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One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person.

An apron or covering for the front of the person. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii. 19. Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies. Pope.

ament; -- said especially of personal property. My heritage, which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak.

Capable of being bequeathed.

The act of bequeathing; bequeathment; bequest. Fuller.

The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest.

Furnished with, or having, two bracts.

Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells.

A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.

to cry like a sheep or calf. Then suddenly was heard along the main, To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train. Pope The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will never answer a calf when he bleats. Shak.

One who bleats; a sheep. In cold, stiff soils the bleaters oft complain Of gouty ails. Dyer.

Crying as a sheep does. Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. Longfellow.

A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.

Having a bract or bracts.

arted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc. Melted as breath into the wind. Shak.

Such as can be breathed.

State of being breathable.

To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott.

One who breathes. Hence: (a) One who lives.(b) One who utters. (c) One who animates or inspires.