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One who bewails or laments.

Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.

ritings 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. Also, the book which is made up of writings similarly accepted by the Jews; as, a rabbinical Bible.…

lic ware made in India. The material is a composition of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened. [Spelt also bidry, bidree, bedery, beder.]

A woman's ornament; habiliment. [Obs.]

Choleric; passionate; ill tempered. "A bilious old nabob." Macaulay. Bilious temperament. See Temperament.

and Commons of England to the Prince and Princess of Orange in 1688, and enacted in Parliament after they became king and queen. In America, a bill or declaration of rights is prefixed to most of the constitutions of the several States. -- Bill of sale, a formal instrument for the conveyance or transfer of goods and…

An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.

Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.

y recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the church is called indifferently "bishop" ( J. B. Lightfoot.

aving a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mol…

Complexion; color; hue; likeness; form. [Archaic] For him which is so bright of blee. Lament. of Mary Magd. That boy has a strong blee of his father. Forby.

The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.

ter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets. "The blue firmament." Milton.

A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers. [Eng.]

A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes.

rom peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.

confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle. Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gained my freedom. Shak.

Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief. He gaf the sike man his boote. Chaucer. Thou art boot for many a bruise And healest many a wound. Sir W. Scott. Next her Son, our soul's best boot. Wordsworth.

A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.