Name Report For First Name BERT:

BERT

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

Rhymes with BERT - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming BERT

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BERT AS A WHOLE:

alberta bertilde elberta albertine fusberta bertuska cuthbert sigebert berti bertram radbert wilbert aubert robert rambert adelbert aberto aberthol alberteen albertina albertyna albertyne auberta berta bertha berthe bertilda bertina egbertina egbertine egbertyne elberte elbertina elbertine elbertyna engelbertha engelbertina engelbertine felberta filberta hrothberta hrothbertina norberte robertia adalbert aethelbert ailbert albert alberto bertie bertin berto bertrand calbert colbert culbert dealbert delbert elbert englebert fitzgilbert gilberto giselbert guilbert heriberto herlbert hubert humberto inglebert kuhlbert kulbert lambert norberto roberto robertson sebert tahbert talbert bertrando tabbert odbert orbert hulbert berthold seabert osbert hurlbert halbert gilbert filbert ethelbert egbert edbert dalbert berton norberta huberta gilberta engleberta roberta elberti egberta bertrade eadbert felisberta dagoberto ingelbert liberty philberta norbert herbert

NAMES RHYMING WITH BERT (According to last letters):

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

mert auhert calvert colvert evert odhert pert sigenert wilpert rupert ewert stewert mert-sekert

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

meht-urt beircheart domingart everhart hart florismart raibeart taggart hobart baldhart stockhart alburt art bart bohort bort burkhart burt cort culbart curt eadburt eawart ewart gilburt gilibeirt gilleabart halbart halburt heort hulbart hurlbart kort kulbart kurt lambart odbart orbart osbart osburt radburt ramhart seaburt stewart stuart tabbart urquhart wilbart wilburt wurt rainart englbehrt bogart filburt wirt aart comfort beaufort harcourt court

NAMES RHYMING WITH BERT (According to first letters):

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

ber berakhiah berangari berangaria berchtwald bercilak bercleah berde berdina berdine berdy berend berengaria berenice beresford beretun berford berg bergitte berhane berhanu beric berihun berinhard berit berk berke berkeley berkle berkley berlyn bern bernadea bernadette bernadina bernadine bernard bernarda bernardo bernardyn bernd berne berneen bernelle bernetta bernette bernhard bernia bernice bernicia berniss bernita bernlak bernon bernot bernyce beroe berowalt berrin bersules beruriah berwick berwyk beryl beryx

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

beacan beacher beadu beadurinc beadurof beadutun beadwof beagan beagen beal bealantin beale beall bealohydig beaman beamard beamer bean bearacb bearach bearcban bearn bearnard bearrocscir beartlaidh beat beatha beathag beathan beathas beatie beaton beatrice beatricia beatrisa

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BERT:

First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 't':

bancroft barnet barnett barret barrett bartlett bast bastet batt bemot benat benecroft bennet bennett bent beorht beornet biast birgit birkett bliant bogohardt brant brendt brent bret brett briant bridget bridgett briet brit bryant burcet burdett burhardt burkett burnet burnett

English Words Rhyming BERT

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BERT AS A WHOLE:

albertitenoun (n.) A bituminous mineral resembling asphaltum, found in the county of A. /bert, New Brunswick.

albertypenoun (n.) A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.

berthnoun (n.) Convenient sea room.
 noun (n.) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
 noun (n.) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.
 noun (n.) An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment.
 noun (n.) A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.
 verb (v. t.) To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.
 verb (v. t.) To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company.

berthingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Berth
 noun (n.) The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake.

berthanoun (n.) A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.

berthagenoun (n.) A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.

berthieritenoun (n.) A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.

bertramnoun (n.) Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum).

chambertinnoun (n.) A red wine from Chambertin near Dijon, in Burgundy.

colbertinenoun (n.) A kind of lace.

encoubertnoun (n.) One of several species of armadillos of the genera Dasypus and Euphractus, having five toes both on the fore and hind feet.

filbertnoun (n.) The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate.

flibbertigibbetnoun (n.) An imp.

flobertnoun (n.) A small cartridge designed for target shooting; -- sometimes called ball cap.

gabertnoun (n.) A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation.

impubertynoun (n.) The condition of not having reached puberty, or the age of ability to reproduce one's species; want of age at which the marriage contract can be legally entered into.

libertariannoun (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of free will.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.

libertarianismnoun (n.) Libertarian principles or doctrines.

liberticidenoun (n.) The destruction of civil liberty.
 noun (n.) A destroyer of civil liberty.

libertinagenoun (n.) Libertinism; license.

libertinenoun (n.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
 noun (n.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women.
 noun (n.) One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee.
 noun (n.) A defamatory name for a freethinker.
 noun (n.) Free from restraint; uncontrolled.
 noun (n.) Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners.

libertinismnoun (n.) The state of a libertine or freedman.
 noun (n.) Licentious conduct; debauchery; lewdness.
 noun (n.) Licentiousness of principle or opinion.

libertynoun (n.) The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection.
 noun (n.) Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion.
 noun (n.) A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness to leave a court, and the like.
 noun (n.) Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe.
 noun (n.) The place within which certain immunities are enjoyed, or jurisdiction is exercised.
 noun (n.) A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison.
 noun (n.) A privilege or license in violation of the laws of etiquette or propriety; as, to permit, or take, a liberty.
 noun (n.) The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing.
 noun (n.) A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse.
 noun (n.) Leave of absence; permission to go on shore.

norbertinenoun (n.) See Premonstrant.

pubertynoun (n.) The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.
 noun (n.) The period when a plant first bears flowers.

robertsmannoun (n.) A bold, stout robber, or night thief; -- said to be so called from Robin Hood.

robertnoun (n.) See Herb Robert, under Herb.

ubertynoun (n.) Fruitfulness; copiousness; abundance; plenty.

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


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


alertnoun (n.) An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning.
 adjective (a.) Watchful; vigilant; active in vigilance.
 adjective (a.) Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.

apertadjective (a.) Open; evident; undisguised.
 adverb (adv.) Openly.

avertnoun (n.) To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averted? "To avert his ire."
 verb (v. i.) To turn away.

chertnoun (n.) An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.

chetvertnoun (n.) A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels.

convertnoun (n.) A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity.
 noun (n.) A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to turn; to turn.
 verb (v. t.) To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice.
 verb (v. t.) To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another.
 verb (v. t.) To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness.
 verb (v. t.) To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.
 verb (v. t.) To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.
 verb (v. t.) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
 verb (v. t.) To turn into another language; to translate.
 verb (v. i.) To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.

covertadjective (a.) A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.
 adjective (a.) One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
 verb (v. t.) Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.
 verb (v. t.) Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook.
 verb (v. t.) Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband.

culvertnoun (n.) A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.

desertnoun (n.) That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.
 noun (n.) A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation.
 noun (n.) A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.
 verb (v. t.) To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country.
 verb (v. t.) To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.
 verb (v. i.) To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.

dessertnoun (n.) A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.

disconcertnoun (n.) Want of concert; disagreement.
 verb (v. t.) To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
 verb (v. t.) To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash.

discovertnoun (n.) An uncovered place or part.
 adjective (a.) Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.

disertadjective (a.) Eloquent.

expertnoun (n.) An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.
 noun (n.) A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.
 noun (n.) A sworn appraiser.
 adjective (a.) Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.
 verb (v. t.) To experience.

exsertadjective (a.) Alt. of Exserted
 adjective (a.) To thrust out; to protrude; as, some worms are said to exsert the proboscis.

hertnoun (n.) A hart.

indesertnoun (n.) Ill desert.

inertadjective (a.) Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert.
 adjective (a.) Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless.
 adjective (a.) Not having or manifesting active properties; not affecting other substances when brought in contact with them; powerless for an expected or desired effect.

inexpertadjective (a.) Destitute of experience or of much experience.
 adjective (a.) Not expert; not skilled; destitute of knowledge or dexterity derived from practice.

invertnoun (n.) An inverted arch.
 adjective (a.) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar.
 verb (v. t.) To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
 verb (v. t.) To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.
 verb (v. t.) To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
 verb (v. t.) To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10.
 verb (v. i.) To undergo inversion, as sugar.

lacertnoun (n.) A muscle of the human body.

malapertnoun (n.) A malapert person.
 adjective (a.) Bold; forward; impudent; saucy; pert.

misdesertnoun (n.) Ill desert.

overmalapertadjective (a.) Excessively malapert or impudent.

overtadjective (a.) Open to view; public; apparent; manifest.
 adjective (a.) Not covert; open; public; manifest; as, an overt act of treason.

peertadjective (a.) Same as Peart.

pertadjective (a.) Open; evident; apert.
 adjective (a.) Lively; brisk; sprightly; smart.
 adjective (a.) Indecorously free, or presuming; saucy; bold; impertinent.
 verb (v. i.) To behave with pertness.

