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Same as Germicide.

A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen.

A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.

Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; -- opposed to wall- sided.

The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.

o proffers some illusory advantage or benefit. Also used as an adj.: Barmecidal. "A Barmecide feast." Dickens.

Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th. Shak.

The division of fishes which includes the rays and skates.

The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea.

mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model.

The side of a bed.

ansparent crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.NH2, obtained by the action of ammonia upon chloride of benzoyl, as also by several other reactions with benzoyl compounds.

At the side of; on one side of. "Beside him hung his bow." Milton.

Over and above; separate or distinct from; in addition to; other than; else than. See Beside, prep., 3, and Syn. under Beside. Besides your cheer, you shall have sport. Shak.

On one side. [Obs.] Chaucer. Shak.

To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. Shak. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. Shak.

To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer. What will betide the few Milton.

of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; -- called also dichloride. Bichloride of mercury, mercuric chloride; -- sometimes called corrosive sublimate.

See Dicyanide.

To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay. All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell. Milton.