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A prayer. [Obs.]

A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are direc…

A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.

The state or position of beds and layers.

ed in the gospel. Thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers. Book of Com. Prayer.

To bow in prayer, or in token of submission. While each to his great Father bends. Coleridge.

A prayer; boon. [Archaic] What is good for a bootless bene Wordsworth.

tin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel.

A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness. So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus Followed with benediction. Milton. Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. Longfellow. Specifically:…

Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer. Thackeray.

seeming the preachers. Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God Hocker.

o bid beads, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.] -- To bid defiance to , to defy openly; to brave. -- To bid fair, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely.

oceedings. Bouvier. Wharton. -- Bill of parcels, an account given by the seller to the buyer of the several articles purchased, with the price of each. -- Bill of particulars (Law), a detailed statement of the items of a plaintiff's demand in an action, or of the defendant's set-off. -- Bill of rights, a summary of…

ith ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

the receiver of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet.

legs and feet, bright red comb and wattles, and white face. They are remarkable as egg layers.

posed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny. To remove as far as he can the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen. C. Kingsley.

in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a. If you blacklist us, we will boycott you. John Swinton.

A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

One who bleats; a sheep. In cold, stiff soils the bleaters oft complain Of gouty ails. Dyer.