Keep \Keep\ (k[emac]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[?]pen, AS. c[?]pan to keep, regard,
      desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE.
      copnien to desire.]
      1. To care; to desire. [Obs.]
  
                     I kepe not of armes for to yelp [boast]. --Chaucer.
  
      2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let
            go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to
            lose; to retain; to detain.
  
                     If we lose the field, We can not keep the town.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     That I may know what keeps me here with you.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
                     If we would weigh and keep in our minds what we are
                     considering, that would instruct us.   --Locke.
  
      3. To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to
            maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or
            tenor.
  
                     His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal. --Milton.
  
                     Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
      Note: In this sense it is often used with prepositions and
               adverbs, as to keep away, to keep down, to keep from,
               to keep in, out, or off, etc. [bd]To keep off
               impertinence and solicitation from his superior.[b8]
               --Addison.
  
      4. To have in custody; to have in some place for
            preservation; to take charge of.
  
                     The crown of Stephanus, first king of Hungary, was
                     always kept in the castle of Vicegrade. --Knolles.
  
      5. To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard.
  
                     Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee. --Gen.
                                                                              xxviii. 15.
  
      6. To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to
            communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret.
  
                     Great are thy virtues . . . though kept from man.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      7. To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend.
  
                     And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the
                     garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. --Gen.
                                                                              ii. 15.
  
                     In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.
                                                                              --Carew.
  
      8. To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to
            keep books, a journal, etc.; also, to enter (as accounts,
            records, etc. ) in a book.
  
      9. To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the
            like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store.
  
                     Like a pedant that keeps a school.      --Shak.
  
                     Every one of them kept house by himself. --Hayward.
  
      10. To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to
            keep boarders.
  
      11. To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an
            assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc.
  
                     I keep but three men and a boy.         --Shak.
  
      12. To have habitually in stock for sale.
  
      13. To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to
            intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to
            keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession.
  
                     Both day and night did we keep company. --Shak.
  
                     Within this portal as I kept my watch. --Smollett.
  
      14. To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from
            or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to
            neglect; to be faithful to.
  
                     I have kept the faith.                     --2 Tim. iv.
                                                                              7.
  
                     Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great
                     command.                                          --Milton.
  
      15. To confine one's self to; not to quit; to remain in; as,
            to keep one's house, room, bed, etc.; hence, to haunt; to
            frequent. --Shak.
  
                     'Tis hallowed ground; Fairies, and fawns, and
                     satyrs do it keep.                           --J. Fletcher.
  
      16. To observe duty, as a festival, etc.; to celebrate; to
            solemnize; as, to keep a feast.
  
                     I went with them to the house of God . . . with a
                     multitude that kept holyday.            --Ps. xlii. 4.
  
      {To keep at arm's length}. See under {Arm}, n.
  
      {To keep back}.
            (a) To reserve; to withhold. [bd]I will keep nothing back
                  from you.[b8] --Jer. xlii. 4.
            (b) To restrain; to hold back. [bd]Keep back thy servant
                  also from presumptuous sins.[b8] --Ps. xix. 13.
  
      {To keep company with}.
            (a) To frequent the society of; to associate with; as,
                  let youth keep company with the wise and good.
            (b) To accompany; to go with; as, to keep company with
                  one on a voyage; also, to pay court to, or accept
                  attentions from, with a view to marriage. [Colloq.]
                 
  
      {To keep counsel}. See under {Counsel}, n.
  
      {To keep down}.
            (a) To hold in subjection; to restrain; to hinder.
            (b) (Fine Arts) To subdue in tint or tone, as a portion
                  of a picture, so that the spectator's attention may
                  not be diverted from the more important parts of the
                  work.
  
      {To keep good} ([or] {bad}) {hours}, to be customarily early
            (or late) in returning home or in retiring to rest. -- {To
      keep house}.
            (a) To occupy a separate house or establishment, as with
                  one's family, as distinguished from boarding; to
                  manage domestic affairs.
            (b) (Eng. Bankrupt Law) To seclude one's self in one's
                  house in order to evade the demands of creditors. --
      {To keep one's hand in}, to keep in practice. -- {To keep
      open house}, to be hospitable. -- {To keep the peace} (Law),
            to avoid or to prevent a breach of the peace. -- {To keep
      school}, to govern, manage and instruct or teach a school, as
            a preceptor. -- {To keep a stiff upper lip}, to keep up
            one's courage. [Slang] -- {To keep term}.
            (a) (Eng. Universities) To reside during a term.
            (b) (Inns of Court) To eat a sufficient number of dinners
                  in hall to make the term count for the purpose of
                  being called to the bar. [Eng.] --Mozley & W.
  
      {To keep touch}. See under {Touch}, n.
  
      {To keep under}, to hold in subjection; hence, to oppress.
  
      {To keep up}.
            (a) To maintain; to prevent from falling or diminution;
                  as, to keep up the price of goods; to keep up one's
                  credit.
            (b) To maintain; to continue; to prevent from ceasing.
                  [bd]In joy, that which keeps up the action is the
                  desire to continue it.[b8] --Locke.
  
      Syn: To retain; detain; reserve; preserve; hold; restrain;
               maintain; sustain; support; withhold. -- To {Keep}.
  
      Usage: {Retain}, {Preserve}. Keep is the generic term, and is
                  often used where retain or preserve would too much
                  restrict the meaning; as, to keep silence, etc. Retain
                  denotes that we keep or hold things, as against
                  influences which might deprive us of them, or reasons
                  which might lead us to give them up; as, to retain
                  vivacity in old age; to retain counsel in a lawsuit;
                  to retain one's servant after a reverse of fortune.
                  Preserve denotes that we keep a thing against agencies
                  which might lead to its being destroyed or broken in
                  upon; as, to preserve one's health; to preserve
                  appearances.

