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Fig.: A spy or detective; a constable.

The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans. Bean aphis (Zoöl.), a plant louse (Aphis fabæ) which infests the bean plant. -- Bean fly (Zoöl.), a fly found on bean flowers. -- Bean goose (Zoöl.), a species of goose (Anser segetum). -- Bean weevil (Zoöl.), a small weevil tha…

To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.

To suit or be suitable to; to be congruous with; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things. It becomes me so to speak of so excellent a poet. Dryden. I have known persons so anxious to have their dress become them, as…

Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray.

A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.

A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling.

ot of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.

To be suitable to; to suit; to become. That name best befits thee. Milton.

Suitable; proper; becoming; fitting.

In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded. Rich and much beforehand. Bacon.

In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9.

A 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.

Supplying need; profitable; advantageous. [Obs.] Udall.

To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due. Chaucer.

Advantageous; useful; profitable. [Archaic] -- Be*hoove"ful*ly, adv. -- Be*hoove"ful*ness, n. [Archaic]

To be suitable for; to be due to. Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age. Heb. v. 14. No blame belongs to thee. Shak.

A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.

A benefit conferred; esp. a charitable donation.

The quality of being beneficial; profitableness.