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The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly. Underneath the belly of their steeds. Shak.

Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee. Shak.

A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.

A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland.

The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.

sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. The creeping death benumbed her senses first. Dryden.

Decked with feathers.

The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B.

old p. p. of Bequeath. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.

lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.

To weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears. "His timeless death beweeping." Drayton.

A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs.

At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope.

he consignee of the goods. -- Bill of mortality, an official statement of the number of deaths in a place or district within a given time; also, a district required to be covered by such statement; as, a place within the bills of mortality of London. -- Bill of pains and penalties, a special act of a legislature whic…

a alba), and used in the preparation of genuine ( and sometimes of the imitation) Russia leather, to which it gives its peculiar odor. (b) An oil prepared from the black birch (B. lenta), said to be identical with the oil of wintergreen, for which it is largely sold.

Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2). That ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird. Shak. The brydds [birds] of the aier have nestes. Tyndale (Matt. viii. 20).

cent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers.

isting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface.

othing to bite. Dickens. To bite the dust, To bite the ground, to fall in the agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust. -- To bite in (Etching), to corrode or eat into metallic plates by means of an acid. -- To bite the thumb at (any one), formerly a mark of contempt, designed to provoke a quarrel; to de…