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Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera. Beetle mite (Zoöl.), one of many species of mites, of the family Oribatidæ, parasitic on beetles. -- Black beetle, the common large black cockroach (Blatta orientalis…

Capable of being begged.

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

The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.

The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.

e or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Vast chain of being! which from God began. Pope.

which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1.

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

Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted. But being so beholden to the Prince. Tennyson.

, The state of being obliged or beholden. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

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

with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.

The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare.

eans of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future. Encyc. Brit.

Capable of being bent.

ty, or excellence than; as, brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming. He will do nothing that is beneath his high station. Atterbury.

The quality of being beneficial; profitableness.

The condition of being benighted.

The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness. "Benignity of aspect." Sir W. Scott.

The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow. [Obs.] Wilkins.