Name Report For First Name BIAN:

BIAN

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

Rhymes with BIAN - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming BIAN

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BİAN AS A WHOLE:

fabiana bianca bibiana fabian

NAMES RHYMING WITH BİAN (According to last letters):

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

lilian germian sofian bedrosian izmirlian korian cyprian kristian sebastian urian iulian octavian traian burian christian dagian dian gillian jilian jillian kadian lillian lorian marian millian vivian adrian aidrian andrian blian brian cassian cian cillian cristian davian derrian dorian eldrian evian favian finian finnian gabrian gremian ian jadarian jamian jorian julian kavian khristian kian kilian killian laurian lucian maximilian o'brian ossian rian trevian wacian xavian gian damian andswarian erian anbidian arian astyrian derian ealdian gaderian leanian lufian nerian tilian treddian trymian warian werian wissian hadrian dacian maximillian tristian torrian

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

achan ayan iman lishan loiyan nishan saran anan hanan janan rukan sawsan

NAMES RHYMING WITH BİAN (According to first letters):

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

biaiardo biast

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

bibi bibsbebe bich bick bickford bicoir biddy bidelia bidina bidziil biecaford bienvenida biford bikr bilagaana bilal bilko bill billie billy bilqis bily bimisi binah binata bing binga binge bingen binh bink binta binyamin bir birch birche bird birde birdena birdhil birdhill birdie birdine birdoswald birdy birgit birj birk birkett birkey birkhe birkhead birkhed birkita birley birney biron birr birte birtel birtle bisgu bishop bishr bitanig biton bittan bitten bittor bitya bixenta

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BİAN:

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

baen baethan baibin bailintin bain bairrfhionn bairrfhoinn balduin baldwin baldwyn balen balin ban banain banan banbhan bannan baran bardan barden bardon baron barran barrington barron bartalan barton bastiaan bastien battseeyon battzion bawdewyn bayen baylen beacan beadutun beagan beagen bealantin beaman bean bearcban bearn beathan beaton bebeodan bebhinn becan beldan belden beldon belen bellerophon beltran ben ben-tziyon bendigeidfran bendision benedictson benen benjamin benkamin benn benon benson benton benzion beomann beorhttun beorn beretun berihun berlyn bern bernardyn berneen bernon berrin bertin berton bestandan besyrwan bethann bevan bevin bevyn bharain bheathain bhradain bjorn blagdan blagden blagdon boden bodgan bodwyn bogdan bohannon bohdan bolton

English Words Rhyming BIAN

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BİAN AS A WHOLE:

amoebiannoun (n.) One of the Amoebea.

amphibiannoun (n.) One of the Amphibia.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles.

anthobiannoun (n.) A beetle which feeds on flowers.

arabiannoun (n.) A native of Arabia; an Arab.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants.

babiannoun (n.) Alt. of Babion

biangularadjective (a.) Having two angles or corners.

biangulateadjective (a.) Alt. of Biangulated

biangulatedadjective (a.) Biangular.

biangulousadjective (a.) Biangular.

biantheriferousadjective (a.) Having two anthers.

biannualadjective (a.) Occurring twice a year; half-yearly; semiannual.

columbianadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the United States, or to America.

danubianadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or bordering on, the river Danube.

eugubianadjective (a.) Alt. of Eugubine

eusebiannoun (n.) A follower of Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, who was a friend and protector of Arius.

fabiannoun (n.) A member of, or sympathizer with, the Fabian Society.
 adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of, the Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman gens Fabia.
 adjective (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a society of socialists, organized in England in 1884 to spread socialistic principles gradually without violent agitation.

grobianadjective (a.) A rude or clownish person; boor; lout.

hemerobiannoun (n.) A neuropterous insect of the genus Hemerobius, and allied genera.

jacobianadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England.

lesbianadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the island anciently called Lesbos, now Mitylene, in the Grecian Archipelago.
 adjective (a.) Amatory; erotic; -- in allusion to the reputed sensuality of the Lesbian people and literature; as, Lesbian novels.

lesbianismnoun (n.) Unnatural sexual relations between women.

microbianadjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or caused by, microbes; as, the microbian theory; a microbian disease.

nubiannoun (n.) A native of Nubia.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Nubia in Eastern Africa.

rubiannoun (n.) One of several color-producing glycosides found in madder root.

rubianicadjective (a.) pertaining to, or derived from, rubian; specifically, designating an acid called also ruberythrinic acid.

sabiannoun (n.) An adherent of the Sabian religion; a worshiper of the heavenly bodies.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Saba in Arabia, celebrated for producing aromatic plants.
 adjective (a.) Relating to the religion of Saba, or to the worship of the heavenly bodies.

sabianismnoun (n.) The doctrine of the Sabians; the Sabian religion; that species of idolatry which consists in worshiping the sun, moon, and stars; heliolatry.

suburbianadjective (a.) Suburban.

suprapubianadjective (a.) Alt. of Suprapubic

zabiannoun (a. & n.) See Sabian.

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


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


abderianadjective (a.) Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.

abecedariannoun (n.) One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.
 noun (n.) One engaged in teaching the alphabet.
 adjective (a.) Alt. of Abecedary

abeliannoun (n.) Alt. of Abelonian

abeloniannoun (n.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.

absinthiannoun (n.) Of the nature of wormwood.

abyssiniannoun (n.) A native of Abyssinia.
 noun (n.) A member of the Abyssinian Church.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Abyssinia.

academiannoun (n.) A member of an academy, university, or college.

academiciannoun (n.) A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.
 noun (n.) A collegian.

acadiannoun (n.) A native of Acadie.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia.

acanthopterygiannoun (n.) A spiny-finned fish.
 adjective (a.) Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch.

accadianadjective (a.) Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest.

achaiannoun (n.) A native of Achaia; a Greek.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian.

acousticiannoun (n.) One versed in acoustics.

acroceraunianadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder-smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia.

adessenariannoun (n.) One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation.

adrianadjective (a.) Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows.

aeolianadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial.

aeonianadjective (a.) Eternal; everlasting.

aesculapianadjective (a.) Pertaining to Aesculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal.

agrariannoun (n.) One in favor of an equal division of landed property.
 noun (n.) An agrarian law.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens.
 adjective (a.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.

alabastrianadjective (a.) Alabastrine.

albaniannoun (n.) A native of Albania.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey.

albigensianadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Albigenses.

aleutianadjective (a.) Alt. of Aleutic

alexandrianadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library.
 adjective (a.) Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n.

algeriannoun (n.) A native of Algeria.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Algeria.

allophylianadjective (a.) Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic.

alogiannoun (n.) One of an ancient sect who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos.

alphabetariannoun (n.) A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian.

alsatiannoun (n.) An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to Alsatia.

altaianadjective (a.) Alt. of Altaic

altitudinarianadjective (a.) Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc.

amatorianadjective (a.) Amatory.

amazonianadjective (a.) Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Amazon in South America, or to its valley.

ambrosianadjective (a.) Ambrosial.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose.

ametabolianadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis.

amphicoelianadjective (a.) Alt. of Amphicoelous

angliannoun (n.) One of the Angles.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Angles.

antediluviannoun (n.) One who lived before the Deluge.
 adjective (a.) Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle.

antemeridianadjective (a.) Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.)

anthropophaginiannoun (n.) One who east human flesh.

antichristianadjective (a.) Opposed to the Christian religion.

antinomiannoun (n.) One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory.

antiochianadjective (a.) Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the city of Antioch, in Syria.

antiphlogistiannoun (n.) An opposer of the theory of phlogiston.

antiquariannoun (n.) An antiquary.
 noun (n.) A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature.

antiquitariannoun (n.) An admirer of antiquity. [Used by Milton in a disparaging sense.]

antisabbatariannoun (n.) One of a sect which opposes the observance of the Christian Sabbath.

anythingariannoun (n.) One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.

aonianadjective (a.) Pertaining to Aonia, in B/otia, or to the Muses, who were supposed to dwell there.

