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An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak. Parker.

One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.

wed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare). [Obs. except in North of Eng. and Scot.]

tend by hammering. -- To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. "Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this 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 th…

One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts. -- Bed"ou*in*ism (, n.

A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier.

ht. It was a relief to dismiss them [Sir Roger's servants] into little beings within my manor. Steele.

Encircled by, or secured with, a belt; as, a belted plaid; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; as, a belted knight; a belted earl.

To place on a bench or seat of honor. Whom I . . . have benched and reared to worship. Shak.

A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.

To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny Heber.

ension; force of acting; energy; impetus. [Archaic] The full bent and stress of the soul. Norris.

he Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.

The Norway haddock. See Rosefish.

A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.

To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully. Shak.

To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known. Willing to serve or betray any government for hire. Macaulay.

myself and her. Shak. Betwixt and between, in a midway position; so-so; neither one thing nor the other. [Colloq.]

A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis.