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To confess; to acknowledge. [Obs.] Chaucer.

eptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses. Belief admits of all degrees…

sons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine. Our conqueror (whom I now Of force believe almighty). Milton. King Agrippa, believest thou the…

nt mark to which other levels may be referred. Specif. : A horizontal mark at the water's edge with reference to which the height of tides and floods may be measured.

A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank.

That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager. "Having made his bets." Goldsmith.

More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance; a better knowledge of the subject. All the better. See under All, adv. -- Better half, an expression used to designate one's wife. My dear, my better half (said he), I find I must now leave thee. Sir P. Sidney. -- To be better off, to be in a better condition.…

not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.

Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.

The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.

A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.

ndle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.

A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.

To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.

dage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.

The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.

An ax with an edge or blade on each side of the handle.

A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

A species of Cratægus or hawthorn (C. tomentosa). Both are used for hedges.