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Of or pertaining to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe; or to (b) as, a Batavian legion. Batavian Republic, the name given to Holland by the French after its conquest in 1795.

A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.

A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida).

day." South. -- To beat the dust. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. -- To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on foot. -- To beat the wing, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation. -- To beat time, to measure or regulate tim…

The duty or privilege of the marriage bed. Shak.

Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.

To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place belonging to . . . Bethsaids. Luke ix. 10. The mighty men which belonged to David. 1 Kings i. 8.

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

d, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.

That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift.

One of a class of legendary heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds. Longfellow.

A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages.

To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. Shak. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. Shak.

false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause. But when I rise, I shall find my legs betraying me. Johnson.

A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs.

Having two spurs, as the wing or leg of a bird.

Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches. Bentham.

Having two legs. Hooker.

The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another. Wharton.

A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.