bere (4)

[PILLOW BERE.) A pillow or cushion-cover. Many a pelowe and every bere Of clothe of Raynes to slepe softe." Chaucer: Boke of the Duche , 254. bere (5), s. [A.S. gebære .] A noise, clamour. "Who makis sich a bere . "- Townley Mysteries , p. 109. bëre (6), bear (2), bëir (2), bëer (1), s . [A.S. bere barley; O. Icel. barr ; Meso-Goth, bar i zein (adj.) = of barley, as if from bar is = barley; Lat far in acorn , far = spelt, a kind of grain; בֶּר. מגבר ) bar ) = corn or grain, especially when separated from the husk. (BARLEY, BARN, FARINACEOUSs.) The name given in Scotland, and to a certain extent through the Empire, to Hordeum hexastichum , a cereal with six rows of seeds on its spike, hence called six-rowed barley. It is cultivated in the north of Scotland and Ireland, being valued for its hardy properties, and is used in malting, and for the manufacture of spirits. Bere is a coarser and le nutritious grain than barley, but thrives in the poorest soil. It is also called bigg . As bere-malt pays a le duty than barley malt, malsters sometimes attempt to defraud the revenue by malting a mixture of bere and barley, and presenting it for a e ment as bere-malt. This fraud can be detected by the microscope. "Of all corne thare is copy gret, Pese, and atys, bere , and qwhet." Wyntown, 1. 13, 6. (Jamie son.) Bě-re-an, a. . [From Eng. Berea ; Lat. Berea; Gr. Βεροῖα ( Beroia ), and Eng. suff. -an .] A. As adjective : Pertaining to Berœa, a town in ancient Macedonia (Acts xvii. 10, 12; xx. 4), now called Verria or Kara Verria. B. As substantive: 1. Geog. & Hist . ( sing .): A native of the foregoing town. 2. Ch . Hist. ( pl . ): A Scottish religious sect founded by the Rev. J. Barclay in 1773, on which account they were called also Barclayans. Their aim was to become entitled to the commendation bestowed by St. Luke on the inhabitants of Berea (Acts xvii. 11, 12). The Bereans do not figure now, by that name at least, in the Registrar-General's list of Scottish or English sects. bě-rē'ave (pret. & pa. par. bereaved , bereved , • beraued, bereft, berefte, beraft ), v.t. & i. [From Eng. be, and reave. A.S. bereafian = to bereave, seize, rob, or spoil be , and reafian =to seize, to rob. In Sw. berofva ; Dan. be röve; Dut. berooven; Ger. berauben.] [REAVE, ROB.] A. Transitive : I. With a person or an animal for the objective: +1. Gen. To deprive, rob, or spoil of anything. The general sense of the word, though not yet extinct, was formerly much more common than it is now. "There was never a prince bereaved of his dependencles by his council, except there hath been an over greatne in one counsellor."- Bacon : E ays. 2. Spec. To deprive of relatives, as a person does who causes the death or departure of any one, or as is done by Death itself personified. "And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children."- Gen . xlii. 36. (a) Bereave in this sense is followed by the objective of the person deprived of anything, while the thing itself has before it of (see examples under 1 and 2); or (6) in poetry the of may be omitted: "Who this high gift of strength committed to me, In what part lodged, how easily bereft me." Milton: Samson Agonistes. * II. With a thing for the objective : To take away, to remove. In this case that which is reft is put in the objective, and the person or thing losing it is preceded by from , or thence is used, or some similar word. "That no new loves impre ion ever could Bereave it thence." Spenser: F. Q., V. vi. 2. B. Intransitive: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death."-Lam. i. 20. Crabb thus distinguishes between the verbs to bereave, to deprive , and to strip:To bereave expre es more than deprive , but le than strip , which in this sense is figurative, and denotes a total bereavement: one is bereaved of children, deprived of pleasures, and stripped of property: we are bereaved of that on which we set most value. The act of bereaving does violence to our inclination; we are deprived of the ordinary comforts and conveniences of life: thev cease to be ours: we are stripped of the things which we most want; we are thereby rendered as it were naked. Deprivations are preparatory to be reavements; if we cannot bear the one patiently, we may expect to sink under the other. Common prudence should teach us to look with unconcern on our deprivations: Christian faith should enable us to consider every bereavement as a step to perfection; that when stripped of all worldly goods we may be invested with those more exalted and lasting honours which await the faithful disciple of Christ. bě-rē'aved, pa . par . & a. [BEREAVE.) bě-rē'ave-měnt, s. [Eng. bereave; -ment.] The state of being deprived of. (Specially used of the lo of relatives by death.)