Armor-bearer (n.) One who carries the armor or arms of another |
Bail bond () A bond or obligation given by a prisoner and his surety, to insure the prisoner's appearance in court, at the return of the writ. |
Bail bond () Special bail in court to abide the judgment. |
Bearer (n.) One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries. |
Bearer (n.) Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave |
Bearer (n.) A palanquin carrier |
Bearer (n.) A tree or plant yielding fruit |
Bearer (n.) One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money |
Bearer (n.) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page |
Bell bearer () A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax. |
Bond (n.) That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc. |
Bond (n.) The state of being bound |
Bond (n.) A binding force or influence |
Bond (n.) Moral or political duty or obligation. |
Bond (n.) A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void |
Bond (n.) An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money |
Bond (n.) The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid |
Bond (n.) The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers |
Bond (n.) A unit of chemical attraction |
Bond (v. t.) To place under the conditions of a bond |
Bond (v. t.) To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity. |
Bond (n.) A vassal or serf |
Bond (a.) In a state of servitude or slavery |
Bond servant () A slave |
Bond service () The condition of a bond servant |
Cross-bearer (n.) A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions. |
Post-obit bond () A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations. |
Shield-bearer (n.) One who, or that which, carries a shield. |
Shield-bearer (n.) Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. |
Water-bearer (n.) The constellation Aquarius. |
bond trading bond-trading activity | trading in bonds (usually by a broker on the floor of an exchange) |
topminnow poeciliid fish poeciliid live-bearer | small usually brightlyolored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters, often used in mosquito control |
attachment bond | a connection that fastens things together |
shackle bond hamper trammel | a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) |
adhesiveness adhesion adherence bond | the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition, the mutual adhesiveness of cells, a heated hydraulic press was required for adhesion |
bond rating | an evaluation by a rating company of the probability that a particular bond issue will default, the bonds of highest quality are said to have bond ratings of AAA |
Abu Sayyaf Bearer of the Sword | a small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines, uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping, In Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and beheaded one of the American captives |
Aquarius Aquarius the Water Bearer Water Bearer | the eleventh sign of the zodiac, the sun is in this sign from about Januaryto February |
Bond James Bond | British secret operative in novels by Ian Fleming |
Aquarius Water Bearer | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aquarius |
armiger armor-bearer | a squire carrying the armor of a knight |
bond servant | someone bound to labor without wages |
carrier bearer toter | someone whose employment involves carrying something, the bonds were transmitted by carrier |
color bearer standard-bearer | the soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle |
holder bearer | the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it, the bond was marked `payable to bearer' |
bearer | a messenger who bears or presents, a bearer of good tidings |
office-bearer | the person who holds an office |
pallbearer bearer | one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral |
standard-bearer | an outstanding leader of a political movement |
stretcher-bearer litter-bearer | one who helps carry a stretcher |
Bond Julian Bond | United States civil rights leader who was elected to the legislature in Georgia but was barred from taking his seat because he opposed the Vietnam War (born ) |
chemical bond bond | an electrical force linking atoms |
covalent bond | a chemical bond that involves sharing a pair of electrons between atoms in a molecule |
hydrogen bond | a chemical bond consisting of a hydrogen atom between two electronegative atoms (e.g., oxygen or nitrogen) with one side be a covalent bond and the other being an ionic bond |
ionic bond electrovalent bond electrostatic bond | a chemical bond in which one atom loses an electron to form a positive ion and the other atom gains an electron to form a negative ion |
double bond | a covalent bond in which two pairs of electrons are shared between two atoms |
coordinate bond dative bond | a covalent bond in which both electrons are provided by one of the atoms |
metallic bond | a chemical bond in which electrons are shared over many nuclei and electronic conduction occurs |
peptide bond peptide linkage | the primary linkage of all protein structures, the chemical bond between the carboxyl groups and amino groups that unites a peptide |
bond issue | bonds sold by a corporation or government agency at a particular time and identifiable by date of maturity |
convertible bond | a bond that can be converted to other securities under certain conditions |
corporate bond | a bond issued by a corporation, carries no claim to ownership and pays no dividends but payments to bondholders have priority over payments to stockholders, a corporate bond is a safer investment than common stock in the same company |
coupon bond bearer bond | a bond issued with detachable coupons that must be presented to the issuer for interest payments |
government bond | a bond that is an IOU of the United States Treasury, considered the safest security in the investment world |
junk bond high-yield bond | a (speculative) bond with a credit rating of BB or lower, issued for leveraged buyouts and other takeovers by companies with questionable credit |
municipal bond | a bond issued by a state or local government |
noncallable bond | a bond containing a provision that the holder cannot redeem the security before a specific date (usually at maturity) |
performance bond surety bond | a bond given to protect the recipient against loss in case the terms of a contract are not filled, a surety company assumes liability for nonperformance |
post-obit bond | a bond made by a reversioner to secure a loan, payable out of his reversion |
registered bond | a bond whose owner is recorded on the books of the issuer, can be transferred to another owner only when endorsed by the registered owner |
revenue bond | a bond issued by an agency that is commissioned to finance public works, revenue from the public property is used to pay off the bond |
secured bond | a bond that is back by collateral |
unsecured bond debenture debenture bond | the ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future |
savings bond | non-negotiable government bond, cannot be bought and sold once the original purchase is made |
utility bond utility revenue bond | a bond issued to finance the construction of public utility services |
zero coupon bond zerooupon bond | a bond that is issued at a deep discount from its value at maturity and pays no interest during the life of the bond, the commonest form of zerooupon security |
bail bail bond bond | (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial, the judge set bail at $,, a $, bond was furnished by an alderman |
Treasury bond | a debt instrument with maturities ofyears or longer |
bond bond certificate | a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money, the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal |
Premium Bond | a government bond that bears no interest or capital gains but enters the holder into lotteries |