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To throw into disorder; to tumble. [R.] From her betumbled couch she starteth. Shak.

To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak.

than; above, as in dignity, excellence, or quality of any kind. "Beyond expectation." Barrow. Beyond any of the great men of my country. Sir P. Sidney. Beyond sea. (Law) See under Sea. -- To go beyond, to exceed in ingenuity, in research, or in anything else; hence, in a bed sense, to deceive or circumvent. That no m…

Pertaining to a biceps muscle; as, bicipital furrows, the depressions on either side of the biceps of the arm.

Having two heads; bicipital. "Bicipitous serpents." Sir T. Browne.

end in petulant altercation; to wrangle. Petty things about which men cark and bicker. Barrow.

ng, farewell, etc. Neither bid him God speed. 2. John 10. He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. Granrille.

Residence; habitation. Rowe.

A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.

Twofold; arranged in two rows.

Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.

Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind. "Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg." New English Dict.

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

A brownish green pigment found in human gallstones and in old bile. It is a derivative of bilirubin.

A round, low-crowned felt hat; a wideawake. "The undignified billycocks and pantaloons of the West." B. H. Chamberlain.

Double; growing in pairs or couples. Gray.

To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat. Mortimer.

Of or relating to birch. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower. Sir W. Scott.

An interior acrow's-foot in the United States.

A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them. Hence: Anything which smites without penetrating. Shak.