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e, china, glass, etc.; a buffet. A beaufet . . . filled with gold and silver vessels. Prescott.

he fur of the beaver, but now usually of silk. A brown beaver slouched over his eyes. Prescott.

A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Simmonds.

A qualitative test for cottonseed oil, based on the fact this oil imparts a maroon color to an alcoholic solution of silver nitrate.

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

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

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

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.

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

A place of shelter; protection; refuge. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] [Also written bield and beeld.] The random beild o' clod or stane. Burns.

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.

. As loud as belleth wind in hell. Chaucer. The wild buck bells from ferny brake. Sir W. Scott.

A South American bird of the genus Casmarhincos, and family Cotingidæ, of several species; the campanero.

, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath. Lord Marmion waits below. Sir W. Scott.

The first day of May (Old Style). The quarter-days anciently in Scotland were Hallowmas, Candlemas, Beltane, and Lammas. New English Dict.

Worn in, or suspended from, the belt. Three men with belted brands. Sir W. Scott. Belted cattle, cattle originally from Dutch stock, having a broad band of white round the middle, while the rest of the body is black; -- called also blanketed cattle.

Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment. [Scot.]

g from a stool in its greater length. Mossy benches supplied the place of chairs. Sir W. Scott.

owards Coventry bend we our course. Shak. Bending her eyes . . . upon her parent. Sir W. Scott.