Crossword clues for beamish
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530 (Palsgrave), from beam + -ish. Lewis Carroll may have thought he was inventing it in "Jabberwocky."
Wiktionary
a. (cx nonce English) Radiantly beaming; happy; cheerful.
WordNet
adj. smiling with happiness or optimism; "Come to my arms, my beamish boy!"- Lewis Carroll; "a room of smiling faces"; "a round red twinkly Santa Claus" [syn: smiling(a), twinkly]
Wikipedia
Beamish may refer to:
- Beamish (word), a nonsense word from the 1872 poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll
- Beamish Stout, an Irish stout brewed by Beamish and Crawford
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Beamish, County Durham, a village in England
- Beamish Museum, an open-air museum
- Beamish Hall, a mid-18th-century country house near the town of Stanley, County Durham
- Sir George Beamish (1905–1967), British air marshal and Irish rugby player
- Harold Beamish (1896 - 1986) was a flying ace of World War I
- Richard J. Beamish (1869–1945), Pennsylvania lawyer, journalist, author, and public official
- Robert Beamish (1916–2001), Canadian physician and cardiologist
- Sally Beamish (born 1956), British composer
- Beamish Murdoch (1800–1876), Canadian lawyer, historian and political figure in Nova Scotia
Usage examples of "beamish".
Beamish repressed the chthonic natural with a rod of iron beneath his rule.
Law invited Lady Beamish to sit near her on a sofa so that they could indulge in a comfortable coze together, as she phrased it, and Rannulf was offered the seat beside his grandmother.
Beamish, our first, if not our only philosophical beau and a gentleman of some thoughtfulness, that the social English require tyrannical government as much as the political are able to dispense with it: and this he explained by an exposition of the character of a race possessed of the eminent virtue of individual selfassertion, which causes them to insist on good elbowroom wherever they gather together.
Since Aunt Louisa, Uncle George, and Grandmama must have been well aware of the fact that Lady Beamish was their neighbor, Judith gathered that she was the intended recipient of this startling information.
She had overheard Grandmama arranging to call on Lady Beamish tomorrow afternoon while all the houseguests were arriving at Harewood.
They sat there, comfortable together until Lady Beamish found them and bore them off to the rose arbor after persuading Grandmama that the air was warm and the breeze really close to being nonexistent.
They share the Trimline phone, beamish old folks in hand-knit sweaters on fixed incomes.
Beamish and Duchess Susan broke up, and beneath a soft fair sky the ladies, with their silvery chatter of gratitude for amusement, caught Chloe in their arms to kiss her, rendering it natural for their cavaliers to exclaim that Chloe was blest above mortals.
Beamish, accosting them full in assembly, inquired whether they were satisfied with the report of their fortunes, and yet more when he positively proved himself acquainted with the fortunes which had been recounted to each of them in privacy.
Duke of Dewlap: nor was it the smallest of the services rendered him by Beau Beamish, that he clapped the name upon her rustic Grace, the young duchess, the very first day of her arrival at the Wells.
Nothing, Beamish, nothing desirable will you have which is not coveted!
CHAPTER III The splendid equipage of a coach and six, with footmen in scarlet and green, carried Beau Beamish five miles along the road on a sunny day to meet the young duchess at the boundary of his territory, and conduct her in state to the Wells.
Both Chloe and Beau Beamish wrinkled their foreheads at the disorderly notes of triple horns, whose pealing made an acid in the air instead of sweetness.
The great law-givers, Lycurgus, Draco, Solon, Beamish, sorrowfully acknowledge that they have had recourse to infernal agents, after they have thus purified their circle of an offender.
Even now I can recall the glowering face of Ralph Beamish, the racehorse trainer, as he watched me getting out of my car.