bisˈcuit (bĭsˈkĭt), hard-tack, a kind of hard sea bread baked in large round cakes, without salt.

biˈson (bīˈsŭn), the buffalo.

bite the dust, to die on the battlefield.

bitter east, a cold, east wind.

bivˈouac (bĭvˈwăk), encampment of soldiers in the open air prepared for fighting.

blade (blād), a wild fellow.

Blake, Robert (1599-1657), a British admiral.

blared across the shalˈlows (blârd across the shălˈōz), made a noise like a trumpet across the shoals, or shallow places in the river.

blastˈed (blȧstˈed), withered or blighted.

blazed (blāzd), marked (a tree) by chipping off a piece of bark.