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1. To fasten, as with a lace or cord. [Obs.]

2. To cover or adorn with lace. [Obs.] Beaumont.

3. To beat with a strap. See Lace. [Obs.] Wright.

Be*lam" (&?;), v. t. [See Lam.] To beat or bang. [Prov. & Low, Eng.] Todd.

Bel"a*mour (&?;), n. [F. bel amour fair love.] 1. A lover. [Obs.] Spenser.

2. A flower, but of what kind is unknown. [Obs.]

Her snowy brows, like budded belamours. Spenser.

Bel"a*my (&?;), n. [F. bel ami fair friend.] Good friend; dear friend. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Be*late" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belated; p. pr. & vb. n. Belating.] To retard or make too late. Davenant.

Be*lat"ed, a. Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted. "Some belated peasant." Milton. -- Be*lat"ed*ness, n. Milton.

Be*laud" (&?;), v. t. To laud or praise greatly.

Be*lay" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belaid, Belayed (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Belaying.] [For senses 1 & 2, D. beleggen to cover, belay; akin to E. pref. be-, and lay to place: for sense 3, OE. beleggen, AS. belecgan. See pref. Be-, and Lay to place.] 1. To lay on or cover; to adorn. [Obs.]

Jacket . . . belayed with silver lace. Spenser.

2. (Naut.) To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel. Totten.

3. To lie in wait for with a view to assault. Hence: to block up or obstruct. [Obs.] Dryden.

Belay thee! Stop.

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Be*lay"ing pin` (b*l"ng pn`). (Naut.) A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed.

Belch (blch; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belched (blcht); p. pr. & vb. n. Belching.] [OE. belken, AS. bealcan, akin to E. bellow. See Bellow, v. i.] 1. To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.

I belched a hurricane of wind. Swift.

2. To eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent.

Within the gates that now Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame. Milton.

Belch, v. i. 1. To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate.

2. To issue with spasmodic force or noise. Dryden.

Belch, n. 1. The act of belching; also, that which is belched; an eructation.

2. Malt liquor; -- vulgarly so called as causing eructation. [Obs.] Dennis.

Belch"er (&?;), n. One who, or that which, belches.

{ Bel"dam Bel"dame } (&?;), n. [Pref. bel-, denoting relationship + dame mother: cf. F. belledame fair lady, It. belladonna. See Belle, and Dame.]