make foul: to foil to dirt. *To BEFOUL. v. a. [trom be and foul.] To to much efteemed in the Low Countries as to be placed among the works of the best artifts. He caught the plague from a woman with whom he was deeply enamoured; and he fhowed fo much affection, that, notwithstanding the expoftulations of his friends and phyficians, he attended her to the last moments of her life, and died a few days after her, aged 44. * To BEFRIEND. v. a. [from be and friend] To favour; to be kind to; to countenance; to fhew friendship to; to benefit.— If it will pleafe Cæfar To be fo good to Cæfar, as to hear me, I fhall befeech him to befriend himself. Shak. Be thou the first true merit to befriend; His praise is loft, who ftays till all commend. Pope. * To BEFRINGE. v. a. [from be and fringe.] To decorate, as with fringes. When I flatter, let my dirty leaves Clothe fpice, line trunks, or, flutt'ring in a row, Befringe the rails of Bedlam, and Soho. Pope. (1) BEG, a place in Ayrshire, above Allanton, in the parish of Galston : celebrated for being one of the retreats of the patriotic Sir William Wallace, where in a rude fortification, attended by only 50 of his friends, he obtained a complete victory over 200 Englithmen, commanded by an officer of the name of Fenwick. (2.) BEG, or BEY, in the Turkish government. See BEY. Beg is more particularly applied to the lord of a banner, called in the Turkish language SANGIAK BEG. A beg has the command of a certain number of the fpahis, or horfe, maintained by the province under the denomination of timoriots. All the begs of a province obey one governor general called BEGLER-BEG, OF BEYLERBEG, q. d. lord of lords, or of the beys of the province. (3.) BEGS, or BEGHS, of Egypt, 12 generals, who have the command of the militia or ftanding forces of the kingdom; and are appointed to fecure the country from the infults of the Arabs, as well as to protect the pilgrims in their annual expeditions to Mecca. The begs, feveral of whom are defcended from the ancient race of the Mamalukes are very rich and powerful, maintaining 500 fighting men each for their own guard, and the fervice of their court. On difcontents, they have frequently rifen in rebellion. They are often at variance with the bathaw, whom they have more than once imprisoned and plundered. (1.) To BEG. v. a. # 1. To feek by petition -He went to Pilate, and begged the body. Matt. 2. To take any thing for granted, without evidence or proof. We have not begged any principles or suppositions, for the proof of this; but taking that common ground, which both Moses and all antiquity prefent. Burnet. (2.) To BEG. v. n. [beggeren, Germ.] To live upon alms; to live by afking relief of others.-I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke. (1.) BEGA, Cornelius, painter of landfcapes, cattle, and converfations, was born at Haerlem in 1620, and was the difciple of Adrian Oftade. Falling into a diffipated way of life, he was difinherited by his father: for which reafon he caft off his father's name, Begeyn, and affumed that of Bega; his early pictures being marked with the former, and his later works with the other. He had a fine pencil, and a delicate manner of handLing his colours, fo as to give them a look of neatneis and transparence; and his performances are (2.) BEGA, ST, an Irish virgin, who is faid to have lived a folitary life of devotion at the fpot in the county of Cumberland, where the town of ST BEES was afterwards built, and thus named after her. BEGAD. See BAAL-GAD. BEGBROCK, a town in Oxfordshire, z miles S. of Woodstock. BEGEMDER, a province of Abyffinia. BEGERMANS, a village in Yorkshire, between Cam-hill, and the river Wharf. * To BEGET. v. a. begot, or begat; I have begotten, or begat. [begettan, Saxon, to obtain. See To GET.] 1. To generate; to procreate; to become the father of, as children. But first come the hours, which he beget In Jove's fweet paradife, of day and night, Which do the feafous of the year allot. Spenfer. -Who hath begotten me thefe, feeing I have loft my children and am defolate? Iaia b. 'Twas he the noble Claudian race begat. Dryd. 2. To produce, as effects. If to have done the thing yon gave in charge Beget you happipefs, be happy then; For it is done. Shakespeare. My whole intention was to beget in the minds of men, magnificent fentiments of God, and his works. Cheyne. 3. To produce, as accidents.Is it a time for ftory, when each minute Begets a thousand dangers? Denham. 4. It is fometimes ufed with on or upon, before the mother. Begat upon His mother Martha by his father John. Spectator. * BEGETTER. n. f. [from beget. He that procreates, or begets; the father.