1. beetle(n = noun.animal) - insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings;
is a kind of insect
is a member of coleoptera, order coleoptera
has particulars: tiger beetle, lady beetle, ladybeetle, ladybird, ladybird beetle, ladybug, carabid beetle, ground beetle, firefly, lightning bug, long-horned beetle, longicorn, longicorn beetle, chrysomelid, leaf beetle, carpet beetle, carpet bug, clerid, clerid beetle, lamellicorn beetle, elater, elaterid, elaterid beetle, water beetle, whirligig beetle, deathwatch, deathwatch beetle, xestobium rufovillosum, weevil, blister beetle, meloid, bark beetle, rove beetle, anoplophora glabripennis, asian longhorned beetle
2. beetle(n = noun.artifact) mallet - a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing;
is a kind of hammer
has particulars: carpenter's mallet, gavel
Derived form verb beetle3
1. beetle(v = verb.stative) overhang - be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"
is one way to hang
Sample sentences:
Something ----s something
2. beetle(v = verb.motion) - fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home"
is one way to go, locomote, move, travel
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP
3. beetle(v = verb.contact) - beat with a beetle;
is one way to beat
Derived form noun beetle2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
beetle(s = adj.all) beetling - jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows"
1. A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc. [1913 Webster]
2. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also
1. To beat with a heavy mallet. [1913 Webster]
2. To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut. [1913 Webster]
"To the dreadful summit of the cliff
That beetles o'er his base into the sea." [1913 Webster]
"Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime." [1913 Webster]
beetle, n. & v.
--n.
1 any insect of the order Coleoptera, with modified front wings forming hard protective cases closing over the back wings.
2 colloq. any similar, usu. black, insect.
3 sl. a type of compact rounded Volkswagen saloon car.
4 a dice game in which a beetle is drawn or assembled.
--v.intr. colloq. (foll. by about, away, etc.) Brit. hurry, scurry.
Idiom:
beetle-crusher Brit. colloq. a large boot or foot.
beetle, n. & v.
--n.
1 a tool with a heavy head and a handle, used for ramming, crushing, driving wedges, etc.
2 a machine used for heightening the lustre of cloth by pressure from rollers.
--v.tr.
1 ram, crush, drive, etc., with a beetle.
2 finish (cloth) with a beetle.
beetle, adj. & v.
--adj. (esp. of the eyebrows) projecting, shaggy, scowling.
--v.intr. (usu. as beetling adj.) (of brows, cliffs, etc.) projecting; overhanging threateningly.
Idiom:
beetle-browed with shaggy, projecting, or scowling eyebrows.
Etymology:
ME: orig. unkn.
VB be high, tower, soar, command, hover, hover over, fly over, orbit, be in orbit, cap, culminate, overhang, hang over, impend, beetle, bestride, ride, mount, perch, surmount, cover, overtop, stand on tiptoe, become high, grow higher, grow taller, upgrow, rise, send into orbit, render high, heighten.
VB be pendent, hang, depend, swing, dangle, swag, daggle, flap, trail, flow, beetle, suspend, hang, sling, hook up, hitch, fasten to, append.
VB be prominent, project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge, bunch, jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out, stick up, bristle up, start up, cock up, shoot up, swell over, hang over, bend over, beetle, render prominent, raise, emboss, chase, belly out.
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