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To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.

Grandmother; -- corresponding to belsire. To show the beldam daughters of her daughter. Shak.

maintenance by the parish or town. Bastards also are settled in the parishes to which the mothers belong. Blackstone.

and of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.

Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit. Men have no right to what is not for their benefit. Burke.

n to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness. The wakeful benevolence of the gospel. Chalmers.

g a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. -- Be*nev"o*lent*ly, adv.

; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions.

To rate or chide vehemently; to scold. Holland. Motley.

To allow; to permit; to suffer. [Obs.] So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Shak.

To put in violent motion; to agitate; to disturb; to toss. "My betossed soul." Shak.

Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two. If things should go so between them. Bacon.

To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.

To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.

Rent open by an explosive. The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote. Wordsworth.

A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift. Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed. Milton.

ed at one end; a cul-de-sac. -- Blind axle, an axle which turns but does not communicate motion. Knight. -- Blind beetle, one of the insects apt to fly against people, esp. at night. -- Blind cat (Zoöl.), a species of catfish (Gronias nigrolabris), nearly destitute of eyes, living in caverns in Pennsylvania. -- Bli…

A small fish (Amblyopsis spelæus) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.

or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of shi…

lationship through only one parent. -- Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole blood. Bouvier. Peters.