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A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.

The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.

The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground. Grier.

The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.

A bar of cartilage at the base of the embryonic fins of some fishes. It develops into the metapterygium. -- Ba*sip`ter*yg"i*al (, a.

To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed. "The rosy shadows bathe me. " Tennyson. "The bright sunshine bathing all the world." Longfellow.

A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope. Batter rule, an instrument consisting of a rule or frame, and a plumb line, by which the batter or slope of a wall is regulated in building.

e genus Buphaga, which feeds on the larvæ of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two species are known.

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 found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages. -- Bel*em*nit"ic, a.

To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.

A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.

To envelop in mist. [Obs.]

A declivity or slope, as of a hill. [R.] Dryden.

A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank.

A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.

To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.

Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.

Life development generally.

h is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.

The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free- swimming stage.