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- Beet - n. - A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.
- Beet - n. - The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.
- Beet radish - - Same as Beetrave.
- Beete - v. t. - Alt. of Bete
- Beetle - v. t. - A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
- Beetle - v. t. - A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.
- Beetle - v. t. - To beat with a heavy mallet.
- Beetle - v. t. - To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
- Beetle - v. t. - Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera.
- Beetle - v. i. - To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.
- Beetle brow - - An overhanging brow.
- Beetle-browed - - Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen.
- Beetle-headed - a. - Dull; stupid.
- Beetled - imp. & p. p. - of Beetle
- Beetlehead - n. - A stupid fellow; a blockhead.
- Beetlehead - n. - The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Squatarola helvetica). See Plover.
- Beetlestock - n. - The handle of a beetle.
- Beetling - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Beetle
- Beetrave - n. - The common beet (Beta vulgaris).
- Trimethylamine - n. - A colorless volatile alkaline liquid, N.(CH3)3, obtained from herring brine, beet roots, etc., with a characteristic herringlike odor. It is regarded as a substituted ammonia containing three methyl groups.
- Beetrave - n. - The common beet (Beta vulgaris).
- Carbonatation - n. - The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas.
- Sucrose - n. - A common variety of sugar found in the juices of many plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, sugar maple, beet root, etc. It is extracted as a sweet, white crystalline substance which is valuable as a food product, and, being antiputrescent, is largely used in the preservation of fruit. Called also saccharose, cane sugar, etc. By extension, any one of the class of isomeric substances (as lactose, maltose, etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type.
- Mangel-wurzel - n. - A kind of large field beet (B. macrorhiza), used as food for cattle, -- by some considered a mere variety of the ordinary beet. See Beet.
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