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To vote for or in opposition to. None of the competitors arriving to a sufficient number of balls, they fell to ballot some others. Sir H. Wotton.

An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. Garrick. To relieve the tediumbams. Prof. Wilson.

ich represent the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives. Whately.

A form or mode of syllogism of which the first proposition is a universal affirmative, and the other two are particular negative.

Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun.

Low in place or position. [Obs.] Shak.

A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a base; as, basibranchials, the most ventral of the cartilages or bones of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc.…

The lowest part in a musical composition.

To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly. Shak.

Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action. A drawing up the armies in battalia. Jer. Taylor.

ed to open upon the enemy. -- Out of battery, or From battery, withdrawn, as a gun, to a position for loading.

eam ends, to incline, as a vessel, so much on one side that her beams approach a vertical position.

To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. This age to blossom, and the next to bear. Dryden.

An imposition; a trick. [Obs.] Chaucer. Beard grass (Bot.), a coarse, perennial grass of different species of the genus Andropogon. -- To one's beard, to one's face; in open defiance.

The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W. (b) pl.

the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense. Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder. Locke. The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole. Wordsworth. The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, wa…

To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position. "Bedded hair." Shak.

[Eng.] -- Ladies of the bedchamber, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar official position in the royal household, during the reign of a queen. [Eng.]

The state or position of beds and layers.

Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or 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…