I subjoin some specimens: Bestial signifies amongst Scottish agriculturists cattle generally, the whole aggregate number of beasts on the farm.

This favour doubtless signifies that you are soon to be received as a happy wife into your husband's house, and are from this time forward to become the partner of his royal fortunes.

I see now that in your mouth the word honourable signifies polite, for you have been polite, but the other alone would have been frank and honourable.

Again: "As immediate signifies instant, present with regard to time, Prior should not have written 'more immediate.'

We feel it, that is all!fulgurant moments, which throw, as it were, a flash of lightning upon our destinies, like those meteors which shine forth from time to time in the heavens, and of which none can say what their purple signifies, whether it be a cataclysm or an apotheosis.

2. BE, as a prefix, signifies upon, over, by, to, at, or for: as in be-spatter, be-cloud, be-times, be-tide, be-howl, be-speak.

which, as a substantive signifies "a lamp;" and as a verbal participle it denotes "given," or "bestowed.