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To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at. Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift.

Bravery; intrepidity; as, the troops behaved with great gallantry.

Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well- behaved; courteous; polite.

o you a shilling. [Colloq.] To go halves, to share with another equally. -- To go it, to behave in a wild manner; to be uproarious; to carry on; also, to proceed; to make progress. [Colloq.] -- To go it alone (Card Playing), to play a hand without the assistance of one's partner. -- To go it blind. (a) To act in a ra…

To behave with insolence; to exult. [Archaic] The lion being dead, even hares insult. Daniel. An unwillingness to insult over their helpless fatuity. Landor.

an intemperate manner; immoderately; excessively; without restraint. The people . . . who behaved very unwisely and intemperately on that occasion. Burke.

To carry improperly; to carry (one's self) wrongly; to misbehave. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To conduct amiss; to mismanage. Johnson. To misconduct one's self, to behave improperly.

To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.

To behave like pagans. Milton.

To behave with pertness. [Obs.] Gauden.

To act; to behave; to practice deception. His mother played false with a smith. Shak.

e care of an instructor or tutor. Too far in years to be a pupil now. Shak. Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils. L'Estrange.

ng rule. See under Conposing. As a rule, as a general thing; in the main; usually; as, he behaves well, as a rule. -- Board rule, Caliber rule,etc. See under Board, Caliber, etc. -- Rule joint, a knuckle joint having shoulders that abut when the connected pieces come in line with each other, and thus permit folding i…

To treat; to behave one's self to; to requite; to act toward; as, he served me very ill.

Strangely; oddly; as, to behave singularly.

To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch.

To behave or move in a lively or restless manner, as an impatient horse; to caper; to prance; to frisk. Kipling.

fortitude under the evils of life; to have patience under pain, or under misfortunes; to behave like a Christian under reproaches and injuries; under the pains and penalties of the law; the condition under which one enters upon an office; under the necessity of obeying the laws; under vows of chastity.…

To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat; as, to use a beast cruelly. "I will use him well." Shak. How wouldst thou use me now Milton. Cato has used me ill. Addison.