beaker (beker)

[= Sc. bicker, It. bicchiere, pecchero = OF. picher, pichier, > ME. picher, E. pitcher, which is thus a doublet of beaker ), a wine-cup, Gr. as if * βικάριον, dim. of ẞikos, an earthen wine-ve el; of Eastern origin.] 1. A large drinking-ve el with a wide mouth. O for a beaker full of the warm south, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! Keats, Ode to a Nightingale. 2. A gla ve el used by chemists, usually for making solutions. It is made of thin to with stand heating, and has a flat bottom and perpendicular sides, with a lip for pouring, and varies in capacity from 1 to 30 fluid ounces. He used a modification of Thomson's electrometer, and Angus M'Aulay mumbled over a number of hard Gaelic names descriptive of the different pa es, precipices, corries, and beals , through which he said the road lay to Inverary. Scott , Legend of Montrose, viii. Beale light. See light1. Beale's ganglion-cells. See cell. bealingt (beling), n. [Verbal n. of beall. ] A boil or gathering; a suppuration or suppurat ing part. be-all (bē'al), n. All that is to be; the whole being. That but this blow Might be the be - all and the end-all here. Shak., Macbeth, i. 7.