📖 B — The English dictionary · page 13

bead — Everyday, meaning 1: A bead is a small ball or shape with a hole through it, put on a string to make a necklace or bracelet.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A bead of water or sweat is a small round drop.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: A small ball with a hole through it; in older English also a prayer.↗ Example: A necklace has 30 beads.↗ · She uses 8 red beads and 12 blue beads.↗ · Each bracelet needs 15 beads.↗ · How many bracelets can she make with 90 beads?↗ · The pattern goes red, blue, blue, red, blue, blue.↗ · We count to 100 on a bead string.↗ · Beads of rain ran down the window.↗ · She made a friendship bracelet with glass beads.↗ · She wore a silk dress, golden bracelets, and large amber beads.↗ · The Tenth Path is the Resplendent Intelligence, because it is exalted above every bead, and sits on the throne of BINAH (the Intelligence spoken of in the Third Path).↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The Second Path is that of the Illuminating Intelligence it is the Crown of Creation, the Splendor of the Unity, equaling it, and it is exalted above every bead, and named by the Kabbalists the Second Glory.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · These three mothers again represent in the Microcosm or Human form, male and female; the Head, the Belly, and the Chest; the bead from the fire, the belly from water, and the chest from the air lieth between them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · Thy cheeks are comely with circlets, thy neck with beads.↗ (Writings SNG.1.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my bride; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one bead of thy necklace.↗ (Writings SNG.4.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Perspiration hung like beads on his brow.↗ (Old Indian Legends) · The Tenth Path is the Resplendent Intelligence, because it is exalted above every bead, and sits on the throne of BINAH (the Intelligence spoken of in the Third Path).↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) · She wore a silk dress, golden bracelets, and large amber beads.↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen)

beadle — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) A beadle was a minor officer in a town or parish who kept order, called people to meetings or rang the bell.↗ Example: The beadle rang the bell for the meeting.↗ · The town beadle ran in with the news.↗ · In the old village the beadle walked in front of the mayor.↗ · The beadle kept the crowd quiet.↗

beady — Everyday, meaning 1: Small, round and shiny, like a bead; used mostly about eyes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Watching very closely and suspiciously, as in «a beady eye».↗ Example: The crow watched us with its beady black eyes.↗ · The teacher kept a beady eye on the back row.↗ · The rat stared out from the hole with beady eyes.↗ · Grandma has a beady eye for mess.↗ · The doll had little beady eyes made of glass.↗ · Keep a beady eye on your bag at the station.↗ · He had bright beady eyes and stiff grey whiskers and his tail was like a long bit of black india-rubber.↗

beagle — Everyday, meaning 1: A beagle is a small to medium hunting dog with long floppy ears, short legs and a white, brown and black coat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: HMS Beagle was the ship Charles Darwin sailed on to study nature (a name).↗ Example: Our beagle howls when the doorbell rings.↗ · Snoopy is a beagle.↗ · The beagle sniffed every bag at the airport.↗ · Darwin sailed on HMS Beagle.↗ · Beagles love to follow their noses.↗ · A beagle needs lots of walks.↗

beak — Everyday, meaning 1: The hard pointed mouth of a bird, which it uses to eat, pick things up and build nests.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A similar hard mouth of some other animals, like a turtle or an octopus.↗ Example: The robin carried a worm in its beak.↗ · A parrot can crack nuts with its strong beak.↗ · The eagle has a sharp hooked beak for tearing meat.↗ · A hummingbird's long thin beak reaches deep into flowers.↗ · The duck dabbled in the mud with its flat beak.↗ · The chick broke the shell with a tiny tooth on its beak.↗ · Don't put your face near a goose — its beak can nip.↗ · Turtles have beaks instead of teeth.↗ · "I'll bite hold of you with my beak."↗ · Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; thou hast drunken the beaker, even the cup of staggering, and drained it.↗ (Prophets ISA.51.17, JPS 1917)↗

