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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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27,182 words match “BE”

A sweet or loving look. [Obs.] Spenser.

BELGIAN a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to Belgium. -- n.

BELGIAN BLOCK n.

A nearly cubical block of some tough stone, esp. granite, used as a material for street pavements. Its usual diameter is 5 to 7 inches.

BELGIC a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to the Belgæ, a German tribe who anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean. How unlike their Belgic sires of old. Goldsmith.

Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.

icked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil. What concord hath Christ with Belia 2 Cor. vi. 15. A son (or man) of Belial, a worthless, wicked, or thoroughly depraved person. 1 Sam. ii. 12.

To libel or traduce; to calumniate. Fuller.

BELIE v. 5 definitions

To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood. Their trembling hearts belie their boastful tongues. Dryden.

BELIEF n. 4 definitions

without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses. Belief admits of all degrees, from the slightest suspicion to the fullest assurance. Reid.

Having belief or faith.

Capable of being believed; credible. -- Be*liev"a*ble*ness, n. -- Be*liev`a*bil"i*ty (, n.

BELIEVE v. 3 definitions

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to b…

BELIEVER n. 3 definitions

One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.

That believes; having belief. -- Be*liev"ing*ly, adv.

To illuminate. [Obs.] Cowley.

It is likely or probably; perhaps. [Obs. or Archaic] -- Be*like"ly, adv. Belike, boy, then you are in love. Shak.

To besmear or insnare with birdlime.

To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.

Forthwith; speedily; quickly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To vomit. [Obs.]