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To furnish with a beacon or beacons.

Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate. Beaked whale (Zoöl.), a cetacean of the genus Hyperoodon; the bottlehead whale.

Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag. Tost his beamed frontlet to the sky. Sir W. Scott.

A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.

An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in…

he bedchamber, eight officers of the royal household, all of noble families, who wait in turn a week each. [Eng.] -- Ladies of the bedchamber, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar official position in the royal household, during the reign of a queen. [Eng.]

A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.

To furnish or deck with a frill.

To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe. Fuller.

Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone). [Obs.] Gower. Chaucer.

[Scot. & Prov. Eng.] [Also written bield and beeld.] The random beild o' clod or stane. Burns.

To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel. Totten.

on the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a…

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

To furnish with benches. 'T was benched with turf. Dryden. Stately theaters benched crescentwise. Tennyson.

To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline. "Bend thine ear to supplication." Milton. Towards Coventry bend we our course. Shak. Bending her eyes . . . upon her parent. Sir W. Scott.

To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task. Some virgin, sure, . . . benighted in these woods. Milton.

Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course. Bents and turns of the matter. Locke.

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