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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Weather \Weath"er\, n. [OE. weder, AS. weder; akin to OS. wedar,       OFries. weder, D. weder, we[88]r, G. wetter, OHG. wetar,       Icel. ve[edh]r, Dan. veir, Sw. v[84]der wind, air, weather,       and perhaps to OSlav. vedro fair weather; or perhaps to Lith.       vetra storm, Russ. vieter', vietr', wind, and E. wind. Cf.       {Wither}.]       1. The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or             cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or             cloudiness, or any other meteorological phenomena;             meteorological condition of the atmosphere; as, warm             weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc.                         Not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather.                                                                               --Shak.                         Fair weather cometh out of the north. --Job xxxvii.                                                                               22.          2. Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation             of the state of the air. --Bacon.          3. Storm; tempest.                         What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud My                      thoughts presage!                              --Dryden.          4. A light rain; a shower. [Obs.] --Wyclif.          {Stress of weather}, violent winds; force of tempests.          {To make fair weather}, to flatter; to give flattering             representations. [R.]          {To make good}, [or] {bad}, {weather} (Naut.), to endure a             gale well or ill; -- said of a vessel. --Shak.          {Under the weather}, ill; also, financially embarrassed.             [Colloq. U. S.] --Bartlett.          {Weather box}. Same as {Weather house}, below. --Thackeray.          {Weather breeder}, a fine day which is supposed to presage             foul weather.          {Weather bureau}, a popular name for the signal service. See             {Signal service}, under {Signal}, a. [U. S.]          {Weather cloth} (Naut.), a long piece of canvas of tarpaulin             used to preserve the hammocks from injury by the weather             when stowed in the nettings.          {Weather door}. (Mining) See {Trapdoor}, 2.          {Weather gall}. Same as {Water gall}, 2. [Prov. Eng.]             --Halliwell.          {Weather house}, a mechanical contrivance in the form of a             house, which indicates changes in atmospheric conditions             by the appearance or retirement of toy images.                         Peace to the artist whose ingenious thought Devised                      the weather house, that useful toy!   --Cowper.          {Weather molding}, [or]          {Weather moulding} (Arch.), a canopy or cornice over a door             or a window, to throw off the rain.          {Weather of a windmill sail}, the obliquity of the sail, or             the angle which it makes with its plane of revolution.          {Weather report}, a daily report of meteorological             observations, and of probable changes in the weather;             esp., one published by government authority.          {Weather spy}, a stargazer; one who foretells the weather.             [R.] --Donne.          {Weather strip} (Arch.), a strip of wood, rubber, or other             material, applied to an outer door or window so as to             cover the joint made by it with the sill, casings, or             threshold, in order to exclude rain, snow, cold air, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bad \Bad\ (b[acr]d), imp. of {Bid}.       Bade. [Obs.] --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bad \Bad\ (b[acr]d), a. [Compar. {Worse}; superl. {Worst}. ]       [Probably fr. AS. b[91]ddel hermaphrodite; cf. b[91]dling       effeminate fellow.]       Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious,       hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or       defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious;       wicked; -- the opposite of {good}; as, a bad man; bad       conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad       news.          Note: Sometimes used substantively.                            The strong antipathy of good to bad. --Pope.          Syn: Pernicious; deleterious; noxious; baneful; injurious;                hurtful; evil; vile; wretched; corrupt; wicked; vicious;                imperfect.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bid \Bid\ (b[icr]d), v. t. [imp. {Bade} (b[acr]d), {Bid}, (Obs.)       {Bad}; p. p. {Bidden}, {Bid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bidding}.]       [OE. bidden, prop to ask, beg, AS. biddan; akin to OS.       biddian, Icel. bi[edh]ja, OHG. bittan, G. bitten, to pray,       ask, request, and E. bead, also perh. to Gr. teiqein to       persuade, L. fidere to trust, E. faith, and bide. But this       word was early confused with OE. beden, beoden, AS.       be[a2]dan, to offer, command; akin to Icel. bj[omac][edh]a,       Goth. biudan (in comp.), OHG. biotan to command, bid, G.       bieten, D. bieden, to offer, also to Gr. pynqa`nesqai to       learn by inquiry, Skr. budh to be awake, to heed, present       OSlav. bud[emac]ti to be awake, E. bode, v. The word now has       the form of OE. bidden to ask, but the meaning of OE. beden       to command, except in [bd]to bid beads.[b8] [root]30.]       1. To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer             to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at             auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be             done under a contract).          2. To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a             threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid             good morning, farewell, etc.                         Neither bid him God speed.                  --2. John 10.                         He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. --Granrille.          3. To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. [Mostly             obs.] [bd]Our banns thrice bid ![b8] --Gay.          4. To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.                         That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. --Pope                         Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. --Matt.                                                                               xiv. 28                         I was bid to pick up shells.               --D. Jerrold.          5. To invite; to call in; to request to come.                         As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.                                                                               --Matt. xxii.                                                                               9          {To bid beads}, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics;             to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.]          {To bid defiance to}, to defy openly; to brave.          {To bid fair}, to offer a good prospect; to make fair             promise; to seem likely.          Syn: To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command;                direct; charge; enjoin.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Keep \Keep\ (k[emac]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept}; p. pr. & vb.       n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[?]pen, AS. c[?]pan to keep, regard,       desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE.       copnien to desire.]       1. To care; to desire. [Obs.]                         I kepe not of armes for to yelp [boast]. --Chaucer.          2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let             go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to             lose; to retain; to detain.                         If we lose the field, We can not keep the town.                                                                               --Shak.                         That I may know what keeps me here with you.                                                                               --Dryden.                         If we would weigh and keep in our minds what we are                      considering, that would instruct us.   --Locke.          3. To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to             maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or             tenor.                         His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal. --Milton.                         Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on.                                                                               --Addison.          Note: In this sense it is often used with prepositions and                adverbs, as to keep away, to keep down, to keep from,                to keep in, out, or off, etc. [bd]To keep off                impertinence and solicitation from his superior.[b8]                --Addison.          4. To have in custody; to have in some place for             preservation; to take charge of.                         The crown of Stephanus, first king of Hungary, was                      always kept in the castle of Vicegrade. --Knolles.          5. To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard.                         Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee. --Gen.                                                                               xxviii. 15.          6. To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to             communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret.                         Great are thy virtues . . . though kept from man.                                                                               --Milton.          7. To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend.                         And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the                      garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. --Gen.                                                                               ii. 15.                         In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.                                                                               --Carew.          8. To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to             keep books, a journal, etc.; also, to enter (as accounts,             records, etc. ) in a book.          9. To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the             like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store.                         Like a pedant that keeps a school.      --Shak.                         Every one of them kept house by himself. --Hayward.          10. To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to             keep boarders.          11. To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an             assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc.                         I keep but three men and a boy.         --Shak.          12. To have habitually in stock for sale.          13. To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to             intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to             keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession.                         Both day and night did we keep company. --Shak.                         Within this portal as I kept my watch. --Smollett.          14. To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from             or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to             neglect; to be faithful to.                         I have kept the faith.                     --2 Tim. iv.                                                                               7.                         Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great                      command.                                          --Milton.          15. To confine one's self to; not to quit; to remain in; as,             to keep one's house, room, bed, etc.; hence, to haunt; to             frequent. --Shak.                         'Tis hallowed ground; Fairies, and fawns, and                      satyrs do it keep.                           --J. Fletcher.          16. To observe duty, as a festival, etc.; to celebrate; to             solemnize; as, to keep a feast.                         I went with them to the house of God . . . with a                      multitude that kept holyday.            --Ps. xlii. 4.          {To keep at arm's length}. See under {Arm}, n.          {To keep back}.             (a) To reserve; to withhold. [bd]I will keep nothing back                   from you.[b8] --Jer. xlii. 4.             (b) To restrain; to hold back. [bd]Keep back thy servant                   also from presumptuous sins.[b8] --Ps. xix. 13.          {To keep company with}.             (a) To frequent the society of; to associate with; as,                   let youth keep company with the wise and good.             (b) To accompany; to go with; as, to keep company with                   one on a voyage; also, to pay court to, or accept                   attentions from, with a view to marriage. [Colloq.]                            {To keep counsel}. See under {Counsel}, n.          {To keep down}.             (a) To hold in subjection; to restrain; to hinder.             (b) (Fine Arts) To subdue in tint or tone, as a portion                   of a picture, so that the spectator's attention may                   not be diverted from the more important parts of the                   work.          {To keep good} ([or] {bad}) {hours}, to be customarily early             (or late) in returning home or in retiring to rest. -- {To       keep house}.             (a) To occupy a separate house or establishment, as with                   one's family, as distinguished from boarding; to                   manage domestic affairs.             (b) (Eng. Bankrupt Law) To seclude one's self in one's                   house in order to evade the demands of creditors. --       {To keep one's hand in}, to keep in practice. -- {To keep       open house}, to be hospitable. -- {To keep the peace} (Law),             to avoid or to prevent a breach of the peace. -- {To keep       school}, to govern, manage and instruct or teach a school, as             a preceptor. -- {To keep a stiff upper lip}, to keep up             one's courage. [Slang] -- {To keep term}.             (a) (Eng. Universities) To reside during a term.             (b) (Inns of Court) To eat a sufficient number of dinners                   in hall to make the term count for the purpose of                   being called to the bar. [Eng.] --Mozley & W.          {To keep touch}. See under {Touch}, n.          {To keep under}, to hold in subjection; hence, to oppress.          {To keep up}.             (a) To maintain; to prevent from falling or diminution;                   as, to keep up the price of goods; to keep up one's                   credit.             (b) To maintain; to continue; to prevent from ceasing.                   [bd]In joy, that which keeps up the action is the                   desire to continue it.[b8] --Locke.          Syn: To retain; detain; reserve; preserve; hold; restrain;                maintain; sustain; support; withhold. -- To {Keep}.          Usage: {Retain}, {Preserve}. Keep is the generic term, and is                   often used where retain or preserve would too much                   restrict the meaning; as, to keep silence, etc. Retain                   denotes that we keep or hold things, as against                   influences which might deprive us of them, or reasons                   which might lead us to give them up; as, to retain                   vivacity in old age; to retain counsel in a lawsuit;                   to retain one's servant after a reverse of fortune.                   Preserve denotes that we keep a thing against agencies                   which might lead to its being destroyed or broken in                   upon; as, to preserve one's health; to preserve                   appearances.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Weather \Weath"er\, n. [OE. weder, AS. weder; akin to OS. wedar,       OFries. weder, D. weder, we[88]r, G. wetter, OHG. wetar,       Icel. ve[edh]r, Dan. veir, Sw. v[84]der wind, air, weather,       and perhaps to OSlav. vedro fair weather; or perhaps to Lith.       vetra storm, Russ. vieter', vietr', wind, and E. wind. Cf.       {Wither}.]       1. The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or             cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or             cloudiness, or any other meteorological phenomena;             meteorological condition of the atmosphere; as, warm             weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc.                         Not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather.                                                                               --Shak.                         Fair weather cometh out of the north. --Job xxxvii.                                                                               22.          2. Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation             of the state of the air. --Bacon.          3. Storm; tempest.                         What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud My                      thoughts presage!                              --Dryden.          4. A light rain; a shower. [Obs.] --Wyclif.          {Stress of weather}, violent winds; force of tempests.          {To make fair weather}, to flatter; to give flattering             representations. [R.]          {To make good}, [or] {bad}, {weather} (Naut.), to endure a             gale well or ill; -- said of a vessel. --Shak.          {Under the weather}, ill; also, financially embarrassed.             [Colloq. U. S.] --Bartlett.          {Weather box}. Same as {Weather house}, below. --Thackeray.          {Weather breeder}, a fine day which is supposed to presage             foul weather.          {Weather bureau}, a popular name for the signal service. See             {Signal service}, under {Signal}, a. [U. S.]          {Weather cloth} (Naut.), a long piece of canvas of tarpaulin             used to preserve the hammocks from injury by the weather             when stowed in the nettings.          {Weather door}. (Mining) See {Trapdoor}, 2.          {Weather gall}. Same as {Water gall}, 2. [Prov. Eng.]             --Halliwell.          {Weather house}, a mechanical contrivance in the form of a             house, which indicates changes in atmospheric conditions             by the appearance or retirement of toy images.                         Peace to the artist whose ingenious thought Devised                      the weather house, that useful toy!   --Cowper.          {Weather molding}, [or]          {Weather moulding} (Arch.), a canopy or cornice over a door             or a window, to throw off the rain.          {Weather of a windmill sail}, the obliquity of the sail, or             the angle which it makes with its plane of revolution.          {Weather report}, a daily report of meteorological             observations, and of probable changes in the weather;             esp., one published by government authority.          {Weather spy}, a stargazer; one who foretells the weather.             [R.] --Donne.          {Weather strip} (Arch.), a strip of wood, rubber, or other             material, applied to an outer door or window so as to             cover the joint made by it with the sill, casings, or             threshold, in order to exclude rain, snow, cold air, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bad \Bad\ (b[acr]d), imp. of {Bid}.       Bade. [Obs.] --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bad \Bad\ (b[acr]d), a. [Compar. {Worse}; superl. {Worst}. ]       [Probably fr. AS. b[91]ddel hermaphrodite; cf. b[91]dling       effeminate fellow.]       Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious,       hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or       defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious;       wicked; -- the opposite of {good}; as, a bad man; bad       conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad       news.          Note: Sometimes used substantively.                            The strong antipathy of good to bad. --Pope.          Syn: Pernicious; deleterious; noxious; baneful; injurious;                hurtful; evil; vile; wretched; corrupt; wicked; vicious;                imperfect.
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Bid \Bid\ (b[icr]d), v. t. [imp. {Bade} (b[acr]d), {Bid}, (Obs.)       {Bad}; p. p. {Bidden}, {Bid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bidding}.]       [OE. bidden, prop to ask, beg, AS. biddan; akin to OS.       biddian, Icel. bi[edh]ja, OHG. bittan, G. bitten, to pray,       ask, request, and E. bead, also perh. to Gr. teiqein to       persuade, L. fidere to trust, E. faith, and bide. But this       word was early confused with OE. beden, beoden, AS.       be[a2]dan, to offer, command; akin to Icel. bj[omac][edh]a,       Goth. biudan (in comp.), OHG. biotan to command, bid, G.       bieten, D. bieden, to offer, also to Gr. pynqa`nesqai to       learn by inquiry, Skr. budh to be awake, to heed, present       OSlav. bud[emac]ti to be awake, E. bode, v. The word now has       the form of OE. bidden to ask, but the meaning of OE. beden       to command, except in [bd]to bid beads.[b8] [root]30.]       1. To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer             to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at             auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be             done under a contract).          2. To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a             threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid             good morning, farewell, etc.                         Neither bid him God speed.                  --2. John 10.                         He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. --Granrille.          3. To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. [Mostly             obs.] [bd]Our banns thrice bid ![b8] --Gay.          4. To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.                         That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. --Pope                         Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. --Matt.                                                                               xiv. 28                         I was bid to pick up shells.               --D. Jerrold.          5. To invite; to call in; to request to come.                         As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.                                                                               --Matt. xxii.                                                                               9          {To bid beads}, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics;             to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.]          {To bid defiance to}, to defy openly; to brave.          {To bid fair}, to offer a good prospect; to make fair             promise; to seem likely.          Syn: To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command;                direct; charge; enjoin.
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Bade \Bade\       A form of the pat tense of {Bid}.
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Bid \Bid\ (b[icr]d), v. t. [imp. {Bade} (b[acr]d), {Bid}, (Obs.)       {Bad}; p. p. {Bidden}, {Bid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bidding}.]       [OE. bidden, prop to ask, beg, AS. biddan; akin to OS.       biddian, Icel. bi[edh]ja, OHG. bittan, G. bitten, to pray,       ask, request, and E. bead, also perh. to Gr. teiqein to       persuade, L. fidere to trust, E. faith, and bide. But this       word was early confused with OE. beden, beoden, AS.       be[a2]dan, to offer, command; akin to Icel. bj[omac][edh]a,       Goth. biudan (in comp.), OHG. biotan to command, bid, G.       bieten, D. bieden, to offer, also to Gr. pynqa`nesqai to       learn by inquiry, Skr. budh to be awake, to heed, present       OSlav. bud[emac]ti to be awake, E. bode, v. The word now has       the form of OE. bidden to ask, but the meaning of OE. beden       to command, except in [bd]to bid beads.[b8] [root]30.]       1. To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer             to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at             auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be             done under a contract).          2. To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a             threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid             good morning, farewell, etc.                         Neither bid him God speed.                  --2. John 10.                         He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. --Granrille.          3. To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. [Mostly             obs.] [bd]Our banns thrice bid ![b8] --Gay.          4. To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.                         That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. --Pope                         Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. --Matt.                                                                               xiv. 28                         I was bid to pick up shells.               --D. Jerrold.          5. To invite; to call in; to request to come.                         As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.                                                                               --Matt. xxii.                                                                               9          {To bid beads}, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics;             to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.]          {To bid defiance to}, to defy openly; to brave.          {To bid fair}, to offer a good prospect; to make fair             promise; to seem likely.          Syn: To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command;                direct; charge; enjoin.
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Bait \Bait\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Baited}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Baiting}.] [OE. baiten, beit[?]n, to feed, harass, fr. Icel.       beita, orig. to cause to bite, fr. b[c6]ta. [root]87. See       {Bite}.]       1. To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for             sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.          2. To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as,             to bait horses. --Holland.          3. To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook.                         A crooked pin . . . bailed with a vile earthworm.                                                                               --W. Irving.
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Bait \Bait\, n. [Icel. beita food, beit pasture, akin to AS.       b[be]t food, Sw. bete. See {Bait}, v. i.]       1. Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other             animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or             net.          2. Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.             --Fairfax.          3. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a             journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.          4. A light or hasty luncheon.          {Bait bug} (Zo[94]l), a crustacean of the genus {Hippa} found             burrowing in sandy beaches. See {Anomura}.
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Bait \Bait\, v. i.       To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment       of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey.                   Evil news rides post, while good news baits. --Milton.                   My lord's coach conveyed me to Bury, and thence baiting                at Newmarket.                                          --Evelyn.
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Bait \Bait\, v. i. [F. battre de l'aile (or des ailes), to flap       or flutter. See {Batter}, v. i.]       To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a       hawk when she stoops to her prey. [bd]Kites that bait and       beat.[b8] --Shak.
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Bat \Bat\, v. t. & i.       1. To bate or flutter, as a hawk. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]          2. To wink. [Local, U. S. & Prov Eng.]
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Bat \Bat\, n.       1. In badminton, tennis, and similar games, a racket.          2. A stroke; a sharp blow. [Colloq. or Slang]          3. A stroke of work. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]          4. Rate of motion; speed. [Colloq.] [bd]A vast host of fowl .             . . making at full bat for the North Sea.[b8] --Pall Mall             Mag.          5. A spree; a jollification. [Slang, U. S.]          6. Manner; rate; condition; state of health. [Scot. & Prov.             Eng.]
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Bat \Bat\, n. [OE. batte, botte, AS. batt; perhaps fr. the       Celtic; cf. Ir. bat, bata, stick, staff; but cf. also F.       batte a beater (thing), wooden sword, battre to beat.]       1. A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with             one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing             baseball, cricket, etc.          2. (Mining) Shale or bituminous shale. --Kirwan.          3. A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables;             batting.          4. A part of a brick with one whole end.          {Bat bolt} (Machinery), a bolt barbed or jagged at its butt             or tang to make it hold the more firmly. --Knight.
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Bat \Bat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Batted} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n.       {Batting}.]       To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.       --Holland.
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Bat \Bat\, v. i.       To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
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Bat \Bat\, n. [Corrupt. from OE. back, backe, balke; cf. Dan.       aften-bakke (aften evening), Sw. natt-backa (natt night),       Icel. le[edh]r-blaka (le[edh]r leather), Icel. blaka to       flutter.] (Zo[94]l.)       One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which       the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the       elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small       and insectivorous. See {Cheiroptera} and {Vampire}.          {Bat tick} (Zo[94]l.), a wingless, dipterous insect of the             genus {Nycteribia}, parasitic on bats.
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Bate \Bate\, n. [Prob. abbrev. from debate.]       Strife; contention. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Bate \Bate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bated}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Bating}.] [From abate.]       1. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to             abate; to beat down; to lower.                         He must either bate the laborer's wages, or not                      employ or not pay him.                        --Locke.          2. To allow by way of abatement or deduction.                         To whom he bates nothing or what he stood upon with                      the parliament.                                 --South.          3. To leave out; to except. [Obs.]                         Bate me the king, and, be he flesh and blood. He                      lies that says it.                              --Beau. & Fl.          4. To remove. [Obs.]                         About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of                      olives, and lay them bare.                  --Holland.          5. To deprive of. [Obs.]                         When baseness is exalted, do not bate The place its                      honor for the person's sake.               --Herbert.
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Bate \Bate\, v. i.       1. To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.                         Abate thy speed, and I will bate of mine. --Dryden.          2. To waste away. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Bate \Bate\, v. t.       To attack; to bait. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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Bate \Bate\, v. i. [F. battre des ailes to flutter. Cf. {Bait}       to flutter.]       To flutter as a hawk; to bait. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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Bate \Bate\,       imp. of {Bite}. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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Bate \Bate\, n. (Jewish Antiq.)       See 2d {Bath}.
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Bate \Bate\, n. [Cf. Sw. beta maceration, soaking, G. beize, and       E. bite.]       An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain       animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.       --Knight.
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Bate \Bate\, v. t.       To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.
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Grainer \Grain"er\, n.       1. An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize             the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; --             called also {grains} and {bate.}          2. A knife for taking the hair off skins.          3. One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble,             etc.; also, the brush or tool used in graining.
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Bate \Bate\, n. [Prob. abbrev. from debate.]       Strife; contention. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Bate \Bate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bated}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Bating}.] [From abate.]       1. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to             abate; to beat down; to lower.                         He must either bate the laborer's wages, or not                      employ or not pay him.                        --Locke.          2. To allow by way of abatement or deduction.                         To whom he bates nothing or what he stood upon with                      the parliament.                                 --South.          3. To leave out; to except. [Obs.]                         Bate me the king, and, be he flesh and blood. He                      lies that says it.                              --Beau. & Fl.          4. To remove. [Obs.]                         About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of                      olives, and lay them bare.                  --Holland.          5. To deprive of. [Obs.]                         When baseness is exalted, do not bate The place its                      honor for the person's sake.               --Herbert.
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Bate \Bate\, v. i.       1. To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.                         Abate thy speed, and I will bate of mine. --Dryden.          2. To waste away. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Bate \Bate\, v. t.       To attack; to bait. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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Bate \Bate\, v. i. [F. battre des ailes to flutter. Cf. {Bait}       to flutter.]       To flutter as a hawk; to bait. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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Bate \Bate\,       imp. of {Bite}. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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Bate \Bate\, n. (Jewish Antiq.)       See 2d {Bath}.
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Bate \Bate\, n. [Cf. Sw. beta maceration, soaking, G. beize, and       E. bite.]       An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain       animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.       --Knight.
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Bate \Bate\, v. t.       To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.
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Grainer \Grain"er\, n.       1. An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize             the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; --             called also {grains} and {bate.}          2. A knife for taking the hair off skins.          3. One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble,             etc.; also, the brush or tool used in graining.
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Bath \Bath\ (b[adot]th; 61), n.; pl. {Baths} (b[adot]thz). [AS.       b[91][edh]; akin to OS. & Icel. ba[edh], Sw., Dan., D., & G.       bad, and perh. to G. b[84]hen to foment.]       1. The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for             purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water,             vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a             medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath.          2. Water or other liquid for bathing.          3. A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash             their bodies in water.          4. A building containing an apartment or a series of             apartments arranged for bathing.                         Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing                      extent and magnificence.                     --Gwilt.          5. (Chem.) A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air,             through which heat is applied to a body.          6. (Photog.) A solution in which plates or prints are             immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.          Note: Bath is used adjectively or in combination, in an                obvious sense of or for baths or bathing; as, bathroom,                bath tub, bath keeper.          {Douche bath}. See {Douche}.          {Order of the Bath}, a high order of British knighthood,             composed of three classes, viz., knights grand cross,             knights commanders, and knights companions, abbreviated             thus: G. C. B., K. C. B., K. B.          {Russian bath}, a kind of vapor bath which consists in a             prolonged exposure of the body to the influence of the             steam of water, followed by washings and shampooings.          {Turkish bath}, a kind of bath in which a profuse             perspiration is produced by hot air, after which the body             is washed and shampooed.          {Bath house}, a house used for the purpose of bathing; --             also a small house, near a bathing place, where a bather             undresses and dresses.
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Bath \Bath\, n. [Heb.]       A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five       gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two       pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure.
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Bath \Bath\, n.       A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot       springs, which has given its name to various objects.          {Bath brick}, a preparation of calcareous earth, in the form             of a brick, used for cleaning knives, polished metal, etc.                      {Bath chair}, a kind of chair on wheels, as used by invalids             at Bath. [bd]People walked out, or drove out, or were             pushed out in their Bath chairs.[b8] --Dickens.          {Bath metal}, an alloy consisting of four and a half ounces             of zinc and one pound of copper.          {Bath note}, a folded writing paper, 8 1/2 by 14 inches.          {Bath stone}, a species of limestone (o[94]lite) found near             Bath, used for building.
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Bathe \Bathe\, v. i.       1. To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths. [bd]They             bathe in summer.[b8] --Waller.          2. To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath. [bd]To bathe             in fiery floods.[b8] --Shak. [bd]Bathe in the dimples of             her cheek.[b8] --Lloyd.          3. To bask in the sun. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Bathe \Bathe\, n.       The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual       bathe. --Edin. Rev.
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Bathe \Bathe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bathed} ([?]); p. pr. & vb.       n. {Bathing}.] [OE. ba[?]ien, AS. ba[?]ian, fr. b[91][?]       bath. See 1st {Bath}, and cf. {Bay} to bathe.]       1. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.                         Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus.                                                                               --South.          2. To lave; to wet. [bd]The lake which bathed the foot of the             Alban mountain.[b8] --T. Arnold.          3. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.                         And let us bathe our hands in C[91]sar's blood.                                                                               --Shak.          4. To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe             the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's             forehead with camphor.          5. To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person             immersed. [bd]The rosy shadows bathe me. [b8] --Tennyson.             [bd]The bright sunshine bathing all the world.[b8]             --Longfellow.
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d8Bateau \[d8]Ba*teau"\, n.; pl. {Bateaux}. [F. bateau, LL.       batellus, fr. battus, batus, boa, which agrees with AS.       b[be]t boat: cf. W. bad boat. See {Boat}, n.]       A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the       Canadian lakes and rivers. [Written also, but less properly,       {batteau}.]          {Bateau bridge}, a floating bridge supported by bateaux.
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Batty \Bat"ty\, a.       Belonging to, or resembling, a bat. [bd]Batty wings.[b8]       --Shak.
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Bawd \Bawd\, n. [OE. baude, OF. balt, baut, baude, bold, merry,       perh. fr. OHG. bald bold; or fr. Celtic, cf. W. baw dirt. Cf.       {Bold}, {Bawdry}.]       A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women       for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person;       -- usually applied to a woman.
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Bawd \Bawd\, v. i.       To procure women for lewd purposes.
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Bawdy \Bawd"y\, a.       1. Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes. [Obs.]                         It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also.                                                                               --Chaucer.          2. Obscene; filthy; unchaste. [bd]A bawdy story.[b8] --Burke.
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d8Bayad \[d8]Ba*yad"\, Bayatte \Ba*yatte"\, n. [Ar. bayad.]       (Zo[94]l.)       A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species       ({Bagrina bayad} and {B. docmac}).
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Bay \Bay\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bayed} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n.       {Baying}.] [ OE. bayen, abayen, OF. abaier, F. aboyer, to       bark; of uncertain origin.]       To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.                   The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bayed. --Dryden.
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Bayed \Bayed\, a.       Having a bay or bays. [bd]The large bayed barn.[b8]       --Drayton.
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Bead \Bead\, n. [OE. bede prayer, prayer bead, AS. bed, gebed,       prayer; akin to D. bede, G. bitte, AS. biddan, to ask, bid,       G. bitten to ask, and perh. to Gr. [?] to persuade, L. fidere       to trust. Beads are used by the Roman Catholics to count       their prayers, one bead being dropped down a string every       time a prayer is said. Cf. Sp. cuenta bead, fr. contar to       count. See {Bid}, in to bid beads, and {Bide}.]       1. A prayer. [Obs.]          2. A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and             worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting             prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the             phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads,             etc., meaning, to be at prayer.          3. Any small globular body; as,             (a) A bubble in spirits.             (b) A drop of sweat or other liquid. [bd]Cold beads of                   midnight dew.[b8] --Wordsworth.             (c) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking                   aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to                   take aim).             (d) (Arch.) A small molding of rounded surface, the                   section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be                   continuous, or broken into short embossments.             (e) (Chem.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or                   microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for                   several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron,                   manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax                   bead; the iron bead, etc.          {Bead and butt} (Carp.), framing in which the panels are             flush, having beads stuck or run upon the two edges.             --Knight.          {Beat mold}, a species of fungus or mold, the stems of which             consist of single cells loosely jointed together so as to             resemble a string of beads. [Written also {bead mould}.]                      {Bead tool}, a cutting tool, having an edge curved so as to             make beads or beading.          {Bead tree} (Bot.), a tree of the genus {Melia}, the best             known species of which ({M. azedarach}), has blue flowers             which are very fragrant, and berries which are poisonous.
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Bead \Bead\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beaded}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Beading}.]       To ornament with beads or beading.
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Bead \Bead\, v. i.       To form beadlike bubbles.
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Beady \Bead"y\, a.       1. Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening. [bd]Beady             eyes.[b8] --Thackeray.          2. Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads.          3. Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor.
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Beat \Beat\, n.       1. One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the             beat of him. [Colloq.]          2. The act of one that beats a person or thing; as:             (a) (Newspaper Cant) The act of obtaining and publishing a                   piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors;                   also, the news itself; a scoop.                               It's a beat on the whole country. --Scribner's                                                                               Mag.             (b) (Hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a                   tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those                   so engaged, collectively. [bd]Driven out in the course                   of a beat.[b8] --Encyc. of Sport.                               Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the                            last moment, when the beat is close to them.                                                                               --Encyc. of                                                                               Sport.             (c) (Fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
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Undulation \Un`du*la"tion\, n. [Cf. F. ondulation.]       1. The act of undulating; a waving motion or vibration; as,             the undulations of a fluid, of water, or of air; the             undulations of sound.          2. A wavy appearance or outline; waviness. --Evelyn.          3. (Mus.)             (a) The tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of                   the finger on a string, as of a violin.             (b) The pulsation caused by the vibrating together of two                   tones not quite in unison; -- called also {beat}.          4. (Physics) A motion to and fro, up and down, or from side             to side, in any fluid or elastic medium, propagated             continuously among its particles, but with no translation             of the particles themselves in the direction of the             propagation of the wave; a wave motion; a vibration.
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Beat \Beat\, v. t. [imp. {Beat}; p. p. {Beat}, {Beaten}; p. pr.       & vb. n. {Beating}.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be[a0]tan; akin       to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[?]zan. Cf. 1st {Butt}, {Button}.]       1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to             beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat             grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and             sugar; to beat a drum.                         Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small.                                                                               --Ex. xxx. 36.                         They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex.                                                                               xxxix. 3.          2. To punish by blows; to thrash.          3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the             noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of             rousing game.                         To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey.                                                                               --Prior.          4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.                         A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms.                                                                               --Milton.          5. To tread, as a path.                         Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way.                                                                               --Blackmore.          6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game,             etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.                         He beat them in a bloody battle.         --Prescott.                         For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M.                                                                               Arnold.          7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with             out. [Colloq.]          8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.                         Why should any one . . . beat his head about the                      Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic?                                                                               --Locke.          9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound             by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley,             a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo.             See {Alarm}, {Charge}, {Parley}, etc.          {To beat down}, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower             price; to force down. [Colloq.]          {To beat into}, to teach or instill, by repetition.          {To beat off}, to repel or drive back.          {To beat out}, to extend by hammering.          {To beat out of} a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give             it up. [bd]Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it             to this day.[b8] --South.          {To beat the dust}. (Man.)             (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a                   horse.             (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.          {To beat the hoof}, to walk; to go on foot.          {To beat the wing}, to flutter; to move with fluttering             agitation.          {To beat time}, to measure or regulate time in music by the             motion of the hand or foot.          {To beat up}, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to             beat up an enemy's quarters.          Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump;                baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer;                defeat; vanquish; overcome.
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Beat \Beat\, v. i.       1. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock             vigorously or loudly.                         The men of the city . . . beat at the door.                                                                               --Judges. xix.                                                                               22.          2. To move with pulsation or throbbing.                         A thousand hearts beat happily.         --Byron.          3. To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force;             to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.                         Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below. --Dryden.                         They [winds] beat at the crazy casement.                                                                               --Longfellow.                         The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he                      fainted, and wisbed in himself to die. --Jonah iv.                                                                               8.                         Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers.                                                                               --Bacon.          4. To be in agitation or doubt. [Poetic]                         To still my beating mind.                  --Shak.          5. (Naut.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a             zigzag line or traverse.          6. To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.          7. (Mil.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the             drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.          8. (Acoustics & Mus.) To sound with more or less rapid             alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to             produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones,             or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.          {A beating wind} (Naut.), a wind which necessitates tacking             in order to make progress.          {To beat about}, to try to find; to search by various means             or ways. --Addison.          {To beat about the bush}, to approach a subject circuitously.                      {To beat up and down} (Hunting), to run first one way and             then another; -- said of a stag.          {To beat up for recruits}, to go diligently about in order to             get helpers or participators in an enterprise.
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Beat \Beat\, n.       1. A stroke; a blow.                         He, with a careless beat, Struck out the mute                      creation at a heat.                           --Dryden.          2. A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of             the heart; the beat of the pulse.          3. (Mus.)             (a) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the                   divisions of time; a division of the measure so                   marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.             (b) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the                   one it is intended to ornament.          4. (Acoustics & Mus.) A sudden swelling or re[89]nforcement             of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced             by the interference of sound waves of slightly different             periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other             kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced             by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in             unison. See {Beat}, v. i., 8.          5. A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a             watchman's beat.          6. A place of habitual or frequent resort.          7. A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often             emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat. [Low]          {Beat of drum} (Mil.), a succession of strokes varied, in             different ways, for particular purposes, as to regulate a             march, to call soldiers to their arms or quarters, to             direct an attack, or retreat, etc.          {Beat of a watch}, [or] {clock}, the stroke or sound made by             the action of the escapement. A clock is in beat or out of             beat, according as the strokes is at equal or unequal             intervals.
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Beat \Beat\, a.       Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted. [Colloq.]                   Quite beat, and very much vexed and disappointed.                                                                               --Dickens.
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Beat \Beat\, n.       1. One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the             beat of him. [Colloq.]          2. The act of one that beats a person or thing; as:             (a) (Newspaper Cant) The act of obtaining and publishing a                   piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors;                   also, the news itself; a scoop.                               It's a beat on the whole country. --Scribner's                                                                               Mag.             (b) (Hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a                   tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those                   so engaged, collectively. [bd]Driven out in the course                   of a beat.[b8] --Encyc. of Sport.                               Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the                            last moment, when the beat is close to them.                                                                               --Encyc. of                                                                               Sport.             (c) (Fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
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Undulation \Un`du*la"tion\, n. [Cf. F. ondulation.]       1. The act of undulating; a waving motion or vibration; as,             the undulations of a fluid, of water, or of air; the             undulations of sound.          2. A wavy appearance or outline; waviness. --Evelyn.          3. (Mus.)             (a) The tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of                   the finger on a string, as of a violin.             (b) The pulsation caused by the vibrating together of two                   tones not quite in unison; -- called also {beat}.          4. (Physics) A motion to and fro, up and down, or from side             to side, in any fluid or elastic medium, propagated             continuously among its particles, but with no translation             of the particles themselves in the direction of the             propagation of the wave; a wave motion; a vibration.
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Beat \Beat\, v. t. [imp. {Beat}; p. p. {Beat}, {Beaten}; p. pr.       & vb. n. {Beating}.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be[a0]tan; akin       to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[?]zan. Cf. 1st {Butt}, {Button}.]       1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to             beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat             grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and             sugar; to beat a drum.                         Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small.                                                                               --Ex. xxx. 36.                         They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex.                                                                               xxxix. 3.          2. To punish by blows; to thrash.          3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the             noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of             rousing game.                         To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey.                                                                               --Prior.          4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.                         A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms.                                                                               --Milton.          5. To tread, as a path.                         Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way.                                                                               --Blackmore.          6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game,             etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.                         He beat them in a bloody battle.         --Prescott.                         For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M.                                                                               Arnold.          7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with             out. [Colloq.]          8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.                         Why should any one . . . beat his head about the                      Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic?                                                                               --Locke.          9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound             by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley,             a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo.             See {Alarm}, {Charge}, {Parley}, etc.          {To beat down}, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower             price; to force down. [Colloq.]          {To beat into}, to teach or instill, by repetition.          {To beat off}, to repel or drive back.          {To beat out}, to extend by hammering.          {To beat out of} a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give             it up. [bd]Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it             to this day.[b8] --South.          {To beat the dust}. (Man.)             (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a                   horse.             (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.          {To beat the hoof}, to walk; to go on foot.          {To beat the wing}, to flutter; to move with fluttering             agitation.          {To beat time}, to measure or regulate time in music by the             motion of the hand or foot.          {To beat up}, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to             beat up an enemy's quarters.          Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump;                baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer;                defeat; vanquish; overcome.
