Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. bever, AS. beofer, befer,; akin to D. bever, OHG. bibar, G. biber, Sw. bäfver, Dan. bæver, Lith. bebru, Russ. bobr', Gael. beabhar, Corn. befer, L. fiber, and Skr. babhrus, large ichneumon; also as an adj., brown, the animal being probably named from its color. √253. See Brown
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
So called from a fancied likeness to a child's bib. O. Fr. bavière, from bave, slaver.
In literature:
A beaver colony returned to its former haunts at the foot of Long's Peak and was working night and day.
"A Mountain Boyhood" by Joe Mills
Jenny the Beaver was late for her job.
"FreeChildrenStories.com Collection" by Daniel Errico
Beavers now only live in Canada.
"The Industries of Animals" by Frédéric Houssay
Those beavers are my beavers.
"The House in the Water" by Charles G. D. Roberts
No doubt he talked with Joseph Frobisher in his quaint home on Beaver Hall Hill.
"The Red River Colony" by Louis Aubrey Wood
As the beaver does not eat fish, I inquired of Tecaughretanego why the beavers made such large dams?
"The Land of the Miamis" by Elmore Barce
I read of a beaver that cut down a tree which was held in such a way that it did not fall, but simply dropped down the height of the stump.
"Ways of Nature" by John Burroughs
The explorers were heavily fined, and a large quantity of their beaver was seized to satisfy the revenue tax.
"The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay" by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
Father Xavier looked at it in wondering admiration, and at last asked Black Beaver what he called it.
"The Galaxy" by Various
Eadie Beaver put the parson in here while I was in the city on a special trip.
"Captain Pott's Minister" by Francis L. Cooper
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In poetry:
I had no where to go,
I had no money to spend:
"O come with me," the Beaver said,
"I live at the world's end."
"A Ballad of The Kind Little Creatures" by Richard Le Gallienne
"Nor aileth any at the farm,
Nor is our cheer less free,
But I must haste to Beaver Dam,
Fitzgibbon there to see.
"A Ballad Of 1812" by Sarah Anne Curzon
"Does the world ever end!"
To the Beaver then said I:
"O yes! the green world ends," he said,
"Up there in the blue sky."
"A Ballad of The Kind Little Creatures" by Richard Le Gallienne
And save the dreadnought band; and give
To Beaver Dam a name,
The pride of true Canadian hearts,
Of others, but the shame.
"A Ballad Of 1812" by Sarah Anne Curzon
"Splash, dash!
Rumble and crash!
Here come the beavers gay;
See what they do,
Rosy, for you,
Because you helped me one day."
"Splash, Dash!" by Louisa May Alcott
Leave me in the Great Lone Country,
For I shall not be afraid
With the shy moose and the beaver
There within my scarlet shade.
"The Grave-Tree" by Bliss William Carman
In news:
Smokestack emissions in Beaver won't pose hazards.
Smokestack emissions in Beaver won't pose hazards.
William Beavers indicted on tax fraud charges.
Thriller Rod Lott Not to be confused with 2007's Steel Trap , 1952's The Steel Trap is an obscure slice of semi-noir in a Leave It to Beaver world.
Garry Meier talks about the woman who nearly got buried in mud while clearing a beaver dam.
After being postponed on Jan 3 from a potential game with Beaver Local, the Fitch basketball team could hardly wait to finally hit the court for the first time in 2012.
I was at the 3BA Basketball press conference today where former Oregon State Beaver and NBA champion AC Green was on hand to talk about the 3BA franchise he will be bringing to the Rose City.
Beaver on the Bronx River Photo.
Firefighters respond to call in North Beaver Township.
NEW CASTLE — Multiple departments responded to a vehicle and garage fire in North Beaver Township Thursday.
Beaver Stadium at Penn State on Saturday.
Cougars, Beavers expected to take to the air today.
A Tough Mudder navigates hanging wires charged with 10,000 volts of electricity during the Electroshock Therapy obstacle at this year's event at Beaver Creek Resort on Saturday.
In only 10 minutes an Ellis County jury convicted Richard Garfield Beavers, 58, of Driving While Intoxicated, sentencing Beavers the maximum punishment, 365.
Toasting Beaver Stadium's half-century.
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In science:
Brady, “The busy beaver game and the meaning of life,” in The Universal Turing Machine. A Half-Century Survey, edited by R.
Indeterminism and Randomness Through Physics
Other examples of non-computable numbers are known: the Chaitin’s constant Ω ; the real number such that its n-th digits equals 1 if a given universal TM halts for input n, and 0 otherwise (see); the real number whose digits express the solutions of the busy beaver problem.
A definable number which cannot be approximated algorithmically
Solving the halting problem for smal l machines D(n), like m(s) and C (s), is a non-computable function, but one may use the results from a problem popular among computer scientists called the Busy Beaver problem.
Assessing Cognitive Randomness: A Kolmogorov Complexity Approach
The Busy Beaver problem is the problem of finding a value Σ(n) for the maximum number of 1s a TM with n states can produce before halting, when starting from an empty input.
Assessing Cognitive Randomness: A Kolmogorov Complexity Approach
We add also several simple observations relating lower semicomputable random reals and busy beaver functions.
Random semicomputable reals revisited
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