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Battle Of Valmy
- noun - the French defeated the Austrian and Prussian troops in 1792 (with a famous cannonade from the French artillery)
Battle Of Ypres
- noun - battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others
- battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
- battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery
Battle-Hardened
- - Experienced in combat, and therefore more effective at fighting; -- used mostly of infantry troops; as, battle-hardened veterans.
Bearded Vulture
- noun - the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill
Beauteousnesses
- noun - the quality of being good looking and attractive
Bedloe's Island
- noun - an island in New York Bay southwest of Manhattan where the Statue of Liberty stands; "Congress officially changed the name from Bedloe''s Island to Liberty Island in 1956"
- an island in New York Bay to the southwest of Manhattan where the Statue of Liberty stands; "Congress officially changed the name from Bedloe's Island to Liberty Island in 1956"
Bethlehem-Judah
- noun - a small town near Jerusalem on the West Bank of the Jordan River; early home of David and regarded as the place where Jesus was born
Beurre Noisette
- noun - clarified butter browned slowly and seasoned with vinegar or lemon juice and capers
Bitumen Process
- - Any process in which advantage is taken of the fact that prepared bitumen is rendered insoluble by exposure to light, as in photolithography.
Bladder Campion
- noun - bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
- perennial of Arctic Europe having large white flowers with inflated calyx