Index of English words, starting with "be"

(1) - Beardless (a.) Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.
(2) - Beardless (a.) Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful.

(1) - Beardlessness (n.) The state or quality of being destitute of beard.

(1) - Bearer (n.) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.
(2) - Bearer (n.) One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer.
(3) - Bearer (n.) A tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer.
(4) - Bearer (n.) A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant.
(5) - Bearer (n.) Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer.
(6) - Bearer (n.) One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.

(1) - Bearing (n.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
(2) - Bearing (n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.
(3) - Bearing (n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W.
(4) - Bearing (n.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.
(5) - Bearing (n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
(6) - Bearing (n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
(7) - Bearing (n.) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
(8) - Bearing (n.) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
(9) - Bearing (n.) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.
(10) - Bearing (n.) The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
(11) - Bearing (n.) Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
(12) - Bearing (n.) The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection.
(13) - Bearing (n.) Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
(14) - Bearing (n.) The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
(15) - Bearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bear