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  • baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
  • base memory — (hardware, jargon)   The lowest 640 kilobytes of memory in an IBM PC-compatible computer running MS-DOS. Other PC operating systems can usually compensate and "ignore" the fact that there is a 640K limit to base memory. This was put in place because the original CPU - the Intel 8088 - could only access one megabyte of memory, and IBM wanted to reserve the upper 384KB for device drivers. The high memory area (HMA) lies above 640KB and can be accessed on MS-DOS computers that have an A20 handler.
  • bawdy house — a brothel.
  • bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
  • bay of pigs — a bay on the SW coast of Cuba: scene of an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by US-backed troops (April 17, 1961)
  • bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
  • bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
  • beaky-nosed — having a nose that is large, pointed, or hooked
  • beaugregory — a blue and yellow damselfish, Pomacentrus leucostictus, inhabiting shallow waters off Bermuda, Florida, and the West Indies.
  • beauteously — In a beauteous manner.
  • beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
  • beauty spot — A beauty spot is a place in the country that is popular because of its beautiful scenery.
  • benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
  • bibliolatry — excessive devotion to or reliance on the Bible
  • bibliomancy — prediction of the future by interpreting a passage chosen at random from a book, esp the Bible
  • bikram yoga — a form of yoga in which traditional exercises are performed at high temperature and humidity
  • binary code — Binary code is a computer code that uses the binary number system.
  • binary form — a structure consisting of two sections, each being played twice
  • binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
  • bioactivity — any effect on, interaction with, or response from living tissue.
  • biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
  • biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
  • biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
  • biosocially — from a biosocial point of view
  • black ivory — Black slaves collectively
  • black molly — a jet-black molly, a color form especially of Poecilia latipinna or P. sphenops, popular as an aquarium fish.
  • black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
  • blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
  • blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
  • blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
  • block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
  • blood royal — all persons related by birth to a hereditary monarch, taken collectively; the royal kin: a prince of the blood royal.
  • bloody mary — A Bloody Mary is a drink made from vodka and tomato juice.
  • blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
  • bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
  • body armour — Body armour is special protective clothing which people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
  • body cavity — the internal cavity of any multicellular animal that contains the digestive tract, heart, kidneys, etc. In vertebrates it develops from the coelom
  • body combat — a type of fitness programme in which individuals perform non-contact martial arts moves to music
  • body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
  • body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
  • body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
  • bombay duck — a teleost fish, Harpodon nehereus, that resembles and is related to the lizard fishes: family Harpodontidae. It is eaten dried with curry dishes as a savoury
  • bondability — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
  • bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
  • booby hatch — a hoodlike covering for a hatchway on a ship
  • borstal boy — (formerly) a boy sent to borstal
  • botanically — Also, botanic. of, pertaining to, made from, or containing plants: botanical survey; botanical drugs.
  • botanomancy — a form of divination in which tree branches or leaves are burnt
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