2. (Mil.) A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bateau bridge, a floating bridge supported by bateaux. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A man who escorts, or pays attentions to, a lady; an escort; a suitor or lover. [ 1913 Webster ]

A beaufet . . . filled with gold and silver vessels. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The full scale is as follows: -- 0, calm; 1, light air; 2, light breeze; 3, gentle breeze; 4, moderate breeze; 5, fresh breeze; 6, strong breeze; 7, moderate gale; 8, fresh gale; 9, strong gale; 10, whole gale; 11, storm; 12, hurricane. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A companion. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful; pretty; delightful. See Fine.

-- Beau"ti*ful*ly, adv. -- Beau"ti*ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To adorn; grace; ornament; deck; decorate. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An assemblage of graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, “multitude in unity;” and there is no doubt that such is the principle of beauty. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the admired beauties of Verona. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beauty spot, a patch or spot placed on the face with intent to heighten beauty by contrast. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ On the continent of Europe, the highest departments, in most countries, have the name of bureaux; as, the Bureau of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In England and America, the term is confined to inferior and subordinate departments; as, the “Pension Bureau, ” a subdepartment of the Department of the Interior. [ Obs. ] In Spanish, bureo denotes a court of justice for the trial of persons belonging to the king's household. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Bureau system. See Bureaucracy. --
Bureau Veritas, an institution, in the interest of maritime underwriters, for the survey and rating of vessels all over the world. It was founded in Belgium in 1828, removed to Paris in 1830, and reëstablished in Brussels in 1870. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Government officials, collectively; -- used especially of nonelected government officials. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. (Her.) A cap of maintenance. See Maintenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖Chapeau bras ety>[ F. chapeau hat + bras arm ], a hat so made that it can be compressed and carried under the arm without injury. Such hats were particularly worn on dress occasions by gentlemen in the 18th century. A chapeau bras is now worn in the United States army by general and staff officers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The distinctive, French term for a fortified castle of the middle ages is château-fort. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖Chateau en Espagne ety>[ F. ], a castle in Spain, that is, a castle in the air, Spain being the region of romance. [ 1913 Webster ]