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Beat \Beat\, v. i.       1. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock             vigorously or loudly.                         The men of the city . . . beat at the door.                                                                               --Judges. xix.                                                                               22.          2. To move with pulsation or throbbing.                         A thousand hearts beat happily.         --Byron.          3. To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force;             to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.                         Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below. --Dryden.                         They [winds] beat at the crazy casement.                                                                               --Longfellow.                         The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he                      fainted, and wisbed in himself to die. --Jonah iv.                                                                               8.                         Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers.                                                                               --Bacon.          4. To be in agitation or doubt. [Poetic]                         To still my beating mind.                  --Shak.          5. (Naut.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a             zigzag line or traverse.          6. To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.          7. (Mil.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the             drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.          8. (Acoustics & Mus.) To sound with more or less rapid             alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to             produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones,             or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.          {A beating wind} (Naut.), a wind which necessitates tacking             in order to make progress.          {To beat about}, to try to find; to search by various means             or ways. --Addison.          {To beat about the bush}, to approach a subject circuitously.                      {To beat up and down} (Hunting), to run first one way and             then another; -- said of a stag.          {To beat up for recruits}, to go diligently about in order to             get helpers or participators in an enterprise.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beat \Beat\, n.       1. A stroke; a blow.                         He, with a careless beat, Struck out the mute                      creation at a heat.                           --Dryden.          2. A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of             the heart; the beat of the pulse.          3. (Mus.)             (a) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the                   divisions of time; a division of the measure so                   marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.             (b) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the                   one it is intended to ornament.          4. (Acoustics & Mus.) A sudden swelling or re[89]nforcement             of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced             by the interference of sound waves of slightly different             periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other             kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced             by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in             unison. See {Beat}, v. i., 8.          5. A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a             watchman's beat.          6. A place of habitual or frequent resort.          7. A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often             emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat. [Low]          {Beat of drum} (Mil.), a succession of strokes varied, in             different ways, for particular purposes, as to regulate a             march, to call soldiers to their arms or quarters, to             direct an attack, or retreat, etc.          {Beat of a watch}, [or] {clock}, the stroke or sound made by             the action of the escapement. A clock is in beat or out of             beat, according as the strokes is at equal or unequal             intervals.
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Beat \Beat\, a.       Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted. [Colloq.]                   Quite beat, and very much vexed and disappointed.                                                                               --Dickens.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beat \Beat\, n.       1. One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the             beat of him. [Colloq.]          2. The act of one that beats a person or thing; as:             (a) (Newspaper Cant) The act of obtaining and publishing a                   piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors;                   also, the news itself; a scoop.                               It's a beat on the whole country. --Scribner's                                                                               Mag.             (b) (Hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a                   tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those                   so engaged, collectively. [bd]Driven out in the course                   of a beat.[b8] --Encyc. of Sport.                               Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the                            last moment, when the beat is close to them.                                                                               --Encyc. of                                                                               Sport.             (c) (Fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
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Undulation \Un`du*la"tion\, n. [Cf. F. ondulation.]       1. The act of undulating; a waving motion or vibration; as,             the undulations of a fluid, of water, or of air; the             undulations of sound.          2. A wavy appearance or outline; waviness. --Evelyn.          3. (Mus.)             (a) The tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of                   the finger on a string, as of a violin.             (b) The pulsation caused by the vibrating together of two                   tones not quite in unison; -- called also {beat}.          4. (Physics) A motion to and fro, up and down, or from side             to side, in any fluid or elastic medium, propagated             continuously among its particles, but with no translation             of the particles themselves in the direction of the             propagation of the wave; a wave motion; a vibration.
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Beat \Beat\, v. t. [imp. {Beat}; p. p. {Beat}, {Beaten}; p. pr.       & vb. n. {Beating}.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be[a0]tan; akin       to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[?]zan. Cf. 1st {Butt}, {Button}.]       1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to             beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat             grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and             sugar; to beat a drum.                         Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small.                                                                               --Ex. xxx. 36.                         They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex.                                                                               xxxix. 3.          2. To punish by blows; to thrash.          3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the             noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of             rousing game.                         To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey.                                                                               --Prior.          4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.                         A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms.                                                                               --Milton.          5. To tread, as a path.                         Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way.                                                                               --Blackmore.          6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game,             etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.                         He beat them in a bloody battle.         --Prescott.                         For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M.                                                                               Arnold.          7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with             out. [Colloq.]          8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.                         Why should any one . . . beat his head about the                      Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic?                                                                               --Locke.          9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound             by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley,             a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo.             See {Alarm}, {Charge}, {Parley}, etc.          {To beat down}, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower             price; to force down. [Colloq.]          {To beat into}, to teach or instill, by repetition.          {To beat off}, to repel or drive back.          {To beat out}, to extend by hammering.          {To beat out of} a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give             it up. [bd]Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it             to this day.[b8] --South.          {To beat the dust}. (Man.)             (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a                   horse.             (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.          {To beat the hoof}, to walk; to go on foot.          {To beat the wing}, to flutter; to move with fluttering             agitation.          {To beat time}, to measure or regulate time in music by the             motion of the hand or foot.          {To beat up}, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to             beat up an enemy's quarters.          Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump;                baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer;                defeat; vanquish; overcome.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beat \Beat\, v. i.       1. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock             vigorously or loudly.                         The men of the city . . . beat at the door.                                                                               --Judges. xix.                                                                               22.          2. To move with pulsation or throbbing.                         A thousand hearts beat happily.         --Byron.          3. To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force;             to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.                         Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below. --Dryden.                         They [winds] beat at the crazy casement.                                                                               --Longfellow.                         The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he                      fainted, and wisbed in himself to die. --Jonah iv.                                                                               8.                         Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers.                                                                               --Bacon.          4. To be in agitation or doubt. [Poetic]                         To still my beating mind.                  --Shak.          5. (Naut.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a             zigzag line or traverse.          6. To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.          7. (Mil.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the             drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.          8. (Acoustics & Mus.) To sound with more or less rapid             alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to             produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones,             or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.          {A beating wind} (Naut.), a wind which necessitates tacking             in order to make progress.          {To beat about}, to try to find; to search by various means             or ways. --Addison.          {To beat about the bush}, to approach a subject circuitously.                      {To beat up and down} (Hunting), to run first one way and             then another; -- said of a stag.          {To beat up for recruits}, to go diligently about in order to             get helpers or participators in an enterprise.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beat \Beat\, n.       1. A stroke; a blow.                         He, with a careless beat, Struck out the mute                      creation at a heat.                           --Dryden.          2. A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of             the heart; the beat of the pulse.          3. (Mus.)             (a) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the                   divisions of time; a division of the measure so                   marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.             (b) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the                   one it is intended to ornament.          4. (Acoustics & Mus.) A sudden swelling or re[89]nforcement             of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced             by the interference of sound waves of slightly different             periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other             kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced             by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in             unison. See {Beat}, v. i., 8.          5. A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a             watchman's beat.          6. A place of habitual or frequent resort.          7. A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often             emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat. [Low]          {Beat of drum} (Mil.), a succession of strokes varied, in             different ways, for particular purposes, as to regulate a             march, to call soldiers to their arms or quarters, to             direct an attack, or retreat, etc.          {Beat of a watch}, [or] {clock}, the stroke or sound made by             the action of the escapement. A clock is in beat or out of             beat, according as the strokes is at equal or unequal             intervals.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beat \Beat\, a.       Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted. [Colloq.]                   Quite beat, and very much vexed and disappointed.                                                                               --Dickens.
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Beath \Beath\ (b[emac][th]), v. t. [AS. be[edh]ian to foment.]       To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood. [Obs.]       --Spenser.
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Beauty \Beau"ty\, n.; pl. {Beautie}s . [OE. beaute, beute, OF.       beaut[82], biaut[82], Pr. beltat, F. beaut[82], fr. an       assumed LL. bellitas, from L. bellus pretty. See {Beau}.]       1. An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye,             the ear, the intellect, the [91]sthetic faculty, or the             moral sense.                         Beauty consists of a certain composition of color                      and figure, causing delight in the beholder.                                                                               --Locke.                         The production of beauty by a multiplicity of                      symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole.                                                                               --Wordsworth.                         The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school,                      was, [bd]multitude in unity;[b8] and there is no                      doubt that such is the principle of beauty.                                                                               --Coleridge.          2. A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence;             anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.          3. A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman.                         All the admired beauties of Verona.   --Shak.          4. Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. [Obs.]                         She stained her hair yellow, which was then the                      beauty.                                             --Jer. Taylor.          {Beauty spot}, a patch or spot placed on the face with intent             to heighten beauty by contrast.
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Beauty \Beau"ty\, n.; pl. {Beautie}s . [OE. beaute, beute, OF.       beaut[82], biaut[82], Pr. beltat, F. beaut[82], fr. an       assumed LL. bellitas, from L. bellus pretty. See {Beau}.]       1. An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye,             the ear, the intellect, the [91]sthetic faculty, or the             moral sense.                         Beauty consists of a certain composition of color                      and figure, causing delight in the beholder.                                                                               --Locke.                         The production of beauty by a multiplicity of                      symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole.                                                                               --Wordsworth.                         The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school,                      was, [bd]multitude in unity;[b8] and there is no                      doubt that such is the principle of beauty.                                                                               --Coleridge.          2. A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence;             anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.          3. A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman.                         All the admired beauties of Verona.   --Shak.          4. Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. [Obs.]                         She stained her hair yellow, which was then the                      beauty.                                             --Jer. Taylor.          {Beauty spot}, a patch or spot placed on the face with intent             to heighten beauty by contrast.
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Bed \Bed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bedded}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Bedding}.]       1. To place in a bed. [Obs.] --Bacon.          2. To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.                         I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her. --Shak.          3. To furnish with a bed or bedding.          4. To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed             of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold.          5. To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and             security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish             with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a             stone; it was bedded on a rock.                         Among all chains or clusters of mountains where                      large bodies of still water are bedded.                                                                               --Wordsworth.          6. (Masonry) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as             to serve as a bed.          7. To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or             recumbent position. [bd]Bedded hair.[b8] --Shak.
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Bed \Bed\, n. [AS. bed, bedd; akin to OS. bed, D. bed, bedde,       Icel. be[?]r, Dan. bed, Sw. b[84]dd, Goth. badi, OHG. betti,       G. bett, bette, bed, beet a plat of ground; all of uncertain       origin.]       1. An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a             couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some             soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which             it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the             bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place             used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of             hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.                         And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed. --Byron.                         I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds.                                                                               --Shak.                         In bed he slept not for my urging it. --Shak.          2. (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.                         George, the eldest son of his second bed.                                                                               --Clarendon.          3. A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a             little raised above the adjoining ground. [bd]Beds of             hyacinth and roses.[b8] --Milton.          4. A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed             of ashes or coals.          5. The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as,             the bed of a river.                         So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed. --Milton.          6. (Geol.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between             layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.          7. (Gun.) See {Gun carriage}, and {Mortar bed}.          8. (Masonry)             (a) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the                   upper and lower beds.             (b) A course of stone or brick in a wall.             (c) The place or material in which a block or brick is                   laid.             (d) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.                   --Knight.          9. (Mech.) The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or             framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid             or supported; as, the bed of an engine.          10. The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.          11. (Printing) The flat part of the press, on which the form             is laid.          Note: Bed is much used adjectively or in combination; as, bed                key or bedkey; bed wrench or bedwrench; bedchamber;                bedmaker, etc.          {Bed of justice} (French Hist.), the throne (F. lit bed)             occupied by the king when sitting in one of his             parliaments (judicial courts); hence, a session of a             refractory parliament, at which the king was present for             the purpose of causing his decrees to be registered.          {To be brought to bed}, to be delivered of a child; -- often             followed by of; as, to be brought to bed of a son.          {To make a bed}, to prepare a bed; to arrange or put in order             a bed and its bedding.          {From bed and board} (Law), a phrase applied to a separation             by partial divorce of man and wife, without dissolving the             bonds of matrimony. If such a divorce (now commonly called             a judicial separation) be granted at the instance of the             wife, she may have alimony.
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Bed \Bed\, v. i.       To go to bed; to cohabit.                   If he be married, and bed with his wife. --Wiseman.
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Bede \Bede\, v. t. [See {Bid}, v. t.]       To pray; also, to offer; to proffer. [Obs.] --R. of       Gloucester. Chaucer.
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Bede \Bede\, n. (Mining)       A kind of pickax.
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Bedew \Be*dew"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bedewed} ([?]); p. pr. &       vb. n. {Bedewing}.]       To moisten with dew, or as with dew. [bd]Falling tears his       face bedew.[b8] --Dryden.
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Bedewy \Be*dew"y\, a.       Moist with dew; dewy. [Obs.]                   Night with her bedewy wings.                  --A. Brewer.
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Bedye \Be*dye"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bedyed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Bedyeing}.]       To dye or stain.                   Briton fields with Sarazin blood bedyed. --Spenser.
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Beet \Beet\ (b[emac]t), n. [AS. bete, from L. beta.]       1. (Bot.) A biennial plant of the genus {Beta}, which             produces an edible root the first year and seed the second             year.          2. The root of plants of the genus {Beta}, different species             and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding             stock, or in making sugar.          Note: There are many varieties of the common beet ({Beta                vulgaris}). The Old [bd]white beet[b8], cultivated for                its edible leafstalks, is a distinct species ({Beta                Cicla}).
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Beete \Beete\, Bete \Bete\ (b[emac]t), v. t. [AS. b[emac]tan to       mend. See {Better}.]       1. To mend; to repair. [Obs.] --Chaucer.          2. To renew or enkindle (a fire). [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Behead \Be*head"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beheaded}; p. pr. & vb.       n. {Beheading}.] [OE. bihefden, AS. behe[a0]fdian; pref. be-       + he[a0]fod head. See {Head}.]       To sever the head from; to take off the head of.
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Behete \Be*hete"\, v. t.       See {Behight}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Bet \Bet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bet}, {Betted}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Betting}.]       To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to       wager.                   John a Gaunt loved him well, and betted much money on                his head.                                                --Shak.                   I'll bet you two to one I'll make him do it. --O. W.                                                                               Holmes.
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Bet \Bet\,       imp. & p. p. of {Beat}. [Obs.]
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Bet \Bet\, a. & adv.       An early form of {Better}. [Obs.]          {To go bet}, to go fast; to hurry. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Bet \Bet\, n. [Prob. from OE. abet abetting, OF. abet, fr.       abeter to excite, incite. See {Abet}.]       That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two       parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue;       the act of giving such a pledge; a wager. [bd]Having made his       bets.[b8] --Goldsmith.
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Beta \Be"ta\, n. [Gr. bh^ta.]       The second letter of the Greek alphabet, B, [beta]. See {B},       and cf. etymology of {Alphabet}.          Note: Beta (B, [beta]) is used variously for classifying, as:       (a) (Astron.) To designate some bright star, usually the             second brightest, of a constellation, as, [beta]             Aurig[91].       (b) (Chem.) To distinguish one of two or more isomers; also,             to indicate the position of substituting atoms or groups             in certain compounds; as, [beta]-naphthol. With acids, it             commonly indicates that the substituent is in union with             the carbon atom next to that to which the carboxyl group             is attached.
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Beete \Beete\, Bete \Bete\ (b[emac]t), v. t. [AS. b[emac]tan to       mend. See {Better}.]       1. To mend; to repair. [Obs.] --Chaucer.          2. To renew or enkindle (a fire). [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Bete \Bete\, v. t.       To better; to mend. See {Beete}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Betty \Bet"ty\, n.       1. [Supposed to be a cant word, from Betty, for Elizabeth, as             such an instrument is also called Bess (i. e., Elizabeth)             in the Canting Dictionary of 1725, and Jenny (i. e.,             Jane).] A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.             [Written also {bettee}.]                         The powerful betty, or the artful picklock.                                                                               --Arbuthnot.          2. [Betty, nickname for Elizabeth.] A name of contempt given             to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a             household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters.          3. A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which             olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by             chemists a Florence flask. [U. S.] --Bartlett.
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Betty \Bet"ty\, n.       1. [Supposed to be a cant word, from Betty, for Elizabeth, as             such an instrument is also called Bess (i. e., Elizabeth)             in the Canting Dictionary of 1725, and Jenny (i. e.,             Jane).] A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.             [Written also {bettee}.]                         The powerful betty, or the artful picklock.                                                                               --Arbuthnot.          2. [Betty, nickname for Elizabeth.] A name of contempt given             to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a             household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters.          3. A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which             olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by             chemists a Florence flask. [U. S.] --Bartlett.
