| ballade |
a poem of three eight-line or ten-line stanzas followed by an envoy of four or five lines, the stanzas and the envoy all having the same last line. [1/2 definitions] |
| ballad stanza |
a four-line stanza often used in ballads, the second and fourth lines of which rhyme. |
| banjo |
a musical instrument with a circular body covered with skin, a long fretted neck, and four or five strings that are plucked or strummed. |
| barouche |
a four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, two opposing seats for two people each inside, and a driver's seat outside in front. |
| base1 |
in baseball, one of the four corners of the infield, or the bag marking any of these points. [1/7 definitions] |
| baseball |
a game played with a bat and ball by two teams of nine players each, the object being to score runs by advancing runners around four bases. [1/2 definitions] |
| base on balls |
in baseball, an advance to first base taken by a batter to whom four balls have been pitched. (See walk.) |
| bass1 |
a person who sings the lowest part in a group of singers, especially in a group which is divided into four ranges of pitch from high to low. [1/5 definitions] |
| beast |
any four-footed mammal, esp. as distinguished from humans or from birds and invertebrates. [1/3 definitions] |
| berlin |
a large four-wheeled closed carriage with separate perches for the footman and driver, and two facing seats inside. [1/2 definitions] |
| beryllium |
a chemical element of the alkaline-earth group that has four protons in each nucleus and occurs in pure form as a hard, light, gray solid, chiefly used in alloys with copper and in aerospace material. (symbol: Be) |
| big brother |
(cap.) in the 1948 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, an invisible but all-seeing and omnipotent force representing totalitarian government. [1/3 definitions] |
| biretta |
in the Roman Catholic and some Anglican churches, a stiff, square cap with three or four raised ridges, worn by clergymen and varying in color according to their rank. |
| block |
a section of a city or town bounded on four sides by intersecting streets, or the distance represented by one side of such a section. [1/19 definitions] |
| bogie1 |
a system of four wheels mounted on two axles used on the rear of some trucks, tractors, and tanks. |
| bristlecone pine |
a small pine growing at high altitudes in the western United States that is the longest-lived conifer known, some specimens being over four thousand years old. |
| broadloom |
of or pertaining to carpets or rugs woven on a loom wider than four and a half feet. [2 definitions] |
| brougham |
a four-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage with a closed compartment for passengers and an open driver's seat in front. [1/3 definitions] |
| buggy1 |
a small carriage with four wheels that is pulled by a single horse. [2/3 definitions] |
| bushel1 |
in the US, a unit of capacity of dry measure equal to four pecks or 35.239 liters. [2/5 definitions] |
| butyl |
any of four hydrocarbon radicals having three carbon molecules and a valence of one. |