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To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse. "Deep himself beducked." Spenser.

In presence or sight of; face to face with; facing. Abraham bowed down himself before the people. Gen. xxiii. 12. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord Micah vi. 6.

To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself. Milton.

To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill.

Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used 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…

That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak.

A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.

A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in. Berth deck, the deck next below the lower gun deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- To give (the land or any object) a wide berth, to keep at a distance from it.

Most intimately; most thoroughly or correctly; as, what is expedient is best known to himself.

o behave; -- followed by a reflexive pronoun. [Obs.] How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night in his true colors, and not ourselves be seen Shak.

se to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin. Genius . . . often betrays itself into great errors. T. Watts.

ally, financially, socially, or otherwise. The constant effort of every man to better himself. Macaulay.

iven to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters.

From one to another of; mutually affecting. There was some speech of marriage Betwixt myself and her. Shak. Betwixt and between, in a midway position; so-so; neither one thing nor the other. [Colloq.]

An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.

lent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.

the money is directed to be paid is called the payee. The person making the order may himself be the payee. The bill itself is frequently called a draft. See Exchange. Chitty. -- Bill of fare, a written or printed enumeration of the dishes served at a public table, or of the dishes (with prices annexed) which may be o…

by affection; commerce binds nations to each other. Who made our laws to bind us, not himself. Milton.

unctions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.

A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.