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A beacon. [Obs.] Burrill.

To astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary statements. [Jocular] Beaconsfield.

One given to gossip. Beaconsfield.

r the top. He hailed a cruising hansom . . . " 'Tis the gondola of London," said Lothair. Beaconsfield.

The act or management of one who jockeys; trickery. Beaconsfield.

he surface; touching lightly; gliding over. "A lambent flame." Dryden. "A lambent style." Beaconsfield.

A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans. The millions of the loanmonger. Beaconsfield.

Made slow and heavy in movement; water-logged. Beaconsfield.

To take luncheon. Beaconsfield.

Wet; moist; as, a madid eye. [R.] Beaconsfield.

Pertaining to mediation; used in mediation; as, mediative efforts. Beaconsfield.

ominal sovereignty, and its prince his rank. The misfortune of being a mediatized prince. Beaconsfield.

To have in mind; to purpose. Beaconsfield. I mind to tell him plainly what I think. Shak.

f credit; as, to pay money on the nail. "You shall have ten thousand pounds on the nail." Beaconsfield. -- To hit the nail on the head, to hit most effectively; to do or say a thing in the right way.

earth Shall be all paradise. Milton. Wrapt in the very paradise of some creative vision. Beaconsfield.

Inclined to eat; hungry. [Colloq.] "When shall I feel peckish again" Beaconsfield.

A beacon tower; a lighthouse. [Obs.]

A lighthouse or beacon for the guidance of seamen. He . . . built a pharos, or lighthouse. Arbuthnot.

A miner who works with a pick. Beaconsfield.

To vote at an election. Beaconsfield.