BEZIQUE (from Sp. bakes "little kiss," in allusion to the meeting of the queen and knave), a game at cards played with a double pack, from which the twos, threes, fours, lives, and sixes have been rejected. The remaining cards rank from ace down, as in whist. The dealer gives three cards to his adversary, three to himelf, then two to each, and lastly three to each, and turns a trump. Tricks are taken as in whist except when the cards are equal, such as two tens together, when the leader wins the trick. After each trick the player draws one card fi•on the stock, the winner taking the top card and the loser the next, the trump card or the one exchanged for it being taken up last. The object of the game is to promote in the hand various combinations of cards which,. when declared, entitle the holder to certain seisms; to win aces and tens; anti to win the so-called last trick. A. declaration must be made as soon as the trick is taken and before drawing from the pack, and this is done by placing the declared cards (one of which must not have been declared before) face upward on the table; but they still form part of the hand and can be led or played just as though they had not been declared. (The rules are too long to be inserted here.) There are also three or four bezique, when three or four packs are used. The game is usually 1000 points, and the scores vary from 10, for
the seven of trumps played or exchanged, to 500 for double bezique. If clubs or hearts are Wimps, the bezique cards are qUeen of spades and knave of diamonds, and vice versa when spades or diamonds arc trumps. The deal goes from one to another alter nately until the game is finished.
BE20AB, (Pers. pazar, a goat; or pa, against, and zackar, poison), a concretion found in the stout tells of goats or antelopes, and formerly much valued on account of imag inary medicinal virtues, particularly as an antidote to poisons. Concretions of various kinds are found in the stomachs of herbivorous quadrupeds, very generally having foi their nucleus some small indigestible substance which has been taken into the stomach. Sometimes^ they are of a radiating structure; sometimes formed of concentric layers; sometimes they arc principally composed of superphosphate of lime, sometimes of phos phate of ammonia or magnesia. Other concretions found in the intestines, etc., of various animals are sometimes also called bezoar. Sec CALCCIA. The value of a B. being supposed to increase with its size, the larger ones have been sold, particularly in India, for very great prices.