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Beamy

BE'AMY, adjective Emitting rays of light; radiant; shining.

1. Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy.

2. Having horns, or antlers.

Bean

BEAN, noun A name given to several kinds of pulse, or leguminous seeds, and the plants producing them. They belong to several genera, particularly Vicia, Phaseolus and Dolichos. The varieties most usually cultivated are, the horse bean the mazagan, the kidney bean the cranberry bean the lima bean the frost bean etc. The stalk is erect or climbing, and the fruit generally roundish, oval or flat, and of various colors.

Malacca-beans. Anacardia, the fruit of a tree growing in Malabar, and other parts of the Indies. This fruit is of a shining black color, of the shape of a heart flattened, about an inch long, terminating at one end in an obtuse point, and at the other, adhering to a wrinkles stalk. In contains, within two shells, a kernel of a sweetish taste; and betwixt the shells is lodged a thick acrid juice.

Bean-Caper

BE'AN-CAPER, noun A plant, a species of zygophyllum, a native of warm climates.

Bean-Cod

BE'AN-COD, noun A small fishing vessel or pilot boat, used in the rivers of Portugal. It is sharp forward, having its stem bent above into a great curve, and plated with iron.

Bean-Fed

BE'AN-FED, adjective Fed with beans.

Bean-Fly

BE'AN-FLY, noun A beautiful fly, of a pale purple color, found on bean flowers, produced from a maggot called mida.

Bean-Goose

BE'AN-GOOSE, noun A species of Anas; a migratory bird, which arrives in England in autumn, and retires to the north in summer. It is so named, from the likeness of the nail of the bill to a horse-bean.

Bean-tree of America, a name given to the Erythrina.

Kidney-Bean-tree, a name given to the Glycine.

Binding-bean tree, a name given to the Mimosa.

Bean-trefoil, the Cytisus.

Bear

BEAR, verb transitive preterit tense bore; participle passive born, borne. [Latin fero, pario, porto. The primary sense is to throw out, to bring forth, or in general, to thrust or drive along. ]

1. To support; to sustain; as, to bear a weight or burden.

2. To carry; to convey; to support and remove from place to place; as, 'they bear him upon the shoulder; ', 'the eagle beareth them on her wings.'

3. To wear; to bear as a mark of authority or distinction; as, to bear a sword, a badge, a name; to bear arms in a coat.

4. To keep afloat; as, the water bears a ship.

5. To support or sustain without sinking or yielding; to endure; as, a man can bear severe pain or calamity; or to sustain with proportionate strength, and without injury; as, a man may bear stronger food or drink.

6. To entertain; to carry in the mind; as, to bear a great love for a friend; to bear inveterate hatred to gaming.

7. To suffer; to undergo; as, to bear punishment.

8. To suffer without resentment, or interference to prevent; to have patience; as, to bear neglect or indignities.

9. To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change; as, to give words the most favorable interpretation they will bear

10. To bring forth or produce, as the fruit of plants, or the young of animals; as, to bear apples; to bear children.

11. To give birth to, or be the native place of.

Here dwelt the man divine whom Samos bore.

12. To possess and use as power; to exercise; as, to bear sway.

13. To gain or win.

Some think to bear it by speaking a great word. [Not now used. The phrase now used is, to bear away.]

14. To carry on, or maintain; to have; as, to bear a part in conversation.

15. To show or exhibit; to relate; as, to bear testimony or witness. This seems to imply utterance, like the Latin fero, to relate or utter.

16. To sustain the effect, or be answerable for; as, to bear the blame.

17. To sustain, as expense; to supply the means of paying; as, to bear the charges, that is, to pay the expenses.

18. To be the object of.

Let me but bear your love, and I'll bear your cares.

19. To behave; to act in any character; as, 'hath he borne himself penitent?'

20. To remove, or to endure the effects of; and hence to give satisfaction for.

He shall bear their iniquities. Isaiah 53:11. Hebrews 9:28.

