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JONS JAKOB BERZELIUS (1779-1848)

BES, or BESAS (Egyp. Bes or Besa)

SIR WALTER BESANT (1836-1901)

BARON DE PIERRE VICTOR BESENVAL DE BRONSTATT (1722-1794)

BARON BERNHARD VON BESKOW (1796-1868)

PAUL ALBERT BESNARD (1849— )

BESOM (Old Eng. besema, a rod)

JOHANNES BESSARION

EARLS OF BESSBOROUGH

BESSEL FUNCTION

FRIEDRICH WILHELM BESSEL (1784-1846)

SIR HENRY BESSEMER (1813-1898)

JEAN BAPTISTE BESSITRES

WILLIAM THOMAS BEST (1826-1897)

BETAYNE (OXYNEURINE, LYCINE), C5H13NO3

BETHANY (mod. el-'Azariyeh)

BETHEL (Heb. " House of God ")

JEAN DE BETHENCOURT (c. 136o–1422)

BETHESDA (i.e. " House of Mercy," John v. 2)

BETHLEHEM (Heb. " House of Bread," or, according to a more questionable etymology, " of [the god] Lakhmu ")

GABRIEL BETHLEN (GABOR) (1580-1629)

BETHUNE (FAMILY)

BETROTHAL (A.S. treowth, " truth ")

BETTERMENT (i.e. " making better," as opposed to " worsement ")

THOMAS BETTERTON (c. 1635-1710)

SAVESIO BETTINELLI (1718-1808)

WILLIAM HENRY WEST BETTY (1791-1874)

FRANCOIS SULPICE BEUDANT (1787—1850)

COUNT JACQUES CLAUDE BEUGNOT (1761—1835)

MARQUIS DE PIERRE DE RUEL BEURNONVILLE (1752-1821)

BEUTHEN, or NIEDERBEUTHEN

BEUTHEN, or OBERBEUTHEN

BEVEL (from an O. Fr. word, cf. mod. biveau, a joiner's instrument)

WILLIAM ROXBY BEVERLEY (1814?-1889)

BEVIS OF HAMPTON

THOMAS BEWICK (1753-1828)

BARON NICHOLAS VANSITTART BEXLEY (1766-1851)

BEY (a modern Turk. word, the older form being beg, cf. Pers. baig)

MARIE HENRI BEYLE (1783-1842)

HEINRICH ERNST VON BEYRICH (1815—1896)

WILLIBALD BEYSCHLAG (1823-1900)

BEZA (DE BESZE), THEODORE (1519—1605)

PRINCE ALEKSANDER ANDREEVICH BEZBORODKO (1747-1799)

BEZEL (from an O. Fr. word, cf. Mod. Fr. biseau, basile, possibly connected with Lat. bis, twice)

BEZIQUE (probably from Span. besico, little kiss, in allusion to the meeting of the queen and knave, an important feature in the game)

BHARAHAT, or BARHUT

BHARATPUR, or BHURTPORE

BHAU DAJI (RAMKRISHNA VITHAL) (1822-1874)

BHAUNAGAR, or BHAVNAGAR

BHEESTY (from the Persian bihisti, paradise)

BHILS, or BHEELS (" bowmen," from Dravidian bit, a bow)

BHIMA (Sanskrit, " The Terrible ")

FRANCESCO BIANCHINI (1662-1729)

BIAS (from the Fr. biais, of unknown origin; the derivation from Lat. bifax, two-faced, is wrong)

MARCUS FURIUS BIBACULUS

BIBIRINE, or BEBEEZZINE, C19H21NO3

BIBLE CHRISTIANS

BIBLE SOCIETIES

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

BIBLIOMANCY (from the Gr. 81f3Xtov, a book, and aareia, prophecy)

BICE (from Fr. bis, a word of doubtful origin, meaning dark-coloured)

MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER BICHAT (1771–1802)

BICHROMATES AND CHROMATES

BICKER (connected by Skeat with bike, to thrust or strike)

ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE (c. 1735-0. 1812)

EDWARD BICKERSTETH (1786—185o)

BICYCLE (from prefix bi = twice, and Gr. KuKXOr, a circle, wheel)

GEORGE PARKER BIDDER (1806-1878)

BIDDERY, or BIDRI (an Indian word, from Bedar or Bidar, a town in the Nizam's Dominions)

JOHN BIDDLE (1615-1662)

