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To give a false representation or account of. Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts. Shak.

ed face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.

Under, in relation to something that is superior, or that oppresses or burdens. Our country sinks beneath the yoke. Shak.

Natural advantaged; endowments; accomplishments. [R.] "The benefits of your own country." Shak. Benefit of clergy. (Law) See under Clergy.

Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.

id of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed. All the names in the country betray great antiquity. Bryant.

, or quality of any kind. "Beyond expectation." Barrow. Beyond any of the great men of my country. Sir P. Sidney. Beyond sea. (Law) See under Sea. -- To go beyond, to exceed in ingenuity, in research, or in anything else; hence, in a bed sense, to deceive or circumvent. That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in…

it had not biased in the one direction, nor should it have biased any just critic in the counter direction. De. Quincey.

An account of books; book lore; bibliography.

A skirmish; an encounter. [Obs.]

To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm. Shak.

A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth. Knight.

Bigoted. [Obs.] In a country more bigot than ours. Dryden.

An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.

A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, etc., thus showing all that he issues and receives.

One who negotiates the discount of bills.

A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts.

The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism.

One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.

ll swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups.