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Rich; fertile. [Obs.] "Batful valleys." Drayton.

ry willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him.

ce of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything. The ineffective bauble of an Indian pagod. Sheridan.

Having a bay or bays. "The large bayed barn." Drayton.

Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land. Carew.

The portion of a support on which anything rests.

mmering. -- To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. "Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day." South. -- To beat the dust. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. -- To beat the hoof, to…

A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.

A small brook. The brooks, the becks, the rills. Drayton.

A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.

To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty. Bedaub foul designs with a fair varnish. Barrow.

One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro. A sermon of a new beginner. Swift.

The act of doing that 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.

Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower. "In a cowslip's bell I lie." Shak.

A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton.

The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship. Out of the belly of hell cried I. Jonah ii. 2.

A grandfather, or ancestor. "His great belsire Brute." [Obs.] Drayton.

Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.

One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit 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.

edlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass. His spear a bent, both stiff and strong. Drayton.