beyond 
life beyond our present lift 1 or experience: as, 
the great, lii'ijimil. 
They are the All, with no beyond. 
J. Marline.au, Kth. Theory, I. 281. (N. E. D.) 
The back Of beyond, a very distant or out-of-the-way 
phlcc. |('olloq.| 
beyond-sea (be-yond'so), a. From beyond the 
sea; foreign; outlandish: as, bi'i/oiid-m-n words. 
Nay, my ltri/im'1-iti'a sir, we will proclaim you: 
You would lie kiiiK ! 0ASU, and !''(., 1'hilaster, V. 4. 
beyship (ba'ship), . [< ///' + -*/(/>.] The 
office of a bey; incumbency of such office. 
Those small politieal offences, which in the days of the 
Mamelukes would have led to a /*ry\A//> or a bowstring, 
receive four-fold punishment by deportation to Kai/.o^hii, 
the loeal ('ayeinii-. li. /'. llnrton, l-'.l-Medinah, p. 31. 
bezan (be// an). " [= F. bezan, prob. of E. Ind. 
origin.] A white or striped cotton cloth from 
Bengal, 
bezant (bez'aut or be-zant'), n. [< ME. bi'-mil, 
besanl, bi'xini. < OF. Ottant, bezan, begun = Pr. 
bezan = Sp. betante = Pg. bcsante=It. bimmtt. 
< ML. Bezantius, L. Bysantius (so. nummus), a 
Byzantine coin, < Byzantium, < Gr. Bv^dvnov, 
older name of Constantinople. Cf. florin.] 1. 
A gold coin (the proper name of which was 
Obverse. Reverse. 
Bezant (Solidus) of Romanus III. British Museum. 
(Size of the original.) 
solidus) issued by the emperors at Constanti- 
nople in the middle ages. Bezants had a wide 
circulation in Europe till the fall of the Eastern Empire, 
more especially during the period from about A. i>. 800 to 
the middle of the thirteenth century, when European 
countries, except Spain, had no gold currencies of their 
own. Also called byzant, byzantine. 
And who that did best should have a rich circlet of gold 
worth a thousand bezants. SirT. Malory, Morte d' Arthur. 
2. In her., a small circle or; a gold roundel. It 
is a common hearing, and is supposed to have originated 
from the coins of Constantinople, assumed as bearings by 
crusaders. 
Also spelled besant. 
White bezant, a silver coin of Byzantium, worth about 
70 cents. 
bezante, bezantee, 
bezanted (bez-an- 
ta', be-zan'ted), a. 
In her., game as be- 
zanty. 
bezaht6e (bez-an-ta'), 
n. [OF., prop. fern, 
of bezante', besantf: 
see bezanty.] A mold- 
ing ornamented with 
roundels or small 
disks resembling be- 
zants, of frequent oc- 
currence in Norman 
architecture. Encyc. 
Brit., II. 461. 
bez-antler (bez-anf- 
ler), n. [Also bes-ant- 
ler and bay-antler; < 
OF. bcz-, bes-, secon- 
dary, inferior (prob. < 
L. bis, twice), + E. antler.] The branch of a 
deer's horn next above the brow-antler; the 
bay-antler. See antler. 
bezanty (be-zau'ti), a. [Also bezant^, bezantee, 
< F. besanie, < besant, bezant.] In her., strewn 
or studded with bezants : said of the field, or of 
any charge. Also bezanted. 
bezel (bez'el), n. [Also bezil, basil, and for- 
merly beazel, ba:il, bezle, etc., < OF. *besel, bisel 
(F. biseau), sloping edge, a bevel, = Sp. Pg. 
bisel; origin unknown ; perhaps (a) < L. bis, dou- 
ble, + dim. suffix -el, or (b) < ML. bisalus, a stone 
with two angles or slopes, < L. bis, twice, + 
ala, a wing. Cf. axil and aisle.] 1. The slope 
at the edge of a cutting-tool, as a chisel or 
plane. It is generally single, but sometimes 
double. [In this sense commonly basil.] 2. 
