Name Report For First Name BICK:
BICK
First name BICK's origin is English. BICK means "from the hewer's ford". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BICK below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of bick.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with BICK and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with BICK - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming BICK
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BÝCK AS A WHOLE:
bickfordNAMES RHYMING WITH BÝCK (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ick) - Names That Ends with ick:
bardrick kenrick alarick aldrick alhrick alrick arick arrick audrick aurick barrick benwick brick broderick brodrick carrick chick cormick darick darrick dedrick delrick derrick dick diedrick domenick dominick eddrick edrick eldrick elrick frederick friedrick garrick henrick jamarick jerick jerrick keddrick kedrick kendrick kerrick mackendrick maverick mavrick merrick mick nick orick osrick rick roderick rodrick sedgewick tarick tedrick wanrrick wolfrick vick warwick warrick stanwick orrick meldrick frick fitzpatrick emerick chadwick berwick catterick herrick corrick derick deverick patrick roddrickRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ck) - Names That Ends with ck:
dirck shattuck starbuck breck aleck aranck braddock brock chuck cormack dack darrock dierck jack jock maccormack maddock murdock pollock riddock rock shaddock vareck zackNAMES RHYMING WITH BÝCK (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bic) - Names That Begins with bic:
bich bicoirRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (bi) - Names That Begins with bi:
biaiardo bian bianca biast bibi bibiana bibsbebe 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 bixentaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BÝCK:
First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'k':
baldrik barak bardarik barrak beck bek bercilak berk bernlak berwyk black borak brik broderik brodrik brok brook buck burbank burhbankEnglish Words Rhyming BICK
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BÝCK AS A WHOLE:
| bicker | noun (n.) A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub. |
| noun (n.) A skirmish; an encounter. | |
| noun (n.) A fight with stones between two parties of boys. | |
| noun (n.) A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention. | |
| verb (v. i.) To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. | |
| verb (v. i.) To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame. |
| bickering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bicker |
| noun (n.) A skirmishing. | |
| noun (n.) Altercation; wrangling. |
| bickerer | noun (n.) One who bickers. |
| bickerment | noun (n.) Contention. |
| bickern | noun (n.) An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BÝCK (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ick) - English Words That Ends with ick:
| airsick | adjective (a.) Affected with aerial sickness |
| bailiffwick | noun (n.) See Bailiwick. |
| bailiwick | noun (n.) The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority. |
| baudrick | noun (n.) A belt. See Baldric. |
| bawdrick | noun (n.) A belt. See Baldric. |
| bedtick | noun (n.) A tick or bag made of cloth, used for inclosing the materials of a bed. |
| benedick | noun (n.) A married man, or a man newly married. |
| bloodstick | noun (n.) A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein. |
| bootlick | noun (n.) A toady. |
| brainsick | adjective (a.) Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless. |
| brick | noun (n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp. |
| noun (n.) Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick. | |
| noun (n.) Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread). | |
| noun (n.) A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks. | |
| verb (v. t.) To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them. |
| broomstick | noun (n.) A stick used as a handle of a broom. |
| candlestick | noun (n.) An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle. |
| canstick | noun (n.) Candlestick. |
| carrick | noun (n.) A carack. See Carack. |
| catstick | noun (n.) A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or tipcat. |
| chick | noun (n.) A chicken. |
| noun (n.) A child or young person; -- a term of endearment. | |
| verb (v. i.) To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate. |
| chopstick | noun (n.) One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth. |
| click | noun (n.) A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol. |
| noun (n.) A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward. | |
| noun (n.) A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel. | |
| noun (n.) The latch of a door. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick. | |
| verb (v. t.) To move with the sound of a click. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something. | |
| verb (v. t.) To snatch. |
| constablewick | noun (n.) The district to which a constable's power is limited. |
| cowlick | noun (n.) A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow. |
| crabstick | noun (n.) A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the crab tree. |
| crick | noun (n.) The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. |
| noun (n.) A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part. | |
| noun (n.) A small jackscrew. |
| cropsick | adjective (a.) Sick from excess in eating or drinking. |
| coupstick | noun (n.) A stick or switch used among some American Indians in making or counting a coup. |
| dabchick | noun (n.) A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe. |
| derrick | noun (n.) A mast, spar, or tall frame, supported at the top by stays or guys, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, as stones in building. |
| noun (n.) The pyramidal structure or tower over a deep drill hole, such as that of an oil well. |
| dipchick | noun (n.) See Dabchick. |
| dobchick | noun (n.) See Dabchick. |
| dogsick | adjective (a.) Sick as a dog sometimes is very sick. |
| dogtrick | noun (n.) A gentle trot, like that of a dog. |
| dornick | noun (n.) Alt. of Dornock |
| drumstick | noun (n.) A stick with which a drum is beaten. |
| noun (n.) Anything resembling a drumstick in form, as the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl. |
| earpick | noun (n.) An instrument for removing wax from the ear. |
| ellachick | noun (n.) A fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; -- used as food. |
| fiddlestick | noun (n.) The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow. |
| flick | noun (n.) A flitch; as, a flick of bacon. |
| verb (v. t.) To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots. | |
| verb (v. t.) To throw, snap, or toss with a jerk; to flirt; as, to flick a whiplash. | |
| verb (v. t.) A light quick stroke or blow, esp. with something pliant; a flirt; also, the sound made by such a blow. |
| forestick | noun (n.) Front stick of a hearth fire. |
| gaverick | noun (n.) The European red gurnard (Trigla cuculus). |
| gunstick | noun (n.) A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod. |
| gobstick | noun (n.) A stick or device for removing the hook from a fish's gullet. |
| noun (n.) A spoon. |
| hayrick | noun (n.) A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air. |
| heartsick | adjective (a.) Sick at heart; extremely depressed in spirits; very despondent. |
| homesick | adjective (a.) Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition. |
| kick | noun (n.) A blow with the foot or feet; a striking or thrust with the foot. |
| noun (n.) The projection on the tang of the blade of a pocket knife, which prevents the edge of the blade from striking the spring. See Illust. of Pocketknife. | |
| noun (n.) A projection in a mold, to form a depression in the surface of the brick. | |
| noun (n.) The recoil of a musket or other firearm, when discharged. | |
| verb (v. t.) To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog. | |
| verb (v. i.) To thrust out the foot or feet with violence; to strike out with the foot or feet, as in defense or in bad temper; esp., to strike backward, as a horse does, or to have a habit of doing so. Hence, figuratively: To show ugly resistance, opposition, or hostility; to spurn. | |
| verb (v. i.) To recoil; -- said of a musket, cannon, etc. |
| killikinick | noun (n.) See Kinnikinic. |
| klick | noun (n. & v.) See Click. |
| knobstick | noun (n.) One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trades union. |
| noun (n.) A stick, cane, or club terminating in a knob; esp., such a stick or club used as a weapon or missile; a knobkerrie. |
| lick | noun (n.) A slap; a quick stroke. |
| verb (v. t.) To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk. | |
| verb (v.) A stroke of the tongue in licking. | |
| verb (v.) A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue; as, to put on colors with a lick of the brush. Also, a small quantity of any substance so applied. | |
| verb (v.) A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up; -- often, but not always, near salt springs. | |
| verb (v. t.) To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter. |
| limerick | noun (n.) A nonsense poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of there feet, and rime, and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet, and rime; as --There was a young lady, Amanda,/Whose Ballades Lyriques were quite fin de/Si/cle, I deem/But her Journal Intime/Was what sent her papa to Uganda.// |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BÝCK (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bic) - Words That Begins with bic:
| bicalcarate | adjective (a.) Having two spurs, as the wing or leg of a bird. |
| bicallose | adjective (a.) Alt. of Bicallous |
| bicallous | adjective (a.) Having two callosities or hard spots. |
| bicameral | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches. |
| bicapsular | adjective (a.) Having two capsules; as, a bicapsular pericarp. |
| bicarbonate | noun (n.) A carbonate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal carbonates; an acid carbonate; -- sometimes called supercarbonate. |
| bicarbureted | adjective (a.) Alt. of -retted |
| bicarinate | adjective (a.) Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses. |
| bicaudal | adjective (a.) Having, or terminating in, two tails. |
| bicaudate | adjective (a.) Two-tailed; bicaudal. |
| bicched | adjective (a.) Pecked; pitted; notched. |
| bice | noun (n.) Alt. of Bise |
| bicentenary | noun (n.) The two hundredth anniversary, or its celebration. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration. |
| bicentennial | noun (n.) The two hundredth year or anniversary, or its celebration. |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of two hundred years. | |
| adjective (a.) Occurring every two hundred years. |
| bicephalous | adjective (a.) Having two heads. |
| biceps | noun (n.) A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh. |
| bichir | noun (n.) A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei. |
| bichloride | noun (n.) A compound consisting of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; -- called also dichloride. |
| bicho | noun (n.) See Jigger. |
| bichromate | noun (n.) A salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; -- called also dichromate. |
| bicipital | adjective (a.) Having two heads or origins, as a muscle. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to a biceps muscle; as, bicipital furrows, the depressions on either side of the biceps of the arm. | |
| adjective (a.) Dividing into two parts at one extremity; having two heads or two supports; as, a bicipital tree. |
