| arbour | (noun) a framework that supports climbing plants | Synonyms: arbor, bower, pergola |
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| belabour | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabor |
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| (verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabor |
| (verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabor |
| bourbon | (noun) whiskey distilled from a mash of corn and malt and rye and aged in charred oak barrels | - |
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| bourdon | (noun) a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone | Synonyms: drone, drone pipe |
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| bourgeois | (adjective) (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the middle class | - |
| (adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: conservative, materialistic |
| (noun) a member of the middle class | Synonyms: burgher |
| (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: businessperson |
| bourgeoisie | (noun) the social class between the lower and upper classes | Synonyms: middle class |
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| bourgeon | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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| bourguignon | (noun) reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter | Synonyms: bourguignon sauce, Burgundy sauce |
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| bourn | (noun) an archaic term for a goal or destination | Synonyms: bourne |
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| (noun) an archaic term for a boundary | Synonyms: bourne |
| bourne | (noun) an archaic term for a goal or destination | Synonyms: bourn |
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| (noun) an archaic term for a boundary | Synonyms: bourn |
| bourtree | (noun) a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies | Synonyms: black elder, common elder, elderberry, European elder, Sambucus nigra |
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| faubourg | (noun) a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city | - |
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| harbour | (noun) a place of refuge and comfort and security | Synonyms: harbor |
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| (noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbor, haven, seaport |
| (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, entertain, harbor, hold, nurse |
| (verb) hold back a thought or feeling about | Synonyms: harbor, shield |
| (verb) keep in one's possession; of animals | Synonyms: harbor |
| (verb) secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals) | Synonyms: harbor |
| harbourage | (noun) (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) | Synonyms: harborage |
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| labour | (noun) productive work (especially physical work done for wages) | Synonyms: labor, toil |
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| (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, project, task, undertaking |
| (noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | Synonyms: labor, proletariat, working class |
| (noun) an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement | Synonyms: labor, labor movement, trade union movement |
| (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
| (verb) undergo the efforts of childbirth | Synonyms: labor |
| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, moil, toil, travail |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: drive, labor, push, tug |
| laboured | (adjective) lacking natural ease | Synonyms: labored, strained |
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| (adjective) requiring or showing effort | Synonyms: heavy, labored |
| labourer | (noun) someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor | Synonyms: jack, laborer, manual laborer |
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| labouring | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: drudging, laboring, toiling |
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| laboursaving | (adjective) designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor | Synonyms: laborsaving |
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| neighbour | (noun) a nearby object of the same kind | Synonyms: neighbor |
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| (noun) a person who lives (or is located) near another | Synonyms: neighbor |
| (verb) be located near or adjacent to | Synonyms: neighbor |
| (verb) live or be located as a neighbor | Synonyms: neighbor |
| neighbourhood | (noun) people living near one another | Synonyms: neighborhood |
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| (noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, vicinity |
| neighbouring | (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring |
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| neighbourliness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors | Synonyms: good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness, neighborliness |
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| neighbourly | (adjective) exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor | Synonyms: neighborly |
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| tabour | (noun) a small drum with one head of soft calfskin | Synonyms: tabor |
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| tabouret | (noun) a low stool in the shape of a drum | Synonyms: taboret |
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| tambour | (noun) a drum | - |
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| (noun) a frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering | Synonyms: embroidery frame, embroidery hoop |
| tambourine | (noun) a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides | - |
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| unneighbourly | (adjective) not exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor | Synonyms: unneighborly |
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