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A drop of sweat or other liquid. "Cold beads of midnight dew." Wordsworth.

ssel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat. Knight.

The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.

The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile. Knight.

Moist with dew; dewy. [Obs.] Night with her bedewy wings. A. Brewer.

A nightgown.

process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine. Knight.

Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted. "Some belated peasant." Milton. -- Be*lat"ed*ness, n. Milton.

properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade.

who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton.

A token or badge of knightly rank.

, a belt; as, a belted plaid; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; as, a belted knight; a belted earl.

encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt. Bemired and benighted in the dog. Burke.

A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.) "The night of her bespeak." Dickens.

e; -- followed by a reflexive pronoun. [Obs.] How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night in his true colors, and not ourselves be seen Shak.

than one of 90º. -- Bevel wheel, a cogwheel whose working face is oblique to the axis. Knight.

A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle. Knight.

A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth. Knight.

A child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head. An old woman's biggin for a nightcap. Massinger.

A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap. Knight.