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Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.

on a basidium. It embraces those fungi best known to the public, such as mushrooms, toadstools, etc.

The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground. Grier.

To allow by way of abatement or deduction. To whom he bates nothing or what he stood upon with the parliament. South.

ccessively without stopping to load. -- Battery wagon, a wagon employed to transport the tools and materials for repair of the carriages, etc., of the battery. -- In battery, projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness for firing. -- Masked battery, a battery artificially concealed until r…

antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible. Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay. Dryden. The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts. I. Taylor

To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. Pope. I cannot bear The murmur of this lake to hear. Shelley. My punishment is greater than I can bear. Gen. iv. 13.

o beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc. To beat down, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.] -- To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition. -- To beat off, to repel or drive back. -- To bea…

on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill. A tall Brabanter, behind whom I stood. Bp. Hall.

To retard or make too late. Davenant.

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

from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent. Within the gates that now Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame. Milton.

A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length. Mossy benches supplied the place of chairs. Sir W. Scott.

To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun. They betook themselves to treaty and submission. Burke. The rest, in imitation, to like arms Betook them. Milton. Whither shall I betake me, where subsist Milton.

Obs.] So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Shak.

In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes. Shak.

branches of science bi- in composition denotes two, twice, or doubly; as, bidentate, two-toothed; biternate, doubly ternate, etc.

The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling. Blount.

One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.

ich intervene between the canines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.