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uthwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called also Egyptian clover.

uch beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by…

The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin. "Fearing a besetment." Kane.

A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.

To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise.

A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial. [Scot.]

To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [Spelt also bestrow.] Milton.

A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beetroot molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.

A bright star of the first magnitude, near one shoulder of Orion. [Written also Betelgeux and Betelgeuse.]

A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open. [Written also bettee.] The powerful betty, or the artful picklock. Arbuthnot.

of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor. Watts.

y angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square. Gwilt.

A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes.

A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis.

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

An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout.

restricted sense, the Old Testament; as, King James's Bible; Douay Bible; Luther's Bible. Also, the book which is made up of writings similarly accepted by the Jews; as, a rabbinical Bible.

A great drinker; a tippler. [Written also bibbler and bibbeler.]

blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice. Green bice is prepared from the blue, by adding yellow orpiment, or by grinding down the green carbonate of copper. Cooley. Brande & C.

consisting of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; -- called also dichloride. Bichloride of mercury, mercuric chloride; -- sometimes called corrosive sublimate.