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.

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.

Bellicose.

Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.

The quality of being belligerent.

A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare.

In a belligerent manner; hostilely.

A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time.

Mighty in war; armipotent.

A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours.

Lead colic.

The goddess of war.

A loud resounding outcry or noise, as of an enraged bull; a roar.

One who, or that which, bellows.

An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind.

Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal.

A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck.

A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.

To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge.

The depression in the middle of the abdomen in humans left as a residue of the umbilical cord; the umbilicus; the navel{1}.

a vigorous, loud laugh, expressing a strong amusement.

to approach (a counter) and stand in front of it; -- used mostly in the phrase belly up to the bar (i.e. to a counter in a saloon).

One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.

to land on the underside without the landing gear; -- of airplanes.

to laugh a deep, hearty laugh.

Pinched with hunger; starved.

defunct; bankrupt; -- used mostly of commercial organizations; often used in the phrase go belly-up, i. e. to go bankrupt.

to complain, especially in a whining or grumbling manner; to gripe.

a person who complains habitually, usually about everyday minor problems.