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ng; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt. The shining belt with gold inlaid. Dryden.

lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with. Implores their pity, and his pain bemoans. Dryden.

To furnish with benches. 'T was benched with turf. Dryden. Stately theaters benched crescentwise. Tennyson.

A declivity or slope, as of a hill. [R.] Dryden.

geons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. Bare benting times . . . may come. Dryden.

upefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. The creeping death benumbed her senses first. Dryden.

A resinous substance, dry and brittle, obtained from the Styrax benzoin, a tree of Sumatra, Java, etc., having a fragrant odor, and slightly aromatic taste. It is used in the preparation of benzoic acid, in medicine, and as a perfume.

or fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool. Berlin black, a black varnish, drying with almost a dead surface; -- used for coating the better kinds of ironware. Ure. -- Berlin blue, Prussian blue. Ure. -- Berlin green, a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue. -- Ber…

To harden or dry in smoke. Johnson.

To speak to; to address. [Poetic] He thus the queen bespoke. Dryden.

To sprinkle over; to scatter over. The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden.

provement; so as to produce improvement. "If I have altered him anywhere for the better." Dryden.

to take away the power of resistance; to enchant. The charms of poetry our souls bewitch. Dryden.

, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened. [Spelt also bidry, bidree, bedery, beder.]

Bigoted. [Obs.] In a country more bigot than ours. Dryden.

d. Why choose we, then, like bilanders to creep Along the coast, and land in view to keep Dryden.

Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry.

hich insnares. Not birdlime or Idean pitch produce A more tenacious mass of clammy juice. Dryden.

te or position; inherited disposition or tendency. A foe by birth to Troy's unhappy name. Dryden.

A small scrubby tree (Balanites Ægyptiaca) growing in dry regions of tropical Africa and Asia.