Name Report For First Name BRON:

BRON

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

Rhymes with BRON - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming BRON

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BRON AS A WHOLE:

hebron brona bronwen bronwyn bronya brone bronson

NAMES RHYMING WITH BRON (According to last letters):

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

acheron charon chiron myron deron audron avaron camaron cameron farron kamron karon modron aaron abarron adron aron baron barron biron buiron camron camshron ciceron daron darron delron devron duron efron ephron eron faron ferron jarron jayron jerron kameron kevron kieron kyron leron neron ron sheron taron terron theron therron waldron miron mai-ron byron veron petron aleron galeron sharon yaron doron garon garron geron

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

afton carnation aedon solon strephon sidon cihuaton nijlon sokanon odion sion accalon dudon pendragon antton erromon gotzon txanton zorion celyddon eburacon mabon bendision alston alton benton burton carelton fenton hamilton harrison histion kenton pierson preston ralston rawson

NAMES RHYMING WITH BRON (According to first letters):

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

broc brochan brock brockley brocl brocleah brocleigh brocly broden broderic broderick broderik brodie brodr brodric brodrick brodrig brodrik brody broehain broga brogan broi broin brok bromle bromleah bromleigh bromley bromly brook brooke brookelyn brooklyn brooklynn brooklynne brooks brookson brooksone brothaigh brougher broughton brown

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

bra brachah brad bradach bradaigh bradamate bradan bradana bradbourne bradburn bradd braddock braddon brademagus braden bradene bradey bradford bradig bradleah bradlee bradley bradly bradon bradshaw bradwell brady bradyn braeden braedon braedyn braelyn braemwiella braiana braiden brain brainard brainerd brale braleah bram bramley bramwell bran brand branda brandan branddun brande brandee brandeis brandeles brandelis brandelyn branden brandi brandice

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BRON:

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

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

English Words Rhyming BRON

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BRON AS A WHOLE:

bronchinoun (n. pl.) See Bronchus.
  (pl. ) of Bronchus

bronchianoun (n. pl.) The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi.

bronchialadjective (a.) Belonging to the bronchi and their ramifications in the lungs.

bronchicadjective (a.) Bronchial.

bronchiolenoun (n.) A minute bronchial tube.

bronchiticadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation.

bronchitisnoun (n.) Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.

bronchonoun (n.) A native or a Mexican horse of small size.

bronchocelenoun (n.) See Goiter.

bronchophonynoun (n.) A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease.

bronchotomenoun (n.) An instrument for cutting into the bronchial tubes.

bronchotomynoun (n.) An incision into the windpipe or larynx, including the operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy.

bronchusnoun (n.) One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions.

bronconoun (n.) Same as Broncho.

brondnoun (n.) A sword.

brontolitenoun (n.) Alt. of Brontolith

brontolithnoun (n.) An aerolite.

brontologynoun (n.) A treatise upon thunder.

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

brontotheriumnoun (n.) A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.

brontozoumnoun (n.) An extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone.

bronzenoun (n.) To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.
 noun (n.) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
 adjective (a.) An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.
 adjective (a.) A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.
 adjective (a.) A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.
 adjective (a.) Boldness; impudence; "brass."

bronzingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bronze
 noun (n.) The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes.
 noun (n.) A material for bronzing.

bronzewingnoun (n.) An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; -- so called from its bronze plumage.

bronzinenoun (n.) A metal so prepared as to have the appearance of bronze.
 adjective (a.) Made of bronzine; resembling bronze; bronzelike.

bronzistnoun (n.) One who makes, imitates, collects, or deals in, bronzes.

bronzitenoun (n.) A variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. It is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family.

bronzyadjective (a.) Like bronze.

brontographnoun (n.) A tracing or chart showing the phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.
 noun (n.) An instrument for making such tracings, as a recording brontometer.

brontometernoun (n.) An instrument for noting or recording phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.

