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Preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness, acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect. To obey is better than sacrifice. 1 Sam. xv. 22. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. Ps. cxviii. 9.

ht angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.

Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.

Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.

A portable boat made of skins stretched on a frame. [Alaska] The Century.

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

itty. -- Bill of fare, a written or printed enumeration of the dishes served at a public table, or of the dishes (with prices annexed) which may be ordered at a restaurant, etc. -- Bill of health, a certificate from the proper authorities as to the state of health of a ship's company at the time of her leaving port.…

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.

A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.

That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable. Poets are far rarer births that kings. B. Jonson. Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself. Addison.

lcined magnesia. -- Bitter principles (Chem.), a class of substances, extracted from vegetable products, having strong bitter taste but with no sharply defined chemical characteristics. -- Bitter salt, Epsom salts;; magnesium sulphate. -- Bitter vetch (Bot.), a name given to two European leguminous herbs, Vicia Orob…

diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table. See Brilliant, n.

alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.

A white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables, used esp. for braised meat.

Confounded; accursed; detestable. Some of her own blasted gypsies. Sir W. Scott.

To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous. On charitable lists he blazed his name. Pollok. To blaze those virtues which the good would hide. Pope.

A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.

ct with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of. [This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man. Woodward.

To cause to blossom; to make flourish. [R.] Charitable affection bloomed them. Hooker.

A table to put food upon.