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A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.

especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.

That which is begun; a rudiment or element. Mighty things from small beginnings grow. Dryden.

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.

y; to work carefully upon. "If the earth is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn." Barrow.

A flower, but of what kind is unknown. [Obs.] Her snowy brows, like budded belamours. Spenser.

To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct. I belched a hurricane of wind. Swift.

Good cheer; viands. [Obs.] "Bellycheer and banquets." Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." Milton.

A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future. Encyc. Brit.

A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.

To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with. Implores their pity, and his pain bemoans. Dryden.

a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor. Totten. To bend the brow, to knit the brow, as in deep thought or in anger; to scowl; to frown. Camden.

A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.

A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.

A mound; a hillock. W. Browne.

A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild.

d curse their king and their God. Is. viii. 21. Many far worse bestead than ourselves. Barrow.

To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [Spelt also bestrow.] Milton.

over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. Shak. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. Shak.

n thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow.