Whose being I do fear: and under him My genius is rebuked. Shakspeare's Macbeth. Thee, Father, first they sung, omnipotent, Immutable, immortal, infinite, Eternal king! Thee, Author of all being, Fountain of light! Milton's Paradise Lost. Merciful and gracious, thou gavest us being, raising us from nothing to be an excellent creation. Taylor's Guide to Devotion. Consider every thing as not yet in being; then examine, if it must needs have been at all, or what other ways it might have been. Bentley 2. A particular state or condition.

Those happy spirits which, ordain'd by fate, For future being and new bodies wait. Dryden. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate;

From brutes what men, from men what spirits

know;

Or who could suffer being here below? Pope. As now your own, our beings were of old, And once inclos'd in woman's beauteous mould. Pope.

3. The person existing.

Ah fair, yet false! ah being form'd to cheat By seeming kindness, mixt with deep deceit! Dryden.

It is folly to seek the approbation of any being, besides the Supreme; because no other being can make a right judgment of us, and because we can procure no considerable advantage from the approbation of any other being. Addison. BEING. conjunct. [from be.] Since. Dict. BE IT SO. A phrase of anticipation, suppose it be so; or of permission, let it be so. My gracious duke,

Be't so she will not here, before your grace,
Consent to marry with Demetrius,

I beg the ancient privilege of Athens. Shakspeare. TOBELA'BOUR. v. a. [from be and labour.] To beat; to thump: a word in low speech.

What several madnesses in men appear! Orestes runs from fancy'd furies here; Ajax belabours there an harmless ox,

And thinks that Agamemnon feels the knocks.

Wise Socrates

Pour'd out his life, and last philosophy,

To the fair Critias, his dearest belamie. Fairy Q BE'LAMOUR. n. s. [bei amour, Fr.] Gal'lant; consort; paramour. Obsolete.

Lo, lo, how brave she decks her bounteous bow'r

With silken curtains, and gold coverlets, Therein to shroud her sumptuous belamour. Fairy Queens BELA'TED. adj. [from be and late.] Benighted; out of doors late at night. Fairy elves,

Whose midnight revels, by a forest side,
Or fountain, some belated peasant sees,
Or dreams he sees. Milton's Paradise Lost.
Or near Fleetditch's oozy brinks,
Belated, seems on watch to lie.

Swift. To BELA'Y. v. a. [from be and lay; as, to aplay, to lie in wait, to lay wait for.] 1. To block up; to stop the passage. The speedy horse all passages belay, And spur their smoaking steeds to cross their Dryden.

way.

2. To place in ambush.

'Gainst such strong castles needeth greater might,

Than those small forces ye were wont belay.

Spenser.

To BELAY a rope. [a sea term.] To splice; to mend a rope, by laying one end over another.

To BELCH. v. n. [bealcan, Saxon.] 1. To eject the wind from the stomach;

to eruct.

The symptoms are, a sour smell in their fæces, belchings, and distensions of the bowels. Arbuth. 2. To issue out, as by eructation.

The waters boil, and, belching from below, Black sands as from a forceful engine throw. Dryd A triple pile of plumes his crest adorn'd, On which with belching flames Chimæra burn'd. Dryden. To BELCH. v. a. To throw out from the stomach; to eject from any hollow place. It is a word implying coarseness, hatefulness, or horrour.

They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and, when they 're full, They belch us. Shakspeare

The bitterness of it I now beleb from my heart.
Shakspeare.

Immediate in a flame,

And human flesh, his indigested food. Pope
When I an am'rous kiss design'd,
I belch'd an hurricane of wind.

BELCH. n. s. [from the verb.]
1. The act of eructation.
2. A cant term for malt liquor.

Swift.

A sudden reformation would follow, among sil sorts of people; porters would no longer be drunk with beleb. Dennis

BE'LDAM. n. s. [belle dame, which in old French signified probably an old wo'man, as belle age, old age.]

1. An old woman: generally a term of contempt, marking the last degree of old age, with all its faults and miseries.

Then sing of secret things, that came to pass When beldam Nature in her cradle was. Milton. 2. A hag.

Why, how now, Hecat? you look angerly.-Have I not reason, beldams as you are, Saucy and overbold? Shakspeare's Macbeth. The resty sieve wagg'd ne'er the more; I weep for woe, the testy beldam swore. Dryden. To BELE'AGUER. v. a. [beleggeren, Dutch. To besiege; to block up a place; to lie before a town.

