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bearing. Chaucer. Can you not see or will ye not observe . . . How insolent of late he is become, How proud, how peremptory Shak.

ement in the method. The resemblance between what originally was a habit, and an instinct becomes so close as not to be distinguished. Darwin.

und; to organize; as, to institute a court, or a society. Whenever any from of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government. Jefferson (Decl. of Indep. ).

ns to an end. South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke.

person upon whose life a risk is taken dies before a certain specified time the insurance becomes due at once, and if he survives, it becomes due at the time specified. -- Fire insurance. See under Fire. -- Insurance broker, a broker or agent who effects insurance. -- Insurance company, a company or corporation whos…

To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.

To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.

To become connected by marriage between their members; to give and take mutually in marriage; -- said of families, ranks, castes, etc. About the middle of the fourth century from the building of Rome, it was declared lawful for nobles and plebeians to intermarry. Swift.

To be twined or twisted together; to become mutually involved or enfolded.

The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties.

ess of receiving within. The person is corrupted by the introsusception of a nature which becomes evil thereby. Coleridge.

To be or to become intwined.

pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress. [Obs.] Which becomes a body, and doth then invade The state of life, out of the grisly shade. Spenser.

Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc.

To cause to become or appear vulgar. [Obs.] Daniel.

A native of Ireland who has become an American citizen; also, a child or descendant of such a person.

corroded; -- said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten with rust that she has become leaky.

To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island or islands of; to isle. Shelley.

To cause to become an island, or like an island; to surround or encompass; to island. [Poetic] Isled in sudden seas of light. Tennyson.

called Israel. And Jacob said . . . with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands. Gen. xxxii. 9, 10. Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel. Gen. xxxii. 28. Jacob's ladder. (a) (Bot.) A perennial herb of the genus Polemonium (P. coeruleum), having corymbs of drooping flowers, usual…