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Be [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. substantive, participle present tense being; participle passive been.[The sense is to stand, remain or be fixed; hence to continue. This verb is defective, and its defects are supplied by verbs from other roots, as, is, was, were, which have no radical connection with be The case is the same with the substantive verb in most languages.]

2. To be fixed; to exist; to have a real state or existence, for a longer or shorter time.

3. Let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus. Philippians 2:1 .

4. To be contents his natural desire.

5. To be made to be; to become.

6. And they twain shall be one flesh. Math.19. Jeremiah 32:4 .

7. To remain. Let the garment be as it was made.

8. To be present in a place. Where was I at the time? When will you be at my house?

9. To have a particular manner of being or happening; as, how is this affair? how was it? what were the circumstances?

10. This verb is used as an auxiliary in forming the tenses of other verbs, and particularly in giving them the passive form; as, he has been disturbed. It forms, with the infinitive, a particular future tense, which often expresses duty, necessity or purpose; as, government is to be supported; we are to pay our just debts.

11. Let be is to omit, or leave untouched; to let alone.

12. Let be said he, my prey.

13. BE , a prefix, as in because, before, beset, bedeck, is the same word as by. It is common to the English, Saxon, Gothic, German, Dutch, Danish and Swedish languages. It occurs probably in the Russian, but is written po, as it is in possideo and a few other words in the Latin. It denotes nearness, closeness, about, or, at, from some root signifying to pass or to press. [ See By .]

14. That this word is the Shemitic, used as a prefix, is certain, not only from its general applications, which may be seen by comparing the uses of the word, in the Heb. for instance, with those in the Saxon; but from its use in particular phrases, particularly in its use before the name of the Supreme being in swearing.

Be [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. 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.

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

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

Be- Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A prefix, originally the same word as by;

2. To intensify the meaning; as, bespatter, bestir.

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

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

Be-all [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The whole; all that is to be.

Beach [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the tide and waves; the strand. It may be sometimes used for the shore of large rivers.

Beach [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Pebbles, collectively; shingle.

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

Beach [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Beach comber Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Beached [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Exposed to the wares; washed by the tide and waves.

Beached [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Beached [Past participle and adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Bordered by a beach.

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

Beaches [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Beaching [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Beachy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having a beach or beaches.

Beachy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly.

Beachy head Encyclopedia Britannica

BEACHY HEAD, a promontory on the coast of Sussex, between Hastings and Brighton, near which the French defeated the English and Dutch fleet in 1690. It consists of a perpendicular chalk cliff 530 feet high. A lighthouse, with a revolving light 285 feet above high-water mark, was erected in 1828 on the second cliff to the westward, in long. 0° 1Έ., lat. 50° 44' N.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3, p. 460
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Beacon [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. beekn.

2. A signal erected on a long pole, upon an eminence, consisting of a pitch barrel, or some combustible matter, to be fired at night, or to cause a smoke by day, to notify the approach of an enemy.

3. A light-house; a house erected on a point on land, or other place on the sea-coast, with lamps which burn at night, to direct navigators, and preserve vessels from running upon rocks, sand banks, or the shore. In general, a beacon may be any light or mark intended for direction and security against danger.

4. Figuratively, that which gives notice of danger.

Beacon [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.

2. A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.

3. A high hill near the shore.

4. That which gives notice of danger.

Beacon [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.

2. To furnish with a beacon or beacons.

Beaconage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon.

Beaconage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.

Beaconed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Beaconing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Beaconless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having no beacon.

Beaconsfield Encyclopedia Britannica

BEACONSFIELD, a market-town in the county of Buckingham, 23 miles from London, on the road to Oxford. It consists of four streets crossing each other at right angles, and before the opening of the railways was rather a busy place. At one time, indeed, it was the seat of a considerable manufacture of ribbons. The poet Waller and Edmund Burke lived in the neighbourhood, and both are buried in the town. Beaconsfield gave the title of viscountess to the late wife of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli. Population of parish in 1871, 1524.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3, p. 460
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Bead [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn about the neck, for ornament. A string of beads is called a necklace. Beads are made of gold, pearl, amber, steel, garnet, coral, diamond, crystal, pastes, glasses, etc. The Romanists use strings of beads in rehearsing their prayers. Hence the phrase, to tell beads, and to be at one's beads, is to be at prayer.

2. Any small globular body; hence the glass globules, used in traffic with savages, and sold in strings, are called beads; also a bubble on spirit.

3. In architecture, a round molding, commonly made upon the edge of a piece of stuff, in the Corinthian and Roman orders, cut or carved in short embossments, like beads in necklaces.of beads, is a charge given by a priest to his parishioners, to repeat certain pater-nosters upon their beads for a departed soul.

Bead [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A prayer.

2. A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.

3. Any small globular body

4. A bubble in spirits.

5. A drop of sweat or other liquid.

6. A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).

7. A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.

8. A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc.

Bead [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To form beadlike bubbles.

Bead [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To ornament with beads or beading.

Bead Encyclopedia Britannica

BEAD, a small globule or ball used in necklaces, and made of different materials, as pearl, steel, garnet, coral, diamond, amber, glass, rock-crystal, and seeds. The Roman Catholics make great use of beads in rehearsing their Ave-Marias and Pater-nosters, and a similar custom obtains among the religious orders of the East. A string of such beads is called a rosary. Glass beads were used by the Spaniards to barter with the natives of South America for gold when they first established themselves on that continent, and to this day they are a favourite article of traffic with all savage nations. Beads of glass are sent in enormous quantities to Zanzibar, and to all other ports from which a trade with the interior of Africa is carried on, as they form almost the only convenient medium of exchange with the native tribes. The qualities and varieties recognized in the Zanzibar market are said to number more than 400, and the trade there is almost entirely in the hands of the Banyans. Large quantities are also sent to India, the Eastern Archipelago, and the Polynesian Islands; and in the more primitive parts of Europe beads are in considerable demand. Under the name of bugles a very great quantity of small, mostly cylindrical, beads are used in lace-making, and for the ornamentation of ladies’ dresses, the demand in this form fluctuating greatly according to the demands of fashion. Venice is the principal centre of the manufacture of glass beads of all kinds. The exports therefrom during the ten years ending with 1871 amounted to 313,201 quintals, of the value of 61,240,296 Italian lire. In the manufacture of ordinary beads, as conducted at Venice, rods or canes of glass of the colour and quality desired first are drawn out, either pierced or unpierced. The rods may either be ...

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3, p. 460
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Bead proof Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters.

2. A degree of strength in alcoholic liquor as shown by beads or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side of the glass, when shaken.

Bead-maker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who makes beads. In French, paternostrier is one who makes, strings, and sells beads. In Paris are three companies of paternostriers; one that works in glass or crystal; one, in wood and horn; a third, in amber, coral, etc.

Bead-proof [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Spirit is bead-proof when, after being shaken, a crown of bubbles will stand, for some time after, on the surface, manifesting a certain standard of strength.

Existence Roget’s Thesaurus §1

N. existence, being, entity, ens, esse, subsistence, reality, actuality, positiveness, fact, matter of fact, sober reality, truth, actual existence, presence, coexistence, stubborn fact, hard fact, not a dream, no joke, center of life, essence, inmost nature, inner reality, vital principle, [Science of existence], ontology

V. exist, be, have being, subsist, live, breathe, stand, obtain, be the case, occur, have place, prevail, find oneself, pass the time, vegetate, consist in, lie in, be comprised in, be contained in, be constituted by, come into existence, arise, come forth, become, bring into existence, abide, continue, endure, last, remain, stay

Adj. existing, existent, under the sun, in existence, extant, afloat, afoot, on foot, current, prevalent, undestroyed, real, actual, positive, absolute, true, substantial, substantive, self-existing, self-existent, essential, well-founded, well-grounded, unideal, unimagined, not potential, authentic

Adv. actually, in fact, in point of fact, in reality, indeed, de facto, ipso facto

Phr. ens rationis; ergo sum cogito; "thinkest thou existence doth depend on time?"

Belief Roget’s Thesaurus §484

N. belief, credence, credit, assurance, faith, trust, troth, confidence, presumption, sanguine expectation, dependence on, reliance on, persuasion, conviction, convincement, plerophory, self- conviction, certainty, opinion, mind, view, conception, thinking, impression, surmise, conclusion, tenet, dogma, principle, way of thinking, popular belief, firm belief, implicit belief, settled belief, fixed rooted deep-rooted belief, staunch belief, unshaken belief, steadfast belief, inveterate belief, calm belief, sober belief, dispassionate belief, impartial belief, well-founded belief, firm opinion, implicit opinion, settled opinion, fixed rooted deep-rooted opinion, staunch opinion, unshaken opinion, steadfast opinion, inveterate opinion, calm opinion, sober opinion, dispassionate opinion, impartial opinion, well-founded opinion &c, uberrima fides, system of opinions, school, doctrine, articles, canons, article of faith, declaration of faith, profession of faith, tenets, credenda, creed, thirty-nine articles, catechism, assent, propaganda, credibility

V. believe, credit, give faith to, give credit to, credence to, see, realize, assume, receive, set down for, take for, have it, take it, consider, esteem, presume, count upon, depend upon, calculate upon, pin one's faith upon, reckon upon, lean upon, build upon, rely upon, rest upon, lay one's account for, make sure of, make oneself easy about, on that score, take on trust, take on credit, take for granted, take for gospel, allow some weight to, attach some weight to, know, know for certain, have know, make no doubt, doubt not, be, rest assured, persuade oneself, assure oneself, satisfy oneself, make up one's mind, give one credit for, confide in, believe in, put one's trust in, place in, repose in, implicit confidence in, take one's word for, at one's word, place reliance on, rely upon, swear by, regard to, think, hold, take, take it, opine, be of opinion, conceive, trow, ween, fancy, apprehend, have it, hold a belief, possess, entertain a belief, adopt a belief, imbibe a belief, embrace a belief, get hold of a belief, hazard, foster, nurture a belief, cherish a belief, have an opinion, hold an opinion, possess, entertain an opinion, adopt an opinion, imbibe an opinion, embrace an opinion, get hold of an opinion, hazard an opinion, foster an opinion, nurture an opinion, cherish an opinion, view as, consider as, take as, hold as, conceive as, regard as, esteem as, deem as, look upon as, account as, set down as, surmise, get it into one's head, take it into one's head, come round to an opinion, swallow, cause to be believed, satisfy, persuade, have the ear of, gain the confidence of, assure, convince, convict|, convert, wean, bring round, bring over, win over, indoctrinate, cram down the throat, produce conviction, carry conviction, bring home to, drive home to, go down, find credence, pass current, be received, be current, possess, take hold of, take possession of the mind

Adj. believing, certain, sure, assured, positive, cocksure, satisfied, confident, unhesitating, convinced, secure, under the impression, impressed with, imbued with, penetrated with, confiding, suspectless, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, void of suspicion, credulous, wedded to, believed, accredited, putative, unsuspected, worthy of, deserving of, commanding belief, credible, reliable, trustworthy, to be depended on, satisfactory, probably, fiducial, fiduciary, persuasive, impressive, relating to belief, doctrinal

Adv. in the opinion of, in the eyes of, me judice, meseems, methinks, to the best of one's belief, i dare say, i doubt not, i have no doubt, i am sure, sure enough, depend upon, rely upon it, be assured, rest assured, i'll warrant you

Phr. experto crede, fata viam invenient, justitiae soror incorrupta fides, "live to explain thy doctrine by thy life", "stands not within the prospect of belief", tarde quae credita laedunt credimus, vide et crede