.

briareanadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed.

bribableadjective (a.) Capable of being bribed.

bribenoun (n.) A gift begged; a present.
 noun (n.) A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust.
 noun (n.) That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
 verb (v. t.) To rob or steal.
 verb (v. t.) To give or promise a reward or consideration to (a judge, juror, legislator, voter, or other person in a position of trust) with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct; to induce or influence by a bribe; to give a bribe to.
 verb (v. t.) To gain by a bribe; of induce as by a bribe.
 verb (v. i.) To commit robbery or theft.
 verb (v. i.) To give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or promise.

bribingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bribe

bribelessadjective (a.) Incapable of being bribed; free from bribes.

bribernoun (n.) A thief.
 noun (n.) One who bribes, or pays for corrupt practices.
 noun (n.) That which bribes; a bribe.

briberynoun (n.) Robbery; extortion.
 noun (n.) The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements.

bricknoun (n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.
 noun (n.) Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
 noun (n.) Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).
 noun (n.) A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.
 verb (v. t.) To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.
 verb (v. t.) To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them.

brickingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brick
 noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brisk

brickbatnoun (n.) A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4.

brickkilnnoun (n.) A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them.

bricklayernoun (n.) One whose occupation is to build with bricks.

bricklayingnoun (n.) The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks.

brickleadjective (a.) Brittle; easily broken.

bricklenessnoun (n.) Brittleness.

brickmakernoun (n.) One whose occupation is to make bricks.

brickworknoun (n.) Anything made of bricks.
 noun (n.) The act of building with or laying bricks.

brickyadjective (a.) Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust.

brickyardnoun (n.) A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.

bricolenoun (n.) A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.
 noun (n.) An ancient kind of military catapult.
 noun (n.) In court tennis, the rebound of a ball from a wall of the court; also, the side stroke or play by which the ball is driven against the wall; hence, fig., indirect action or stroke.
 noun (n.) A shot in which the cue ball is driven first against the cushion.

bridnoun (n.) A bird.

bridalnoun (n.) Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.
 noun (n.) A nuptial festival or ceremony; a marriage.

bridaltynoun (n.) Celebration of the nuptial feast.

bridenoun (n.) A woman newly married, or about to be married.
 noun (n.) Fig.: An object ardently loved.
 verb (v. t.) To make a bride of.

bridebednoun (n.) The marriage bed.

bridecakenoun (n.) Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding.

bridechambernoun (n.) The nuptial apartment.

bridegroomnoun (n.) A man newly married, or just about to be married.

brideknotnoun (n.) A knot of ribbons worn by a guest at a wedding; a wedding favor.

bridemaidnoun (n.) Alt. of Brideman

bridemannoun (n.) See Bridesmaid, Bridesman.

bridesmaidnoun (n.) A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding.

bridesmannoun (n.) A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the "best man."

bridestakenoun (n.) A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round.

bridewellnoun (n.) A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.

bridgenoun (n.) A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.
 noun (n.) Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
 noun (n.) The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument.
 noun (n.) A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.
 noun (n.) A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall.
 noun (n.) A card game resembling whist.
 verb (v. t.) To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river.
 verb (v. t.) To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.
 verb (v. t.) To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; -- generally with over.

bridgingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bridge

bridgeboardnoun (n.) A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened.
 noun (n.) A board or plank used as a bridge.

bridgeheadnoun (n.) A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tete-de-pont.

bridgelessadjective (a.) Having no bridge; not bridged.

bridgepotnoun (n.) The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle.

bridgetreenoun (n.) The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill.

bridgeingnoun (n.) The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight.

bridgeyadjective (a.) Full of bridges.

bridlenoun (n.) The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages.
 noun (n.) A restraint; a curb; a check.
 noun (n.) The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the tumbler, sear, etc.
 noun (n.) A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle.
 noun (n.) A mooring hawser.
 verb (v. t.) To put a bridle upon; to equip with a bridle; as, to bridle a horse.
 verb (v. t.) To restrain, guide, or govern, with, or as with, a bridle; to check, curb, or control; as, to bridle the passions; to bridle a muse.
 verb (v. i.) To hold up the head, and draw in the chin, as an expression of pride, scorn, or resentment; to assume a lofty manner; -- usually with up.

bridlingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bridle

bridlernoun (n.) One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle.

bridoonnoun (n.) The snaffle and rein of a military bridle, which acts independently of the bit, at the pleasure of the rider. It is used in connection with a curb bit, which has its own rein.

briefnoun (n.) A writ issuing from the chancery, directed to any judge ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into the case, and upon their verdict to pronounce sentence.
 noun (n.) A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.
 adjective (a.) Short in duration.
 adjective (a.) Concise; terse; succinct.
 adjective (a.) Rife; common; prevalent.
 adjective (a.) A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words.
 adjective (a.) An epitome.
 adjective (a.) An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument.
 adjective (a.) A writ; a breve. See Breve, n., 2.
 adverb (adv.) Briefly.
 adverb (adv.) Soon; quickly.
 verb (v. t.) To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BRİK:

English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 'k':

backaracknoun (n.) A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.
 noun (n.) See Bacharach.

backnoun (n.) A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
 noun (n.) A ferryboat. See Bac, 1.
 noun (n.) In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.
 noun (n.) An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge.
 noun (n.) The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail.
 noun (n.) The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney.
 noun (n.) The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.
 noun (n.) The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.
 noun (n.) A support or resource in reserve.
 noun (n.) The keel and keelson of a ship.
 noun (n.) The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.
 noun (n.) A garment for the back; hence, clothing.
 adjective (a.) Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements.
 adjective (a.) Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent.
 adjective (a.) Moving or operating backward; as, back action.
 verb (v. i.) To get upon the back of; to mount.
 verb (v. i.) To place or seat upon the back.
 verb (v. i.) To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.
 verb (v. i.) To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.
 verb (v. i.) To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
 verb (v. i.) To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.
 verb (v. i.) To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend.
 verb (v. i.) To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.
 verb (v. i.) To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.
 verb (v. i.) To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.
 verb (v. i.) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog.
 adverb (adv.) In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.
 adverb (adv.) To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it.
 adverb (adv.) To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.
 adverb (adv.) (Of time) In times past; ago.
 adverb (adv.) Away from contact; by reverse movement.
 adverb (adv.) In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.
 adverb (adv.) In a state of restraint or hindrance.
 adverb (adv.) In return, repayment, or requital.
 adverb (adv.) In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.
 adverb (adv.) In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent.

backracknoun (n.) Alt. of Backrag

bailiffwicknoun (n.) See Bailiwick.

bailiwicknoun (n.) The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.

banknoun (n.) A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.
 noun (n.) A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.
 noun (n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.
 noun (n.) The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.
 noun (n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.
 noun (n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
 noun (n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
 noun (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank.
 noun (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
 noun (n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.
 noun (n.) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc.
 noun (n.) A sort of table used by printers.
 noun (n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
 noun (n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.
 noun (n.) The building or office used for banking purposes.
 noun (n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
 noun (n.) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.
 noun (n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
 noun (n.) A group or series of objects arranged near together; as, a bank of electric lamps, etc.
 noun (n.) The lateral inclination of an aeroplane as it rounds a curve; as, a bank of 45¡ is easy; a bank of 90¡ is dangerous.
 verb (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
 verb (v. t.) To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.
 verb (v. t.) To pass by the banks of.
 verb (v. t.) To deposit in a bank.
 verb (v. i.) To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.
 verb (v. i.) To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.
 verb (v. i.) To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; -- said of a flying machine, an aerocurve, or the like.

bannocknoun (n.) A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England.

baresarknoun (n.) A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor.

barknoun (n.) The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.
 noun (n.) Alt. of Barque
 verb (v. t.) To strip the bark from; to peel.
 verb (v. t.) To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.
 verb (v. t.) To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.
 verb (v. t.) To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.
 verb (v. i.) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.
 verb (v. i.) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.

barleybreaknoun (n.) An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal.

barracknoun (n.) A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
 noun (n.) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
 verb (v. t.) To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops.
 verb (v. i.) To live or lodge in barracks.

basilicoknoun (n.) The basilisk.

basilisknoun (n.) A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.
 noun (n.) A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidae.
 noun (n.) A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size.

bassocknoun (n.) A hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.

baudricknoun (n.) A belt. See Baldric.

bauknoun (n. & v.) Alt. of Baulk

baulknoun (n. & v.) See Balk.

bawcocknoun (n.) A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment.

bawdricknoun (n.) A belt. See Baldric.

beadworknoun (n.) Ornamental work in beads.

beaknoun (n.) The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds.
 noun (n.) A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles.
 noun (n.) The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
 noun (n.) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
 noun (n.) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
 noun (n.) Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land.
 noun (n.) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
 noun (n.) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
 noun (n.) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
 noun (n.) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
 noun (n.) A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.).
 noun (n.) A magistrate or policeman.

