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To mend; to repair. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera. Beetle mite (Zoöl.), one of many species of mites, of the family Oribatidæ, parasitic on beetles. -- Black beetle, the common large black cockroach (Blatta orientalis…

andle 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.

perior beauty and attractions; a handsome lady, or one who attracts notice in society; a fair lady.

A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid. [Obs.] Spenser.

, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. Bellows camera, in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like…

On the earth, as opposed to the heavens. The fairest child of Jove below. Prior.

seat, differing from a stool in its greater length. Mossy benches supplied the place of chairs. Sir W. Scott.

A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal.

A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit. Wild bergamot (Bot.), an American herb of the Mint family (Monarda fistulosa).

Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks. -- n.

d. Spectator. The garden is so beset with all manner of sweet shrubs that it perfumes the air. Evelyn.

he carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.

nd not to be mended." Milton. -- To get the best of, to gain an advantage over, whether fairly or unfairly. -- To make the best of. (a) To improve to the utmost; to use or dispose of to the greatest advantage. "Let there be freedom to carry their commodities where they can make the best of them." Bacon. (b) To reduce…

eater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air. Could make the worse appear The better reason. Milton.

An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural. [U. S.] Bouvier.

A beurré (or buttery) pear, one with the meas, Beurré d'Anjou; Beurré Clairgeau.

To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax.

Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice. Gray.

ch bead by a prayer. [Obs.] -- To bid defiance to , to defy openly; to brave. -- To bid fair, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely.