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A place of shelter; protection; refuge. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] [Also written bield and beeld.] The random beild o' clod or stane. Burns.

A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple. [Written also bellefleur.]

ic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds. [Formerly written also benzule.]

el; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing. Thackeray.

A bernicle goose. [Written also barnacle.] Bernicle goose (Zoöl.), a goose (Branta leucopsis), of Arctic Europe and America. It was formerly believed that it hatched from the cirripeds of the sea (Lepas), which were, therefore, called barnacles, goose barnacles, or Anatifers. The name is also applied to other related s…

A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.

A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages.

A bright star of the first magnitude, near one shoulder of Orion. [Written also Betelgeux and Betelgeuse.]

ent manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits. I could have better spared a better man. Shak.

A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open. [Written also bettee.] The powerful betty, or the artful picklock. Arbuthnot.

land) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants. [Written also besant, byzant, etc.]

The Book by way of eminence, -- that is, the book which is made up of the writings accepted by Christians as of divine origin and authority, whether such writings be in the original language, or translated; the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; -- sometimes in a restricted sense, the Old Testament; as, King Jam…

A great drinker; a tippler. [Written also bibbler and bibbeler.]

One who writes, or is versed in, bibliography.

hly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases. [Written also blimbi and blimbing.]

A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.

An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish. [Written also billet and billit.]

One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.

To write a history of the life of. Southey.

The written history of a person's life.