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  • backhandedness — The quality of being backhanded; the use of indirect tactics.
  • backside cache — (hardware, processor)   An implementation of secondary cache memory that allows it to be directly accessed by the CPU. Backside cache is used by Apple Computers, Inc. in their PowerPC G3 processor. Previous PowerPC processors used the system bus to access both secondary cache and main memory. In the PowerPC G3 a dedicated bus handles only CPU/cache transactions. This bus can operate faster than the system bus thus improving the overall performance of the processor. The term apparently derives from the relocation of the secondary cache from the motherboard to the processor card itself, i.e. on the backside of the processor card.
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • ballon d'essai — a project or policy put forward experimentally to gauge reactions to it
  • bang's disease — a type of infectious brucellosis affecting cattle, caused by a bacterium (Brucella abortus) and often resulting in abortion
  • banker's draft — A banker's draft is the same as a bank draft.
  • banker's order — pay order, banker's cheque
  • barbados earth — a diatomaceous marl found in Barbados
  • barbados pride — Also called bead tree. a tropical African and Asian tree, Adenanthera pavonina, of the legume family, having feathery foliage and bearing red seeds that are used in beadwork.
  • barium sulfide — a gray or yellowish-green, water-soluble, poisonous powder, BaS, used chiefly as a depilatory and as an intermediate in the synthesis of pigments, especially lithopone.
  • barrel-chested — A barrel-chested man has a large, rounded chest.
  • barrier island — a long island, parallel to the coastline, formed from a ridge of sand (barrier beach) thrown up by the waves, that serves the shore as a protective barrier against tidal waves, storms, etc.
  • bascule bridge — a kind of drawbridge counterweighted so that it can be raised and lowered easily
  • bascule-bridge — a device operating like a balance or seesaw, especially an arrangement of a movable bridge (bascule bridge) by which the rising floor or section is counterbalanced by a weight.
  • basidiomycetes — Mycology. any of a group of fungi constituting the phylum Basidiomycota of the kingdom Fungi (or, in older classification schemes, the class Basidiomycetes of the kingdom Plantae), characterized by bearing the spores on a basidium, including the smuts, rust, mushrooms, and puffballs.
  • basket-of-gold — a yellow-flowered perennial plant (Alyssum saxatile, now more properly Aurinia saxatilis) of the crucifer family, often used in rock gardens
  • bastard ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • bastard turtle — ridley (def 1).
  • bastard-ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • bastard-turtle — ridley (def 1).
  • basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
  • batten disease — a rare hereditary disease in which lipids accumulate in the nervous system, leading to mental deterioration, loss of mobility, and blindness that start in early childhood
  • battle-scarred — adversely affected from the experience of battle, or some other traumatic experience
  • beard-stroking — deep thought
  • bedraggledness — The state or condition of being bedraggled.
  • bedside manner — A doctor's bedside manner is the way in which they talk to their patients.
  • benday process — a process for adding tone or shading, as in reproducing drawings, by the overlay on the plate of patterns, as of dots
  • berberidaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Berberidaceae, a mainly N temperate family of flowering plants (mostly shrubs), including barberry and barrenwort
  • berkner island — an island in Antarctica, in the S Weddell Sea, between the Ronne Ice Shelf and the Filchner Ice Shelf.
  • bermuda shorts — close-fitting shorts that come down to the knees
  • beyond measure — If you say that something has changed or that it has affected you beyond measure, you are emphasizing that it has done this to a great extent.
  • bicuspid valve — mitral valve
  • bidialectalism — the state of being bidialectal
  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
  • binding strake — a very strong, heavy strake of planking, especially one next to a sheer strake.
  • birds and bees — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • black redstart — a small, Passerine bird, Phoenicurus ochruros, found in Central and S Europe
  • blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
  • blind staggers — the staggers
  • blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
  • blue-arsed fly — a blowfly; bluebottle
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • body mechanics — body exercises that are intended to improve one's posture, stamina, poise, etc.
  • border disease — a congenital infectious disease of sheep and goats caused by a Togavirus and characterized by abortion, infertility, and deformity of lambs
  • born yesterday — brought forth by birth.
  • boundary-stone — a stone marking a boundary, sometimes giving information such as the initials of the local authority in whose jurisdiction the boundary is
  • bow and scrape — to behave in an excessively deferential or obsequious way
  • bradford score — a measure of the amount of time during which an employee is absent from work, based on assigning a number of points according to the frequency and length of absences
  • brandy snifter — snifter (def 1).
  • bras d'or lake — an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in the center Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada. 360 sq. mi. (930 sq. km).
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