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To praise greatly or extravagantly. Goldsmith.

An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.

stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects. A robe of azure beset with drops of gold. Spectator. The garden is so beset with all manner of sweet shrubs that it perfumes the air. Evelyn.

The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged. Golding.

r any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager. "Having made his bets." Goldsmith.

The difference by which fine gold or silver exceeds in fineness the standard.

A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants. [Written also besant, byzant, etc.]

ade in India. The material is a composition of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened. [Spelt also bidry, bidree, bedery, beder.]

of everything; -- said of a cask. -- Bilge pump, a pump to draw the bilge water from the gold of a ship. -- Bilge water (Naut.), water which collects in the bilge or bottom of a ship or other vessel. It is often allowed to remain till it becomes very offensive. -- Bilge ways, the timbers which support the cradle of…

A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.

An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage.

Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.

The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism.

having appendages to which the reins are fastened. Shak. The foamy bridle with the bit of gold. Chaucer.

Somewhat bitter. Goldsmith.

ng with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray. But all the bloomy flush of life is fled. Goldsmith.

e. I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow. Goldsmith. Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and staggers every pace. Dryden. To blunder on. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity, --…

To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch. Gold and jewels that I bobbed from him. Shak.

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

alet. -- The bodies seven (Alchemy), the metals corresponding to the planets. [Obs.] Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe, Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus coper. Chaucer. -- Body snatcher, one who secretly removes without right or authority a dea…