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A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.

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

. -- Florida bean (Bot.), the seed of Mucuna urens, a West Indian plant. The seeds are washed up on the Florida shore, and are often polished and made into ornaments. -- Ignatius bean, or St. Ignatius's bean (Bot.), a species of Strychnos. -- Navy bean, the common dried white bean of commerce; probably so called bec…

he Turk, no brother near the throne. Pope. I cannot bear The murmur of this lake to hear. Shelley. My punishment is greater than I can bear. Gen. iv. 13.

A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.

The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.

The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. (c) pl.

To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. Prior.

Vanquished; conquered; baffled.

on on the Mount (Matt. v. 3-12), with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues.

, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model.

Beautiful; embellished. [Poetic] Shak.

Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. [Obs.] She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty. Jer. Taylor. Beauty spot, a patch or spot placed on the face with intent to heighten beauty by contrast.

To make bloody; to stain with blood. [Obs.] Sheldon.

A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.

To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter. "Trees bedashed with rain." Shak.

Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.

A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosæ). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.

To sprinkle, soil, or cover with dust. Sherwood.

b) To be restless or uneasy. B. Jonson. (c) To be full of fancies; to be a little crazy. "She's whiles crack-brained, and has a bee in her head." Sir W. Scott.