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A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners. Blount.

To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate. The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. Blackstone.

th chair, a kind of chair on wheels, as used by invalids at Bath. "People walked out, or drove out, or were pushed out in their Bath chairs." Dickens. -- Bath metal, an alloy consisting of four and a half ounces of zinc and one pound of copper. -- Bath note, a folded writing paper, 8 1/2 by 14 inches. -- Bath stone,…

Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast. Beastly divinities and droves of gods. Prior.

ave to; as, I beg to inform you. -- To bag the question, to assume that which was to be proved in a discussion, instead of adducing the proof or sustaining the point by argument. -- To go a-begging, a figurative phrase to express the absence of demand for something which elsewhere brings a price; as, grapes are so pl…

One who assumes in argument what he does not prove. Abp. Tillotson.

Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement. I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 2 Cor. xi. 5.

To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.

to gain an advantage over, whether fairly or unfairly. -- To make the best of. (a) To improve to the utmost; to use or dispose of to the greatest advantage. "Let there be freedom to carry their commodities where they can make the best of them." Bacon. (b) To reduce to the least possible inconvenience; as, to make the…

To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause. But when I rise, I shall find my legs betraying me. Johnson.

Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the patient is better.

A making better; amendment; improvement. W. Montagu.

Birchen; as, birken groves. Burns.

Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove. Brande & C.

nding; to conceal; to deceive. Such darkness blinds the sky. Dryden. The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. Stillingfleet.

Having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of approved breed; of the best stock.

To flower; to blossom; to bloom. How blows the citron grove. Milton.

To foreshow something; to augur. Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you. Dryden.

en to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide. Grove.

A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.