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To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace. Bedecked with boughs, flowers, and garlands. Pennant.

To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. Shak.

To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of. The apostle begins our knowledge in the creatures, which leads us to the knowledge of God. Locke.

A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river. Bench mark (Leveling), one of a number of marks along a line of survey, affixed to permanent objects, to show where leveling staffs were placed. -- Bench of bishops, the whole body of English prelates assemb…

A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.…

A bewildering tangle or confusion. He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.

An oval sac or cell, found in the leaves of certain plants of the order Araceæ. It has an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged.

Including two tribes or races of men.

birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta).

Seen from above, as if by a flying bird; embraced at a glance; hence, generalas, a bird's-eye view.

An old name for a woman's bustle. [U. S.] If, by her bishop, or her "grace" alone, A genuine lady, or a church, is known. Saxe.

A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned by means of a brace or bitstock. See Bitstock.

A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.

is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.

olor, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long.

The state of being blemished; blemish; disgrace; damage; impairment. For dread of blame and honor's blemishment. Spenser.

Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. The blind mazes of this tangled wood. Milton.

The rubiaceous shrub Chicocca racemosa, of the same region.

ed also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Hæmodoraceæ), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.

To stain with infamy; to disgrace. Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. Rowe.