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ering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds. (b) A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles. (c) The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. (d) The upper or projecting par…

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

Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

s Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.

A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.

to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock. Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded. Wordsworth.

called also propolis. -- Bee hawk (Zoöl.), the honey buzzard. -- Bee killer (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 (Zo…

One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person.

ies of mites, of the family Oribatidæ, parasitic on beetles. -- Black beetle, the common large black cockroach (Blatta orientalis).

sonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade.

A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple. [Written also bellefleur.]

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.

A large mass or hill, as of ice. Glittering bergs of ice. Tennyson .

The large white lily (Lilium longiflorum eximium, syn. L. Harrisii) which is extensively cultivated in Bermuda.

A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.

Most; largest; as, the best part of a week. Best man, the only or principal groomsman at a wedding ceremony.

Greater in amount; larger; more.

Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large. "He's too big to go in there." Shak.

The large white-heart cherry.

A fish of the genus Priacanthus, remarkable for the large size of the eye.