-Men continue the race of mankind, commonly without the intention, and often against the confent and will of the begetter. Locke. * BEGGAR. n. f. [from beg. It is more properly written begger; but the common ortho graphy is retained, because the derivatives all preferve the a.] 1. One who lives upon alms: one who has nothing but what is given him.-He raileth up the poor out of the duft, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill to fet them among princes. Sam.-We fee the whole equipage of a beggar fo drawn by Homer, as even to retain a noblenefs and dignity. Broome. 2. One who fupplicates for any thing; a petitioner; for which, beggar is a harsh and contemptuous terin. What fubjects will precarious kings reward? A beggar fpeaks too foftly to be heard. Dryden. 3. One who affumes what he does not prove.These fhameful beggars of principles, who give this precariou account of the orginal of things, affume to themfelves to be men of reafon. Tillotion. *To BEGGAR. v. a. (from the noun. 1. To reduce to beggary to impoverish.- Whofe grave, And beggar'd your's for ever. Shakespeare. -They hall fpoil the clothiers wool, and beggar the present spinners. Graunt. 2. To deprive.— Neceflity, of matter beggar'd, Will nothing ftick our perfons to arraign. Shak. 3. To exhauft.— * Whofe heavy hand hath bow'd you to the which requires fo much time to learn, had need be early begun with. Government of the Tongue. (2.) To BEGIN. v. n. I began or begun; I have begun. [beginnan, Sax. from be, or by to, and gangan, gaan, to gan, or go] 1. To enter upca fomething new applied to perfons.-Begin every day to repent; not thou that shouldeft at all defer it but all that is past ought to seem little to thee, feeing it is fo in itself. Begin the next day with the fame zeal, fear, and humility, as if thou haci never begun before. Taylor. 2. To commence any action or state; to do the firft act; to make the firft step from not doing to doing.-They te gan at the ancient men which were before the houfe. Ezekiel.- For her perfon, It beggar'd all defcription; fhe did lie Shakespeare. I ever will, though he do fhake me off To beggarly divorcement, love him dearly. Shak. Who, that beheld fuch a bankrupt beggarly fellow as Cromwell entering the parliament houfe, with a thread bare, torn clock, and greafy hat, could have fufpected, that he should, by the murder of one king, and the banishment of another, afcend the throne? South. (2.)* BEGGARLY. adv. [from beggar. Meanly; defpicably; indigently-Touching God himfelf, hath he revealed, that it is his delight to dwell beggarly? and that he taketh no pleasure to be worshipped, faving only in poor cottages? Hooker. BEGGAR'S BRIDGE, a village of Ireland, in the county of W. Meath, 37 miles from Dublin. BEGGAR'S BUSH, two villages of England, viz. 1. in Huntingdon-fhire, near Godmanchefter: 2. in the county of Middlefex, 10 miles from London. This village has a fair Sept. 12. BEGGAR'S INN, a village of Ireland, in the county of Kilkenny, 58 miles from Dublin. * BEGGARY. n. f. [from beggar.] Indigence: poverty in the utmoft degree.-On he brought me into fo bare a house, that it was the picture of miferable happiness and rich beggary. Sidney.— While I am a beggar, I will rail, And fay there is no fin, but to be rich: And being rich, my virtue then shall be, To fay there is no vice, but beggary. BEGGER. See BEGGAR, § 1. BEGGHE, ST, the founder of the order of the Beguards and probably of that of the Beguines. She flourished about A. D. 680. BEGGIA, or BEGIA. See BAJA, N° 1. Shakes Rapt into future times the bard begun, A virgin fhall conceive. All ends in love of God and love of man. Pepe 6. To come into act. Now and then a figh he ftole, * BEGINNER. n. f. [from begin.] 1. e that gives the firft caufe, or original, to any thing. -Socrates maketh Ignatius, the bishop of A tioch, the first beginner thereof, even under the -apostles themfelves. Hooker. 2. An unexperie ced attempter; one in his rudiments; a young practitioner.-Palladius, behaving himself notting like a beginner, brought the honour to the Iber fide. Sidney. They are, to beginners, an eafy and familiar introduction; a mightn augmentation all virtue and knowledge in fuch as are entered before. Hocker-I have taken a lift of feve hundred words in a fermon of a new beginners which not one hearer could poffibly underftand Swift. BEGINNING. n. f. 'from begin.] 1. Tha firft original or caufe.