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To maul or beat severely; to bruise. "In order to bemaul Yorick." Sterne.

To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up. Bemuffled with the externals of religion. Sterne.

newing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called also Egyptian clover.

an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.

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.

f science bi- in composition denotes two, twice, or doubly; as, bidentate, two-toothed; biternate, doubly ternate, etc.

Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile. Prescott.

The bell, or boom, of the bittern The bittern's hollow bill was heard. Wordsworth.

A small paper; a note; a short letter. "I got your melancholy billet." Sterne.

A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off.

In the Southern and Southwestern States, a small silver coin (as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12 1/2 cents; also, the sum of 12 1/2 cents. Bit my bit, piecemeal. Pope.

Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Col. iii. 19.

the butterbump or bittern.

Full of bitterness. [Obs.]

A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern.

The bittern. Dryden.

rcular and irregular forms, as felloes, gun stocks, lasts, spokes, etc., after a given pattern. The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel tr…

The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped. Hence: The pattern on shape of a hat. He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. Shak.

A chain in which the alternate links are broad blocks connected by thin side links pivoted to the ends of the blocks, used with sprocket wheels to transmit power, as in a bicycle.

A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States.