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ork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland.

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.

Of or pertaining to the Netherlands or to Belgium.

To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander. Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him. Shak.

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

th a high gloss, which is sometimes iridescent. A very fine kind is made at Belleek in Ireland.

Good cheer; viands. [Obs.] "Bellycheer and banquets." Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." Milton.

The first day of May (Old Style). The quarter-days anciently in Scotland were Hallowmas, Candlemas, Beltane, and Lammas. New English Dict.

ins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel.

An estate in lands; a fief.

erior; having a dependent and secondary possession. A feudatory or beneficiary king of England. Bacon.

contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity.

Resembling bent. Holland.

To rate or chide vehemently; to scold. Holland. Motley.

hy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite.

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.

A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.

k by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce. Truth shall retire Bestuck with slanderous darts. Milton.

of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants. [Written also besant, byzant, etc.]

to exchange blows; to fight. [Obs.] Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together. Holland.