Beau Se-jour (bo-sa-zhoer'), a French fort upon the neck of land connecting Acadia and the mainland. It had just been taken by the British, "beard the lion," defy. Beautiful Gate, an entrance to the temple in Jerusalem. See Acts III-2 and John X-7. Beautiful River, the Ohio. beck (bek), call. beetling (be'tling), projecting, jutting out. Beg (bag), begotten (be-got'n), caused to exist; born. beguile (be-gil'), relieve the tedium or weariness of, entertain. belfry (bel'fri), a bell tower. Bell, name of an inn. Belle Aurore (bel e-ror'), the dawn. "bell or book," religious ceremony. Belle-fontaine (bel-fon-tan'), belligerent (be-lij'er-ent), waging war. bellows (bel'oz), an instrument for driving air through a tube. "belted knight," girt with a belt as an honorary distinction. benedicite (ben'e-d'is'i-te), a chant or hymn, the Latin version of which begins with this word; an exclamation corresponding to "Bless you!" benediction (ben'e-dik'shun), a blessing. beneficence (be-nef'i-sens), goodness or charity. benign (be-nin'), of a kind disposition. benignant (be-nig'nant), kind. beseech (be-sech'), entreat. bestead (be-sted'), put in peril. bestial (bes'chal), beastly; vile. bestow (be-sto'), give; grant. betrothal (be-troth'al), contract to anyone for a marriage. beverage (bev'er-aj), drink. bicker (bik'er), move quickly with a pattering noise, bier (her), a frame on which a corpse is borne to the grave. bigot (big'ut), one blindly devoted to his own opinion; narrow-minded. bigotry (big'ut-ri), narrow-mindedness. biography (bi-eg'ra-fi), the written history of a person's life. birkie (bur'ki), blanch (blanch), take the color out of; whiten. blasphemy (blas'fe-mi), impious speech against God or sacred things. blast (blast), a violent gust of wind. blazoned (bla'z'nd), adorned, depicted in color. blithe (blith), gay, joyous. blithesome (blitn'sum), happy, gay, Blomidon (blo'mi-dun), a mountain in Nova Scotia. bodkin (bod'km), a pointed implement for making holes in cloth. bondsman (bondz'man), one who gives security for another. "bonnet and plume," a soft cap worn by men in Scotland. Boom (bom), a town in Belgium. boon (boon), a gift; bountiful; gay. bootless (bpot'les), useless. Border (bor'der), the frontier between England and Scotland, "bore the bell," carried off the prize. A bell was formerly used as a prize in races. bosky (bos'ki), woody or bushy. bosom (booz'um), the breast. Bothnia (both'nr-a), Gulf of the northern arm of the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden. bountiful (boun'ti-fobl), liberal. bourn (born), a boundary; limit. bow (bou), the forward part of a ship, (bo) to rhyme with tow. Bowdoin (bo'd'n), in Brunswick, Maine, college from which Longfellow graduated in 1825. Bozzaris, Marco (bo-zar'is. Mar'ko), brackish (brak'ish), saltish; distasteful. Braddock (brad'uk), a British general who met defeat and was killed in 1755.