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; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. -- Be*nev"o*lent*ly, adv.

To pinch, or mark with pinches. Chapman.

A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit. (b) A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata).

A chapel for dissenters. [Eng.]

To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer. What will betide the few Milton.

A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask. [U. S.] Bartlett.

A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.

Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.

A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.

natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency. A foe by birth to Troy's unhappy name. Dryden.

the usher to the Chapter of the Garter, so called from the black rod which he carries. He is of the king's chamber, and also usher to the House of Lords. [Eng.]

A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin.

Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife.

k rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along the pattern.

or other gelatinous or starchy substance, with mild, usually sweetened and flavored, and shaped in a mold.

The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket. That affair of the blanketing happened to thee for the fault thou wast guilty of. Smollett.

A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep. The bleat of fleecy sheep. Chapman's Homer.

The cry of, or as of, a sheep. Chapman.

To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to. The quality of mercy is . . . twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Shak. It hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee. 1 Chron. xvii. 27 (R.…