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The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.

, that he fainted, and wisbed in himself to die. Jonah iv. 8. Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers. Bacon.

Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woolen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats. Beaver rat (Zoöl.), an aquatic ratlike quadruped of Tasmania (Hydromys chrysogaster). -- Beaver skin, the furry skin of the beaver. -- Bank beaver. See under 1st Bank.

A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.

One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.

A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster.

er. -- Bone earth (Chem.), the earthy residuum after the calcination of bone, consisting chiefly of phosphate of calcium. -- Bone lace, a lace made of linen thread, so called because woven with bobbins of bone. -- Bone oil, an oil obtained by, heating bones (as in the manufacture of bone black), and remarkable for c…

trating the science of botany. -- Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots.

The minute marine animals (chiefly Entomostraca) upon which the right whales feed.

A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.

A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.

Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. "Burly sacks." Drayton. In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [he was] somewhat corpulent and burly. Sir T. More…

A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking. Johnson.

A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton. [Sometimes written camelot and camblet.]

dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor. "Golden canoniec and beds of state." Dryden.

Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See Vulcanization. Mineral caoutchouc. See under Mineral.

Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.

ubstance present in both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. In the animal kindom it is chiefly found in milk, and constitutes the main part of the curd separated by rennet; in the vegetable kingdom it is found more or less abundantly in the seeds of leguminous plants. Its reactions resemble those of alkali albumin.…

A hollow molding, chiefly in cornices.

A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves. The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste. Macaulay. To lose caste, to be degraded from the caste to which one has belonged; to lose social position or consideration.