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abbey
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n 1: a church associated with a monastery or convent
2: a convent ruled by an abbess
3: a monastery ruled by an abbot
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be
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n 1: a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
[syn: beryllium, Be, glucinium, atomic number 4]
v 1: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective
or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good
answer"
2: be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of
the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"
3: occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my
umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind
this behavior?"
4: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn:
exist, be]
5: happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during
the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred
people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the
kitchen"
6: be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000
rubles these days!" [syn: equal, be] [ant: differ]
7: form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone
wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute
my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus";
"This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few
men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute,
represent, make up, comprise, be]
8: work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a
specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our
resident philosopher" [syn: be, follow]
9: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was
Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify]
10: spend or use time; "I may be an hour"
11: have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My
grandfather lived until the end of war" [syn: be, live]
12: to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used
only in infinitive form; "let her be"
13: be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" [syn: cost, be]
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bee
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n 1: any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and
solitary species
2: a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold
competitions
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cabby
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n 1: someone who drives a taxi for a living [syn: taxidriver,
taximan, cabdriver, cabman, cabby, hack driver,
hack-driver, livery driver]
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crabby
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adj 1: annoyed and irritable [syn: crabbed, crabby, cross,
fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-
tempered]
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cubby
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n 1: a small secluded room [syn: cubby, cubbyhole,
snuggery, snug]
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flabby
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adj 1: out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of
exertion or endurance; "he was too soft for the army";
"flabby around the middle"; "flaccid cheeks" [syn:
soft, flabby, flaccid]
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gabby
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adj 1: full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by
gabby neighbors" [syn: chatty, gabby, garrulous,
loquacious, talkative, talky]
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grabby
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adj 1: immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are
avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting
covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old
miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and
power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers
stingy with raises for their employees" [syn:
avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy,
prehensile]
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scabby
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adj 1: covered with scabs
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shabby
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adj 1: showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat";
"shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and
tatty curtains" [syn: moth-eaten, ratty, shabby,
tatty]
2: mean and unworthy and despicable; "shabby treatment"
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tabby
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adj 1: having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy
coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats
[syn: brindled, brindle, brinded, tabby]
n 1: a cat with a grey or tawny coat mottled with black [syn:
tabby, tabby cat]
2: female cat [syn: tabby, queen]
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b
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n 1: aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often
occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
[syn: bacillus, B]
2: originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated
into several B vitamins [syn: B-complex vitamin, B
complex, vitamin B complex, vitamin B, B vitamin, B]
3: a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black
crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder [syn:
boron, B, atomic number 5]
4: a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels
[syn: Bel, B]
5: (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective
circular area that one particle presents to another as a
target for an encounter [syn: barn, b]
6: the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: B, b]
7: the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen [syn:
B, type B, group B]
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abbe
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n 1: a French abbot
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cabbie
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bea
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abee
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abbie
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abby
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abie
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gabie
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gaby
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kabi
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mabee
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mabie
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arabie
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akebi
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