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Bewet \Be*wet"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bewet}, {Bewetted}.]       To wet or moisten. --Gay.
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Bewit \Bew"it\, n. [Cf. OF. buie bond, chain, fr. L. boja neck       collar, fetter. Cf. {Buoy}.]       A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a       hawk's legs.
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Bid \Bid\ (b[icr]d), v. t. [imp. {Bade} (b[acr]d), {Bid}, (Obs.)       {Bad}; p. p. {Bidden}, {Bid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bidding}.]       [OE. bidden, prop to ask, beg, AS. biddan; akin to OS.       biddian, Icel. bi[edh]ja, OHG. bittan, G. bitten, to pray,       ask, request, and E. bead, also perh. to Gr. teiqein to       persuade, L. fidere to trust, E. faith, and bide. But this       word was early confused with OE. beden, beoden, AS.       be[a2]dan, to offer, command; akin to Icel. bj[omac][edh]a,       Goth. biudan (in comp.), OHG. biotan to command, bid, G.       bieten, D. bieden, to offer, also to Gr. pynqa`nesqai to       learn by inquiry, Skr. budh to be awake, to heed, present       OSlav. bud[emac]ti to be awake, E. bode, v. The word now has       the form of OE. bidden to ask, but the meaning of OE. beden       to command, except in [bd]to bid beads.[b8] [root]30.]       1. To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer             to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at             auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be             done under a contract).          2. To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a             threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid             good morning, farewell, etc.                         Neither bid him God speed.                  --2. John 10.                         He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. --Granrille.          3. To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. [Mostly             obs.] [bd]Our banns thrice bid ![b8] --Gay.          4. To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.                         That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. --Pope                         Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. --Matt.                                                                               xiv. 28                         I was bid to pick up shells.               --D. Jerrold.          5. To invite; to call in; to request to come.                         As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.                                                                               --Matt. xxii.                                                                               9          {To bid beads}, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics;             to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.]          {To bid defiance to}, to defy openly; to brave.          {To bid fair}, to offer a good prospect; to make fair             promise; to seem likely.          Syn: To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command;                direct; charge; enjoin.
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Bid \Bid\,       imp. & p. p. of {Bid}.
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Bid \Bid\, n.       An offer of a price, especially at auctions; a statement of a       sum which one will give for something to be received, or will       take for something to be done or furnished; that which is       offered.
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Bid \Bid\, v. i. [See {Bid}, v. t.]       1. To pray. [Obs.] --Chaucer.          2. To make a bid; to state what one will pay or take.
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Biddy \Bid"dy\, n. [Etymology uncertain.]       A name used in calling a hen or chicken. --Shak.
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Biddy \Bid"dy\, n. [A familiar form of Bridget.]       An Irish serving woman or girl. [Colloq.]
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Bide \Bide\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bided}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Biding}.] [OE. biden, AS. b[c6]dan; akin to OHG. b[c6]tan,       Goth. beidan, Icel. b[c6][?][?]; perh. orig., to wait with       trust, and akin to bid. See {Bid}, v. t., and cf. {Abide}.]       1. To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay.                         All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide In                      heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell. --Milton.          2. To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or             state; to continue to be. --Shak.
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Bide \Bide\, v. t.       1. To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to             endure; to suffer; to undergo.                         Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide                      the pelting of this pitiless storm.   --Shak.          2. To wait for; as, I bide my time. See {Abide}.
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Bit \Bit\, n.       In the British West Indies, a fourpenny piece, or groat.
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Bit \Bit\,       3d sing. pr. of {Bid}, for biddeth. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Bit \Bit\, n. [OE. bitt, bite, AS. bite, bite, fr. b[c6]tan to       bite. See {Bite}, n. & v., and cf. {Bit} a morsel.]       1. The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted             in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which             the reins are fastened. --Shak.                         The foamy bridle with the bit of gold. --Chaucer.          2. Fig.: Anything which curbs or restrains.
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Bit \Bit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bitted}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Bitting}.]       To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of.
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Bit \Bit\,       imp. & p. p. of {Bite}.
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Bit \Bit\, n. [OE. bite, AS. bita, fr. b[c6]tan to bite; akin to       D. beet, G. bissen bit, morsel, Icel. biti. See {Bite}, v.,       and cf. {Bit} part of a bridle.]       1. A part of anything, such as may be bitten off or taken             into the mouth; a morsel; a bite. Hence: A small piece of             anything; a little; a mite.          2. Somewhat; something, but not very great.                         My young companion was a bit of a poet. --T. Hook.          Note: This word is used, also, like jot and whit, to express                the smallest degree; as, he is not a bit wiser.          3. A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually             turned by means of a brace or bitstock. See {Bitstock}.          4. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the             bolt and tumblers. --Knight.          5. The cutting iron of a plane. --Knight.          6. In the Southern and Southwestern States, a small silver             coin (as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth             about 12 1/2 cents; also, the sum of 12 1/2 cents.          {Bit my bit}, piecemeal. --Pope.
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Bite \Bite\, v. t. [imp. {Bit}; p. p. {Bitten}, {Bit}; p. pr. &       vb. n. {Biting}.] [OE. biten, AS. b[c6]tan; akin to D.       bijten, OS. b[c6]tan, OHG. b[c6]zan, G. beissen, Goth.       beitan, Icel. b[c6]ta, Sw. bita, Dan. bide, L. findere to       cleave, Skr. bhid to cleave. [root]87. Cf. {Fissure}.]       1. To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the             thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth;             as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.                         Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite                      the holy cords atwain.                        --Shak.          2. To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some             insects) used in taking food.          3. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure,             in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the             mouth. [bd]Frosts do bite the meads.[b8] --Shak.          4. To cheat; to trick; to take in. [Colloq.] --Pope.          5. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the             anchor bites the ground.                         The last screw of the rack having been turned so                      often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned                      and turned with nothing to bite.         --Dickens.          {To bite the dust}, {To bite the ground}, to fall in the             agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust.          {To bite in} (Etching), to corrode or eat into metallic             plates by means of an acid.          {To bite the thumb at} (any one), formerly a mark of             contempt, designed to provoke a quarrel; to defy. [bd]Do             you bite your thumb at us?[b8] --Shak.          {To bite the tongue}, to keep silence. --Shak.
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Bite \Bite\, v. i.       1. To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with             the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog             bite?          2. To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which             causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like             pepper or mustard.          3. To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or             injure; to have the property of so doing.                         At the last it [wine] biteth like serpent, and                      stingeth like an adder.                     --Prov. xxiii.                                                                               32.          4. To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to             take a tempting offer.          5. To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.
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Bite \Bite\, v. t. [imp. {Bit}; p. p. {Bitten}, {Bit}; p. pr. &       vb. n. {Biting}.] [OE. biten, AS. b[c6]tan; akin to D.       bijten, OS. b[c6]tan, OHG. b[c6]zan, G. beissen, Goth.       beitan, Icel. b[c6]ta, Sw. bita, Dan. bide, L. findere to       cleave, Skr. bhid to cleave. [root]87. Cf. {Fissure}.]       1. To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the             thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth;             as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.                         Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite                      the holy cords atwain.                        --Shak.          2. To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some             insects) used in taking food.          3. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure,             in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the             mouth. [bd]Frosts do bite the meads.[b8] --Shak.          4. To cheat; to trick; to take in. [Colloq.] --Pope.          5. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the             anchor bites the ground.                         The last screw of the rack having been turned so                      often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned                      and turned with nothing to bite.         --Dickens.          {To bite the dust}, {To bite the ground}, to fall in the             agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust.          {To bite in} (Etching), to corrode or eat into metallic             plates by means of an acid.          {To bite the thumb at} (any one), formerly a mark of             contempt, designed to provoke a quarrel; to defy. [bd]Do             you bite your thumb at us?[b8] --Shak.          {To bite the tongue}, to keep silence. --Shak.
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Bite \Bite\, n. [OE. bite, bit, bitt, AS. bite bite, fr.       b[c6]tan to bite, akin to Icel. bit, OS. biti, G. biss. See       {Bite}, v., and cf. {Bit}.]       1. The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of             wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure             with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give             anything a hard bite.                         I have known a very good fisher angle diligently                      four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a                      bite.                                                --Walton.          2. The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking             food, as is done by some insects.          3. The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or             snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.          4. A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.          5. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing             to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has             upon another.          6. A cheat; a trick; a fraud. [Colloq.]                         The baser methods of getting money by fraud and                      bite, by deceiving and overreaching.   --Humorist.          7. A sharper; one who cheats. [Slang] --Johnson.          8. (Print.) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to             a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening             between the type and paper.
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Bito \Bi"to\, n., Bito tree \Bi"to tree`\ . [Etym. uncertain.]       (Bot.)       A small scrubby tree ({Balanites [92]gyptiaca}) growing in       dry regions of tropical Africa and Asia.          Note: The hard yellowish white wood is made into plows in                Abyssinia; the bark is used in Farther India to stupefy                fish; the ripe fruit is edible, when green it is an                anthelmintic; the fermented juice is used as a                beverage; the seeds yield a medicinal oil called                zachun. The African name of the tree is {hajilij}.
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Bitt \Bitt\, n. (Naut.)       See {Bitts}.
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Bitt \Bitt\, v. t. [See {Bitts}.] (Naut.)       To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to       fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering       away. --Totten.
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Boat \Boat\, n. [OE. boot, bat, AS. b[be]t; akin to Icel.       b[be]tr, Sw. b[86]t, Dan. baad, D. & G. boot. Cf. {Bateau}.]       1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars             or paddles, but often by a sail.          Note: Different kinds of boats have different names; as,                canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc.          2. Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive             of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet             boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is             sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest             class; as, the Cunard boats.          3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in             shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
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Boat \Boat\ (b[omac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Boated}; p. pr. &       vb. n. {Boating}.]       1. To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.          2. To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.          {To boat the oars}. See under {Oar}.
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Boat \Boat\, v. i.       To go or row in a boat.                   I boated over, ran my craft aground.      --Tennyson.
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Bode \Bode\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Boded}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Boding}.] [OE. bodien, AS. bodian to announce, tell from bod       command; akin to Icel. bo[?]a to announce, Sw. b[86]da to       announce, portend. [root]89. See {Bid}.]       To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to       portend to presage; to foreshow.                   A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. --Goldsmith.                   Good onset bodes good end.                     --Spenser.
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Bode \Bode\, v. i.       To foreshow something; to augur.                   Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you.                                                                               --Dryden.          Syn: To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.
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Bode \Bode\, n.       1. An omen; a foreshadowing. [Obs.]                         The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.                                                                               --Chaucer.          2. A bid; an offer. [Obs. or Dial.] --Sir W. Scott
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Bode \Bode\, n. [AS. boda; akin to OFries. boda, AS. bodo, OHG.       boto. See {Bode}, v. t.]       A messenger; a herald. --Robertson.
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Bode \Bode\, n. [See {Abide}.]       A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.]
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Bode \Bode\, imp. & p. p. from {Bide}.       Abode.                   There that night they bode.                     --Tennyson.
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Bode \Bode\, p. p. of {Bid}.       Bid or bidden. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Body \Bod"y\, n. (A[89]ronautics)       The central, longitudinal framework of a flying machine, to       which are attached the planes or a[89]rocurves, passenger       accommodations, controlling and propelling apparatus, fuel       tanks, etc.
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Body \Bod"y\, n.; pl. {Bodies}. [OE. bodi, AS. bodig; akin to       OHG. botah. [root]257. Cf. {Bodice}.]       1. The material organized substance of an animal, whether             living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital             principle; the physical person.                         Absent in body, but present in spirit. --1 Cor. v. 3                         For of the soul the body form doth take. For soul is                      form, and doth the body make.            --Spenser.          2. The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as             distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central,             or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.                         Who set the body and the limbs Of this great sport                      together?                                          --Shak.                         The van of the king's army was led by the general; .                      . . in the body was the king and the prince.                                                                               --Clarendon.                         Rivers that run up into the body of Italy.                                                                               --Addison.          3. The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as             opposed to the shadow.                         Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body                      is of Christ.                                    --Col. ii. 17.          4. A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as,             anybody, nobody.                         A dry, shrewd kind of a body.            --W. Irving.          5. A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as             united by some common tie, or as organized for some             purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation;             as, a legislative body; a clerical body.                         A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter.                                                                               --Prescott.          6. A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a             general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of             laws or of divinity.          7. Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from             others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an a[89]riform             body. [bd]A body of cold air.[b8] --Huxley.                         By collision of two bodies, grind The air attrite to                      fire.                                                --Milton.          8. Amount; quantity; extent.          9. That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished             from the parts covering the limbs.          10. The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is             placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.          11. (Print.) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank             (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on             an agate body.          12. (Geom.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness;             any solid figure.          13. Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this             color has body; wine of a good body.          Note: Colors bear a body when they are capable of being                ground so fine, and of being mixed so entirely with                oil, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same                color.          {After body} (Naut.), the part of a ship abaft the dead flat.                      {Body cavity} (Anat.), the space between the walls of the             body and the inclosed viscera; the c[91]lum; -- in             mammals, divided by the diaphragm into thoracic and             abdominal cavities.          {Body of a church}, the nave.          {Body cloth}; pl.          {Body cloths}, a cloth or blanket for covering horses.          {Body clothes}. (pl.)          1. Clothing for the body; esp. underclothing.          2. Body cloths for horses. [Obs.] --Addison.          {Body coat}, a gentleman's dress coat.          {Body color} (Paint.), a pigment that has consistency,             thickness, or body, in distinction from a tint or wash.          {Body of a law} (Law), the main and operative part.          {Body louse} (Zo[94]l.), a species of louse ({Pediculus             vestimenti}), which sometimes infests the human body and             clothes. See {Grayback}.          {Body plan} (Shipbuilding), an end elevation, showing the             conbour of the sides of a ship at certain points of her             length.          {Body politic}, the collective body of a nation or state as             politically organized, or as exercising political             functions; also, a corporation. --Wharton.                         As to the persons who compose the body politic or                      associate themselves, they take collectively the                      name of [bd]people[b8], or [bd]nation[b8].                                                                               --Bouvier.          {Body servant}, a valet.          {The bodies seven} (Alchemy), the metals corresponding to the             planets. [Obs.]                         Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars                      yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe,                      Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus coper.                                                                               --Chaucer.          {Body snatcher}, one who secretly removes without right or             authority a dead body from a grave, vault, etc.; a             resurrectionist.          {Body snatching} (Law), the unauthorized removal of a dead             body from the grave; usually for the purpose of             dissection.
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Body \Bod"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bodied} ([?]); p. pr. & vb.       n. {Bodying}.]       To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite       shape; to embody.          {To body forth}, to give from or shape to mentally.                         Imagination bodies forth The forms of things                      unknown.                                             --Shak.
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Boodh \Boodh\, n.       Same as {Buddha}. --Malcom.
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Boohoe \Boo`hoe"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Boohooed}; p. pr. & vb.       n. {Boohooing}.] [An imitative word.]       To bawl; to cry loudly. [Low] --Bartlett.
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Elevator \El"e*va`tor\, n. [L., one who raises up, a deliverer:       cf. F. [82]l[82]vateur.]       One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything; as:       (a) A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or             chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for             transferring grain to an upper loft for storage.       (b) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel,             warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods,             etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in             England a lift; the cage or platform itself.       (c) A building for elevating, storing, and discharging,             grain.       (d) (Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the             body, as the leg or the eye.       (e) (Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of             a bone.          {Elevator head}, {leg}, [and] {boot}, the boxes in which the             upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in             a grain elevator.
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Boot \Boot\ (b[oomac]t), n. [OE. bot, bote, advantage, amends,       cure, AS. b[omac]t; akin to Icel. b[omac]t, Sw. bot, Dan.       bod, Goth. b[omac]ta, D. boete, G. busse; prop., a making       good or better, from the root of E. better, adj. [root]255.]       1. Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings             relief.                         He gaf the sike man his boote.            --Chaucer.                         Thou art boot for many a bruise And healest many a                      wound.                                                --Sir W.                                                                               Scott.                         Next her Son, our soul's best boot.   --Wordsworth.          2. That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make             up for the deficiency of value in one of the things             exchanged.                         I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one.                                                                               --Shak.          3. Profit; gain; advantage; use. [Obs.]                         Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot. --Shak.          {To boot}, in addition; over and above; besides; as a             compensation for the difference of value between things             bartered.                         Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot. --Shak.                         A man's heaviness is refreshed long before he comes                      to drunkenness, for when he arrives thither he hath                      but changed his heaviness, and taken a crime to                      boot.                                                --Jer. Taylor.
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Boot \Boot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Booted}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Booting}.]       1. To put boots on, esp. for riding.                         Coated and booted for it.                  --B. Jonson.          2. To punish by kicking with a booted foot. [U. S.]
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Boot \Boot\, v. i.       To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.
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Boot \Boot\, n.       Booty; spoil. [Obs. or R.] --Shak.
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Boot \Boot\, n. [OE. bote, OF. bote, F. botte, LL. botta; of       uncertain origin.]       1. A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg,             ordinarily made of leather.          2. An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to             extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.                         So he was put to the torture, which in Scotland they                      call the boots; for they put a pair of iron boots                      close on the leg, and drive wedges between them and                      the leg.                                             --Bp. Burnet.          3. A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode;             also, a low outside place before and behind the body of             the coach. [Obs.]          4. A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned             stagecoach.          5. An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the             driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.          6. (Plumbing) The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe             where it passes through a roof.          {Boot catcher}, the person at an inn whose business it was to             pull off boots and clean them. [Obs.] --Swift.          {Boot closer}, one who, or that which, sews the uppers of             boots.          {Boot crimp}, a frame or device used by bootmakers for             drawing and shaping the body of a boot.          {Boot hook}, a hook with a handle, used for pulling on boots.                      {Boots and saddles} (Cavalry Tactics), the trumpet call which             is the first signal for mounted drill.          {Sly boots}. See {Slyboots}, in the Vocabulary.
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Boot \Boot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Booted}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Booting}.]       1. To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed             by it; as, what boots it?                         What booteth it to others that we wish them well,                      and do nothing for them?                     --Hooker.                         What subdued To change like this a mind so far                      imbued With scorn of man, it little boots to know.                                                                               --Byron.                         What boots to us your victories?         --Southey.          2. To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition. [Obs.]                         And I will boot thee with what gift beside Thy                      modesty can beg.                                 --Shak.
