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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.

r. Steele. To be upon one's good behavior, To be put upon one's good behavior, to be in a state of trial, in which something important depends on propriety of conduct. -- During good behavior, while (or so long as) one conducts one's self with integrity and fidelity or with propriety.

In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.

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

Existence, as opposed to nonexistence; state or sphere of existence. In Him we live, and move, and have our being. Acts xvii. 28.

accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine. Our conqueror (whom I now Of force believe almighty). Milton. King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets Acts xxvi. Often followed by a dependent clause. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Acts…

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

A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare.

To furnish with benches. 'T was benched with turf. Dryden. Stately theaters benched crescentwise. Tennyson.

by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846.

An estate in lands; a fief.

entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent.

t or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate. The rich men will be offering sacrifice to their Deity whose beneficiaries they are. Jer. Taylor.

n oil is expressed, called benne oil, used mostly for making soap. In the southern United States the seeds are used in candy.

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

Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor. Kirby.

The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest.

The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.

A controversy (1886 --93) between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the clai…