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Pertaining to the country, people, or language of Biscay; Basque [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

me dress, some dance, some play, not to forget Your piquet parties, and your dear basset. Rowe.

An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that

To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self. Dryden. The pampered monarch lay battening in ease. Garth. Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history, -- persecutions, inquisitions. Emerson.

rees on a Baumé scale are thus equal in length, while those on a specific- gravity scale grow smaller as the density increases, there is no simple relation between degrees Bé. and Sp. gr. However, readings on Baumés scale may be approximately reduced to specific gravities by the following formulæ (x in each case being…

Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses. Bay cat (Zoöl.), a wild cat of Africa and the East Indies (Felis aurata). -- Bay lynx (Zoöl.), the common American lynx (Felis, or Lynx, rufa).

A gum resin of reddish brown color, brought from India, Persia, and Africa.

and leaping like fleas. -- Beach grass (Bot.), a coarse grass (Ammophila arundinacea), growing on the sandy shores of lakes and seas, which, by its interlaced running rootstocks, binds the sand together, and resists the encroachment of the waves. -- Beach wagon, a light open wagon with two or more seats. -- Raised…

scertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters.

A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.

sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat. How far that little candle throws his beams ! Shak.

Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare). [Obs. except in North of Eng. and Scot.]

The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.

ssed, or as conferring happiness. The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth. Barrow.

A hat, formerly made of the fur of the beaver, but now usually of silk. A brown beaver slouched over his eyes. Prescott.

Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat. "His beavered brow." Pope.

To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter. "Trees bedashed with rain." Shak.

esmear or soil with anything thick and dirty. Bedaub foul designs with a fair varnish. Barrow.

To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment. Bedeviled and used worse than St. Bartholomew. Sterne.

To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf. Donne.