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her ladyship's belongings stopped, before they did her bidding, to ask her reasons. Thackeray.

A grandfather, or ancestor. "His great belsire Brute." [Obs.] Drayton.

To bow in prayer, or in token of submission. While each to his great Father bends. Coleridge.

A prayer; boon. [Archaic] What is good for a bootless bene Wordsworth.

Latin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel.

A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness. So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus Followed with benediction. Milton. Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. Longfellow. Specifically:…

Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer. Thackeray.

reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass. His spear a bent, both stiff and strong. Drayton.

with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing. Thackeray.

A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.

beseeming the preachers. Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God Hocker.

ighest degree; beyond all others. "Thou serpent! That name best befits thee." Milton. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small. Coleridge.

of. Love betters what is best. Wordsworth. He thought to better his circumstances. Thackeray.

To weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears. "His timeless death beweeping." Drayton.

Having two callosities or hard spots. Gray.

A skirmishing. "Frays and bickerings." Milton.

Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice. Gray.

t to come. As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. Matt. xxii. 9 To bid beads, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.] -- To bid defiance to , to defy openly; to brave. -- To bid fair, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely.…

of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor. Thackeray.

l and coo, to interchange caresses; -- said of doves; also of demonstrative lovers. Thackeray.