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tion formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.

One who believes in Benthamism.

of coal, from which it is separated by fractional distillation. The name is sometimes applied also to the impure commercial product or benzole, and also, but rarely, to a similar mixed product of petroleum. Benzene nucleus, Benzene ring (Chem.), a closed chain or ring, consisting of six carbon atoms, each with one hyd…

oose (Zoöl.), a goose (Branta leucopsis), of Arctic Europe and America. It was formerly believed that it hatched from the cirripeds of the sea (Lepas), which were, therefore, called barnacles, goose barnacles, or Anatifers. The name is also applied to other related species. See Anatifa and Cirripedia.…

The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.

l sides; to perplex; to harass; -- said of dangers, obstacles, etc. "Adam, sore beset, replied." Milton. "Beset with ills." Addison. "Incommodities which beset old age." Burke.

eforehand; to foretell; to indicate. [They] bespoke dangers . . . in order to scare the allies. Swift.

A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.

Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage. He knew no beverage but the flowing stream. Thomson.

An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout.

A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration. De Quincey.

Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic divine Coleridge. F. W. Newman.

A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.

iends to drink ale at some poor man's house, and there to contribute in charity for his relief. [Prov. Eng.]

A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals. [Obs.] Homilies.

her in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride. God hath not in heaven a bigger argument. Jer. Taylor.

regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted t…

The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.

A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.

A name applied to the amorphous or crystalline mass obtained from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids.