becasse (bekas)

[F. béca e, a woodcock, IMG:content-1825.png:[graphic] cock. because (be-ka-sen), n. [F. béca ine , bé ca e: see beca e .] The European snipe, Gal linago media . because (bē-kaz'), adv . and conj ., orig . prep . phr . pl [Early mod. E. also by cause ; because , bi cause, by cause , also and prop. written apart, be cause, bi cause , by cause , being being the prep. by with the governed noun cause . The phrase by cause of , or because of (cf. the similar phrase by phrase by reason of ), was used as as equiv. equiv. to a prep., and the phrase by cause that , or because that , afterward shortened to because (colloq. and dial. cause ), as a conj.] I. adv. 1. By reason (of); on account (of): followed by of . The spirit is life, because of righteousne . Rom. viii. 10. Let no self-reproach weigh on you because of me. George Eliot, Mill on the Flo , vii. 3. 2t. For the sake (of); in order (to). II. conj. 1. For the reason (that); since. These wickets of the soule are plac'd on hie Because all sounds doe lightly mount aloft. Sir J. Davies, Nosce Teipsum. Why is our food so very sweet? Because we earn before we eat. Cotton , Fables, L. Men who could never be taught to do what was right be cause it was right, soon learned to do right because it was a becoming thing in them, as knights and nobles, to do so. Stillé, Stud. Med. Hist., xil. 2t. To the end that; in order that. And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace. Mat. xx. 31. [ Because introduces a clause stating some particular circumstance, from which, (a) by virtue of a general truth not usually mentioned, the truth of the preceding clause nece arily follows, or (b) in consequence of a general purpose, the agent is led to perform the act, or bring about the state of things, mentioned in the previous clause. Because is not properly used to introduce a general principle or major premise.] = Syn. 1. See since. becca (bek'ä), n.; pl. becca (-sē). [NL.: see beck , beak .] 1. The long point of a hood, especially in the fifteenth century, when such points po reached below the waist behind.-2. A long scarf or streamer attached to a turban-shaped cap in the fifteenth century. Fairholt . beccabunga (bek-a-bung'ga), n. [NL. ML., beckebunge (=D. beekbunge G. bachbunge ), brooklime, becke (= D. beek = G. bach = E. beck1 ), a brook, + bunge = OHG. bun go , a bunch, bulb. Cf. Icel. bingr , a bolster, a heap: see bing1.] The brooklime, Veronica Beccabunga . beccæ, n. Plural of becca .