beaupere 
peer, equal.] 1 . A term of courtesy for ' father,' 
used especially in addressing or speaking of 
priests. 2. A companion, compeer, or friend. 
Now leading; him into a set-rut shade 
From llis Beaujieres, anil from bright heavens vew. 
>V//.s.,-, F. i;., III. i. :if>. 
beauperst, bewperst, [Also i-/<r<.v. per- 
haps, like many other fabrics, named from the 
place of its original manufacture, conjectured 
in this case to be Ilc/m/n-riiii, a town in France 
with manufactures of linen and woolen.] A 
fabric, apparently of linen, used in the six- 
teenth and seventeenth centuries. Flags were 
made of it. 
With my cozen Richard Pepys upon the 'Change, about 
supplying us with ben'iifi-a from Norwich, which 1 should 
lie glad of, if cheap. P'P'J*, Wary, II. 130. 
beau-peruket, . A name given to periwigs of 
exaggerated length worn in the reign of Wil- 
liam III. 
beau-pot (bo ' pot), H. [An erroneous form 
(simulating F. beau, beautiful) of boic/tot for 
OOUfkpot, q. v.] A large ornamental vase for 
cut flowers. 
beauseantt, beauceantt, . [OF. baucvuni, 
flag (see def.), perhaps <. bnucetit, bauccnt, etc. 
(> E. bausond, q. v.), orig. black-and-white spot- 
ted, but later written beausnint, beauceant, as if 
(. F. beau, fine, handsome, comely, -t- scant, suit- 
able, lit. sitting, ppr. of seoir, sit: see stunf* . \ 
The nag of tlie order of the Templars, half 
" black and half white, and bearing the inscrip- 
tion, "Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed no- 
mini tuo da gloriam." 
beau-semblantt, n. [F. : beait,fa,ir;semblant, 
appearance: see semblance.'] Fair appearance. 
Court of Love, 1. 1085. 
beauship (bo'ship), n. [< beau + -ship.'] The 
character and quality of a beau ; the state of 
being a beau : used sometimes, as in the ex- 
tract, as a title. 
You laugh not, gallants, as by proof appears, 
At what his beauship says, but what he wears. 
Confrrcrt', 1'rol. to Dryden Jr. 's Husbamlhis own Cuckold. 
beausiret, . [ME. also beausir, bewsher, etc., 
< OF. beau sire, fair sir : see beau and air, and 
cf. beaupere. See also belsire.~] Fair sir: an 
ancient formal mode of address. 
beauteous (bu'te-us), a. [Early mod. E. also 
beautious, beuteous, bewtious, beuteus, < ME. 
bewteous, etc., < bewte, beaute, beauty, + -ous.~] 
Possessing beauty ; sensuously beautiful. 
[Chiefly poetical.] 
I can, Petruchio, help thee to a wife, 
With wealth enough, and young, and beauteous. 
Shah., T. of the 8., i. 2. 
= Syn. Handsome, Pretty, etc. See beautiful. 
beauteously (bu'te-us-li), adv. [< ME. bewty- 
osely, < bewtyose, bewteous, beauteous, + -Zjr 2 .] 
In a beauteous manner ; in a manner pleasing 
to the senses ; beautifully. 
Look upon pleasures not upon that side that is next 
the sun, or where they look beauteaunly. 
Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, ii. 1. 
beauteousness (bu'te-us-nes), n. The state or 
quality of being beauteous ; beauty. 
beautiflcation (bu"ti-fi-ka'shon), . |X beauti- 
fy: see -fication.~] The act of beautifying or 
rendering beautiful; decoration; adornment; 
embellishment. 
This thing and that uecessary to the beautificatimi of 
the room. Mrs. Craik. 
beautified (bu'ti-fid), p. a. Adorned; made 
beautiful ; in her., ornamented with jewels, 
feathers, or the like : said of a crown, a cap, or 
any garment used as a bearing. The blazon should 
state in what way the bearing is beautified, as, for ex- 
ample, with jewels. 
beautifier (bu'ti-fi-6r), n. One who or that 
which makes beautiful. 
Semiramis, the founder of Babylon, according to Justin 
and Strabo ; but the enlarger only and beautifier of it, 
according to Herodotus. 
Costard, Astron. of the Ancients, p. 102. 
beautiful (bu'ti-ful), a. [Early mod. E. also 
beutiful, bewtiful, butyful, etc. ; (beauty + -//.] 
Full of beauty; possessing qualities that de- 
light the senses, especially the eye or the ear, 
or awaken admiration or approval in the mind. 
See beauty, 1. 
It was moated round after the old manner, but it is now 
dry, and turfed with a beautifull carpet. 
Evelyn, Diary, July 14, 1675. 
Idalian Aphrodite beautiful, 
Fresh as the foam, new-bathed in Paphiau wells. 
Tfiinymn, (Enone. 
Silence, beautiful voice ! 
He still, for you only trouble the mind 
With a joy in whk-h I cannot rejoice. 
Tennyson, Maud, v. 3. 
495 
It ift ft beanti/"t nrrrssity of our nature to love some- 
thing. l>. .h'irolil. 
We are clearly conscious of the propriety of applying 
the epithet Iffautiful to virtues .such as rhiirity, re\ . 
i.i devotion, lint we cannot apply it with tin- -same pro- 
priety to duties of jK-rfcct obligation, such as veracity or 
Integrity. Lerky, Kurop. Morals, I. 84. 
The beautiful, that which possesses beauty ; beauty in 
the abstract : a. ihf beautiful in nature or art ; tin- ^ I 
the true, and fit.' hi-mitiJ'nL 
i ;in we conceive of :t period of human <lev< lopmellt at 
which religion is the worshipof tin' Iwautijul ! J . Caird. 
It is very old. this architecture [Dnomo at Murano] ; 
but the eternal youth of the beautiful belongs to it, and 
there is scarce a stone fallen from it that 1 would re- 
place, /lnii-.-llx, Venetian Life, xii. 
= Syn. I'-'n'itilti!, r,,',iift, ,,,/*, nnfliit.-. I't'-ftii, t''ii:,-. 
I.HI--/II, C::iini ; i. charming, all apply to that which is highly 
Ilr;Lsin^. esprriall> to tile eve. 1>>'H iiti/u!. the most gen- 
eral of these words, is also often the noblest and most 
spiritual, expressing that which gives the highest .satis 
faction to eye, ear. mind, or soul. H>'<uft^t>ug is chiefly 
noetic, and covers the less spiritual part of fooutyw. 
ll'iii'txniH'- is founded upon the notion of proportion, sym- 
metry, as the result of cultivation or work ; a /<>/>// 
llgiirc is strictly one that has been developed by atten- 
tion to physical laws into the right proportions. It is 
less spiritual than beautiful ; a handsome face is not 
necessarily a limutifiil face. Handsome applies to larger 
or more important things than pretty: as, a handsome 
house ; a in-<'ttjl cottage. It is opposed to liitltl ''/</. l'i< tl.t 
applies to that which has symmetry and delicacy, a dimiu 
utive beauty, without the higher qualities of graceful- 
ness, dignity, feeling, purpose, etc. A thing not small of 
its kind may he called /,/-.// if it is of little dignity or 
i "nscimenee : as, u jirt'tty dress or shade of color; but 
invitii is not used of men or their belongings, except in 
contempt. Fair starts from the notion of a brightness 
that catches the eye ; it notes that sort of beauty which 
delights the eye by complexion and feature ; in this sense 
it is now less common in prose. Lovely is a strong word 
for that which is immediately pleasing to the eye ; it ap- 
plies primarily to that which excites admiration and love. 
Comely applies rather to the human figure, chiefly in its 
proportions ; it is used less commonly than handsome to 
express the result of care or training. See elegant. 
The moon was pallid, but not faint ; 
And beautiful as some fair saint. 
Longfellow, Orion. 
And there a vision caught my eye ; 
The reflex of a beauteous form. 
Tennyson, Miller's Daughter. 
A handsome house, to lodge a friend ; 
A river at my garden's end. 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, Satires, II. vi. 3. 
