BPage 11
- English Word Bacterioscopic Definition Relating to bacterioscopy; as, a bacterioscopic examination.
- English Word Bacterioscopist Definition One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations.
- English Word Bacterioscopy Definition The application of a knowledge of bacteria for their detection and identification, as in the examination of polluted water.
- English Word Bacterium Definition A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus.
- English Word Bacteroid Definition Alt. of Bacteroidal
- English Word Bacteroidal Definition Resembling bacteria; as, bacteroid particles.
- English Word Bactrian Definition Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia.
- English Word Bactrian Definition A native of Bactria.
- English Word Bacule Definition See Bascule.
- English Word Baculine Definition Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod.
- English Word Baculite Definition A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.
- English Word Baculometry Definition Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff or staffs.
- English Word Bad Definition of Bid
- English Word Bad Definition Bade.
- English Word Bad Definition Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news.
- English Word Bad lands Definition Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by caons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).
- English Word Badder Definition compar. of Bad, a.
- English Word Badderlocks Definition A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.
- English Word Baddish Definition Somewhat bad; inferior.
- English Word Bade Definition A form of the pat tense of Bid.
- English Word Bade Definition of Bid
- English Word Badge Definition A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.
- English Word Badge Definition A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.
- English Word Badge Definition Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
- English Word Badge Definition To mark or distinguish with a badge.
- English Word Badgeless Definition Having no badge.
- English Word Badger Definition An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
- English Word Badger Definition A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.
- English Word Badger Definition To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
- English Word Badger Definition A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.