Their business, which they carry on, is the general concernment of the Trojan camp, then beleagured by Turnus and the Latins. Dryden. Against beleagur'd heav'n the giants move: Hills pil'd on hills, on mountains mountains lie, To make their mad approaches to the sky. Dryd. BELE'AGUERER. n. s. [from beleaguer.] One that besieges a place.

TO BELEE'. v. a. [a term in navigation.] To place in a direction unsuitable to the wind.

BELEMNITES. n. s. [from Birỡ, a dart or arrow, because of its resemblance to the point of an arrow.] Arrowhead, or finger-stone, of a whitish and sometimes a gold colour. BELFLOWER. n. s. [from bell and flower, because of the shape of its flower; in Latin campanula.] A plant.

There is a vast number of the species of this plant. 1. The tallest pyramidal belflower. 2. The blue peach-leaved belflower. 3. The white peach-leaved belflower. 4. Garden bel-` flower, with oblong leaves and flowers; commonly called Canterbury bells. 5. Canary belflower, with orrach leaves, and a tuberose root. 6. Blue belflower, with edible roots, commonly called rampions. 7. Venus looking glass belflower, St. Miller. BELFOUNDER. n. s. [from bell and found.] He whose trade it is to found or cast bells.

Those that make recorders know this, and likewise belfounders in fitting the tune of their bells. Bacon.

BELFRY. n. s. [beffroy, in French, is a tower; which was perhaps the true word, till those, who knew not its original, corrupted it to belfry, because bells were in it.] The place where the bells are rung.

Fetch the leathern bucket that hangs in the belfry; that is curiously painted before, and will make a figure. Gay. BELGARD. n. s. [belle egard, Fr.] A soft glance; a kind regard: an old word, now wholly disused. Upon her eyelids many graces sat, Under the shadow of her even brows, Working belgards and amorous retreats. Fairy Queen. TO BELIE. v.a. [from be and lie.] 1. To counterfeit; to feign; to mimick. Which durst, with horses hoofs that beat the ground, VOL. I.

3.

Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Theirtrembling hearts belie their boastfultongues. Dryden

Paint, patches, jewels, laid aside, At night astronomers agree,

Prior.

The evening has the day bely'd,
And Phillis is some forty-three.
To calumniate; to raise false reports
of any man.

Thou dost belie him, Piercy, thou beliest him ; He never did encounter with Glendower. Shak. 4. To give a false representation of any thing.

Uncle, for heav'n's sake, comfortable words.→→→
Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts.
Shakspeare.

Tuscan Valerius by force o'ercame,
And not bely'd his mighty father's name. Dryd
In the dispute whate'er I said,
My heart was by my tongue bely'd;

And in my looks you might have read How much I argued on your side. Priar. 5. To fill with lies. This seems to be its meaning here.

'T is slander; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world. Shakspeare.

BELIEF. n. s. [from believe.] 1. Credit given to something, which we know not of ourselves, on account of the authority by which it is delivered. Those comforts that shall never cease, Future in hope, but present in belief. Wetton. Faith is a firm belief of the whole word of God, of his gospel, commands, threats, and promises. Wake.

2. The theological virtue of faith, or firm confidence of the truths of religion.

No man can attain belief by the bare contem plation of heaven and earth: for that they neither are sufficient to give us as much as the least spark of light concerning the very princi pal mysteries of our faith.

Hooker.

3. Religion; the body of tenets held by the professors of faith.

In the heat of general persecution, whereunto christian belief was subject upon the first promulgation, it much confirmed the weaker minds, when relation was made how God had been glorified through the sufferings of martyrs. Hooker.

4. Persuasion; opinion.

5.

He can, I know, but doubt to think he will; Yet hope would fain subscribe, and tempts be lief Milton.

All treaties are grounded upon the belief that states will be found in their honour, and observance of treaties. Temple The thing believed; the object of belief.

Superstitious prophecies are not only the belief of fools, but the talk sometimes of wise men. Bacon. 6. Creed; a form containing the articles of faith.

BELIEVABLE. adj. [from believe.] Credible; that may be credited or believed,

U

Now God be prais'd, that to believing souls Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. Shakspeare. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Romans.

3. With the particle in, to hold as an object of faith.

Believe in the Lord your God, so shall you be established. 2 Chron. 4. With the particle on, to trust; to place full confidence in; to rest upon with faith.

To them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.

John. 5. I believe, is sometimes used as a way of slightly noting somewhat of certainty or exactness.

Though they are, I believe, as high as most steeples in England, yet a person, in his drink, fell down, without any other hurt than the breaking of an arm. Addison.

BELIEVER. n. s. [from believe.] 1. He that believes, or gives credit.

Discipline began to enter into conflict with churches, which in extremity had been be Hooker. lievers of it.

2. A professor of christianity.

Infidels themselves did discern, in matters of life, when believers did well, when otherwise.

Hooker.

If he which writeth do that which is forcible, how should he which readeth be thought to do that, which, in itself, is of no force to work belief, and to save believers? Hooker.

Mysteries held by us have no power, pomp, or wealth, but have been maintained by the universal body of true believers, from the days of the apostles, and will be to the resurrection; neither will the gates of hell prevail against them. Swift. BELIEVINGLY. adv. [from To believe.] After a believing manner. BELIKE. adv. [from like, as by likeli bood.]

1. Probably; likely; perhaps.

There came out of the same woods a horrible foul bear; which fearing, belike, while the lion was present, came furiously towards the place where I was. Sidney.

Lord Angelo, bilike, thinking me remiss in my office, awakens me with this unwonted put

Shakspeare.

Josephus affirmeth, that one of them remained in his time; meaning, belike, some ruin or foun dation thereof. Raleigh. 2. It is sometimes used in a sense of irony, as it may be supposed.

We think, belike, that he will accept what Hooker. the meanest of them would disdain.

God appointed the sea to one of them, and the land to the other, because they were so great, that the sea could not hold them both; or else, belike, if the sea had been large enough, we might have gone a fishing for elephants. Brerewood on Languages, BELI'VE. adv. [bilive, Sax. probably from bi and lire, in the sense of vivacity, speed, quickness.] Speedily; quickly. Out of use.

By that same way the direful dames do drive Their mournful chariot, fill'd with rusty blood, And down to Pluto's house are come belive. BELL. n. s. [bel, Saxon; supposed, by Fairy Queen. Skinner, to come from pelvis, Lat. a basin. See BALL.]

1. A vessel, or hollow body, of cast metal, formed to make a noise by the act of a clapper, hammer, or some other instrument, striking against it. Bells are in the towers of churches, to call the congregation together.

Shaki

Your flock, assembled by the bell, Encircled you to hear with reverence. Get thee gone, and dig my grave thyself, And bid the merry bells ring to thy ear, That thou art crowned, not that I am dead. Shakspeart Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing, and five bells one hundred and twenty. Holder's Elements of Speech. He has no one necessary attention to any thing but the bell which calls to prayers twice a-day. Addison's Spectator. 2. It is used for any thing in the form of a bell, as the cups of flowers. Where the bee sucks, there suck I, In a cowslip's bell I lie.

seed.

Shakspeare. The humming bees, that hunt the golden dew, In summer's heat on tops of lilies feed, And creep within their bells to suck the balmy Dryden. 3. A small hollow globe of metal perfo rated, and containing in it a solid ball; which, when it is shaken, by bounding against the sides, gives a sound.

As the ox hath his yoke, the horse his curb, and the faulcon his bells, so hath man his desires. Shakspeare's As you like it. 4. To bear the bell. To be the first : from the wether that carries a bell among the sheep, or the first horse of a drove that has bells on his collar.

The Italians have carried away the bell from all other nations, as may appear both by their books and works. Hakerwill.

5. To shake the bells. A phrase in Shakspeare, taken from the bells of a hawk. Neither the king, nor he that loves him best, The proudest he that holds up Lancaster, Dares stir a wing, if Warwick shakes bis bells. Shakspeart. To BELL. v. n. [from the noun.] To grow in buds or flowers, in the form of a

bell.

Hops, in the beginning of August, bell, and are sometimes ripe. Mortimer

BE'LLY ACHE. n. s. [from belly and ache.] The colick; or pain in the bowels. BE'LLY BOUND. adj.[from belly and bound.] Diseased, so as to be costive, and shrunk in the belly.

BE'LLY-FRETTING. n. s. [from belly and fret.]

1. [With farriers.] The chafing of a horse's belly with a foregirt.

2. A great pain in a horse's belly, caused by worms. Dict. BE'LLYFUL. n. s. [from belly and full.] 1. As much food as fills the belly, or satifies the appetite.

2. It is often used ludicrously for more than enough: thus, king James told his son that he would have his bellyful of parliamentary impeachments. BE'LLYGOD. n. s. [from belly and god.] A glutton; one who makes a god of his belly.

What infinite waste they made this way, the only story of Apicius, a famous bellygod, may suffice to shew. Hakewill

BE'LLY-PINCHED. adj. [from belly and pinch.] Starved.

This night, wherein the cubdrawn bear would couch,

The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry, unbonnetted he runs. Shaks. BE'LLYROLL. n. s. [from belly and roll.] A roll so called, as it seems, from entering into the hollows.

They have two small harrows that they clap on each side of the ridge, and so they harrow right up and down, and roll it with a belly-roll, that goes between the ridges, when they have sown it. BE'LLY-TIMBER. n. s. [from belly and timber.] Food; materials to support the belly.

Where belly-timber above ground

Or under was not to be found.

Mortimer.

The strength of every other member Is founded on your belly-timber.

Hudibras.

Prior. BE'LLY-WORM. n. s. [from belly and vorm.] A worm that breeds in the belly.

BE'LMAN, n. 3. [from bell and man.] He whose business it is to proclaim any thing in towns, and to gain attention by ringing his bell.

It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal belman Which gives the stern'st good might. Shakspeare. Where Titian's glowing paint the canvas warm'd,

Now hangs the belman's song, and pasted here The colour'd prints of Overton appear. Gay. The balman of each parish, as he goes his circuit, cries out every night, Past twelve o'clock. Swift. BEʼLMETAL. n. s. [from bell and metal.] The metal of which bells are made, being a mixture of five parts copper with one of pewter.

Belmetal has copper one thousand pounds, tin from three hundred to two hundred pounds, brass one hundred and fifty pounds. Bacon.

Colours which arise on belmetal, when melted and poured on the ground, in open air, like the colours of water bubbles, are changed by viewg them at divers obliquities. Newton.

To BELO'CK. v. a. [from be and lock.] To fasten as with a lock.

This is the hand, which with a vow'd contract Was fast belock'd in thine. Shakspeare. BE'LOMANCY. n. s. [from ßix and μarIria.]

Belomancy, or divination by arrows, hath been in request with Scythians, Alans, Germans, with the Africans, and Turks of Algier. Brown's Vulger Errours. To BELO'NG. v. n. [belangen, Dutch.] 1. To be the property of.

To light on a part of a field belonging to Boaz
Ruth

2. To be the province or business of.
There is no need of such redress;

3.

Or if there were, it not belongs to you. Shaksp. The declaration of these latent philosophers belongs to another paper.

To Jove the care of heav'nand earth belongs.

Boyle Dryden.

To adhere, or be appendant to.
He went into a desart belonging to Bethsaida.

4. To have relation to.

To whom belongest thou? whence art thou? 1 Samuch

5. To be the quality or attributes of. The faculties belonging to the supreme spirit, are unlimited and boundless, fitted and designed for infinite objects. Cheyner

6. To be referred to; to relate to. He careth for things that belong to the Lord. 1 Corinth.

BELO'VED.participle. [from belove, derived
of love. It is observable, that though
the participle be of very frequent use, the
verb is seldom or never admitted; as
we say, you are much beloved by me,
but not, I belove you.] Loved; dear.
I think it is not meet,

Mark Antony, so well below'd of Cæsar,
Should outlive Cæsar.

Shakspeare

In likeness of a dove The Spirit descended, while the Father's voice From heav'n pronounc'd him hisbeloved Son.Milt, BELO'w. prep. [from be and low.] 1. Under in place; not so high.

2.

For all below the moon I would not leap. Shak He'll beat Aufidius' head below his knee, And tread upon his neck. Shakspeare.

Inferiour in dignity.

The noble Venetians think themselves equal at least to the electors of the empire, and but one degree below kings.

3. Inferiour in excellence.

Addison

His Idylliums of Theocritus are asmuch below his Manilius, as the fields are below the stars. Feiten.

4. Unworthy of; unbefitting.

"T is much below me on his throne to sit; But when I do you shall petition it. Dryden, BELO'w.adv.

1. In the lower place; in the place nearest the centre.

To men standing below on the ground, those that be on the top of Paul's seem much less than they are, and cannot be known; but, to men above, those below seem nothing so much lessened, and may be known. Bacon.

The upper regions of the air perceive the col lection of the matter of the tempests and winds before the air here below; and therefore the obscuring of the smaller stars, is a sign of tempest following. Bacon