Nothing more beautiful nothing prettier, at least 
was ever made than Phcobe. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, ix. 
The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. 
Byron, Childe Harold, Ui. 21. 
Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain. 
Goldsmith, Des. Vil., 1. 1. 
I doubt, indeed, if the shepherds and shepherdesses of 
his day were any comelier and any cleaner than these 
their descendants. 
C. D. Warner, Roundabout Journey, p. 114. 
beautifully (bu'ti-ful-i), adv. In a beautiful 
manner. 
Fine by degrees and beautifully less. 
Prior, Henry and Emma, 1. 323. 
beautifulness (bu'ti-ful-nes), n. The quality 
of being beautiful ; elegance of form ; beauty. 
beautify (bu'ti-fi), v. ; pret. and pp. beautified, 
ppr. beautifying. [Early mod. E. also beutify, 
beutyfy, bewtify, -fie; < beauty + -fy.~\ I. trans. 
To make or render beautiful; adorn; deck; 
grace; decorate; embellish. 
The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke. 
Mid creeping moss and ivy's darker green, 
How much thy presence beautifies the ground ! 
Clare, The Primrose. 
=Syn. Adorn, Ornament, etc. See adorn and decorate. 
H. intrans. To become beautiful ; advance in 
beauty. [Rare.] 
It must be a prospect pleasing to Ood himself, to see 
his creation for ever beautifying in his eyes. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 111. 
beautiless (bu'ti-les), a. [< beauty + -less."] 
Destitute of beauty. 
Unamiable, . . . beautiless, reprobate. 
Hammond, Works, IV. 7. 
beauty (bu'ti), . ; pi. beauties (-tiz). [Early 
mod. E. also beuty, bewty, < ME. bewty, bewte, 
beute, beaute, earliest form bealte, < OF. biautc, 
bealtet, beltet, F. leauU, = Pr. beltat, beutat = 
Sp. beldad = Pg. beldade = It. belta, < ML. 
bellita(t-)s, beauty, < L. bellus, beautiful, fair: 
see beau and bell".] 1. That quality of an ob- 
ject by virtue of which the contemplation of it 
directly excites pleasurable emotions. The word 
denotes primarily that which pleases the eye or ear, but 
it is applietl also to that quality in any object of thought 
which awakens admiration or approval : as, intellectual 
beauty, moral beauty, the beauty of holiness, the beauty 
of utility, and so on. 
He hath a daily beauty in his life 
That makes me ugly. Shak., Othello, v. 1. 
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. 
Keats, Endymion, 1. 1. 
The homely beauty of the good old cause is gone. 
Wordsworth, National Independence, i. 
beaver 
If eyes were made fi,r eeiii^-. 
Then iM'irufi/ is its own CM -use for I.einx. 
/'.'M /.-o/;, To the Uhodora. 
liruuty results from adaptation to out- faculties, and a 
period state of li.altli. |ihj-ieal, moral, ami intellectual. 
i'. K. Norton, 
1 he MUM "t '" "'.'/ and the altection that follows it at- 
tach themselves rather to modes of i ntliiisiasni and feel- 
in- than to the course of simple duty which constitutes a 
merely truthful and upright man. 
l.'A-n. Kurop. Morals, I. 84. 
2. A particular grace or cliarin; :in embellish- 
ment or ornnment. 3. Any particular thing 
whieli is heiiutit'til and pleasing; a part which 
surpasses in pleasing .pialities that with which 
it is united: generally in the plural: as, the 
lirniiiii-K of an author; tin- ln-iinlii-n of nature. 
1 k in thy soul, and thou shall l><-<i<itii'x find, 
Like those which drown d Narcissus in the flood. 
No-./. It"' /'-, Immortal, of Soul, xxxiv. 
4. A beautiful person ; specifically, a beauti- 
ful woman ; collectively, beautiful women : as, 
all the beauty of the place was present. 
This lady was not ouely a great* beauty, but a most 
virtuous and excellent creature. 
/.'../, Diary, July 8, 1675 
And I have shailow'd many a group 
of VfniOV.v, that were born 
In teacup-times of hood and hoop, 
Or while the patch was worn. 
V. ,/.,, The Talking Oak 
5t. Prevailing style or taste ; rage ; fashion. 
She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty. 
Jer. Ttijilnr. 
Camberwell beauty, the Vanessa Antiopa, a beautiful 
butterfly, rare in (ireat Britain, but often found in some 
parts of the United States : so named from having been 
found sometimes at Camlwrwell, a suburb of London. The 
wings are deep, rich, velvety brown, with a band of black, 
containing a row of large blue spots around the brown, 
and an outer band or margin of pale yellow dapple<l with 
black spots. The caterpillar feeds on the willow. Curve 
of beauty, line of beauty. See curve. Dependent 
beauty, that beauty which does not appear when the ob- 
ject is contemplated in itself, but only when it is consid- 
ered in its adaptation to its end. 
What has been distinguished as dejtendent or relative 
beauty is nothing more than a beautified utility or utilized 
beauty. Sir W. Hamilton. 
Ideal beauty, the standard of esthetic jn-rfection which 
the mind forms and seeks to express in the tine arts and 
in the rules which govern those arts. Mixed beauty, 
the character of an object which is beautiful and at the 
same time affords pleasure of another kind. = Syn. 1. 
Loveliness, fairness, comeliness, attractiveness ; elegance, 
gracefulness, adornment. 
beautyt (bu'ti), v. t. [< ME. bewtyen, < bewty, 
etc., beauty: see beauty, n.] To render beau- 
tiful; adorn, beautify, or embellish. 
The harlot's cheek, beautied with plast'ring art. 
Shnk., Hamlet, iii. 1. 
beauty-of-the-night (bu'ti-ov-the-nif), n. The 
four-o'clock, Mirabilis Jalapa. 
beauty-sleep (bu'ti-slep), n. The sleep taken 
before midnight, popularly regarded as the 
most refreshing portion of the night's rest. 
beauty-spot (bu'ti-spot), n. 1. A patch or 
spot placed on the face to heighten beauty, 
as formerly practised by women ; hence, some- 
thing that heightens beauty by contrast; a 
foil. 
The fllthiness of swine makes them the beauty-spot of 
the animal creation. Grew. 
The numberless absurdities into which this copyism 
has led the people, from nose-rings to ear-rings, from 
painted faces to beauty-spots. 
H. Spencer, Universal Progress, p. 90. 
2. An especially beautiful feature or thing. 
Bunyan. 
beauty-washt (bu'ti-wosh), n. A cosmetic. 
beaux. . Plural of beau. 
beauxite, . See bauxite. 
beaver 1 (be'ver), n. and a. [Early mod. E. 
also beavor, bever, < ME. bever, < AS. beofer, 
befer = D. LG. berer = OHG. bibar, MHG. G. 
biber = Icel. bjorr = Sw. bafver = Dan. bterer 
= L. fiber, OL. biber (> It. berero = Sp. bibaro 
= Pr. ribre = F. bievre) = Gael, beabliar = Corn. 
befr = OBulg. bebru, bibru, bobru, Bohem. Pol. 
bobr = Russ. bobru = Lath, bebrus = Lett, bebrw, 
pPruss. bebrus, a beaver, = Skt. babhru, a large 
ichneumon; as adj., brown, tawny; perhaps a 
redupl. of -t/ *bhru, the ult. root of AS. brun, 
E. brown: see brown."] I. H. 1. A rodent 
quadruped, about two feet in length, of the 
family Castoridai and genus Castor, C. fiber, at 
one time common in the northern regions of 
both hemispheres, now found in considerable 
numbers only in North America, but occurring 
solitary in central Europe and Asia, it has short 
ears, a blunt nose, small fore feet, large webbed bind 
feet, with a flat ovate tail covered with scales on its upper 
surface. It is valued for its fur (which used to be largely 
employed in the manufacture of hats, but for which silk 
is now for the most part substituted) and for an odorife- 
rous secretion named castor or castoreum (which see). 