ectobronchiumnoun (n.) One of the dorsal branches of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.

entobronchiumnoun (n.) One of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.

isobrontnoun (n.) An imaginary line, or a line on a chart, marking the simultaneous development of a thunderstorm, as noted by observing the time when the thunder is heard at different places.

mesobronchiumnoun (n.) The main bronchus of each lung.

parabronchiumnoun (n.) One of the branches of an ectobronchium or entobronchium.

prebronchialadjective (a.) Situated in front of the bronchus; -- applied especially to an air sac on either side of the esophagus of birds.

subbronchialadjective (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds.

tracheobronchialadjective (a.) Pertaining both to the tracheal and bronchial tubes, or to their junction; -- said of the syrinx of certain birds.

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


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


acheronnoun (n.) A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf.

almendronnoun (n.) The lofty Brazil-nut tree.

anatronnoun (n.) Native carbonate of soda; natron.
 noun (n.) Glass gall or sandiver.
 noun (n.) Saltpeter.

andironnoun (n.) A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons.

andronnoun (n.) The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house.

apastronnoun (n.) That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary.

apronnoun (n.) An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.
 noun (n.) Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron;
 noun (n.) The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck.
 noun (n.) A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot.
 noun (n.) A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon.
 noun (n.) A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel.
 noun (n.) A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.
 noun (n.) A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.
 noun (n.) The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer.
 noun (n.) A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing.
 noun (n.) The infolded abdomen of a crab.

archenteronnoun (n.) The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.

aileronnoun (n.) A half gable, as at the end of a penthouse or of the aisle of a church.
 noun (n.) A small plane or surface capable of being manipulated by the pilot of a flying machine to preserve or destroy lateral balance; a hinged wing tip; a lateral stabilizing or balancing plane.

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

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

boronnoun (n.) A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B.

caldronnoun (n.) A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.]

catoptronnoun (n.) A reflecting optical glass or instrument; a mirror.

catopronnoun (n.) See Catopter.

chaldronnoun (n.) An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke.

chamfronnoun (n.) The frontlet, or head armor, of a horse.

chaperonnoun (n.) A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood.
 noun (n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
 noun (n.) A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for propriety, or as a guide and protector.
 verb (v. t.) To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize.

charonnoun (n.) The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions.

chaudronnoun (n.) See Chawdron.

chauldronnoun (n.) See Chawdron.

chawdronnoun (n.) Entrails.

chevronnoun (n.) One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.
 noun (n.) A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat.
 noun (n.) A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture.

chiliahedronnoun (n.) A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces

citronnoun (n.) A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce.
 noun (n.) A citron tree.
 noun (n.) A citron melon.

cobironnoun (n.) An andiron with a knob at the top.

cascaronnoun (n.) Lit., an eggshell; hence, an eggshell filled with confetti to be thrown during balls, carnivals, etc.

coelectronnoun (n.) See Electron.

decahedronnoun (n.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces.

decameronnoun (n.) A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian.

deltohedronnoun (n.) A solid bounded by twelve quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the isometric system, allied to the tetrahedron.

diatessaronnoun (n.) The interval of a fourth.
 noun (n.) A continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the New Testament.
 noun (n.) An electuary compounded of four medicines.

dihedronnoun (n.) A figure with two sides or surfaces.

dodecahedronnoun (n.) A solid having twelve faces.

duodecahedronnoun (n.) See Dodecahedral, and Dodecahedron.

dzeronnoun (n.) The Chinese yellow antelope (Procapra gutturosa), a remarkably swift-footed animal, inhabiting the deserts of Central Asia, Thibet, and China.

ecderonnoun (n.) See Ecteron.

ecteronnoun (n.) The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon.

ekaboronnoun (n.) The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium.