The oblique side or face of a gem ; specifically, 
one of four similarly situated four-sided facets 
on the top or crown of a brilliant, which are 
sometimes called templets. See cut under bril- 
! in lit.- Bezel is also sometimes used to denote the space 
between the table and the girdle, that is, the "crown," 
with the exception of the table. 
Bezantee. Tower of Church of La 
Charite-sur-Loire, France. 
(From Viollet-le-Duc's "Diet, de 
1' Architecture.") 
541 
3. In jewelry : (a) That part of the setting of 
u precious stone which incloses it and by which 
it is held in place. (6) A flat surface of gold 
engraved with any device to serve as a seal, 
when a stone is not used. Seeclintini. [Hare.] 
4. Inicittcli-making, the grooved flange or rim 
in which the crystal of a watch is set. 
bezel (bez'el). v. t.; pret. and pp. bezeled or 
h-:-:r/li'tl, ppr. lic~i-lini/ or bezclling. [Also basil; 
< t>r:el, H. J To grind to an edge ; cut to a slop- 
ing edge ; bevel. 
bezesteen (bez'es-ten), . [Also written bezes- 
ti-iii, bczegtan, < Turk, basistdn, orig. Pers., a 
clothes-market.] An exchange, bazaar, or mar- 
ket-place in tho East. ^\". E. D. 
bezetta (be-x.et'ii), . [A corruption of It. 
Jiezzcltit. rod paint, prop, a piece of cloth dyed 
red used for rouging, lit. a little piece, dim. of 
pe~za, a piece, esp. of cloth : see piece.] Coarse 
linen rags or sacking soaked in certain pig- 
ments, which are prepared thus for exporta- 
tion; the pigment itself. Red bezetta is colon.! 
with cochineal, and the pigment in used as a cosmetic. 
Blue bezetta is prepared from the juice of some euphor- 
liiurrous plants, treated with dung and urine, and is n,-i d 
to color the rind of Dutch cheese. 
B6ziers (ba-zia/), n. A sweet wine, named 
from the town of B<iziers in the department of 
He>ault, France. 
bezique (be-zek'), n. [Also bazique ; < F. bc- 
niijue, bezigue, b< ; sy ; of obscure origin. Some 
compare Pers. bdzichi, sport, a game, < bdzi, 
play, sport ; but the resemblance is appar. ac- 
cidental.] 1. A game of cards played by two, 
three, or four persons, with two packs from 
which the cards having from two to six spots 
have been removed. The object of the game is to 
win the aces and tens, and to secure various combinations 
of cards, which when shown or "declared" entitle the 
player to score a certain number of points. 
2. The queen of spades and knave of diamonds, 
one of the counting combinations in the game 
of bezique. Double bezique, the two queens of 
spades and two knaves of diamonds, the highest counting 
combination in bezique. 
bezoar (be'zor), n. [Also bezoard, early mod. 
E. bezor, beazor, beazer, besar, bezer=F. bezoard, 
formerly bezar, bezahar, = Sp. bezoar, bezaar, 
bezar, = Pg. bezoar = NL. bezoar, bezaar, be- 
zahar, < Ar. bdsahr, bddizahr, < Pers. bddzahr, 
pddzahr, the bezoar-stone, < pad, expelling, 4- 
zahr, poison : so called because it was consid- 
ered an antidote to poison.] A name for certain 
calculi or concretions found in the stomach or 
intestines of some animals (especially rumi- 
nants), formerly supposed to be efficacious in 
preventing the fatal effects of poison, and still 
held in estimation in some eastern countries. 
They are used in China both as a pigment and as a drug. 
Such calculi are generally formed around some foreign 
substance, as a bit of wood, straw, hair, etc. Many vari- 
eties have been mentioned, but most value was put on tiie 
bezoar from the East Indies and that from Peru. Be- 
zoar mineral, an oxid of antimony, or antimonic acid, 
especially that prepared from butter of antimony by the 
action of nitric acid. Fossil bezoar, a formation like 
animal bezoar, consisting of several layers around some 
extraneous body whicli serves as a nucleus. Vegetable 
bezoar. Same as calapitte. 
bezoardic (bez-o-ar'dik), a. and n. [< F. bezo- 
ardique (NL. bezoardicus, bezoarticits), < bezo- 
ard, bezoar.] I. a. Of the nature of or per- 
taining to bezoar ; compounded of or possess- 
ing the supposed antidotal properties of bezoar ; 
serving as an antidote. Bezoardic acid. Same as 
ellaijic acid (which see_, under ellagic). 
II. n. A medicine having the properties of 
bezoar; an antidote. 
bezoar-goat (be'zor-got), n. A name given to 
the wild goat, Capra cegagrus, from the fact 
that it produces the bezoar. - See (egagrus. 
bezoartict, bezoarticalt (bez-o-ar'tik, -ti-kal), 
a. [< NL. bezoarticus : see bezoardic.] Same as 
bezoardic. 
The healing bezoartical virtue of grace. 
Chillingmnrth, Works, p. 378. 
bezonian (be-zo'ni-an), n. [Also besonian, M- 
soniaii, < besbnio, besognio, bisogno, etc., a beg- 
gar: see bisogno.] An indigent wretch; a 
beggar or scoundrel. 
Under which king, Bezonian? Speak or die. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., v. S. 
Bezoutian (be-zo'ti-an), a. Belonging to the 
French mathematician Etienne Bezout (1730- 
83) Bezoutian method of elimination, a method 
published by Bezout in 1765. 
bezoutiant (be-zo'ti-ant), n. [< Bezout (see 
Bezoutian) + -i-ant.] In math.: (a) The ho- 
mogeneous quadratic function of n variables, 
whose discriminant is the resultant of two 
equations, each of the nth degree, (b) Incor- 
rectly used for bezoutoid. 
Bhutanese 
bezoutoid (bo-zo'toid), n. [< }ir?out (see Bc- 
..uiiliini) -I- -out.] In ninth., tho liexoutiant to 
two homogeneous functions obtained by differ- 
entiation from one homogeneous function of 
two variables. 
bezzle (bez'l), '. ; pret. and pp. >n~:li i/, ppr. bt-;- 
;lin</. [Now only E. dial. ; early mod. E. also 
beZZCt, ln-~il, Ili-Ji; hixx'-l, < latfc 111-;. ll<:-iili; < OF. 
bettiler, bezillt-i; liivillin; l.y tipheresis for <-mln-- 
xillin; waste, embezzle : sec < //-.:.:/(. ) I. tniux. 
1. To purloin or make away with ; n\\\--/:/\<>. 
I must he shut up and my ^uhstanrr ' 
/'7'-/<-A.-/-, \\ uiicin's I'ri/.c, iv. 1. 
2. To consume a large quantity of, as food or 
drink; waste or squander, as money. [Prov. 
Eiig.] 
II. intrans. To drink to excess. l>cl;l;i r. 
bezzlet (l>ex.'l), . [_< bi-zzle, v.] A debauchee; 
a sot. \axli. 
beZZlert (bez'ler), . Same as In- :../. . / . 
bezzlingt (I'c/.'ling), . [< /-; i<; r.] Dissipa- 
tion ; excessive drinking. 
From haughty Spaync, what hrought'st thou els beside 
But lofty lookes and their Lucifrian pride? 
From Bclgia, what but their deep Iwliii'i, 
Their boote-carouse, and their beere-butteriny '! 
.l/"r.v//j. S;ityres, if. 
I have proposed and determined with myself to leave 
the bezeliiujH of these knights and return to my village. 
