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Bauble
- noun - a mock scepter carried by a court jester
- cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
Be-All
- - The whole; all that is to be.
Beadle
- noun - a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function
- United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989)
Beagle
- noun - a small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound
Becalm
- verb - 1. To render motionless for lack of wind: "Across the harbor, a small sailing skiff, becalmed near some reeds, caught the breeze again" (Horace Freeland Judson).
2. To make calm or still; soothe.
3. To deprive (a sailing vessel) of the wind necessary to
- make steady; "steady yourself"
- Making still or quiet
Beetle
- adjective - a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
- be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"
- beat with a beetle
- fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home"
- insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
- jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows"
Befall
- verb - become of; happen to; "He promised that no harm would befall her"; "What has become of my children?"
- happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana)
Befell
- verb - become of; happen to; "He promised that no harm would befall her"; "What has become of my children?"
- happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana)