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etc. (Arch.), an architrave, pier, etc., of which the regular profile is interrupted by blocks or projections crossing it at right angles.

A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

ing poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. "Baneful hemlock." Garth. "Baneful wrath." Chapman. -- Bane"ful*ly, adv. --Bane"ful*ness, n.

To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair). His hair banged even with his eyebrows. The Century Mag.

of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.

Openly; shamelessly. Locke.

ct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.

Born out of wedlock. Gay.

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

s so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. Blackstone.

at down; to lower. He must either bate the laborer's wages, or not employ or not pay him. Locke.

think that they bring many ideas with them, bating some faint ideas of hunger and thirst. Locke.

To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten. "Battening our flocks." Milton.

tment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.

To carry on, or maintain; to have. "The credit of bearing a part in the conversation." Locke.

ld any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic Locke.

y consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder. Locke. The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole. Wordsworth. The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitude in unity;" and there is no doubt that such is the…

The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.

o the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks. Bee beetle (Zoöl.), a beetle (Trichodes apiarius) parasitic in beehives. -- Bee bird (Zoöl.), a bird that eats the honeybee, as the European flycatcher, and the American kingbird. -- Bee flower (Bot.), an orchidaceous pla…

A stupid fellow; a blockhead. Sir W. Scott.