Be los to midæ (be los tom ide)

pl. [NL., Sieur Gaulard, when he heard a gentleman report that at supper they had not only good cheer but also savoury epigrams and fine anagrams, returning home, rated and be lowted his cook as an ignorant scullion, that never him either epigrams or anagrams. ( b ) Property; po e ions: as, "I carry all my belongings with me," Trollope . (c) Members of one's family or house- hold; relations or dependants. [Humorous.] When Lady Kew said, "sic volo , sic jubeo ," I promise you few persons of her ladyship's belongings stopped, be- fore they did her biddings, to ask her reasons. Thackeray, New comes, xxxiii. I have been trouble enough to my belongings in my day. Dickens , Bleak House, II. 103. (d) Appendages. The belongings to this Indian-looking robe. Corn hill Mag. belomancy (bel'ō-man-si), n. [ τία , βέλος , dart, arrow, + μαντεία , divinabelonid (bel'ō-nid), n. [ Belonida .] A fish tion.] A kind of divination by means of arrows, practised by the Scythians, Babylonians, Arabians, and other ancient peoples. A number of pointle arrows were variously marked and put into a bag or quiver, and then drawn out at random; the marks or words on the arrow drawn were taken as indications of what was to happen. Thus, Ezek. xxi. 21 (revised version): "For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows to and fro." The arrow-divination or belomancy here mentioned [Ezek. xxi. 21] was done with pointle arrows marked and drawn as lots. Encyc. Brit ., XV. 201.