NICHOLAS BIDDLE (1786—1844)

BIDPAI (or PILPAY), FABLES OF

FRIEDRICH KARL BIEDERMANN (1812-1901)

GABRIEL BIEL (c. 1425—1495)

BIELITZ (Czech Bilsko, Polish Bielsko)

BIENNE, LAKE OF, or BIELERSEE

BIENNE, or BIEL

ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830-1902)

BIGAMY (from Lat. bis, twice, and Gr. ya,uor, marriage)

JOHN BIGELOW (1817- )

BIGHT (O. Eng. bight, bend; cf. Ger. Bucht, a bay, and beugen, to bend)

JEROME BIGNON (1589–1656)

BARON LOUIS PIERRE EDOUARD BIGNON (1771–1841)

HUGH BIGOD (d. 1177)

JOHN JEREMIAH BIGSBY (1792-1881)

BIHARI (properly Bih(iri)

BIJNIOR, or BIJNAUR

BILBEIS, or BELBES

BLAEBERRY BILBERRY

BILBO (from the Spanish town Bilbao, formerly called in England " Bilboa," and famous, like Toledo, for its sword-blades)

WILLEM BILDERDIJK (1756–1831)

BILEJIK (Byzantine Belocome)

BILFINGER (BtLFFINGER), GEORG BERNHARD (1693–175o)

BILGE (a corruption of bulge, from Fr. bouge, Lat. bulga, a bag, deriving probably from an original Celtic word)

BILIN (Czech Bilina)

BILL OF EXCHANGE

ELIZABETH BILLINGTON (1768?–1818)

BILLITON (Dutch Blitoeng)

ALBERT CHRISTIAN THEODOR BILLROTH (1829-1894)

BILMA, or KAWAR

THOMAS BILNEY (d. 1531)

BIMANA (Lat. " two-handed ")

EGIDIUS BINCHOIS (d. 1460)

BINGEN (anc. Vincum or Bingium)

JOSEPH BINGHAM (1668-1723)

BINIOU, or BIGNOU

BINNACLE (before 18th century bittacle, through Span. bitacula, from Lat. habitaculum, a little dwelling)

EDWARD WILLIAM BINNEY (1812-1881)

HORACE BINNEY (1780-1875)

THOMAS BINNEY (1798-1874)

BINOCULAR INSTRUMENT

BINOMIAL (from the Lat. bi-, bis, twice, and nomen, a name or term)

LAURENCE BINYON (1869- )

BIOGENESIS (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yi 'eots, generation, birth)

BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

BIOLOGY (Gr. Qios, life)

JEAN BAPTISTE BIOT (1774-1862)

BIPARTITE (from the Lat. bi-, two, and partire, to divide)

BIPONT EDITIONS

BIPYRAMIDAL CLASS (Parallel-faced aemihedral)

BIQUADRATIC (from the Lat. bi-, bis, twice, and quadratus, squared)

BIQUINTILE (from Lat. prefix bi-, twice, quintilis, fifth)

SAMUEL BIRCH (1813–1885)

THOMAS BIRCH (1705-1766)

BIRDS OF PARADISE

SIR GEORGE CHRISTOPHER MOLESWORTH BIRDWOOD (1832– )

BIREJIK (Arab. Bir; classical, Apamea-Zeugma)

BIREN (or BUHREN), ERNST JOHANN (16go-1772)

BIRETTA (Ital. berretta, Med. Lat. biretum, birettum, dim. of birrus, " a hooded cloak "; from the Fr. form barrette is derived the Eng. " barret-cap ")

BIRGER (?-1266)

BIRIBI, or CAVAGNOLE

GEORGE BIRKBECK (1776-1841)

JAMES GILLESPIE BIRNEY (1792–1857)

BARON DE ARMAND DE GONTAUT BIRON (1524-1592)

BIRR, or PARSONSTOWN

AUGUSTINE BIRRELL (1850- )

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

BISCAY (Vizcaya)

BAY OF BISCAY (Fr. Golfe de Gascogne; Sp. Golfo de Vizcaya)

BISCEOLIE (perhaps anc. Natiolum)

BISCUIT (pronounced according to the old spelling " bisket," a Fr. form from Lat. bis, twice, and coctum, cooked, in reference to the original method of preparation; cf. Ital. biscotto, Sp. bizcocho, &c.)

BISECTRIX (fem. of Lat. bisector, from bi-, two, secare, to cut)

BISHARIN (the anc. Ichthyophagi)

BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")

BISHOP AUCKLAND

ISABELLA BISHOP (1832-1904)

SIR HENRY ROWLEY BISHOP (1786-1855)

BISHOPSTORTFORD

BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO

PRINCE OTTO EDUARD LEOPOLD VON BISMARCK

BISQUE (a French word of unknown origin, formerly spelt in English " bilk ")

GEORGE EDWIN BISSELL (1839– )

BIT (from the verb " to bite," either in the sense of a piece bitten off, or an act of biting, or a thing that bites or is bitten)

BITHYNIA (BtOvpta)

BITONTO (anc. Butunti)

BITSCH (Fr. Bitche)

KARL THEODORE FRANCIS BITTER (1867– )

BITTERLING (Rhodeus amarus)

BITTERN (from " bitter ")

ALBRECHT BITZIUS (1797-1854)

BIVOUAC (a French word generally said to have been introduced during the Thirty Years' War, perhaps derived from Beiwacht, extra guard)

NINO BIXIO (1821-1873)

BIZERTA (properly pronounced Ben Zert; Fr. Bizerte)

BIZET EALEXANDRE CESAR

BJORNEBORG (Finnish, Pori)

BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON (1832-1910)

BARON FREDERIC ROGERS BLACHFORD (1811-1889)

BLACK BUCK (Antilope cervicapra)

THE BLACK COUNTRY

BLACK FOREST (Ger. Schwarzwald; the Silva Marciana and Abnoba of the Romans)

" Black Sparrow Hawk "] BLACK HAWK [Ma'katawimesheka'ka (1767-1838, American Indian warrior of the Sauk and Fox tribes, was born at the Sauk village on Rock river, near the Mississippi, in 1767. He was a member of the Thunder gens of the Sauk tribe, and

BLACK ROD (more fully, " Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod ")

BLACK SEA (Russ. Chernomorskaya)

BLACK SEA (or EUxINE; anc. Pontus Euxinus )

ADAM BLACK (1784-1874)

JEREMIAH SULLIVAN BLACK (1810–1883)

WILLIAM BLACK (1841-1898)

BLACKBERRY, or BRAMBLE

BLACKBIRD (Turdus merula)

BARON COLIN BLACKBURN BLACKBURN (1813-1896)

JONATHAN BLACKBURN (c. 1700-c. 1765)

FRANCIS BLACKBURNE (1782-1867)

BLACKCOCK (Tetrao tetrix)

BLACKFOOT (Siksika)

JOHN STUART BLACKIE (1809-1895)

RICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACKMORE (1825-1900)

SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE (c. 1650-1729)

SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE (1723-1780)

BLACKWATER FEVER

THOMAS BLACKWELL (1701-1757)

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD (1776-1834)

BLADDER (from A.S. blaeddre, connected with bl¢wan, to blow, cf. Ger. blase)

BLADDER AND PROSTATE DISEASES

WILLIAM BLADES (1824-1890)

BLAENAVON, or BLAENAFON

BLAGOVYESHCHENSK

WILLIAM GARDEN BLAIKIE (1820-1899)

JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE (1830-1893)

HENRI MARIE DUCROTAY DE BLAINVILLE (1777–1850)

BLAIR ATHOLL (Gaelic blair, " a plain ")

FRANCIS PRESTON BLAIR (1791–1876)

HUGH BLAIR (1718-1800)

JAMES BLAIR (1656`1743)

ROBERT BLAIR (1699—1746)

EDWARD BLAKE (1833– )

ROBERT BLAKE (1599-1657)

WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

RALPH ALBERT BLAKELOCK (1847– )

BARON WILLIAM BLAKENEY BLAKENEY (1672-1761)

JOSEPH WILLIAMS BLAKESLEY (18o8–1885)

SUSANNA BLAMIRE (1747-1794)

BLANC (JEAN JOSEPH CHARLES) LOUIS (1811-1882)

BLANCH FEE, or BLANCH HOLDING (from Fr. blanc, white)

SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD (1804-1845)

BLANCHE OF CASTILE (1188-1252)

JACQUES EMILE BLANCHE (1861– )

BLANDFORD, or BLANDFORD FORUM

BLANDRATA, or BIANDRATA, GIORGIO (c. 1515-1588)

SIR GILBERT BLANE (1749-1834)

WILLIAM THOMAS BLANFORD (1832-1905)