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mbling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.

A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green. [Also spelt beretta, biretta, etc.]

Most advanced; most correct or complete; as, the best scholar; the best view of a subject.

To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold.

d betted much money on his head. Shak. I'll bet you two to one I'll make him do it. O. W. Holmes.

A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters.

To have a special regard; to heed. [Obs.] Behold, I send an Angel before thee. . . . Beware of him, and obey his voice. Ex. xxiii. 20, 21.

antations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery. See how I am bewitched; behold, mine arm Is like a blasted sapling withered up. Shak.

A water carrier, as to a household or a regiment. [India]

One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.

Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic divine Coleridge. F. W. Newman.

A biblical scholar; a biblicist. I. Taylor.

sh; to exchange blows; to fight. [Obs.] Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together. Holland.

ind, bid to the marriage. Matt. xxii. 9 To bid beads, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.] -- To bid defiance to , to defy openly; to brave. -- To bid fair, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely.

A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor.

A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.

A byland. [Obs.] Holland.

A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland. Why choose we, then, like bilanders to creep Along the coast, and land in view to keep Dryden.

Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile. Prescott.

name applied to the amorphous or crystalline mass obtained from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids.