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In court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial below. Wheaton.

A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland.

To furnish with benches. 'T was benched with turf. Dryden. Stately theaters benched crescentwise. Tennyson.

A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.

To lure; to cheat. [Obs.] Gower.

A cheat; a trick; a hoax. Hudibras.

contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat. Mortimer.

To cheat; to trick; to take in. [Colloq.] Pope.

One who cheats; a sharper. [Colloq.] Spectator.

inous lake where Sodom flamed. Milton. Bituminous coal, a kind of coal which yields, when heated, a considerable amount of volatile bituminous matter. It burns with a yellow smoky flame. -- Bituminous limestone, a mineral of a brown or black color, emitting an unpleasant smell when rubbed. That of Dalmatia is so charg…

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.

se (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); - - so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.

Blighted; withered. Upon this blasted heath. Shak.

A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame. "To heaven the blaze uprolled." Croly.

Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim. Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion. Milton.

to light. -- Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also blank tooling, and blind blocking. -- Blind wall, a wall without an opening; a blank wall.

Lascivious; also, in heat; -- said of ewes.

To heat the blood of; to exasperate. [Obs.] The auxiliary forces of the French and English were much blooded one against another. Bacon.

A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter. Raymond.

a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object.