One who, or that which, beguiles.
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Alluring by guile; deluding; misleading; diverting.
See Beghard.
A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines.
A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.
In the East Indies, a princess or lady of high rank.
p. p. of Begin.
Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication.
To happen to.
To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill.
Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.
of or pertaining to behavior.
an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior.
a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of behaviorists or behaviorism.
same as behaviorism.
same as behaviorist.
To sever the head from; to take off the head of.
Beheading.
imp. p. p. of Behold.
An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24.
To vow.
See Behight.
A vow; a promise.
The backside; the rump.
On this side of.
The Centaurea behen, or saw-leaved centaury. The Cucubalus behen, or bladder campion, now called Silene inflata. The Statice limonium, or sea lavender.
To direct the eyes to, or fix them upon, an object; to look; to see.
Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted.
One who beholds; a spectator.
The act of seeing; sight; also, that which is beheld.
The state of being obliged or beholden.
Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use.
Supplying need; profitable; advantageous.
Advantage; behoof.
Advantageous; useful; profitable.
and derivatives. See Behoove,
Useful, or usefully.
To howl at.
Debeige.
The capital city of China. Formerly called Peking. Population (2000) = 12,033,000.
A place of shelter; protection; refuge.
Since; inasmuch as.
The capital city of Lebanon. Population (2000) = 1,100,000.
To jade or tire.
To jape; to laugh at; to deceive.
To infect with jaundice.
To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle.
Any climbing woody vine of the tropics with the habit of a liane; in the Philippines, esp. any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.
To jumble together.
Half a shekel.
To call knave.
To confess; to acknowledge.
a unit of sound intensity equal to ten decibels.
a cantabile style of operatic singing characterized by purity and evenness of tone, and a precise but brilliant vocal technique displaying ease and agility.
A kind or favorable reception or salutation.
A fine genius, or man of wit.
(Babylonian) the chief Babylonian god; his consort was Sarpanitu.
To ply diligently; to work carefully upon.
To beat or bang.
A lover.
Good friend; dear friend.
To retard or make too late.
Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted.
To laud or praise greatly.
To lay on or cover; to adorn.
The act of belching; also, that which is belched; an eructation.
One who, or that which, belches.
To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.
One who beleaguers.
To leave or to be left.
To vex with lectures; to lecture frequently.
To place under the lee, or unfavorably to the wind.
A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages.
an order of extinct dibranchiate cephalopods related to the surviving spirulas.
To infect with leprosy.
the capital of Northern Ireland; -- the center of Irish Protestantism.
A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.
A sweet or loving look.
Of or pertaining to Belgium. A native or inhabitant of Belgium.
Of or pertaining to the Belg/, a German tribe who anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean.
The capital city of Yugoslavia. Population (2000) = 1,168,454.
Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.
An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil.
To libel or traduce; to calumniate.
To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.
Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.
Having belief or faith.
Capable of being believed; credible.
To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith.
One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.
That believes; having belief.
To illuminate.
It is likely or probably; perhaps.
To besmear or insnare with birdlime.
To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.
Forthwith; speedily; quickly.
To vomit.
To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.
having legs that flare at the bottom; -- of trousers.
Having the striking surface convex; -- said of hammers.
Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun.
a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation).
playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower.
Having the shape of a wide-mouthed bell; campanulate.
An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade. A species of Amaryllis (Amaryllis belladonna); the belladonna lily.
A stoneware jug of a pattern originated in the neighborhood of Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.
A South and Central American bird of the genus Casmarhincos, and family Cotingid/, of several species; the campanero. The Myzantha melanophrys of Australia.
trousers with legs that flare; commonly worn as part of a sailor's uniform; -- such absurdly wide hems were also fashionable in the 1960s.
someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels.
A young lady of superior beauty and attractions; a handsome lady, or one who attracts notice in society; a fair lady.
One versed in belles-lettres.
Hung with a bell or bells.
A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age.
Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.
Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres.
A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple.
A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid.
Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial.
Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.
In a bellicose manner.
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