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Descriptive of the ocean depth; as, a bathygraphic chart.

gger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.

efix, originally the same word as by; joined with verbs, it serves: (a) To intensify the meaning; as, bespatter, bestir. (b) To render an intransitive verb transitive; as, befall (to fall upon); bespeak (to speak for). (c) To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to s…

A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber. [Amer.]

ing a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly. The beachy girdle of the ocean. Shak.

nd Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.

Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate. Beaked whale (Zoöl.), a cetacean of the genus Hyperoodon; the bottlehead whale.

A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building.

To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect. Her sentence bore that she should stand a certain time upon the platform. Hawthorne.

Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.

cking in order to make progress. -- To beat about, to try to find; to search by various means or ways. Addison. -- To beat about the bush, to approach a subject circuitously. -- To beat up and down (Hunting), to run first one way and then another; -- said of a stag. -- To beat up for recruits, to go diligently abou…

A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.

A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyræna spet). See Barracuda.

tercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river. So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed. Milton.

) parasitic in beehives. -- Bee bird (Zoöl.), a bird that eats the honeybee, as the European flycatcher, and the American kingbird. -- Bee flower (Bot.), an orchidaceous plant of the genus Ophrys (O. apifera), whose flowers have some resemblance to bees, flies, and other insects. -- Bee fly (Zoöl.), a two winged fly…

A bird of the genus Merops, that feeds on bees. The European species (M. apiaster) is remarkable for its brilliant colors.

The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.

tion of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9.

To mean, or intend. More than heart behighteth. Mir. for Mag.

Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use. No mean recompense it brings To your behoof. Milton.