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The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad. [Spelt also baudkin, baudkyn, bawdekin, and baldakin.] Nares.

An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak. Parker.

A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream.

bee; a raising bee. [U. S.] The cellar . . . was dug by a bee in a single day. S. G. Goodrich.

In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded. Rich and much beforehand. Bacon.

age; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate. The rich men will be offering sacrifice to their Deity whose beneficiaries they are. Jer. Taylor.

To spread or cover over. The carpet which bespread His rich pavilion's floor. Glover.

A long, thin, marine fish of Europe (Trichiurus lepturus); the ribbon fish.

rney. "Blarneyed the landlord." Irving. Had blarneyed his way from Long Island. S. G. Goodrich.

A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.

A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively. The rich blooms of the tropics. Prescott.

A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise. In the blossom of my youth. Massinger.

oast of the United States (Callinectes hastatus). -- Blue curls (Bot.), a common plant (Trichostema dichotomum), resembling pennyroyal, and hence called also bastard pennyroyal. -- Blue devils, apparitions supposed to be seen by persons suffering with delirium tremens; hence, very low spirits. "Can Gumbo shut the hal…

The language of the Czechs (the ancient inhabitants of Bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the Slavic family.

In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income. [Colloq. U. S.]

To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition. [Obs.] And I will boot thee with what gift beside Thy modesty can beg. Shak.

ne's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do. Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament. Shak.

twigs. The train whereof loose far behind her strayed, Branched with gold and pearl, most richly wrought. Spenser.

To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin. With arts like these rich Matho, when he speaks, Attracts all fees, and little lawyers breaks. Dryden.

e vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod.