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A larva that feeds on aphides.

re in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Dupré, and Diaz. Associated with them are certain painters of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life,…

With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.

Having the feet bare.

The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.

The hollow basal part of a feather. Barrel bulk (Com.), a measure equal to five cubic feet, used in estimating capacity, as of a vessel for freight. -- Barrel drain (Arch.), a drain in the form of a cylindrical tube. -- Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical part of a boiler, containing the flues. -- Barrel of the ear…

d by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant. Base fee, formerly, an estate held at the will of the lord; now, a qualified fee. See note under Fee, n., 4. -- Base metal. See under Metal.

nhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.

ong the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet.

Feeding on frogs. Quart. Rev.

To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten. "Battening our flocks." Milton.

Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.

iller (Zoöl.), a large two-winged fly of the family Asilidæ (esp. Trupanea apivora) which feeds upon the honeybee. See Robber fly. -- Bee louse (Zoöl.), a minute, wingless, dipterous insect (Braula cæca) parasitic on hive bees. -- Bee martin (Zoöl.), the kingbird (Tyrannus Carolinensis) which occasionally feeds on be…

A bird of the genus Merops, that feeds on bees. The European species (M. apiaster) is remarkable for its brilliant colors.

An African bird of the genus Buphaga, which feeds on the larvæ of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two species are known.

s of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.

The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. Bare benting times . . . may come. Dryden.

The coffee bean.

A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.

rt; -- with on or upon. Empire is on us bestowed. Cowper. Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor. 1 Cor. xiii. 3.