Beetle

n.	1.	A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
	2.	A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; - called also beetling machine.
v. t.	1.	To beat with a heavy mallet. [imp. & p. p. Beetled (-t'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Beetling.]
	2.	To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
n.	1.	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. Beetle mite (Zool.) one of many species of mites, of the family Oribatidæ, parasitic on beetles. Black beetle the common large black cockroach (Blatta orientalis).
v. i.	1.	To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut. To the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea. - Shak. Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime. - Wordsworth.

Noun	1.	beetle - insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
	2.	beetle - 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 Synonyms: mallet
Verb	1.	beetle - be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town" Synonyms: overhang
	2.	beetle - fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home"
	3.	beetle - beat with a beetle
Adj.	1.	beetle - jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows" Synonyms: beetling

To see a beetle in your dream, indicates that some destructive influences may be at work in your waking life. You may also feel that your values and beliefs are being compromised.arachnid, arthropod, beetle-browed, beetling, bug, caterpillar, centipede, chilopod, daddy longlegs, digester, diplopod, fly, hang out, hang over, harvestman, hexapod, impend, impend over, impendent, impending, incumbent, insect, jut, jutting, larva, lean over, lowering, macerator, maggot, masher, millepede, millipede, mite, nymph, overhang, overhanging, overhung, pending, poke, potato masher, pouch, pout, project, project over, projecting, protrude, pulp machine, pulper, pulpifier, scorpion, smasher, spider, stand out, superincumbent, tarantula, thrust over, tick

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