bdellostomid (delos to mid)

A myzont of the family Bdellostomida. Bdellostomidæ (del-os-tom'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., bds. An abbreviation of boards, in use among bel (bē), v. i., substantive verb; pres. am, art (sometimes beest ), is, are (sometimes be ); pret. was, wast, were; subj. be, were, wert; impv. be; pp. been; ppr. being. [Under the verb be are cla ed, as identical in sense, the surviving forms of three orig. independent verbs, which, supplementing each other's defects, serve together to make up the substantive verb or copula; they are represented by the forms be, am, and was. 1. Be, inf., early mod. E. also bee, ult. E. physic, physical, etc.), = Skt. ✓ bhū, become, come into being, To be , or not to be , that is the question. Shak ., Hamlet, iii. 1. Creatures which only are , and have a dull kind of being not yet privileged with life. Sir T. Browne , Religio Medici, i. 34. Time was , Time is , and Time shall be no more. Southey. 2. To take place; occur; happen; come about: as, the wedding will be to-morrow; his birthday was last week; it was to be.-3. Usually, be is a mere copula, or sign of predication, a link between a subject and a predicate. As such it a erts, or expre es as fact, the inclusion of the subject among the things denoted by the predicate, or the po es fog, bemire, etc., or from intransitive verbs, as belie, be howl, besing, etc., verbs of either cla often conveying slight contempt, as bepraise, beplaster, bepowder, etc., and are hence often made for the nonce. In a few verbs, all obsolete except behead, be- a umed a privative force; while in many verbs this prefix, through lo of the simple verb, or a deflection of its sense, or by mere dilution, has now no a ignable force, as in begin, bequeath, become, be hold, etc. be-2. [ME. and AS. be-, bi-, or separately be, bi, being the prep. with following adv. or noun: see be -1.] An inseparable prefix of adverbs, which may also be used as prepositions or conjunctions. It is properly the preposition by, Mid dle English be, bi, (a) used adverbially, as in before, behind, between, betwixt, below, etc., contracted in above, about; or (b) merged with the governed noun, as in because, be side, that is, 'by cause, by side': so also in behalf, origi nally a prepositional phrase, now taken as a noun. See the words