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riage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance. "The feast of betrothal." Longfellow.

be avoided. Beware of all, but most beware of man ! Pope. Beware the awful avalanche. Longfellow.

A low fellow or scoundrel; a beggar. Great men oft die by vile bezonians. Shak.

A lively or mettlesome fellow. [Jocular, Scot.] Burns.

A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort. Longfellow.

s, then before Paris, died from the cold. Stow. Then it was not for nothing that may nose fell a bleeding on Black Monday last. Shak.

A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning. He saw a turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade. Coleridge.

A kind of wood-turning lathe for making noncircular and irregular forms, as felloes, gun stocks, lasts, spokes, etc., after a given pattern. The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pat…

s and plants; a blight. By the blast of God they perish. Job iv. 9. Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast. Shak.

A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.

on growth of earth, the foodful ear. Wordsworth. At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach. Longfellow.

a sheep does. Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. Longfellow.

A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow. [Slang]

A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt. [Obs.] What a block art thou ! Shak.

A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.

A stupid, blundering fellow.

A stupid, blundering fellow.

Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. "A blustering fellow." L'Estrange.

A good fellow; a jovial companion; a free liver.

Good will; good fellowship; agreement. [Scot.]