Baccated (a.) Set or adorned with pearls.
Bacchanal (a.) Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
Bacchanal (a.) Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.
Bacchanal (n.) A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser.
Bacchanal (n.) The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.
Bacchanal (n.) Drunken revelry; an orgy.
Bacchanal (n.) A song or dance in honor of Bacchus.
Bacchanalia (n. pl.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.
Bacchanalia (n. pl.) Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler.
Bacchanalian (a.) Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.
Bacchanalian (n.) A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
Bacchanalianism (n.) The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry.
Bacchants (pl. ) of Bacchant
Bacchantes (pl. ) of Bacchant
Bacchant (n.) A priest of Bacchus.
Bacchant (n.) A bacchanal; a reveler.
Bacchant (a.) Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.
Bacchantes (pl. ) of Bacchante
Bacchante (n.) A priestess of Bacchus.
Bacchante (n.) A female bacchanal.
Bacchantic (a.) Bacchanalian.
Bacchic (a.) Alt. of Bacchical
Bacchical (a.) Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous,with intoxication.
Bacchii (pl. ) of Bacchius
Bacchius (n.) A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.
Bacchus (n.) The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.
Bacciferous (a.) Producing berries.
Bacciform (a.) Having the form of a berry.
Baccivorous (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds.
Bace (n., a., & v.) See Base.
Bacharach (n.) Alt. of Backarack
Backarack (n.) A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.
Bachelor (n.) A man of any age who has not been married.
Bachelor (n.) An unmarried woman.
Bachelor (n.) A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts.
Bachelor (n.) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight.
Bachelor (n.) In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member.
Bachelor (n.) A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.
Bachelordom (n.) The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.
Bachelorhood (n.) The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship.
Bachelorism (n.) Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors.
Bachelor's button () A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena).
Bachelorship (n.) The state of being a bachelor.
Bachelry (n.) The body of young aspirants for knighthood.
Bacillar (a.) Shaped like a rod or staff.
Bacillariae (n. pl.) See Diatom.
Bacillary (a.) Of or pertaining to little rods; rod-shaped.
Bacilliform (a.) Rod-shaped.
Bacilli (pl. ) of Bacillus
Bacillus (n.) A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.
Back (n.) A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
Back (n.) A ferryboat. See Bac, 1.
Back (n.) In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.
Back (n.) An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge.
Back (n.) The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail.
Back (n.) The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney.
Back (n.) The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.
Back (n.) The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.
Back (n.) A support or resource in reserve.
Back (n.) The keel and keelson of a ship.
Back (n.) The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.
Back (n.) A garment for the back; hence, clothing.
Back (a.) Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements.
Back (a.) Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent.
Back (a.) Moving or operating backward; as, back action.
Backed (imp. & p. p.) of Back
Backing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Back
Back (v. i.) To get upon the back of; to mount.
Back (v. i.) To place or seat upon the back.
Back (v. i.) To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.
Back (v. i.) To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.
Back (v. i.) To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
Back (v. i.) To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.
Back (v. i.) To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend.
Back (v. i.) To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.
Back (v. i.) To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.
Back (v. i.) To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.
Back (v. i.) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog.
Back (adv.) In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.
Back (adv.) To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it.
Back (adv.) To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.
Back (adv.) (Of time) In times past; ago.
Back (adv.) Away from contact; by reverse movement.
Back (adv.) In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.
Back (adv.) In a state of restraint or hindrance.
Back (adv.) In return, repayment, or requital.
Back (adv.) In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.
Back (adv.) In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent.
Backarack (n.) See Bacharach.
Backare (interj.) Same as Baccare.
Backband (n.) The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.
Backbite (v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
Backbite (v. i.) To censure or revile the absent.
Backbiter (n.) One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
Backbiting (n.) Secret slander; detraction.
Backboard (n.) A board which supports the back wen one is sitting;
Backboard (n.) A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon.
Backboard (n.) A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc.
Backboard (n.) A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel.
Backboard (n.) A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure.