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A belt. See Baldric.

xist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, -- a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three…

light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine. That beacons the darkness of heaven. Campbell.

The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. (c) pl.

orce; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do. Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below. Dryden. They [winds] beat at the crazy casement. Longfellow. The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wisbed in himself to die. Jonah iv. 8. Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers. Bacon.…

Beautiful; embellished. [Poetic] Shak.

To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish. The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke.

The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona. Oxf. Gloss.

Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse. "The bedlam, brainsick duchess." Shak.

Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech. "Plain beechen vessels." Dryden.

The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Squatarola helvetica). See Plover.

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.

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

Below, as opposed to heaven, or to any superior region or position; as, in earth beneath.

A solemn rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water, and formally dedicated to God.

One who believes in Benthamism.

goose (Zoöl.), a goose (Branta leucopsis), of Arctic Europe and America. It was formerly believed that it hatched from the cirripeds of the sea (Lepas), which were, therefore, called barnacles, goose barnacles, or Anatifers. The name is also applied to other related species. See Anatifa and Cirripedia.…

A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.

of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in. Berth deck, the deck next below the lower gun deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- To give (the land or any object) a wide berth, to keep at a distance from it.

rround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset. Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost. Shak.