Name Report For First Name BRUS:

BRUS

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

Rhymes with BRUS - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming BRUS

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BRUS AS A WHOLE:

ambrus

NAMES RHYMING WITH BRUS (According to last letters):

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

butrus peredurus ondrus theodorus horus seorus abderus archemorus cerberus cyrus eurus icarus irus pandarus polydorus zephyrus jairus lazarus tyrus homerus florus petrus

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

el-nefous enygeus caeneus cestus iasius lotus negus maccus dabbous dassous fanous abdul-quddus boulus yunus dryhus thaddeus bagdemagus brademagus isdernus britomartus luxovious nemausus argus ambrosius batholomeus basilius bonifacius cecilius clementius egidius eugenius eustatius darius aldous brutus cassibellaunus guiderius lorineus ferragus marsilius senapus marcus alemannus klaus absyrtus acastus achelous aconteus acrisius admetus adrastus aeacus aegeus aegisthus aegyptus aeolus aesculapius alcinous alcyoneus aloeus alpheus amphiaraus amycus anastasius ancaeus androgeus antaeus antilochus antinous aristaeus ascalaphus asopus atreus autolycus avernus boethius briareus cadmus

NAMES RHYMING WITH BRUS (According to first letters):

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

bru bruce brucie bruhier brun bruna brune brunella brunelle brunetta brunhild brunhilda brunhilde bruno brunon

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

bra brachah brad bradach bradaigh bradamate bradan bradana bradbourne bradburn bradd braddock braddon braden bradene bradey bradford bradig bradleah bradlee bradley bradly bradon bradshaw bradwell brady bradyn braeden braedon braedyn braelyn braemwiella braiana braiden brain brainard brainerd brale braleah bram bramley bramwell bran brand branda brandan branddun brande brandee brandeis brandeles brandelis brandelyn branden brandi brandice brandie brandilyn brandin brando brandon brandubh branduff brandy brandyce brandyn brangaine brangore brangorre branhard branigan brann brannan brannen brannon branor bransan branson brant brantley branton brantson branwen branwyn braoin

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BRUS:

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

baccaus baccus balqis baltsaros barnabas bates baucis beathas beaumains beauvais beitris bellinus benes berniss bersules bes bess bevis bilqis blais blas bleoberis bliss bliths blyss boas boghos bohous boreas bors brehus brendis brenius brennus briefbras briseis brites brooks brys burgeis burgess burns busiris byrnes

English Words Rhyming BRUS

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BRUS AS A WHOLE:

brushnoun (n.) An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.
 noun (n.) The bushy tail of a fox.
 noun (n.) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
 noun (n.) Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.
 noun (n.) A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.
 noun (n.) A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.
 noun (n.) The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed.
 noun (n.) A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy.
 noun (n.) A short contest, or trial, of speed.
 noun (n.) To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.
 noun (n.) To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.
 noun (n.) To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off.
 noun (n.) In Australia, a dense growth of vegetation in good soil, including shrubs and trees, mostly small.
 verb (v. i.) To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.

brushingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brush
 adjective (a.) Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine.
 adjective (a.) Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop.

brushernoun (n.) One who, or that which, brushes.

brushinessnoun (n.) The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess.

brushitenoun (n.) A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.

brushwoodnoun (n.) Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.
 noun (n.) Small branches of trees cut off.

brushyadjective (a.) Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.

bruskadjective (a.) Same as Brusque.

brusqueadjective (a.) Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; bluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style.

brusquenessnoun (n.) Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; bluntness.

brusselsnoun (n.) A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc.

brustlingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brustle

brustlenoun (n.) A bristle.
 verb (v. i.) To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment.
 verb (v. i.) To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.

dustbrushnoun (n.) A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.

hairbrushnoun (n.) A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair.

kneebrushnoun (n.) A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.
 noun (n.) A thick mass or collection of hairs on the legs of bees, by aid of which they carry the collected pollen to the hive or nest; -- usually in the plural.

labrusnoun (n.) A genus of marine fishes, including the wrasses of Europe. See Wrasse.

nailbrushnoun (n.) A brush for cleaning the nails.

sagebrushnoun (n.) A low irregular shrub (Artemisia tridentata), of the order Compositae, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains; -- called also sagebush, and wild sage.

scratchbrushnoun (n.) A stiff wire brush for cleaning iron castings and other metal.

toothbrushnoun (n.) A brush for cleaning the teeth.

underbrushnoun (n.) Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.

