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A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.

A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet. A beaufet . . . filled with gold and silver vessels. Prescott.

In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison.

A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines.

A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose.

A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.

Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres. "An unlearned, belletristic trifler." M. Arnold.

e whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.

To occupy; to employ; to use up. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To use; to apply; to devote, as time or strength in some occupation.

contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters.

The toy called cup and ball.

One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places.

The art, act, or occupation or catching birds or wild fowls.

e upper faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table. See Brilliant, n.

One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching.

A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not. The new city was laid out in rectangular blocks, each block containing thirty building lots. Such an average block, comprising 282 houses and covering nine acres of ground, exists in Oxford Street. Lond. Quart. Rev.…

The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.

ettled (with some one). -- Bone ash, the residue from calcined bones; -- used for making cupels, and for cleaning jewelry. -- Bone black (Chem.), the black, carbonaceous substance into which bones are converted by calcination in close vessels; -- called also animal charcoal. It is used as a decolorizing material in f…

en or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n.