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Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.

black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.

The second joint of the antennæ of crustaceans.

The quality or state of being a base.

pertaining to the bone in the base of the cranium, frequently forming a part of the occipital in the adult, but usually distinct in the young. -- n.

The basal joint of the legs of Crustacea.

A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.

Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.

See Bauxite.

An inhabitant of a madhouse; a madman. "Raving bedlamites." Beattie.

The duty or privilege of the marriage bed. Shak.

a room for a bed. Of the three bedrooms, two have fireplaces, and all are of fair size, with windows and bedsite well placed. Quart. Rev.

Stupid; dull. Shak.

To be suitable to; to suit; to become. That name best befits thee. Milton.

Suitable; proper; becoming; fitting.

In a befitting manner; suitably.

On this side of. [Obs.] Two miles behither Clifden. Evelyn.

A fine genius, or man of wit. "A man of letters and a bel esprit." W. Irving.

A conical calcareous fossil, 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 o…

To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.