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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Be-rāt'tle, v. t. p. 126To scold vociferously; to fill with rattling sounds or noise. Shak.Be-rāy', v. t. p. 126To make foul, to soil. [Obs.] Milton.Bēr'ber-ine, n. p. 126(Chem.) A yellow, bitter substance, obtained from the alcoholic solution of the extract of the root of the barberry.Bēr'ber·ry, n. p. 126See BARBERRY.Bēr'dāsh, n. p. 126A kind of neckcloth formerly used in England. “A treatise against the cravat and berdash.” Steele.Bēre, n. p. 126A species of barley. [Scottish.] Gray.Be-rē'an, n. p. 126(Eccl. Hist.) One of an obscure sect of seceders from the Scottish establishment, originating in the exclusion of a John Barclay from a church-living. They took the name in allusion to the Bereans…Be-rēave', v. t. p. 126To make destitute; to deprive; to strip;—with of before the thing taken away. You have bereft me of all words. Shak. The heart bereft of the living originals. E. Everett. 2. To take away from. All…Be-rēave'ment, n. p. 126The state of being bereaved; deprivation; as, a severe bereavement.Be-rēav'er, n. p. 126One who bereaves, or deprives another of something valued.Be-rēft', p. p. p. 126of bereave.Be-regé', n. p. 126See BAREGE.Bēr'en-gā'ri-an, n. p. 126(Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect which followed Berengarius, archdeacon of St. Mary at Anjou, who denied the real presence of the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.Bērg, n. p. 126A burg or borough. See BURGH. 2. A large mass or mountain of ice. “Glittering bergs of ice.” Tennyson.Bēr'ga-mōt, n. p. 126(Bot.) A species of the genus Citrus, or of the orange-tree family (C. bergamia), having a pear-shaped fruit of fine taste and odor, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is…Bĕr'gan-der, n. p. 126(Ornith.) A species of duck (Anas tadorna), called also shell-drake. It is said to burrow and breed in holes under cliffs.Bēr'ger-ēt, n. p. 126A pastoral song. [Obs.] Chaucer.Bērgh, n. p. 126A hill. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.Bērg'mās-ter, n. p. 126The bailiff or chief officer among the Derbyshire miners. Johnson.Bĕrg'mēal, n. p. 126(Min.) An earthy substance, occurring in Sweden, and resembling fine flour; it is composed of the shells of infusoria, and sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of…Bērg'mōte, n. p. 126A court held on a hill in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners. Blount.Be-rhyme', v. t. p. 126To mention in rhyme or verse;—used in contempt. Shak.Bēr'lĭn or Ber-līn', n. p. 126A four-wheeled carriage, like a chariot, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin, Prussia. Swift.Bēr'līn-blūe, n. p. 126Prussian blue. Ure.Bērme, n. p. 126(Fort.) A narrow space, two, three, or more feet wide, left at the foot of the exterior slope of the parapet, to retain earth that may slide down the bank. Campbell. 2. The bank of a canal opposite…Bĕr'na-cle, n. p. 126See BARNACLE.Bĕr'nar-dine, a. p. 127Pertaining to St. Bernard, and the monks of the order.Bĕr'nar-dine, n. p. 127One of an order of monks founded by Robert, abbot of Moleme, and reformed by St. Bernard. The order originated about the beginning of the twelfth century.Ber-nēse', n. sing. & pl. p. 127(Geog.) A citizen or citizens of Berne.Ber-nēseʹ or Ber-nouseʹ, a. p. 127Pertaining to Berne, or its inhabitants. Ber-nouseʹ. See BOURNOUSE.Bēr'o-e, n. p. 127(Zoöl.) A small marine animal, of the class Medusæ or Acalephæ, having an oval or globular body, of a transparent, gelatinous consistence. It is among the animals that produce the phosphorescence of…Bér'ríed, a. p. 127Furnished with berries. “The berried bryony.” Tennyson.Bĕr'ry, n. p. 127(Bot.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, and contains seeds scattered throughout it, as the strawberry, currant, &c. 2. A mound. [For barrow.] W. Browne. 3. One of the ova or eggs…Bĕr'ry, v. i. p. 127To bear or produce berries.Bĕr'ry, v. t. p. 127To impregnate with eggs or spawn. “A berried hen.” Travis.Bĕrth, n. p. 127(Naut.) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf. 2. A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box on the side of the cabin for sleeping in. 3. Official situation, position, or…Bĕrth, v. t. p. 127To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide. 2. To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship’s company. Totten.Bĕr'tram, n. p. 127Bastard pellitory, a plant.Bĕr'yl, n. p. 127(Min.) A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in green, or bluish-green, six-sided prisms, and consists of silica, alumina, and the rare earth glucina. It is…Bĕr'yl-lĭne, a. p. 127Like a beryl; of a light or bluish green.Be-ry̆l'li-ŭm, n. p. 127Glucinum, which see.Bĕr'yl-loid, n. p. 127(Crystallog.) A solid consisting of two twelve-sided pyramids put base to base, as in the beryl. Dana.Be-sāint', v. t. p. 127To make a saint of. [Obs.] Hammond.Be-sāy'le', n. p. 127A great-grandfather. 2. (Law.) A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the…Be-scăt'ter, v. t. p. 127To scatter over. [Obs.] Spenser.Be-scórn’, v. t. p. 127To treat with scorn; to mock at. [Obs.] Chaucer.Be-scrātch’, v. t. p. 127To scratch; to tear with the nails. [Obs.] Chaucer.Be-scrawl', v. t. p. 127To scrawl; to scribble over. Milton.Be-screen', v. t. p. 127To cover with a screen; to shelter; to conceal. Shak.Be-scrib'ble, v. t. p. 127To scribble over. Milton.Be-seŭm'ber or Be-seŭm'mer, v. t. p. 127To discharge ordure upon; to make filthy. [Obs., and not legitimate.] B. Jonson.Be-see', v. i. p. 127To look; to mind. [Obs.] Wycliffe.Be-seech', v. t. p. 127To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. 2. To ask earnestly for; to solicit; to beg. But Eve fell humble, and besought…Be-seech’er, n. p. 127One who beseeches.Be-seech'ing-ly, adv. p. 127In a beseeching manner.Be-seech'ment, n. p. 127The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly. Goodwin.Be-seek', v. t. p. 127To beseech. [Obs.] Chaucer.Be-seem’, v. t. p. 127To seem fit for. [Obs.] But four of them the battle best beseemed. Spenser. 2. To be fit for, or worthy of; to become; to befit. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God?…Be-seem’, a. p. 127Becoming; fit. [Obs.] Spenser.Be-seem'ing, n. p. 127Comeliness. Barret.