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To infect with jaundice.

the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson.

Possessed of a benefice o "Beneficed clergymen." Burke.

Having no benefice. "Beneficeless precisians." Sheldon.

The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper.

. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott.

Relating to beneficence.

In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.

See Coma Berenices, under Coma.

To season with spice, or with some spicy drug. Shak.

t, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice. Green bice is prepared from the blue, by adding yellow orpiment, or by grinding down the green carbonate of copper. Cooley. Brande & C.

Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration. -- n.

Consisting of two hundred years.

Having two heads.

A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.

See Bodick.

outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it. Her bodice half way she unlaced. Prior.

Wearing a bodice. Thackeray.

The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.

An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.