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It is likely or probably; perhaps. [Obs. or Archaic] -- Be*like"ly, adv. Belike, boy, then you are in love. Shak.

A band of canvas, to strengthen a sail.

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.

the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank.

To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer.

To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second.

ant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland. Why choose we, then, like bilanders to creep Along the coast, and land in view to keep Dryden.

To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.

he transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.

mear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare. When the heart is thus birdlimed, then it cleaves to everything it meets with. Coodwin.

Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

tes or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.

To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.

e severity of that day in 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold. Stow. Then it was not for nothing that may nose fell a bleeding on Black Monday last. Shak.

ire of grasses. The crimson dulse . . . with its waving blade. Percival. First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear. Mark iv. 28.

ree from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; -- sometimes followed by of. A bishop then must be blameless. 1 Tim. iii. 2. Blameless still of arts that polish to deprave. Mallet. We will be blameless of this thine oath. Josh. ii. 17.

To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf. Then suddenly was heard along the main, To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train. Pope The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will never answer a calf when he bleats. Shak.

Crying as a sheep does. Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. Longfellow.