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ity of any kind. "Beyond expectation." Barrow. Beyond any of the great men of my country. Sir P. Sidney. Beyond sea. (Law) See under Sea. -- To go beyond, to exceed in ingenuity, in research, or in anything else; hence, in a bed sense, to deceive or circumvent. That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matt…

gnorant that there is a concealed bias within the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away. Sir W. Scott.

Having two heads; bicipital. "Bicipitous serpents." Sir T. Browne.

To build. [Scot. & North of Eng. Dial.] Sir W. Scott.

A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb. Sir W. Jones. -- n.

. Bouvier (b) Among merchants, a letter sent by an agent or other person to a merchant, desiring him to give credit to the bearer for goods or money. -- Bill of divorce, in the Jewish law, a writing given by the husband to the wife, by which the marriage relation was dissolved. Jer. iii. 8. -- Bill of entry, a writte…

g to birch. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower. Sir W. Scott.

To revolve or cause to revolve; to spin. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Of mean extraction. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

art of this noble lineage carried upon their body for a natural birthmark, . . . a snake. Sir T. North.

Bisexual. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Bisulcate. Sir T. Browne.

A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Having, or leading, two ways. Bivious theorems and Janus-faced doctrines. Sir T. Browne.

e. Bacon. That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers. Sir T. North.

n men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage. Sir W. Scott.

way or turns aside. [Obs.] And Gynecia, a blancher, which kept the dearest deer from her. Sir P. Sidney. And so even now hath he divers blanchers belonging to the market, to let and stop the light of the gospel. Latimer.

he sound produces at one breath. One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott. The blast of triumph o'er thy grave. Bryant.

Confounded; accursed; detestable. Some of her own blasted gypsies. Sir W. Scott.