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s. What a sweet being is an honest mind ! Beau. & Fl. A Being of infinite benevolence and power. Wordsworth.

es. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade.

Waging war; carrying on war. "Belligerent powers." E. Everett.

A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open. [Written also bettee.] The powerful betty, or the artful picklock. Arbuthnot.

To charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance; to enchant. The charms of poetry our souls bewitch. Dryden.

The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination. There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words. South.

Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming. -- Be*witch"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*witch"ing*ness, n.

The power of bewitching or charming. Shak.

To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command. That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. Pope Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. Matt. xiv. 28 I was bid to pick up shells. D. Jerrold.

Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints. Tylor.

Applied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).

belongs. Binomial theorem (Alg.), the theorem which expresses the law of formation of any power of a binomial.

A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.

The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.

Of or pertaining to the biquadrate, or fourth power. Biquadratic equation (Alg.), an equation of the fourth degree, or an equation in some term of which the unknown quantity is raised to the fourth power. -- Biquadratic root of a number, the square root of the square root of that number. Thus the square root of 81 is…

Equivalent in combining or displacing power to two atoms of hydrogen; dyad.

An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer. Ure.

Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim. Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion. Milton.

thin side links pivoted to the ends of the blocks, used with sprocket wheels to transmit power, as in a bicycle.

A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the sa…