To bear the infirmities of the weak, to bear one another's burdens, is to be charitable towards their faults, to sympathize with them, and to aid them in distress.

To bear off, is to restrain; to keep from approach; and in seamanship, to remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against any thing; as, to bear off a blow; to bear off a boat; also, to carry away; as, to bear off stolen goods.

To bear down, is to impel or urge; to overthrow or crush by force; as, to bear down an enemy.

To bear down upon, to press to overtake; to make all sail to come up with.

To bear hard, is to press or urge.

Cesar doth bear me hard.

To bear on, is to press against; also to carry forward, to press, incite or animate.

Confidence hath borne thee on.

To bear through, is to conduct or manage; as, 'to bear through the consulship.' B.Jonson. Also, to maintain or support to the end; as, religion will bear us through the evils of life.

To bear out, is to maintain and support to the end; to defend to the last.

Company only can bear a man out in an ill thing.

To bear up, to support; to keep from falling.

Religious hope bears up the mind under sufferings.

To bear up, to keep afloat.

To bear a body. A color is said to bear a body in painting, when it is capable of being ground so fine, and mixed so entirely with the oil, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same color. To bear date, is to have the mark of time when written or executed; as, a letter or bond bears date, Jan.6, 1811.

To bear a price, is to have a certain price. In common mercantile language, it often signifies or implies, to bear a good or high price.

To bear in hand, to amuse with false pretenses; to deceive.

I believe this phrase is obsolete, or never used in America.

To bear a hand, in seamanship, is to make haste, be quick.

BEAR, verb intransitive To suffer, as with pain.

But man is born to bear

This is unusual in prose; and though admissible, is rendered intransitive, merely by the omission of pain, or other word expressive of evil.

1. To be patient; to endure.

I cannot, cannot bear

2. To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.

This age to blossom, and the next to bear

Here fruit must be understood.

3. To take effect; to succeed; as, to bring matters to bear

4. To act in any character.

Instruct me how I may bear like a true friar.

5. To be situated as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bore E, nounE. from the ship.

6. To bear away, in navigation, is to change the course of a ship, when close hauled, or sailing with a side wind, and make her run before the wind. To bear up, is used in a like sense, from the act of bearing up the helm to the windward.

Hence, perhaps, in other cases, the expression may be used to denote tending or moving from.

7. To bear down, is to drive or tend to; to approach with a fair wind; as, the fleet bore down upon the enemy.

8. To bear in, is to run or tend towards; as, a ship bears in with the land; opposed to bear off, or keeping at a greater distance.

9. To bear up, is to tend or move towards; as, to bear up to one another; also, to be supported; to have fortitude; to be firm; not to sink; as, to bear up under afflictions.

10. To bear upon, or against, is to lean

upon or against; to act on as weight or force, in any direction, as a column upon its base, or the sides of two inclining objects against each other.

11. To bear against, to approach for attack or seizure; as, 'a lion bears against his prey.'

12. To bear upon, to act upon; as, the artillery bore upon the center; or to be pointed or situated so as to affect; as, to bring or plant guns so as to bear upon a fort, or a ship.

13. To bear with, to endure what is unpleasing; to be indulgent; to forbear to resent, oppose, or punish.

Reason would I should bear with you. Acts 18:14.

Shall not God avenge his elect, though he bear long with them? Luke 18:7.

Bear-Baiting

BEAR-BAITING, noun The sport of baiting bears with dogs.

Bear-Berry

BEAR-BERRY, noun A plant, a species of Arbutus.

Bear-Bind

BEAR-BIND, noun A species of bind weed, or Convolvulus.

Bear-Cloth

BEAR-CLOTH

BEAR-FLY, An insect.

BEAR'S FOOT, noun A plant, a species of hellebore.

Bear-Fly

BEAR-FLY, An insect.

Bear-Garden

BEAR-GARDEN, noun A place where bears are kept for diversion.

