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  • English Word Berth Definition An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment.
  • English Word Berth Definition A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.
  • English Word Berth Definition To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.
  • English Word Berth Definition To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company.
  • English Word Bertha Definition A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.
  • English Word Berthage Definition A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.
  • English Word Berthed Definition of Berth
  • English Word Berthierite Definition A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.
  • English Word Berthing Definition of Berth
  • English Word Berthing Definition The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake.
  • English Word Bertram Definition Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum).
  • English Word Berycoid Definition Of or pertaining to the Berycidae, a family of marine fishes.
  • English Word Beryl Definition A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium.
  • English Word Berylline Definition Like a beryl; of a light or bluish green color.
  • English Word Beryllium Definition A metallic element found in the beryl. See Glucinum.
  • English Word Berylloid Definition A solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl.
  • English Word Bes-antler Definition Same as Bez-antler.
  • English Word Besaiel Definition Alt. of Besayle
  • English Word Besaile Definition Alt. of Besayle
  • English Word Besaint Definition To make a saint of.
  • English Word Besant Definition See Bezant.
  • English Word Besayle Definition A great-grandfather.
  • English Word Besayle Definition A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished.
  • English Word Bescatter Definition To scatter over.
  • English Word Bescatter Definition To cover sparsely by scattering (something); to strew.
  • English Word Bescorn Definition To treat with scorn.
  • English Word Bescratch Definition To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
  • English Word Bescrawl Definition To cover with scrawls; to scribble over.
  • English Word Bescreen Definition To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal.
  • English Word Bescribble Definition To scribble over.