beam — Everyday, meaning 1: A beam is a long, strong piece of wood or metal that holds up a roof or floor in a building.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A beam is also a line of light, like a beam from a torch.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To beam is to smile very widely and happily.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A balance beam is a narrow bar that gymnasts walk and jump on.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To beam something is to send it, like a signal or a picture.↗ Example: The beam is 6 metres long.↗ · They cut the beam into 3 equal parts.↗ · The roof needs 12 beams.↗ · Each beam weighs 40 kg.↗ · A beam of light came from the lighthouse.↗ · Light beams travel in straight lines.↗ · She beamed when she got her prize.↗ · The gymnast did a cartwheel on the beam.↗ · Old houses have wooden beams on the ceiling.↗ · Her face beamed when she exclaimed this.↗ · And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face sent forth beams; and they were afraid to come nigh him.↗ (Torah EXO.34.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face sent forth beams; and Moses put the veil back upon his face, until he went in to speak with Him.↗ (Torah EXO.34.35, JPS 1917)↗ · He also formed and designed from his Spirit, and from the void and formless made earth, even as a rampart, or standing wall, and varied its surface even as the crossing of beams.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The beams of our houses are cedars, and our panels are cypresses.↗ (Writings SNG.1.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And there were beams in three rows; and light was over against light in three ranks.↗ (Prophets 1KI.7.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams.↗ (Prophets 1KI.6.36, JPS 1917)↗

bean — Everyday, meaning 1: A bean is a seed you can eat, which grows in a pod.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A bean is the plant it grows on.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A bean is a seed of other plants used for food or drinks, like coffee beans or cocoa beans.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Full of beans» means full of energy.↗ Example: The jar has 50 jelly beans.↗ · She planted 4 rows of 6 bean plants.↗ · He ate 12 beans.↗ · Each bag holds 20 beans.↗ · We grew a bean in a jar in science class.↗ · Jack climbed the beanstalk.↗ · Chocolate is made from cocoa beans.↗ · Don't spill the beans about the party!↗ · The puppy is full of beans.↗ · Green beans are a healthy vegetable.↗ · You will have to steal some beans from the fields.↗ · brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse, (Prophets 2SA.17.28, JPS 1917)↗

beanbag — Everyday, meaning 1: A large soft bag filled with small plastic balls, used as a comfy chair.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A small cloth bag filled with dried beans or rice, used for throwing and catching in games.↗ Example: I read my book on the big beanbag in the library.↗ · In PE we balanced beanbags on our heads.↗ · Throw the beanbag into the hoop to score five points.↗ · The cat loves sleeping on the beanbag.↗ · Our class got new beanbags for the reading corner.↗ · He flopped down on the beanbag after school.↗

beanstalk — Everyday, meaning 1: The tall stem of a bean plant that climbs up a pole or string.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The magic giant beanstalk in the fairy tale «Jack and the Beanstalk» that grows up into the clouds.↗ Example: Jack climbed the beanstalk up into the clouds.↗ · Our beanstalk grew ten centimetres in a week.↗ · The beanstalk curled around the bamboo cane.↗ · In the play, I was the giant at the top of the beanstalk.↗ · We measured the beanstalk every Monday and drew a graph.↗ · The magic beans grew into an enormous beanstalk overnight.↗ · Grandad's runner beans have very long beanstalks.↗

bear — Everyday, meaning 1: A bear is a big, strong animal with thick fur, like a brown bear, polar bear or black bear.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A teddy bear is a soft toy bear.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To bear means to carry or hold up a weight: the bridge can bear 10 tons.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To bear something also means to put up with it.↗ e.g. I cannot bear the noise.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To bear fruit is to grow fruit.↗ Example: There are 12 teddy bears on the shelf.↗ · A bear ate 6 fish.↗ · Each bear sleeps 5 months a year.↗ · The bridge can bear 10 tons.↗ · Polar bears live in the Arctic.↗ · Goldilocks met three bears.↗ · Bear in mind that the shop closes early.↗ · I cannot bear spiders!↗ · The apple tree bears fruit in autumn.↗ · I cannot bear it any longer!↗ · Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.↗ (Torah EXO.20.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.↗ (Torah DEU.5.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And Bethuel begot Rebekah; these eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.↗ (Torah GEN.22.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Will He bear grudge for ever?↗ (Prophets JER.3.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Or canst thou guide the Bear with her sons?↗ (Writings JOB.38.32, JPS 1917)↗ · Let the mountains bear peace to the people, and the hills, through righteousness.↗ (Writings PSA.72.3, JPS 1917)↗

