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To beat soundly; to cudgel. Ajax belabors there a harmless ox. Dryden.

To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade. The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. Longfellow.

A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.

Mighty in war; armipotent. [R.] Blount.

In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath. Lord Marmion waits below. Sir W. Scott.

See Barmaster.

See Barmote.

the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.

To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset. Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost. Shak.

. They betook themselves to treaty and submission. Burke. The rest, in imitation, to like arms Betook them. Milton. Whither shall I betake me, where subsist Milton.

An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square. Gwilt.

To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery. See how I am bewitched; behold, mine arm Is like a blasted sapling withered up. Shak.

The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination. There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words. South.

Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming. -- Be*witch"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*witch"ing*ness, n.

The power of bewitching or charming. Shak.

A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.

biceps muscle; as, bicipital furrows, the depressions on either side of the biceps of the arm.

A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.