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The act of bequeathing; bequeathment; bequest. Fuller.

t the claim of the United States, but established regulations for the preservation of the fur seal.

anide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue. -- Berlin iron, a very fusible variety of cast iron, from which figures and other delicate articles are manufactured. These are often stained or lacquered in imitation of bronze. -- Berlin shop, a shop for the sale of worsted embroidery and the materia…

Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate; as, a berried shrub.

To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company. Totten.

To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor. Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favor. Sir W. Scott.

To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle. [Obs.] Carlyle.

To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm.

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.

trothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance. "The feast of betrothal." Longfellow.

On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher.

y selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events.

Furnished with, or having, two bracts.

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

A fuse used in blasting, consisting of a long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute.

hich one will give for something to be received, or will take for something to be done or furnished; that which is offered.

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

Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether 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.

A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document. [Eng.]

Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in composition; as, broad-billed.