Beauties, n. pl.
- 1. Anthology, selections, elegant extracts, fine passages.
- 2. Beautiful traits, features, or characteristics, attractions, charms.
- 3. Beautiful women, belles, fair ones.
Beautiful, a. Handsome, fair, fine, elegant, graceful, beauteous.
Beautify, v. a. Adorn, decorate, embellish, deck, bedeck, ornament, emblazon, gild, array, garnish, grace, set, trick out, set off, make beautiful.
Beauty, n.
- 1. Elegance, grace, symmetry.
- 2. Comeliness, seemliness, fairness, loveliness, attractiveness.
- 3. Fine part, special grace, particular excellence, beautiful trait, feature, or characteristic, attraction,
charm.
- 4. Beautiful woman, belle.
Beaux-esprits, n. pl. [Fr.] Wits, men of wit, men of genius.
Beaver, n.
- 1. Fur of the beaver.
- 2. Hat.
- 3. Face-guard (of a helmet), bever, bevor, beevor.
Be beat out. Be exhausted, be fagged, be worn out, be tired out, be greatly fatigued.
Be brought to bed. Be confined, lie in, be in child-bed, be in the straw.
Becafico, n. Fig-eater, fig-pecker, greater petty-chaps, garden warbler, becafigo, beccafico (Sylvia hortensis).
Be called. Be named, go by the name of, take the name of, pass under the name of.
Becalm, v. a.
- 1. Quiet, soothe, still, calm, tranquillize, pacify, appease, make calm, make tranquil.