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A trumpet. [Obs.]

One who keeps bees.

The past participle of Be. In old authors it is also the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee. Assembled been a senate grave and stout. Fairfax.

of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc. Small beer, weak beer; (fig.) insignificant matters. "To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer." Shak.

Sour beer. [Obs.]

A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse.

Beery condition.

Of or resembling beer; affected by beer; maudlin.

Same as Biestings.

The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed.

eeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee.

A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.

Same as Beetrave.

To mend; to repair. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ted to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine. Knight.

An overhanging brow.

Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen.

Dull; stupid. Shak.

A stupid fellow; a blockhead. Sir W. Scott.

The handle of a beetle.