BEAR-GARDEN, adjective Rude; turbulent; as bear-garden sport.

Bear-Whelp

BEAR-WHELP, noun The whelp of a bear.

BEAR'S WORT, noun A plant.

Beard

BEARD, noun berd. [Latin barba.]

1. The hair that grows on the chin, lips and adjacent parts of the face, chiefly of male adults; hence a mark of virility. A gray beard long beard and reverend beard are terms for old age.

2. beard is sometimes used for the face, and to do a thing to a man's beard is to do it in defiance, or to his face.

3. The awn or sharp prickles on the ears of corn. But more technically, parallel hairs or a tuft of stiff hairs terminating the leaves of plants, a species of pubescence. By some authors the name is given to the lower lip of a ringent corol.

4. A barb or sharp point of an arrow, or other instrument, bent backward from the end to prevent its being easily drawn out.

5. The beard or chuck of a horse, is that part which bears the curb of a bridle, underneath the lower mandible and above the chin.

6. The rays of a comet, emitted towards that part of the heaven to which its proper motion seems to direct it.

7. The threads or hairs of an oyster, muscle or similar shell-fish, by which they fasten themselves to stones.

8. In insects, two small, oblong, fleshy bodies, placed just above the trunk, as in gnats, moths and butterflies.

BEARD, verb transitive berd. To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard in contempt or anger.

1. To oppose to the face; to set at defiance.

I have been bearded by boys.

Bearded

BEARD'ED, adjective berd'ed. Having a beard, as a man. Having parallel hairs or tufts of hair, as the leaves of plants.

1. Barbed or jagged, as an arrow.

BEARD'ED, participle passive berd'ed. Taken by the beard; opposed to the face.

BEARD'-GRASS, noun A plant, the Andropogon.

Bearding

BEARD'ING, participle present tense berd'ing. Taking by the beard; opposing to the face.

Beardless

BEARD'LESS, adjective berd'less. Without a beard; young; not having arrived to manhood. In botany, not having a tuft of hairs.

Beardlessness

BEARD'LESSNESS, noun The state or quality of being destitute of beard.

Bearer

BEARER, noun [See Bear.] One who bears, sustains, or carries; a carrier, especially of a corpse to the grave.

1. One who wears any thing, as a badge or sword.

2. A tree or plant that yields its fruit; as a good bearer

3. In architecture, a post or brick wall between the ends of a piece of timber, to support it. In general, any thing that supports another thing.

4. In heraldry, a figure in an achievement, placed by the side of a shield, and seeming to support it; generally the figure of a beast. The figure of a human creature for a like purpose is called a tenant.

Bearherd

BEARHERD, noun [bear and herd.] A man that tends bears.

Bearing

BEARING, participle present tense Supporting; carrying; producing.

BEARING, noun Gesture; mien; behavior.

I know him by his bearing [Unusual.]

1. The situation of an object, with respect of another object, by which it is supposed to have a connection with it or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it.

But of this frame, the bearings and the ties.

2. In architecture, the space between the two fixed extremes of a piece of timber, or between one extreme and a supporter.

3. In navigation, the situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc. Also, an arch of the horizon intercepted between the nearest meridian and any distant object, either discovered by the eye and referred to a point on the compass, or resulting from sinical proportion.

4. In heraldry, bearings are the coats of arms or figures of armories, by which the nobility and gentry are distinguished from common persons.

Bearing-Cloth

BEARING-CLOTH, noun A cloth in which a new born child is covered when carried to church to be baptized.

BEAR, noun [Latin ferus, fera, or to barbarus.]

1. A wild quadruped, of the genus Ursus. The marks of the genus are, six fore teeth in the upper jaw, alternately hollow on the inside; and six in the under jaw, the two lateral ones lobated; the dog teeth are solitary and conical; the eyes have a nictitating membrane, and the nose is prominent.

The arctos, or black bear, has his body covered with long shaggy hair. Some are found in Tartary, of a pure white color. The polar, or white bear, has a long head and neck; short, round ears; the hair long, soft, and white, tinged in some parts with yellow. He grows to a great size, the skins of some being 13 feet long. This bear lives in cold climates only, and frequently swims from one isle of ice to another.

2. The name of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called the greater and lesser bear. In the tail of the lesser bear is the pole star.

Bearish

BEARISH, adjective Partaking of the qualities of a bear.

Bearlike

BEARLIKE, adjective Resembling a bear.

Bearn

BEARN, noun adjective A child. In Scotland, bairn.

Bears-Breech

BEAR'S-BREECH, noun Brank-ursine or Acanthus, a genus of plants.

BEAR'S EAR, noun The trivial name of primula auricula.

BEAR'S EAR SANICLE, noun A species of Cortusa.

Bearward

BEARWARD, noun A keeper of bears.

Beast

BEAST, noun [Latin bestia. See Boisterous.]

1. Any four footed animal, which may be used for labor, food or sport; distinguished from fowls, insects, fishes and man; as beasts of burden, beasts of the chase, beasts of the forest. It is usually applied to large animals.

2. Opposed to man, it signifies any irrational animal, as in the phrase 'man and beast ' So wild beast

3. Figuratively, a brutal man; a person rude, coarse, filthy, or acting in a manner unworthy of a rational creature.

4. A game at cards. Hence to beast

Beastish

BEASTISH, adjective Like a beast; brutal.

Beastlike

BE'ASTLIKE, adjective Like a beast; brutal.

Beastliness

BE'ASTLINESS, noun [from beastly.] Brutality; coarseness, vulgarity;

filthiness; a practice contrary to the rules of humanity.

Beastly

BE'ASTLY, adjective Like a beast; brutal; coarse; filthy; contrary to the nature and dignity of man.

1. Having the form or nature of a beast.

Beat

BEAT, verb transitive preterit tense beat; participle passive beat beaten. [Latin batuo. See Abate.]

1. To strike repeatedly; to lay on repeated blows, with a stick, with the hand or fist, or with any instrument, and for any cause, just or unjust, or for punishment. Luke 12:45. Deuteronomy 25:3.

2. To strike an instrument of music; to play on, as a drum.

3. To break, bruise, comminute, or pulverize by beating or pounding, as pepper or spices. Exodus 30:36.

4. To extend by beating, as gold or other malleable substance; or to hammer into any form; to forge. Exodus 39:3.

5. To strike bushes, to shake by beating, or to make a noise to rouse game.

6. To thresh; to force out corn from the husk by blows.

7. To break, mix or agitate by beating; as, to beat an egg with any other thing.

8. To dash or strike, as water; to strike or brush, as wind.

9. To tread, as a path.

10. To overcome in a battle, contest or strife; to vanquish or conquer; as, one beats another at play.

Phrrhus beat the Carthaginians at sea.

11. To harass; to exercise severely; to overlabor; as, to beat the brains about logic.

To beat down, to break, destroy, throw down, by beating or battering, as a wall.

Also, to press down or lay flat, as by treading, by a current of water, by violent wind, etc.

Also, to lower the price by importunity or argument.

Also, to depress or crush; as, to bet down opposition.

Also, to sink or lessen the price or value.

Usury beats down the price of land.

To beat back, to compel to retire or return.

To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition of instruction.

To beat up, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters.

To beat the wing, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation.

To beat off, to repel or drive back.

To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on foot.

To beat time, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot.

In the manerge, a horse beats the dust, when at each motion he does not take in ground enough with his fore legs; and at curvets, when he does them too precipitately, or too low. He beats upon a walk, when he walks too short.

To beat out, to extend by hammering. In popular use, to be beat out, is to be extremely fatigued; to have the strength exhausted by labor or exertion.

BEAT, verb intransitive To more with pulsation, as the pulse beats; or to throb, as the heart beats.

1. To dash with force, as a storm, flood, passion, etc.; as, the tempest beats against the house.

2. To knock at a door. Judges 19:22.

3. To fluctuate; to be in agitation.

To beat about, to try to find; to search by various means or ways.

To beat upon, to act upon with violence.

Also, to speak frequently; to enforce by repetition.

To beat up for soldiers, is to go about to enlist men into the army.

In seamanship, to beat is to make progress against the direction of the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.

With hunters, a stag beats up and down, when he runs first one way and then another.

BEAT, noun A stroke; a striking; a blow, whether with the hand, or with a weapon.

1. A pulsation; as the beat of the pulse.

2. The rise or fall of the hand or foot, in regulating the divisions of time in music.

3. A transient grace-note in music, struck immediately before the note it is intended to ornament.

In the military art, the beat of drum, is a succession of strokes varied, in different ways, for particular purposes; as to regulate a march to call soldiers to their arms or quarters, to direct an attack or retreat, etc.

The beat of a watch or clock, is the stroke made by the fangs or pallets of the spindle of the balance, or of the pads in a royal pendulum.

BEAT

Beaten

BE'ATEN, participle passive Struck; dashed against; pressed or laid down; hammered; pounded; vanquished; make smooth by treading; worn by use; tracked.

Beater

BE'ATER, noun One who beats, or strikes; one whose occupation is to hammer metals.

1. An instrument for pounding, or comminuting substances.

Beater-Up

BE'ATER-UP, noun One who beats for game; a sportsman's term.

Beath

BEATH, verb transitive To bathe. [Not in use.]

Beatific

BEATIF'IC

BEATIF'ICAL, adjective [Latin beatus, blessed, from beo, to bless, and facio, to make. See Beatify.]

That has the power to bless or make happy, or the power to complete blissful enjoyment; used only of heavenly fruition after death; as beatific vision.

Beatifically

BEATIF'ICALLY, adverb In such a manner as to complete happiness.

Beatification

BEATIFICA'TION, noun In the Romish church, an act of the Pope by which he declares a person beatifies or blessed after death. This is the first step towards canonization, or the raising of one to the dignity of a saint. No person can be beatified till 50 years after his death. All certificates or attestations of his virtues and miracles are examined by the congregation of rites, and this examination continues often for years; after which his Holiness decrees the beatification and the corpse and relics of the intended saint are exposed to the veneration of all good christians.

Beatify

BEAT'IFY, verb transitive [Latin beatus, happy, from beo, to bless, and facio, to make.]

1. To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.

2. In the Romish church, to declare, by a decree or public act, that a person is received into heaven, and is to be reverenced as blessed, though not canonized.

Beating

BE'ATING, participle present tense Laying on blows; striking; dashing against; conquering; pounding; sailing against the direction of the wind; etc.

BE'ATING, noun The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.

The beating of flax and hemp is an operation which renders them more soft and pliable. For this purpose, they are made into rolls and laid in a trough, where they are beat, till no roughness or hardness can be felt.

In book binding, beating is performed by laying the book in quires or sheets folded, on a block, and beating it with a heavy broad-faced hammer. On this operation the elegance of the binding and the easy opening of the book chiefly depend.

Beating the wind, was a practice in the ancient trial by combat. If one of the combatants did not appear on the field, the other was to beat the wind, by making flourishes with his weapons; by which he was entitled to the advantages of a conqueror.

Beatings, in music, the regular pulsative swellings of sound, produced in an organ by pipes of the same key, when not in unison, and their vibrations not simultaneous or coincident.

Beatitude

BEAT'ITUDE, noun [Latin beatitudo, from beatus, beo. See Beatify.]

1. Blessedness; felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss; used of the joys of heaven.

2. The declaration of blessedness made by our Savior to particular virtues.

Beau

BEAU, noun bo. plural beaux, boze.[Latin bellus.]

A man of dress; a fine, gay man; one whose great care is to deck his person. In familiar language, a man who attends a lady.

