BPage 94
- English Word Belay Definition To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel.
- English Word Belay Definition To lie in wait for with a view to assault. Hence: to block up or obstruct.
- English Word Belayed Definition of Belay
- English Word Belaying Definition of Belay
- English Word Belaying pin Definition A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed.
- English Word Belch Definition To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.
- English Word Belch Definition To eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent.
- English Word Belch Definition To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate.
- English Word Belch Definition To issue with spasmodic force or noise.
- English Word Belch Definition The act of belching; also, that which is belched; an eructation.
- English Word Belch Definition Malt liquor; -- vulgarly so called as causing eructation.
- English Word Belched Definition of Belch
- English Word Belcher Definition One who, or that which, belches.
- English Word Belching Definition of Belch
- English Word Beldam Definition Alt. of Beldame
- English Word Beldame Definition Grandmother; -- corresponding to belsire.
- English Word Beldame Definition An old woman in general; especially, an ugly old woman; a hag.
- English Word Beleaguer Definition To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.
- English Word Beleaguered Definition of Beleaguer
- English Word Beleaguerer Definition One who beleaguers.
- English Word Beleaguering Definition of Beleaguer
- English Word Beleave Definition To leave or to be left.
- English Word Belecture Definition To vex with lectures; to lecture frequently.
- English Word Belectured Definition of Belecture
- English Word Belecturing Definition of Belecture
- English Word Belee Definition To place under the lee, or unfavorably to the wind.
- English Word Beleft Definition of Beleave
- English Word Belemnite Definition 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.
- English Word Beleper Definition To infect with leprosy.
- English Word Belepered Definition of Beleper