electronnoun (n.) Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum.
  () One of those particles, having about one thousandth the mass of a hydrogen atom, which are projected from the cathode of a vacuum tube as the cathode rays and from radioactive substances as the beta rays; -- called also corpuscle. The electron carries (or is) a natural unit of negative electricity, equal to 3.4 x 10-10 electrostatic units. It has been detected only when in rapid motion; its mass, which is electromagnetic, is practically constant at the lesser speeds, but increases as the velocity approaches that of light. Electrons are all of one kind, so far as known, and probably are the ultimate constituents of all atoms. An atom from which an electron has been detached has a positive charge and is called a coelectron.

elytronnoun (n.) Alt. of Elytrum

enderonnoun (n.) The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes.

enheahedronnoun (n.) A figure having nine sides; a nonagon.

enteronnoun (n.) The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal.

entoplastronnoun (n.) The median plate of the plastron of turtles; -- called also entosternum.

ephemeronnoun (n.) One of the ephemeral flies.

epimeronnoun (n.) In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage.
 noun (n.) In insects: The lateral piece behind the episternum.

epiplastronnoun (n.) One of the first pair of lateral plates in the plastron of turtles.

epoophoronnoun (n.) See Parovarium.

exametronnoun (n.) An hexameter.

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


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


broachnoun (n.) A spit.
 noun (n.) An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
 noun (n.) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.
 noun (n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.
 noun (n.) A broad chisel for stonecutting.
 noun (n.) A spire rising from a tower.
 noun (n.) A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.
 noun (n.) A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.
 noun (n.) The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
 noun (n.) The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
 noun (n.) To spit; to pierce as with a spit.
 noun (n.) To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.
 noun (n.) To open for the first time, as stores.
 noun (n.) To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.
 noun (n.) To cause to begin or break out.
 noun (n.) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.
 noun (n.) To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.

broachingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Broach

broachernoun (n.) A spit; a broach.
 noun (n.) One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter.

broadnoun (n.) The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
 noun (n.) The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.
 noun (n.) A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
 superlative (superl.) Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
 superlative (superl.) Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
 superlative (superl.) Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
 superlative (superl.) Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive.
 superlative (superl.) Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
 superlative (superl.) Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
 superlative (superl.) Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
 superlative (superl.) Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.
 superlative (superl.) Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.
 superlative (superl.) Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.

broadax broadaxenoun (n.) An ancient military weapon; a battle-ax.
 noun (n.) An ax with a broad edge, for hewing timber.

broadbillnoun (n.) A wild duck (Aythya, / Fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; -- called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck.
 noun (n.) The shoveler. See Shoveler.

broadbrimnoun (n.) A hat with a very broad brim, like those worn by men of the society of Friends.
 noun (n.) A member of the society of Friends; a Quaker.

broadcastnoun (n.) A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.
 adjective (a.) Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.
 adjective (a.) Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows.
 adverb (adv.) So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press.

broadclothnoun (n.) A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.

broadeningnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Broaden

broadenadjective (a.) To grow broad; to become broader or wider.
 verb (v. t.) To make broad or broader; to render more broad or comprehensive.

broadishadjective (a.) Rather broad; moderately broad.

broadleafnoun (n.) A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit.

broadmouthnoun (n.) One of the Eurylaimidae, a family of East Indian passerine birds.

broadnessnoun (n.) The condition or quality of being broad; breadth; coarseness; grossness.

broadpiecenoun (n.) An old English gold coin, broader than a guinea, as a Carolus or Jacobus.

broadsidenoun (n.) The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter.
 noun (n.) A discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a ship, at the same time.
 noun (n.) A volley of abuse or denunciation.
 noun (n.) A sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only; -- called also broadsheet.

broadspreadadjective (a.) Widespread.

broadspreadingadjective (a.) Spreading widely.

broadswordnoun (n.) A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore.

brobnoun (n.) A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.

brobdingnagiannoun (n.) A giant.
 adjective (a.) Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic.

brocadenoun (n.) Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched.

