n. [ See Byzant. ] 1. A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants. [ Written also besant, byzant, etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) A circle in or, i. e., gold, representing the gold coin called bezant. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. bis twice (OF. bes) + E. antler. ] The second branch of a stag's horn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From an old form of F. biseau sloping edge, prob. fr. L. bis double. See Bi-. ] The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bésigue. ] A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bézoard, fr. Ar. bāzahr, bādizahr, fr. Per. pād-zahr bezoar; pād protecting + zahr poison; cf. Pg. & Sp. bezoar. ] A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Two kinds were particularly esteemed, the Bezoar orientale of India, and the Bezoar occidentale of Peru. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bezoar antelope. See Antelope. --
Bezoar goat (Zool.), the wild goat (Capra ægagrus). --
Bezoar mineral, an old preparation of oxide of antimony. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. bézoardique, bézoartique. ] Pertaining to, or compounded with, bezoar. -- n. A medicine containing bezoar. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ See Bezoardic. ] Having the qualities of an antidote, or of bezoar; healing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. besoin need, want, It bisogno. ] A low fellow or scoundrel; a beggar. [ 1913 Webster ]

Great men oft die by vile bezonians. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Russ.; bez without + popovtsy, a derivative of pop priest. ] A Russian sect. See Raskolnik. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bezzled p. pr. & vb. n. Bezzling ] [ OF. besillier, besiler, to maltreat, pillage; or shortened fr. embezzle. Cf. Embezzle. ] To plunder; to waste in riot. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To drink to excess; to revel. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Barometz. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. brise; akin to It. brezza breeze, Sp. briza, brisa, a breeze from northeast, Pg. briza northeast wind; of uncertain origin; cf. F. bise, Pr. bisa, OHG. bisa, north wind, Arm. biz northeast wind. ] 1. A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

Into a gradual calm the breezes sink. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Land breeze, a wind blowing from the land, generally at night. --
Sea breeze, a breeze or wind blowing, generally in the daytime, from the sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. braise cinders, live coals. See Brasier. ] 1. Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Brickmaking) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To blow gently. [ R. ] J. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

To breeze up (Naut.), to blow with increasing freshness. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, n. [ OE. brese, AS. briósa; perh. akin to OHG. brimissa, G. breme, bremse, D. brems, which are akin to G. brummen to growl, buzz, grumble, L. fremere to murmur; cf. G. brausen, Sw. brusa, Dan. bruse, to roar, rush. ] (Zool.) A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidæ, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies. [ Written also breese and brize. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Motionless; destitute of breezes. [ 1913 Webster ]

A stagnant, breezeless air becalms my soul. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being breezy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Characterized by, or having, breezes; airy. “A breezy day in May.” Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

'Mid lawns and shades by breezy rivulets fanned. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fresh; brisk; full of life. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Brazilin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp., properly, big head. Cf. Cavesson. ] (Zoöl.) A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. caveçon, augm. fr. LL. capitium a head covering hood, fr. L. caput head. Cf. Caberzon. ] (Man.) A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses. [ Written also caveson, causson. ] White. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of freeing from zinc; also, the condition resulting from the removal of zinc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. de- + zinc + -fy. ] To deprive of, or free from, zinc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Embezzled p. pr. & vb. n. Embezzling ] [ Norm. F. embeseiller to destroy; cf. OF. besillier to ill treat, ravage, destroy. Cf. Bezzle. ] 1. To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To embezzle our money in drinking or gaming. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. taken for one's own use in violation of a trust; -- of money; as, the banker absconded with embezzled payroll; the embezzled funds amounted to millions of dollars.
Syn. -- misappropriated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's money; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Larceny denotes a taking, by fraud or stealth, from another's possession; embezzlement denotes an appropriation, by fraud or stealth, of property already in the wrongdoer's possession. In England and in most of the United States embezzlement is made indictable by statute. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who embezzles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To freeze; to congeal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast enfrozened her disdainful breast. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fretful excitement. [ Obs. ] See Feaze. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ For sense 1, cf. F. visser to screw, vis screw, or 1st E. feaze, v.t.: for sense 2, see Feese. ] 1. To turn, as a screw. [ Scot ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To beat; to chastise; to humble; to worry. [ Obs. ] [ Written also feaze, feize, pheese. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

To feeze up, to work into a passion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. the town of Fez in Morocco. ] A felt or cloth cap, usually red and having a tassel, -- a variety of the tarboosh. See Tarboosh. B. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being frozen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) A frieze. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. Froze p. p. Frozen p. pr. & vb. n. Freezing. ] [ OE. fresen, freosen, AS. freósan; akin to D. vriezen, OHG. iosan, G. frieren, Icel. frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth. frius cold, frost, and prob. to L. prurire to itch, E. prurient, cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost, Skr. prushvā ice, prush to spirt. &unr_; 18. Cf. Frost. ] 1. To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Water freezes at 32° above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40° below zero. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill. [ 1913 Webster ]

A faint, cold fear runs through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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To freeze out, to drive out or exclude by cold or by cold treatment; to force to withdraw; as, to be frozen out of one's room in winter; to freeze out a competitor. [ Colloq. ] A railroad which had a London connection must not be allowed to freeze out one that had no such connection. A. T. Hadley. It is sometimes a long time before a player who is frozen out can get into a game again. R. F. Foster. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. dried by freezing and applying a vacuum; -- used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances. This technique is gentler than other drying techniques and caused less damage or deterioration to sensitive substances. It is used primarily as a method to preserve foods or substances, and permit storage without deterioration.
Syn. -- lyophilized, lyophilised. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Freeze-dried; p. pr. & vb. n. Freeze-drying. ] to remove the moisture from (e.g. food) by first freezing and then subjecting to a high vacuum; -- used as a mild method for drying foods or chemicals while causing little decomposition, in contrast to heat-drying. This is a relatively gently drying process used to preserve food or sensitive biological materials. For biochemical materials, the term lyophilize is often used. [ PJC ]

n. One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner. -- Frrez"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Freezing machine. See Ice machine, under Ice. --
Freezing mixture, a mixture (of salt and snow or of chemical salts) for producing intense cold. --
Freezing point, that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water, whose freezing point is at 32° Fahr., and at 0° Centigrade. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Perh. the same word as frieze a, kind of cloth. Cf. Friz. ] (Arch.) (a) That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture. (b) Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. frise, perh. originally a woolen cloth or stuff from Friesland (F. Frise); cf. LL. frisii panni and frissatus pannus, a shaggy woolen cloth, F. friser to friz, curl. Cf. Friz. ] A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side. “Robes of frieze.” Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Friezing machine, a machine for friezing cloth; a friezing machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, friezes or frizzes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The original native name for the ancient Ethiopic language or people. See Ethiopic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dial. corrupt. of Guiser a mummer. ] A queer old fellow; an old chap; sometimes, an old woman. [ Contemptuous, Slang. ]
Syn. -- bloke. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A step. See Gree, a step. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The top of the ladder, or first greeze, is this. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A beautiful Abyssinian monkey (Colobus guereza), having the body black, with a fringe of long, silky, white hair along the sides, and a tuft of the same at the end of the tail. The frontal band, cheeks, and chin are white. [ 1913 Webster ]