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Elevator \El"e*va`tor\, n. [L., one who raises up, a deliverer:       cf. F. [82]l[82]vateur.]       One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything; as:       (a) A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or             chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for             transferring grain to an upper loft for storage.       (b) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel,             warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods,             etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in             England a lift; the cage or platform itself.       (c) A building for elevating, storing, and discharging,             grain.       (d) (Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the             body, as the leg or the eye.       (e) (Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of             a bone.          {Elevator head}, {leg}, [and] {boot}, the boxes in which the             upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in             a grain elevator.
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Boot \Boot\ (b[oomac]t), n. [OE. bot, bote, advantage, amends,       cure, AS. b[omac]t; akin to Icel. b[omac]t, Sw. bot, Dan.       bod, Goth. b[omac]ta, D. boete, G. busse; prop., a making       good or better, from the root of E. better, adj. [root]255.]       1. Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings             relief.                         He gaf the sike man his boote.            --Chaucer.                         Thou art boot for many a bruise And healest many a                      wound.                                                --Sir W.                                                                               Scott.                         Next her Son, our soul's best boot.   --Wordsworth.          2. That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make             up for the deficiency of value in one of the things             exchanged.                         I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one.                                                                               --Shak.          3. Profit; gain; advantage; use. [Obs.]                         Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot. --Shak.          {To boot}, in addition; over and above; besides; as a             compensation for the difference of value between things             bartered.                         Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot. --Shak.                         A man's heaviness is refreshed long before he comes                      to drunkenness, for when he arrives thither he hath                      but changed his heaviness, and taken a crime to                      boot.                                                --Jer. Taylor.
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Boot \Boot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Booted}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Booting}.]       1. To put boots on, esp. for riding.                         Coated and booted for it.                  --B. Jonson.          2. To punish by kicking with a booted foot. [U. S.]
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Boot \Boot\, v. i.       To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.
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Boot \Boot\, n.       Booty; spoil. [Obs. or R.] --Shak.
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Boot \Boot\, n. [OE. bote, OF. bote, F. botte, LL. botta; of       uncertain origin.]       1. A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg,             ordinarily made of leather.          2. An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to             extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.                         So he was put to the torture, which in Scotland they                      call the boots; for they put a pair of iron boots                      close on the leg, and drive wedges between them and                      the leg.                                             --Bp. Burnet.          3. A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode;             also, a low outside place before and behind the body of             the coach. [Obs.]          4. A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned             stagecoach.          5. An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the             driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.          6. (Plumbing) The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe             where it passes through a roof.          {Boot catcher}, the person at an inn whose business it was to             pull off boots and clean them. [Obs.] --Swift.          {Boot closer}, one who, or that which, sews the uppers of             boots.          {Boot crimp}, a frame or device used by bootmakers for             drawing and shaping the body of a boot.          {Boot hook}, a hook with a handle, used for pulling on boots.                      {Boots and saddles} (Cavalry Tactics), the trumpet call which             is the first signal for mounted drill.          {Sly boots}. See {Slyboots}, in the Vocabulary.
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Boot \Boot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Booted}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Booting}.]       1. To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed             by it; as, what boots it?                         What booteth it to others that we wish them well,                      and do nothing for them?                     --Hooker.                         What subdued To change like this a mind so far                      imbued With scorn of man, it little boots to know.                                                                               --Byron.                         What boots to us your victories?         --Southey.          2. To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition. [Obs.]                         And I will boot thee with what gift beside Thy                      modesty can beg.                                 --Shak.
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Bootee \Boot*ee"\, n.       A half boot or short boot.
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Booth \Booth\ (b[oomac][th]), n. [OE. bothe; cf. Icel.       b[umac][edh], Dan. & Sw. bod, MHG. buode, G. bude, baude;       from the same root as AS. b[umac]an to dwell, E. boor, bower,       be; cf. Bohem. bauda, Pol. buda, Russ. budka, Lith. buda, W.       bwth, pl. bythod, Gael. buth, Ir. both.]       1. A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight             materials, for temporary occupation. --Camden.          2. A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or             market, or at a polling place.
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Boothy \Booth"y\, n.       See {Bothy}.
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Bothy \Both"y\Boothy \Booth"y\ n.; pl. {-ies} [Scottish. Cf.       {Booth}.]       A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for       unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a       booth. [Scot.]
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Booty \Boo"ty\, n. [Cf. Icel. b[?]ti exchange, barter, Sw. byte       barter, booty, Dan. bytte; akin to D. buit booty, G. beute,       and fr. Icel. byta, Sw. byta, Dan. bytte, to distribute,       exchange. The Scandinavian word was influenced in English by       boot profit.]       That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery,       especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.       --Milton.          {To play booty}, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose;             to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in             order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him             afterwards. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.
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Bot \Bot\, n. (Zo[94]l.)       See {Bots}.
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Bote \Bote\, n. [Old form of boot; -- used in composition. See       1st {Boot}.] (Law)       (a) Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man             bote, a compensation or a man slain.       (b) Payment of any kind. --Bouvier.       (c) A privilege or allowance of necessaries.          Note: This word is still used in composition as equivalent to                the French estovers, supplies, necessaries; as,                housebote, a sufficiency of wood to repair a house, or                for fuel, sometimes called firebote; so plowbote,                cartbote, wood for making or repairing instruments of                husbandry; haybote or hedgebote, wood for hedges,                fences, etc. These were privileges enjoyed by tenants                under the feudal system. --Burrill. --Bouvier.                --Blackstone.
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Both \Both\, a. or pron. [OE. bothe, ba[?]e, fr. Icel.       b[be][?]ir; akin to Dan. baade, Sw. b[86]da, Goth.       baj[?][?]s, OHG. beid[?], b[?]d[?], G. & D. beide, also AS.       begen, b[be], b[?], Goth. bai, and Gr. [?], L. ambo, Lith.       ab[85], OSlav. oba, Skr. ubha. [root]310. Cf. {Amb}-.]       The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception       of either.          Note: It is generally used adjectively with nouns; as, both                horses ran away; but with pronouns, and often with                nous, it is used substantively, and followed by of.          Note: It frequently stands as a pronoun.                            She alone is heir to both of us.   --Shak.                            Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto                         Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.                                                                               --Gen. xxi.                                                                               27.                            He will not bear the loss of his rank, because he                         can bear the loss of his estate; but he will bear                         both, because he is prepared for both.                                                                               --Bolingbroke.          Note: It is often used in apposition with nouns or pronouns.                            Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes.                                                                               --Shak.                            This said, they both betook them several ways.                                                                               --Milton.          Note: Both now always precedes any other attributive words;                as, both their armies; both our eyes.          Note: Both of is used before pronouns in the objective case;                as, both of us, them, whom, etc.; but before                substantives its used is colloquial, both (without of)                being the preferred form; as, both the brothers.
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Both \Both\, conj.       As well; not only; equally.          Note: Both precedes the first of two co[94]rdinate words or                phrases, and is followed by and before the other, both                . . . and . . .; as well the one as the other; not only                this, but also that; equally the former and the latter.                It is also sometimes followed by more than two                co[94]rdinate words, connected by and expressed or                understood.                            To judge both quick and dead.         --Milton.                            A masterpiece both for argument and style.                                                                               --Goldsmith.                            To whom bothe heven and erthe and see is sene.                                                                               --Chaucer.                            Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound.                                                                               --Goldsmith.                            He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird                         and beast.                                    --Coleridge.
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Bothie \Both"ie\, n.       Same as {Bothy}. [Scot.]
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Bothy \Both"y\Boothy \Booth"y\ n.; pl. {-ies} [Scottish. Cf.       {Booth}.]       A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for       unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a       booth. [Scot.]
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Boud \Boud\, n.       A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc. [Obs.]       --Tusser.
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Bout \Bout\, n. [A different spelling and application of bought       bend.]       1. As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going             and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a             turn; a round.                         In notes with many a winding bout Of linked                      sweetness long drawn out.                  --Milton.                         The prince . . . has taken me in his train, so that                      I am in no danger of starving for this bout.                                                                               --Goldsmith.          2. A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything;             as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.                         The gentleman will, for his honor's sake, have one                      bout with you; he can not by the duello avoid it.                                                                               --Shak.
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Bow \Bow\ (bou), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bowed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Bowing}.] [OE. bowen, bogen, bugen, AS. b[d4]gan (generally       v. i.); akin to D. buigen, OHG. biogan, G. biegen, beugen,       Icel. boginn bent, beygja to bend, Sw. b[94]ja, Dan. b[94]ie,       bugne, Coth. biugan; also to L. fugere to flee, Gr. [?], and       Skr. bhuj to bend. [root]88. Cf. {Fugitive}.]       1. To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to             inflect; to make crooked or curved.                         We bow things the contrary way, to make them come to                      their natural straightness.               --Milton.                         The whole nation bowed their necks to the worst kind                      of tyranny.                                       --Prescott.          2. To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to             bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.                         Adversities do more bow men's minds to religion.                                                                               --Bacon.                         Not to bow and bias their opinions.   --Fuller.          3. To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of             respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension.                         They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the                      ground before him.                              --2 Kings ii.                                                                               15.          4. To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;[?] to             crush; to subdue.                         Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave.                                                                               --Shak.          5. To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.
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Bow \Bow\ (b[d3]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bowed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Bowing}.]       To play (music) with a bow. -- v. i. To manage the bow.
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Bowhead \Bow"head`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)       The great Arctic or Greenland whale. ({Bal[91]na       mysticetus}). See {Baleen}, and {Whale}.
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Boyhood \Boy"hood\, n. [Boy + -hood.]       The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy.       --Hood.
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Bud \Bud\, v. t.       To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by       inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of       the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit       different from that which it would naturally bear.                   The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are,                budded upon the peach; the plum and the peach are                budded on each other.                              --Farm. Dict.
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Bud \Bud\, n. [OE. budde; cf. D. bot, G. butze, butz, the core       of a fruit, bud, LG. butte in hagebutte, hainbutte, a hip of       the dog-rose, or OF. boton, F. bouton, bud, button, OF. boter       to bud, push; all akin to E. beat. See {Button}.]       1. (Bot.) A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a             plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers,             or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.          2. (Biol.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of             animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism,             either free or attached. See {Hydra}.          {Bud moth} (Zo[94]l.), a lepidopterous insect of several             species, which destroys the buds of fruit trees; esp.             {Tmetocera ocellana} and {Eccopsis malana} on the apple             tree.
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Bud \Bud\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Budded}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Budding}.]       1. To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a             bud does, into a flower or shoot.          2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner             of a bud, as a horn.          3. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or             growth and promise; as, a budding virgin. --Shak.          Syn: To sprout; germinate; blossom.
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Buddha \Bud"dha\, n. [Skr. buddha wise, sage, fr. budh to know.]       The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and       wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp.       Gautama Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni), the founder of       Buddhism.
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Buoy \Buoy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Buoyed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Buoying}.]       1. To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to             keep afloat; -- with up.          2. To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin             or despondency.                         Those old prejudices, which buoy up the ponderous                      mass of his nobility, wealth, and title. --Burke.          3. To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to             buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.                         Not one rock near the surface was discovered which                      was not buoyed by this floating weed. --Darwin.
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But \But\ (b[ucr]t), prep., adv. & conj. [OE. bute, buten, AS.       b[umac]tan, without, on the outside, except, besides; pref.       be- + [umac]tan outward, without, fr. [umac]t out. Primarily,       b[umac]tan, as well as [umac]t, is an adverb. [root]198. See       {By}, {Out}; cf. {About}.]       1. Except with; unless with; without. [Obs.]                         So insolent that he could not go but either spurning                      equals or trampling on his inferiors. --Fuller.                         Touch not the cat but a glove.            --Motto of the                                                                               Mackintoshes.          2. Except; besides; save.                         Who can it be, ye gods! but perjured Lycon? --E.                                                                               Smith.          Note: In this sense, but is often used with other particles;                as, but for, without, had it not been for.                [bd]Uncreated but for love divine.[b8] --Young.          3. Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it             not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that.                         And but my noble Moor is true of mind . . . it were                      enough to put him to ill thinking.      --Shak.          4. Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a             negative, with that.                         It cannot be but nature hath some director, of                      infinite power, to guide her in all her ways.                                                                               --Hooker.                         There is no question but the king of Spain will                      reform most of the abuses.                  --Addison.          5. Only; solely; merely.                         Observe but how their own principles combat one                      another.                                             --Milton.                         If they kill us, we shall but die.      --2 Kings vii.                                                                               4.                         A formidable man but to his friends.   --Dryden.          6. On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still;             however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of             sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or             less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of             Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented;             our wants are many, but quite of another kind.                         Now abideth faith hope, charity, these three; but                      the greatest of these is charity.      --1 Cor. xiii.                                                                               13.                         When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the                      lowly is wisdom.                                 --Prov. xi. 2.          {All but}. See under {All}.          {But and if}, but if; an attempt on the part of King James's             translators of the Bible to express the conjunctive and             adversative force of the Greek [?].                         But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord                      delayeth his coming; . . . the lord of that servant                      will come in a day when he looketh not for him.                                                                               --Luke xii.                                                                               45, 46.          {But if}, unless. [Obs.] --Chaucer.                         But this I read, that but if remedy Thou her afford,                      full shortly I her dead shall see.      --Spenser.          Syn: {But}, {However}, {Still}.          Usage: These conjunctions mark opposition in passing from one                   thought or topic to another. But marks the opposition                   with a medium degree of strength; as, this is not                   winter, but it is almost as cold; he requested my                   assistance, but I shall not aid him at present.                   However is weaker, and throws the opposition (as it                   were) into the background; as, this is not winter; it                   is, however, almost as cold; he required my                   assistance; at present, however, I shall not afford                   him aid. The plan, however, is still under                   consideration, and may yet be adopted. Still is                   stronger than but, and marks the opposition more                   emphatically; as, your arguments are weighty; still                   they do not convince me. See {Except}, {However}.          Note: [bd]The chief error with but is to use it where and is                enough; an error springing from the tendency to use                strong words without sufficient occasion.[b8] --Bain.
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But \But\, n. [Cf. {But}, prep., adv. & conj.]       The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; --       opposed to {ben}, the inner room. [Scot.]
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But \But\, n. [See 1st {But}.]       1. A limit; a boundary.          2. The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in             distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st {Butt}.          {But end}, the larger or thicker end; as, the but end of a             log; the but end of a musket. See {Butt}, n.
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But \But\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Butted}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Butting}.]       See {Butt}, v., and {Abut}, v.
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Butt \Butt\, But \But\, n. [F. but butt, aim (cf. butte knoll),       or bout, OF. bot, end, extremity, fr. boter, buter, to push,       butt, strike, F. bouter; of German origin; cf. OHG. b[d3]zan,       akin to E. beat. See {Beat}, v. t.]       1. A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.                         Here is my journey's end, here my butt And very sea                      mark of my utmost sail.                     --Shak.          Note: As applied to land, the word is nearly synonymous with                mete, and signifies properly the end line or boundary;                the abuttal.          2. The thicker end of anything. See {But}.          3. A mark to be shot at; a target. --Sir W. Scott.                         The groom his fellow groom at butts defies, And                      bends his bow, and levels with his eyes. --Dryden.          4. A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed;             as, the butt of the company.                         I played a sentence or two at my butt, which I                      thought very smart.                           --Addison.          5. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an             animal; as, the butt of a ram.          6. A thrust in fencing.                         To prove who gave the fairer butt, John shows the                      chalk on Robert's coat.                     --Prior.          7. A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.                         The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in                      cornfields.                                       --Burrill.          8. (Mech.)             (a) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely                   together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also                   called {butt joint}.             (b) The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to                   which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and                   gib.             (c) The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of                   a hose.          9. (Shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake             meet.          10. (Carp.) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; --             so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which             butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like             the strap hinge; also called {butt hinge}.          11. (Leather Trade) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned             oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.          12. The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the             targets in rifle practice.          {Butt chain} (Saddlery), a short chain attached to the end of             a tug.          {Butt end}. The thicker end of anything. See {But end}, under             2d {But}.                         Amen; and make me die a good old man! That's the                      butt end of a mother's blessing.         --Shak.          {A butt's length}, the ordinary distance from the place of             shooting to the butt, or mark.          {Butts and bounds} (Conveyancing), abuttals and boundaries.             In lands of the ordinary rectangular shape, butts are the             lines at the ends (F. bouts), and bounds are those on the             sides, or sidings, as they were formerly termed.             --Burrill.          {Bead and butt}. See under {Bead}.          {Butt and butt}, joining end to end without overlapping, as             planks.          {Butt weld} (Mech.), a butt joint, made by welding together             the flat ends, or edges, of a piece of iron or steel, or             of separate pieces, without having them overlap. See             {Weld}.          {Full butt}, headfirst with full force. [Colloq.] [bd]The             corporal . . . ran full butt at the lieutenant.[b8]             --Marryat.
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Butt \Butt\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Butted}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Butting}.] [OE. butten, OF. boter to push, F. bouter. See       {Butt} an end, and cf. {Boutade}.]       1. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to             terminate; to be bounded; to abut. [Written also {but}.]                         And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered                      ground.                                             --Drayton.          2. To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the             head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See {Butt}, n.]                         A snow-white steer before thine altar led, Butts                      with his threatening brows.               --Dryden.
