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Pertaining to the country, people, or language of Biscay; Basque [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that

Having battlements. A battlemented portal. Sir W. Scott.

To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate. Sir T. Herbert.

on the distance between these fundamental points, is continued along the stem as far as desired. Since all the degrees on a Baumé scale are thus equal in length, while those on a specific- gravity scale grow smaller as the density increases, there is no simple relation between degrees Bé. and Sp. gr. However, readings…

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex To be contents his natural desire. Pope. To be, or not to be: that is the question. Shak.

Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag. Tost his beamed frontlet to the sky. Sir W. Scott.

d. -- To bear back, to retreat. "Bearing back from the blows of their sable antagonist." Sir W. Scott. -- To bear down upon (Naut.), to approach from the windward side; as, the fleet bore down upon the enemy. -- To bear in with (Naut.), to run or tend toward; as, a ship bears in with the land. -- To bear off (Naut.…

A scale of wind force devised by Sir F. Beaufort, R. N., in 1805, in which the force is indicated by numbers from 0 to 12.

f; to be the final or subsequent condition of. What is then become of so huge a multitude Sir W. Raleigh.

apestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott.

f fancies; to be a little crazy. "She's whiles crack-brained, and has a bee in her head." Sir W. Scott.

A stupid fellow; a blockhead. Sir W. Scott.

To adorn with gems, or as with gems. Begemmed with dewdrops. Sir W. Scott. Those lonely realms bright garden isles begem. Shelley.

To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father. Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget. Milton.

fit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication. In behalf of his mistress's beauty. Sir P. Sidney. Against whom he had contracted some prejudice in behalf of his nation. Clarendon. In behalf of, in the interest of. -- On behalf of, on account of; on the part of.

s willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction. To do his master's high behest. Sir W. Scott.

, The state of being obliged or beholden. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

An abode; a cottage. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. It was a relief to dismiss them [Sir Roger's servants] into little beings within my manor. Steele.

Grandmother; -- corresponding to belsire. To show the beldam daughters of her daughter. Shak.