becknoun (n.) See Beak.
 noun (n.) A small brook.
 noun (n.) A vat. See Back.
 noun (n.) A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command.
 verb (v. i.) To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand.
 verb (v. t.) To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to.

bedstocknoun (n.) The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead.

bedticknoun (n.) A tick or bag made of cloth, used for inclosing the materials of a bed.

beefsteaknoun (n.) A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling.

beetlestocknoun (n.) The handle of a beetle.

benedicknoun (n.) A married man, or a man newly married.

bergomasknoun (n.) A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.

berserknoun (n.) Alt. of Berserker

bespeaknoun (n.) A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.)
 verb (v. t.) To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.
 verb (v. t.) To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate.
 verb (v. t.) To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances.
 verb (v. t.) To speak to; to address.
 verb (v. i.) To speak.

bibcocknoun (n.) A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle.

bierbalknoun (n.) A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals.

bilcocknoun (n.) The European water rail.

bilknoun (n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
 noun (n.) A cheat; a trick; a hoax.
 noun (n.) Nonsense; vain words.
 noun (n.) A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person.
 verb (v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor.

billhooknoun (n.) A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.

binknoun (n.) A bench.

birknoun (n.) A birch tree.
 noun (n.) A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus).

birthmarknoun (n.) Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth.

bisknoun (n.) Soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh together.
 noun (n.) See Bisque.

bitstocknoun (n.) A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.

bittocknoun (n.) A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance.

blacknoun (n.) That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black.
 noun (n.) A black pigment or dye.
 noun (n.) A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.
 noun (n.) A black garment or dress; as, she wears black
 noun (n.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
 noun (n.) The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
 noun (n.) A stain; a spot; a smooch.
 adjective (a.) Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.
 adjective (a.) In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.
 adjective (a.) Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.
 adjective (a.) Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
 adjective (a.) To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
 adjective (a.) To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.
 adverb (adv.) Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.

blackcocknoun (n.) The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); -- so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.

blackworknoun (n.) Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths.

blanknoun (n.) Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.
 noun (n.) A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
 noun (n.) A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form.
 noun (n.) A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.
 noun (n.) The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.
 noun (n.) Aim; shot; range.
 noun (n.) A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence.
 noun (n.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
 noun (n.) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank."
 adjective (a.) Of a white or pale color; without color.
 adjective (a.) Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.
 adjective (a.) Utterly confounded or discomfited.
 adjective (a.) Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.
 adjective (a.) Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.
 adjective (a.) Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant.
 adjective (a.) Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.
 verb (v. t.) To make void; to annul.
 verb (v. t.) To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.

blauboknoun (n.) The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue.

bleakadjective (a.) Without color; pale; pallid.
 adjective (a.) Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
 adjective (a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.
 adjective (a.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.

blesboknoun (n.) A South African antelope (Alcelaphus albifrons), having a large white spot on the forehead.

blocknoun (n.) To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor.
 noun (n.) To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.
 noun (n.) To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat.
 noun (n.) In Australia, one of the large lots into which public land, when opened to settlers, is divided by the government surveyors.
 noun (n.) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
 noun (n.) A block hole.
 noun (n.) The popping crease.
 verb (v. t.) A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc.
 verb (v. t.) The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded.
 verb (v. t.) The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
 verb (v. t.) The pattern or shape of a hat.
 verb (v. t.) A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops.
 verb (v. t.) A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not.
 verb (v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles.
 verb (v. t.) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
 verb (v. t.) Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way.
 verb (v. t.) A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work.
 verb (v. t.) A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.
 verb (v. t.) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
 verb (v. t.) A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below.

bloodsticknoun (n.) A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein.

bluebacknoun (n.) A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine.
 noun (n.) A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and northward.
 noun (n.) An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife.

bobbinworknoun (n.) Work woven with bobbins.

bobolinknoun (n.) An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln.

bodocknoun (n.) The Osage orange.

boneblacknoun (n.) See Bone black, under Bone, n.

bonteboknoun (n.) The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga). Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni.

booknoun (n.) A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.
 noun (n.) A composition, written or printed; a treatise.
 noun (n.) A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."
 noun (n.) A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.
 noun (n.) Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.
 verb (v. t.) To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
 verb (v. t.) To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.
 verb (v. t.) To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory.

bookmarknoun (n.) Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

bookworknoun (n.) Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work.
 noun (n.) Study; application to books.

bootblacknoun (n.) One who blacks boots.

bootjacknoun (n.) A device for pulling off boots.

bootlicknoun (n.) A toady.

boshboknoun (n.) A kind of antelope. See Bush buck.

boshvarknoun (n.) The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket.

bosknoun (n.) A thicket; a small wood.

bouknoun (n.) The body.
 noun (n.) Bulk; volume.

bouleworknoun (n.) Same as Buhl, Buhlwork.

bracknoun (n.) An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.
 noun (n.) Salt or brackish water.

brainsickadjective (a.) Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.

branknoun (n.) Buckwheat.
 noun (n.) Alt. of Branks
 verb (v. i.) To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit.
 verb (v. i.) To prance; to caper.

breaknoun (n.) See Commutator.
 verb (v. t.) To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock.
 verb (v. t.) To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods.
 verb (v. t.) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
 verb (v. t.) To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise.
 verb (v. t.) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey.
 verb (v. t.) To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set.
 verb (v. t.) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares.
 verb (v. t.) To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments.
 verb (v. t.) To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill.
 verb (v. t.) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax.
 verb (v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind.
 verb (v. t.) To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow.
 verb (v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend.
 verb (v. t.) To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle.
 verb (v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin.
 verb (v. t.) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
 verb (v. i.) To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder.
 verb (v. i.) To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag.
 verb (v. i.) To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn.
 verb (v. i.) To burst forth violently, as a storm.
 verb (v. i.) To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking.
 verb (v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
 verb (v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking.
 verb (v. i.) To fall in business; to become bankrupt.
 verb (v. i.) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop.
 verb (v. i.) To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty.
 verb (v. i.) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
 verb (v. t.) An opening made by fracture or disruption.
 verb (v. t.) An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship.
 verb (v. t.) A projection or recess from the face of a building.
 verb (v. t.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current.
 verb (v. t.) An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation.
 verb (v. t.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc.
 verb (v. t.) The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn.
 verb (v. t.) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.
 verb (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10.

breaknecknoun (n.) A fall that breaks the neck.
 noun (n.) A steep place endangering the neck.
 adjective (a.) Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed.

breasthooknoun (n.) A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side.

breastworknoun (n.) A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.
 noun (n.) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.

breechblocknoun (n.) The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.

brinknoun (n.) The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig.

briskadjective (a.) Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
 adjective (a.) Full of spirit of life; effervesc/ng, as liquors; sparkling; as, brick cider.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up.

brocknoun (n.) A badger.
 noun (n.) A brocket.

broomsticknoun (n.) A stick used as a handle of a broom.

brownbacknoun (n.) The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.

bruskadjective (a.) Same as Brusque.

bucknoun (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
 noun (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
 noun (n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
 noun (n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
 noun (n.) A male Indian or negro.
 noun (n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
 noun (n.) The beech tree.
 verb (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
 verb (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
 verb (v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
 verb (v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.
 verb (v. i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.
 verb (v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
 verb (v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.

buhlworknoun (n.) Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc.

bulknoun (n.) Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.
 noun (n.) The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.
 noun (n.) The cargo of a vessel when stowed.
 noun (n.) The body.
 verb (v. i.) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.
 verb (v.) A projecting part of a building.

bullocknoun (n.) A young bull, or any male of the ox kind.
 noun (n.) An ox, steer, or stag.
 verb (v. t.) To bully.

bullyrocknoun (n.) A bully.

bulwarknoun (n.) A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.
 noun (n.) That which secures against an enemy, or defends from attack; any means of defense or protection.
 noun (n.) The sides of a ship above the upper deck.
 verb (v. t.) To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect.

bunknoun (n.) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
 noun (n.) One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.
 noun (n.) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
 verb (v. i.) To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in.

burdocknoun (n.) A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.

burrocknoun (n.) A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed.

busknoun (n.) A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.
 noun (n.) Among the Creek Indians, a feast of first fruits celebrated when the corn is ripe enough to be eaten. The feast usually continues four days. On the first day the new fire is lighted, by friction of wood, and distributed to the various households, an offering of green corn, including an ear brought from each of the four quarters or directions, is consumed, and medicine is brewed from snakeroot. On the second and third days the men physic with the medicine, the women bathe, the two sexes are taboo to one another, and all fast. On the fourth day there are feasting, dancing, and games.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To go; to direct one's course.

buttermilknoun (n.) The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.

buttocknoun (n.) The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump.
 noun (n.) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.

byworknoun (n.) Work aside from regular work; subordinate or secondary business.

bergstocknoun (n.) A long pole with a spike at the end, used in climbing mountains; an alpenstock.