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A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.

lute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial. Macaulay.

The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe. [Scot.]

The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine.

"Her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father." Shak. "The estate of a bedridden old gentleman." Macaulay.

A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine. Knight.

me or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in. Books falling to pieces and begrimed with dust. Macaulay.

mport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively. Those that behaved themselves manfully. 2 Macc. ii. 21.

To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct. I belched a hurricane of wind. Swift.

l pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.

An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. Bellows camera, in photography, a form of ca…

er, food. [Ludicrous] Prior. -- Belly worm, a worm that breeds or lives in the belly (stomach or intestines). Johnson.

cular ridge or series of ridges. Belt lacing, thongs used for lacing together the ends of machine belting.

The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively.

is bound in honor not to make known. Willing to serve or betray any government for hire. Macaulay.

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

An Indian monkey (Macacus Rhesus), protected by the Hindoos as sacred. See Rhesus.

party, belief, or opinion. To doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and believe. Macaulay.

Choleric; passionate; ill tempered. "A bilious old nabob." Macaulay. Bilious temperament. See Temperament.

nd of a long staff. France had no infantry that dared to face the English bows end bills. Macaulay.