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To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them. I am very well satisfied that it is not in my power to balance accounts with my Maker. Addison.

dy shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball.

rial on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it. "Band and gusset and seam." Hood.

A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.

Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.

en prevailed upon by bare of naked truth. South. Under bare poles (Naut.), having no sail set.

., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings. He lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches and thatched with straw. Gibbon.

It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.

A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc.

A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.

Massachusetts, which had been called the Colony of Massachusetts Bay; -- a nickname.

) To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around).

mall platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew.

To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance. No admiral, bearded by three corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial. Macaulay.

A South American bird of the flycatcher family. (Tityra inquisetor).

To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold.

s, in the larval state, are parasitic upon bees. -- Bee garden, a garden or inclosure to set beehives in ; an apiary. Mortimer. -- Bee glue, a soft, unctuous matter, with which bees cement the combs to the hives, and close up the cells; -- called also propolis. -- Bee hawk (Zoöl.), the honey buzzard. -- Bee killer…

Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone). [Obs.] Gower. Chaucer.

To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town. Bastards also are settled in the parishes to which the mothers belong. Blackstone.

Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.