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On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill. A tall Brabanter, behind whom I stood. Bp. Hall.

Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use. No mean recompense it brings To your behoof. Milton.

redit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel. Thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers. Book of Com. Prayer.

On the earth, as opposed to the heavens. The fairest child of Jove below. Prior.

That which restrains or confines as a girdle. He cannot buckle his distempered cause Within the belt of rule. Shak.

tle originally from Dutch stock, having a broad band of white round the middle, while the rest of the body is black; -- called also blanketed cattle.

To apply closely or with interest; to direct. To bend his mind to any public business. Temple. But when to mischief mortals bend their will. Pope.

To take away from. [Obs.] All your interest in those territories Is utterly bereft you; all is lost. Shak.

-- with a reflexive pronoun. They betook themselves to treaty and submission. Burke. The rest, in imitation, to like arms Betook them. Milton. Whither shall I betake me, where subsist Milton.

of or that before the subject of thought. I have bethought me of another fault. Shak. The rest . . . may . . . bethink themselves, and recover. Milton. We bethink a means to break it off. Shak.

To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of. [Obs.] Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes. Milton.

Pieces of timber bolted to certain parts of a mast tp support the trestletrees.

language, or translated; the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; -- sometimes in a restricted sense, the Old Testament; as, King James's Bible; Douay Bible; Luther's Bible. Also, the book which is made up of writings similarly accepted by the Jews; as, a rabbinical Bible.

of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.

signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document. [Eng.]

and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on. Totten.

To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams. He bindeth the floods from overflowing. Job xxviii. 11. Whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years. Luke xiii. 16.

formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.

Fig.: Anything which curbs or restrains.

The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black. The black or sight of the eye. Sir K. Digby.