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nce, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel. The patriot's honors and the poet's bays. Trumbull.

The whole; all that is to be. [Poetic] Shak.

The pole of a carriage. [Poetic] Dryden.

To be in agitation or doubt. [Poetic] To still my beating mind. Shak .

Full of beauty; beautiful; very handsome. [Mostly poetic] -- Beau"te*ous*ly, adv. --

Beautiful; embellished. [Poetic] Shak.

o appear well; -- said of persons and things. It becomes me so to speak of so excellent a poet. Dryden. I have known persons so anxious to have their dress become them, as to convert it, at length, into their proper self, and thus actually to become the dress. Coleridge.

One who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage vow. [Poetic] Shak.

To befall. [Poetic] I wish all good befortune you. Shak.

Beginning. [Poetic & Obs.] Spenser.

Solicitation; supplication. [Obs. or Poetic] Shak.

To sweep, as with a besom. [Archaic or Poetic] Cowper. Rolls back all Greece, and besoms wide the plain. Barlow.

To speak to; to address. [Poetic] He thus the queen bespoke. Dryden.

To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books. Poe.

Intermediate time or space; interval. [Poetic & R.] Shak.

Hence: Morally distorted; not upright. [Poetic] I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel. Shak. A bevel angle, any angle other than one of 90º. -- Bevel wheel, a cogwheel whose working face is oblique to the axis. Knight.

lease to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance; to enchant. The charms of poetry our souls bewitch. Dryden.

That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable. Poets are far rarer births that kings. B. Jonson. Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself. Addison.

Somewhat; something, but not very great. My young companion was a bit of a poet. T. Hook.

Bitumen. [Poetic] May.