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The process of washing molten pig iron by adding iron oxide, proposed by I. Lowthian Bell of England about 1875.

Pinched with hunger; starved. "The belly-pinched wolf." Shak.

To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with. Implores their pity, and his pain bemoans. Dryden.

The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.

Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.

The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. Bare benting times . . . may come. Dryden.

To pinch, or mark with pinches. Chapman.

, v. t. Etym: [Cf. OIcel. berja to strike.] To pierce. [Obs.] Chaucer.

t occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep colo…

, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce. Truth shall retire Bestuck with slanderous darts. Milton.

A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. I is a woody climber with ovate manynerved leaves.

Torn in pieces; tattered.

by thieves to wrench doors open. [Written also bettee.] The powerful betty, or the artful picklock. Arbuthnot.

such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.

A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.

Pieces of timber bolted to certain parts of a mast tp support the trestletrees.

Pecked; pitted; notched. [Obs.] Chaucer. Bicched bones, pecked, or notched, bones; dice.

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.

morning, farewell, etc. Neither bid him God speed. 2. John 10. He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. Granrille.