binding, n. ligature, ligsation, astriction, constriction bandage; obligation, reestraint, restriction; galloon swaddling.
binding, a. astringent, astrictive; obligatory, valid. Antonyms: optional, elective.
bird, n. (young) fledgeling, nestling; (one year old) annotine; squab; rara avris (rare bird).
bird-catcher, n. fowler.
bird-catching, n. fowling, birding.
birds, n. pl. Aves; Avifauma. Associated words: ornithology, ornithologist, ornithological, ornithotomy, ornithography, ornithoid, ornitholite, ornithon, ornithophilous, game, ornithic, aviary, avicular, aviculture, covey, neossology paleornithollogy, taxidermy, taxidermist, preen, rookery, cote, hutch, coop, cage, avian, poult, auspice, ariel, mute, Mallophaga.
birr, n. whirring.
birth n. nativity; origin, beginning, nascency, genesis; extraction, lineage; (new birth) regeneration, renaissance, regenesis, palingenesis. Associated words: natal, native, pre-natal, post-natal, ante-natal, abortion, congenital, connate, connascent, connascence, horoscope, genial, genethliac, genethlialogy, genethliacs, sooterkin, uniparous, biparous, pluriparous, viable, viability, primiparous, natality.
birthday poem. genethliac.
birthmark, n. nævus.
birthright, n. inheritance.
bisexual, a. hermaphrodite.
bishop, n. diocesan, prelate; suffragan, coadjutor, metropolitan. Associated words: episcopal, episcopacy, bishopdom, episcopicide, crosier, chimere, episcopate, rochet, gremial.
bishopric, n. diocese, see.
bit, n. morsel, fragment, scrap, crumb; mite, ace, scintilla, particle, whit, iota, tittle, grain, atom, jot, molecule, speck, mote.
bit by bit. piecemeal.
bite, v. champ, nibble, chew; sting, smart, tingle; take hold of, adhere; nip, blight, blast.
bite, n. mouthful; wheal.
biting, a. stinging, sharp, cutting, sarcastic, caustic, scathing, bitter, satirical, pungent, piquant; nipping, blasting; erosive, corrosive, acrid, mordant.
bitter, a. acrid, acerb; poignant, intense; calamitous, distressing, virulent, acrimonious; implacable.
bitterness, n. acridity, acerbity; gall, wormwood; poignancy, intensity, severity; rancor, malice, malignity, implacableness.
bizarre, a. fantastic, whimsical, grotesque.
blab, n. babbler, blabber, telltale.--v. tell, tattle.
black, a. sable, ebon, inky, Stygian, Cimmerian, lowering, murky; Ethiopian, Papuan, negro.
black, n. stain, smooch; Ethiopian, Papuan, negro.
black and blue. livid, ecchymosed.
black and blue spot. ecchymosis, suggillation.
black art. necromancy, conjuration, magic, sorcery.
blacken, v. darken, denigrate; begrime, besmirch, tarnish, discolor; defame, malign.
blackguard, n. scoundrel, rascal, villain, ruffian.
blackguard, a. vicious, scurrilous, opprobrious, foul.
blackguardism, n. ruffianism, scoundrelism, rascality; scurrility, billingsgate.
blackhearted, a. villainous, abandoned, reprobate, diabolical, base, depraved.
black lead. graphite, plumbago.
blackleg, n. (Colloq.) gambler, gamester (disreputable).
blackness, n. black, nigritude; atrocity, heinousness, depravity.
Black Sea. Euxine.
blacksmith, n. ironsmith, farrier, horseshoer. Associated words: Hephestian, anvil.
blacksmith's shop. smithy, smithery, farriery, stithy, forge.
black vomit. melenemesis.
bladder, n. Associated words: cystitis, cystic, cystocele, cystose, cystolith, cystotomy, lithotomy, lithotomist, endoscope, endoscopy, prostate, catheter, litholysis, utricular, lithotrity, lithotome, utriculate.
blade, n. leaf (of a plant), spire (of grass); buck, gallant, dandy.
blamable, a. culpable, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy.
blame, n. censure, reproach, reprehension, condemnation, stricture, animadversion, reproof; culpability, reprehensibility, demerit, wrongdoing, fault.
blameless, a. guiltless, irreprehensible, inculpable, unimpeachable, faultless, irreproachable.
blameworthy, a. censurable, blamable.
bland, a. suave, mollifying, affable, complaisant; soothing, emollient, demulsive, assuasive.
blandish, v. flatter, cajole, caress.
blandishment, n. cajolery, wheedling, caresses, blandiloquence.
blank, a. void, empty, unfilled; expressionless, vacant: confounded, nonplused, astounded; unmitigated, absolute, downright.
blarney, n. (Colloq.) blandiloquence, palaver, blandishment, cajolery, flattery.
blamey, v. flatter, cajole, palaver, wheedle, blandish.
blasé, a. surfeited (with pleasure), sated, palled.
blasphemy, n. sacrilege, calumny, profanity.
blast, n. squall, gust; peal, blare, clang; explosion, discharge.
