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Destitute of beauty. Hammond.

To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure. The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. Gen. iii. 13.

The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled.

One who, or that which, beguiles.

A yellowish crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.CO.C6H5, formed from benzoin by the action of oxidizing agents, and consisting of a doubled benzoyl radical.

A great-grandfather. [Obs.]

A chief broken or opening like a carpenter's bevel. Encyc. Brit.

Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.

One who bewails or laments.

A lover of books.

estines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.

That portion of a group of moldings which projects beyond the general surface of a panel; a bolection.

A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary. E. Darwin.

Divisible into two parts.

An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle -- that is, twice 72 degrees.

4 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400.

One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.

Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.

Without material form; incorporeal. Phantoms bodiless and vain. Swift.

Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.