pervertnoun (n.) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, especially in religion; -- opposed to convert. See the Synonym of Convert.
 verb (v. t.) To turnanother way; to divert.
 verb (v. t.) To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to misapply; to misinterpret designedly; as, to pervert one's words.
 verb (v. i.) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

povertnoun (n.) Poverty.

preconcertnoun (n.) Something concerted or arranged beforehand; a previous agreement.
 verb (v. t.) To concert or arrange beforehand; to settle by previous agreement.

profertnoun (n.) The exhibition or production of a record or paper in open court, or an allegation that it is in court.

reconvertnoun (n.) A person who has been reconverted.
 verb (v. t.) To convert again.

revertnoun (n.) One who, or that which, reverts.
 verb (v. t.) To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
 verb (v. t.) To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
 verb (v. t.) To change back. See Revert, v. i.
 verb (v. i.) To return; to come back.
 verb (v. i.) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
 verb (v. i.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
 verb (v. i.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

solertadjective (a.) Skillful; clever; crafty.

unexpertadjective (a.) Not expert; inexpert.

vertnoun (n.) Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer.
 noun (n.) The right or privilege of cutting growing wood.
 noun (n.) The color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right.

wertnoun (n.) A wart.
  () The second person singular, indicative and subjunctive moods, imperfect tense, of the verb be. It is formed from were, with the ending -t, after the analogy of wast. Now used only in solemn or poetic style.

woolertnoun (n.) The barn owl.

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


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


berenoun (n.) Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare).
 noun (n.) See Bear, barley.
 verb (v. t.) To pierce.

berainingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Berain

beratingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Berate

berbenoun (n.) An African genet (Genetta pardina). See Genet.

berbernoun (n.) A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.

berberinenoun (n.) An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.

berberrynoun (n.) See Barberry.

berdashnoun (n.) A kind of neckcloth.

bereaving.noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bereave

bereavementnoun (n.) The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.

bereavernoun (n.) One who bereaves.

berettanoun (n.) Same as Berretta.

bergnoun (n.) A large mass or hill, as of ice.

bergamotnoun (n.) A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit.
 noun (n.) A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata).
 noun (n.) The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
 noun (n.) A variety of pear.
 noun (n.) A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
 noun (n.) A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit.

bergandernoun (n.) A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake.

bergeretnoun (n.) A pastoral song.

berghnoun (n.) A hill.

bergmasternoun (n.) See Barmaster.

bergmealnoun (n.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite.

bergmotenoun (n.) See Barmote.

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

bergyltnoun (n.) The Norway haddock. See Rosefish.

berhymingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Berhyme

beriberinoun (n.) An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.

berkeleianadjective (a.) Of or relating to Bishop Berkeley or his system of idealism; as, Berkeleian philosophy.

berlinnoun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.
 noun (n.) Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool.

bermnoun (n.) Alt. of Berme

bermenoun (n.) A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.
 noun (n.) A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank.

bernaclenoun (n.) See Barnacle.

bernardinenoun (n.) A Cistercian monk.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks.

bernesenoun (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Bern.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to the city or canton of Bern, in Switzerland, or to its inhabitants.

berniclenoun (n.) A bernicle goose.

bernousenoun (n.) Same as Burnoose.

beroenoun (n.) A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.

berrettanoun (n.) A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green.

berriedadjective (a.) Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate; as, a berried shrub.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Berry

berrynoun (n.) Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.
 noun (n.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.
 noun (n.) The coffee bean.
 noun (n.) One of the ova or eggs of a fish.
 noun (n.) A mound; a hillock.
 verb (v. i.) To bear or produce berries.

berryingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Berry
 noun (n.) A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild.

berserknoun (n.) Alt. of Berserker

berserkernoun (n.) One of a class of legendary heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds.
 noun (n.) One who fights as if frenzied, like a Berserker.

berstlenoun (n.) See Bristle.

berycoidadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Berycidae, a family of marine fishes.

berylnoun (n.) A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium.

beryllineadjective (a.) Like a beryl; of a light or bluish green color.

berylliumnoun (n.) A metallic element found in the beryl. See Glucinum.

berylloidnoun (n.) A solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl.

berceusenoun (n.) A vocal or instrumental composition of a soft tranquil character, having a lulling effect; a cradle song.

bergschrundnoun (n.) The crevasse or series of crevasses, usually deep and often broad, frequently occurring near the head of a mountain glacier, about where the neve field joins the valley portion of the glacier.