XliHIon, tr. of Don Quixote, fol. 158. 
bhadoee (bii'do-e), n. [< Hind, bhddui or bliu- 
douwi, adj., relative to the month Bhddou, the 
fifth mouth of the Hindu year, answering to 
the last half of August and the first of Septem- 
ber.] The earliest of the three annual crops 
in Hindustan, consisting of rice, maize, etc. it 
is laid down during the rainfall in April and May, and 1s 
reaped in August and September. It furnishes about one 
fourth of the food-supply in a normal year. 
bhainsa (bin'sa), n. [Hind, bhainsd (masc.), 
bhaitis (fern.).] A name of the domestic Indian 
buffalo, Bos bubalis. 
bhang, bang 3 (bang), //. [Also bhung, and 
formerly bang ue, also (after Ar.) benj ; < Hind, 
etc. bhang, bhang, bhung (= Pers. bang, > Ar. 
banj, benj), bhang, < Skt. bhangd, hemp.] The 
driedleaves of the hemp-plant, Cannabialndica, 
which as grown in India contain a powerfully 
narcotic resin and a volatile oil. in India bhang is 
used for smoking, either with or without tobacco, and is 
also made up with flour, sugar, etc., into a kind of sweet- 
meat called majun (majun). An intoxicating drink is 
prepared by infusing the pounded leaves in cold water. 
As prepared and used by the Arabs, it is known as hashish. 
(See hempl.) It is also employed in medicine for its ano- 
dyne, hypnotic, and antispasmodic qualities. 
bharadar (bar'a-dar), . [Hind, bharaddr.] 
One of the Gorkha chiefs who invaded Nepal in 
1768, and parceled out the land among them- 
selves. The bharadars form a kind of feudal aristoc- 
racy, and in times of emergency act as a council of state. 
bharsiah (bar'se-a), n. [E. Ind.] The native 
name of an East Indian badger-like quadruped, 
Ursitaxus inauritus of Hodgson. 
bhat (bat), n. [Hind, bhdt, also blidrata.] In 
India, a man of a tribe of mixed descent, the 
members of which are professed genealogists 
and poets ; a bard. These men in Rajputana and 
Guzerat had also extraordinary privileges as the guaran- 
tors of travelers, whom they accompanied, against attack 
or robbery. Ytile and Burnell, Gloss. 
Bheel. n. See Bhil. 
bheesty, bheestie (bes'ti), . [Anglo-Ind., also 
written becsty, bcestie, beasty, beastie, < Hind. 
Vhlsti, bihisti, Pers. bihisti, a water-carrier, lit. 
heavenly, < bihist (> Hind, bihist), paradise, 
heaven.] An Indian water-canier, who sup- 
plies domestic establishments with water from 
the nearest river or reservoir, carrying it in a 
sheepskin bucket or bag. 
In particular there is a queer creature, like what I fancy 
a brownie should he, called a beextie or bhestie, whose 
special calling is to fill the baths in that refreshing apart- 
ment . . . attached to every Indian bedroom. A'. Maeleod. 
bhel (bel), n. See be&. 
Bhil (bel), n. [Also spelled Bheel, repr. Hind. 
Bhil.] 1. A member of the aboriginal tribes 
of India which occupy the valleys of the Ner- 
budda and Tapti, and the slopes of the Vind- 
hya and Satpura mountains. 
The language of the Bhils in the Bombay province, 
Eajpootana, and Central India, is understood to be a dia- 
lect of Hindi. jR. S. Cwt, Mod. Langs. E. Ind., p. *9. 
2. The language of the Bhils. 
bhogai (bo'gi), n. [E. Ind.] An inferior cot- 
ton made in India. 
Bhotanese (bo-ta-nes' or -nez'), a. and n. See 
Bhutanese. 
Bhutanese (bo-ta-nes' or -nez'), a. and n. [< 
Bhutan, the country (Bhutid, a native of Bhu- 
tan), + -ese.] I. a. Pertaining to Bhutan, its 
people, or their language. 
