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In the United States navy, a sick-bay nurse; -- now officially designated as hospital apprentice.

A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery. Bayonet clutch. See Clutch. -- Bayonet joint, a form of coupling similar to that by which a bayonet is fixed on the barrel of a musket. Knight.

ceptible movement except from tide and wind. [Southern U. S.] A dark slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. G. W. Cable.

Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.

See Baize. [Obs.]

king with uranium and its compounds. They consist of a mixture of alpha, beta, and gamma rays.

To lay on or cover; to adorn. [Obs.] Jacket . . . belayed with silver lace. Spenser.

ide of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed.

TO make foul; to soil; to defile. [Obs.] Milton.

A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.

Penetrating rays readily deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances, as radium. They consist of negatively charged particles or electrons, apparently the same in kind as those of the cathode rays, but having much higher velocities (about 35,000 to 180,000 miles per second).…

fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city. Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men. Matt. xvii. 22.

The act or the result of betraying.

One who, or that which, betrays.

Betrayal. [R.] Udall.

To soil. See Beray.

One who, or that which, bewrays; a revealer. [Obs. or Archaic] Addison.

Betrayal. [R.]

The prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before the sermon.

The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement. Those barbarous ages past, succeeded next The birthday of invention. Cowper.