| bearing down | Expulsive effort of a parturient woman in the second stage of labour. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| bearing-down pain | A uterine contraction accompanied by straining and tenesmus; usually appearing in the second stage of labour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bears | Plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals of the family ursidae, having massive bodies, coarse heavy fur, relatively short limbs, and almost rudimentary tails. (12 Dec 1998) |
| bearskin | 1. The skin of a bear. 2. A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats. 3. A cap made of bearskin, especially. One worn by soldiers. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| beat | 1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. "Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small." (Ex. Xxx. 36) "They did beat the gold into thin plates." (Ex. Xxxix. 3) 2. To punish by blows; to thrash. 3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc, for the purpose of rousing game. "To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey." (Prior) 4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. "A frozen continent . . . Beat with perpetual storms." (Milton) 5. To tread, as a path. "Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way." (Blackmore) 6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass. "He beat them in a bloody battle." (Prescott) "For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that." (M. Arnold) 7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; often with out. 8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. "Why should any one . . . Beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic?" (Locke) 9. To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc. To beat down, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition. To beat off, to repel or drive back. To beat out, to extend by hammering. To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. "Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day." . To beat the dust. To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on foot. To beat the wing, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation. To beat time, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot. To beat up, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters. Synonym: To strike, pound, bang, buffet, maul, drub, thump, baste, thwack, thrash, pommel, cudgel, belabor, conquer, defeat, vanquish, overcome. Origin: OE. Beaten, beten, AS. Beatan; akin to Icel. Bauta, OHG. Bzan. Cf. 1st Butt, Button. 1. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blaows; to knock vigorously or loudly. "The men of the city . . . Beat at the door." (Judges. Xix. 22) 2. To move with pulsation or throbbing. "A thousand hearts beat happily." (Byron) 3. To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do. "Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below." (Dryden) "They [winds] beat at the crazy casement." (Longfellow) "The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wisbed in himself to die." (Jonah iv. 8) "Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers." (Bacon) 4. To be in agitation or doubt. "To still my beating mind." (Shak). 5. To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse. 6. To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat. 7. To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters. 8. <physics> To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison. A beating wind, to run first one way and then another; said of a stag. To beat up for recruits, to go diligently about in order to get helpers or participators in an enterprise. 1. A stroke; a blow. "He, with a careless beat, Struck out the mute creation at a heat." (Dryden) 2. A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse. 3. The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit. A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament. 4. <physics> A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat. 5. A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat. 6. A place of habitual or frequent resort. 7. A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat. Beat of drum, a succession of strokes varied, in different ways, for particular purposes, as to regulate a march, to call soldiers to their arms or quarters, to direct an attack, or retreat, etc. Beat of a watch, or clock, the stroke or sound made by the action of the escapement. A clock is in beat or out of beat, according as the strokes is at equal or unequal intervals. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| beat-to-beat variability | Variability of foetal heart rate measured in changes in the QRS-QRS interval from heart beat to heart beat; measured with electronic internal foetal heart rate monitors. Continuous variation, a series of very slight variation's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| beath | To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood. Origin: AS. Beian to foment. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| beatifical | Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. "The beatific vision." . Beatif"ically. Origin: Cf. F. Beatifique, L. Beatificus. See: Beatify. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| beatify | 1. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness. "The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth." (Barrow) 2. To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment. "Beatified spirits." 3. To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of "the blessed" and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonised. Origin: L. Beatificare; beatus happy (fr. Beare to bless, akin to bonus good) + facere = to make: cf. F. Beatifier. See: Bounty. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| beating | 1. The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows. 2. Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart. 3. <physics> Pulsative sounds. See Beat. 4. The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| beatitude | 1. Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss. 2. Any one of the nine declarations (called the Beatitudes), made in the Sermon on the Mount, with regard to the blessedness of those who are distinguished by certain specified virtues. 3. Beatification. Synonym: Blessedness, felicity, happiness. Origin: L. Beatitudo: cf. F. Beatitude. See: Beatify. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| beauty mark |
A beauty mark is a mole on the face that, for whatever reason, is considered to be an attractive feature (unlike most which are considered undesirable and unattractive). Generally they are located on the cheek around an inch above the lip. They were popularized by Marilyn Monroe and became so popular that it became trendy to pencil a false on in using makeup. Generally they are subdermal moles and do not protrude from the skin. ...
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Swatch Internet Time is a concept marketed by the Swatch corporation as an alternative measure of time. Instead of hours and minutes, the 24 hour day is divided up into 1000 parts called ".beats", each .beat being 1 minute and 26.4 seconds, and equal to the decimal minute introduced after the French Revolution. There are no time zones; instead, the new scale of Biel Mean Time (BMT) is used, based on the company's headquarters in Biel, Switzerland. ...
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Beat is an album by the band King Crimson, released in 1982.*Beat derives its title from the fact that the album is partially inspired by the writing of the Beat generation.*Track 1, "Neal and Jack and Me", is the track on the album most obviously inspired by the beats. The 'Jack' of the title is beat writer Jack Kerouac, and the 'Neal' of the title is Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady. ...
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| Beau's lines |
Beau's lines are deep grooved lines that run from side to side on the fingernail. They may look like indentations or ridges in the nail plate. There are several reasons that humans get Beau's lines. It is believed that there is a temporary cessation of cell division in the nail matrix. This may be caused by an infection or problem in the nail fold, where the nails begins to form, or it may be caused by an injury to that area. ...
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| beam |
The extreme breadth of a ship.
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| BEA | guide with a beacon |
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| BEA | shine like a beacon |
| BEA | a fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance |
| BEA | a fashionable section of Boston |
| BEA | a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships |
| BEA | a small ball with a hole through the middle |
| BEA | a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture |
| BEA | a shape that is small and round |
| BEA | string together like beads |
| BEA | decorate by sewing beads onto |
| BEA | form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example |
| BEA | beading formed with a narrow groove separating it from the surface it decorates |