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

hing to certainty; to exercise belief or faith. Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. Mark ix. 24. With the heart man believeth unto righteousness. Rom. x. 10.

The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.

A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.

A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future. Encyc. Brit.

Marked with a band or circle; as, a belted stalk.

a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river. Bench mark (Leveling), one of a number of marks along a line of survey, affixed to permanent objects, to show where leveling staffs were placed. -- Bench of bishops, the whole body of English prelates assembled in council. -- Bench pl…

The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To pinch, or mark with pinches. Chapman.

ion of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.

To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances. When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so little the figure of a man that it bespoke him rather a monster. Locke.

To mark with speckles or spots. Milton.

To mark with spots, or as with spots.

To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce. Truth shall retire Bestuck with slanderous darts. Milton.

A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei.

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

A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.

Having, or marked with, two spots.

ea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers.

Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple.