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Beetle
·vt To beat with a heavy mallet.
II. Beetle ·vt A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavement...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Beetle
(Heb. hargol, meaning "leaper"). Mention of it is made only in Lev. 11:22, where it is obvious the w...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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beetle
A shipwright's heavy mallet for driving the wedges called reeming irons, so as to open the seams in ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Ambrosia beetle
·add. ·- A bark beetle that feeds on ambrosia.
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Bark beetle
·- A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidae), which in the larval state bores under or in t...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Beetle brow
·- An overhanging brow.
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Beetle-browed
·- Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen.
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Beetle-headed
·adj Dull; stupid.
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Click beetle
·- ·see <<Elater>>.
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Colorado beetle
·- A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has...
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Fire beetle
·- A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central ...
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Flea-beetle
·noun A small beetle of the family Halticidae, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and ...
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Goliath beetle
·- Any species of Goliathus, a genus of very large and handsome African beetles.
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Tapestry beetle
·add. ·- A small black dermestoid beetle (Attagenus piceus) whose larva feeds on tapestry, carpets, ...
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Water beetle
·- Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the fam...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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beetle-browed
One having thick projecting eyebrows.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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beetle-headed
Dull, stupid.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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beetle-head
A large beetle, weighing 1000 lbs., swayed up by a crabwinch to a height, and dropped by a pincer-sh...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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reeming-beetle
A caulker's largest mallet.
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dover court beetle
A heavy mallet. There is an old proverb: "A Dover court; all speakers and no hearers."
"A Dover co...
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