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


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


biacidadjective (a.) Having two hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by negative atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of bases. See Diacid.

biacuminateadjective (a.) Having points in two directions.

biarticulateadjective (a.) Having, or consisting of, tow joints.

biasnoun (n.) A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line.
 noun (n.) A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.
 noun (n.) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
 noun (n.) A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.
 adjective (a.) Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
 adjective (a.) Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
 adverb (adv.) In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.
 verb (v. t.) To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.

biasingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bias

biauriculateadjective (a.) Having two auricles, as the heart of mammals, birds, and reptiles.
 adjective (a.) Having two earlike projections at its base, as a leaf.

biaxaladjective (a.) Alt. of Biaxial

biaxialadjective (a.) Having two axes; as, biaxial polarization.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BİAN:

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

babionnoun (n.) A baboon.

baboonnoun (n.) One of the Old World Quadrumana, of the genera Cynocephalus and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape.

babyloniannoun (n.) An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.
 noun (n.) An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean.

bacchanaliannoun (n.) A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.

backdownnoun (n.) A receding or giving up; a complete surrender.

backgammonnoun (n.) A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables.
 verb (v. i.) In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first "table".

backwardationnoun (n.) The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango.

backwoodsmannoun (n.) A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States.

baconnoun (n.) The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh.

baconiannoun (n.) One who adheres to the philosophy of Lord Bacon.
 noun (n.) One who maintains that Lord Bacon is the author of the works commonly attributed to Shakespeare.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy.

bactriannoun (n.) A native of Bactria.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia.

badiannoun (n.) An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise.

badigeonnoun (n.) A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.
 noun (n.) A cement or distemper paste (as of plaster and powdered freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, etc.

badmintonnoun (n.) A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.
 noun (n.) A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.

bagmannoun (n.) A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen.

bainnoun (n.) A bath; a bagnio.

bairnnoun (n.) A child.

balconnoun (n.) A balcony.

baldachinnoun (n.) A rich brocade; baudekin.
 noun (n.) A structure in form of a canopy, sometimes supported by columns, and sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter's.
 noun (n.) A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession.

baldwinnoun (n.) A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple.

baleennoun (n.) Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

balloonnoun (n.) A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.
 noun (n.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
 noun (n.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
 noun (n.) A bomb or shell.
 noun (n.) A game played with a large inflated ball.
 noun (n.) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
 verb (v. t.) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
 verb (v. i.) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
 verb (v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.

ballotationnoun (n.) Voting by ballot.

ballotinnoun (n.) An officer who has charge of a ballot box.

balneationnoun (n.) The act of bathing.

balsamationnoun (n.) The act of imparting balsamic properties.
 noun (n.) The art or process of embalming.

bannoun (n.) A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.
 noun (n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.
 noun (n.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).
 noun (n.) An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription.
 noun (n.) A curse or anathema.
 noun (n.) A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
 noun (n.) An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.
 verb (v. t.) To curse; to invoke evil upon.
 verb (v. t.) To forbid; to interdict.
 verb (v. i.) To curse; to swear.

bandonnoun (n.) Disposal; control; license.

baniannoun (n.) A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.
 noun (n.) A man's loose gown, like that worn by the Banians.
 noun (n.) The Indian fig. See Banyan.

bannitionnoun (n.) The act of expulsion.

banyannoun (n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

baptizationnoun (n.) Baptism.

barbacannoun (n.) See Barbican.
 noun (n.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own.
 noun (n.) An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.

barbadiannoun (n.) A native of Barbados.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Barbados.

barbariannoun (n.) A foreigner.
 noun (n.) A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.
 noun (n.) A person destitute of culture.
 noun (n.) A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.
 adjective (a.) Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.

barbicannoun (n.) Alt. of Barbacan

barbitonnoun (n.) An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.

barconnoun (n.) A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean.

bargainnoun (n.) An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.
 noun (n.) An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
 noun (n.) A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.
 noun (n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap.
 noun (n.) To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.
 verb (v. t.) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.

bargemannoun (n.) The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.

barkenadjective (a.) Made of bark.

barleycornnoun (n.) A grain or "corn" of barley.
 noun (n.) Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch.

barnnoun (n.) A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables.
 noun (n.) A child. [Obs.] See Bairn.
 verb (v. t.) To lay up in a barn.

baronnoun (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.
 noun (n.) A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife.

barracannoun (n.) A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.

barracoonnoun (n.) A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily.

