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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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BATTALIA n.
An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body. [Obs.] Shak.
BATTALION n.
A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array. "The whole battalion views." Milton.
BATTEL v.
To make fertile. [Obs.] "To battel barren land." Ray.
BAYED a.
Having a bay or bays. "The large bayed barn." Drayton.
BEAD n. 2 definitions
A prayer. [Obs.]
BEADHOUSE; BEDEHOUSE n.
An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.
BEADROLL n.
A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are direc…
BEADSMAN; BEDESMAN n.
A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. Fuller.
BEADY a.
Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening. "Beady eyes." Thackeray.
BEAM n. 2 definitions
A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat. How far that little candle throws his beams ! Shak.
BEARING n.
n or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. A carriage covered with armorial bearings. Thackeray.
BECK n. 2 definitions
A small brook. The brooks, the becks, the rills. Drayton.
BECOMING a.
ropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray.
BEDE v.
To pray; also, to offer; to proffer. [Obs.] R. of Gloucester. Chaucer.
BEDIGHT v.
To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn. [Archaic] Milton.
BEGGARLY a.
beggary. [Obs.] Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation. Jer. Taylor.
BEGGARY n.
Beggarly appearance. [R.] The freedom and the beggary of the old studio. Thackeray.
BEJEWEL v.
To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle. "Bejeweled hands." Thackeray.
BELIEVER n.
lded in the gospel. Thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers. Book of Com. Prayer.
BELLARMINE n.
der in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.
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