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yer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon.

audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud. Jer. Taylor. Audit ale, a kind of ale, brewed at the English universities, orig. for the day of audit. -- Audit house, Audit room, an appendage to a cathedral, for the transaction of its business.

f polarization, the central line around which the prismatic rings or curves are arranged. Brewster. -- Axis of revolution (Descriptive Geom.), a straight line about which some line or plane is revolved, so that the several points of the line or plane shall describe circles with their centers in the fixed line, and the…

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. Hop back, Jack back, the cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper. -- Wash back, a vat in which distillers ferment…

To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes. Shak.

To mix or adulterate, as liquors. The wine merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeon's dung and quicklime. Smollett.

nominational organization of Bible classes of young men; -- so named in allusion to the Hebrew word Berachah (Meaning blessing) occurring in 2 Chron. xx. 26 and 1 Chron. xii.

n beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast. Shak.

A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure.

y, straw, leaves, or twigs. And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed. Byron. I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds. Shak. In bed he slept not for my urging it. Shak.

Moist with dew; dewy. [Obs.] Night with her bedewy wings. A. Brewer.

a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff. Brewer.

The Babylonian name of the god known among the Hebrews as Baal. See Baal. Baruch vi. 41.

Having two axes; as, biaxial polarization. Brewster. -- Bi*ax"i*al*ly, adv.

Adapted to the use of both eyes; as, a binocular microscope or telescope. Brewster.

A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer. Cooley.

A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints. W. H. Ward. 2 Kings vi. 25.

The Hebrew plural of Cherub.. Cf. Seraphim.

A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.

The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah.