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Carucate

A plowland as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day by some said to be about 100 acres

Brownian

Pertaining to Dr Robert Brown who first demonstrated about 1827 the commonness of the motion described below

Bodle

A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny

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Bonito

A large tropical fish Orcynus pelamys allied to the tunny It is about three feet long blue above with four brown stripes on the sides It is sometimes found on the American coast

A certain process for producing upon articles of iron or steel an adherent coating of the magnetic oxide of iron which is not liable to corrosion by air moisture or ordinary acids This is accomplished by...

Breasting

The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference and prevents the escape of the water until it has...

Breastwheel

A water wheel on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel nor so low as in the undershot but generally at about half the height of the wheel being...

Breeze

A fly of various species of the family Tabanidaelig noted for buzzing about animals and tormenting them by sucking their blood called also horsefly and gadfly They are among the largest of two winged or dipterous...