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To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise.

Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.

eech, due to conversion of other sounds into it, as through inability to distinguish them from b, or because of difficulty in pronouncing them.

roduced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beetroot molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.

; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton.

A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask. [U. S.] Bartlett.

A substance of a resinous nature, obtained from the outer bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor. Watts.

To throw into disorder; to tumble. [R.] From her betumbled couch she starteth. Shak.

Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two. If things should go so between them. Bacon.

In the space which separates; between. From betwixt two aged oaks. Milton.

To deviate or incline from an angle of 90 Their houses are very ill built, the walls bevel. Swift.

An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.

of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line. Being ignorant that there is a concealed bias within the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away. Sir W. Scott.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority.

A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events.

A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice. Green bice is prepared from the blue, by adding yellow orpiment, or by grinding down the green carbonate of copper. Cooley. Brande & C.

cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute.

vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor.

A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre.

The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop.