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(Syrnium nebulosum); -- so called from the transverse bars of a dark brown color on the breast.

A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds. Simmonds.

hestnut; -- applied to the color of horses. Bay cat (Zoöl.), a wild cat of Africa and the East Indies (Felis aurata). -- Bay lynx (Zoöl.), the common American lynx (Felis, or Lynx, rufa).

The East Indian weaver bird (Ploceus Philippinus).

A female dancer in the East Indies. [Written also bajadere.]

m tide and wind. [Southern U. S.] A dark slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. G. W. Cable.

In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale.

A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.

To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. Ex. xxx. 36. They did beat the gold into thin plates. Ex. xxxix. 3.…

tected the lower part of the face, whether forming a part of the helmet or fixed to the breastplate. It was so constructed (with joints or otherwise) that the wearer could raise or lower it to eat and drink.

A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.

A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

In the East Indies, a princess or lady of high rank. Malcom.

Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal. [R.] Animal and belluine life. Atterbury.

That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.

To revel; to feast. [Obs.] A pack of clergymen [assembled] by themselves to bellycheer in their presumptuous Sion. Milton.

part of an early Christian church which was reserved for the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel.

insect of the genus Trypeta, which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvæ do great injury.

rry their commodities where they can make the best of them." Bacon. (b) To reduce to the least possible inconvenience; as, to make the best of ill fortune or a bad bargain.

Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts. Among the bestial herds to range. Milton.