📖 B — The English dictionary · page 14

beareth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «beareth» means «bears», a form of «bear».↗ e.g. A bear is a big, strong animal with thick fur, like a brown bear, polar bear or black bear.↗ Example: This is the law for her that beareth, whether a male or a female.↗ (Torah LEV.12.7, JPS 1917) · And whosoever beareth aught of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.↗ (Torah LEV.11.25, JPS 1917) · And he that beareth the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even; they are unclean unto you.↗ (Torah LEV.11.28, JPS 1917)

bearing — Everyday, meaning 1: (maths, navigation) A direction measured in degrees clockwise from north, written with three figures: a bearing of 090 degrees is east.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (bearings) Knowing where you are: lose your bearings.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Have a bearing on: have an effect on or be connected with something.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A part of a machine that lets a wheel turn smoothly: ball bearings.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: The way a person stands or behaves: a proud bearing.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (verb) Carrying or holding: bearing gifts; putting up with: bearing the pain.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: A plant is bearing when it grows flowers or fruit.↗ Example: Walk on a bearing of 090 degrees and you will head east.↗ · South is on a bearing of 180 degrees.↗ · We got lost in the woods and lost our bearings.↗ · The weather has no bearing on the test.↗ · The kings arrived bearing gifts.↗ · The old bike needs new ball bearings in its wheels.↗ · She held her head high with a proud bearing.↗ · A bearing of 045 degrees is north-east.↗ · In the window stood a bush bearing monthly roses.↗ · This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens: (Torah NUM.4.24, JPS 1917)↗ · When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife.↗ (Torah GEN.30.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And the staves thereof shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, in bearing it.↗ (Torah EXO.27.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Though he goeth on his way weeping that beareth the measure of seed, he shall come home with joy, bearing his sheaves.↗ (Writings PSA.126.6, JPS 1917)↗ · and they commanded the people, saying: 'When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.↗ (Prophets JOS.3.3, JPS 1917)↗

bearskin — Everyday, meaning 1: A bearskin is the thick skin or fur of a bear.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A bearskin is also a rough cloak made of bear fur, or a tall fur hat worn by some soldiers.↗ Example: He wore a bearskin cloak against the snow.↗ · The guard had a tall bearskin on his head.↗ · This speech pleased Bearskin, and he went with the old man.↗ · The bearskin fell away from them.↗

beast — Everyday, meaning 1: A beast is a large, wild or frightening animal.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A beast is a cruel or nasty person.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) A beast is something very big, powerful or difficult: «That maths test was a beast.».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (slang) Someone who is a beast at something is amazingly good at it.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Beast can also be a gentle word for a small animal, such as a pet or a creature we feel sorry for.↗ Example: The beast roared in the dark forest.↗ · Beauty learned the Beast was kind inside.↗ · That homework was a beast!↗ · She's a beast at football — she scored five goals.↗ · Donkeys are beasts of burden.↗ · The bully was a real beast to the younger kids.↗ · Chuchundra is a broken-hearted little beast.↗ · Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast.↗ (Torah DEU.27.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.↗ (Torah EXO.22.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good: life for life.↗ (Torah LEV.24.18, JPS 1917)↗ · The burden of the beasts of the South.↗ (Prophets ISA.30.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Then the beasts go into coverts, and remain in their dens.↗ (Writings JOB.37.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Who smote the first-born of Egypt, both of man and beast.↗ (Writings PSA.135.8, JPS 1917)↗

beastly — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, British, old-fashioned) Beastly means very unpleasant, nasty or annoying.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Beastly can also mean cruel or unkind.↗ Example: It's a beastly day, cold and wet.↗ · That was a beastly thing to say.↗ · The beastly stuff tasted awful.↗ · He was in a beastly mood all morning.↗

beat — Everyday, meaning 1: To beat is to win against someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To beat is to hit again and again.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To beat food is to mix it fast, like eggs.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A beat is a regular sound or pulse, like the beat of a drum or a heart.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Beat (informal) means very tired.↗ Example: The Lions beat the Tigers by 5 points.↗ · She beat her record by 2 seconds.↗ · He beat 3 eggs for the cake.↗ · How many points did they need to beat 40?↗ · My heart beats about 80 times a minute.↗ · Clap to the beat of the music.↗ · The rain beat on the window.↗ · I'm beat after the long hike.↗ · Can you beat my high score?↗ · The drummer kept the beat.↗ · Oh, how his heart did beat!↗ · Then the Amalekite and the Canaanite, who dwelt in that hill-country, came down, and smote them and beat them down, even unto Hormah.↗ (Torah NUM.14.45, JPS 1917)↗ · And Eleazar the priest took the brazen fire-pans, which they that were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar, (Torah NUM.16.39, JPS 1917)↗ · When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.↗ (Torah DEU.24.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou beatest him with the rod, and wilt deliver his soul from the nether-world.↗ (Writings PRO.23.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And I will beat to pieces his adversaries before him, and smite them that hate him.↗ (Writings PSA.89.24, JPS 1917)↗ · Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weak say: 'I am strong.'↗ (Prophets JOL.4.10, JPS 1917)↗

beaten — Everyday, meaning 1: Beaten is the form of "beat" after have or be: lost to someone in a game ("We were beaten 3–0").↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Beaten means hit many times.↗ e.g. "The traveller was beaten by robbers."↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Beaten (cooking) means mixed hard with a fork or whisk.↗ e.g. "beaten eggs".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Beaten (adjective) can mean tired and defeated, or flattened by walking, as in "a beaten path".↗ Example: We were beaten by the other school, but we played well.↗ · Robbers left the man beaten by the side of the road.↗ · Add two beaten eggs to the flour.↗ · We walked along a beaten path through the woods.↗ · Our cottage was off the beaten track.↗ · This pizza can't be beaten!↗ · Hitting people is never right; nobody should be beaten.↗ · ‘Who has beaten you like this?’ asked the King.↗ · And he made two cherubim of gold: of beaten work made he them, at the two ends of the ark-cover: (Torah EXO.37.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work shalt thou make them, at the two ends of the ark-cover.↗ (Torah EXO.25.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Their knops and their branches shall be of one piece with it; the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.↗ (Torah EXO.25.36, JPS 1917)↗ · And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.↗ (Prophets 1KI.10.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target; (Writings 2CH.9.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.↗ (Prophets JOS.8.15, JPS 1917)↗

beater — Everyday, meaning 1: A beater is a person who goes through bushes or woods to drive out game such as deer or birds towards the hunters.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A beater is also a tool for beating, such as a carpet beater.↗ Example: The beaters shouted through the wood.↗ · The deer tried to escape the ring of beaters.↗ · The hunters waited while the beaters drove the birds out.↗ · Mum used a carpet beater on the rug.↗

beatest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «beatest» means «you beat», a form of «beat».↗ e.g. To beat is to win against someone.↗ Example: When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.↗ (Torah DEU.24.20, JPS 1917)

beating — Everyday, meaning 1: A beating is a hitting with a stick or hands as a punishment.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A beating is also a heavy defeat, as in «our team took a beating».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Beating can mean the regular throb of a heart.↗ Example: The bully gave him a beating.↗ · Our team took a beating in the match.↗ · I felt my heart's beating fast.↗ · She had a beating from her husband.↗ · For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth, among the peoples, as at the beating of an olive-tree, as at the gleanings when the vintage is done.↗ (Prophets ISA.24.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And the angel of the LORD came, and sat under the terebinth which was in Ophrah, that belonged unto Joash the Abiezrite; and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.↗ (Prophets JDG.6.11, JPS 1917)↗

beau — Everyday, meaning 1: (old-fashioned) A beau is a boyfriend or a man who is courting a woman.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (French) Beau is a French adjective meaning «beautiful» or «handsome» (masculine form), as in «beau temps» (fine weather); it sounds like English «bow» (the knot) or «bo».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Beau can also be a boy's name (a name).↗ Example: In the old story, Lizzie waited for her beau at the dance.↗ · Aunt Sue's new beau brought her flowers.↗ · In French, «Il fait beau» means «It's a nice day».↗ · «Un beau chien» is French for «a handsome dog».↗ · Beau is the name of the boy next door.↗ · Grandma laughed and called Grandpa her old beau.↗

