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of Eat. Chaucer.

Same as Afrit.

A powerful evil jinnee, demon, or monstrous giant.

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 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.

ed 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).

To meet. [Obs.] Our very loving sister, well bemet. Shak.

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

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.

A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street. He seeks by-streets, and saves the expensive coach. Gay.