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ntic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.)

A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life. The whole intellectual battle that had at its center the best poem of the best poet of that day. H. Morley.

y be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden. A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast. Prov. xii. 10.

A father. [Obs.] Wyclif.

d beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish. The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke.

To embrace; to surround. [Obs.] Wyclif.

l matter, or a new character. The Lord God . . . breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen. ii. 7. That error now which is become my crime. Milton.

over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut. To the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea. Shak. Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime. Wordsworth.

Under the cognizance or jurisdiction of. If a suit be begun before an archdeacon. Ayliffe.

On this side of. [Obs.] Two miles behither Clifden. Evelyn.

al or spiritual, actual or ideal; living existence, as distinguished from a thing without life; as, a human being; spiritual beings. What a sweet being is an honest mind ! Beau. & Fl. A Being of infinite benevolence and power. Wordsworth.

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

A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.

the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view.

Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal. [R.] Animal and belluine life. Atterbury.

To mourn over. Wyclif.

To jut over; to overhang. There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully in the confined deep. Shak.

The form of instituting an abbot, answering to the consecration of a bishop. Ayliffe.

A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds. Ayliffe.

ss, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny Heber.