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To tread, as a path. Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. Blackmore.

Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. "A broad and beaten way." Milton. "Beaten gold." Shak.

To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut. To the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea. Shak. Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime. Wordsworth.

In time past; previously; already. You tell me, mother, what I knew before. Dryden.

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

s with, a belt; to encompass; to surround. A coarse black robe belted round the waist. C. Reade. They belt him round with hearts undaunted. Wordsworth.

To make mean; to lower. C. Reade.

or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.

n alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.

sture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.

Penetrating rays readily deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances, as radium. They consist of negatively charged particles or electrons, apparently the same in kind as those of the cathode rays, but having much higher velocities (about 35,000 to 180,000 miles per second).…

Something especially hated or dreaded; a bugbear.

In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the eucharist is made. Audsley.

A dread of books. [R.]

Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.

A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth. Knight.

Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance. Bifilar micrometer (often called a bifilar), an instrument form measuring minute distances or angles by means of two very minute threads (usually spider lines), one of which, at least, is movable; -- more commonly called a filar…

Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively. [Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome. Addison.

The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another. Wharton.

A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit. According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. Gibbon.