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"A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side." Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.

ds. Harrington. Hence: To beg (one) for a fool, to take him for a fool. I beg to, is an elliptical expression for I beg leave to; as, I beg to inform you. -- To bag the question, to assume that which was to be proved in a discussion, instead of adducing the proof or sustaining the point by argument. -- To go a-beggin…

Any climbing woody vine of the tropics with the habit of a liane; in the Philippines, esp. any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.

Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower. "In a cowslip's bell I lie." Shak.

A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs.

Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.

of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers.

deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor. Thackeray.

severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind. The lip that curls with bitterness. Percival. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Job vii. 11.

A bubble; blubber. [Low] T. Carew. Blobber lip, a thick, protruding lip. His blobber lips and beetle brows commend. Dryden.

To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. Cowley.

A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms. "Such a blow of tulips." Tatler.

Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip. Spenser.

To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation. Sarcasms may eclipse thine own, But can not blur my lost renown. Hudibras.

epul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha. The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists (Ficus religiosa), which is planted close to every temple, and attracts almost as mu…

(Capros aper), of the family Caproidæ; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout.

s shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc. A horse . . . which Philip had bought . . . and because of his fierceness kept him within a brake of iron bars. J. Brende.

Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

An ecstasy, which mothers only feel, Plays round my heart and brightens all my sorrow. Philips.

r brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.