To be deserved by.

That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects.

Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.

Of or pertaining to Beloochistan, or to its inhabitants. A native or an inhabitant of Beloochistan.

To act the lord over.

To love.

One greatly loved.

In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath.

To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to.

A grandfather, or ancestor.

A lewd man; also, a bully.

To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.

Encircled by, or secured with, a belt; as, a belted plaid; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; as, a belted knight; a belted earl.

See Beltane.

The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively.

lacking a belt.

A cetacean allied to the dolphins.

To bespatter, as with mud.

A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect.

A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Brazil.

To make mad.

To mangle; to tear asunder.

To mask; to conceal.

To master thoroughly.

To maul or beat severely; to bruise.

To bewilder.

To make mean; to lower.

To meet.

To mete.

To mingle; to mix.

To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.

To envelop in mist.

To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with.

One who bemoans.

To mock; to ridicule.

To soil or encumber with mire and dirt.

The sign /; the same as B flat.

To make monstrous or like a monster.

To mourn over.

To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.

To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up.

To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor.

An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be.

A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).

To promise; to name.

To sit on a seat of justice.

One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.

A band.

Capable of being bent.

to reproduce by the Benday method.

One who, or that which, bends.

The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.

A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.

Diagonally.

Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.

A prayer; boon.

See Neaped.

In a lower place; underneath.

An exclamation corresponding to Bless you !.

A married man, or a man newly married.

One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846.

The act of blessing.

A book of benedictions.

A collected series of benedictions.

Tending to bless.

Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer.

The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version.

Blessed.

The act of conferring a benefit.

One who confers a benefit or benefits.

A woman who confers a benefit.

Favorable; beneficent.

To endow with a benefice.

Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.

Having no benefice.

The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.

Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.

Relating to beneficence.

In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.

Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to.

In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably; helpfully.

The quality of being beneficial; profitableness.

A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds.

To reduce (ores).

Beneficent.

To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.

One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit.

To deprive (of), or take away (from).

Promised; vowed.

To catch in a net; to insnare.

The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.

Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable.

Kind; benevolent.

A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc.

Of or pertaining to Bengal. A native or natives of Bengal.

Of or pertaining to the Bengali language; as, Bengali poetry.

The language spoken in Bengal.

One of the capital cities of Libya.

A Bengal light.

To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.

The condition of being benighted.

Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant.

Benignant quality; kindliness.

Kind; gracious; favorable.

The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness.

In a benign manner.

To take away.

a native or inhabitant of Benin.

Blessing; beatitude; benediction.

A holy-water stoup.

A kind of upper coat for men.

A descendant of Benjamin; one of the tribe of Benjamin.

The name of two plants (Sesamum orientale and Sesamum indicum), originally Asiatic; -- also called oil plant. From their seeds an oil is expressed, called benne oil or sesame oil, used mostly for making soap. In the southern United States the seeds are used in candy.

The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc.

an order of fossil gymnospermous plans of the Carboniferous.

the type genus of the Bennettitales.

an East Indian annual erect herb (Sesamum indicum); the source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil. Same as benne

a slang name for Benzedrine, a trademark for one brand of amphetamine; -- also used generically for any brand of amphetamine.

the small oval seed of the sesame plant.

same as benne or benni.