(559)-Fåte, får, fåll, fát ;-mè, mêt ;-pine, pin ;

'BATTER, bât'tůr. s. A mixture of several ingredients beaten together. BATTERER, bat'tur-rår. s. He that

no, move, nor, nôt;-tube, tůb, båll:-oil;-pound;-thin, THIS.

BEADSMAN, beedz'mân. s. A man employed in praying for another.

BEAGLE, begl. s. (227) (405). A small

hound with which hares are hunted.

BEAK, béke. S. (227). The bill or hor-
ney mouth of a bird; a piece of brass like
a beak, fixed at the head of the ancient gal-
lies; any thing ending in a point like a
beak.

BEAKED, be'ked, or bekt. a. (362).
Having a beak.

BEAKER, be'kůr. s. (98). A cup with
a spout in the form of a bird's beak.
BEAL, bèle. s. (227).

A whelk or

pimple. BEAM, bème. s. (227). The main piece of timber that supports the lofts of a house; any large and long piece of timber; that part of a balance, to the ends of which the scales are suspended; a cylindrical piece of wood belonging to the loom, on which the web is gradually rolled as it is wove; the ray of light emitted from some luminous body.

BEAM-TREE, beme'trèè. s. Wildser

vice.

BEAMY, be'mè. a. Radiant, shining;

emitting beams; having horns or antlers. BEAN, bene. s. (227). The common garden bean; the horse bean. BEAN-CAPER, bene'kå-pår. s. A plant. TO BEAR, båre. v. a. (240). To carry as a burden; to convey or carry; to carry as a mark of authority; to carry as a mark of distinction; to support, to keep from falling; to carry in the mind, as love, hate; to endure, as pain, without sinking; to suffer, to undergo; to produce, as fruit; to bring forth, as a child; to support any thing good or bad; to behave; to impel, to urge, to push; to press; to bear in hand; to amuse with false pretences, to deceive; to bear off, to carry away by force; to bear out, to support, to maintain. TO BEAR, bare. v. n. (73). To suffer pain; to be patient; to be fruitful or prolifick; to tend, to be directed to any point; to behave; to be situated with respect to other places; to bear up, to stand firm without falling; to bear with, to endure an unpleasing thing.

BEAR, båre. s. (73). A rough savage animal; the name of two constellations called the Greater and Lesser Bear: in the tail of the Lesser Bear is the Pole star.

BEAR-BIND, bare'bind. s. A species of

bind-weed.

BEAR-FLY, bare'fli. s. An insect.
BEAR-GARDEN, båre'gâr-dn. s. A place

in which bears are kept for sport; any place of tumult or misrule.

BEAR'S-BREECH, bårz'britsh. s.

The

The name

name of a plant. BEAR'S-EAR, bårz'èèr. s. of a plant. The Auricula. BEAR'S-FOOT, barz'fût. s. A species of

hellebore.

BEAR'S-WORT, bârzʼwûrt. s. (165). An herb.

BEARD, beerd'. s. (228). The hair that grows on the lips and chin; sharp prickles growing upon the ears of corn; a barb on an arrow.

This word, as Dr. Kenrick observes, is frequently pronounced so as to rhyme with herd: but I am of his opinion that this pronunciation is improper. Mr. Scott and Mr. Perry give it both ways. Buchanan sounds it short, like Mr. Sheridan. W. Johnston makes it rhyme with laird, a Scotch lord: but Mr. Elphinstone, who is the most accurate observer of pronunciation I ever met with, gives it as I have done. The stage has, in my opinion, adopted the short sound of the dipthong without good reason, and in this instance ought not to be followed; as the long sound is not only more agreeable to analogy, but to general usage. I am glad to find my opinion confirmed by so good a judge as Mr. Smith; and though the poets so often sacrifice pronunciation to rhyme, that their authority, in these cases, is not always decisive, yet, as Shakspeare says on another occasion, "They still may help to thicken other proofs "That do demonstrate thinly."--Othello. "Rail'd at their covenant and jeer'd "Their reverend persons to my beard."

Hudibras. "Some thin remains of chastity appear'd "Ev'n under Jove, but Jove without a beard.” Dryden.

The impropriety of pronouncing this word as
it is heard on the stage, will, perhaps, ap-
pear more perceptible by carrying this
pronunciation into the compounds, as the
false sound of great may be detected by the
phrase Alexander the Great (241).

"Old prophesies fortel our fall at hand,
"When bearded men in floating castles land.
"And as young striplings whip the top for

sport,

"On the smooth pavement of an empty court,

"The wooden engine flies and whirls about, "Admir'd with clamours of the beardless rout." Dryden.

To BEARD, beêrd. v. a. To take or pluck by the beard; to oppose to the face.

K

(559)-Fåte, får, fåll, fât ;-mè, mêt ;-pine, pin ;

BEARDED, béérd'êd. a. Having a beard;
having sharp prickles, as corn; barbed, or
jagged.
BEARDLESS, bèèrd'lês. a.
beard; youthful.

