beamy (bemi)

[ beamy spear," weight; ma y: as, "his Dryden, en, Pal. and Arc., 1. 1756.-2. Having horns or antlers: as, " beamy stags," Dryden, tr. of Virgil.-3. Naut., having much beam or breadth; broad in the beam: said of a ship whose beam is more than one tenth of its length. IMG:content-1789.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1790.png:[graphic] beans, the seeds of Psophocarpus tetra go no lobus, cultivated for food in India. - Horse or sword-bean, of Jamaica, the Can a vali a glad i at a, a legume widely distributed through the tropics. - Indian bean, a name given in the United States to Catalpa bignonioides. John Crow or Jequirity beans, of Jamaica, the seeds of Abrus pre cat or i us. - Malacca bean, or marking -nut, the nut of an East Indian tree, Seme carpus Anacardium. - Mesquite bean, of Texas and southward, the fruit of Prosopis jul i flora. - Molucca beans, or nicker- nuts, the seeds of a tropical leguminous climber, Cæsalpinia Bondu cella. Not to know beans, a colloquial American a ertion of a person's ignorance, equivalent to "not to know B from a bull's foot." - Oily bean, or bene - plant, the Sesamum Indicum.-Ox-eye or horse-eye bean. the seed of Mucuna urens, a leguminous climber of the tropics. Pythagorean or sacred bean, of the Egyptians and Hindus, the fruit of the lotus, Nelumbium speciosum. See Nelumbium. Sahuca or soy beans, the seeds of Glycine Soja, largely cultivated in India and China, from which the sauce known as soy is made. - St. Ignatius' beans, the seeds of Strychnos Ignatii, containing strychnine and highly poisonous. - Screw-bean, the twisted pod of Prosopis pubescens. - Seaside bean, a name given to some creeping leguminous plants of the tropics, Cana vali a obtusifolia and Vigna luteola, common on rocky or sandy sea-shores. - To find the bean in the cake, to succeed in defeating one's adversaries: an allusion to the old custom of concealing a bean in the Twelfth-night cake and naming the person who found it as king of the festival. Tonquin or Tonka beans, the fragrant seeds of Dipteryx odorata, a leguminous tree of Guiana, used in perfumery and for scenting snuff. - Vanilla bean, the fragrant pod of a climbing orchid of tropical America, Vanilla plan i folia, used for flavoring confectionery, etc. Wild bean, of the United States, the Apios tuberosa. - Yam-bean, a leguminous twiner, Pachyrrhizus angu lat us , with large tuberous roots, cultivated throughout the tropics.