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The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively.

officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court. Mozley & W.

To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths. "They bathe in summer." Waller.

An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia.

To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday.

of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).

To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.

To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.

ngs, to bring one to his senses. -- To lose one's bearings, to become bewildered. -- To take bearings, to ascertain by the compass the position of an object; to ascertain the relation of one object or place to another; to ascertain one's position by reference to landmarks or to the compass; hence (Fig.), to ascertain…

g beat their posterity 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. --…

A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy.

An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in…

To take for granted; to assume without proof.

To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Vast chain of being! which from God began. Pope.

To sever the head from; to take off the head of.

When he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Num. xxi. 9. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John. i. 29.

Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted. "Some belated peasant." Milton. -- Be*lat"ed*ness, n. Milton.

To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.

The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively.

In a lower place; underneath. The earth you take from beneath will be barren. Mortimer.