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Balmy
() Producing balm.
Balneal
() Of or pertaining to a bath.
Balneary
() A bathing room.
Balneation
() The act of bathing.
Balneatory
() Belonging to a bath.
Balneography
() A description of baths.
Balneology
() A treatise on baths; the science of bathing.
Balneotherapy
() The treatment of disease by baths.
Balotade
() See Ballotade.
Balsa
() A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.
Balsam
() A resin containing more or less of an essential or volatile oil.
Balsam
() A species of tree (Abies balsamea).
Balsam
() An annual garden plant (Impatiens balsamina) with beautiful flowers; balsamine.
Balsam
() Anything that heals, soothes, or restores.
Balsam
() To treat or anoint with balsam; to relieve, as with balsam; to render balsamic.
Balsamation
() The act of imparting balsamic properties.
Balsamation
() The art or process of embalming.
Balsamic
() Alt. of Balsamical
Balsamical
() Having the qualities of balsam; containing, or resembling, balsam; soft; mitigative; soothing; restorative.
Balsamiferous
() Producing balsam.
Balsamine
() The Impatiens balsamina, or garden balsam.
Balsamous
() Having the quality of balsam; containing balsam.
Balter
() To stick together.
Baltic
() Of or pertaining to the sea which separates Norway and Sweden from Jutland, Denmark, and Germany; situated on the Baltic Sea.
Baltimore bird
() Alt. of Baltimore oriole
Baltimore oriole
() A common American bird (Icterus galbula), named after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin.
Baluster
() A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade.
Balustered
() Having balusters.
Balustrade
() A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.
Bam
() An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
Bam
() To cheat; to wheedle.
Bambino
() A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.
Bambino
() Babe Ruth.
Bambocciade
() A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life.
Bamboo
() A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries.
Bamboo
() To flog with the bamboo.
Bamboozled
() of Bamboozle
Bamboozling
() of Bamboozle
Bamboozle
() To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug.
Bamboozler
() A swindler; one who deceives by trickery.
Ban
() A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.
Ban
() 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.
Ban
() Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).
Ban
() An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription.
Ban
() A curse or anathema.
Ban
() 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.
Banned
() of Ban
Banning
() of Ban
Ban
() To curse; to invoke evil upon.
Ban
() To forbid; to interdict.