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The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau. [Jocular] Dryden.

Full of beauty; beautiful; very handsome. [Mostly poetic] -- Beau"te*ous*ly, adv. --

Beautiful; embellished. [Poetic] Shak.

One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful.

Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames.

To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish. The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke.

Destitute of beauty. Hammond.

es pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense. Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder. Locke. The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole. Wordsworth. The old definition of…

pl. of Beau.

See Bauxite.

The fur of the beaver.

Oregon; -- a nickname.

Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat. "His beavered brow." Pope.

A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Simmonds.

An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodioei). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine. [Written also bibirine.]

A tropical South American tree (Nectandra Rodioi), the bark of which yields the alkaloid bebeerine, and the wood of which is known as green heart.

To make bloody; to stain with blood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To make bloody; to stain with blood. [Obs.] Sheldon.

To blot; to stain. Chaucer.

To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.