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In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.

Shameless; unblushing. [Obs.] Spenser.

fundamental principle; that which supports. The basis of public credit is good faith. A. Hamilton.

, or having the nature of, a basyle; electro- positive; basic; -- opposed to chlorous. Graham.

To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally.

worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.

.) To put the helm up (or to windward) and so put the ship before the wind; to bear away. Hamersly. -- To bear upon (Mil.), to be pointed or situated so as to affect; to be pointed directly against, or so as to hit (the object); as, to bring or plant guns so as to bear upon a fort or a ship; the artillery bore upon th…

A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.

ll, by repetition. -- To beat off, to repel or drive back. -- To beat out, to extend by hammering. -- To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. "Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day." South. -- To beat the dust. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore leg…

Destitute of beauty. Hammond.

A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed.

A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine. Knight.

he time when; -- sometimes with the additional idea of purpose; in order that. Before Abraham was, I am. John viii. 58. Before this treatise can become of use, two points are necessary. Swift.

the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms. I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke xvi. 3.

ty at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are…

te belief, a first principle incapable of proof; an intuitive truth; an intuition. Sir W. Hamilton.

Having the striking surface convex; -- said of hammers.

Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial. [Obs.] "Bellic Cæsar." Feltham.

Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes. Bengal light, a firework containing niter, sulphur, and antimony, and producing a sustained and vivid colored light, used in making signals and in pyrotechnics; -- called also blue light. -- Bengal stripes, a kind of cotton cloth woven with colored strip…