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Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma).

The state of being an angel; angelic nature. Mrs. Browning.

The state of being an ape.

Apprenticeship. [Obs.]

Babyhood. [R.] Udall.

The state or period of infancy.

The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship.

A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies.

A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landsca…

State or nature of a beast.

The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars.

Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use. No mean recompense it brings To your behoof. Milton.

Supplying need; profitable; advantageous. [Obs.] Udall.

th respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally. And thus it behooved Christ to suffer. Luke xxiv. 46. [Also written behove.]

Advantageous; useful; profitable. [Archaic] -- Be*hoove"ful*ly, adv. -- Be*hoove"ful*ness, n. [Archaic]

A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.

The sailfish; -- called also woohoo.

Goodness; generosity. [Obs.] Spenser.

The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy. Hood.

A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side. Totten.