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Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course. Bents and turns of the matter. Locke.

To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil. Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser.

To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes. [R.] Gower.

Befitting associates or attendants. [Obs.] With such accommodation and besort As levels with her breeding. Shak.

To sprinkle over; to scatter over. The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden.

tly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.

To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [Spelt also bestrow.] Milton.

Torn in pieces; tattered.

nterferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters.

, Between you and me, Between themselves, in confidence; with the understanding that the matter is not to be communicated to others.

ed sense, to deceive or circumvent. That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter. 1 Thess. iv. 6.

To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame. They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade. Thomson.

A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blin…

the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.

nge (Com.), a written order or request from one person or house to another, desiring the latter to pay to some person designated a certain sum of money therein generally is, and, to be negotiable, must be, made payable to order or to bearer. So also the order generally expresses a specified time of payment, and that it…

The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.

A name suggested by Dr. Beale for the germinal matter supposed to be essential to the functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.

An orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus Neottia (N. nidus-avis.) Bird's-nest pudding, a pudding containing apples whose cores have been replaces by sugar. -- Yellow bird's nest, a plant, the Monotropa hypopitys.

Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention. Bacon.

nd groups are formed in miniature. Meat biscuit, an alimentary preparation consisting of matters extracted from meat by boiling, or of meat ground fine and combined with flour, so as to form biscuits.