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To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple. [Prov. Eng.]

Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

r other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

That piece of armor which protected the lower part of the face, whether forming a part of the helmet or fixed to the breastplate. It was so constructed (with joints or otherwise) that the wearer could raise or lower it to eat and drink.

A tremolo effect, such as that produced on the piano by vibratory repetition of a note with sustained use of the pedal.

), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs. And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed. Byron. I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds. Shak. In bed he slept not for my urging it. Shak.…

A kind of pickax.

adorn tawdrily or with false taste. Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott.

The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate.

Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff. Brewer.

A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces.

"A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side." Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.

An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidæ (the honeybees), or family Andrenidæ (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee.

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

To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in. Books falling to pieces and begrimed with dust. Macaulay.

To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel. Totten.

A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed.

Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.

through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. Bellows camera, in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows. -- Hydrostatic bellows. See Hydrostatic. -- A pair of bellows, the ordinary household instrument…

A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.