Bach,(Ger.) - Book. Baender-box - Band-box. Baldface corn,(Amer.) - Plain maize whisky. Barell-hell pars - Parallel-bars; a part of the gymnastic apparatus. Barrick,(Pennsylvania Ger. for Berg) - Mountain. Bauern,(Ger.) - Peasants. Be-ghostet,(Ger. Begeistert) - Inspired. Begifted, - Beschenkt - Gifted. Begreifen,(Ger.) - Understand. Beheaded, Behauptet,(Ger.) - Asserted. Bei Leib und Leben,(Ger.) - By my body and soul. Bekannt, Beknown - Known. Bellin,(Ger. Bellen) - To bark. Bemarket,(Ger.-Eng.) - Remarked. Be-mark,(Ger. Bemarken) - Observe. Bemarks,(Ger. Bemerkungen) - Remarks. Bemerkbar,(Ger.) - Observable. Should be noticed. Bemoost,(Ger.) - Mossgrown, in student's language, ein bemoostes Haupt, an old student. Bender,(Amer.) - A spree; a frolic. To "go on a bender" - to go on a spree. Be-raised - Raised, with the augment, literal for Ger. erhoben. Berauscht,(Ger.) - Intoxicated. Besoffen,(Ger.) - Drunk. Bestimmung des Menschen - Vocation of Man, title of one of Fichte's works. Betaubend,(Ger.) - Enchanting. Bewises,(Ger. Beweist, from Beweisen) - Proves. Bibliothek - Library. Bienenkorb,(Ger.) - Beehive. Birra gazzosa,(Italian) - Aerated, gaseous beer. Bischof,(Ger.) - Bishop. Bix Buchse,(box) - Rifle. Bess in Brown Bess is the equivalent of the German Buchse, (Brown being merely an alliterative epithet;) French, buse tube; Flemish, buis. (Still found in blunderbuss, arquebuss.) See Blackley's "Word Gossip." Blaetter,(Ger.) - Leaves. Blei - Lead. Blitz,(Ger.) - Lightning. Blitzen,(Ger.) - Lightning. Blokes,(English) - Men. Bock - A strong kind of German beer. Boemisch - Bohemian. Boerenvolk,(Flem.) - Peasants. Bole Jack road - Near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Bool - Bull. Bornirtheit - Limitedness of capacity. Bouleverse - Boulevard. Bountiee,(Amer.) - Bounty-money paid during the war as a premium to soldiers. To jump the bounty, was to secure the premium and then run away. "This is the song of Billy Jones, Who jumped the boun-ti-ee." - American Ballad of 1846. Bowery - A street at New York, inhabited principally by Germans. Branntewein,(Ger.) - Spirits. Brandy smash,(Amer.) - A plain half-glass mint julep of only sugar,ice, spirits, and mint. A regular julep is larger, and contains more ingredients. Brav,(Ger.) - Good. Breit,(Ger.) - Broad. Bring it down to dots - Reduce it to figures. Brisner - Prisoner. Broosh-pinder - Brushbinder,(Ger. Buerstenbinder.) - Brushmaker. The brushmakers are supposed, probably on account of their throat-parching business, to be always thirsty. Brummed - growled - (Ger. Brummen). Brucke,(Ger.) - Bridge. Bugs - In America all insects, especially Coleoptera. Bummer,(Amer.) - A fellow haunting low taverns; applied during the late civil war in the United States to hangers-on of the army. Probably a corruption of the German bummler(loafer).