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Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful.

A man who tends a bear.

The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage. I know him by his bearing. Shak.

Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.

Arkansas; -- a nickname, from the many bears once inhabiting its forests.

Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy. The beastly vice of drinking to excess. Swift.

r can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day." South. -- To beat the dust. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. -- To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on foot. -- To beat the wing, to flutter; to move with fluttering ag…

A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy.

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.

In a becoming manner.

A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.

To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively. Bp. Hall.

covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera. Beetle mite (Zoöl.), one of many species of mites, of the family Oribatidæ, parasitic on beetles. -- Black beetle, the common large black cockroach (Blatta orientalis).

In a befitting manner; suitably.

In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.

A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one- sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.

To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain. [Obs.] He did behave his anger ere 't was spent. Shak.

Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. A gentleman that is very singular in his behavior. Steele. To be upon one's good behavior, To be put upon…

That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction. To do his master's high behest. Sir W. Scott.