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To beguile. Sir W. Scott. To cheat winter of its dreariness. W. Irving.

, of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Médoc in France). (b) The wild cherry; as, prunus serotina (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; P. Virginiana (choke cherry), an…

The beginning and the ending. [Obs.] Quarles.

To adopt the character or belief of a Christian; to become Christian. The pagans began to Christianize. Latham.

ating point in the embryo of a seed; the point in the yolk of an egg at which development begins.

A character in general, as a figure or letter. [Obs.] This wisdom began to be written in ciphers and characters and letters bearing the forms of creatures. Sir W. Raleigh.

A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself. Thus in a circle runs the peasant's pain. Dryden.

repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning.

ng in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began. This continual circulation of human things. Swift.

which a clack valve works. -- Clack dish, a dish with a movable lid, formerly carried by beggars, who clacked the lid to attract notice. Shak. Clack door (Mining), removable cover of the opening through which access is had to a pump valve. -- Clack valve (Mach.), a valve; esp. one hinged at one edge, which, when rais…

e inclosed in one end of the cylinder, between the valve or valves and the piston, at the beginning of a stroke; waste room. It includes the space caused by the piston's clearance and the space in ports, passageways, etc. Its volume is often expressed as a certain proportion of the volume swept by the piston in a singl…

year of human life. I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics. Burke.

mbered, as with extraneous matter. In working through the bone, the teeth of the saw will begin to clog. S. Sharp.

f blood; a coagulum. "Clots of pory gore." Addison. Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach. Bacon.

w cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up. Worthies, away! The scene begins to cloud. Shak.

The crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow. [Obs.] He begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock. Shak.

A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer); -- also called begti.

Of the same age; beginning to exist at the same time; contemporaneous. -- Co`e*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. And all [members of the body] are coetaneous. Bentley.

Having a common beginning.

To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime. [Archaic.] Thou hast not collied thy face enough. B. Jonson. Brief as the lighting in the collied night. Shak.