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At the same time; simultaneously. [Obs.] Abreast therewith began a convocation. Fuller.

ublic at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely. He went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter. Mark i. 45. To be abroad. (a) To be wide of the mark; to be at fault; as, you are all abroad in your guess. (b) To be at a loss or nonplused.

Companionship; acquaintance. [Obs.] About forty years past, I began a happy affinity with William Cranmer. Burton.

Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs. [Colloq.] Richardson. The man of law began to get into his altitude. Sir W. Scott. Meridian altitude, an arc of the meridian intercepted between the south point on the horizon and any point on the meridian. See Meridian, 3.

. "I am ashamed to beg." Wyclif. All that forsake thee shall be ashamed. Jer. xvii. 13. I began to be ashamed of sitting idle. Johnson. Enough to make us ashamed of our species. Macaulay. An ashamed person can hardly endure to meet the gaze of those present. Darwin.

d adviser; an associate in office. Whence to his Son, The assessor of his throne, he thus began. Milton. With his ignorance, his inclinations, and his fancy, as his assessors in judgment. I. Taylor.

[Archaic] "The waters assuaged." Gen. vii. 1. The plague being come to a crisis, its fury began to assuage. De Foe.

endent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Vast chain of being! which from God began. Pope.

the United States, September 24, 1869, and September 18, 1873, on which financial panics began.

light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp. The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink. Wordsworth. The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . Sir W. Scott.

om; to flower or be in flower. A flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom. Milton.

To mock or delude; to cheat. To play her pranks, and bob the fool, The shrewish wife began. Turbervile.

editors of the "Acta Sanctorum", or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work.

The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.

et must have time to grow, And spread and burnish as his brothers do. Dryden. My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell. Herbert.

on based on cirumstances. The lazy gossips of the port, Abborrent of a calculation crost, Began to chafe as at a personal wrong. Tennyson.

an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry.

To bite or chew impatiently. They began . . . irefully to champ upon the bit. Hooker.

, of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Médoc in France). (b) The wild cherry; as, prunus serotina (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; P. Virginiana (choke cherry), an…