barrennoun (n.) A tract of barren land.
 noun (n.) Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile.
 adjective (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
 adjective (a.) Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile.
 adjective (a.) Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
 adjective (a.) Mentally dull; stupid.

bartizannoun (n.) A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

bartonnoun (n.) The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself.
 noun (n.) A farmyard.

basannoun (n.) Same as Basil, a sheepskin.

basebornadjective (a.) Born out of wedlock.
 adjective (a.) Born of low parentage.
 adjective (a.) Vile; mean.

basilicanadjective (a.) Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical.

basiliconnoun (n.) An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.

basinnoun (n.) A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
 noun (n.) The quantity contained in a basin.
 noun (n.) A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.
 noun (n.) A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.
 noun (n.) A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.
 noun (n.) The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.
 noun (n.) An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

basionnoun (n.) The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull.

basonnoun (n.) A basin.

basset hornadjective (a.) An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.
  () The corno di bassetto.

bassoonnoun (n.) A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.

bassorinnoun (n.) A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses.

bastionnoun (n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.

bastonnoun (n.) A staff or cudgel.
 noun (n.) See Baton.
 noun (n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court.

bataviannoun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Batavia or Holland.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe; or to (b) /atavia or Holland; as, a Batavian legion.

batmannoun (n.) A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.
 noun (n.) A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.

batonnoun (n.) A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.
 noun (n.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.

batoonnoun (n.) See Baton, and Baston.

batrachiannoun (n.) One of the Batrachia.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Batrachia.

batsmannoun (n.) The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.

battalionnoun (n.) A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.
 noun (n.) A regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp. when assembled for drill or battle.
 noun (n.) An infantry command of two or more companies, which is the tactical unit of the infantry, or the smallest command which is self-supporting upon the battlefield, and also the unit in which the strength of the infantry of an army is expressed.
 verb (v. t.) To form into battalions.

battonnoun (n.) See Batten, and Baton.

baudekinnoun (n.) The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad.

bavariannoun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bavaria.

baviannoun (n.) A baboon.

bavinnoun (n.) A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.
 noun (n.) Impure limestone.

bawnnoun (n.) An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure.
 noun (n.) A large house.

bawsinnoun (n.) Alt. of Bawson

bawsonnoun (n.) A badger.
 noun (n.) A large, unwieldy person.

beaconnoun (n.) A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
 noun (n.) A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.
 noun (n.) A high hill near the shore.
 noun (n.) That which gives notice of danger.
 verb (v. t.) To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish with a beacon or beacons.

beadsmannoun (n.) Alt. of Bedesman

bedesmannoun (n.) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.
 noun (n.) Same as Beadsman.

beadswomannoun (n.) Alt. of Bedeswoman

bedeswomannoun (n.) Fem. of Beadsman.

beakironnoun (n.) A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.

beannoun (n.) A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.
 noun (n.) The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans.

bearnnoun (n.) See Bairn.

bearskinnoun (n.) The skin of a bear.
 noun (n.) A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats.
 noun (n.) A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers.

beatenadjective (a.) Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.
 adjective (a.) Vanquished; conquered; baffled.
 adjective (a.) Exhausted; tired out.
 adjective (a.) Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase.
 adjective (a.) Tried; practiced.
  () of Beat

beatificationnoun (n.) The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization.

beaufinnoun (n.) See Biffin.

beaverteennoun (n.) A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing.

beckonnoun (n.) A sign made without words; a beck.
 verb (v. t.) To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand.

bedennoun (n.) The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.

bedgownnoun (n.) A nightgown.

bedouinnoun (n.) One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Bedouins; nomad.

bedpannoun (n.) A pan for warming beds.
 noun (n.) A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed.

beduinnoun (n.) See Bedouin.

beechenadjective (a.) Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech.

beginnoun (n.) Beginning.
 verb (v. i.) To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
 verb (v. i.) To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start.
 verb (v. t.) To enter on; to commence.
 verb (v. t.) To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of.

beguinnoun (n.) See Beghard.

behennoun (n.) Alt. of Behn

behnnoun (n.) The Centaurea behen, or saw-leaved centaury.
 noun (n.) The Cucubalus behen, or bladder campion, now called Silene inflata.
 noun (n.) The Statice limonium, or sea lavender.