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A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algæ, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity…

market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee. Bag and baggage, all that belongs to one. -- To give one the bag, to disappoint him. [Obs.] Bunyan.

Belonging to a bath. [Obs.]

A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. Knight.

One of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a very high temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight,

A yard belonging to a barn.

ed by Spain, a village, ward, or district outside a town or city to whose jurisdiction it belongs.

A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army.

A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidæ.

Belonging to, or resembling, a bat. "Batty wings." Shak.

xist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, -- a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three…

Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse. "The bedlam, brainsick duchess." Shak.

Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech. "Plain beechen vessels." Dryden.

A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.

To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due. Chaucer.

ade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages. -- Bel*em*nit"ic, a.

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

A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age.

A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.

Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts. Among the bestial herds to range. Milton.