beauteous — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use, poetic) Beauteous means very beautiful.↗ Example: "What a beauteous cherry-tree!" said he.↗ · The beauteous princess sang sweetly.↗ · The bird was beauteous in colour.↗ · The queen wished she were more beauteous.↗ · And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the beauteous land.↗ (Writings DAN.8.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And he shall plant the tents of his palace between the seas and the beauteous holy mountain; and he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.↗ (Writings DAN.11.45, JPS 1917)↗ · therefore, behold, I will open the flank of Moab on the side of the cities, on the side of his cities which are on his frontiers, the beauteous country of Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim, (Prophets EZK.25.9, JPS 1917)↗

beautiful — Everyday, meaning 1: Beautiful means very pleasant to look at, hear or experience.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Beautiful can mean very good or kind, as in a beautiful thing to do.↗ Example: What a beautiful sunset!↗ · The garden is beautiful in spring.↗ · She sang a beautiful song.↗ · The princess wore a beautiful dress.↗ · It was a beautiful day for a picnic.↗ · Helping your friend was a beautiful thing to do.↗ · Your handwriting is beautifully neat.↗ · The beach was beautiful, with white sand and blue water.↗ · It was very beautiful to behold.↗ · And Joseph was of beautiful form, and fair to look upon.↗ (Torah GEN.39.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And Leah's eyes were weak; but Rachel was of beautiful form and fair to look upon.↗ (Torah GEN.29.17, JPS 1917)↗ · How beautiful are thy steps in sandals, O prince's daughter!↗ (Writings SNG.7.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Now he was ruddy, and withal of beautiful eyes, and goodly to look upon.↗ (Prophets 1SA.16.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.↗ (Writings SNG.6.4, JPS 1917)↗

beautifully — Everyday, meaning 1: In a beautiful way; in a way that is very pleasant to see or hear.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Very well; with great skill: «She played beautifully.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Perfectly, completely: «It worked beautifully.».↗ Example: She sings beautifully.↗ · Your handwriting is beautifully neat.↗ · The garden was beautifully kept.↗ · The plan worked beautifully.↗ · The table was beautifully laid for the feast.↗ · The sun set beautifully over the sea.↗ · ‘Bird,’ he said, ‘how beautifully you sing!↗

beautify — Everyday, meaning 1: To beautify something is to make it more beautiful.↗ Example: The volunteers beautified the park with flower beds.↗ · We beautified the classroom with our paintings.↗ · The town plants tulips to beautify its streets.↗ · She beautified the old box with shells.↗ · Toad wanted to beautify Toad Hall.↗ · Murals beautified the grey wall.↗ · The improvement is not due to the dress alone, but largely to the beautifying effects of the bath.↗ · Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem; (Writings EZR.7.27, JPS 1917)↗ · The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the cypress, the plane-tree and the larch together; to beautify the place of My sanctuary, and I will make the place of My feet glorious.↗ (Prophets ISA.60.13, JPS 1917)↗

beauty — Everyday, meaning 1: The quality of being very pleasing to look at, hear or think about.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A very beautiful person or thing (She is a real beauty).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) An excellent example of something (That catch is a beauty!).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The best or nicest part of something (The beauty of the plan is that it is cheap).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (Australia, NZ, informal) «Beauty!» or «you beauty!» means great, well done.↗ Example: The beauty of the waterfall took our breath away.↗ · Sleeping Beauty slept for a hundred years.↗ · That new bike is a real beauty.↗ · The beauty of this game is that anyone can play.↗ · Beauty is only skin deep.↗ · You beauty!↗ We won the match!↗ · Mum bought some beauty cream at the shop.↗ · That's what I call real beauty."↗ · And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for splendour and for beauty.↗ (Torah EXO.28.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make tunics, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and head-tires shalt thou make for them, for splendour and for beauty.↗ (Torah EXO.28.40, JPS 1917)↗ · These are the foundations of Life, Peace, Riches, Beauty or Reputation, Wisdom, Fruitfulness, and Power.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · Whom dost thou pass in beauty?↗ (Prophets EZK.32.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy beauty, O Israel, upon thy high places is slain!↗ (Prophets 2SA.1.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.↗ (Writings PSA.50.2, JPS 1917)↗