Webster's Dictionary 1828

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BELCHING

BELCH'ING, participle present tense Ejecting from the stomach or any deep hollow place.BELCH'ING, noun Eructation.

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BELDAM

BEL'DAM, noun1. An old woman.Spenser seems to have used the word in its true sense for good dame.2. A hag.

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BELEAGUER

BELE'AGUER, verb transitive belee'ger. To besiege; to block up; to surround with an army, so as to preclude escape.

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BELEAGUERED

BELE'AGUERED, participle passive Besieged.

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BELEAGUERER

BELE'AGUERER, noun One who besieges.

951

BELEAGURING

BELE'AGURING, participle present tense Besieging; blocking up.

952

BELEAVE

BELE'AVE, verb transitive [be and leave.] To leave. [Not used.]

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BELEE

BELEE', verb transitive [be and lee.] To place on the lee, or in a position unfavorable to the wind. [Not used.]

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BELEMNITE

BELEM'NITE, noun [Gr.a dart, or arrow, from the root of pello, to throw.]Arrow-head, or finger stone; vulgarly called thunder-bolt, or thunder stone. A genus of fossil shells, c...

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BELEPER

BELEP'ER, verb transitive To infect with leprosy. [Not used.]

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BELFRY

BEL'FRY, noun [Latin belfredus.]1. Among military writers of the middle age, a tower erected by besiegers to overlook the place besieged, in which sentinels were placed to watch...

957

BELGARD

BELGARD', noun A soft look or glance. [Not used.]

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BELGIAN

BEL'GIAN, adjective [See Belgic.] Belonging to Belgica, or the Netherlands.BEL'GIAN, noun A native of Belgica, or the Low Countries.

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BELGIC

BEL'GIC, adjective [Latin belgicus, from Belgae, the inhabitants of the Netherlands and the country bordering on the Rhine, from that river to the Seine and the ocean. The name ...

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BELIAL

BE'LIAL, noun As a noun, unprofitableness; wickedness. As an adjective, worthless; wicked. In a collective sense, wicked men.

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BELIBEL

BELI'BEL, verb transitive [be and libel.] To libel or traduce. [Not used.]

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BELIE

BELI'E, verb transitive [be and lie. See Lie.]1. To give the lie to; to show to be false; to charge with falsehood; as, the heart belies the tongue. It is rarely used of declara...

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BELIED

BELI'ED, pp. Falsely represented either by word or obvious evidence and indication; counterfeited; mimicked.

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BELIEF

BELIE'F, noun1. A persuasion of the truth, or an assent of mind to the truth of a declaration, proposition or alleged fact, on the ground of evidence, distinct from personal kno...

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BELIEVABALE

BELIE'VABALE, adjective That may be believed; credible.

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BELIEVE

BELIE'VE, verb transitive To credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of something upon the declaration of another, or upon evidence furni...

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BELIEVED

BELIE'VED, participle passive Credited; assented to, as true.

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BELIEVER

BELIE'VER, noun One who believes; one who gives credit to other evidence than that of personal knowledge.1. In theology, one who gives credit to the truth of the scriptures, as ...

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BELIEVING

BELIE'VING, participle present tense Giving credit to testimony or to other evidence than personal knowledge.

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BELIEVINGLY

BELIE'VINGLY, adverb In a believing manner.

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BELIKE

BELI'KE, adverb [be and like.] Probably; likely; perhaps. [Nearly antiquated.]

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BELIKELY

BELI'KELY, adverb Probably. [Not used.]