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The religious tenets or practices of the Bahais.

used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.

Balloon frame (Carp.), a house frame constructed altogether of small timber. -- Balloon net, a variety of woven lace in which the weft threads are twisted in a peculiar manner around the warp.

Incapable of being penetrated by balls from firearms.

uments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals.

usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.

A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers.

The whole body of barons or peers. The baronage of the kingdom. Bp. Burnet.

A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle- green particles of olivine frequently disseminated.

An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.

ed by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.

flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.

ating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise.

of the bee beetle. See Illust. of Bee beetle. -- To have a bee in the head or in the bonnet. (a) To be choleric. [Obs.] (b) To be restless or uneasy. B. Jonson. (c) To be full of fancies; to be a little crazy. "She's whiles crack-brained, and has a bee in her head." Sir W. Scott.

An Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland.

woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.

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 one's good behavior, to be in a state of trial, in which something important depends on propriety of conduct.…

Of or pertaining to the Netherlands or to Belgium.

A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed. In the heat of persecution to which Christian belief was subject upon its first promulgation. Hooker. Ultimate belief, a first principle incapable of proof; an intuitive truth; an intuition. Sir W. Hamilton.…

One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.