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ing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.

their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him. Clarendon.

In the manner of a bastard; spuriously. [Obs.] Shak. Donne.

Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.

ss or a mouth like a beak; rostrate. Beaked whale (Zoöl.), a cetacean of the genus Hyperoodon; the bottlehead whale.

To make bloody; to stain with blood. [Obs.] Sheldon.

A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.

To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf. Donne.

r P. Sidney. Against whom he had contracted some prejudice in behalf of his nation. Clarendon. In behalf of, in the interest of. -- On behalf of, on account of; on the part of.

Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.

A benefit conferred; esp. a charitable donation.

Having no benefice. "Beneficeless precisians." Sheldon.

An act of kindness; good done; charity given.

A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.

proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit. A duty well beseeming the preachers. Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God Hocker.

; out of the regular course or order of; in a state of deviation from; out of. [You] have done enough To put him quite beside his patience. Shak.

To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

To expose; to reveal; to disclose; to betray. [Obs. or Archaic] The murder being once done, he is in less fear, and in more hope that the deed shall not be bewrayed or known. Robynson (More's Utopia. ) Thy speech bewrayeth thee. Matt. xxvi. 73.

price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).

An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.