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A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.

Same as Beetrave.

To mend; to repair. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ted to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine. Knight.

An overhanging brow.

Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen.

Dull; stupid. Shak.

A stupid fellow; a blockhead. Sir W. Scott.

The handle of a beetle.

The common beet (Beta vulgaris).

A bark beetle that feeds on ambrosia.

A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidæ), which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.

A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio.

See Elater.

A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.

See 1st Dor.

A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other species. See Firefly.

A small beetle of the family Halticidæ, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas. The turnip flea- beetle (Phyllotreta vittata) and that of the grapevine (Graptodera chalybea) are common injurious species.

Any species of Goliathus, a genus of very large and handsome African beetles.

A small black dermestoid beetle (Attagenus piceus) whose larva feeds on tapestry, carpets, silk, fur, flour, and various other goods.