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A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.

Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th. Shak.

A large subdivision of fungi coördinate with the Ascomycetes, characterized by having the spores borne on a basidium. It embraces those fungi best known to the public, such as mushrooms, toadstools, etc.

A group of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails.

An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line.

The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.

A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and an exhausting syringe. Dunglison.

An order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams.

A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber. [Amer.]

Fem. of Beadsman.

To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional 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…

Proper; decorous. [Obs.] And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.

Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray.

In a becoming manner.

The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.

A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.

A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future. Encyc. Brit.

To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing. Thackeray.

A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.

A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys. [Archaic or Fig.] I will sweep it with the besom of destruction. Isa. xiv. 23. The housemaid with her besom. W. Irving.