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Unnatural connection with a beast.

To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize. The process of bestializing humanity. Hare.

A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages.

An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc. [Obs.]

re chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. I is a woody climber with ovate manynerved leaves.

The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime.

ly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian.

ontract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance. "The feast of betrothal." Longfellow.

ried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.

A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.

s or angles by means of two very minute threads (usually spider lines), one of which, at least, is movable; -- more commonly called a filar micrometer.

The East Indian name of a virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.

The berries of two East Indian species of Averrhoa, of the Oxalideæ or Sorrel family. They are very acid, and highly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases. [Written also blimbi and blimbing.]

footed. By which the man, when heavenly life was ceased, Became a helpless, naked, biped beast. Byrom.

Easter Monday, so called from the 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.

ly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.

A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia. Balfour.

y some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel. Seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind. Gen. xii. 6.

g loudly and harshly. "Harsh and blatant tone." R. H. Dana. A monster, which the blatant beast men call. Spenser. Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. W. Irving.

e side which is most easily assailed; a weak or unguarded side; the side on which one is least able or disposed to see danger. Swift. -- Blind snake (Zoöl.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopidæ, with rudimentary eyes. -- Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic n…