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The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.

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.

orward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining. We can not be sure that there is no evidence behind. Locke.

In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.

Existence, as opposed to nonexistence; state or sphere of existence. In Him we live, and move, and have our being. Acts xvii. 28.

To beat soundly; to cudgel. Ajax belabors there a harmless ox. Dryden.

sil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related t…

A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.

The seat where judges sit in court. To pluck down justice from your awful bench. Shak.

r strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow. The green earth's end Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend. Milton.

At or during pleasure. For our English judges there never was . . . any bene placito as their tenure. F. Harrison.

advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit. I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them. Jer. xviii. 10.

A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.

ly deep and often broad, frequently occurring near the head of a mountain glacier, about where the névé field joins the valley portion of the glacier.

of the genus Trypeta, which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvæ do great injury.

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.

The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.

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.

Fit; suitable; becoming. [Archaic] In beseemly order sitten there. Shenstone.

r, or in what has been mentioned; moreover; in addition. The men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides Gen. xix. 12. To all beside, as much an empty shade, An Eugene living, as a Cæsar dead. Pope.