-Wherever we place te beginning of motion, whether from the head o BEGHAM, a town in the county of Kent, 5 the heart, the body moves and acts by a contr miles W. of Lamber hurt. BEGHARDS. See BEGUARDS. BEGIMOR, a village in Northumberland, belonging to the manor of the Woller. * (1.) To BEGIN. v. a. 1. To do the first act of any thing; to pafs from not doing to doing, by the first act. Ye nymphs of Solyma, begin the fong. Pope. -They have been awaked by thefe awful fcenes to begin religion; and, afterwards, their virtue has improved itfelf into more refined principles; by divine grace. Watts. 2. To trace from any thing as the first ground-The apoftle begins our knowledge in the creatures, which leads us to the knowledge of God. Locke. 3. To begin quith. To enter upon; to fall to work upon.-A leffon of all its parts. Swift. 2. The entrance into 13. or being. In the beginning God created the ha vens and the earth. Genefis. 3. The ftate in which any thing firft is. Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth how We may our end by our beginning know. Denbam. 4. The rudiments, or firft grounds or material.The underlanding is pathive; and whether or not it will have thefe beginnings and materials knowledge, is not in its own power. Locke-The caufes and designs of an action, are the beginning the effects of thefe caufes, and the difficulties th↑ are met with in the execution of these det go are the middle; and the unravelling and refolu of thefe difficulties, are the gnd. B.com. BEGINNIS, or BLASQUES. See BLASC At home furrounded by a fervile crowd, Prompt to abufe, and in detraction loud: Abroad begirt with men and swords, and spears; His very ftate acknowledging his fears. Prior. 3. To fhut in with a fiege; to beleaguer: to block up-It was fo clofely begirt before the king's march into the west, that the counfel humbly defired his majefty, that he would relieve it. Clarend. (1.) * BEGLERBEG. n. f. [Turkish.] The chief governour of a province among the Turks. (2.) BEGLERBEG, a governor of one of the principal governments in the Turkish empire, and next in dignity to the grand vizier. To every beglerbeg, the grand fignior gives three enligns or ftaves, trimmed with a horie tail; to diftinguish them from the bafhaws, who have but two; and from fimple begs, or fangiac begs, who have but one. Five of the beglerbegs have the title of viziers, viz. thofe of Anatolia, Babylon, Cairo, Romania, and Buda. The beglerbegs appear with great ftate, and a large retinue efpecially in the camp, being obliged to bring a foldier for every 3000 afpers of rent which they enjoy. Thofe of Romania brought 10,000 effective men into the field. The beglerbegs are become almost independent, and have under their jurifdiction feveral fangiacs or particular governments, and begs, agos, and other officers who obey them. BEGLERBEGLIK, or BEGLIER BEGLIK, the province or government of a beglerbeg. Thefe are of two forts; viz. F. BEGLERBEGLIK, BASILO, which have a certain rent affigned out of the cities, countries, and figniories allotted to the principality: and are in number 22, viz. thofe of Anatolia, Carmania, Diarbekir, Damafcus, Aleppo, Tripoli, Trebizond, Buda, Temifwar, &c. 2. BEGLER BEGLIK, SALIANE, for maintenance of which i annexed a falary or reat, collected by the grand fignior's officers with the treasure of the empire. Thefe are in number fix, viz. thofe of Cairo, Babylon, &c. *To BEGNAW. v. a. [from be and gnaav.] To bite to eat away; to corrode; to nibble.His horfe is ftark fpoiled with the ftaggers, begnawn with the bots, waid in the back, and houlder-fhotten. Shakef. The worm of confcience ftill begnaw thy foul, Shakespeare's Richard III. *BEGONE. interject. (only a coalition of the words be gone. Go away; hence; halte a She fled, for ever banifhed from the train. Addif BEGONIA, in botany, a genus of plants of the polygamia monoecia clafs; the characters of which are thefe: the flowers are of two kinds; the one is the male flower, compofed of 4 leaves fome broader, and others narrower; the other, which produces the embryo fruit, is of the rofaceous fort, and is compofed of feveral petals, ar ranged in a circular form, and placed on a folia ted cup, which finally becomes a trigonal alated fruit, divided into 3 cells, and containing fmall feeds. The participle pafive of the verb begot.- * BEGOT. * BEGOTTEN. Remember that thou waft begot of them. Eccluf. The first he met. Antiphates the brave, But bafe begotten on a Theban flave. Drydens * To BEGREASE. v. a. [from be and greafe.} To foil or dawb with unctuous or fat-matter. * To BEGRIME. v. a. (from be and grime.} See GRIME and GRIM.] To foil with dirt deep im preffed; to foil in fuch a manner that the natural hue cannot easily be recovered.