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Same as Barkentine.

, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.

The upward direction of a vein in a mine; the emergence of a stratum at the surface.

See Bastinado, n.

A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet.

A mode of printing on glazed ware.

With the exception of; excepting. We have little reason to think that they bring many ideas with them, bating some faint ideas of hunger and thirst. Locke.

Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting.

See Biestings.

Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.

Same as Biestings.

Suitable; proper; becoming; fitting.

In a befitting manner; suitably.

See Beltane.

The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively.

Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet.

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

Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin.

In a besotting manner.

ven by a cow after calving. B. Jonson. The thick and curdy milk . . . commonly called biestings. Newton. (1574).