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Hard, indurated clay; bind. Bends of a ship, the thickest and strongest planks in her sides, more generally called wales. They have the beams, knees, and foothooks bolted to them. Also, the frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides; as, the midship bend.

To set upon on all sides; to perplex; to harass; -- said of dangers, obstacles, etc. "Adam, sore beset, replied." Milton. "Beset with ills." Addison. "Incommodities which beset old age." Burke.

One who hides away books, as in a tomb. [R.] Crabb.

Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebræ.

Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens.

One who rides a bicycle.

Pointing two ways, as leaves that grow only on opposite sides of a branch; in two vertical rows.

Flabellate on both sides.

es of certain plants of the order Araceæ. It has an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged.

Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties.

A number that divides another into two equal parts without a remainder.

the related plant, Trigonella ornithopodioides, is also European.

Anything added to raise the sides of a ship. Bailey.

Serrate on both sides, as some antennæ.

A truck for railroad rolling stock, consisting of two ordinary axle boxes sliding in guides attached to a triangular frame; -- called also pony truck.

r end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.

ed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.…

the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei; the largemouthed is M. salmoides.

The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell. De Colange.

thing sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. So Dagon shall be magnified, and God, Besides whom is no god, compared with idols, Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton. How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge thyself on all those who thus continually blaspheme thy great and all-gl…