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Full of beauty; beautiful; very handsome. [Mostly poetic] -- Beau"te*ous*ly, adv. --

Beautiful; embellished. [Poetic] Shak.

One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful.

Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames.

To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish. The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke.

Destitute of beauty. Hammond.

pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense. Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder. Locke. The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole. Wordsworth. The old definition of be…

The nut of the Brazilian tree Myristica Bicuhyba, which yields a medicinal balsam used for rheumatism.

The nut of the beech tree.

Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun. Byron.

To bespatter, as with mud. [R.] Sterne.

A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Brazil.

The seed of one or more species of moringa; as, oil of ben. See Moringa.

To shut up or out. [Obs.]

To blacken with smut; to foul with soot.

The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime.

To tutor; to instruct. Coleridge.

Small articles of virtu, as jewelry, trinkets, etc.

An interior acrow's-foot in the United States.

Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.