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Complete loss; -- followed by of.

course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats. [Obs.] We'll dine in the great room, but let the music And banquet be prepared here. Massinger.

ith them are certain painters of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life, as Millet and Jules Breton.

such contract a trustee for and seized to the use of the bargainee. The statute then completes the purchase; i.e., the bargain vests the use, and the statute vests the possession. Blackstone. -- Into the bargain, over and above what is stipulated; besides. -- To sell bargains, to make saucy ( usually indelicate) rep…

A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.

A home-made woolen blanket without nap. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field.

The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration.

ne operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business. "A new batch of Lords." Lady M. W. Montagu.

To moisten or suffuse with a liquid. And let us bathe our hands in Cæsar's blood. Shak.

A kind of cloak or surtout. [Obs.] Johnson. Let the looped bavaroy the fop embrace. Gay.

An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.

An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind. [Southern U. S.] A dark slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. G. W. Cable.

ose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line. Quart. R…

A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.

Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag. Tost his beamed frontlet to the sky. Sir W. Scott.

To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.

A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. "The beatific vision." South. -- Be`a*tif"ic*al*ly, adv.

To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment. "Beatified spirits." Dryden.