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.