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Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate; as, a berried shrub.

To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company. Totten.

Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.

To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle. [Obs.] Carlyle.

he side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line. Being ignorant that there is a concealed bias within the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away. Sir W. Scott.

Furnished with, or having, two bracts.

long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute.

ich one will give for something to be received, or will take for something to be done or furnished; that which is offered.

Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in composition; as, broad-billed.

r balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood. "Potato bings." Burns. "A bing of corn." Surrey. [Obs. or Dial. Eng. & Scot.]

Birchen; as, birken groves. Burns.

A lively or mettlesome fellow. [Jocular, Scot.] Burns.

is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense. "The birthplace of valor." Burns.

tual overseer, superintendent, or director. Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. 1 Pet. ii. 25. It is a fact now generally recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the church is called ind…

A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned by means of a brace or bitstock. See Bitstock.

t; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground. The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned and turned with nothing to bite. Dickens. To bite the dust, To bite the ground, to fall in the agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust. -- To bite in (Etchi…

AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts. Bitter end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.

Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt.

coal which yields, when heated, a considerable amount of volatile bituminous matter. It burns with a yellow smoky flame. -- Bituminous limestone, a mineral of a brown or black color, emitting an unpleasant smell when rubbed. That of Dalmatia is so charged with bitumen that it may be cut like soap. -- Bituminous shal…