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le or confusion. He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.

" 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 man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter. 1 Thess. iv. 6.…

Pertaining to, or compounded with, bezoar. -- n.

To plunder; to waste in riot. [Obs.]

d wide distribution of the Bible. -- Douay Bible. See Douay Bible. -- Geneva Bible. See under Geneva.

e, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).

; to abide; to stay. All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell. Milton.

or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc. Bill of adventure. See under Adventure. -- Bill of costs, a statement of the items which form the total amount of the costs of a party to a suit or action. -- Bill of credit. (a) Within the constitution of the United States, a paper issued by a State,…

A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things). Binary arithmetic, that in which numbers are expressed according to the binary scale, or in which two figures only, 0 and 1, are used, in lieu of ten; the cipher multiplying everything by two, as in common arithmetic by ten. Thus, 1 is one;…

To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant. Abbott.

Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve. [R.] B. Jonson.

See under Maple.

n is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Heb. xii. 16.

Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.

, a term officially substituted in 1882 for bishop in partibus. -- Bench of Bishops. See under Bench.

Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen. Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed. Milton. Bituminous coal, a kind of coal which yields, when heated, a considerable amount of volatile bituminous matter. It burns with a yellow smoky flame. -- Bituminous limestone, a mineral of a…

it is the chief ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing. -- Berlin black. See under Berlin.

iced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution.

A sweet and juicy variety of European grape, of a dark purplish black color, much grown under glass in northern latitudes.