$3p B E A 
Forgive th£ bearer of unhappy news 3 
Your alter’d father openly purfues 
Your ruin. Dryden. 
—No gentleman fends a fervant with a meflage, without 
endeavouring to put it into terms brought down to the ca¬ 
pacity of the bearer. Swift. —One employed in carrying 
burthens.—And he let threefcore and ten thou land of 
them to be bearers of burdens. 2 Chronicles. —One who car¬ 
ries the body to the grave. A tree that yields its produce. 
—This way of procuring autumnal rofes in fome that are 
good bearers will fucteed. Boyle. 
Bearer,/, in archite&ure, a poll or brick wall raifed 
up between the ends of a piece of timber, to Ihorten its 
bearing ; or to prevent its bearing with the whole weight 
at the ends only. 
Bearer,/! in heraldry, a fupporter. 
BKARHA'VEN, a bay on the fouth-weft coaft of Ire¬ 
land, in the county of Cork: between Bear Ifland and the 
county of Cork. 
BEAR'ING,/. The fite or place of any thing with re- 
fpe£I to lornething elfe : 
But of this frame, the bearing and the ties, 
The ftrong connections, nice dependencies, 
Gradations juft, has thy pervading foul 
Look’d through ? or can a part contain the whole ? Pope. 
Gelturc ; mein ; behaviour.—That is Claudio ; I know 
him by his bearing. Shakefpeare. 
Bearing , f. in architecture, is the fpace either be¬ 
tween the two fixt extremities thereof, or between one ex¬ 
treme and a pod or wall, trimmed up between the ends, to 
(horten its bearing. 
Bearing,/! in geography and navigation, the fituation 
of Oiie place from another, with regard to the points of 
the compafs ; or an arch of the horizon between the me¬ 
ridian of a place and a line drawn through this and ano¬ 
ther place, or the angle formed by a line drawn through 
the two places and their meridians. The bearings of 
places on the ground are ufually determined by the mag¬ 
netic needle. 
Bearing,/! in the fea-language. When a fliip fails 
towards the ftiore, before the wind, (he is faid to bear in 
with the land or harbour. To let the (hip fail more be¬ 
fore the wind, is to bear up. To put her right before the 
wind, is to bear round. A fhip that keeps off from the 
land, is faid to bear of. When a fliip that was to wind¬ 
ward comes ijnder a (hip's ftern, and fo gives her the wind, 
ille is faid to bear under her lee, See. There is another fenfe 
of this word, in reference to the burden of a (hip ; for 
they fay a fliip bears, when, having too (lender or lean a 
quarter, (lie will fink too deep into the water with an 
overlight freight, and thereby can carry but a fmall quan¬ 
tity of goods. 
Bearings,/, in heradry, atermufed toexprefs a coat 
of arms, or the figures of armories by which the nobility 
and gentry are diftinguiftied from the vulgar, and from 
one another. See Heraldry. 
Bearing-Claws,/, among cock-fighters, denote the 
foremoft toes, on which the bird goes; and, if they be hurt 
or gravelled, he cannot fight. 
BE ARNE, before the revolution, a province of France, 
st the foot of the Pyrenees: about lixteeu leagues long, 
and twelve broad ; bounded on the eaft by Bigorre, on 
the north by Armagnac, Turfan, and Chalofie, on the 
weft by Dax, a part of Soule, and lower Navarre, and 
on the fquth by the Pyrenees; the plain country is very 
fertile, and the mountains are covered with fir-trees, while 
within are mines of copper, lead, and iron ; and the little 
hills are planted with vines, which yield good wine : the 
principal rivers which bear the name of Gaves, are the 
Gave-Bearnais, and the Gave d’Oleron. Pan is the capi¬ 
tal town. 
BEAR'WARD,/. [from bear and zoard.'} Akeeperof 
bears.—The bear is led after one manner, the multitude 
B E A 
after another; the bearward leads but one brute, and the 
mountebank leads a thoufand. VEJlrange. 
BEAST,/. [ bejle , Fr. bejlia, Lat.] An animal, diftin- 
guifhed from birds, infebts, fifties, and man .—Beajls of 
chafe are the buck, the doe, the fox, the martern, and the 
roe. Beajls of the foreft are thejhart, the hind, the hare, 
the boar, and the wolf. Beajls of warren are the hare and 
coney. Cowell .—An irrational animal, oppofed to man j 
as, man and beajl; 
Medea’s charms were there, Circean feafts, 
With bowls that turn’d enamour’d youths to beajls. Dryd. 
A-brutal favage man; a man acting in any manner un¬ 
worthy of a realonable creature. 
The word beajl, or rather wild beojl ( 9 ypioi), in the pro¬ 
phetic ftyle, dignifies fame political Rate, or empire ; Da¬ 
niel v ii. 23. and /feo.'xiii. 1. and the bead, in the nthverfe 
of that chapter, is fuppoied by Sir Haac Newton, to fig- 
nify a certain ecclejiajlic body, of a very corrupt and anti- 
chriftiankind; abeaftwhich had ‘two horns, like a lamb; 
but (poke like the dragon.’ 
- Beast,/. A game at cards, played in the following 
manner: The beft cards are theking, queen, &c. whereof 
they make three heaps, the king, the play, and troilet. 
Three, four, or five, may play ; and to every one is dealt 
five cards. However, before the-play begins, every one 
flakes to the three heaps. He that wins molt tricks, takes 
up the heap called the play ; he that hath the king takes 
up the heap fo called ; ana he that hath three of any fort, 
that is, three fours, three fives, three fixes, See. takes up 
the troilet heap. 
BEAS'TAN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Se- 
gefian : eighty miles (buth-weft of Kin. 
BEAST'INGS. See Beestings. 
BEASTLINESS,/. Brutality ; prabfice of any kind 
contrary to the rules of humanity. 
BEAST'LY, adj. Brutal ; contrary to the nature and 
dignity of man. It is ufed commonly as a term of reproach. 
—It is charged upon the gentlemen of the army, that the 
beajlly vice of drinking to excefs hath been lately, from 
their example, refiored among us. Swift .—Having the na¬ 
ture or formofbeafis.—Bcc/fydivinities, and drovesof gods. 
To BEAT, v. a. prefer, beat ; part. pad", beat, or more 
properly beaten ; \_battre , Fr.] To ftrike, to knock, to 
lay blows upon : 
He rav’d with all the madnefs of defpair ; 
He roar’d, he beat his bread:, he tore his hair. Dryden. 
To punifh with (tripes or blows.—Therexis but one fault 
for which children (hould be beaten ; and that is obftinacy 
or rebellion. Locke. —To ltrike an inftrument of mulic ; 
Bid them come forth and hear, 
Or at their chamber door I’ll beat the drum, 
Till it cry, Sleep to death. Shakefpeare. 
To break ; to bruife ; to fpread ; to communicate by 
blows.—The people gathered manna, and ground it in. 
mills, or beat\t in.a mortar, and baked it. Numbers .—They 
did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to 
work it. Exodus .—To ftrike bufties or ground, or make a 
motion to roufe game : 
When from the cave thou rifeft with the day 
To beat the woods, and roufe the bounding prey. Prior . 
To threfli; to drive the corn out of the hulk.—She glean¬ 
ed the field, and beat out that (he had gleaned. Ruth, ii. 17. 
—To mix things by long and frequent agitation.—By long 
beating the white of an egg with a lump of alum, you may 
bring it into white curds. Boyle .—To batter with engines 
of war.—And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and 
(lew the men of the city. Judges, viii. 17.—To da(h as wa¬ 
ter ; or brufli as wind : 
Beyond this flood a frozen continent 
Lies dark and wild ; beat with perpetual ftorms 
Of whirlwind and dire hail. Milton. 
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