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and curse their king and their God. Is. viii. 21. Many far worse bestead than ourselves. Barrow.

nd over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. Shak. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. Shak.

arn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow.

ee than; above, as in dignity, excellence, or quality of any kind. "Beyond expectation." Barrow. Beyond any of the great men of my country. Sir P. Sidney. Beyond sea. (Law) See under Sea. -- To go beyond, to exceed in ingenuity, in research, or in anything else; hence, in a bed sense, to deceive or circumvent. That no…

ntend in petulant altercation; to wrangle. Petty things about which men cark and bicker. Barrow.

A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.

Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.

of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.

Of or relating to birch. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower. Sir W. Scott.

A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them. Hence: Anything which smites without penetrating. Shak.

Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife.

he Amaryllis family. The juice of H. toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows.

A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan.

A fine cord or narrow braid.

at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose. Barrow.

issile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart. Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts. Sir W. Scott. A fool's bolt is soon shot. Shak.

of West Africa, and B. isaaci of East Africa) of a reddish or chestnut-brown color with narrow white stripes on the body. Their flesh is especially esteemed as food.

in; verge; brink. Upon the borders of these solitudes. Bentham. In the borders of death. Barrow.

ge) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through. "What bustling crowds I bored." Gay.

A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof. [Written also Bosphorus.]