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


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


acarusnoun (n.) A genus including many species of small mites.

arcturusnoun (n.) A fixed star of the first magnitude in the constellation Bootes.

birrusnoun (n.) A coarse kind of thick woolen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages; also, a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or over the head.

bosporusnoun (n.) A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof.

brontosaurusnoun (n.) A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles.

camarasaurusnoun (n.) A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae.

carusnoun (n.) Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.

ceratosaurusnoun (n.) A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

cerberusnoun (n.) A monster, in the shape of a three-headed dog, guarding the entrance into the infernal regions, Hence: Any vigilant custodian or guardian, esp. if surly.
 noun (n.) A genus of East Indian serpents, allied to the pythons; the bokadam.

chorusnoun (n.) A band of singers and dancers.
 noun (n.) A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus.
 noun (n.) An interpreter in a dumb show or play.
 noun (n.) A company of singers singing in concert.
 noun (n.) A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.
 noun (n.) Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts.
 noun (n.) The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.
 verb (v. i.) To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.

churrusnoun (n.) A powerfully narcotic and intoxicating gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp.

cirrusnoun (n.) A tendril or clasper.
 noun (n.) A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri.
 noun (n.) The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychaeta.
 noun (n.) The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.
 noun (n.) See under Cloud.

citrusnoun (n.) A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.

coenurusnoun (n.) The larval stage of a tapeworm (Taenia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid.

corchorusnoun (n.) The common name of the Kerria Japonica or Japan globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in old-fashioned gardens.

crusnoun (n.) That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and the ankle, or tarsus; the shank.
 noun (n.) Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a pair of muscles attached to it; crura cerebri, two bundles of nerve fibers in the base of the brain, connecting the medulla and the forebrain.

cryophorusnoun (n.) An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs, connected by a tube of the same material, and containing only a quantity of water and its vapor, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below 32¡ Fahr.

cyperusnoun (n.) A large genus of plants belonging to the Sedge family, and including the species called galingale, several bulrushes, and the Egyptian papyrus.

cyprusnoun (n.) A thin, transparent stuff, the same as, or corresponding to, crape. It was either white or black, the latter being most common, and used for mourning.

elasmosaurusnoun (n.) An extinct, long-necked, marine, cretaceous reptile from Kansas, allied to Plesiosaurus.

electrophorusnoun (n.) An instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal.

eosaurusnoun (n.) An extinct marine reptile from the coal measures of Nova Scotia; -- so named because supposed to be of the earliest known reptiles.

eurusnoun (n.) The east wind.

eurypterusnoun (n.) A genus of extinct Merostomata, found in Silurian rocks. Some of the species are more than three feet long.

gyrusnoun (n.) A convoluted ridge between grooves; a convolution; as, the gyri of the brain; the gyri of brain coral. See Brain.

hadrosaurusnoun (n.) An American herbivorous dinosaur of great size, allied to the iguanodon. It is found in the Cretaceous formation.

hesperusnoun (n.) Venus when she is the evening star; Hesper.
 noun (n.) Evening.

homarusnoun (n.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including the common lobsters.

humerusnoun (n.) The bone of the brachium, or upper part of the arm or fore limb.
 noun (n.) The part of the limb containing the humerus; the brachium.

hydrusnoun (n.) A constellation of the southern hemisphere, near the south pole.

hylaeosaurusnoun (n.) A large Wealden dinosaur from the Tilgate Forest, England. It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and armed with spines.

