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  • bitnet — (networking)   /bit'net/ (Because It's Time NETwork) An academic and research computer network connecting approximately 2500 computers. BITNET provides interactive, electronic mail and file transfer services, using a store and forward protocol, based on IBM Network Job Entry protocols. Bitnet-II encapsulates the Bitnet protocol within IP packets and depends on the Internet to route them. BITNET traffic and Internet traffic are exchanged via several gateway hosts. BITNET is now operated by CREN. BITNET is everybody's least favourite piece of the network. The BITNET hosts are a collection of IBM dinosaurs, VAXen (with lobotomised communications hardware), and Prime Computer supermini computers. They communicate using 80-character EBCDIC card images (see eighty-column mind); thus, they tend to mangle the headers and text of third-party traffic from the rest of the ASCII/RFC 822 world with annoying regularity. BITNET is also notorious as the apparent home of BIFF.
  • bitten — Bitten is the past participle of bite.
  • bivane — a sensitive vane that measures both the horizontal and vertical components of wind direction.
  • bizone — an area comprising two administrative zones
  • blaine — James G(illespie)1830-93; U.S. statesman: secretary of state (1881, 1889-92)
  • blains — an inflammatory swelling or sore.
  • blinds — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
  • blinks — a small temperate portulacaceous plant, Montia fontana with small white flowers
  • blinky — (of milk) sour.
  • blintz — a thin pancake folded over a filling usually of apple, cream cheese, or meat
  • blixen — Karen
  • bluing — a blue liquid, powder, etc. used in rinsing white fabrics to prevent yellowing
  • bobbin — A bobbin is a small round object on which thread or wool is wound to hold it, for example on a sewing machine.
  • boding — an omen; foreboding
  • bodkin — a blunt large-eyed needle used esp for drawing tape through openwork
  • bodmin — a market town in SW England, in Cornwall, near Bodmin Moor, a granite upland rising to 420 m (1375 ft). Pop: 12 778 (2001)
  • bodoni — a style of type designed by the Italian printer Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813)
  • boeing — (language)   An early system on the IBM 1130.
  • boffin — A boffin is a scientist, especially one who is doing research.
  • bog in — to start energetically on a task
  • boline — (in Wicca) a knife, usually sickle-shaped and with a white handle, used for gathering herbs and carving symbols
  • bonaci — a name for the black grouper fish (Mycteroperca bonaci), also used for various similar species
  • boning — Anatomy, Zoology. one of the structures composing the skeleton of a vertebrate. the hard connective tissue forming the substance of the skeleton of most vertebrates, composed of a collagen-rich organic matrix impregnated with calcium, phosphate, and other minerals.
  • bonism — the doctrine that the world is good, although not the best of all possible worlds
  • bonita — a female given name.
  • bonito — any of various small tunny-like marine food fishes of the genus Sarda, of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters: family Scombridae (tunnies and mackerels)
  • bonnie — a feminine name: var. Bonny
  • bonsai — A bonsai or a bonsai tree is a tree or shrub that has been kept very small by growing it in a little pot and cutting it in a special way.
  • bonxie — (originally in Shetland) the great skua
  • booing — the action or an instance of booing
  • boring — Someone or something boring is so dull and uninteresting that they make people tired and impatient.
  • bosnia — a region of central Bosnia-Herzegovina: belonged to Turkey (1463–1878), to Austria-Hungary (1879–1918), then to Yugoslavia (1918–91)
  • botkin — Benjamin Albert, 1901–75, U.S. folklorist, editor, and essayist.
  • boudin — a French version of a black pudding
  • bovine — Bovine means relating to cattle.
  • bowfin — a primitive North American freshwater bony fish, Amia calva, with an elongated body and a very long dorsal fin: family Amiidae
  • bowing — the technique of using the bow in playing a violin, viola, cello, or related instrument
  • box in — If you are boxed in, you are unable to move from a particular place because you are surrounded by other people or cars.
  • boxing — Boxing is a sport in which two people wearing large padded gloves fight according to special rules.
  • braine — John (Gerard). 1922–86, English novelist, whose works include Room at the Top (1957) and Life at the Top (1962)
  • braino — thinko
  • brains — an animal's brain, cooked and eaten as food
  • brainy — Someone who is brainy is clever and good at learning.
  • briand — Aristide (aristid). 1862–1932, French socialist statesman: prime minister of France 11 times. He was responsible for the separation of Church and State (1905) and he advocated a United States of Europe. Nobel peace prize 1926
  • brienz — Lake of, a lake in SE Bern canton in Switzerland. 11.5 sq. mi. (30 sq. km).
  • briner — a person who brines
  • brings — to carry, convey, conduct, or cause (someone or something) to come with, to, or toward the speaker: Bring the suitcase to my house. He brought his brother to my office.
  • brinny — a stone, esp when thrown
  • briony — bryony
  • briton — A Briton is a person who comes from Great Britain.
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