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The whole body of barons or peers. The baronage of the kingdom. Bp. Burnet.

See Bastinado, n.

A blow with a stick or cudgel.

Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.

A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black.

A division of the Bantus, dwelling between the Orange and Zambezi rivers, supposed to be the most ancient Bantu population of South Africa. They are divided into totemic clans; they are intelligent and progressive.

A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyræna spet). See Barracuda.

To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode. The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul. Shak.

A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines.

To call knave. [Obs.] Pope.

An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nigh…

The goddess of war.

To promise; to name. [Obs.]

A book of benedictions.

A collected series of benedictions. The benedictionary of Bishop Athelwold. G. Gurton's Needle.

Benignant quality; kindliness.

Kind; gracious; favorable. -- Be*nig"nant*ly, adv.

Containing or impregnated with benzoin; as, benzoinated lard.

A white crystalline powder used as an intestinal antiseptic; beta-naphthol benzoate.

A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta, which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvæ do great injury.