English English Dictionary

A gum resin of reddish brown color, brought from India, Persia, and Africa.

The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea.

A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and an exhausting syringe.

An order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams.

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

To exist in a certain manner or relation, -- whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, -- a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man.

To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday.

To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to.

To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around).

To render an intransitive verb transitive; as, befall (to fall upon); bespeak (to speak for).

To intensify the meaning; as, bespatter, bestir.

A prefix, originally the same word as by;

The whole; all that is to be.

Pebbles, collectively; shingle.

The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand.

To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.

A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber.

Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached.

Bordered by a beach.

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