Part 1059

<h1>Bergander</h1> <Xpage=138>

<hw>Ber"gan*der</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Berg, for burrow + gander a male goose ? Cf. G. bergente, Dan. gravgaas.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A European duck (<spn>Anas tadorna</spn>). See Sheldrake.</def>

<h1>Bergeret</h1> <Xpage=138>

<hw>Ber"ger*et</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. bergerete, F. berger a shepherd.]</ety> <def>A pastoral song.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Bergh</h1> <Xpage=138>

<hw>Bergh</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. beorg.]</ety> <def>A hill.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Bergmaster</h1> <Xpage=138>

<hw>Berg"mas`ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See Barmaster.</def>

<h1>Bergmeal</h1> <Xpage=138>

<hw>Berg"meal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[G. berg mountain + mehl meal.]</ety> <def>(Min.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite.</def>

<h1>Bergmote</h1> <Xpage=138>

<hw>Berg"mote</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Barmote</er>.</def>

<h1>Bergomask</h1> <Xpage=138>

<hw>Ber"go*mask</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.</def>

<h1>Bergylt</h1> <Xpage=138>

<hw>Ber"gylt</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Etymol. uncertain.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The Norway haddock. See Rosefish.</def>

<h1>Berhyme</h1> <Xpage=138>

<hw>Be*rhyme"</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> Berhymed <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> Berhyming.]</wordforms> <def>To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about.</def> <note>[Sometimes use depreciatively.]</note> <i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Beriberi</h1> <Xpage=138>

<hw>Be`ri*be"ri</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Singhalese <ets>beri</ets> weakness.]</ety> <def>An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.</def>

<h1>Berime</h1> <Xpage=138>

<hw>Be*rime"</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To berhyme.</def> <note>[The earlier and etymologically preferable spelling.]</note>

<h1>Berkeleian</h1> <Xpage=138>

<hw>Berke*le"ian</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><def>,<tt>a.</tt>Of or relating to Bishop Berkeley or his system of idealism; <as>as, Berkeleian philosophy</as>.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Berke"ley*ism</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Berlin</h1> <Xpage=138>

<hw>Ber"lin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[The capital of Prussia]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool.</def>

<cs><col>Berlin black</col>, <cd>a black varnish, drying with almost a dead surface; -- used for coating the better kinds of ironware.</cd> <i>Ure.</i> -- <col>Berlin blue</col>, <cd>Prussian blue.</cd> <i>Ure</i>. -- <col>Berlin green</col>, <cd>a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue.</cd> -- <col>Berlin iron</col>, <cd>a very fusible variety of cast iron, from which figures and other delicate articles are manufactured. These are often stained or lacquered in imitation of bronze.</cd> -- <col>Berlin shop</col>, <cd>a shop for the sale of worsted embroidery and the materials for such work.</cd> -- <col>Berlin work</col>, <cd>worsted embroidery.</cd></cs>