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ight angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.

mber, the convex part of which is the back. Belly doublet, a doublet of the 16th century, hanging down so as to cover the belly. Shak. -- Belly fretting, the chafing of a horse's belly with a girth. Johnson. -- Belly timber, food. [Ludicrous] Prior. -- Belly worm, a worm that breeds or lives in the belly (stomach or…

To jut over; to overhang. There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully in the confined deep. Shak.

To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.

Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.

An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.

ble the ordinary proportion; as, bichromate, bisulphide. Be- and di- are often used interchangeably.

To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. [Obs.] Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together. Holland.

Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind. "Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg." New English Dict.

ills, as doves; to caress in fondness. "As pigeons bill." Shak. To bill and coo, to interchange caresses; -- said of doves; also of demonstrative lovers. Thackeray.

A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives.

nd being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans. Webster (1612).

The pattern on shape of a hat. He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. Shak.

Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail. In jewels dressed and at each ear a bob. Dryden.

wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.

An exchange for the transaction of business. [Sp. Amer. & Phil. Islands]

restrain. Let tenfold iron bolt my door. Langhorn. Which shackles accidents and bolts up change. Shak.

ly, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in t…

That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged. I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one. Shak.

nd domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.