Словарь английских синонимов и синонимичных выражений. Том I. A – I. Виктор Евгеньевич Никитин
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Bay-salt, n. Common salt (as obtained by evaporation of sea-water), chloride of sodium.
Bay-tree, n. Bay, laurel-tree.
Bazaar, n. Market-place.
Be, v. n. Exist (whether in fact or in imagination), subsist, have existence, have being.
Beach, n. Shore, coast, strand, seaboard, seacoast.
Beacon, n. 1. Signal-fire.
2. Mark, sign, signal.
Beak, n. 1. Bill, mandible, neb.
2. Prow, bow, stem.
Beam, n. 1. Girder, piece of timber.
2. Ray, pencil, streak, gleam, glimmer.
Beam, v. n. Shine, emit rays.
Beam, v. a. Shoot forth, emit in rays or beams.
Beamy, a. Radiant, beaming.
Bear, v. a. 1. Uphold, support, sustain, hold up.
2. Carry, transport, convey, waft.
3. Possess, have, hold.
4. Endure, suffer, undergo, brook, tolerate, abide, put up with, bear with, take patiently or easily, have patience with, submit to.
5. Admit, permit, allow, admit of, be capable of.
6. Maintain, keep up, carry on.
7. Entertain, cherish, harbor.
8. Be answerable for, be charged with.
9. Produce, yield.
10. Generate, beget, bring forth, give birth to.
11. Exhibit, utter, show, give.
Bear, v. n. 1. Suffer, submit.
2. Press, push, be oppressive.
3. Be fruitful, be prolific.
4. [Rare.] Imply, intimate.
5. (Naut.) Be situated (with respect to the point of compass).
Bear, n. Bruin.
Bearable, a. Tolerable, endurable, supportable.
Bear a hand, (Naut.) Be quick, make haste.
Beard, v. a. Defy, challenge, dare, take or pluck by the beard, oppose to the face.
Bearded, a. 1. Barbed.
2. (Bot.) Aristate, awned.
Bear date, Be dated.
Bear down, Overwhelm, oppress, crush.
Bear down upon, Attack, assail, assault, charge, march upon, march against, set upon, rush upon, fall upon.
Bear-grass, n. Yucca, Adam's needle, Spanish bayonet.
Bearing, n. 1. Deportment, demeanor, behavior, conduct, carriage, mien, air, port.
2. Relation, dependency, connection.
3. Endurance, suffering.
4. Direction, course, aim, aspect, point of compass.
Bearings, n. pl. Charges (in coats of arms).
Bearish, a. Rough, rude, coarse, savage, boorish, uncivil, uncourteous, discourteous, impolite, ungentlemanly.
Bear one's self, Behave, acquit one's self, conduct one's self.
Bear out, Maintain, support, defend, uphold, justify, make good.
Bear the bell, Be the leader.
Bear the cross, Take up the cross, submit to trials or afflictions.
Bear the palm, Excel, be superior.
Bear up, 1. (Active.) Support, uphold; sustain, keep from falling.
2. (Passive.) Stand firm, show fortitude.
Bear with, Endure, bear, tolerate, put up with, have patience with.
Bear witness, Testify, depose, state, affirm, declare, aver, avow, say, swear.
Beast, n. Brute (fit for the service of man), quadruped, beast of the field, four-footed animal, irrational animal.
Beastly, a. Brutish, brutal, bestial, sensual, irrational.
Beat, v. a. 1. Strike, knock, hit, thump, belabor, drub, maul, pommel, baste, thrash, thwack, bang, lay blows upon.
2. Hammer, forge.
3. Pound, bruise, pulverize, comminute, bray, break in pieces.
4. Batter, smite, pelt, dash against.
5. Conquer, overcome, subdue, vanquish, overpower, defeat, checkmate.
6. [Colloquial.] Excel, surpass, outdo, cut out.
Beat, v. n. 1. Pulsate, throb.
2. Dash, strike.
3. (Naut.) Go against the wind, go a zigzag course.
Beat, n. 1. Stroke, striking, blow.
2. Pulsation, throb, beating.
3. Round, course.
Beat all hollow, [Low.] Surpass completely, excel beyond all question.
Beat back, Repulse, repel, drive back.
Beat down, 1. Batter, overturn, destroy, break, throw down.
2. Subdue, overpower, overcome, crush, put down.
3. Press down (by blows), lay flat.
Beaten, a. 1. Worn by use, much travelled.
2. Hackneyed, trite, common, common-place.
Beatific, a. Ravishing, enchanting.
Beatification, n. 1. Beatifying (especially the act of the pope in declaring a person happy after death).
2. Bliss, beatitude.
Beatify, v. a. Enrapture, enchant, transport, enravish, make happy.
Beating, n. 1. Striking, drubbing, flogging, thrashing, cudgelling, pommelling, caning, flagellation, bastinado.
2. Beat, pulsation, throb, throbbing.
Beat into, [Colloquial.] Teach (by laborious effort), instil, inculcate, implant.
Beatitude, n. Happiness, bliss, felicity, blessedness, blissfulness, beatification, transport, rapture, heavenly joy.
Be at loggerheads, Come to blows, fall to loggerheads, go to loggerheads.
Beat out, 1. Flatten (by hammering).
2. Exhaust, overcome (with fatigue).
Beat the air, Make vain efforts, try in vain, lash the waves, fish in the air, milk the ram.
Beau, n. 1. Fop, dandy, coxcomb, exquisite, macaroni, popinjay, jackanapes, jack-a-dandy, man of dress.
2. Gallant, lover, admirer, suitor, sweetheart, cicisbeo.
Beau ideal, [Fr.] Ideal beauty, ideal excellence, ideal standard.
Beau-monde, n. [Fr.] Gay world, fashionable world, people of fashion, genteel people.
Beauteous, a. [Poetical.] Beautiful.
Beauties, n. pl. 1. Anthology, selections, elegant extracts.
2. Beautiful persons (especially beautiful women).
Beautiful, a. Handsome, fair, fine, elegant, graceful, pretty, beauteous.
Beautify, v. a. Adorn, decorate, embellish, deck, bedeck, bedizen, ornament, emblazon, gild, array, garnish, grace, set, trick out, set off, make beautiful.
Beauty, n. 1. Elegance, grace, symmetry.
2. Comeliness, seemliness, fairness, loveliness, attractiveness.
3. Fine part, special grace, particular excellence.
4. Beautiful person (especially a beautiful woman).
Beaux-esprits, n. pl. [Fr.] Men of wit, men of genius.
Beaver, n. 1. Fur of the beaver.
2. Hat.
3. Face-guard