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But \But\ (b[ucr]t), prep., adv. & conj. [OE. bute, buten, AS.       b[umac]tan, without, on the outside, except, besides; pref.       be- + [umac]tan outward, without, fr. [umac]t out. Primarily,       b[umac]tan, as well as [umac]t, is an adverb. [root]198. See       {By}, {Out}; cf. {About}.]       1. Except with; unless with; without. [Obs.]                         So insolent that he could not go but either spurning                      equals or trampling on his inferiors. --Fuller.                         Touch not the cat but a glove.            --Motto of the                                                                               Mackintoshes.          2. Except; besides; save.                         Who can it be, ye gods! but perjured Lycon? --E.                                                                               Smith.          Note: In this sense, but is often used with other particles;                as, but for, without, had it not been for.                [bd]Uncreated but for love divine.[b8] --Young.          3. Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it             not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that.                         And but my noble Moor is true of mind . . . it were                      enough to put him to ill thinking.      --Shak.          4. Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a             negative, with that.                         It cannot be but nature hath some director, of                      infinite power, to guide her in all her ways.                                                                               --Hooker.                         There is no question but the king of Spain will                      reform most of the abuses.                  --Addison.          5. Only; solely; merely.                         Observe but how their own principles combat one                      another.                                             --Milton.                         If they kill us, we shall but die.      --2 Kings vii.                                                                               4.                         A formidable man but to his friends.   --Dryden.          6. On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still;             however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of             sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or             less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of             Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented;             our wants are many, but quite of another kind.                         Now abideth faith hope, charity, these three; but                      the greatest of these is charity.      --1 Cor. xiii.                                                                               13.                         When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the                      lowly is wisdom.                                 --Prov. xi. 2.          {All but}. See under {All}.          {But and if}, but if; an attempt on the part of King James's             translators of the Bible to express the conjunctive and             adversative force of the Greek [?].                         But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord                      delayeth his coming; . . . the lord of that servant                      will come in a day when he looketh not for him.                                                                               --Luke xii.                                                                               45, 46.          {But if}, unless. [Obs.] --Chaucer.                         But this I read, that but if remedy Thou her afford,                      full shortly I her dead shall see.      --Spenser.          Syn: {But}, {However}, {Still}.          Usage: These conjunctions mark opposition in passing from one                   thought or topic to another. But marks the opposition                   with a medium degree of strength; as, this is not                   winter, but it is almost as cold; he requested my                   assistance, but I shall not aid him at present.                   However is weaker, and throws the opposition (as it                   were) into the background; as, this is not winter; it                   is, however, almost as cold; he required my                   assistance; at present, however, I shall not afford                   him aid. The plan, however, is still under                   consideration, and may yet be adopted. Still is                   stronger than but, and marks the opposition more                   emphatically; as, your arguments are weighty; still                   they do not convince me. See {Except}, {However}.          Note: [bd]The chief error with but is to use it where and is                enough; an error springing from the tendency to use                strong words without sufficient occasion.[b8] --Bain.
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But \But\, n. [Cf. {But}, prep., adv. & conj.]       The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; --       opposed to {ben}, the inner room. [Scot.]
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But \But\, n. [See 1st {But}.]       1. A limit; a boundary.          2. The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in             distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st {Butt}.          {But end}, the larger or thicker end; as, the but end of a             log; the but end of a musket. See {Butt}, n.
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But \But\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Butted}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Butting}.]       See {Butt}, v., and {Abut}, v.
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Butt \Butt\, But \But\, n. [F. but butt, aim (cf. butte knoll),       or bout, OF. bot, end, extremity, fr. boter, buter, to push,       butt, strike, F. bouter; of German origin; cf. OHG. b[d3]zan,       akin to E. beat. See {Beat}, v. t.]       1. A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.                         Here is my journey's end, here my butt And very sea                      mark of my utmost sail.                     --Shak.          Note: As applied to land, the word is nearly synonymous with                mete, and signifies properly the end line or boundary;                the abuttal.          2. The thicker end of anything. See {But}.          3. A mark to be shot at; a target. --Sir W. Scott.                         The groom his fellow groom at butts defies, And                      bends his bow, and levels with his eyes. --Dryden.          4. A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed;             as, the butt of the company.                         I played a sentence or two at my butt, which I                      thought very smart.                           --Addison.          5. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an             animal; as, the butt of a ram.          6. A thrust in fencing.                         To prove who gave the fairer butt, John shows the                      chalk on Robert's coat.                     --Prior.          7. A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.                         The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in                      cornfields.                                       --Burrill.          8. (Mech.)             (a) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely                   together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also                   called {butt joint}.             (b) The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to                   which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and                   gib.             (c) The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of                   a hose.          9. (Shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake             meet.          10. (Carp.) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; --             so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which             butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like             the strap hinge; also called {butt hinge}.          11. (Leather Trade) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned             oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.          12. The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the             targets in rifle practice.          {Butt chain} (Saddlery), a short chain attached to the end of             a tug.          {Butt end}. The thicker end of anything. See {But end}, under             2d {But}.                         Amen; and make me die a good old man! That's the                      butt end of a mother's blessing.         --Shak.          {A butt's length}, the ordinary distance from the place of             shooting to the butt, or mark.          {Butts and bounds} (Conveyancing), abuttals and boundaries.             In lands of the ordinary rectangular shape, butts are the             lines at the ends (F. bouts), and bounds are those on the             sides, or sidings, as they were formerly termed.             --Burrill.          {Bead and butt}. See under {Bead}.          {Butt and butt}, joining end to end without overlapping, as             planks.          {Butt weld} (Mech.), a butt joint, made by welding together             the flat ends, or edges, of a piece of iron or steel, or             of separate pieces, without having them overlap. See             {Weld}.          {Full butt}, headfirst with full force. [Colloq.] [bd]The             corporal . . . ran full butt at the lieutenant.[b8]             --Marryat.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Butt \Butt\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Butted}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Butting}.] [OE. butten, OF. boter to push, F. bouter. See       {Butt} an end, and cf. {Boutade}.]       1. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to             terminate; to be bounded; to abut. [Written also {but}.]                         And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered                      ground.                                             --Drayton.          2. To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the             head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See {Butt}, n.]                         A snow-white steer before thine altar led, Butts                      with his threatening brows.               --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Butt \Butt\, But \But\, n. [F. but butt, aim (cf. butte knoll),       or bout, OF. bot, end, extremity, fr. boter, buter, to push,       butt, strike, F. bouter; of German origin; cf. OHG. b[d3]zan,       akin to E. beat. See {Beat}, v. t.]       1. A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.                         Here is my journey's end, here my butt And very sea                      mark of my utmost sail.                     --Shak.          Note: As applied to land, the word is nearly synonymous with                mete, and signifies properly the end line or boundary;                the abuttal.          2. The thicker end of anything. See {But}.          3. A mark to be shot at; a target. --Sir W. Scott.                         The groom his fellow groom at butts defies, And                      bends his bow, and levels with his eyes. --Dryden.          4. A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed;             as, the butt of the company.                         I played a sentence or two at my butt, which I                      thought very smart.                           --Addison.          5. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an             animal; as, the butt of a ram.          6. A thrust in fencing.                         To prove who gave the fairer butt, John shows the                      chalk on Robert's coat.                     --Prior.          7. A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.                         The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in                      cornfields.                                       --Burrill.          8. (Mech.)             (a) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely                   together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also                   called {butt joint}.             (b) The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to                   which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and                   gib.             (c) The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of                   a hose.          9. (Shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake             meet.          10. (Carp.) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; --             so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which             butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like             the strap hinge; also called {butt hinge}.          11. (Leather Trade) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned             oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.          12. The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the             targets in rifle practice.          {Butt chain} (Saddlery), a short chain attached to the end of             a tug.          {Butt end}. The thicker end of anything. See {But end}, under             2d {But}.                         Amen; and make me die a good old man! That's the                      butt end of a mother's blessing.         --Shak.          {A butt's length}, the ordinary distance from the place of             shooting to the butt, or mark.          {Butts and bounds} (Conveyancing), abuttals and boundaries.             In lands of the ordinary rectangular shape, butts are the             lines at the ends (F. bouts), and bounds are those on the             sides, or sidings, as they were formerly termed.             --Burrill.          {Bead and butt}. See under {Bead}.          {Butt and butt}, joining end to end without overlapping, as             planks.          {Butt weld} (Mech.), a butt joint, made by welding together             the flat ends, or edges, of a piece of iron or steel, or             of separate pieces, without having them overlap. See             {Weld}.          {Full butt}, headfirst with full force. [Colloq.] [bd]The             corporal . . . ran full butt at the lieutenant.[b8]             --Marryat.
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Butt \Butt\, v. t.       To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the       head.                   Two harmless lambs are butting one the other. --Sir H.                                                                               Wotton.
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Butt \Butt\, n. [F. botte, boute, LL. butta. Cf. {Bottle} a       hollow vessel.]       A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two       hogsheads.          Note: A wine butt contains 126 wine gallons (= 105 imperial                gallons, nearly); a beer butt 108 ale gallons (= about                110 imperial gallons).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Butt \Butt\, n. (Zo[94]l.)       The common English flounder.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Butt \Butt\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Butted}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Butting}.] [OE. butten, OF. boter to push, F. bouter. See       {Butt} an end, and cf. {Boutade}.]       1. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to             terminate; to be bounded; to abut. [Written also {but}.]                         And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered                      ground.                                             --Drayton.          2. To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the             head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See {Butt}, n.]                         A snow-white steer before thine altar led, Butts                      with his threatening brows.               --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Butty \But"ty\, n. (Mining)       One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Eye \Eye\, n. [OE. eghe, eighe, eie, eye, AS. e[a0]ge; akin to       OFries. [be]ge, OS. [?]ga, D. oog, Ohg. ouga, G. auge, Icel.       auga, Sw. [94]ga, Dan. [94]ie, Goth. aug[?]; cf. OSlav. oko,       Lish. akis, L. okulus, Gr. [?], eye, [?], the two eyes, Skr.       akshi. [root]10, 212. Cf. {Diasy}, {Ocular}, {Optic},       {Eyelet}, {Ogle}.]       1. The organ of sight or vision. In man, and the vertebrates             generally, it is properly the movable ball or globe in the             orbit, but the term often includes the adjacent parts. In             most invertebrates the years are immovable ocelli, or             compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See {Ocellus}.             Description of illustration: a b Conjunctiva; c Cornea; d             Sclerotic; e Choroid; f Cillary Muscle; g Cillary Process;             h Iris; i Suspensory Ligament; k Prosterior Aqueous             Chamber between h and i; l Anterior Aqueous Chamber; m             Crystalline Lens; n Vitreous Humor; o Retina; p Yellow             spot; q Center of blind spot; r Artery of Retina in center             of the Optic Nerve.          Note: The essential parts of the eye are inclosed in a tough                outer coat, the sclerotic, to which the muscles moving                it are attached, and which in front changes into the                transparent cornea. A little way back of cornea, the                crystalline lens is suspended, dividing the eye into                two unequal cavities, a smaller one in front filled                with a watery fluid, the aqueous humor, and larger one                behind filled with a clear jelly, the vitreous humor.                The sclerotic is lined with a highly pigmented                membrane, the choroid, and this is turn is lined in the                back half of the eyeball with the nearly transparent                retina, in which the fibers of the optic nerve ramify.                The choroid in front is continuous with the iris, which                has a contractile opening in the center, the pupil,                admitting light to the lens which brings the rays to a                focus and forms an image upon the retina, where the                light, falling upon delicate structures called rods and                cones, causes them to stimulate the fibres of the optic                nerve to transmit visual impressions to the brain.          2. The faculty of seeing; power or range of vision; hence,             judgment or taste in the use of the eye, and in judging of             objects; as, to have the eye of sailor; an eye for the             beautiful or picturesque.          3. The action of the organ of sight; sight, look; view;             ocular knowledge; judgment; opinion.                         In my eye, she is the sweetest lady that I looked                      on.                                                   --Shak.          4. The space commanded by the organ of sight; scope of             vision; hence, face; front; the presence of an object             which is directly opposed or confronted; immediate             presence.                         We shell express our duty in his eye. --Shak.                         Her shell your hear disproved to her eyes. --Shak.          5. Observation; oversight; watch; inspection; notice;             attention; regard. [bd]Keep eyes upon her.[b8] --Shak.                         Booksellers . . . have an eye to their own                      advantage.                                          --Addison.          6. That which resembles the organ of sight, in form,             position, or appearance; as:             (a) (Zo[94]l.) The spots on a feather, as of peacock.             (b) The scar to which the adductor muscle is attached in                   oysters and other bivalve shells; also, the adductor                   muscle itself, esp. when used as food, as in the                   scallop.             (c) The bud or sprout of a plant or tuber; as the eye of a                   potato.             (d) The center of a target; the bull's-eye.             (e) A small loop to receive a hook; as hooks and eyes on a                   dress.             (f) The hole through the head of a needle.             (g) A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through                   anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.;                   as an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss;                   as an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope.             (h) The hole through the upper millstone.          7. That which resembles the eye in relative importance or             beauty. [bd]The very eye of that proverb.[b8] --Shak.                         Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts. --Milton.          8. Tinge; shade of color. [Obs.]                         Red with an eye of blue makes a purple. --Boyle.          {By the eye}, in abundance. [Obs.] --Marlowe.          {Elliott eye} (Naut.), a loop in a hemp cable made around a             thimble and served.          {Eye agate}, a kind of circle agate, the central part of             which are of deeper tints than the rest of the mass.             --Brande & C.          {Eye animalcule} (Zo[94]l), a flagellate infusorian belonging             to {Euglena} and related genera; -- so called because it             has a colored spot like an eye at one end.          {Eye doctor}, an oculist.          {Eye of a volute} (Arch.), the circle in the center of             volute.          {Eye of day}, {Eye of the morning}, {Eye of heaven}, the sun.             [bd]So gently shuts the eye day.[b8] --Mrs. Barbauld.          {Eye of a ship}, the foremost part in the bows of a ship,             where, formerly, eyes were painted; also, the hawser             holes. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.          {Half an eye}, very imperfect sight; a careless glance; as,             to see a thing with half an eye; often figuratively.             [bd]Those who have but half an eye. [b8] --B. Jonson.          {To catch one's eye}, to attract one's notice.          {To find favor in the eyes (of)}, to be graciously received             and treated.          {To have an eye to}, to pay particular attention to; to             watch. [bd]Have an eye to Cinna.[b8] --Shak.          {To keep an eye on}, to watch.          {To set the eyes on}, to see; to have a sight of.          {In the eye of the wind} (Naut.), in a direction opposed to             the wind; as, a ship sails in the eye of the wind.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Way \Way\, n. [OE. wey, way, AS. weg; akin to OS., D., OHG., &       G. weg, Icel. vegr, Sw. v[84]g, Dan. vei, Goth. wigs, L. via,       and AS. wegan to move, L. vehere to carry, Skr. vah.       [root]136. Cf. {Convex}, {Inveigh}, {Vehicle}, {Vex}, {Via},       {Voyage}, {Wag}, {Wagon}, {Wee}, {Weigh}.]       1. That by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes;             opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage;             road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a             way to the mine. [bd]To find the way to heaven.[b8]             --Shak.                         I shall him seek by way and eke by street.                                                                               --Chaucer.                         The way seems difficult, and steep to scale.                                                                               --Milton.                         The season and ways were very improper for his                      majesty's forces to march so great a distance.                                                                               --Evelyn.          2. Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a             long way.                         And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began                      to fail.                                             --Longfellow.          3. A moving; passage; procession; journey.                         I prythee, now, lead the way.            --Shak.          4. Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of             action; advance.                         If that way be your walk, you have not far.                                                                               --Milton.                         And let eternal justice take the way. --Dryden.          5. The means by which anything is reached, or anything is             accomplished; scheme; device; plan.                         My best way is to creep under his gaberdine. --Shak.                         By noble ways we conquest will prepare. --Dryden.                         What impious ways my wishes took!      --Prior.          6. Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of             expressing one's ideas.          7. Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of             conduct; mode of dealing. [bd]Having lost the way of             nobleness.[b8] --Sir. P. Sidney.                         Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths                      are peace.                                          --Prov. iii.                                                                               17.                         When men lived in a grander way.         --Longfellow.          8. Sphere or scope of observation. --Jer. Taylor.                         The public ministers that fell in my way. --Sir W.                                                                               Temple.          9. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as,             to have one's way.          10. (Naut.)             (a) Progress; as, a ship has way.             (b) pl. The timbers on which a ship is launched.          11. pl. (Mach.) The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces,             on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a             table or carriage moves.          12. (Law) Right of way. See below.          {By the way}, in passing; apropos; aside; apart from, though             connected with, the main object or subject of discourse.                      {By way of}, for the purpose of; as being; in character of.                      {Covert way}. (Fort.) See {Covered way}, under {Covered}.          {In the family way}. See under {Family}.          {In the way}, so as to meet, fall in with, obstruct, hinder,             etc.          {In the way with}, traveling or going with; meeting or being             with; in the presence of.          {Milky way}. (Astron.) See {Galaxy}, 1.          {No way}, {No ways}. See {Noway}, {Noways}, in the             Vocabulary.          {On the way}, traveling or going; hence, in process;             advancing toward completion; as, on the way to this             country; on the way to success.          {Out of the way}. See under {Out}.          {Right of way} (Law), a right of private passage over             another's ground. It may arise either by grant or             prescription. It may be attached to a house, entry, gate,             well, or city lot, as well as to a country farm. --Kent.                      {To be under way}, [or] {To have way} (Naut.), to be in             motion, as when a ship begins to move.          {To give way}. See under {Give}.          {To go one's way}, [or] {To come one's way}, to go or come;             to depart or come along. --Shak.          {To go the way of all the earth}, to die.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
By \By\ (b[imac]), prep. [OE. bi, AS. b[c6], big, near to, by,       of, from, after, according to; akin to OS. & OFries. bi, be,       D. bij, OHG. b[c6], G. bei, Goth. bi, and perh. Gr. 'amfi`.       E. prefix be- is orig. the same word. [root]203. See pref.       {Be-}.]       1. In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from;             close to; along with; as, come and sit by me. [1913             Webster]                         By foundation or by shady rivulet He sought them                      both.                                                --Milton.          2. On; along; in traversing. Compare 5.                         Long labors both by sea and land he bore. --Dryden.                         By land, by water, they renew the charge. --Pope.          3. Near to, while passing; hence, from one to the other side             of; past; as, to go by a church.          4. Used in specifying adjacent dimensions; as, a cabin twenty             feet by forty.          5. Against. [Obs.] --Tyndale [1. Cor. iv. 4].          6. With, as means, way, process, etc.; through means of; with             aid of; through; through the act or agency of; as, a city             is destroyed by fire; profit is made by commerce; to take             by force.          Note: To the meaning of by, as denoting means or agency,                belong, more or less closely, most of the following                uses of the word:             (a) It points out the author and producer; as,                   [bd]Waverley[b8], a novel by Sir W.Scott; a statue by                   Canova; a sonata by Beethoven.             (b) In an oath or adjuration, it indicates the being or                   thing appealed to as sanction; as, I affirm to you by                   all that is sacred; he swears by his faith as a                   Christian; no, by Heaven.             (c) According to; by direction, authority, or example of;                   after; -- in such phrases as, it appears by his                   account; ten o'clock by my watch; to live by rule; a                   model to build by.             (d) At the rate of; according to the ratio or proportion                   of; in the measure or quantity of; as, to sell cloth                   by the yard, milk by the quart, eggs by the dozen,                   meat by the pound; to board by the year.             (e) In comparison, it denotes the measure of excess or                   deficiency; when anything is increased or diminished,                   it indicates the measure of increase or diminution;                   as, larger by a half; older by five years; to lessen                   by a third.             (f) It expresses continuance or duration; during the                   course of; within the period of; as, by day, by night.             (g) As soon as; not later than; near or at; -- used in                   expressions of time; as, by this time the sun had                   risen; he will be here by two o'clock.          Note: In boxing the compass, by indicates a pint nearer to,                or towards, the next cardinal point; as, north by east,                i.e., a point towards the east from the north;                northeast by east, i.e., on point nearer the east than                northeast is.          Note: With is used instead of by before the instrument with                which anything is done; as, to beat one with a stick;                the board was fastened by the carpenter with nails. But                there are many words which may be regarded as means or                processes, or, figuratively, as instruments; and                whether with or by shall be used with them is a matter                of arbitrary, and often, of unsettled usage; as, to a                reduce a town by famine; to consume stubble with fire;                he gained his purpose by flattery; he entertained them                with a story; he distressed us with or by a recital of                his sufferings. see {With}.          {By all means}, most assuredly; without fail; certainly.          {By and by}.             (a) Close together (of place). [Obs.] [bd]Two yonge                   knightes liggyng [lying] by and by.[b8] --Chaucer.             (b) Immediately; at once. [Obs.] [bd]When . . .                   persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he                   is offended.[b8] --Matt. xiii. 21.             (c) Presently; pretty soon; before long.          Note: In this phrase, by seems to be used in the sense of                nearness in time, and to be repeated for the sake of                emphasis, and thus to be equivalent to [bd]soon, and                soon,[b8] that is instantly; hence, -- less                emphatically, -- pretty soon, presently.          {By one's self}, with only one's self near; alone; solitary.          {By the bye}. See under {Bye}.          {By the head} (Naut.), having the bows lower than the stern;             -- said of a vessel when her head is lower in the water             than her stern. If her stern is lower, she is by the             stern.          {By the lee}, the situation of a vessel, going free, when she             has fallen off so much as to bring the wind round her             stern, and to take her sails aback on the other side.          {By the run}, to let go by the run, to let go altogether,             instead of slacking off.          {By the way}, by the bye; -- used to introduce an incidental             or secondary remark or subject.          {Day by day}, {One by one}, {Piece by piece}, etc., each day,             each one, each piece, etc., by itself singly or             separately; each severally.          {To come by}, to get possession of; to obtain.          {To do by}, to treat, to behave toward.          {To set by}, to value, to esteem.          {To stand by}, to aid, to support.          Note: The common phrase good-by is equivalent to farewell,                and would be better written good-bye, as it is a                corruption of God be with you (b'w'ye).
