bridesmaid (ˈbraɪdzˌmeɪd) ![]() | |
| —n | |
| matron of honour Compare maid of honour a girl or young unmarried woman who attends a bride at her wedding | |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |