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violent thunder squall occurring on the south coast of Cuba, esp. near Bayamo. The gusts, called bayamo winds, are modified foehn winds.

The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree. Bayberry tallow, a fragrant green wax obtained from the bayberry or wax myrtle; -- called also myrtle wax.

That which gives notice of danger. Modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise. Shak. Beacon fire, a signal fire.

r or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.

efore weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam.

A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building.

species of Strychnos. -- Navy bean, the common dried white bean of commerce; probably so called because an important article of food in the navy. -- Pea bean, a very small and highly esteemed variety of the edible white bean; -- so called from its size. -- Sacred bean. See under Sacred. -- Screw bean. See under Scr…

One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.

A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf.

A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.

Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues.

n framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate.

ard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks. Bee beetle (Zoöl.), a beetle (Trichodes apiarius) parasitic in beehives. -- Bee bird (Zoöl.), a bird that eats the honeybee, as the European flycatcher, and the American kingbird. -- Bee flower (Bot.), an…

s are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine. Knight.

Called also Beguins.

The Cucubalus behen, or bladder campion, now called Silene inflata.

Malt liquor; -- vulgarly so called as causing eructation. [Obs.] Dennis.

end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks…

icinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade.

armine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.