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Blind; stupid. [Obs.] "A formal and bayardly round of duties." Goodman.

action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around).

Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening. "Beady eyes." Thackeray.

ty out of it to this day." South. -- To beat the dust. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. -- To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on foot. -- To beat the wing, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation. -- To beat time, to mea…

To embrace; to surround. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground. "Beds of hyacinth and roses." Milton.

To surround as with a band; to encompass.

To surround as with a girdle.

Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone). [Obs.] Gower. Chaucer.

A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines.

To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel. Totten.

A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed.

An old woman in general; especially, an ugly old woman; a hag. Around the beldam all erect they hang. Akenside.

To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade. The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. Longfellow.

Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.

A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.

W. Scott. Belted cattle, cattle originally from Dutch stock, having a broad band of white round the middle, while the rest of the body is black; -- called also blanketed cattle.

A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river. Bench mark (Leveling), one of a number of marks along a line of survey, affixed to permanent objects, to show where leveling staffs were placed. -- Bench of bishops, the whole body of English prelates assemb…

Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor. [Obs.] Wright. Bowmen bickered upon the bent. Chevy Chase.

To pelt roundly.