| beau ideal | A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model. Origin: F. Beau beautiful + ideal ideal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Beau's lines | Transverse depressions on the fingernails following severe febrile disease, malnutrition, trauma, myocardial infarction, etc. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Beau, Joseph | <person> French physician, 1806-1865. See: Beau's lines. (05 Mar 2000) |
| beauty | Origin: OE. Beaute, beute, OF. Beaute, biaute, Pr. Beltat, F. Beaute, fr. An assumed LL. Bellitas, from L. Bellus pretty. See Beau. 1. An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense. "Beauty consists of a certain composition of colour and figure, causing delight in the beholder." (Locke) "The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole." (Wordsworth) "The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitude in unity;" and there is no doubt that such is the principle of beauty." (Coleridge) 2. A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature. 3. A beautiful person, especially. A beautiful woman. "All the admired beauties of Verona." (Shak) 4. Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. "She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty." (Jer. Taylor) Beauty spot, a patch or spot placed on the face with intent to heighten beauty by contrast. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Beauvaria | A genus of fungi (class Hyphomycetes). Beauvaria bassiana is pathogenic for insects, holds promise in the biologic control of insects, and has produced hyalohyphomycosis in humans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| beauvericin synthetase | <enzyme> Multifunctional enzyme catalyzing dipeptide formation in beauveria bassiana Registry number: EC 6.3.2.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| beauxite | <chemical> A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat. Origin: F, fr. Baux or Beaux, near Arles. <chemical> See Bauxite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |