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Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woolen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats. Beaver rat (Zoöl.), an aquatic ratlike quadruped of Tasmania (Hydromys chrysogaster). -- Beaver skin, the furry skin of the beaver. -- Bank beaver. See under 1st Bank.

A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.

, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement. I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 2 Cor. xi. 5.

with interest; to direct. To bend his mind to any public business. Temple. But when to mischief mortals bend their will. Pope.

on, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.

A chief broken or opening like a carpenter's bevel. Encyc. Brit.

One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.

The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.

fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. When ground it is the chief ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing. -- Berlin black. See under Berlin.

A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster.

discernment. "To blind the truth and me." Tennyson. A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater. South.

Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.

eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait. Or yellow bobs, turned up before the plow, Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enow. Lauson.

to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow. A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. Goldsmith. Good onset bodes good end. Spenser.

er. -- Bone earth (Chem.), the earthy residuum after the calcination of bone, consisting chiefly of phosphate of calcium. -- Bone lace, a lace made of linen thread, so called because woven with bobbins of bone. -- Bone oil, an oil obtained by, heating bones (as in the manufacture of bone black), and remarkable for c…

The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable. Spelman.

trating the science of botany. -- Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines consist chiefly of herbs and roots.

The official title applied to that one of the Anglo-Saxon chieftains who was chosen by the other chiefs to lead them in their warfare against the British tribes. Brande & C.

ent or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief. Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver! Milton.

The minute marine animals (chiefly Entomostraca) upon which the right whales feed.