| bicipitous | adjective (a.) Having two heads; bicipital. |
| bicolor | adjective (a.) Alt. of Bicolored |
| bicolored | adjective (a.) Of two colors. |
| biconcave | adjective (a.) Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebrae. |
| biconjugate | adjective (a.) Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice. |
| biconvex | adjective (a.) Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens. |
| bicorn | adjective (a.) Alt. of Bicornous |
| bicorned | adjective (a.) Alt. of Bicornous |
| bicornous | adjective (a.) Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike. |
| bicorporal | adjective (a.) Having two bodies. |
| bicorporate | adjective (a.) Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies. |
| bicostate | adjective (a.) Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf. |
| bicrenate | adjective (a.) Twice crenated, as in the case of leaves whose crenatures are themselves crenate. |
| bicrescentic | adjective (a.) Having the form of a double crescent. |
| bicrural | adjective (a.) Having two legs. |
| bicuspid | noun (n.) One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Bicuspidate |
| bicuspidate | adjective (a.) Having two points or prominences; ending in two points; -- said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc. |
| bicyanide | noun (n.) See Dicyanide. |
| bicycle | noun (n.) A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers. |
| bicycler | noun (n.) One who rides a bicycle. |
| bicyclic | adjective (a.) Relating to bicycles. |
| bicycling | noun (n.) The use of a bicycle; the act or practice of riding a bicycle. |
| bicyclism | noun (n.) The art of riding a bicycle. |
| bicyclist | noun (n.) A bicycler. |
| bicycular | adjective (a.) Relating to bicycling. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BÝCK:
English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 'k':
| backarack | noun (n.) A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine. |
| noun (n.) See Bacharach. |
| back | noun (n.) A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. |
| noun (n.) A ferryboat. See Bac, 1. | |
| noun (n.) In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster. | |
| noun (n.) An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge. | |
| noun (n.) The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail. | |
| noun (n.) The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney. | |
| noun (n.) The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village. | |
| noun (n.) The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw. | |
| noun (n.) A support or resource in reserve. | |
| noun (n.) The keel and keelson of a ship. | |
| noun (n.) The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage. | |
| noun (n.) A garment for the back; hence, clothing. | |
| adjective (a.) Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements. | |
| adjective (a.) Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent. | |
| adjective (a.) Moving or operating backward; as, back action. | |
| verb (v. i.) To get upon the back of; to mount. | |
| verb (v. i.) To place or seat upon the back. | |
| verb (v. i.) To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books. | |
| verb (v. i.) To adjoin behind; to be at the back of. | |
| verb (v. i.) To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document. | |
| verb (v. i.) To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend. | |
| verb (v. i.) To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back. | |
| verb (v. i.) To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind. | |
| verb (v. i.) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog. | |
| adverb (adv.) In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back. | |
| adverb (adv.) To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it. | |
| adverb (adv.) To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism. | |
| adverb (adv.) (Of time) In times past; ago. | |
| adverb (adv.) Away from contact; by reverse movement. | |
| adverb (adv.) In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another. | |
| adverb (adv.) In a state of restraint or hindrance. | |
| adverb (adv.) In return, repayment, or requital. | |
| adverb (adv.) In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words. | |
| adverb (adv.) In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent. |
| backrack | noun (n.) Alt. of Backrag |
| bank | noun (n.) A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court. |
| noun (n.) A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow. | |
| noun (n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine. | |
| noun (n.) The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. | |
| noun (n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland. | |
| noun (n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working. | |
| noun (n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. | |
| noun (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank. | |
| noun (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. | |
| noun (n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit. | |
| noun (n.) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc. | |
| noun (n.) A sort of table used by printers. | |
| noun (n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. | |
| noun (n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity. | |
| noun (n.) The building or office used for banking purposes. | |
| noun (n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital. | |
| noun (n.) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses. | |
| noun (n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw. | |
| noun (n.) A group or series of objects arranged near together; as, a bank of electric lamps, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The lateral inclination of an aeroplane as it rounds a curve; as, a bank of 45ˇ is easy; a bank of 90ˇ is dangerous. | |
| verb (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. | |
| verb (v. t.) To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pass by the banks of. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deposit in a bank. | |
| verb (v. i.) To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker. | |
| verb (v. i.) To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker. | |
| verb (v. i.) To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; -- said of a flying machine, an aerocurve, or the like. |
| bannock | noun (n.) A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England. |
| baresark | noun (n.) A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor. |
| bark | noun (n.) The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Barque | |
| verb (v. t.) To strip the bark from; to peel. | |
| verb (v. t.) To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel. | |
| verb (v. t.) To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries. |
| barleybreak | noun (n.) An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal. |
| barrack | noun (n.) A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings. |
| noun (n.) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops. | |
| verb (v. i.) To live or lodge in barracks. |
| basilicok | noun (n.) The basilisk. |
| basilisk | noun (n.) A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. |
| noun (n.) A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidae. | |
| noun (n.) A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size. |
| bassock | noun (n.) A hassock. See 2d Bass, 2. |
| bauk | noun (n. & v.) Alt. of Baulk |
| baulk | noun (n. & v.) See Balk. |
| bawcock | noun (n.) A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment. |
| beadwork | noun (n.) Ornamental work in beads. |
| beak | noun (n.) The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds. |
| noun (n.) A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles. | |
| noun (n.) The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. | |
| noun (n.) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. | |
| noun (n.) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal. | |
| noun (n.) Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land. | |
| noun (n.) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead. | |
| noun (n.) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee. | |
| noun (n.) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off. | |
| noun (n.) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant. | |
| noun (n.) A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.). | |
| noun (n.) A magistrate or policeman. |
| beck | noun (n.) See Beak. |
| noun (n.) A small brook. | |
| noun (n.) A vat. See Back. | |
| noun (n.) A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command. | |
| verb (v. i.) To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand. | |
| verb (v. t.) To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to. |
| bedstock | noun (n.) The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead. |
| beefsteak | noun (n.) A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling. |
| beetlestock | noun (n.) The handle of a beetle. |
| bergomask | noun (n.) A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness. |
| berserk | noun (n.) Alt. of Berserker |
| bespeak | noun (n.) A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.) |
| verb (v. t.) To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor. | |
| verb (v. t.) To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances. | |
| verb (v. t.) To speak to; to address. | |
| verb (v. i.) To speak. |
| bibcock | noun (n.) A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle. |
| bierbalk | noun (n.) A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals. |
| bilcock | noun (n.) The European water rail. |
| bilk | noun (n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk. |
| noun (n.) A cheat; a trick; a hoax. | |
| noun (n.) Nonsense; vain words. | |
| noun (n.) A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person. | |
| verb (v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor. |
| billhook | noun (n.) A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter. |
| bink | noun (n.) A bench. |
| birk | noun (n.) A birch tree. |
| noun (n.) A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus). |
| birthmark | noun (n.) Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth. |
| bisk | noun (n.) Soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh together. |
| noun (n.) See Bisque. |
| bitstock | noun (n.) A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace. |
| bittock | noun (n.) A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance. |
| black | noun (n.) That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black. |
| noun (n.) A black pigment or dye. | |
| noun (n.) A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races. | |
| noun (n.) A black garment or dress; as, she wears black | |
| noun (n.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery. | |
| noun (n.) The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black. | |
| noun (n.) A stain; a spot; a smooch. | |
| adjective (a.) Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes. | |
| adjective (a.) In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds. | |
| adjective (a.) Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible. | |
| adjective (a.) Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks. | |
| adjective (a.) To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully. | |
| adjective (a.) To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush. | |
| adverb (adv.) Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness. |
| blackcock | noun (n.) The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); -- so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse. |
| blackwork | noun (n.) Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths. |
| blank | noun (n.) Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void. |
| noun (n.) A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated. | |
| noun (n.) A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form. | |
| noun (n.) A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed. | |
| noun (n.) Aim; shot; range. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence. | |
| noun (n.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts. | |
| noun (n.) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank." | |
| adjective (a.) Of a white or pale color; without color. | |
| adjective (a.) Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot. | |
| adjective (a.) Utterly confounded or discomfited. | |
| adjective (a.) Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day. | |
| adjective (a.) Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness. | |
| adjective (a.) Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant. | |
| adjective (a.) Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make void; to annul. | |
| verb (v. t.) To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. |
| blaubok | noun (n.) The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue. |
| bleak | adjective (a.) Without color; pale; pallid. |
| adjective (a.) Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. | |
| adjective (a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast. | |
| adjective (a.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay. |
| blesbok | noun (n.) A South African antelope (Alcelaphus albifrons), having a large white spot on the forehead. |
| block | noun (n.) To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor. |
| noun (n.) To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each. | |
| noun (n.) To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat. | |
| noun (n.) In Australia, one of the large lots into which public land, when opened to settlers, is divided by the government surveyors. | |
| noun (n.) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket. | |
| noun (n.) A block hole. | |
| noun (n.) The popping crease. | |
| verb (v. t.) A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded. | |
| verb (v. t.) The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped. | |
| verb (v. t.) The pattern or shape of a hat. | |
| verb (v. t.) A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops. | |
| verb (v. t.) A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not. | |
| verb (v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles. | |
| verb (v. t.) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept. | |
| verb (v. t.) Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way. | |
| verb (v. t.) A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work. | |
| verb (v. t.) A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high. | |
| verb (v. t.) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt. | |
| verb (v. t.) A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below. |
| blueback | noun (n.) A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine. |
| noun (n.) A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and northward. | |
| noun (n.) An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife. |
| bobbinwork | noun (n.) Work woven with bobbins. |
| bobolink | noun (n.) An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln. |
| bodock | noun (n.) The Osage orange. |
| boneblack | noun (n.) See Bone black, under Bone, n. |
| bontebok | noun (n.) The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga). Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni. |
| book | noun (n.) A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing. |
| noun (n.) A composition, written or printed; a treatise. | |
| noun (n.) A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost." | |
| noun (n.) A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set. | |
| verb (v. t.) To enter, write, or register in a book or list. | |
| verb (v. t.) To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater. | |
| verb (v. t.) To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory. |
| bookmark | noun (n.) Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate. |
| bookwork | noun (n.) Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work. |
| noun (n.) Study; application to books. |
| bootblack | noun (n.) One who blacks boots. |
| bootjack | noun (n.) A device for pulling off boots. |
| boshbok | noun (n.) A kind of antelope. See Bush buck. |
| boshvark | noun (n.) The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket. |
| bosk | noun (n.) A thicket; a small wood. |
| bouk | noun (n.) The body. |
| noun (n.) Bulk; volume. |
| boulework | noun (n.) Same as Buhl, Buhlwork. |
| brack | noun (n.) An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw. |
| noun (n.) Salt or brackish water. |
| brank | noun (n.) Buckwheat. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Branks | |
| verb (v. i.) To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit. | |
| verb (v. i.) To prance; to caper. |
| break | noun (n.) See Commutator. |
| verb (v. t.) To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise. | |
| verb (v. t.) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey. | |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set. | |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments. | |
| verb (v. t.) To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill. | |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax. | |
| verb (v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind. | |
| verb (v. t.) To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend. | |
| verb (v. t.) To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle. | |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin. | |
