Beaver rat (Zoöl.), an aquatic ratlike quadruped of Tasmania (Hydromys chrysogaster). -- Beaver skin, the furry skin of the beaver. -- Bank beaver. See under 1st Bank.
Bea"ver, n. [OE. baviere, bauier, beavoir, bever; fr. F. bavière, fr. bave slaver, drivel, foam, OF., prattle, drivel, perh. orig. an imitative word. Bavière, according to Cotgrave, is the bib put before a (slavering) child.] That piece of armor which protected the lower part of the face, whether forming a part of the helmet or fixed to the breastplate. It was so constructed (with joints or otherwise) that the wearer could raise or lower it to eat and drink.
Bea"vered (&?;), a. Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat. "His beavered brow." Pope.
Bea"ver*teen (&?;), n. A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Simmonds.
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{ Be*bee"rine, or Be*bi"rine } (b*b"rn or -rn), n. (Chem.) An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodiœi). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine. [Written also bibirine.]
Be*bleed" (&?;), v. t. To make bloody; to stain with blood. [Obs.] Chaucer.
{ Be*blood" (&?;), Be*blood"y } (&?;), v. t. To make bloody; to stain with blood. [Obs.] Sheldon.
Be*blot" (&?;), v. t. To blot; to stain. Chaucer.
Be*blub"ber (&?;), v. t. To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.
Be*calm" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Becalmed (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Becalming.] 1. To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease.
Soft whispering airs . . . becalm the mind.
Philips.
2. To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.
Be*came" (&?;), imp. of Become.
||Bec"ard (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) A South American bird of the flycatcher family. (Tityra inquisetor).
Be*cause" (&?;), conj. [OE. bycause; by + cause.] 1. By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that. Milton.