blast, v. blight, destroy; frustrate, ruin; explode, rend, open.
blasting, n. blighting, carbunculation; frustration, ruination.
blat, v. bleat.
blatant, a. brawling, clamorous, obstreperous, bawling braying.
blaze, n. flame.
blazing, a. flaming, ablaze, aflame. Antonym: smoldering.
blazon, v. emblazon; publish, display, exhibit.
bleach, v. etiolate, whiten, blanch.
bleaching, n. blanching, whitening, etiolation.
bleak, a. windswept, cheerless, raw, penetrating, desolate, dreary.
bleared, a. rheumy.
blearedness, n. lippitude, glama, epiphora.
bleed, v. exude.
bleeding, n. hemorrhage; phlebotomy, bloodletting, venesection. Associated words: tourniquet, garrot, styptic.
blemish, v. deface, mar, disfigure, sully.
blemish, n. defect, fault, imperfection, eyesore, disfigurement, blot.
blench, v. flinch, recoil, shrink from.
blend, v. intermingle, fuse, merge, combine, mix, assimilate.
blend, n. mixture, merging, fusion, assimilation, synthesis.
blessing, n. benediction, benison, beatitude; boon, God-send.
blight, v. blast; ruin, frustrate, fowart.
blind, a. unseeing, sightless, purblind; oblivious, undiscriminating, inconsiderate, unmindful; unintelligible, illegible; obscure, intricate, involved.
blind, n. shade, curtain, screen; blinder, blinker; subterfuge, pretext, ruse, stratagem, pretense, feint sophistry.
blind alley. cul-de-sac, impasse.
blind gut. cæcum.
blinding, a. obscuring.
blindness, n. sightlessness, anopsia, purblindness; amaurosis.
blink, v. wink; connive at, disregard, overlook.
bliss, n. felicity, transport, rapture, beatitude, happiness, ecstasy.
blissful, a. felicitous, ecstatic, rapturous, beatific.
blister, n. vesicle, pustule, pustulation, bleb; vesicatory, vesicant, epispastic, pustulant.--v. vesicate, pustulate.
blistering, a. vesicatory, epispastic, pustulant.--n. vesication, pustulation.
bloat, v. inflate, distend.
bloated, a. distended, turgid, intumescent, tumefied.
bloating, n. dilatation, intumescence, turgidity.
block, v. obstruct, blockade.--n. obstruction, obstacle, barrier.
blockhead, n. dolt, dunce, simpleton, ninny, numskull.
blood, n. lifeblood; gore. Associated words: hematology, hemorrhage, hemal, hematic, plethora, anæmia, sanguification, sanguify, clot, corpuscle, styptic, hematosis, sanguiferous, hematin, sanguine, sanguineous, sanguinivorous, hematophobia, hyperæmia.
bloodhound, n. sleuthhound.
bloodless, a. exsanguineous, exsanguious, anæmic.
bloodletting, n. venesection, bleeding, phlebotomy.
blood of the gods. ichor.
blood poisoning. toxæmia, septicæmia.
bloodshed, n. carnage, massacre, slaughter, bloodshedding.
bloodsucker, n. leech, sanguisuge; (Slang) extortioner; vampire.
bloodthirsty, a. sanguinary, truculent, ferocious, cruel.
blood vessel. artery; vein; capillary. Associated words: angiology, angiography, angiotomy, intrafusion, embolism, embolus, thrombosis, thrombolism, rete, hillus, endothelium, epithelium.
bloody, a. gory, sanguinary, exsanguined, blood-stained.
bloom, n. blossom, blow; prime, vigor, heyday, flush; fuzz, down.
blossom, n. flower, florescence, inflorescence, efflorescence, bloom, blow, anthesis.--v. bloom, blow.
blot, n. stain, blemish, smutch, smooch, reproach; erasure, obliteration.
blot, v. stain, spot, blur, blemish, sully, disgrace, tarnish, dishonor; efface, erase, delete, obliterate, expunge; obscure, eclipse.
blotch, n. eruption, blain, bulla, pustule, bleb; splotch, smutch, blot.
blow, n. blossom, bloom; whack, knock, thwack, rap, thump, assault, stroke; buffet, calamity, disaster, reverse, misfortune.
blow, v. blossom, bloom; pant, puff, gasp; spout; inflate, puff up, distend; explode, shatter; (Colloq.) boast, brag, bluster, vaunt, gasconade; rant, scold, censure.
blower, n. (Slang) braggart, boaster, vaunter.
blowhole, n. spiracle.
blow out. extinguish.
blow-out, n. (Colloq.) jollification, celebration, feast, merry-making.
blowpipe analysis. Associated word: pyritology.
blue, a. azure, cerulean, cerulific, sapphire, sapphirine, amethystine, turquoise, ultramarine, sky-colored; livid, ecchymosed; rigorous, severe; (Colloq.) melancholy, downhearted, depressed, despondent, dejected, low-spirited, dispirited, hypochondriac, chapfallen, gloomy, (Colloq.) gloomy, inauspicious, dismal, depressing; (Colloq.) pedantic, literary.
