l fire; signal, pharos. Associated Word:
pharology.

beadle, n. apparitor, summoner, servitor.

beads, n. pl. rosary; passementerie (beaded trimming); chaplet;
wampum, suckanhock, peag.

beak, n. bill, nib, neb, mandible; prow, bow, rostrum. Associated
word: cere.

beam, n. girder, joist; ray, gleam.

beam, v. gleam, shine, glitter, glisten, scintillate.

beaming, a. radiant, shining.

beanlike, a. fabaceous.

bear, n. Bruin; Ursus; Ephraim; cub, whelp; grumbler, growler, boor;
musquaw.

bear, v. endure, tolerate, stand, undergo, brook, submit to, suffer,
bear with; harbor, cherish, entertain; support, sustain, uphold; carry,
convey, transport, waft; render, produce, yield; bring forth, teem;
relate, refer, concern; press, push, oppress.

bearable, a. sufferable, tolerable, endurable. Antonyms:
unbearable, intolerable.

beard, n. whiskers; goatee, mustache; awn, arista (beard of grain).

beard, v. defy, encounter, oppose.

bearded, a. whiskered; aristate, awned.

bearing, n. mien, carriage, port, demeanor, air, deportment;
endurance, forbearance, long-suffering, toleration, sufferance; relation,
connection, dependency; course, aim, direction; bringing forth, yielding.

bearish, a. discourteous, boorish, uncivil, rude; ursine, ursiform.

bear out. sustain, support, corroborate, confirm, uphold.

beast, n. brute; quadruped; monster, brute.

beastly, a. bestial, irrational, brutal; (Colloq.) abominable,
disagreeable, nasty.

beat, v. forge, malleate, beetle, weld, hammer; belabor, maul,
buffet, smite, flagellate, whack, pelt, strike; See whip; overcome,
vanquish, surpass, conquer, eclipse, subdue, checkmate, rout, excel,
outdo; cheat, swindle, defraud; throb, pulsate; pulverize, comminute,
bruise, bray, triturate; perplex, pose, nonplus.

beat, n. throb, pulsation; round; superior.

beat, a. (Colloq.) exhausted, weary, fatigued, beaten.

beat back. repel, repulse, resist.

beaten, a. conquered, defeated, vanquished.

beating, n. flagellation, drubbing, flogging, fustigation,
castigation, thumping, mauling, verberation, pommeling; pulsation, throb,
throbbing, saltation; defeat, repulse; malleation, forging, welding.

beating, a. pulsating, throbbing, pulsatile.

beau, n. lover, sweetheart, gallant, swain, flame, cicisbeo, admirer,
suitor, inamorato; dandy, popinjay, dude, fop, coxcomb, exquisite, blade.

beautiful, a. fair, lovely, handsome, comely, personable, beauteous,
elegant, exquisi