ichthyosaurusnoun (n.) An extinct genus of marine reptiles; -- so named from their short, biconcave vertebrae, resembling those of fishes. Several species, varying in length from ten to thirty feet, are known from the Liassic, Oolitic, and Cretaceous formations.

icterusadjective (a.) The jaundice.

jeterusnoun (n.) A yellowness of the parts of plants which are normally green; yellows.

laurusnoun (n.) A genus of trees including, according to modern authors, only the true laurel (Laurus nobilis), and the larger L. Canariensis of Madeira and the Canary Islands. Formerly the sassafras, the camphor tree, the cinnamon tree, and several other aromatic trees and shrubs, were also referred to the genus Laurus.

malapterurusnoun (n.) A genus of African siluroid fishes, including the electric catfishes. See Electric cat, under Electric.

mastodonsaurusnoun (n.) A large extinct genus of labyrinthodonts, found in the European Triassic rocks.

megalosaurusnoun (n.) A gigantic carnivorous dinosaur, whose fossil remains have been found in England and elsewhere.

merusnoun (n.) See Meros.

morosaurusnoun (n.) An extinct genus of large herbivorous dinosaurs, found in Jurassic strata in America.

morusnoun (n.) A genus of trees, some species of which produce edible fruit; the mulberry. See Mulberry.

mosasaurusnoun (n.) A genus of extinct marine reptiles allied to the lizards, but having the body much elongated, and the limbs in the form of paddles. The first known species, nearly fifty feet in length, was discovered in Cretaceous beds near Maestricht, in the Netherlands.

mososaurusnoun (n.) Same as Mosasaurus.

oestrusnoun (n.) A genus of gadflies. The species which deposits its larvae in the nasal cavities of sheep is oestrus ovis.
 noun (n.) A vehement desire; esp. (Physiol.), the periodical sexual impulse of animals; heat; rut.

paleosaurusnoun (n.) A genus of fossil saurians found in the Permian formation.

palinurusnoun (n.) An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass

papyrusnoun (n.) A tall rushlike plant (Cyperus Papyrus) of the Sedge family, formerly growing in Egypt, and now found in Abyssinia, Syria, Sicily, etc. The stem is triangular and about an inch thick.
 noun (n.) The material upon which the ancient Egyptians wrote. It was formed by cutting the stem of the plant into thin longitudinal slices, which were gummed together and pressed.
 noun (n.) A manuscript written on papyrus; esp., pl., written scrolls made of papyrus; as, the papyri of Egypt or Herculaneum.

pentamerusnoun (n.) A genus of extinct Paleozoic brachiopods, often very abundant in the Upper Silurian.

phoenicopterusnoun (n.) A genus of birds which includes the flamingoes.

phosphorusnoun (n.) The morning star; Phosphor.
 noun (n.) A poisonous nonmetallic element of the nitrogen group, obtained as a white, or yellowish, translucent waxy substance, having a characteristic disagreeable smell. It is very active chemically, must be preserved under water, and unites with oxygen even at ordinary temperatures, giving a faint glow, -- whence its name. It always occurs compined, usually in phosphates, as in the mineral apatite, in bones, etc. It is used in the composition on the tips of friction matches, and for many other purposes. The molecule contains four atoms. Symbol P. Atomic weight 31.0.
 noun (n.) Hence, any substance which shines in the dark like phosphorus, as certain phosphorescent bodies.

