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barrier, n. obstruction, impediment, obstacle, hindrance, barricade.
barter, n. traffic, exchange, trade, business.--v. traffic, trade, exchange.
base, a. debased, impure, spurious, alloyed, counterfeit; low-minded, unworthy, ign.o.ble, mean, servile, groveling; despicable, discreditable, disgraceful, venal; plebeian, obscure, unt.i.tled, unhonored.
base, n. basis, bottom, foundation, groundwork; pedestal; plinth.
baseboard, n. mopboard, scrubboard.
baseborn, a. plebeian.
baseless, a. unfounded, groundless.
bas.e.m.e.nt, n. cellar. a.s.sociated Word: area.
bashful, a. over-modest, diffident, coy, shamefaced, sheepish, retiring.
bashfulness, n. modesty, diffidence, shyness, over-modesty.
basis, n. foundation.
bask, v. luxuriate, revel.
basket, n. hamper, creel, hanaper, pannier, corb, tumbril, dosser, canister, p.r.i.c.kle, corf, ba.s.sinet, voider, flasket, punnet, wicker, wicker-work, scuttle.
basket-bearer, n. caneph.o.r.e, canephorus. (Gr. Antiq.)
b.a.s.t.a.r.d, n. illegitimate child, love-child, wh.o.r.eson; mamzer (Mosaic law).
b.a.s.t.a.r.d, a. illegitimate, adulterine; spurious, false, counterfeit, supposit.i.tious.
b.a.s.t.a.r.dize, v. illegitimatize, Antonyms: legitimate, legitimatize.
baste, v. beat, cudgel, pound, pommel, buffet, thrash, maul, strike.
bat, n. club, cudgel; brickbat; cheiropter, vampire; racket; (Slang) blow, stroke, buffet; (Slang) spree, jollification.
batch, n. quant.i.ty, collection, lot, a.s.sortment.
bate, n. puer, grainer.
bath, n. ablution, lavement; bathroom, lavatory. a.s.sociated Words: balneal, balneary, balneography, balneology balneotherapy, laver.
bathe, v. lave, wash; foment; surround, envelop, enwrap, suffuse.
bathing, n. ablution, lavement.
baton, n. staff, wand, sceptre, truncheon.
batten, v. fatten.
batter, v. smite, pelt, a.s.sault; demolish, raze, shatter.
battle, n. engagement, fight, encounter, skirmish, contest, combat, tournament, strife.
battle array. battalia.
bauble, n. gewgaw, gimcrack, kickshaws, trinket, plaything.
bawdy-house, n. brothel.
bay, n. bight, frith, estuary, fiord, bayou; recess, alcove, sinus, oriel (bay window); bay-tree, sweet laurel; last resort, desperation; pl. honors, garland, renown.
beach, n. sh.o.r.e, strand, s.h.i.+ngle, marge.
beached, a. stranded, aground.
beacon, n. balefire, signal fire; signal, pharos. a.s.sociated Word: pharology.
beadle, n. apparitor, summoner, servitor.
beads, n. pl. rosary; pa.s.s.e.m.e.nterie (beaded tr.i.m.m.i.n.g); chaplet; wampum, suckanhock, peag.
beak, n. bill, nib, neb, mandible; prow, bow, rostrum. a.s.sociated word: cere.
beam, n. girder, joist; ray, gleam.
beam, v. gleam, s.h.i.+ne, glitter, glisten, scintillate.
beaming, a. radiant, s.h.i.+ning.
beanlike, a. fabaceous.
bear, n. Bruin; Ursus; Ephraim; cub, whelp; grumbler, growler, boor; musquaw.
bear, v. endure, tolerate, stand, undergo, brook, submit to, suffer, bear with; harbor, cherish, entertain; support, sustain, uphold; carry, convey, transport, waft; render, produce, yield; bring forth, teem; relate, refer, concern; press, push, oppress.
bearable, a. sufferable, tolerable, endurable. Antonyms: unbearable, intolerable.
beard, n. whiskers; goatee, mustache; awn, arista (beard of grain).
beard, v. defy, encounter, oppose.
bearded, a. whiskered; aristate, awned.
bearing, n. mien, carriage, port, demeanor, air, deportment; endurance, forbearance, long-suffering, toleration, sufferance; relation, connection, dependency; course, aim, direction; bringing forth, yielding.
bearish, a. discourteous, boorish, uncivil, rude; ursine, ursiform.
