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Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.

An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense. Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder. Locke. The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole…

some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character. The Lord God . . . breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen. ii. 7. That error now which is become my crime. Milton.…

Proper; decorous. [Obs.] And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.

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

The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.

from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosæ). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.

A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse. Abp. Tillotson.

er, with which bees cement the combs to the hives, and close up the cells; -- called also propolis. -- Bee hawk (Zoöl.), the honey buzzard. -- Bee killer (Zoöl.), a large two-winged fly of the family Asilidæ (esp. Trupanea apivora) which feeds upon the honeybee. See Robber fly. -- Bee louse (Zoöl.), a minute, wingle…

Suitable; proper; becoming; fitting.

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

n one's good behavior, to be in a state of trial, in which something important depends on propriety of conduct. -- During good behavior, while (or so long as) one conducts one's self with integrity and fidelity or with propriety.

In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some other person or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work. In this also [dress] the country are very much behindhand. Addison.…

Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the…

onqueror (whom I now Of force believe almighty). Milton. King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets Acts xxvi. Often followed by a dependent clause. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Acts viii. 37.

The process of washing molten pig iron by adding iron oxide, proposed by I. Lowthian Bell of England about 1875.

it are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade.

To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.

Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt.

A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.