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A sore on the back or hips caused by lying for a long time in bed.

arly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation. Jer. Taylor.

Supplying need; profitable; advantageous. [Obs.] Udall.

A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view.

Waging war; carrying on war. "Belligerent powers." E. Everett.

To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge. The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. Dryden.

s in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness. So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus Followed with benediction. Milton. Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. Longfellow. Specifically:

fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool. Berlin black, a black varnish, drying with almost a dead surface; -- used for coating the better kinds of ironware. Ure. -- Berlin blue, Prussian blue. Ure. -- Berlin green, a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue. -- Berli…

That besieges; laying siege to. -- Be*sie"ging*ly, adv.

bet, B, b. See B, and cf. etymology of Alphabet. Beta (B, b) is used variously for classifying, as:

to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause. But when I rise, I shall find my legs betraying me. Johnson.

The act or the result of betraying.

A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants. [Written also besant, byzant, etc.]

Command; order; a proclamation or notifying. "Do thou thy master's bidding." Shak.

A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage. B. Jonson.

The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another. Wharton.

A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre.

Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts. Biliary calculus (Med.), a gallstone, or a concretion formed in the gall bladder or its duct.

scale, or in which two figures only, 0 and 1, are used, in lieu of ten; the cipher multiplying everything by two, as in common arithmetic by ten. Thus, 1 is one; 10 is two; 11 is three; 100 is four, etc. Davies & Peck. -- Binary compound (Chem.), a compound of two elements, or of an element and a compound performing t…

To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part.