Battle array. Order of battle, line, line of battle.
Battled, a. Embattled, battlemented, bristling with battlements.
Bauble, Bawble, n. Trinket, gewgaw, toy, trifle, plaything, gimcrack, knack, knick-knack.
Bavin, n. Fagot, twig, bough, brushwood.
Bavin, a. Brushy, fagot-like, twiggy.
Bavin, v. a. Kid, bundle, make into fagots, make into bavins.
Bawd, n. Procurer or (more commonly) procuress, pander, pimp.
Bawdry, n.
- 1. Pandering, playing pimp or procuress.
- 2. Fornication, whoredom, whoring, lechery, licentiousness, illicit intercourse.
- 3. Obscenity, impurity, lewd talk, smut, indecency, filthy language.
Bawdy, a. Obscene, filthy, indecent, impure, lewd, smutty, unchaste.
Bawdy-house, n. Brothel, stew, bagnio, house of prostitution, house of ill-fame.
Bawl, v. n. and v. a. Clamor, vociferate, yell, howl, roar, shout, hoot, cry, squall.
Bay, a. Reddish-brown.
Bay, n.
- 1. Bight, inlet of the sea.
- 2. Recess (as in a room), opening.
- 3. Compartment.
- 4. Bay-tree, laurel-tree (Laurus nobilis), sweet laurel.
- 5. Baywood, Campeachy mahogany.
- 6. Laurel-crown, chaplet, laurel, garland, fame, renown, glory, honor, plaudits, praise, applause.
- 7. Bark, barking, baying, yelp.
- 8. Desperation, last resort, facing for life, life-and-death struggle.