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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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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.Be-seem'ing-ly, adv. p. 127In a beseeming manner.Be-seem'ing-ness, n. p. 127Quality of being beseeming.Be-seem'ly, a. p. 127Fit; suitable; becoming. “In beseemly order.” Shenstone.Be-seen', a. p. 127Adapted; adjusted. [Obs.] Spencer.Be-sĕt’, v. t. p. 127To set or place on, in, or round. “A robe of azure beset with drops of gold.” Spectator. The garden is so beset with all manner of sweet shrubs that it perfumes the air. Evelyn. 2. To stop up, as a…Be-sĕt′ment, n. p. 127The state of being beset, as in ice. [Rare.] “Fearing a besetment.” Kane.Be-sĕt'ting, p. a. p. 127Habitually attending, or pressing; as, a besetting sin.Be-shine', v. t. p. 127To shine upon. [Obs.]Be-shrew', v. t. p. 127To wish a curse to; to execrate. Dryden. 2. To happen ill to. [Obs.] Shak.Be-shroud'ed, a. p. 127Covered with a shroud.Be-shūt', v. t. p. 127To shut up or out. [Obs.] Chaucer.Be-side', prep. p. 127At the side of; on one side of. “Beside him hung his bow.” Milton. 2. Aside from; out of the regular course or order of; in a state of deviation from; out of. Enough to put him quite beside his…Be-side' or Be-sides', adv. p. 127More than that; over and above; not included in the number, or in what has been mentioned; moreover; in addition. The men said to Lot, Hast thou here any besides? Gen. xix. 12. To all beside, as much…Be-sides', prep. p. 127Over and above; separate or distinct from; in addition to. See BESIDE, prep. And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine. Gen. xxvi. 1. This word, though radically the same as…Be-siege', v. t. p. 127To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to beleaguer; to beset. Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost. Shak. Syn.—To beleaguer; beset; environ; hem…Be-siēge'ment, n. p. 127Act of besieging; state of being besieged. Golding.Be-siēg'er, n. p. 127One who lays siege, or is employed in a siege. Swift.Be-siēg'ing-ly, adv. p. 127In a besieging manner.Be-sīt', v. t. p. 127To suit; to fit; to become. [Obs.] Spenser.Be-slūb'ber, v. t. p. 127To beslaver.Be-slāve′, v. t. p. 127To subjugate; to enslave. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.Be-slāv'er, v. t. p. 127To defile with slaver; to beslabber.Be-slīme', v. t. p. 127To daub with slime; to soil. [Obs.] B. Jonson.Be-slōb'ber or Be-slūb'ber, v. t. p. 127To soil or smear with spittle running from the mouth. [Vulgar.] Shak.Be-smēar', v. t. p. 127To smear or overspread with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to make foul; to soil. “Besmeared with precious balm.” Spenser.Be-smēar'er, n. p. 127One who besmears.Be-smirch', v. t. p. 127To soil; to discolor; to obscure. [Obs.] Shak.Be-smōke', v. t. p. 127To foul with smoke. 2. To harden or dry in smoke. Johnson.Be-smūt', v. t. p. 127To blacken with smut; to foul with soot. Chaucer.Be-snōw′, v. t. p. 127To scatter like snow. [Obs. and rare.] Gower. 2. To cover with snow; to whiten with snow or as with snow. Carew.Be-snŭff', v. t. p. 127To befoul with snuff. [Rare.] Young.Be-sōgn'io, n. p. 127A beggar; a bezonian. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.Bē'som, n. p. 127A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom. “The housemaid with her besom.” W. Irving.Bē'som, v. t. p. 127To sweep, as with a besom. Cowper. Rolls back all Greece, and besoms wide the plain. Barlow.Bĕs'om-er, n. p. 127One who uses a besom.Be-sōrt', v. t. p. 127To sort out or arrange in different classes or kinds; to arrange appropriately or suitably; hence, to suit, fit, or become. “Such men as may besort your age.” Shak.Be-sŏrt′, n. p. 127Something befitting or correspondent; hence, associates, attendants. [Obs.] With such accommodation and besort As levels with her breeding. Shak.Be-sŏt′, v. t. p. 127To make sottish by drink; hence, to make dull or stupid; to infatuate. “Fools besotted with their crimes.” Butler. 2. To make to dote. [Rare.] I might thus break off our brother's besotted devotion…