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


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


bruangnoun (n.) The Malayan sun bear.

brucinenoun (n.) A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nux vomica. It is less powerful than strychnine. Called also brucia and brucina.

brucitenoun (n.) A white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like talc, and also fibrous; a native magnesium hydrate.
 noun (n.) The mineral chondrodite.

bruckeledadjective (a.) Wet and dirty; begrimed.

bruhnoun (n.) The rhesus monkey. See Rhesus.

bruinadjective (a.) A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.

bruisingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bruise

bruisenoun (n.) An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.
 verb (v. t.) To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.
 verb (v. t.) To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
 verb (v. i.) To fight with the fists; to box.

bruisernoun (n.) One who, or that which, bruises.
 noun (n.) A boxer; a pugilist.
 noun (n.) A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes.

bruisewortnoun (n.) A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.

bruitnoun (n.) Report; rumor; fame.
 noun (n.) An abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation.
 verb (v. t.) To report; to noise abroad.

bruitingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bruit

brumairenoun (n.) The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.

brumaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to winter.

brumenoun (n.) Mist; fog; vapors.

brummagemadjective (a.) Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham.

brumousadjective (a.) Foggy; misty.

brunnoun (n.) Same as Brun, a brook.

brunetteadjective (a.) A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion.
 adjective (a.) Having a dark tint.

brunionnoun (n.) A nectarine.

brunonianadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.

brutnoun (n.) To browse.
 noun (n.) See Birt.

brutanoun (n.) See Edentata.

brutaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature.
 adjective (a.) Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners.

brutalismnoun (n.) Brutish quality; brutality.

brutalitynoun (n.) The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.
 noun (n.) An inhuman act.

brutalizationnoun (n.) The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.

brutalizingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brutalize

brutenoun (n.) An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.
 noun (n.) A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.
 adjective (a.) Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
 adjective (a.) Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.
 adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.
 adjective (a.) Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.
 adjective (a.) Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.
 verb (v. t.) To report; to bruit.

brutenessnoun (n.) Brutality.
 noun (n.) Insensibility.

brutifyingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brutify

brutishadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.

brutismnoun (n.) The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.

brutingnoun (n.) Browsing.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BRUS:

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

bacchiusnoun (n.) A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.

bacchusnoun (n.) The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.

bacciferousadjective (a.) Producing berries.

baccivorousadjective (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds.

bacillusnoun (n.) A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.

backhandednessnoun (n.) State of being backhanded; the using of backhanded or indirect methods.

backlessadjective (a.) Without a back.

backsnoun (n. pl.) Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.

backstairsadjective (a.) Alt. of Backstair

backstressnoun (n.) A female baker.

backwardnessnoun (n.) The state of being backward.

backwoodsnoun (n. pl.) The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.

badderlocksnoun (n.) A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.

badgelessadjective (a.) Having no badge.

badnessnoun (n.) The state of being bad.

baisemainsnoun (n. pl.) Respects; compliments.

balaniferousadjective (a.) Bearing or producing acorns.

balanoglossusnoun (n.) A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and Tornaria.

balbutiesnoun (n.) The defect of stammering; also, a kind of incomplete pronunciation.

baldnessnoun (n.) The state or condition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style.

balefulnessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being baleful.

ballisticsnoun (n.) The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine.

balsamiferousadjective (a.) Producing balsam.

balsamousadjective (a.) Having the quality of balsam; containing balsam.

bancusnoun (n.) Alt. of Bank

bankeressnoun (n.) A female banker.

bannsnoun (n. pl.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place.

barbadosnoun (n.) Alt. of Barbadoes

barbadoesnoun (n.) A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc.

barbarousadjective (a.) Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
 adjective (a.) Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.
 adjective (a.) Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.
 adjective (a.) Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.

barbarousnessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism.

barbiersnoun (n.) A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form.

barbigerousadjective (a.) Having a beard; bearded; hairy.

barefacednessnoun (n.) The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.

barenessnoun (n.) The state of being bare.

barklessadjective (a.) Destitute of bark.

baronessnoun (n.) A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.

barrasnoun (n.) A resin, called also galipot.

barrennessnoun (n.) The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness.

barytesnoun (n.) Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite. See Barite.

baselessadjective (a.) Without a base; having no foundation or support.

basenessnoun (n.) The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.

bashfulnessnoun (n.) The quality of being bashful.

bashlessadjective (a.) Shameless; unblushing.