brocadedadjective (a.) Woven or worked, as brocade, with gold and silver, or with raised flowers, etc.
 adjective (a.) Dressed in brocade.

brocagenoun (n.) See Brokkerage.

brocardnoun (n.) An elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics.

brocatelnoun (n.) A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.
 noun (n.) A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble, from its locality.

brocatellonoun (n.) Same as Brocatel.

broccolinoun (n.) A plant of the Cabbage species (Brassica oleracea) of many varieties, resembling the cauliflower. The "curd," or flowering head, is the part used for food.

brochantitenoun (n.) A basic sulphate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.

brochenoun (n.) See Broach, n.
 adjective (a.) Woven with a figure; as, broche goods.
 adjective (a.) Stitched; -- said of a book with no cover or only a paper one.

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

brocketnoun (n.) A male red deer two years old; -- sometimes called brock.
 noun (n.) A small South American deer, of several species (Coassus superciliaris, C. rufus, and C. auritus).

brockishadjective (a.) Beastly; brutal.

brodekinnoun (n.) A buskin or half-boot.

brognoun (n.) A pointed instrument, as a joiner's awl, a brad awl, a needle, or a small sharp stick.
 verb (v. t.) To prod with a pointed instrument, as a lance; also, to broggle.

brogannoun (n.) A stout, coarse shoe; a brogue.

brogglenoun (n.) To sniggle, or fish with a brog.

broguenoun (n.) A stout, coarse shoe; a brogan.
 verb (v. t.) A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English.

broguesnoun (n. pl.) Breeches.

broiderernoun (n.) One who embroiders.

broiderynoun (n.) Embroidery.

broilnoun (n.) A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.
 verb (v. t.) To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.
 verb (v. t.) To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.
 verb (v. i.) To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.

broilingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Broil
 noun (n.) The act of causing anything to broil.
 adjective (a.) Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun.

broilernoun (n.) One who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels.
 noun (n.) One who broils, or cooks by broiling.
 noun (n.) A gridiron or other utensil used in broiling.
 noun (n.) A chicken or other bird fit for broiling.

brokagenoun (n.) See Brokerage.

brokennessnoun (n.) The state or quality of being broken; unevenness.
 noun (n.) Contrition; as, brokenness of heart.

brokeragenoun (n.) The business or employment of a broker.
 noun (n.) The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.

brokerlyadjective (a.) Mean; servile.

brokerynoun (n.) The business of a broker.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BRON:

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

babiannoun (n.) Alt. of Babion

babionnoun (n.) A baboon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

bainnoun (n.) A bath; a bagnio.

bairnnoun (n.) A child.

balconnoun (n.) A balcony.

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

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

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

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

ballotationnoun (n.) Voting by ballot.

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

balneationnoun (n.) The act of bathing.

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

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

bandonnoun (n.) Disposal; control; license.

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

bannitionnoun (n.) The act of expulsion.

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

baptizationnoun (n.) Baptism.

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

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

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

barbicannoun (n.) Alt. of Barbacan

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

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

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

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

barkenadjective (a.) Made of bark.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

basonnoun (n.) A basin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

batoonnoun (n.) See Baton, and Baston.

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

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

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

battonnoun (n.) See Batten, and Baton.

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

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

baviannoun (n.) A baboon.

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

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

bawsinnoun (n.) Alt. of Bawson

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

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

beadsmannoun (n.) Alt. of Bedesman

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

beadswomannoun (n.) Alt. of Bedeswoman

bedeswomannoun (n.) Fem. of Beadsman.

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

bearnnoun (n.) See Bairn.

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

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

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

beaufinnoun (n.) See Biffin.

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

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

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

bedgownnoun (n.) A nightgown.

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

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

beduinnoun (n.) See Bedouin.

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

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

beguinnoun (n.) See Beghard.

behennoun (n.) Alt. of Behn

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

beholdenadjective (p. a.) Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted.
  (p. p.) of Behold