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A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction.

To censure or revile the absent. They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. Shak.

One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.

Secret slander; detraction. Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. Piers Plowman.

An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.

A white, crystalline substance,

A member of a religious order, named from St. Barnabas.

Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling.

Consisting of, or containing, lime and bitumen. Lyell.

Eaten out by canker, or as by canker. [Obs.]

That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.

Checking or arresting the heart's action.

One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude. Gibbon.

Of or pertaining to a cenobite.

The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite. Milman.

An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.

Native iron carbonate; -- usually called siderite.

See Cenobite.

To inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place or country. The Philistines were worsted by the captived ark . . . : they were not able to cohabit with that holy thing. South.

other, or in the same place or country. No small number of the Danes became peaceable cohabitants with the Saxons in England. Sir W. Raleigh.