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The common beet (Beta vulgaris).

A beef; a beef creature. They would knock down the first beeve they met with. W. Irving.

; plural of Beef, the animal.

Although; albeit. [Obs.] Albe Clarissa were their chiefest founderess. Spenser.

A bark beetle that feeds on ambrosia.

A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidæ), which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.

Same as Bawbee.

A halfpenny. [Spelt also baubee.] [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodioei). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine. [Written also bibirine.]

tropical South American tree (Nectandra Rodioi), the bark of which yields the alkaloid bebeerine, and the wood of which is known as green heart.

The first milk given by a cow after calving. B. Jonson. The thick and curdy milk . . . commonly called biestings. Newton. (1574).

A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio.

Beer kept unbroached until it is sharp. Crabb.

A strong beer, originally made in Bavaria. [Also written buck beer.]

Pickled or canned beef.

A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; -- so named from its sound.

The ladybird. [Prov. Eng.]

Of or pertaining to the Caribs, to their islands (the eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sa) lying between those islands and Central America.

A Carib.

See Elater.