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The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively.

A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business. "A new batch of Lords." Lady M. W. Montagu.

Pebbles, collectively; shingle.

Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.

A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat. How far that little candle throws his beams ! Shak.

The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.

Abominable; as, beastly weather. [Colloq. Eng.]

To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.]

The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble. [Colloq.]

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

Applied colloquially to human flesh.

A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines.

Since; inasmuch as. [Obs. or Colloq.] And being you have Declined his means, you have increased his malice. Beau. & Fl.

Family; relations; household. [Colloq.] Few persons of her ladyship's belongings stopped, before they did her bidding, to ask her reasons. Thackeray.

The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively.

A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.

A collected series of benedictions. The benedictionary of Bishop Athelwold. G. Gurton's Needle.

A kind of upper coat for men. [Colloq. Eng.]

mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.

A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.