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and rail. Methought Love pitying me, when he saw this, Gave me your hands, the backs and palms to kiss. Donne.

An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.

poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. Fuller.

To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms. I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke xvi. 3.

To adorn with gems, or as with gems. Begemmed with dewdrops. Sir W. Scott. Those lonely realms bright garden isles begem. Shelley.

One who makes it his business to ask alms.

In hell, or the regions of the dead. What businesss brought him to the realms below. Dryden.

ed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.

Motionless; destitute of breezes. A stagnant, breezeless air becalms my soul. Shenstone.

ifolia) having large and heavy blossoms. -- Cabbage tree, Cabbage palm, a name given to palms having a terminal bud called a cabbage, as the Sabal Palmetto of the United States, and the Euterpe oleracea and Oreodoxa oleracea of the West Indies. -- Cabbage worm (Zoöl.), the larva of several species of moths and butter…

Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.

A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Dæmanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.

A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.

Of or pertaining to charity; springing from, or intended for, charity; relating to almsgiving; elemosynary; as, a charitable institution.

Whatever is bestowed gratuitously on the needy or suffering for their relief; alms; any act of kindness. She did ill then to refuse her a charity. L'Estrange.

To give alms, sympathy, or aid. To do good and to communicate forget not. Heb. xiii. 16.

One who, or that which, quits or calms; one who adjust a difference. Sweet composes of the pensive sGay.

An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.

ause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment. On impious realms and barbarous kings impose Thy plagues, and curse 'em with such sons as those. Pope. To curse by bell, book, and candle. See under Bell.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like the palms, but having exogenous wood. The sago palm is an example.