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- English Word Banterer Definition One who banters or rallies.
- English Word Bantering Definition of Banter
- English Word Bantingism Definition A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.
- English Word Bantling Definition A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.]
- English Word Banxring Definition An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia.
- English Word Banyan Definition A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.
- English Word Baobab Definition A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.
- English Word Baphomet Definition An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.
- English Word Baptism Definition The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.
- English Word Baptismal Definition Pertaining to baptism; as, baptismal vows.
- English Word Baptismally Definition In a baptismal manner.
- English Word Baptist Definition One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ.
- English Word Baptist Definition One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.
- English Word Baptisteries Definition of Baptistry
- English Word Baptistery Definition Alt. of Baptistry
- English Word Baptistic Definition Of or for baptism; baptismal.
- English Word Baptistical Definition Baptistic.
- English Word Baptistry Definition In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near.
- English Word Baptistry Definition A part of a church containing a font and used for baptismal services.
- English Word Baptizable Definition Capable of being baptized; fit to be baptized.
- English Word Baptization Definition Baptism.
- English Word Baptize Definition To administer the sacrament of baptism to.
- English Word Baptize Definition To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name.
- English Word Baptize Definition To sanctify; to consecrate.
- English Word Baptized Definition of Baptize
- English Word Baptizement Definition The act of baptizing.
- English Word Baptizer Definition One who baptizes.
- English Word Baptizing Definition of Baptize
- English Word Bar Definition A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.
- English Word Bar Definition An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.