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ant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command. They have troops of soldiers at their beck. Shak.

a stone; it was bedded on a rock. Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded. Wordsworth.

of the royal household, all of noble families, who wait in turn a week each. [Eng.] -- Ladies of the bedchamber, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar official position in the royal household, during the reign of a queen. [Eng.]

In the East Indies, a princess or lady of high rank. Malcom.

rd with some other person or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work. In this also [dress] the country are very much behindhand. Addison.

beverages. -- To believe on, to accept implicitly as an object of religious trust or obedience; to have faith in.

A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.

A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.

Most intimately; most thoroughly or correctly; as, what is expedient is best known to himself.

ed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. I is a woody climber with ovate manynerved leaves.

A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies. What a bevy of beaten slaves have we here ! Beau. & Fl.

A low fellow or scoundrel; a beggar. Great men oft die by vile bezonians. Shak.

A salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; -- called also dichromate.

Having two bodies.

Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.

Obedient; docile. [Scot.]

Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.

A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.

The physical phenomena of organized bodies, in opposition to their organic or vital phenomena.

of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. When ground it is the chief ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing. -- Berlin black. See under Berlin.