— Her name that was as frefl As Dian's vifage is now begrim'd, and black As my own face. Shakespeares BEGUARDS, or BEGHARDS, religious of the 3d order of St Francis in Flanders. They were efla Blifhed at Antwerp in the year 1228, and took St Begghe for their patronefs, whence they had their name. From their first institution they employed themfelves in making linen cloth, each fupporting himself by his own labour, and united only by the bouds of charity without having any particular rule. But Pope Nicholas IV. having confirmed that of the third order of St Francis in 1289, they embraced it in 1390. They were greatly favoured by the dukes of Brabant, particularly John 11. and John 11. who exempted them front all contributions and taxes. In 1425, they began to live in common, and made folemn vows in 1467, after having taken the habits of the Treciaries (or religious of the 2d order of St Francis) of Liege. In 1472, they became fubject to the general congregation of Zepperen in the diocefe of Liege, to which they were united by Pope Sixtus IV. The convent of Antwerp afterwards becoming very confiderable, the name of Beguards was gie ven to all the other religious of the fame congregation. But, in 1650, Pope Innocent X. having fuppreffed the general of the congregation of Zepperen, all the convents of the third order of St Francis, in the diocefes of Liege, Malines, and Antwerp, were fubmitted to the vifitation, jurisdiction, and correction of the general of Italy, and crecled into a province, nader the title of province of Pianders; which, before the annexation of the Auftrian Netherlands to the French republic, had 10 or 12 convents; the principal of which were thole of Antwerp, Bruels, Maeftricht, and Louvain Rrr BEGUE, + Dr ASH files this word a" verb, used only in the imperative modes" and we cannot but agree with him fo far, that it is indeed a verb, and not an interjection, as Dr Johnjon and many other grammarians have flated it--the nomi-ative thou or ye being evidently understood. But we cannot admit that it is used only in the imperative mood.-I am gone, thou art gone, he is gone, we are gone, ye or they were gone, Sc. are regular and common infections of the paffive verb, to be gone: and the ans malous practice, established by cufiom of writing it in one word instead of two (be gone,) neither conflitates it an interjection, nor an imperfonal verb. BEGUF, Lambert Ee, the founder or reftorer of the order of the BEGUINES, flourished about the end of the 12th century. To BEGUILE. v. a. [from be and guile] 1. To impofe upon; to delude; to cheat -This I fay, left any man should beguile you with enticing words. Coloffians. The ferpent me beguil'd, and I did eat. Milt. 2. To deceive; to evade. Is wretchedness depriv'd that benefit, 3. To deceive pleasingly; to amuse.-- With these fometimes the doth her time be- Thefe do by fits her phantasy poffel. Sir J. Davies. BEGUINAGE, n.f. the place of refidence of a fociety of Beguines. See next article. The fineft Beguinage in Flanders was that of Malines. That of Antwerp was very spacious, and had two feparate churches. BEGUINES, a congregation of nuns, founded either by St Begghe, or by Lambert le Begue. They were etablished firft at Liege, and afterwards at Neville, in 1207; and from this laft fettlement fprang the great number of Beguinages, which are spread over all Flanders, and which have paffed From Flanders into Germany. In the latter country, fome of thefe religious fell into extravagant errors, perfuading themfelves that it was poflible, in the prefent life, to arrive to the the highest perfection, even to impeccability, and a clear view of God; in fhort, to fo eminent a degree of contemplation, that there was no neceflity, after this, to fubmit to the laws of mortal men, civil or ecclefiaftical. The council of Vienna, in 1113, condemned thefe errors, and abolifhed the order of Beguines; permitting nevertheless, thofe among them, who continued in the true faith, to live in chastity and penitence, cither with or without vows. It is by favour of this latter claufe, that there still fubfift (or at least subfitted till lately) fo many communities of Beguines in Flanders; who, fince the council of Vienna, have conducted themselves with fo much wifdom and piety, that Pope John XXII. by his decretal, which explains that of his predeceffor made in the council of Vienna, took them under his protection; and Boniface VIII. in another, exempted them from the fecular tribunal, and put them under the jurifdiction of the bithops. There was fcarce a town in the Low Countries, in which there was not a fociety of Beguines; and even at Amfterdam, there was a very flourishing one. Thefe focieties confifted of feveral houfes placed together in one inclosure, with one or churches, according