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To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill.

Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. A gentleman that is very singular in his behavior. Steele. To be upon one's good behavior, To be put upon…

That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak.

Most intimately; most thoroughly or correctly; as, what is expedient is best known to himself.

to behave; -- followed by a reflexive pronoun. [Obs.] How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night in his true colors, and not ourselves be seen Shak.

ose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin. Genius . . . often betrays itself into great errors. T. Watts.

cally, financially, socially, or otherwise. The constant effort of every man to better himself. Macaulay.

given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters.

From one to another of; mutually affecting. There was some speech of marriage Betwixt myself and her. Shak. Betwixt and between, in a midway position; so-so; neither one thing nor the other. [Colloq.]

An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.

ulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.

the money is directed to be paid is called the payee. The person making the order may himself be the payee. The bill itself is frequently called a draft. See Exchange. Chitty. -- Bill of fare, a written or printed enumeration of the dishes served at a public table, or of the dishes (with prices annexed) which may be…

by affection; commerce binds nations to each other. Who made our laws to bind us, not himself. Milton.

functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.

A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.

ngs. B. Jonson. Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself. Addison.

One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale. "Avoided as a blab." Milton. For who will open himself to a blab or a babbler. Bacon.

, calumny. To remove as far as he can the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen. C. Kingsley.

The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.

had in scorn. Milton. How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge thyself on all those who thus continually blaspheme thy great and all-glorious name Dr. W. Beveridge.