bees

pl. [Plural of Eng. bee (2).] Ship-carpentry: Pieces of plank bolted to the outer end of the jib-boom to reeve the fore-topmast stays through. [BEEBLOCK.] bee-sha, s. (Native name in parts of Further India (?).] Bot. A genus of bamboos differing from Bambusa in having the seeds enclosed in a fleshy pericarp. There are two species, Beesha baccifera , from Chittagong, where it is called Pagu Tulla, and B. fax , from the Malayan Archipelago. * bēest, *bē'est-ÿng, * bestynge, *bestnynge, *biēst'-ing, *be'est-in, *beēst'ing, be'est-ling, bees-tin-ing, *bē'est-nyng. * bē'est-nynge, s. (sing.) & a.; * bē'est - ingş, * bie'st-ings, *bē'est-ins, běş'-lings, s. pl . in form, with sing. meaning, and also used attributively. [A.S. beost , bysting the first milk of a cow after calving ( Bosworth ); Dut. biest ; L. Ger. beest; (N. H.) Ger. biestmilch .] A. As substantive: The first milk taken from a cow after calving, or from any other milch beast after having borne offspring. "Bestnynge mylke (bestnyngek): col lustrum."Prompt. Pare. "So may the first of all our fells be thine, And both the beestning of our goats and kine." B. Jonson: Pan's Anniv. B. As adj.: Pertaining to the first milk from a cow after calving. "A be slings puddin' an' Adam's wine." Tennyson: Northern Cobbler. *beest-milk, *biest-milk, s . [In Ger. biestmilch .] The first milk of a cow after calving. [BEEST.]