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Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.

One who disbelieves or denies the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.

haracter, office, or station, or mental or moral superiority, and the like; claim to be believed or obeyed; as, an historian of no authority; a magistrate of great authority.

To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes. Which I to be the of Israel's God Avow, and challenge Dagon to the test. Milton.

A believer in Babism.

To treat or anoint with balsam; to relieve, as with balsam; to render balsamic.

An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. Garrick. To relieve the tediumbams. Prof. Wilson.

f infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.

ns. -- Barren Ground bear (Zoöl.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting the Barren Grounds, now believed to be a variety of the brown bear of Europe. -- Barren Ground caribou (Zoöl.), a small reindeer (Rangifer Groenlandicus) peculiar to the Barren Grounds and Greenland.

To cause the time of to pass without notice; to relieve the tedium or weariness of; to while away; to divert. Ballads . . . to beguile his incessant wayfaring. W. Irving.

The thing believed; the object of belief. Superstitious prophecies are not only the belief of fools, but the talk sometimes of wise men. Bacon.

Capable of being believed; credible. -- Be*liev"a*ble*ness, n. -- Be*liev`a*bil"i*ty (, n.

That believes; having belief. -- Be*liev"ing*ly, adv.

A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age.

One who believes in Benthamism.

oose (Zoöl.), a goose (Branta leucopsis), of Arctic Europe and America. It was formerly believed that it hatched from the cirripeds of the sea (Lepas), which were, therefore, called barnacles, goose barnacles, or Anatifers. The name is also applied to other related species. See Anatifa and Cirripedia.…

A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration. De Quincey.

hurch, party, belief, or opinion. To doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and believe. Macaulay.

A believer in the theory of biogenesis.

l, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder. Newts and blindworms do no wrong. Shak.