to the number of Beguines. There was in every houfe a priorefs, or miftrefs, without whofe leave they durit not ftir out. They made a fort of vow, in the following terms: "I promife to be obedient and chatte as long as I continue in this Beguinage." They obferved a three years noviciate before they took the habit more The rector of the parish is fuperior of the Beguin age; and he does nothing without the advices of 8 Beguines. They were formerly habited in different manners; fome in grey, others in blue; but of late they all wore black. When they wer: abroad, in Amsterdam, they put on a black veil. Formerly they had as many different ftatutes as there were focieties. In the vifitations of the year 1600 and 1601, by the archbishop Matthias Ho vius, they were forbidden, under the penalty of a fine, to have lap-dogs. What change the late re volutions may have affected upon these nurferies of fuperftition, we have yet to learn, * BEGUN. The participle poffive of beginBut thou bright morning far, thou rifing fur, Which in thefe latter times has brought to light Thofe myfteries, that, fince the world bega Lay hid in darknefs and eternal night. J. Doves. * BEHALF. n.. [This word, Skinner derives from half and interprets it, for my balj; as, for my part. It feems to me rather corrupted from bof, profit; the pronunciation degenerating eafily to be kafe; which in imitation of other words fo founded, was written, by thase who knew not the etymology, behalf] 1. Favour; caule favoured; we fay in behalf, but for the fakeHe was in confidence with thofe who defigned the deftruction of Stafford; against whom he had con tracted fome prejudice, in the behalf of his nation. Clarendon.--Never was any nation blefied with more frequent interpofitions of divine providerce in its behalf. At rbury. 2. Vindication; fupport.He might, in his prefence, defy all Arcadian knights, in the behalf of his mistress's beauty. Sidney.—Others believe, that by the two Fortunes, were meant profperity or affiction; and produce, in their Lebelf, an ancient monument. Addifon on Italy. PEHAT, a river of Hindoofan. See CHELUM. (1.) To BEHAVE. v. a. [from be and have.) J. To carry to conduct; ufed almoft always with the reciprocal pronoun.-We behaved not ourselves diforderly among you. Thess.-Manifest figns came from heaven, unto thofe that behaved themfelves raanfully. 2 Maccabees. 2. It feems for merly to have had the fente of, to govern; to fubdue; to difcipline: but this is not now used. * But who his limbs with labours, and his mind Behaves with cares, cannot fo cafy mifs. Fairy Queen With fuch fober and unnoted pattion, He did behave his anger ere 'twas spent, As if he had but prov'd an argument. (2.) * To BEHAVE. v. n. To act; to conduct one's felf. It is taken either in a good or bad fenfe; as, he behaved well or ill. Shak * BEHAVIOUR. n. f. (from bebave.] 1. Mar ner of behaving one's felf, whether good or bad; manners; carriage with refpect to propriety. Mopfa, curious in any thing but her own good behaviour, followed Zelmane. 2. External appearance, with respect to grace.—He marked, in Dora's dancing, good grace and handfome teba iour. Sidney. 3. Gefture; manner of action, a dapted to particular occafions.-Well witnefling the moft fubmiffive behaviour, that a thralled heart could exprefs. Sidney.-When we make profethion of our faith, we ftand; when we acknowledge cur lins, or feck unto God for favour, we fall down; beczute -- because the gefture of conftancy becometh us beft in the one, in the other the behaviour of humility. Hooker.-And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himleif mad in their hands. 1 Samuel. 4. Elegance of manners; gracefulness The beautiful prove accomplished, but not of great fpirit; and ftudy, for the most part, rather behaviour than virtue. Bacon,-He who advifeth the philofopher, altogether devoted to the Mufes, fometimes to offer facrifice to the altars of the Graces, thought knowledge imperfect without bebavicur. Wotton. 4. Conduct; general practice; courfe of life.--To him, who hath a profpect of the itate that attends men after this life, depending on their behaviour here, the meafures of good and evil are changed. Locke. 6. To be upon one's Lekaviour. A familiar phrafe, noting fuch a fate as requires great caution; a ftate in which a failure in babavisur will have bad confequences.Tyrants themselves are upon their behaviour to a fuperiour power. L'Eftrange. *To PEHEAD. v. a. [from be and head. To deprive of the head; to kill by cutting off the head.-His beheading he underwent with all chriftian magnanimity. Clarendon.