blue, n. azure, amethystine, sapphirine, cerulean; cyanin, anthokyan, anthocyanin.
blue jaundice. cyanopathy, cyanosis.
blues, n. pl. (Colloq.) despondency, melancholy, dismals, vapors, depression, blue devils, hypochondria, dumps, megrims.
bluff, a. abrupt, unceremonious, brusque; gruff, surly; precipitous, steep, abrupt.
bluff, v. (Colloq.) frighten, deter, intimidate.
blunder, n. bull, error, mistake, impropriety, slip, solecism, faux pas.
blundering, a. bungling, awkward, stupid, floundering.
blunt, a. dull, obtuse; abrupt, brusque, unceremonious, uncivil, ungracious, discourteous; stupid, stolid.
blunt, v. dull, deaden, stupefy; assuage, alleviate, mitigate.
blur, v. dim, bedim, obscure; sully, blemish; mackle, macule.
blur, n. blot, indistinctness; mackle, macule.
blurred, a. indistinct, obscure, dim, bedimmed, sullied.
blurt, v. ejaculate.
blushing, n. blush, erubescence.
bluster, v. swagger, storm, rage, gasconade, roister.
bluster, n. swaggering, gasconade, boasting; wind, storm.
blusterer, n. swaggerer, braggart, rodomont, roisterer, vaunter.
blustering, a. stormy, windy, tempestuous; swaggering, bullying, boastful, roistering.
boar, n. male hog; barrow (castrated); hogget (young boar).
boast, v. brag, vaunt, vapor, gasconade. Antonyms: belittle, decry, disparage.
boaster, n. braggart, vaunter, braggadocio, gascon, rodomont, blusterer, fanfaron, drawcansir.
boastful, a. bragging, vaunting, vainglorious, thrasonical, cockahoop, braggart, jactitatious.
boasting, n. bragging, gasconade, vaporing, fanfaronade, rodomontade, blague, bravado, blustering, jactitation, vaunting. Antonyms: disparagement, depreciation.
boat, n. water craft, launch, rowboat, canoe, gondola, punt, yacht, yawl, scull, cock, dugout, smack, pirogue, trawler, sloop, praam, coracle, pontoon, bateau, wherry, pinnace, scow, banca, transport, dory, galley, cruiser, ship, barge, bark, brig, bucentaur, skiff, caique, drogher, schooner, cockleshell, vessel, tug, towboat, tow, cog, wangan, ferry-boat, dinghey, argosy, oomiac, junk, longboat, catboat, felucca, cutter, frigate, xebec, tartan, una boat, moses, raft, catamaran, sampan, lifeboat, caravel, trekschuit, masoola, argo, coggle. Associated words: davits, oar, helm, stern, pilot, rudder, flotilla, navy, navigation, fleet.
beatable, a. navigable.
boat races. regatta.
boat-shaped, a. navicular, scaphoid, cymbiform, naviform.
bob, n. pendant, float.
bobtailed, a. curtailed.
bode, v. forebode, foreshadow, augur, presage, betoken, portend.
bodiless, a. incorporeal, disembodied.
bodilessness, n. incorporeality, disembodiment.
bodily, a. physical, corporal, corporeal.
boding, a. ominous, portentous.
boding, n. omen, sign, prognostic, foreboding, augury, auspice, portent.
bodkin, n. stiletto, eyeleteer; tape needle.
body, n. the physical person; torso, trunk; physique; bulk, mass; axis, centrum; individual, person, creature; system, code; consistency, substance; hulk; cuerpo. Associated words: physiology, anatomy, bicorporal, embody, embodiment, disembody, disembodiment, manikin, corporeality, corporeity, in cuerpo, somatic.
body servant. valet, squire.
body snatcher. resurrectionist, ghoul.
bodyguard, n. lifeguard, garde du corps, retinue.
bog, n. quagmire, marsh, swamp, fen, morass, slough.
boggle, v. hesitate, stickle, falter; bungle.
bogus, a. (Colloq.) spurious, counterfeit, fictitious, sham, fraudulent, forged, mock, false, supposititious.
bogy, n. bugaboo, bugbear, bogle, specter.
boil, n. furuncle. Associated word: furuncular.
boil, v. seethe, simmer, effervesce.--n. boiling.
boil away. evaporate.
boiling, a. seething, ebullient, effervescent, simmering.
boiling, n. ebullition, coction, effervescence, seething, gurgitation, simmering, ebullience.
boisterous, a. noisy, tumultuous, turbulent, hoidenish, unrestrained, rude.
bold, a. daring, intrepid, brave; forward, immodest, rude, hoidenish, brazen, saucy, insolent, unabashed, audacious, pert, shameless, malapert; conspicuous, prominent, salient; steep, abrupt, precipitous, acclivitous, jagged. Antonyms: modest, bashful, diffident, coy, shy, timid, retiring.
bold-faced, a. impudent, brazen-faced, insolent.
boldness, n. temerity, impudence, presumption, effrontery, impertinence, nerve.