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Baffle
() To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
Baffle
() To practice deceit.
Baffle
() To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
Baffle
() A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
Bafflement
() The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.
Baffler
() One who, or that which, baffles.
Baffling
() Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks.
Baft
() Same as Bafta.
Bafta
() A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.
Bag
() A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.
Bag
() A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.
Bag
() A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
Bag
() The quantity of game bagged.
Bag
() A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee.
Bagged
() of Bag
Bagging
() of Bag
Bag
() To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.
Bag
() To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.
Bag
() To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.
Bag
() To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.
Bag
() To swell with arrogance.
Bag
() To become pregnant.
Bagasse
() Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. It is then dried and used as fuel. Also extended to the refuse of beetroot sugar.
Bagatelle
() A trifle; a thing of no importance.
Bagatelle
() A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player.
Baggage
() The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.
Baggage
() The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage.
Baggage
() Purulent matter.
Baggage
() Trashy talk.
Baggage
() A man of bad character.
Baggage
() A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.
Baggage
() A romping, saucy girl.
Baggage master
() One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
Baggager
() One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower.
Baggala
() A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian Ocean.
Baggily
() In a loose, baggy way.
Bagging
() Cloth or other material for bags.
Bagging
() The act of putting anything into, or as into, a bag.
Bagging
() The act of swelling; swelling.
Bagging
() Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke.
Baggy
() Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a bag; flabby; as, baggy trousers; baggy cheeks.
Bagmen
() of Bagman
Bagman
() A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen.
Bag net
() A bag-shaped net for catching fish.
Bagnio
() A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves.
Bagnio
() A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution.
Bagpipe
() A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.
Bagpipe
() To make to look like a bagpipe.
Bagpiper
() One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper.
Bagreef
() The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails.