bête (Fr.), brute, stupid person;—bête noire, a black beast: a bugbear;—bêtise, stupidity.
Bethesda (Heb.), a healing pool at Jerusalem—often applied to a Nonconformist church.
Beulah (Heb.), a land of rest—a name for Israel in its future condition, in Isa. lxii. 4.
bévue (Fr.), an oversight, a blunder.
bhat, bhaut, bawt (Hind.), a professional bard.
bheesty, bhisti (Pers. bihistī), a water-carrier.
bibelot (Fr.), a trinket.
bibere venenum in auro (L.), to drink poison from a cup of gold.
bibliotheca (L.,—Gr.), a library: a bibliographer's catalogue: a series of books.
bidet (Fr.), a nag, a cob.