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  • bargee: n a bargeman
  • barong: n a long, broad, leaf-shaped knife used as both weapon and tool by the Moros of the Philippines
  • bathyal: adj relating to regions of the ocean bottom between the sublittoral and abyssal zones, from depths of 200 to 4,000 metres
  • bey: n a provincial governor in the Ottoman Empire
  • beylic: n the territory ruled by a bey
  • bikie: n a biker (Australian)
  • bohea: n a black Chinese tea, originally the choicest grade but later an inferior variety
  • bort, bortz: n poorly crystallized diamonds used for industrial cutting and abrasion
  • boscage: n a mass of trees or shrubs; a thicket
  • bosky: adj having an abundance of bushes, shrubs or trees; relating to the woods
  • buhl: n pieces of brass, tortoiseshell, etc. cut to make a pattern and used as decorative inlays esp. on furniture
  • buhr: n a burr; a protruding, ragged edge raised on the surface of metal during drilling, shearing, punching or engraving


  • cark: v to burden or be burdened with trouble; worry
  • casbah: n a castle or palace in northern Africa; the older or native quarter, or area of a northern African city surrounding the citadel
  • cenobite: n a member of a convent or other religious community
  • ciborium: n a covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist
  • cirrose: adj bearing tendrils, as of a leaf
  • clerid n a beetle of the family Cleridae, predacious on other insects, usually brightly coloured or metallic
  • conodont: n a member of an extinct group of small primitive fishlike chordates, preserved primarily in the form of their conelike teeth; a fossil tooth of this chordate, widespread and important in dating rock strata
  • corium, pl. coria: n dermis; the deep vascular inner layer of skin; armour composed of leather; the elongated, thickened basal portion of the forewing of true bugs
  • crofter: n a tenant farmer (Scottish)
  • curacy: n the office, duties, or term of office of a curate

Date: 2006-01-18 11:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rsc.livejournal.com
I wonder if "beylic" is the source for "bailiwick".

I suppose I could look it up.

Date: 2006-01-20 04:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vaneramos.livejournal.com
It appears that their similarity is a coincidence. "Bailiwick" comes from bailie + wick.

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