basisnoun (n.) The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.
 noun (n.) The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue.
 noun (n.) The ground work the first or fundamental principle; that which supports.
 noun (n.) The principal component part of a thing.

bassnoun (n.) An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.
 noun (n.) The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass.
 noun (n.) Species of Serranus, the sea bass and rock bass. See Sea bass.
 noun (n.) The southern, red, or channel bass (Sciaena ocellata). See Redfish.
 noun (n.) The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See Bast.
 noun (n.) A hassock or thick mat.
 adjective (a.) A bass, or deep, sound or tone.
 adjective (a.) The lowest part in a musical composition.
 adjective (a.) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, bass.
 adjective (a.) Deep or grave in tone.
 verb (v. t.) To sound in a deep tone.
  (pl. ) of Bass

basylousadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, a basyle; electro-positive; basic; -- opposed to chlorous.

batatasnoun (n.) Alt. of Batata

batelessadjective (a.) Not to be abated.

bathosnoun (n.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

bathybiusnoun (n.) A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin.

batrachophagousadjective (a.) Feeding on frogs.

battailousnoun (n.) Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike.

bawdinessnoun (n.) Obscenity; lewdness.

baysnoun (n.) Alt. of Bayze

beaconlessadjective (a.) Having no beacon.

beaminessnoun (n.) The state of being beamy.

beamlessadjective (a.) Not having a beam.
 adjective (a.) Not emitting light.

beardlessadjective (a.) Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful.
 adjective (a.) Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.

beardlessnessnoun (n.) The state or quality of being destitute of beard.

bearishnessnoun (n.) Behavior like that of a bear.

beastingsnoun (n. pl.) See Biestings.

beastlinessnoun (n.) The state or quality of being beastly.

beauteousadjective (a.) Full of beauty; beautiful; very handsome.

beautilessadjective (a.) Destitute of beauty.

becomingnessnoun (n.) The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness.

bedclothesnoun (n. pl.) Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.

beerinessnoun (n.) Beery condition.

beestingsnoun (n.) Same as Biestings.
 noun (n. pl.) The first milk given by a cow after calving.

beevesnoun (n.) plural of Beef, the animal.

beggarlinessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.

beholdingnessnoun (n.) The state of being obliged or beholden.

bellicousadjective (a.) Bellicose.

bellowsnoun (n. sing. & pl.) An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind.

benedictusadjective (a.) The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version.

benefactressnoun (n.) A woman who confers a benefit.

beneficelessadjective (a.) Having no benefice.

beneficialnessnoun (n.) The quality of being beneficial; profitableness.

benevolousadjective (a.) Kind; benevolent.

betternessnoun (n.) The quality of being better or superior; superiority.
 noun (n.) The difference by which fine gold or silver exceeds in fineness the standard.

bewilderednessnoun (n.) The state of being bewildered; bewilderment.

bewitchednessnoun (n.) The state of being bewitched.

biangulousadjective (a.) Biangular.

biantheriferousadjective (a.) Having two anthers.

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.

bibaciousadjective (a.) Addicted to drinking.

bibbsnoun (n. pl.) Pieces of timber bolted to certain parts of a mast to support the trestletrees.

bicallousadjective (a.) Having two callosities or hard spots.

bicephalousadjective (a.) Having two heads.

bicepsnoun (n.) A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.

bicipitousadjective (a.) Having two heads; bicipital.

bicornousadjective (a.) Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.

biestingsnoun (n. pl.) Alt. of Beestings

bifariousadjective (a.) Twofold; arranged in two rows.
 adjective (a.) Pointing two ways, as leaves that grow only on opposite sides of a branch; in two vertical rows.

biferousadjective (a.) Bearing fruit twice a year.

biflorousadjective (a.) Bearing two flowers; two-flowered.

biforousadjective (a.) See Biforate.

bifurcousadjective (a.) See Bifurcate, a.

bigamousadjective (a.) Guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy; as, a bigamous marriage.

bignessnoun (n.) The state or quality of being big; largeness; size; bulk.