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ion. [See Illust. under Clef.] -- Bass voice, a deepsounding voice; a voice fitted for singing bass.

Belonging to, or resembling, a bat. "Batty wings." Shak.

as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, -- a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and t…

A spade for digging turf. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

Byron. I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds. Shak. In bed he slept not for my urging it. Shak.

To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste. Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott.

Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse. "The bedlam, brainsick duchess." Shak.

A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.

Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech. "Plain beechen vessels." Dryden.

A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc. Small beer, weak beer; (fig.) insignificant matters. "To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer." Shak.

An overhanging brow.

Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen.

ually or from house to house. Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. Ps. xxxvii. 25.

The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.

A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.

the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages. -- Bel*em*nit"ic, a.

Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.

at like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.

t angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.

Waging war; carrying on war. "Belligerent powers." E. Everett.