Chapter Babble to Band of B by Soule's Synonymes

2. Weigh (mentally), compare, estimate comparatively.

3. Counterpoise, counteract, neutralize, countervail, counterbalance, compensate, make up for.

4. (Com.) Equalize, make equal, square, adjust, clear.

Balance, v. n.

1. Be in equipoise or equilibrium, counterpoise each other, neutralize each other.

2. Cast accounts, keep accounts, reckon, make balances.

Balance-fish, n. Hammer-fish, hammer-headed shark (Zygœna vulgaris).

Bald, a.

1. Without hair (on the head), hairless, destitute of hair.

2. Bare, treeless, verdureless, uncovered, unsheltered, naked.

3. Unadorned, inelegant, prosaic, dull, meagre, vapid, tame.

4. Literal, unabated, unmitigated, undisguised, unvarnished, naked, bare.

5. Unsupported, bare, mere, uncorroborated, glaring.

Baldachino, Baldaquin, Baldequin, n. Canopy, awning

Balderdash, n. Verbiage, rodomontade, gasconade, rant, bombast, fustian, froth, palaver, twaddle, chatter, trash, stuff, bosh, platitude, flummery, fudge, jargon, nonsense, prate, prating, senseless prate, jabber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gabble, drivel, frothy discourse, idle talk.

Baldric, n. Shoulder-belt, bawdrick.

Bale, n.

1. Bundle, package.

2. Harm, injury, hurt, bane, ruin, mischief, calamity, misery.

Baleen, n. Whalebone.

Bale-fire, n. Beacon-fire.