| verb (v. t.) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss. | |
| verb (v. i.) To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder. | |
| verb (v. i.) To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag. | |
| verb (v. i.) To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn. | |
| verb (v. i.) To burst forth violently, as a storm. | |
| verb (v. i.) To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fall in business; to become bankrupt. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fall out; to terminate friendship. | |
| verb (v. t.) An opening made by fracture or disruption. | |
| verb (v. t.) An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship. | |
| verb (v. t.) A projection or recess from the face of a building. | |
| verb (v. t.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current. | |
| verb (v. t.) An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation. | |
| verb (v. t.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn. | |
| verb (v. t.) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind. | |
| verb (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10. |
| breakneck | noun (n.) A fall that breaks the neck. |
| noun (n.) A steep place endangering the neck. | |
| adjective (a.) Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed. |
| breasthook | noun (n.) A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side. |
| breastwork | noun (n.) A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material. |
| noun (n.) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle. |
| breechblock | noun (n.) The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired. |
| brickwork | noun (n.) Anything made of bricks. |
| noun (n.) The act of building with or laying bricks. |
| brink | noun (n.) The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig. |
| brisk | adjective (a.) Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick. |
| adjective (a.) Full of spirit of life; effervesc/ng, as liquors; sparkling; as, brick cider. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up. |
| brock | noun (n.) A badger. |
| noun (n.) A brocket. |
| brownback | noun (n.) The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher. |
| brusk | adjective (a.) Same as Brusque. |
| buck | noun (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. |
| noun (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. | |
| noun (n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits. | |
| noun (n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. | |
| noun (n.) A male Indian or negro. | |
| noun (n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. | |
| noun (n.) The beech tree. | |
| verb (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching. | |
| verb (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water. | |
| verb (v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores. | |
| verb (v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does. | |
| verb (v. i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule. | |
| verb (v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees. | |
| verb (v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2. |
| buhlwork | noun (n.) Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc. |
| bulk | noun (n.) Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk. |
| noun (n.) The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt. | |
| noun (n.) The cargo of a vessel when stowed. | |
| noun (n.) The body. | |
| verb (v. i.) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell. | |
| verb (v.) A projecting part of a building. |
| bullock | noun (n.) A young bull, or any male of the ox kind. |
| noun (n.) An ox, steer, or stag. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bully. |
| bullyrock | noun (n.) A bully. |
| bulwark | noun (n.) A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork. |
| noun (n.) That which secures against an enemy, or defends from attack; any means of defense or protection. | |
| noun (n.) The sides of a ship above the upper deck. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect. |
| bunk | noun (n.) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night. |
| noun (n.) One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers. | |
| noun (n.) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers. | |
| verb (v. i.) To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in. |
| burdock | noun (n.) A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals. |
| burrock | noun (n.) A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed. |
| busk | noun (n.) A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset. |
| noun (n.) Among the Creek Indians, a feast of first fruits celebrated when the corn is ripe enough to be eaten. The feast usually continues four days. On the first day the new fire is lighted, by friction of wood, and distributed to the various households, an offering of green corn, including an ear brought from each of the four quarters or directions, is consumed, and medicine is brewed from snakeroot. On the second and third days the men physic with the medicine, the women bathe, the two sexes are taboo to one another, and all fast. On the fourth day there are feasting, dancing, and games. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To go; to direct one's course. |
| buttermilk | noun (n.) The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream. |
| buttock | noun (n.) The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump. |
| noun (n.) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern. |
| bywork | noun (n.) Work aside from regular work; subordinate or secondary business. |
| bergstock | noun (n.) A long pole with a spike at the end, used in climbing mountains; an alpenstock. |
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