(figurative) That which gives notice of danger, or keeps people on the correct path.
(nautical) A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.
A high hill or other easily distinguishable object near the shore which can serve as guidance for seafarers.
A post or buoy placed over a shoal or bank to warn vessels of danger; also a signal mark on land. (FM 55-501)
A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
An electronic device that broadcasts a signal to nearby portable devices, enabling smartphones etc. to perform actions when in physical proximity to the beacon.
verb
(intransitive) To act as a beacon.
(transitive) To furnish with a beacon or beacons.
(transitive) To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.
beckon
beckon
noun
A children's game similar to hide and seek in which children who have been "caught" may escape if they see another hider beckon to them.
A sign made without words; a beck.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To seem attractive and inviting
(transitive, intransitive) To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
becuna
becuna
noun
Sphyraena sphyraena, a Mediterranean fish.
benchy
bicone
bicone
noun
(geometry) The three-dimensional shape swept by revolving an isosceles triangle around its edge of unequal length, or by joining two identical right circular cones, base to base.
blench
blench
noun
A deceit; a trick.
A sidelong glance.
verb
(intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
(intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
(intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
(obsolete) To blanch.
(transitive) To deceive; cheat.
(transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
(transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
bonace
bounce
bounce
noun
(Internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
(archaic) A drink based on brandyᵂ.
(archaic) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
(archaic) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
(slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) A good beat in music.
(slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) A talent for leaping.
(uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
A bang, boom.
A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
The sack, dismissal.
verb
(US, slang, dated) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
(archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
(intransitive) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
(intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
(intransitive) To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
(intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
(intransitive, electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset.
(intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
(intransitive, skydiving) To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
(intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse.
(slang, archaic) To boast; to bluster.
(slang, archaic) To bully; to scold.
(transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
(transitive, air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
(transitive, colloquial) To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to gain feedback.
(transitive, informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
(transitive, intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message) To return undelivered.
(transitive, sound recording) To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio tape recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
To move rapidly (between).
brecon
brecon
Proper noun
A town in Powys, Wales.
brince
bunche
cabane
cabane
noun
(aviation) The tripod, pylon, or struts usually at the centre-section of a biplane or high-winged monoplane.
cabmen
cabmen
noun
plural of cabman
cebian
cebine
cebine
adj
Of or pertaining to capuchins
noun
capuchin monkey, primate of the genus Cebus
cenobe
cenoby
chenab
cobden
cubane
cubane
noun
(organic chemistry) One of the Platonic hydrocarbons, C₈H₈, having the carbon atoms placed at the vertices of a cube.