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10º in pure water. In both cases the graduation, based on the distance between these fundamental points, is continued along the stem as far as desired. Since all the degrees on a Baumé scale are thus equal in length, while those on a specific- gravity scale grow smaller as the density increases, there is no simple rel…

A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.

Ornamental work in beads.

Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads.

An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak. Parker.

nt. The seeds are washed up on the Florida shore, and are often polished and made into ornaments. -- Ignatius bean, or St. Ignatius's bean (Bot.), a species of Strychnos. -- Navy bean, the common dried white bean of commerce; probably so called because an important article of food in the navy. -- Pea bean, a very sm…

A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.

A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.

A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.

To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace. Bedecked with boughs, flowers, and garlands. Pennant.

A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one- sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.

To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle. "Bejeweled hands." Thackeray.

more than enough. Lloyd. King James told his son that he would have his bellyful of parliamentary impeachments. Johnson.

To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with. Implores their pity, and his pain bemoans. Dryden.

To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property. My heritage, which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak.

To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects. A robe of azure beset with drops of gold. Spectator. The garden is so beset with all manner of sweet shrubs that it perfumes the air. Evelyn.

A house of worship for seamen.

A making better; amendment; improvement. W. Montagu.

To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak.

Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.