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Behavior; demeanor. [Obs.] Shak.

g 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 s…

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.

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

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

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

Behavior; bearing. [Obs.] Spenser.

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.

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

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

ng 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.