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To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.

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.

with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison.

To adjudge; to assign by authority. The second was to Triamond behight. Spenser.

d hath Christ with Belia 2 Cor. vi. 15. A son (or man) of Belial, a worthless, wicked, or thoroughly depraved person. 1 Sam. ii. 12.

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to b…

opper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.

To master thoroughly.

Most intimately; most thoroughly or correctly; as, what is expedient is best known to himself.

More correctly or thoroughly. The better to understand the extent of our knowledge. Locke.

opposition between science and religion. An intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty. Hume.

To cover (the head) with a wig. Hawthorne.

. He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.

he 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 James's Bible; Douay Bible; Luther's Bible. A…

Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority.

may be ordered at a restaurant, etc. -- Bill of health, a certificate from the proper authorities as to the state of health of a ship's company at the time of her leaving port. -- Bill of indictment, a written accusation lawfully presented to a grand jury. If the jury consider the evidence sufficient to support the…

Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other. Who made our laws to bind us, not himself. Milton.

A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw. III. Bouvier. Wharton.

A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.

nment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects. But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. Milton.