Beau"ty (bū"t&ybreve;), n.; pl. Beauties (&?;). [OE. beaute, beute, OF. beauté, biauté, Pr. beltat, F. beauté, fr. an assumed LL. bellitas, from L. bellus pretty. See Beau.]

1. An assemblage of graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense.

Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder.
Locke.

The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole.
Wordsworth.

The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitude in unity;" and there is no doubt that such is the principle of beauty.
Coleridge.

2. A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.

3. A beautiful person, esp. a beautiful woman.

All the admired beauties of Verona.
Shak.

4. Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion. [Obs.]

She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty.
Jer. Taylor.

• the property, quality, or state of being "that which pleases mearly by being percieved" (Aquinas). Hence is attractive, pleasing, fine, or good looking, and hopeful comeliness
  
• someone that is beautiful
  
• something that is particularly good