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Having horns, or antlers. Beamy stags in toils engage. Dryden.

plant. The seeds are washed up on the Florida shore, and are often polished and made into ornaments. -- Ignatius bean, or St. Ignatius's bean (Bot.), a species of Strychnos. -- Navy bean, the common dried white bean of commerce; probably so called because an important article of food in the navy. -- Pea bean, a very…

, or direct. "Thus must thou thy body bear." Shak. Hence: To behave; to conduct. Hath he borne himself penitently in prison Shak.

A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.

Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv.

A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers.

A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.

Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. "A broad and beaten way." Milton. "Beaten gold." Shak.

A small flat curl worn on the temple by women. [Humorous]

To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish. The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke.

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

A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Simmonds.

To curl; to adorn with curls.

The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona. Oxf. Gloss.

To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace. Bedecked with boughs, flowers, and garlands. Pennant.

To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn. [Archaic] Milton.

To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste. Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott.

To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe. Fuller.

To adorn with gems, or as with gems. Begemmed with dewdrops. Sir W. Scott. Those lonely realms bright garden isles begem. Shelley.

A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one- sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.