-Mary, queen of Scots, was beheaded in the reign of queen Elizabeth. Addifon. BEHEADING, a capital punishment, wherein the head is fevered from the body by the ftroke of an axe, fword, or other cutting intrument. DECOLLATIO, or beheading, was a military punilhment among the Romans. Among them the head was laid on a cippus or block, placed on a pit dug for the purpofe; in the army, without the vallum; in the city, without the walls, at a place near the porta decumana. Prepara tory to the ftroke, the criminal was tied to a ftake, and whipped with rods. In the early ages the blow was given with an axe, and was but clumfily performed; but in after-times with a fword, which was thought the more reputable manner of dying: when the executioners grew more expert, and took off the head with one circular ftroke. In England, beheading is the punifhment of nobles; being reputed not to derogate from nobility as hanging does. In France during the revolutionary government, the practice of beheading by an inftrument called a Guillotine, (fo denominated from its inventor, Dr Guillot,) was very general. It resembles an inftrument long ago used for the flame purpose in Scotland, called the Maiden; which is ftill preserved in the lower part of the parliament houfe at Edinburgh. See GUILLOTINE, and MAIDEN, N° 3. It is doubt lefs the moft fpeedy, and leaft painful of capital punishments. BEHELD. participle possive, from behold; which fee. All hail! ye virgin daughters of the main! Ye ftreams, beyond my hopes beheld again? Pope. (1.) * BEHEMOTH. n. f. Behemoth, in Hebrew, fignifies beafts in general, particularly the larger kind, fit for fervice. But Job fpeaks of an Animal behemoth, and defcribes its properties. Buchart has taken much care to make it the hippofatamus, or river horfe, Sanctius thinks it is an ox. The Fathers fappof the devil to be meant by it. But we agree with the generality of interpreters, that it is the elephant. Culmet.-Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he cateth grafs as an ox. Jeb. (2.) DEHEMOTH is generally fuppofed by commentators, as well as natural hiftorians, to meaneither the elephant or the river hole. The late Mr Bruce endeavours to prove that the rhinoceros is the animal meant by this word. Others think? that this word denotes the fame animal with Mommoth, a huge creature, generally fuppofed to be extinct; but whofe bones are frequently found in marthy grounds in Afia and America. See MAMMOTH. (1.)* BEHEN. BEN. n. f. Valerian roots. -AlO a fruit refembling the tamarisk, from which perfumers extract an oil, Dit. (2.) BEHEN, in botany. See CuCUBALUS. * BEHEST. n. J. (from be and beft; bes, Sax.] Command; precept; mandate.-Her tender youth had obediently lived under her parents bekefts, without framing, out of her own will, the forechooting of any thing. Sidney Such joy he had their stubborn hearts to quell,, And sturdy courage tame with dreadful awe,. That his bebt they fear'd as a proud tyrant's law. Spenfer. To BEHIGHT. v. a. pret. bebot, part. behight. [from batan, to promife, Sax.] 1. To promite: this word is obfolete. * Sir Guyon, mindful of his vow yplight, Up rofe from drowsy couch, and him addrest, Unto the journey which he had behight. Fairy Queen. 2. To entruft; to commit.That most glorious house that glift'reth bright, Whereof the keys are to thy hand behight, By wife Fidelia. Fairy Queen. 3. Perhaps to call; to name; hight being often. put, in old authors, for named, or was named. (1.) * BEHIND. adv. 1. Out of fight; not yet produced to view; remaining-We cannot be fure, that we have all the particulars before us; and that there is no evidence behind, and yet unfeen, which may caft the probability on the other fide. Locke. 2. Most of the following fenfes may become adverbial, by fuppreffing the accufative cafe; as, I left my money behind, or belind me. * (2) BEHIND. prep. (hindan, Sax.) 1. At the back of another.-Acomates hafted with harquebufiers, which he had caufed his horfemen to take bebind them upon their horfes. Knoiles. 2. On the back part; not before.-She came in the profs bebind, and touched him. Mark. 3. Towards the back.-The Benjamites looked behind them. Judg. 4. Following another. Her husband went with her, weeping behind her. Samuel. 5. Remaining after the departure, of fomething elfe.-He left be bind him, myfelf, and a fitter, both bern in one hour. Shakespeare.-Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the prefent, but they leave peace and contentment behind them. Tillotson. 6. Remaining after the death of thofe to whom it bes longed.-What he gave me to publiin, was but a fmall part of what he left behind him. Pope. 7. At a diftauce from fomething going before.Rrra Such |