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A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers. [Written also, but less properly, batteau.] Bateau bridge, a floating bridge supported by bateaux.

a bank; receding slope. Batter rule, an instrument consisting of a rule or frame, and a plumb line, by which the batter or slope of a wall is regulated in building.

A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.

To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine. That beacons the darkness of heaven. Campbell.

A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat. How far that little candle throws his beams ! Shak.

with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum.

To libel or traduce; to calumniate. Fuller.

To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander. Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him. Shak.

To illuminate. [Obs.] Cowley.

That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.

of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presen…

To shine upon; to ullumine.

To asperse with calumny or reproach. Whom never faction could bespatter. Swift.

inhabiting New Guinea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers.

o the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spæt'lum.

protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.

Plumbago; graphite.It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.

One of an old and well-known Mediterranean breed of domestic fowls with glossy black plumage, blue legs and feet, bright red comb and wattles, and white face. They are remarkable as egg layers.

A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, 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 black-tailed deer (Cervus or Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer.