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Yes; yea; -- a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question. It is much used in viva voce voting in legislative bodies, etc.

The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.

siness of a bank or of a banker. Banking house, an establishment or office in which, or a firm by whom, banking is done.

forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives. Whately.

Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.

A form or mode of syllogism of which the first proposition is a universal affirmative, and the other two are particular negative.

or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly. Shak.

at bolt (Machinery), a bolt barbed or jagged at its butt or tang to make it hold the more firmly. Knight.

To corroborate; to confirm. -- To bear up, to support; to keep from falling or sinking. "Religious hope bears up the mind under sufferings." Addison.

Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity. "Her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father." Shak. "The estate of a bedridden old gentleman." Macaulay.

Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the…

To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith. Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. Mark ix. 24. With the heart man believeth unto righteousness. Rom. x. 10.

To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm. Shak.

le (pl.), the outstanding unpaid notes or acceptances made and issued by an individual or firm. -- Bills receivable (pl.), the unpaid promissory notes or acceptances held by an individual or firm. McElrath. -- A true bill, a bill of indictment sanctioned by a grand jury.

To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.

To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.

To draw back from; to deny from fear. [Obs.] He now blenched what before he affirmed. Evelyn.

lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets. "The blue firmament." Milton.

first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative. Baroko and Bocardo have been stumbling blocks to the logicians. Bowen.