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The state of being conceived; beginning. Joy had the like conception in our eyes. Shak.

e by mental or moral power; to surmount; as, to conquer difficulties, temptatin, etc. By winning words to conquer hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear. Milton.

A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger.

To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1.

A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (Ciniflonidæ), used for spinning a special kind of silk.

To become crimson; to blush. Ancient towers . . . beginning to crimson with the radiant luster of a cloudless July morning. De Quincey.

The beginning or first entrance of any house in the calculations of nativities, etc.

From the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with, the first strain; -- indicated by the letters D. C. Also, the strain so repeated.

To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from. The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms. E. Everett.

First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise. "The dawn of time." Thomson. These tender circumstances diffuse a dawn of serenity over the soul. Pope.

The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the dawn; hence, the beginning. Milton. The tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us. Luke i. 78.

A beginning or first attempt; hence, a first appearance before the public, as of an actor or public speaker.

ction. -- To sweep the deck (Card Playing), to clear off all the stakes on the table by winning them.

en there -- please to insert a desiderated stanza. You can not. Prof. Wilson. Men were beginning . . . to desiderate for them an actual abode of fire. A. W. Ward.

A condition of the score beginning whendeuce, which decides the game.

ated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated.

Day of wrath; -- the name and beginning of a famous mediæval Latin hymn on the Last Judgment.

To sound with a din; a ding. The gay viol dinning in the dale. A. Seward.

ipate; to drive away; -- said especially of tumors. Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affection. Sir H. Wotton. A pomade . . . of virtue to discuss pimples. Rambler.

Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit. At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute. Sir W. Scott.