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on; to take the first step; to start. "Tears began to flow." Dryden. When I begin, I will also make an end. 1 Sam. iii. 12.

To bury; also, to engrave. [Obs.] Gower.

hether 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 one's good behavior,…

or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work. In this also [dress] the country are very much behindhand. Addison.

The act of seeing; sight; also, that which is beheld. Shak.

ence; -- mostly used impersonally. And thus it behooved Christ to suffer. Luke xxiv. 46. [Also written behove.]

A place of shelter; protection; refuge. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] [Also written bield and beeld.] The random beild o' clod or stane. Burns.

The act of belching; also, that which is belched; an eructation.

mises are wholly trustworthy. "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me." John xiv. 1. (c) To believe that the qualities or effects of an action or state are beneficial: as, to believe in sea bathing, or in abstinence from alcoholic beverages. -- To believe on, to accept implicitly as an o…

That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.

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

It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view.

agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade.

a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.

A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple. [Written also bellefleur.]

A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton.

s scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.

or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town. Bastards also are settled in the parishes to which the mothers belong. Blackstone.

A lewd man; also, a bully. [Obs.] Dryden.

ng a broad band of white round the middle, while the rest of the body is black; -- called also blanketed cattle.