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A bearing representing the head of a dart or javelin, with long barbs which are engrailed on the inner edge.
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A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.
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A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.
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A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it.
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A bedbug. A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
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A believer in panspermy; one who rejects the theory of spontaneous generation; a biogenist.
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