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fferent species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.

on, or preliminary; previously; aforetime. They may be taught beforehand the skill of speaking. Hooker.

Formerly; aforetime. [They] dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.

charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms. I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke xvi. 3.

To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel. Totten.

a statement, or a doctrine. Our conqueror (whom I now Of force believe almighty). Milton. King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets Acts xxvi. Often followed by a dependent clause. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Acts viii. 37.

his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel. Thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers. Book of Com. Prayer.

or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells. Bell metal ore, a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron; the mineral stannite.

Having the striking surface convex; -- said of hammers.

The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare.

As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough. Lloyd. King James told his son that he would have his bellyful of parliamentary impeachments. Johnson.

lace belonging to . . . Bethsaids. Luke ix. 10. The mighty men which belonged to David. 1 Kings i. 8.

ank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality. "One degree below kings." Addison.

The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.

The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. [Obs.] Chaucer.

King. [Obs.] "A beneficial foe." B. Jonson.

r other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession. A feudatory or beneficiary king of England. Bacon.

f compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity.

iter, sulphur, and antimony, and producing a sustained and vivid colored light, used in making signals and in pyrotechnics; -- called also blue light. -- Bengal stripes, a kind of cotton cloth woven with colored stripes. See Bengal, 3. -- Bengal tiger. (Zoöl.). See Tiger.

lled oil plant. From their seeds an oil is expressed, called benne oil, used mostly for making soap. In the southern United States the seeds are used in candy.