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A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy.

A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model.

The fashionable world; people of fashion and gayety. Prior.

A small flat curl worn on the temple by women. [Humorous]

A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet. A beaufet . . . filled with gold and silver vessels. Prescott.

See Biffin. Wright.

A scale of wind force devised by Sir F. Beaufort, R. N., in 1805, in which the force is indicated by numbers from 0 to 12.

Like a beau; characteristic of a beau; foppish; fine. "A beauish young spark." Byrom.

A cement used in making joints, filling cracks, etc. For iron, the principal constituents are iron borings and sal ammoniac; for wood, white lead or litharge, whiting, and linseed oil.

A father. [Obs.] Wyclif.

The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.

The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau. [Jocular] Dryden.

Full of beauty; beautiful; very handsome. [Mostly poetic] -- Beau"te*ous*ly, adv. --

Beautiful; embellished. [Poetic] Shak.

One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful.

Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames.

To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish. The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke.

Destitute of beauty. Hammond.

es pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense. Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder. Locke. The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole. Wordsworth. The old definition of…

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