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A room for balls or dancing.

A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.

A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.

A substance used as a mordant. Ure.

cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice. Some dress, some dance, some play, not to forget Your piquet parties, and your dear basset. Rowe.

An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court. Mozley & W.

out real value; a cheap, showy plaything. The ineffective bauble of an Indian pagod. Sheridan.

A female dancer in the East Indies. [Written also bajadere.]

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

for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.

A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy.

To drug abundantly or excessively.

in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison.

As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough. Lloyd. King James told his son that he would have his bellyful of parliamentary impeachments. Johnson.

To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place belonging to . . . Bethsaids. Luke ix. 10. The mighty men which belonged to David. 1 Kings i. 8.

in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel.

A descendant of Benjamin; one of the tribe of Benjamin. Judg. iii. 15.

A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.

To set upon on all sides; to perplex; to harass; -- said of dangers, obstacles, etc. "Adam, sore beset, replied." Milton. "Beset with ills." Addison. "Incommodities which beset old age." Burke.

Befitting associates or attendants. [Obs.] With such accommodation and besort As levels with her breeding. Shak.