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on of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.

To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances. When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so little the figure of a man that it bespoke him rather a monster. Locke.

To mark with speckles or spots. Milton.

To mark with spots, or as with spots.

To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce. Truth shall retire Bestuck with slanderous darts. Milton.

how by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm.

A substance of a resinous nature, obtained from the outer bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor. Watts.

A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes.

A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei.

To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle. Petty things about which men cark and bicker. Barrow.

A fish of the genus Priacanthus, remarkable for the large size of the eye.

A dark green pigment found in small quantity in human gallstones.

A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.

Having, or marked with, two spots.

Mica containing iron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See Mica.

A birch-bark canoe. Birch of Jamaica, a species (Bursera gummifera) of turpentine tree. -- Birch partridge. (Zoöl.) See Ruffed grouse. -- Birch wine, wine made of the spring sap of the birch. -- Oil of birch. (a) An oil obtained from the bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), and used in the preparation of…

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

a and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers.

Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple.

An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares. Not birdlime or Idean pitch produce A more tenacious mass of clammy…