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Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights.

ish or town. Bastards also are settled in the parishes to which the mothers belong. Blackstone.

; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii. 19. Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies. Pope.

is death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.

Fit; suitable; becoming. [Archaic] In beseemly order sitten there. Shenstone.

Sprinkled over; strewed. His face besprent with liquid crystal shines. Shenstone. The floor with tassels of fir was besprent. Longfellow.

he slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.

A fight with stones between two parties of boys. [Scot.] Jamieson.

o bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts. Biliary calculus (Med.), a gallstone, or a concretion formed in the gall bladder or its duct.

A brownish green pigment found in human gallstones and in old bile. It is a derivative of bilirubin.

A dark green pigment found in small quantity in human gallstones.

nt of volatile bituminous matter. It burns with a yellow smoky flame. -- Bituminous limestone, a mineral of a brown or black color, emitting an unpleasant smell when rubbed. That of Dalmatia is so charged with bitumen that it may be cut like soap. -- Bituminous shale, an argillaceous shale impregnated with bitumen, o…

Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery. [Colloq.] Blarney stone, a stone in Blarney castle, Ireland, said to make those who kiss it proficient in the use of blarney.

wling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. "Harsh and blatant tone." R. H. Dana. A monster, which the blatant beast men call. Spenser. Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. W. Irving.

; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. Irving.

ing of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc. Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning.…

A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools.

r; manslaughter; destruction. So wills the fierce, avenging sprite, Till blood for blood atones. Hood.

Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.