Beauty

Beauty is represented in Painting and Sculpture as a Virgin, of a comely Aspect and well proportioned Limbs, with her Head in the Clouds and her whole Body surrounded with Rays of Light, which render her visible by Reason of the Splendor that invirons her. She stretched her Hand out of the Light holding a lily, and holds out a Ball and compasses with the other. Her Head in the Clouds shews that nothing is more impossible to be obscur’d, nor nothing less known than Beauty, it being a Ray of Divinity. The Lily denotes Beauty; the Ball and Compasses denote that Beauty consists in Stature, Measure and Proportion. The Flower moves the Senses and recreates the Heart, so does love move the Soul to Enjoyment.

Definition taken from The Universal Etymological English Dictionary, edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)

Beam * Beatiˊlles [in Cookery]