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  • beauty
     [cf. DJE a beauty one, US colloq. the beauty part] adj. beautiful: Das very beauty. (Black)
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  • beating jack
    n. a flying jackfish (Caranx sp.) which beats its tail on the surface of the water. (Gen.)
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  • beater
    [OED, an instrument for beating] n. 1. a drumstick: 1975 (Russell 12). (Gen.) 2. a piece of wood used to
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  • beat (2)
    v. to strike, in the following phrases: beat around the bush [cf. US idiom and BUSH forest] phr. to live
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  • beat (1)
    [Car. also US Black (Loman 1967:6)] v. 1. to win (with competition rather than competitor as direct object): 1895 De
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  • beastes
    /bíysaz/ [cf. Gul. beasties (Parsons 1923: 80), US Black beas's (Benardete 1932:362); from simplification of final consonant cluster to beas',
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  • beard
    [OED, barb of a fish-hook obs. → 1793] n. the prong of a fishing spear: Sometimes you strike a good fish,
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  • beans
    [Atlantic; from Eng. pl.] n. sing. or pl. bean; emphatic singular: one grain of beans. (Exuma)
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  • Beagle
    n. nickname for a native of Cherokee Sound, Abaco. (White)
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  • bead vine
    [from the use of the seeds as beads] n. a plant, Abrus precatorius, with poisonous oval green seeds which become
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