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at a drum. Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. Ex. xxx. 36. They did beat the gold into thin plates. Ex. xxxix. 3.

ade smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. "A broad and beaten way." Milton. "Beaten gold." Shak.

pboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet. A beaufet . . . filled with gold and silver vessels. Prescott.

An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodioei). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine. [Written also bibirine.]

by reason of, on account of. [Prep. phrase.] Because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Eph. v. 6.

To befall; to chance; to happen to. God knows what hath bechanced them. Shak.

call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to. [Archaic] When gold and silver becks me to come on. Shak.

by a motion of the hand. His distant friends, he beckons near. Dryden. It beckons you to go away with it. Shak.

or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character. The Lord God . . . breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen. ii. 7. That error now which is become my crime. Milton.

To go to bed; to cohabit. If he be married, and bed with his wife. Wiseman.

The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.

To sprinkle, as with drops. The yellow carp, in scales bedropped with gold. Pope.

The time to go to bed. Shak.

king bee; a raising bee. [U. S.] The cellar . . . was dug by a bee in a single day. S. G. Goodrich.

y subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.

in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house. His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire. Milton.

To befall. [Poetic] I wish all good befortune you. Shak.

To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech. I do beg your good will in this case. Shak. [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus. Matt. xxvii. 58.

ndependent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Vast chain of being! which from God began. Pope.

urse; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1.