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To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight. [Obs.] He by the heels him hung upon a tree, And baffled so, that all which passed by The picture of his punishment might see. Spenser.

Balm cricket (Zoöl.), the European cicada. Tennyson. -- Balm of Gilead (Bot.), a small evergreen African and Asiatic tree of the terebinthine family (Balsamodendron Gileadense). Its leaves yield, when bruised, a strong aromatic scent; and from this tree is obtained the balm of Gilead of the shops, or balsam of Mecca.…

A vergeboard.

The upward direction of a vein in a mine; the emergence of a stratum at the surface.

Bordered by a beach. The beached verge of the salt flood. Shak.

To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. Pope. I cannot bear The murmur of this lake to hear. Shelley. My punishment is greater than I can bear. Gen. iv. 13.

d fellow." Shak. "Bearded grain." Dryden. Bearded vulture, Bearded eagle. (Zoöl.) See Lammergeir. -- Bearded tortoise. (Zoöl.) See Matamata.

To revel; to feast. [Obs.] A pack of clergymen [assembled] by themselves to bellycheer in their presumptuous Sion. Milton.

That part of an early Christian church which was reserved for the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel.

Possessed of a benefice o "Beneficed clergymen." Burke.

endowments; accomplishments. [R.] "The benefits of your own country." Shak. Benefit of clergy. (Law) See under Clergy.

Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus. [Archaic] The full bent and stress of the soul. Norris.

To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm. Shak.

Of or pertaining to biodynamics, or the doctrine of vital forces or energy.

The doctrine of vital forces or energy.

An oil prepared from the black birch (B. lenta), said to be identical with the oil of wintergreen, for which it is largely sold.

See Bergander.

Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.

A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat.

me given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia. Balfour.