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One of a race, of unknown origin, inhabiting a region on the Bay of Biscay in Spain and France.

Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.

Beggarly appearance. [R.] The freedom and the beggary of the old studio. Thackeray.

doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1.

ithout immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses. Belief admits of all degrees, from the slightest suspicion to the fullest assurance. Re…

The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship. Out of the belly of hell cried I. Jonah ii. 2.

A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.

To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny Heber.

Appearance; look; garb. [Obs.] I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak.

To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances. When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so little the figure of a man that it bespoke him rather a monster. Locke.

unintentionally. Be swift to hear, but cautious of your tongue, lest you betray your ignorance. T. Watts.

ate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.

short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff. France had no infantry that dared to face the English bows end bills. Macaulay.

(Anat.) Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.

Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque. C. Kingsley.

A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.

Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate. Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things. Tillotson.

te of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God. The assurance of a future blessedness. Tillotson. Single blessedness, the unmarried state. "Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness." Shak.

eiving subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; -- so called from one Bleton, of France.

Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way.