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To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease. Soft whispering airs . . . becalm the mind. Philips.

it was bedded on a rock. Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded. Wordsworth.

A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse. Abp. Tillotson.

One who assumes in argument what he does not prove. Abp. Tillotson.

To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode. The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul. Shak.

elts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland.

e, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from which it is separated by fractional distillation. The name is sometimes applied also to the impure commercial product or benzole, and also, but rarely, to a similar mixed product of petroleum. Benzene nucle…

s 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.

ces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset. Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost. Shak.

The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. Shak.

collects in the bilge or bottom of a ship or other vessel. It is often allowed to remain till it becomes very offensive. -- Bilge ways, the timbers which support the cradle of a ship upon the ways, and which slide upon the launching ways in launching the vessel.

ts are far rarer births that kings. B. Jonson. Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself. Addison.

An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.

disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves. Tillotson.

; -- sometimes followed by of. A bishop then must be blameless. 1 Tim. iii. 2. Blameless still of arts that polish to deprave. Mallet. We will be blameless of this thine oath. Josh. ii. 17.

ppearance to; to whitewash; to palliate. Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things. Tillotson.

arget, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed. Let me still remain The true blank of thine eye. Shak.

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.

te of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. Stillingfleet.

he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.