| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| basbleu | noun | A bluestocking; a literary woman. |
| bascule | noun | In mechanics an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls. |
| basenet | noun | See Bascinet. |
| bashful | adjective | Abashed; daunted; dismayed., Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression. |
| bashyle | noun | See Basyle. |
| basiled | imp. & past participle | of Basil |
| basilar | noun | Alt. of Basilary |
| basilic | noun | Basilica., Alt. of Basilical |
| basined | adjective | Inclosed in a basin. |
| basinet | noun | Same as Bascinet. |
| basking | present participle & vb. noun | of Bask |
| bassock | noun | A hassock. See 2d Bass, 2. |
| bassoon | noun | 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. |
| bastard | noun | A “natural” child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union., An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings., A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained., A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor., A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper., Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note., Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; — applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so., Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin., Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book., To bastardize. |
| basting | present participle & vb. noun | of Baste |
| bastion | noun | 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. |