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A drunken spree. [Low, U. S.] Bartlett.

In a lower place; underneath. The earth you take from beneath will be barren. Mortimer.

To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny Heber.

The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. Bare benting times . . . may come. Dryden.

An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.

See Barberry.

,n.See Bear, barley. [Scot.]

See Barmaster.

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.

See Barmote.

See Barnacle.

A bernicle goose. [Written also barnacle.] Bernicle 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 s…

Comeliness. Baret.

th a besom. [Archaic or Poetic] Cowper. Rolls back all Greece, and besoms wide the plain. Barlow.

reduce to the least possible inconvenience; as, to make the best of ill fortune or a bad bargain.

and curse their king and their God. Is. viii. 21. Many far worse bestead than ourselves. Barrow.

earn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow.

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

A substance of a resinous nature, obtained from the outer bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor. Watts.

ree than; above, as in dignity, excellence, or quality of any kind. "Beyond expectation." Barrow. Beyond any of the great men of my country. Sir P. Sidney. Beyond sea. (Law) See under Sea. -- To go beyond, to exceed in ingenuity, in research, or in anything else; hence, in a bed sense, to deceive or circumvent. That n…