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Full of beauty; beautiful; very handsome. [Mostly poetic] -- Beau"te*ous*ly, adv. --

the bonnet. (a) To be choleric. [Obs.] (b) To be restless or uneasy. B. Jonson. (c) To be full of fancies; to be a little crazy. "She's whiles crack-brained, and has a bee in her head." Sir W. Scott.

Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.

into error; to infatuate; to deceive. This story . . . contrived to befool credulous men. Fuller.

To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe. Fuller.

ct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively. Those that behaved themselves manfully. 2 Macc. ii. 21.

(More's Utopia). So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller.

Useful, or usefully. [Obs.]

To ply diligently; to work carefully upon. "If the earth is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn." Barrow.

To libel or traduce; to calumniate. Fuller.

r true, without 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 assu…

To cause to swell out; to fill. [R.] Your breath of full consent bellied his sails. Shak.

To be suitable for; to be due to. Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age. Heb. v. 14. No blame belongs to thee. Shak.

To make mad. [Obs.] Fuller.

The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.

To jut over; to overhang. There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully in the confined deep. Shak.

In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably; helpfully.

Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus. [Archaic] The full bent and stress of the soul. Norris.

The act of bequeathing; bequeathment; bequest. Fuller.

Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride. God hath not in heaven a bigger argument. Jer. Taylor.