Without a BEARER, båre'ůr. s. (98). A carrier of any thing; one employed in carrying burdens; one who wears any thing; one who carries the body to the grave; one who supports the pall at a funeral; a tree that yields its produce; in architecture, a post or brick wall raised up between the ends of a piece of timber.

BLARHERD, båre’hård. s. A man that

tends bears.

a brutal savage man.

BEASTLINESS, bèèst'lè-nés. s. Brutality. BEASTLY, bèèst'lè. a. Brutal, contrary to the nature and dignity of man; having the nature or form of beasts.

TO BEAT, bête. v. a. (227) (233). To strike, to knock; to punish with stripes; to

mark the time in music; to give repeated blows; to strike ground; to rouse gam; to mix things by long and frequent agitation; to batter with engines of war; to make a path by treading it; to conquer, to subdue, to vanquish; to harass, to over-labour; to depress; to deprive by violence; to move with fluttering agitation; to beat down; to lessen the price demanded; to beat up, to attack suddenly; to beat the hoof, to walk, to go on foot.

The past time of this verb is by the English uniformly pronounced like the preSent. Nay, except in solemu language, the present, preterit and participle are exactly the same; while the Irish, more agreeably to analogy, as well as utility, pronounce the preterit as the noun bet, a wager; and this pronunciation, though contrary to English usage, is quite conformable to that general tendency observable in the preterits of irregular verbs, which is to shorten the

vowel that is long in the present, as eat, ate,

(often pronounced et); hear, heard; deal,

dealt; mean, meant; dream, dreamt ; &c. TO BEAT, bête. v. n. To move in a pulsatory manner; to dash, as a flood or storm; to knock at a door; to throb, to be in agitation; to fluctuate, to be in motion; To try in different ways, to search; to act

upon with violence; to enforce by repetir
tion.

BEAT, bête. 9. A stroke, or a striking.
BEATEN, be'tn. particip. (103). From

BEAT.

BEATER, be'tår. s. (98). An instrument with which any thing is beaten; & person much given to blows. BEATIFICAL, bè-â-tîf'è-kâl. BEATIFICK, bè-â-tif ̃îk. (509).

Blissful. It is used only of heavenly frui tion after death.

BEATIFICALLY, bê-â-tif'è-kâl-lé. ad. In such a manner as to complete happiness. BEATIFICATION, bé-ât'è-fè-ka'shůn. S Beatification is an acknowledgment made by the Pope, that the person beatified is in heaven, and therefore may be reverenced as blessed.

TO BEATIFY, be-ât'è-fi. v. a. (183). Te bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.

BEATING, bete'ing. s. (410). Correc

tion by blows.

BEATITUDE, bè-ât'è-túde. s.

Blessedness, felicity, happiness; a declaration of blessedness made by our Saviour to particu lar virtues.

BEAU,bò. S. (245) (481). A man of dress.
BEAVER, bee'vûr. s. (227) (98). An

animal, otherwise named the castor, amphi bious, and remarkable for his art in building his habitation; a hat of the best kind; the part of a helmet that covers the face. BEAVERED, bee'vård. a. (362). Cover

ed with a beaver.

-no, môve, nôr, nốt ;-tube, tüb, båll ;-ỏil;-pound;—thin, THIS

BECAFICO, bêk-á-fè'kỏ. s. (112). A
bird like a nightingale, a fig-pecker.
To BECALM, bé-kåm'. v. a. (403).
To still the elements; to keep a ship from
motion; to quiet the mind.
BECAME, bé-kåme'. The preterit of

Become.

BECAUSE, bé-kawz'. conjunct. For this reason; for; on this account.

To BECHANCE, be-tshânse'. v. n. To befal, to happen to. (352).

To BECK, bek. v. a. To make a sign with the head.

BECK, bek. s. A sign with the head, a nod; a nod of command.

TO BECKON, bêk'kn. v. n. (170). To make a sign.

To BECLIP, bé-klip'. v. a. To embrace.

TO BECOME, bè-kům'. v. a. To enter into some state or condition; to become of, to be the fate of, to be the end of.

TO BECOME, bé-kům'. v. a. To appear
in a manner suitable to something, to be
suitable to the person; to befit.
BECOMING, bé-kům'ming. part. a.
That which pleases by an elegant propric-
ty, graceful. (410.)

BECOMINGLY, bè-kům'ming-lè. ad.
After a becoming manner.
BECOMINGNESS, ké-kům'ming-nês. s.
Elegant congruity, propriety.
BED, bed. s. Something made to sleep
on; lodging; marriage; bank of earth rais-
ed in a garden; the channel of a river, or
any hollow; the place where any thing is
generated; a layer, a stratum; To bring to
BED, to deliver of a child; To make the
BED, to put the bed in order after it has

been used.

TO BED, bed. v. a. To go to bed with;

to be placed in bed; to be made partaker of the bed; to sow, or plant in earth; to lay in, a place of rest; to lay in order, in

strata.

BEDCLOATHS, bêd'cloze. s. Coverlets
spread over a bed.

BEDDING, bed'ding. s. (410). The
To deck,

materials of a bed.
TO BEDECK, bè-dėk'. v. a.
to adorn.

To BEDEW, bè dù. v. a. To moisten
gently, as with fall of dew,
BEDFELLOW, béd'fêl-lò. s. One that

(559).-Fåte, får, fåll, fât;-mẻ, mêt;-pine, pin ;

BEDWORK, bed'wůrk. s. Work per-
formed without toil of the hands.
BEE, bee, s. The animal that makes
honey; an industrious and careful person.
BEE-EATER, bèè'è-tùr. s. A bird that
feeds upon bees.

BEEFLOWER, bèè'flöù-ûr. s. A spe

cies of fool-stones.

S. One

BEE-GARDEN, bée'går-dn. s. (103).
A place to set hives of bees in.
BEE-HIVE, bèè'hive. s. The case, or
box in which bees are kept.
BEE-MASTER, bèè'mâs tůr.
that keeps bees.
BEECH, beetsh. s. A tree.
BEECHEN, bee'tshn. a. (103). Con-
sisting of the wood of the beech.
BEEF, beef. s. The flesh of black
cattle prepared for food; an ox, bull, or
COW. It has the plural Beeves.
BEEF-EATER, bèèf'è-tůr. s. A yeo-
man of the guard.—Probably a corruption

of the French word Beaufetier, one who at-
tends at the sideboard, which was ancient-
ly placed in a Beaufet.
BEEN, bin. The participle preterit of

To be.

This word, in the solemn, as well as the familiar style, has shared the fate of most of those words, which, from their nature, are in the most frequent use. It is scarcely ever heard otherwise than as the noun bin,a repository for corn or wine, and must be placed among those deviations which language is al

ways liable to in such words as are auxiliary or subordinate to others; for,as those parts of bodies which are the most frequently handled grow the soonest smooth by constant friction, so such words as are in continual use seem to wear off their articulations, and become more irregular than others. So low as the age of James the First, I have seen this word spelled Byn.

BEER, beer. s. Liquor made of malt

and hops.

BEET, bèèt. s. The name of a plant.
BEETLE, bee'tl. s. (405). An insect
distinguished by having hard cases or
sheaths, under which he folds his wings; a
heavy mallet.

BEETLEBROWED, béé'tl-broud.
Having prominent brows. (362).
BEETLEHEADED,
bee'tl-hêd-éd.

Logger-headed, having a stupid head.
BEETLESTOCK, bèè'tl-stôk. S.

a.

BEEVES, béèvz. s. Black cattle, oxen To BEFALL, be-fawl'. v. n. To happen to; to come to pass.

To BEFIT, be-fit'. v. a. To suit, to

be suitable to.

To BEFOOL, bẻ-fôôl'. v. a. To infa tuate, to fool.

BEFORE, bé-fòre'. prep. Further onward in place; in the front of; not behind; in the presence of; under the cognizance of; preceding in time; in preference to; prior to; superior to.

BEFORE, bé-fore'. ad. Sooner than; earlier in time; in time past; in some time lately past; previously to; to this time; hitherto; further onward in place. BEFOREHAND, be-fore hånd. ad. In a state of anticipation or preoccupation; previously, by way of preparation; in a state of accumulation, or so as that more has been received than expended; at first, before any thing is done.

BEFORETIME, bè-fore'time. ad. For

merly.

To BEFORTUNE, bé-for'tshůne. v. n. (461). To betide.

TO BEFOUL, bé-fôùl'. v. a. To make
foul, to soil.

To BEFRIEND, bé-frend'. v.
a. To
favour; to be kind to.
TO BEFRINGE, be-frînje'. v. a. To de-
corate, as with fringes.
To BEG, beg. v. n. To live
TO BEG, beg. v. a. To ask, to seek by

upon

alms.

petition; to take any thing for granted. TO BEGET, bè-gêt'. v. a. To generate; to procreate; to produce, as effects; to produce, as accidents.

BEGETTER, be-gét'tůr. s. (98). He
that procreates, or begets.
BEGGAR, bég'går. s. (418). One who
lives upon alms; a petitioner; one who as-
sumes what he does not prove.

To BEGGAR, beg'går. v. a. To reduce
to beggary, to impoverish; to deprive; to
exhaust.

BEGGARLINESS, bêg'går-le-nès. s.
The state of being beggarly.
BEGGARLY, beg går-le. a. Mean,
poor, indigent.

BEGGARY, beg'gré. s. Indigence.
a. To BEGIN, bè-gin'. v. n. To enter
upon something new; to commence any ac-
tion or state; to enter upon existence; to
have its original; to take rise; to come
into act.

The

s. Beet.

TO BEGIN, be-gin'. v. a. To do the first act of any thing; to trace from any