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Bacchanalian
() A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
Bacchanalianism
() The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry.
Bacchants
() of Bacchant
Bacchantes
() of Bacchant
Bacchant
() A priest of Bacchus.
Bacchant
() A bacchanal; a reveler.
Bacchant
() Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.
Bacchantes
() of Bacchante
Bacchante
() A priestess of Bacchus.
Bacchante
() A female bacchanal.
Bacchantic
() Bacchanalian.
Bacchic
() Alt. of Bacchical
Bacchical
() Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous,with intoxication.
Bacchii
() of Bacchius
Bacchius
() A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.
Bacchus
() The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.
Bacciferous
() Producing berries.
Bacciform
() Having the form of a berry.
Baccivorous
() Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds.
Bace
() See Base.
Bacharach
() Alt. of Backarack
Backarack
() A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.
Bachelor
() A man of any age who has not been married.
Bachelor
() An unmarried woman.
Bachelor
() A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts.
Bachelor
() A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight.
Bachelor
() In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member.
Bachelor
() A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.
Bachelordom
() The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.
Bachelorhood
() The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship.
Bachelorism
() Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors.
Bachelor's button
() A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena).
Bachelorship
() The state of being a bachelor.
Bachelry
() The body of young aspirants for knighthood.
Bacillar
() Shaped like a rod or staff.
Bacillariae
() See Diatom.
Bacillary
() Of or pertaining to little rods; rod-shaped.
Bacilliform
() Rod-shaped.
Bacilli
() of Bacillus
Bacillus
() A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.
Back
() A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
Back
() A ferryboat. See Bac, 1.
Back
() In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.
Back
() An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge.
Back
() The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail.
Back
() The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney.
Back
() The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.
Back
() The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.
Back
() A support or resource in reserve.
Back
() The keel and keelson of a ship.