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1. An assemblage of graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or
the moral sense.
Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder.
Locke.
The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole.
Wordsworth.
The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitude in unity;" and there is no doubt that
such is the principle of beauty.
Coleridge. 2. A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.
3. A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman.
All the admired beauties of Verona.
Shak. 4. Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. [Obs.]
She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty.
Jer. Taylor. Beauty spot, a patch or spot placed on the face with intent to heighten beauty by contrast.
Beaux
(Beaux) n., pl. of Beau.
Beauxite
(Beaux"ite) n. (Min.) See Bauxite.
Beaver
(Bea"ver) n. [OE. bever, AS. beofer, befer; akin to D. bever, OHG. bibar, G. biber, Sw. bäfver,
Dan. bæver, Lith. bebru, Russ. bobr', Gael. beabhar, Corn. befer, L. fiber, and Skr. babhrus
large ichneumon; also as an adj., brown, the animal being probably named from its color. &radic253.
See Brown.]
1. (Zoöl.) An amphibious rodent, of the genus Castor.
It has palmated hind feet, and a broad, flat tail. It is remarkable for its ingenuity in constructing its lodges
or "houses,' and dams across streams. It is valued for its fur, and for the material called castor, obtained
from two small bags in the groin of the animal. The European species is Castor fiber, and the American
is generally considered a variety of this, although sometimes called Castor Canadensis.
2. The fur of the beaver.
3. A hat, formerly made of the fur of the beaver, but now usually of silk.
A brown beaver slouched over his eyes.
Prescott. 4. Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woolen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
Beaver rat (Zoöl.), an aquatic ratlike quadruped of Tasmania — Beaver skin, the furry skin of the
beaver. — Bank beaver. See under 1st Bank.
Beaver
(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.
Beavered
(Bea"vered) a. Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat. "His beavered brow." Pope.
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