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A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild.

The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake. Smyth.

of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.

Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin.

A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.) "The night of her bespeak." Dickens.

ly in p. p.] They shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: . . . and curse their king and their God. Is. viii. 21. Many far worse bestead than ourselves. Barrow.

A making better; amendment; improvement. W. Montagu.

hak. A bevel angle, any angle other than one of 90º. -- Bevel wheel, a cogwheel whose working face is oblique to the axis. Knight.

A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.

Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage. He knew no beverage but the flowing stream. Thomson.

Addicted to drinking.

The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling. Blount.

One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.

Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling.

of the Old and New Testaments; -- sometimes in a restricted sense, the Old Testament; as, King James's Bible; Douay Bible; Luther's Bible. Also, the book which is made up of writings similarly accepted by the Jews; as, a rabbinical Bible.

ch but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal carbonates; an acid carbonate; -- sometimes called supercarbonate.

The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction.

Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.

A forking, or division into two branches.

Quality of being bilingual. The bilingualism of King's English. Earle.