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A calling away; a diversion. [Obs. or Archaic] Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin. South.

Calling off. [Obs.]

Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits. Gray.

Having many berries.

To beatify. [Obs.] Fuller.

second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization. "The beatification of his spirit." Jer. Taylor.

A small flat curl worn on the temple by women. [Humorous]

To scatter over.

To divide into two branches.

Two-pronged; forked.

A forking, or division into two branches.

Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints. Tylor.

Twice folded together. Henslow.

One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler.

The art, act, or occupation or catching birds or wild fowls.

Having two little bags, sacs, or pouches.

e ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The bisilicates include many of the most common and important minerals.

Having two grooves or furrows.

A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc.

Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.