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of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand. Beach flea (Zoöl.), the common name of many species of amphipod Crustacea, of the family Orchestidæ, living on the sea beaches, and leaping like fleas. -- Beach grass (Bot.), a coarse grass (Ammophila arundinacea), growing on the…

A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber. [Amer.]

Bordered by a beach. The beached verge of the salt flood. Shak.

Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly. The beachy girdle of the ocean. Shak.

A beach lying along the sea. "The bleak seabeach." Longfellow.

downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca.

the back of. A garden . . . with a vineyard backed. Shak. The chalk cliffs which back the beach. Huxley.

hasty luncheon. Bait bug (Zoöl), a crustacean of the genus Hippa found burrowing in sandy beaches. See Anomura.

ar The common growth of earth, the foodful ear. Wordsworth. At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach. Longfellow.

p bank, as by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face. Beach, bluff, and wave, adieu. Whittier.

To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t. To watch the crisping ripples on the beach. Tennuson.

A mooring post on a wharf or beach.

A believer in fetiches. He was by nature a fetichist. H. Holbeach.

itating repulse; as, to put a flea in one's ear; to go away with a flea in one's ear. -- Beach flea, Black flea, etc. See under Beach, etc.

To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand. When we were fallen into a place between two seas, they graveled the ship. Acts xxvii. 41 (Rhemish version). Willam the Conqueror . . . chanced as his arrival to be graveled; and one of his feet stuck so fast in the s…

A frame of woodwork across a beach to accumulate and retain shingle. [Eng.] Weale.

d dry, out of water; out of reach of the current or tide; -- said of a vessel, aground or beached. -- High and mighty arrogant; overbearing. [Colloq.] -- High art, art which deals with lofty and dignified subjects and is characterized by an elevated style avoiding all meretricious display. -- High bailiff, the chief…

Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil. "The hungry beach." Shak.

having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back. It is found burrowing in sandy beaches, both in America and Europe, and is used for bait by European fishermen. Called also lobworm, and baitworm.

A margin; border; brink; edge. [Obs.] The beached margent of the sea. Shak.