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ing one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. A gentleman that is very singular in his behavior. Steele. To be upon one's good behavior, To be put upon one's good behavior, to be in a state of trial, in which…

Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.

Behavior. [Obs.] Blackstone.

Behavior. [Obs.] Sir. T. More.

An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor. The Lord is a Good of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. 1 Sam. ii. 3.

readiness to converse; courteousness in receiving others and in conversation; complaisant behavior. Affability is of a wonderful efficacy or power in procuring love. Elyot

se to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture. He agonized his mother by his behavior. Thackeray.

or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth. "Agrestic behavior." Gregory.

Behavior; bearing. [Obs.] Spenser.

g from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior.

Baboonish behavior. Marryat.

The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage. I know him by his bearing. Shak.

Behavior like that of a bear.

To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain. [Obs.] He did behave his anger ere 't was spent. Shak.

become; to befit. A duty well beseeming the preachers. Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God Hocker.

m.), analysis by means of the blowpipe. -- Blowpipe reaction (Chem.), the characteristic behavior of a substance subjected to a test by means of the blowpipe.

ting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech. "Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behavior." "A plain, blunt man." Shak.

Noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous behavior. I like not that loud, boisterous man. Addison.

An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.

The manners or behavior of a boy.