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Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef. Beef tea, essence of beef, or strong beef broth.

Stupid; dull. Shak.

One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person.

A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling.

An Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland.

Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy.

A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively.

A house for bees; an apiary.

Same as Beild. Fairfax.

The title of a heathen deity to whom the Jews ascribed the sovereignty of the evil spirits; hence, the Devil or a devil. See Baal.

A trumpet. [Obs.]

One who keeps bees.

The past participle of Be. In old authors it is also the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee. Assembled been a senate grave and stout. Fairfax.

of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc. Small beer, weak beer; (fig.) insignificant matters. "To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer." Shak.

Sour beer. [Obs.]

A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse.

Beery condition.

Of or resembling beer; affected by beer; maudlin.

Same as Biestings.

The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed.