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To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due. Chaucer.

as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade. The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. Longfellow.

y broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretace…

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

Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.

A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age.

A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.

A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length. Mossy benches supplied the place of chairs. Sir W. Scott.

d with benediction. Milton. Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. Longfellow. Specifically:

Blessed. [R.] Longfellow.

Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.

A long pole with a spike at the end, used in climbing mountains; an alpenstock.

The large white lily (Lilium longiflorum eximium, syn. L. Harrisii) which is extensively cultivated in Bermuda.

A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.

ary heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds. Longfellow.

A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in. Berth deck, the deck next below the lower gun deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- To give (the land or any object) a wide berth, to keep at a distance from it.

sprent with liquid crystal shines. Shenstone. The floor with tassels of fir was besprent. Longfellow.

Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts. Among the bestial herds to range. Milton.

marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance. "The feast of betrothal." Longfellow.

Belonging in common to two; shared by both. Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them. Locke.