beeswing (bezwing)

[ IMG:content-1853.png:[blocks in formation] Scott, from under bushy eyebrows, winked at the apbeeswinged (bēz'wingd), a. So old as to be covered with beeswing: said of wine, especially port. His port is not presentable, unle bees ' - winged. = D. beet , biet = LG. F. Hall , Mod. Eng., p. 32. beet1 (bēt), n. [ bete , bēte (not * bēta ) = OFries. bete bete = OHG. bieza , MHG. bieze (G. beete , after LG. or L.) = Sw. beta = Dan. bede = F. bette = It. bieta , bēta , beet.] A plant of the genus Beta , natural order Chenopod i ace a . The various forms are generally referred to a single species, B. vulgar is , the slender-rooted variety of which, known as the sea - beet , is found wild in Europe and western Asia, and is occasionally used for greens. The common beet is extensively cultivated in many varieties for the use of its sweetish succulent root as a vegetable and as feed for cattle. The mangel-wurzel is a large coarse form raised exclusively for cattle. The sugar-beet is a large, white, and very sweet variety, from the root of which large quantities of sugar (called beet-root sugar) are manufactured in France, Germany, etc. The white or Sicilian beet and the chard-beet are cultivated for their leaves only. beet2 (bēt), v. t. [E. dial. beet, beat, Sc. beet, be it, All his craft ne coud his sorrow bete . 21. To mend; repair; put to rights. Chaucer, T. and C., i. 666. Pipen he coude, and fishe, and nettes bete . Chaucer , Reeve's Tale, i. 7. Daily wearing neids yearly beiting . Scotch proverb. 3. To make or kindle (a fire); hence, to fire or rouse. Two fyres on the auter gan she beete . 504 If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle . Shak ., 2 Hen. IV., i. 2. 2. A wooden pestle-shaped utensil used for mashing potatoes, for beating linen, etc. Aroint ye, ye limmer, out of an honest house, or shame fa' me, but I'll take the bittle to you. Scott , Pirate. 3. Same as beetling - machine . Between the beetle and the block, in an awkward or dangerous position. IMG:content-1854.png:[blocks in formation] beetle (be'tl), v. t.; pret. and pp. beetled, ppr. beetling. [ adjectives from verbs), IMG:content-1855.png:[blocks in formation] somelidæ , belonging to the tetramerous section of the or- der. In size it is somewhat larger than a pea, nearly oval, convex, of a yellowish or ocher-yellow color, marked with longitudinal stripes. The wings, which are folded under black spots and blotches, and on the elytra with ten black the elytra, are of a blood-red color. This insect works great havoc upon the leaves and flowers of the potato, and is also destructive to the tomato and the egg-plant. It was first observed in the Rocky Mountain region about IMG:content-1856.png:[blocks in formation] 4. To mend or replenish (a fire); add fuel to. Picking up peats to beet his ingle. Allan Ramsay , To Robert Yarde of Devons hire. [Obsolete or dialectal in all senses.] beet3, n. Same as beat2 . beet4, n. Same as beat3 .