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Like a beryl; of a light or bluish green color.

e is best, he is a little worse than a man. Shak. Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight. Milton.

To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to. What man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her Deut. xx. 7.

eciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion. An intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty. Hume.

A light repast between meals; a lunch. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A book containing the sacred writings belonging to any religion; as, the Koran is often called the Mohammedan Bible. Fig.)

One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.

A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.

Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.

A person who 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 blin…

To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

That binds; obligatory. Binding beam (Arch.), the main timber in double flooring. -- Binding joist (Arch.), the secondary timber in double-framed flooring.

The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality. Coleridge.

A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night. Totten.

Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention. Bacon.

eansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares. Not birdlime or Idean pitch produce A more tenacious mass of clammy juice. Dryden.

as, the birth of an empire. New birth (Theol.), regeneration, or the commencement of a religious life.

A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.

the New Testament the same officer in the church is called indifferently "bishop" ( J. B. Lightfoot.

, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite. I have known a very good fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite. Walton.