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A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.

mise. [Obs.] The time is come that I should send it her, if I keep the behest that I have made. Paston.

decorative pottery with a high gloss, which is sometimes iridescent. A very fine kind is made at Belleek in Ireland.

The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively.

A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal.

Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. -- Be*numbed"ness, n.

o make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away. Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Shak. Bereft of him who taught me how to sing. Tickell.

The essence or perfume made from the fruit.

Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. "Besotted devotion." Sir W. Scott. -- Be*sot"ted*ly, adv. -- Be*sot"ted*ness, n. Milton.

Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.

Out of one's senses; distracted; mad. [Obs.] Shak.

t of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager. "Having made his bets." Goldsmith.

h, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the eucharist is made. Audsley.

An insane person; a madman; a bedlamite.

The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion.

An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.

The Book by way of eminence, -- that is, the book which is made up of the writings accepted by Christians as of divine origin and authority, whether such writings be in the original language, or translated; the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; -- sometimes in a restricted sense, the Old Testament; as, King Jam…

A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub. [Prov. Eng.]

A portable boat made of skins stretched on a frame. [Alaska] The Century.

A kind of metallic ware made in India. The material is a composition of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened. [Spelt also bidry, bidree, bedery, beder.]