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

berseemnoun (n.) An Egyptian clover (Trifolium alexandrinum) extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called also Egyptian clover.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BERT:

English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 't':

baalistnoun (n.) Alt. of Baalite

babblementnoun (n.) Babble.

babistnoun (n.) A believer in Babism.

baccaratnoun (n.) A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.

bacchantnoun (n.) A priest of Bacchus.
 noun (n.) A bacchanal; a reveler.
 adjective (a.) Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.

backcastnoun (n.) Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse.

backjointnoun (n.) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

backsetnoun (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
 noun (n.) Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water.
 verb (v. i.) To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring.

backsightnoun (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3.

bacteriologistnoun (n.) One skilled in bacteriology.

bacterioscopistnoun (n.) One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations.

bafflementnoun (n.) The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.

baftnoun (n.) Same as Bafta.

baguetnoun (n.) Alt. of Baguette

bailmentnoun (n.) The action of bailing a person accused.
 noun (n.) A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed.

bakemeatnoun (n.) Alt. of Baked-meat

balancementnoun (n.) The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces.

ballastadjective (a.) Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.
 adjective (a.) Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.
 adjective (a.) Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.
 adjective (a.) The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete.
 adjective (a.) Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
 verb (v. t.) To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.
 verb (v. t.) To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.
 verb (v. t.) To keep steady; to steady, morally.

balletnoun (n.) An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.
 noun (n.) The company of persons who perform the ballet.
 noun (n.) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.
 noun (n.) A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

balloonistnoun (n.) An aeronaut.

ballotnoun (n.) Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.
 noun (n.) The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.
 noun (n.) The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district.
 noun (n.) To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.
 verb (v. t.) To vote for or in opposition to.

banatnoun (n.) The territory governed by a ban.

bandeletnoun (n.) Alt. of Bandlet

bandletnoun (n.) A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring.
 noun (n.) Same as Bandelet.

bandicootnoun (n.) A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.
 noun (n.) A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.

banditnoun (n.) An outlaw; a brigand.

banewortnoun (n.) Deadly nightshade.

banishmentnoun (n.) The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.

bankruptnoun (n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
 noun (n.) A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person.
 noun (n.) A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.
 adjective (a.) Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.
 adjective (a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.
 adjective (a.) Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.
 adjective (a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
 verb (v. t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.

banneretnoun (n.) Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.
 noun (n.) A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.
 noun (n.) A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
 noun (n.) A small banner.

banquetnoun (n.) A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.
 noun (n.) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.
 verb (v. t.) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
 verb (v. i.) To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.
 verb (v. i.) To partake of a dessert after a feast.

baphometnoun (n.) An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.

baptistnoun (n.) One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ.
 noun (n.) One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.

baptizementnoun (n.) The act of baptizing.

barbetnoun (n.) A variety of small dog, having long curly hair.
 noun (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.
 noun (n.) A larva that feeds on aphides.

barghestnoun (n.) A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune.

barilletnoun (n.) A little cask, or something resembling one.

baronetnoun (n.) A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.

barouchetnoun (n.) A kind of light barouche.

barpostnoun (n.) A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.

barrenwortnoun (n.) An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.

barretnoun (n.) A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers; -- called also barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics.

barringoutnoun (n.) The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools.

barrowistnoun (n.) A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.

barruletnoun (n.) A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width.

bartlettnoun (n.) A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchretien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.

basaltnoun (n.) A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated.
 noun (n.) An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain.

bascinetnoun (n.) A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor.

basementadjective (a.) The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively.

basenetnoun (n.) See Bascinet.

basinetnoun (n.) Same as Bascinet.

basketnoun (n.) A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.
 noun (n.) The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.
 noun (n.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
 noun (n.) The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach.
 verb (v. t.) To put into a basket.

basnetnoun (n.) Same as Bascinet.

bassetnoun (n.) A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice.
 noun (n.) The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
 adjective (a.) Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata.
 verb (v. i.) To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets.

bassinetnoun (n.) A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in which young children are placed as in a cradle.
 noun (n.) See Bascinet.

bassoonistnoun (n.) A performer on the bassoon.

bastnoun (n.) The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.
 noun (n.) A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.

batnoun (n.) A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
 noun (n.) Shale or bituminous shale.
 noun (n.) A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
 noun (n.) A part of a brick with one whole end.
 noun (n.) One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire.
 noun (n.) Same as Tical, n., 1.
 noun (n.) In badminton, tennis, and similar games, a racket.
 noun (n.) A stroke; a sharp blow.
 noun (n.) A stroke of work.
 noun (n.) Rate of motion; speed.
 noun (n.) A spree; a jollification.
 noun (n.) Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
 verb (v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
 verb (v. i.) To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To wink.

