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A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth. Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty. Hawthorne.

Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.

To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil. It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads. Shak.

To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate. [Obs.] To blush and beautify the cheek again. Shak.

ng usually silica, lime, and potash, rarely soda, but no lead. It is often remarkable for beauty of color.

A "bonny lass"; a beautiful girl. [Obs.] Spenser.

Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful. Till bonny Susan sped across the plain. Gay. Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr. Burns.

A prompter at a theater. [Obs.] Beau & Fl.

To forage for booty; to plunder. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

ick. [Obs.] I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, Baffled and bored, it seems. Beau. & Fl.

Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth. [Obs.] Nature set in her at once beauty with bounty. Gower.

Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders. I embroidered for you a beautiful pair of braces. Thackeray.

The thing which is boasted of. Beauty is Nature's brag. Milton.

A showy person; a fine gentleman; a beau. [Obs.] A man that is the bravery of his age. Beau. & Fl.

A boar. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

ctive, or that affect the mind as light does the eye; resplendent with charms; as, bright beauty. Bright as an angel new-dropped from the sky. Parnell.

ty or state of being brown. Now like I brown (O lovely brown thy hair); Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.

-- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. "Burly sacks." Drayton. In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [he was] somewhat corpulent and burly. Sir T. More. Burly and big, and studious of his ease. Cowper.…

(Phaseolus vulgaris, variety nanus). See Bean, 1. -- Bush buck, or Bush goat (Zoöl.), a beautiful South African antelope (Tragelaphus sylvaticus); -- so called because found mainly in wooden localities. The name is also applied to other species. -- Bush cat (Zoöl.), the serval. See Serval. -- Bush chat (Zoöl.), a b…

A king of parrot, of a beautiful green color, found in the Philippine Islands.