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Bath, IL (village, FIPS 4156)       Location: 40.19113 N, 90.14238 W       Population (1990): 388 (216 housing units)       Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)    Bath, IN       Zip code(s): 47010    Bath, ME (city, FIPS 3355)       Location: 43.93807 N, 69.83742 W       Population (1990): 9799 (4236 housing units)       Area: 23.7 sq km (land), 10.6 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 04530    Bath, MI       Zip code(s): 48808    Bath, NC (town, FIPS 3840)       Location: 35.46541 N, 76.81506 W       Population (1990): 154 (108 housing units)       Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 1.6 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 27808    Bath, NH       Zip code(s): 03740    Bath, NY (village, FIPS 4759)       Location: 42.33700 N, 77.31843 W       Population (1990): 5801 (2640 housing units)       Area: 7.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)    Bath, PA (borough, FIPS 4432)       Location: 40.72758 N, 75.39179 W       Population (1990): 2358 (914 housing units)       Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 18014    Bath, SD       Zip code(s): 57427
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Bay Head, NJ (borough, FIPS 3520)       Location: 40.07020 N, 74.04866 W       Population (1990): 1226 (1001 housing units)       Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 08742
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Baywood, NY (CDP, FIPS 5039)       Location: 40.75121 N, 73.29107 W       Population (1990): 7351 (2214 housing units)       Area: 5.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Beattie, KS (city, FIPS 4900)       Location: 39.86273 N, 96.41756 W       Population (1990): 221 (111 housing units)       Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 66406
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Beatty, NV (CDP, FIPS 5100)       Location: 36.94020 N, 116.70707 W       Population (1990): 1623 (869 housing units)       Area: 455.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)    Beatty, OR       Zip code(s): 97621
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Bode, IA (city, FIPS 7210)       Location: 42.86810 N, 94.28642 W       Population (1990): 335 (168 housing units)       Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 50519
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Boody, IL       Zip code(s): 62514
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Boutte, LA (CDP, FIPS 9130)       Location: 29.89616 N, 90.39754 W       Population (1990): 2702 (1001 housing units)       Area: 13.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 70039
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Boyd, MN (city, FIPS 7138)       Location: 44.85096 N, 95.90077 W       Population (1990): 251 (134 housing units)       Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 56218    Boyd, TX (town, FIPS 9748)       Location: 33.08052 N, 97.56158 W       Population (1990): 1041 (429 housing units)       Area: 7.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 76023    Boyd, WI (village, FIPS 9075)       Location: 44.95351 N, 91.04015 W       Population (1990): 683 (266 housing units)       Area: 4.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 54726
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Buda, IL (village, FIPS 9356)       Location: 41.32768 N, 89.67842 W       Population (1990): 563 (256 housing units)       Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 61314    Buda, TX (city, FIPS 11080)       Location: 30.08580 N, 97.83973 W       Population (1990): 1795 (663 housing units)       Area: 4.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 78610
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Bude, MS (town, FIPS 9460)       Location: 31.46263 N, 90.85123 W       Population (1990): 969 (436 housing units)       Area: 3.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Butte, AK (CDP, FIPS 9710)       Location: 61.54247 N, 149.05167 W       Population (1990): 2039 (798 housing units)       Area: 126.1 sq km (land), 10.2 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 99645    Butte, MT       Zip code(s): 59750    Butte, ND (city, FIPS 11180)       Location: 47.83741 N, 100.66592 W       Population (1990): 129 (90 housing units)       Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 58723    Butte, NE (village, FIPS 7485)       Location: 42.91263 N, 98.84795 W       Population (1990): 452 (221 housing units)       Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 68722
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
BAD /B-A-D/ adj.   [IBM: acronym, `Broken As Designed'] Said of    a program that is {bogus} because of bad design and misfeatures    rather than because of bugginess.   See {working as designed}.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
baud /bawd/ n.   [simplified from its technical meaning] n. Bits    per second.   Hence kilobaud or Kbaud, thousands of bits per second.    The technical meaning is `level transitions per second'; this    coincides with bps only for two-level modulation with no framing or    stop bits.   Most hackers are aware of these nuances but blithely    ignore them.          Historical note: `baud' was originally a unit of telegraph    signalling speed, set at one pulse per second.   It was proposed at    the November, 1926 conference of the Comite' Consultatif    International Des Communications Te'le'graphiques as an improvement    on the then standard practice of referring to line speeds in terms    of words per minute, and named for Jean Maurice Emile Baudot    (1845-1903), a French engineer who did a lot of pioneering work in    early teleprinters.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
beta /bay't*/, /be't*/ or (Commonwealth) /bee't*/ n.   1. Mostly    working, but still under test; usu. used with `in': `in beta'.   In    the {Real World}, systems (hardware or software) software often go    through two stages of release testing: Alpha (in-house) and Beta    (out-house?).   Beta releases are generally made to a group of lucky    (or unlucky) trusted customers.   2. Anything that is new and    experimental.   "His girlfriend is in beta" means that he is still    testing for compatibility and reserving judgment.   3. Flaky;    dubious; suspect (since beta software is notoriously buggy).          Historical note: More formally, to beta-test is to test a    pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software    by making it available to selected (or self-selected) customers and    users.   This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product    cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout    the industry.   `Alpha Test' was the unit, module, or component test    phase; `Beta Test' was initial system test.   These themselves came    from earlier A- and B-tests for hardware.   The A-test was a    feasibility and manufacturability evaluation done before any    commitment to design and development.   The B-test was a    demonstration that the engineering model functioned as specified.    The C-test (corresponding to today's beta) was the B-test performed    on early samples of the production design, and the D test was the C    test repeated after the model had been in production a while.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
bit n.   [from the mainstream meaning and `Binary digIT'] 1.    [techspeak] The unit of information; the amount of information    obtained by asking a yes-or-no question for which the two outcomes    are equally probable.   2. [techspeak] A computational quantity that    can take on one of two values, such as true and false or 0 and 1.    3. A mental flag: a reminder that something should be done    eventually.   "I have a bit set for you."   (I haven't seen you for a    while, and I'm supposed to tell or ask you something.)   4. More    generally, a (possibly incorrect) mental state of belief.   "I have a    bit set that says that you were the last guy to hack on EMACS."    (Meaning "I think you were the last guy to hack on EMACS, and what I    am about to say is predicated on this, so please stop me if this    isn't true.")          "I just need one bit from you" is a polite way of indicating that    you intend only a short interruption for a question that can    presumably be answered yes or no.          A bit is said to be `set' if its value is true or 1, and `reset'    or `clear' if its value is false or 0.   One speaks of setting and    clearing bits.   To {toggle} or `invert' a bit is to change it,    either from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.   See also {flag}, {trit}, {mode    bit}.          The term `bit' first appeared in print in the computer-science    sense in 1949, and seems to have been coined by early statistician    and computer scientist John Tukey.   Tukey records that it evolved    over a lunch table as a handier alternative to `bigit' or `binit'.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
boot v.,n.   [techspeak; from `by one's bootstraps'] To load and    initialize the operating system on a machine.   This usage is no    longer jargon (having passed into techspeak) but has given rise to    some derivatives that are still jargon.          The derivative `reboot' implies that the machine hasn't been down    for long, or that the boot is a {bounce} (sense 4) intended to clear    some state of {wedgitude}.   This is sometimes used of human thought    processes, as in the following exchange: "You've lost me."   "OK,    reboot.   Here's the theory...."          This term is also found in the variants `cold boot' (from    power-off condition) and `warm boot' (with the CPU and all devices    already powered up, as after a hardware reset or software crash).          Another variant: `soft boot', reinitialization of only part of a    system, under control of other software still running: "If you're    running the {mess-dos} emulator, control-alt-insert will cause a    soft-boot of the emulator, while leaving the rest of the system    running."          Opposed to this there is `hard boot', which connotes hostility    towards or frustration with the machine being booted:   "I'll have to    hard-boot this losing Sun."   "I recommend booting it hard."   One    often hard-boots by performing a {power cycle}.          Historical note: this term derives from `bootstrap loader', a short    program that was read in from cards or paper tape, or toggled in    from the front panel switches.   This program was always very short    (great efforts were expended on making it short in order to minimize    the labor and chance of error involved in toggling it in), but was    just smart enough to read in a slightly more complex program    (usually from a card or paper tape reader), to which it handed    control; this program in turn was smart enough to read the    application or operating system from a magnetic tape drive or disk    drive.   Thus, in successive steps, the computer `pulled itself up by    its bootstraps' to a useful operating state.   Nowadays the bootstrap    is usually found in ROM or EPROM, and reads the first stage in from    a fixed location on the disk, called the `boot block'.   When this    program gains control, it is powerful enough to load the actual OS    and hand control over to it.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
bot n   [common on IRC, MUD and among gamers; from `robot'] 1.    An {IRC} or {MUD} user who is actually a program.   On IRC, typically    the robot provides some useful service.   Examples are NickServ,    which tries to prevent random users from adopting {nick}s already    claimed by others, and MsgServ, which allows one to send    asynchronous messages to be delivered when the recipient signs on.    Also common are `annoybots', such as KissServ, which perform no    useful function except to send cute messages to other people.    Service bots are less common on MUDs; but some others, such as the    `Julia' bot active in 1990-91, have been remarkably impressive    Turing-test experiments, able to pass as human for as long as ten or    fifteen minutes of conversation. 2. An AI-controlled player in a    computer game (especially a first-person shooter such as Quake)    which, unlike ordinary monsters, operates like a human-controlled    player, with access to a player's weapons and abilities.   An example    can be found at `http://www.telefragged.com/thefatal/'.          Note that bots in both senses were `robots' when the term first    appeared in the early 1990s, but the shortened form is now habitual.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
byte /bi:t/ n.   [techspeak] A unit of memory or data equal to    the amount used to represent one character; on modern architectures    this is usually 8 bits, but may be 9 on 36-bit machines.   Some older    architectures used `byte' for quantities of 6 or 7 bits, and the    PDP-10 supported `bytes' that were actually bitfields of 1 to 36    bits!   These usages are now obsolete, and even 9-bit bytes have    become rare in the general trend toward power-of-2 word sizes.          Historical note: The term was coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956    during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch computer;    originally it was described as 1 to 6 bits (typical I/O equipment of    the period used 6-bit chunks of information).   The move to an 8-bit    byte happened in late 1956, and this size was later adopted and    promulgated as a standard by the System/360.   The word was coined by    mutating the word `bite' so it would not be accidentally misspelled    as {bit}.   See also {nybble}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
BAD          /B-A-D/ Broken As Designed, a play on "{working as designed}",       from {IBM}.   Failing because of bad design and misfeatures       rather than because of bugs.          [{Jargon File}]          (2002-04-14)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
baud          /bawd/ (plural "baud") The unit in       which the information carrying capacity or "{signalling rate}"       of a communication channel is measured.   One baud is one       symbol (state-transition or level-transition) per second.       This coincides with bits per second only for two-level       {modulation} with no {framing} or {stop bits}.          A symbol is a unique state of the communication channel,       distinguishable by the receiver from all other possible       states.   For example, it may be one of two voltage levels on a       wire for a direct digital connection or it might be the phase       or frequency of a carrier.          The term "baud" was originally a unit of telegraph signalling       speed, set at one {Morse code} dot per second.   Or, more       generally, the reciprocal of the duration of the shortest       signalling element.   It was proposed at the International       Telegraph Conference of 1927, and named after {J.M.E. Baudot}       (1845-1903), the French engineer who constructed the first       successful teleprinter.          The UK {PSTN} will support a maximum rate of 600 baud but each       baud may carry between 1 and 16 bits depending on the coding       (e.g. {QAM}).          Where data is transmitted as {packets}, e.g. characters, the       actual "data rate" of a channel is          R D / P          where R is the "raw" rate in bits per second, D is the number       of data bits in a packet and P is the total number of bits in       a packet (including packet overhead).          The term "baud" causes much confusion and is usually best       avoided.   Use "bits per second" (bps), "bytes per second" or       "characters per second" (cps) if that's what you mean.          (1998-02-14)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bd          The {country code} for Bangladesh.          (1999-01-27)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
BEDO          {Burst Extended Data Out DRAM}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
beta          /bay't*/, /be't*/ or (Commonwealth) /bee't*/          See {beta conversion}, {beta test}.          [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
BETA          Kristensen, Madsen , Moller-Pedersen &       Nygaard, 1983.   Object-oriented language with block structure,       coroutines, concurrency, {strong typing}, part objects,       separate objects and classless objects.   Central feature is a       single abstraction mechanism called "patterns", a       generalisation of classes, providing instantiation and       hierarchical inheritance for all objects including procedures       and processes.          Mjolner Informatics ApS, Aarhus, implementations for Mac, Sun,       HP, Apollo.          E-mail: .          Mailing list: .          ["Object-Oriented Programming in the BETA Programming       Language", Ole Lehrmann et al, A-W June 1993, ISBN       0-201-62430-3].          [{Jargon File}]          (1995-10-31)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
beta          /bay't*/, /be't*/ or (Commonwealth) /bee't*/          See {beta conversion}, {beta test}.          [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
BETA          Kristensen, Madsen , Moller-Pedersen &       Nygaard, 1983.   Object-oriented language with block structure,       coroutines, concurrency, {strong typing}, part objects,       separate objects and classless objects.   Central feature is a       single abstraction mechanism called "patterns", a       generalisation of classes, providing instantiation and       hierarchical inheritance for all objects including procedures       and processes.          Mjolner Informatics ApS, Aarhus, implementations for Mac, Sun,       HP, Apollo.          E-mail: .          Mailing list: .          ["Object-Oriented Programming in the BETA Programming       Language", Ole Lehrmann et al, A-W June 1993, ISBN       0-201-62430-3].          [{Jargon File}]          (1995-10-31)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bit          (b) {binary} digit.          The unit of information; the amount of information obtained by       asking a yes-or-no question; a computational quantity that can       take on one of two values, such as false and true or 0 and 1;       the smallest unit of storage - sufficient to hold one bit.          A bit is said to be "set" if its value is true or 1, and       "reset" or "clear" if its value is false or 0.   One speaks of       setting and clearing bits.   To {toggle} or "invert" a bit is       to change it, either from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.          The term "bit" first appeared in print in the computer-science       sense in 1949, and seems to have been coined by the eminent       statistician, {John Tukey}.   Tukey records that it evolved       over a lunch table as a handier alternative to "bigit" or       "binit".          See also {flag}, {trit}, {mode bit}, {byte}, {word}.          [{Jargon File}]          (2002-01-22)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bite          It's spelled "{byte}" to avoid confusion with       "{bit}".          (1996-12-13)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
boot          (from "{bootstrap}" or "to pull oneself up       by one's bootstraps") To load and initialise the {operating       system} on a computer.          See {reboot}, {cold boot}, {warm boot}, {soft boot}, {hard       boot}, {bootstrap}, {bootstrap loader}.          [{Jargon File}]          (1995-11-27)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bot          (From "{robot}") Any type       of autonomous {software} that operates as an {agent} for a       user or a {program} or simulates a human activity.   On the       {Internet}, the most popular bots are programs (called       {spiders} or crawlers) used for searching.   They access {web       sites}, retrieve documents and follow all the {hyperlinks} in       them; then they generate catalogs that are accessed by {search       engines}.          A {chatbot} converses with humans (or other bots).   A       {shopbot} searches the Web to find the best price for a       product.   Other bots (such as {OpenSesame}) observe a user's       patterns in navigating a web site and customises the site for       that user.          {Knowbots} collect specific information from {web sites}.          (1999-05-20)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bt          The {country code} for Bhutan.          (1999-01-27)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
btoa          /B too A/ A {binary}       to {ASCII} conversion utility.          btoa is a {uuencode} or {base 64} equivalent which addresses       some of the problems with the uuencode standard but not as       many as the base 64 standard.   It avoids problems that some       {hosts} have with spaces (e.g. conversion of groups of spaces       to tabs) by not including them in its character set, but may       still have problems on non-ASCII systems (e.g. {EBCDIC}).          btoa is primarily used to transfer {binary files} between       systems across connections which are not {eight-bit clean},       e.g. {electronic mail}.          btoa takes adjacent sets of four binary {octets} and encodes       them as five ASCII {octets} using ASCII characters '!' through       to 'u'.   Special characters are also used: 'x' marks the       beginning or end of the archive; 'z' marks four consecutive       zeros and 'y' (version 5.2) four consecutive spaces.          Each group of four octets is processed as a 32-bit integer.       Call this 'I'.   Let 'D' = 85^4.   Divide I by D.   Call this       result 'R'.   Make I = I - (R * D) to avoid {overflow} on the       next step.   Repeat, for values of D = 85^3, 85^2, 85 and 1.       At each step, to convert R to the output character add decimal       33 (output octet = R + ASCII value for '!').   Five output       octets are produced.          btoa provides some integrity checking in the form of a line       {checksum}, and facilities for patching corrupted downloads.          The {algorithm} used by btoa is more efficient than uuencode       or base 64.   ASCII files are encoded to about 120% the size of       their binary sources.   This compares with 135% for uuencode or       base 64.          {C source (ftp://hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk/hpux/Misc/btoa-5.2/)}.       (version 5.2 - ~1994).          Pre-compiled {MS-DOS} versions are also available.          (1997-08-08)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
BTW          By the way.          (2002-06-12)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Byte          A popular computing magazine.          {Home (http://www.byte.com)}.          (1997-03-27)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
byte          /bi:t/ (B) A component in the machine {data hierarchy}       usually larger than a {bit} and smaller than a {word}; now       most often eight bits and the smallest addressable unit of       storage.   A byte typically holds one {character}.          A byte may be 9 bits on 36-bit computers.   Some older       architectures used "byte" for quantities of 6 or 7 bits, and       the PDP-10 and IBM 7030 supported "bytes" that were actually       {bit-fields} of 1 to 36 (or 64) bits!   These usages are now       obsolete, and even 9-bit bytes have become rare in the general       trend toward power-of-2 word sizes.          The term was coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956 during the       early design phase for the {IBM} {Stretch} computer.   It was a       mutation of the word "bite" intended to avoid confusion with       "bit".   In 1962 he described it as "a group of bits used to       encode a character, or the number of bits transmitted in       parallel to and from input-output units".   The move to an       8-bit byte happened in late 1956, and this size was later       adopted and promulgated as a standard by the {System/360}       {operating system} (announced April 1964).          James S. Jones adds:          I am sure I read in a mid-1970's brochure by IBM that outlined       the history of computers that BYTE was an acronym that stood       for "Bit asYnchronous Transmission E__?__" which related to       width of the bus between the Stretch CPU and its CRT-memory       (prior to Core).          Terry Carr says:          In the early days IBM taught that a series of bits transferred       together (like so many yoked oxen) formed a Binary Yoked       Transfer Element (BYTE).          [True origin?   First 8-bit byte architecture?]          See also {nibble}, {octet}.          [{Jargon File}]          (2003-09-21)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Byte          A popular computing magazine.          {Home (http://www.byte.com)}.          (1997-03-27)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
byte          /bi:t/ (B) A component in the machine {data hierarchy}       usually larger than a {bit} and smaller than a {word}; now       most often eight bits and the smallest addressable unit of       storage.   A byte typically holds one {character}.          A byte may be 9 bits on 36-bit computers.   Some older       architectures used "byte" for quantities of 6 or 7 bits, and       the PDP-10 and IBM 7030 supported "bytes" that were actually       {bit-fields} of 1 to 36 (or 64) bits!   These usages are now       obsolete, and even 9-bit bytes have become rare in the general       trend toward power-of-2 word sizes.          The term was coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956 during the       early design phase for the {IBM} {Stretch} computer.   It was a       mutation of the word "bite" intended to avoid confusion with       "bit".   In 1962 he described it as "a group of bits used to       encode a character, or the number of bits transmitted in       parallel to and from input-output units".   The move to an       8-bit byte happened in late 1956, and this size was later       adopted and promulgated as a standard by the {System/360}       {operating system} (announced April 1964).          James S. Jones adds:          I am sure I read in a mid-1970's brochure by IBM that outlined       the history of computers that BYTE was an acronym that stood       for "Bit asYnchronous Transmission E__?__" which related to       width of the bus between the Stretch CPU and its CRT-memory       (prior to Core).          Terry Carr says:          In the early days IBM taught that a series of bits transferred       together (like so many yoked oxen) formed a Binary Yoked       Transfer Element (BYTE).          [True origin?   First 8-bit byte architecture?]          See also {nibble}, {octet}.          [{Jargon File}]          (2003-09-21)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Bat       The Hebrew word (atalleph') so rendered (Lev. 11:19; Deut.       14:18) implies "flying in the dark." The bat is reckoned among       the birds in the list of unclean animals. To cast idols to the       "moles and to the bats" means to carry them into dark caverns or       desolate places to which these animals resort (Isa. 2:20), i.e.,       to consign them to desolation or ruin.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Bath       a Hebrew liquid measure, the tenth part of an homer (1 Kings       7:26, 38; Ezek. 45:10, 14). It contained 8 gallons 3 quarts of       our measure. "Ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath" (Isa.       5:10) denotes great unproductiveness.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Bed       (Heb. mittah), for rest at night (Ex. 8:3; 1 Sam. 19:13, 15, 16,       etc.); during sickness (Gen. 47:31; 48:2; 49:33, etc.); as a       sofa for rest (1 Sam. 28:23; Amos 3:12). Another Hebrew word       (er'es) so rendered denotes a canopied bed, or a bed with       curtains (Deut. 3:11; Ps. 132:3), for sickness (Ps. 6:6; 41:3).                In the New Testament it denotes sometimes a litter with a       coverlet (Matt. 9:2, 6; Luke 5:18; Acts 5:15).                The Jewish bedstead was frequently merely the divan or       platform along the sides of the house, sometimes a very slight       portable frame, sometimes only a mat or one or more quilts. The       only material for bed-clothes is mentioned in 1 Sam. 19:13.       Sleeping in the open air was not uncommon, the sleeper wrapping       himself in his outer garment (Ex. 22:26,27; Deut. 24:12,13).
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Behead       a method of taking away life practised among the Egyptians (Gen.       40:17-19). There are instances of this mode of punishment also       among the Hebrews (2 Sam. 4:8; 20:21,22; 2 Kings 10:6-8). It is       also mentioned in the New Testament (Matt. 14:8-12; Acts 12:2).
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Betah       confidence, a city belonging to Hadadezer, king of Zobah, which       yielded much spoil of brass to David (2 Sam. 8:8). In 1 Chr.       18:8 it is called Tibhath.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Beth       occurs frequently as the appellation for a house, or       dwelling-place, in such compounds as the words immediately       following:
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Bit       the curb put into the mouths of horses to restrain them. The       Hebrew word (metheg) so rendered in Ps. 32:9 is elsewhere       translated "bridle" (2 Kings 19:28; Prov. 26:3; Isa. 37:29).       Bits were generally made of bronze or iron, but sometimes also       of gold or silver. In James 3:3 the Authorized Version       translates the Greek word by "bits," but the Revised Version by       "bridles."
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Booth       a hut made of the branches of a tree. In such tabernacles Jacob       sojourned for a season at a place named from this circumstance       Succoth (Gen. 33:17). Booths were erected also at the feast of       Tabernacles (q.v.), Lev. 23:42, 43, which commemorated the abode       of the Israelites in the wilderness.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Booty       captives or cattle or objects of value taken in war. In Canaan       all that breathed were to be destroyed (Deut. 20: 16). The       "pictures and images" of the Canaanites were to be destroyed       also (Num. 33:52). The law of booty as to its division is laid       down in Num. 31:26-47. David afterwards introduced a regulation       that the baggage-guard should share the booty equally with the       soldiers engaged in battle. He also devoted of the spoils of war       for the temple (1 Sam. 30:24-26; 2 Sam. 8:11; 1 Chr. 26:27).
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Bedaiah, Bedeiah, the only Lord
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Betah, confidence
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Bithiah, daughter of the Lord