bearcat — Everyday, meaning 1: The binturong, a furry animal from the forests of South and Southeast Asia with a long tail it can grip with; it is neither a bear nor a cat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (sometimes) Another name for the red panda.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (US, old informal) A strong, fierce or very lively person.↗ Example: The bearcat curled its long tail around the branch.↗ · A bearcat smells a bit like popcorn.↗ · We saw a bearcat sleeping at the zoo.↗ · Despite its name, a bearcat is not a bear.↗ · The Cincinnati Bearcats won the match.↗ · Bearcats eat fruit and small animals.↗

beard — Everyday, meaning 1: A beard is the hair that grows on the chin and cheeks of a man.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A beard is also hairs or bristles like that on some animals, like a goat's beard, or on plants like barley.↗ Example: Grandpa has a long white beard.↗ · My dad shaved off his beard.↗ · The billy goat had a little beard.↗ · The wizard stroked his beard and thought.↗ · Father Christmas has a big white beard.↗ · Uncle Tom is growing a beard for charity.↗ · Wringing his hands and rending his beard, he exclaimed:↗ · And when a man or woman hath a plague upon the head or upon the beard, (Torah LEV.13.29, JPS 1917)↗ · Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.↗ (Torah LEV.19.27, JPS 1917)↗ · They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.↗ (Torah LEV.21.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.'↗ (Prophets 2SA.10.5, JPS 1917)↗ · For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.↗ (Prophets JER.48.37, JPS 1917)↗ · And Joab said to Amasa: 'Is it well with thee, my brother?'↗ And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.↗ (Prophets 2SA.20.9, JPS 1917)↗

bearded — Everyday, meaning 1: Bearded means having a beard, hair growing on the chin and cheeks.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In animals and plants, bearded describes tufts of hair or bristles, like a bearded dragon or bearded wheat.↗ Example: A tall bearded man opened the door.↗ · The wizard was old and bearded.↗ · My uncle is bearded and wears glasses.↗ · The bearded dragon is a lizard from Australia.↗ · The bearded pirate shouted, «Land ahoy!»↗ · Bearded vultures live in the mountains.↗ · Describe the bearded man to the police officer.↗ · The bearded farmer waved from his tractor.↗ · Last came the white-bearded man, but he fared no better than the rest.↗ · But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the great vulture, and the bearded vulture, and the ospray; (Torah DEU.14.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And these ye shall have in detestation among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are a detestable thing: the great vulture, and the bearded vulture, and the ospray; (Torah LEV.11.13, JPS 1917)↗

beardless — Everyday, meaning 1: Beardless means without a beard, as a young man or boy usually is.↗ Example: "Good greeting, beardless one!" he cried.↗ · The beardless boy helped the farmer.↗ · He looked pale and beardless, like a child.↗ · The beardless man arrived first by another road.↗

bearer — Everyday, meaning 1: A bearer is a person who carries something, such as a load, a flag, a coffin or a sick person on a stretcher.↗ Example: The bearers lifted the heavy box.↗ · The bearers carried the bride's gifts over the hill.↗ · Two bearers carried the sick man home.↗ · The flag bearer walked at the front.↗ · And the Kohathites the bearers of the sanctuary set forward, that the tabernacle might be set up against their coming.↗ (Torah NUM.10.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armour-bearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah; (Prophets 2SA.23.37, JPS 1917)↗ · Zelek the Ammonite, Nahrai the Berothite, the armour-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah; (Writings 1CH.11.39, JPS 1917)↗ · And when his armour-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword, and died.↗ (Writings 1CH.10.5, JPS 1917)↗