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Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers. [Cant, Eng.] Dickens.

Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; -- called also bassrelief and basso- rilievo. See Alto-rilievo.

s of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.

Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language.

One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire. Bat tick (Zoöl.), a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats.…

A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.

pproach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning. No flaming beacons cast their blaze afar. Gay.

An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.

To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc. He shall bear their iniquities. Is. liii. 11. Somewhat that will bear your charges. Dryden.

To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. "Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day." South. -- To beat the dust. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. -- To beat the hoof, to walk; to go…

In order that; that. [Obs.] And the multitude rebuked them because they should hold their peace. Matt. xx. 31. Because of, by reason of, on account of. [Prep. phrase.] Because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Eph. v. 6.

r motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command. They have troops of soldiers at their beck. Shak.

s me so to speak of so excellent a poet. Dryden. I have known persons so anxious to have their dress become them, as to convert it, at length, into their proper self, and thus actually to become the dress. Coleridge.

b. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.

genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.

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

Formerly; aforetime. [They] dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.

anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean. How unlike their Belgic sires of old. Goldsmith.

To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood. Their trembling hearts belie their boastful tongues. Dryden.

r part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly. Underneath the belly of their steeds. Shak.