Search the Dictionary

Same as Beild. Fairfax.

so the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee. Assembled been a senate grave and stout. Fairfax.

To beat soundly; to cudgel. Ajax belabors there a harmless ox. Dryden.

r (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.

A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.

A favor or benefit. [Obs.] Baxter.

A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity.

A resinous substance, dry and brittle, obtained from the Styrax benzoin, a tree of Sumatra, Java, etc., having a fragrant odor, and slightly aromatic taste. It is used in the preparation of benzoic acid, in medicine, and as a perfume.

e other than one of 90º. -- Bevel wheel, a cogwheel whose working face is oblique to the axis. Knight.

right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.

To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax.

Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is a similarity of parts on the right and left sides of the body.

A cheat; a trick; a hoax. Hudibras.

A pickax, or mattock. [Obs.]

One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax. "A billman of the guard." Savile.

, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed. The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings. Tennyson.

An ax with an edge or blade on each side of the handle.

The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.

[U. S.] If, by her bishop, or her "grace" alone, A genuine lady, or a church, is known. Saxe.

A truck for railroad rolling stock, consisting of two ordinary axle boxes sliding in guides attached to a triangular frame; -- called also pony truck.