batementnoun (n.) Abatement; diminution.

batletnoun (n.) A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff.

battailantnoun (n.) A combatant.
 verb (v. i.) Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike.

battlementnoun (n.) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
 noun (n.) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.

battologistnoun (n.) One who battologizes.

bayboltnoun (n.) A bolt with a barbed shank.

bayonetnoun (n.) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.
 noun (n.) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.
 verb (v. t.) To stab with a bayonet.
 verb (v. t.) To compel or drive by the bayonet.

beamletnoun (n.) A small beam of light.

beastnoun (n.) Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.
 noun (n.) Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.
 noun (n.) As opposed to man: Any irrational animal.
 noun (n.) Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.
 noun (n.) A game at cards similar to loo.
 noun (n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.

beatnoun (n.) A stroke; a blow.
 noun (n.) A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
 noun (n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
 noun (n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
 noun (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.
 noun (n.) One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him.
 noun (n.) The act of one that beats a person or thing
 noun (n.) The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; a scoop.
 noun (n.) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
 noun (n.) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
 adjective (a.) Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
 verb (v. t.) To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
 verb (v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash.
 verb (v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
 verb (v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
 verb (v. t.) To tread, as a path.
 verb (v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
 verb (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
 verb (v. t.) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
 verb (v. t.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
 verb (v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
 verb (v. i.) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
 verb (v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
 verb (v. i.) To be in agitation or doubt.
 verb (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
 verb (v. i.) To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
 verb (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
 verb (v. i.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
 verb (v. i.) A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.
 verb (v. i.) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
 verb (v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
  (imp.) of Beat
  (p. p.) of Beat

beaufetnoun (n.) A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet.

beauseantnoun (n.) The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.

becketnoun (n.) A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope.
 noun (n.) A spade for digging turf.

bedagatnoun (n.) The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah.

bedevilmentnoun (n.) The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble.

bedizenmentnoun (n.) That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.

bedpostnoun (n.) One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead.
 noun (n.) Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff.

bedquiltnoun (n.) A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.

beechnutnoun (n.) The nut of the beech tree.

beetnoun (n.) A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.
 noun (n.) The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.

befriendmentnoun (n.) Act of befriending.

beguilementnoun (n.) The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled.

behestnoun (n.) That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.
 noun (n.) A vow; a promise.
 verb (v. t.) To vow.

behightnoun (n.) A vow; a promise.
 verb (v.) To promise; to vow.
 verb (v.) To give in trust; to commit; to intrust.
 verb (v.) To adjudge; to assign by authority.
 verb (v.) To mean, or intend.
 verb (v.) To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.
 verb (v.) To call; to name; to address.
 verb (v.) To command; to order.
  (imp.) of Behight
  (p. p.) of Behight

belligerentnoun (n.) A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare.
  (p. pr.) Waging war; carrying on war.
  (p. pr.) Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights.

bellwortnoun (n.) A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.

bellycheatnoun (n.) An apron or covering for the front of the person.

beltnoun (n.) That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.
 noun (n.) That which restrains or confines as a girdle.
 noun (n.) Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.
 noun (n.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt.
 noun (n.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
 noun (n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.
 noun (n.) A token or badge of knightly rank.
 noun (n.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.
 noun (n.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.
 verb (v. t.) To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.
 verb (v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep.

bendletnoun (n.) A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.

benedictnoun (n.) Alt. of Benedick
 adjective (a.) Having mild and salubrious qualities.

benedightadjective (a.) Blessed.

beneficentadjective (a.) Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.

beneficientadjective (a.) Beneficent.

benefitnoun (n.) An act of kindness; a favor conferred.
 noun (n.) Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit.
 noun (n.) A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.
 noun (n.) Beneficence; liberality.
 noun (n.) Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.
 verb (v. t.) To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.
 verb (v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.

benevolentadjective (a.) Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable.

benightmentnoun (n.) The condition of being benighted.

benignantadjective (a.) Kind; gracious; favorable.

bennetadjective (a.) The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc.

bentnoun (n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
 noun (n.) A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
 noun (n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
 adjective (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
 adjective (a. & p. p.) Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.
 verb (v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
 verb (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
 verb (v.) A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
 verb (v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
 verb (v.) A transverse frame of a framed structure.
 verb (v.) Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
  () of Bend
  () imp. & p. p. of Bend.

benumbmentnoun (n.) Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor.

bequeathmentnoun (n.) The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest.

bequestnoun (n.) The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B.
 noun (n.) That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift.
 verb (v. t.) To bequeath, or leave as a legacy.