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To beg. [Obs.] B. Jonson. Beau. & Fl.

Appetite; inclination. [Obs.] Unless you had more maw to do me good. Beau. & Fl. Fish maw. (Zoöl.) See under Fish.

ally believed that the Mohammedans worshiped images representing Mohammed. [Obs.] Wyclif. Beau. & Fl.

To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

An ancient form of ordnance, the caliber of which was about three inches. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses.

The old name of the jack at bowls. Beau. & Fl. To be one's own mistress, to be exempt from control by another person.

To afflict; to distress. [Obs.] Which infinitely moans me. Beau. & Fl.

nor; -- said of a woman. Mrs. Ford, the honest woman, the modest wife. Shak. The blushing beauties of a modest maid. Dryden.

an estate, of goods, or of profits; the moiety of a jury, or of a nation. Shak. The more beautiful moiety of his majesty's subject. Addison.

st; to cause to crumble; to cause to waste away. [Time's] gradual touch Has moldered into beauty many a tower. Mason.

The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty. [R.] A. Drummond. Le beau monde Etym: [F.], fashionable society. See Beau monde. -- Demi monde. See Demimonde.

A made-up face; a grimace. "What mops and mowes it makes!" Beau. & Fl.

A sword. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

st Indian, many species of which yield valuable red and yellow dyes. The wood is hard and beautiful, and used for gunstocks.

lors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients. A very beautiful mosaic pavement. Addison. Florentine mosaic. See under Florentine. -- Mosaic gold. (a) See Ormolu. -- (b) Stannic sulphide, SnS2, obtained as a yellow scaly crystalline powder, and used as a pigment in bronzing and gil…

A puppet show or puppet. [Obs.] What motion's this the model of Nineveh Beau. & Fl.

Hence, a jester, a fool. [Obs.] Shak. Man of motley, a fool. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

ral. -- Mountain ash (Bot.), an ornamental tree, the Pyrus (Sorbus) Americana, producing beautiful bunches of red berries. Its leaves are pinnate, and its flowers white, growing in fragrant clusters. The European species is the P. aucuparia, or rowan tree. -- Mountain barometer, a portable barometer, adapted for safe…

Money; -- in contempt. The fatal muck we quarreled for. Beau. & Fl. Muck bar, bar iron which has been through the rolls only once. -- Muck iron, crude puddled iron ready for the squeezer or rollers. Knight.