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Word Meanings - HYDRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate. Water of hydration , water chemically combined with some substance to form a hydrate; -- distinguished from water of crystallization.

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  • BELLMAN
    A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton.
  • BELIAL
    An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil. What concord hath Christ with Belia 2 Cor. vi. 15. A son of Belial, a worthless, wicked, or thoroughly depraved person. 1 Sam. ii. 12.
  • BESCRATCH
    To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
  • BEASTLIHEAD
    Beastliness. Spenser.
  • BEWRAP
    To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax.
  • WATER-BEARER
    The constellation Aquarius.
  • BERGOMASK
    A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.
  • BEVELMENT
    The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.
  • BELEAVE
    To leave or to be left. May.
  • BESCATTER
    1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
  • BETSO
    A small brass Venetian coin.
  • BESCORN
    To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer.
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • BELLADONNA
    An herbaceous European plant with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due
  • BECHE DE MER
    The trepang.
  • BETOKEN
    1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
  • BETROTHAL
    The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance. "The feast of betrothal." Longfellow.
  • WATERWORT
    Any plant of the natural order Elatineæ, consisting of two genera , mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.
  • BESLUBBER
    To beslobber.
  • BENIM
    To take away. Ire . . . benimeth the man fro God. Chaucer.
  • COMBER
    1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave.
  • GABBER
    1. A liar; a deceiver. 2. One addicted to idle talk.
  • HAIRBELL
    See HAREBELL
  • ORBED
    Having the form of an orb; round. The orbèd eyelids are let down. Trench.
  • LAMBERT PINE
    The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.
  • GERBE
    A kind of ornamental firework. Farrow.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • GABELER
    A collector of gabels or taxes.
  • CONTRADISTINGUISH
    To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
  • ABERRATE
    To go astray; to diverge. Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.
  • CORYMBED
    Corymbose.

 

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