Beau-Monde

BEAU-MONDE, noun bomond'. The fashionable world; people of fashion and gaiety.

Beauish

BEAUISH, adjective bo'ish. Like a beau; foppish; fine.

Beauteous

BEAU'TEOUS, adjective bu'teous. [See Beauty.] Very fair; elegant in form; pleasing to the sight; beautiful; very handsome. It expresses a greater degree of beauty than handsome, and is chiefly used in poetry.

Beauteously

BEAU'TEOUSLY, adverb bu'teously. In a beauteous manner; in a manner pleasing to the sight; beautifully.

Beauteousness

BEAU'TEOUSNESS, noun bu'teousness. The state or quality of being beauteous; beauty.

Beautifier

BEAU'TIFIER, noun bu'tifier. He or that which makes beautiful.

Beautiful

BEAU'TIFUL, adjective bu'tiful. [beauty and full.]

1. Elegant in form, fair, having the form that pleases the eye. It expresses more than handsome.

A beautiful woman is one of the most attractive objects in all nature's works.

A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram.

2. Having the qualities which constitute beauty, or that which pleases the senses other than the sight; as a beautiful sound.

Beautifully

BEAU'TIFULLY, adverb bu'tifully. In a beautiful manner.

Beautifulness

BEAU'TIFULNESS, noun bu'tifulness. Elegance of form; beauty; the quality of being beautiful.

Beautify

BEAU'TIFY, verb transitive bu'tify. [beauty and Latin facio.]

To make or render beautiful; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to add beauty to; to embellish.

BEAU'TIFY, verb intransitive bu'tify. To become beautiful; to advance in beauty.

Beauty

BEAU'TY, noun bu'ty.

1. An assemblage of graces, or an assemblage of properties in the form of the person or any other object, which pleases the eye. In the person, due proportion or symmetry of parts constitutes the most essential property to which we annex the term beauty In the face, the regularity and symmetry of the features, the color of the skin, the expression of the eye, are among the principal properties which constitute beauty But as it is hardly possible to define all the properties which constitute beauty we may observe in general, that beauty consists in whatever pleases the eye of the beholder, whether in the human body, in a tree, in a landscape, or in any other object.

Beauty is intrinsic, and perceived by the eye at first view, or relative, to perceive which the aid of the understanding and reflection is requisite. Thus, the beauty of a machine is not perceived, till we understand its uses, and adaptation to its purpose. This is called the beauty of utility. By any easy transition, the word beauty is used to express what is pleasing to the other senses, or to the understanding. Thus we say, the beauty of a thought, of a remark, of sound, etc.

So beauty armed with virtue, bows the soul

With a commanding, but a sweet control.

2. A particular grace, feature or ornament; any particular thing which is beautiful and pleasing; as the beauties of nature.

3. A particular excellence, or a part which surpasses in excellence that with which it is united; as the beauties of an author.

4. A beautiful person, In scripture, the chief dignity or ornament. 2 Samuel 1:19.

5. In the arts, symmetry of parts; harmony; justness of composition.

6. Joy and gladness. Isaiah 61:3. Order, prosperity, peace, holiness, Ezekiel 26:1.

BEAU'TY, verb transitive bu'ty. To adorn; to beautify or embellish. obsolete

Beauty-Spot

BEAU'TY-SPOT, noun bu'ty-spot. A patch; a foil, a spot placed on the face to heighten beauty.

Beauty-Waning

BEAU'TY-WANING, adjective Declining in beauty.

Beaver

BE'AVER, noun [Latin fiber.]

1. An amphibious quadruped, of the genus Castor. It has short ears, a blunt nose, small fore feet, large hind feet, with a flat ovate tail. It is remarkable for its ingenuity in construction its lodges or habitations, and from this animal is obtained the castor of the shops, which is taken from cods or bags in the groin. Its fur, which is mostly of a chestnut brown, is the material of the best hats.

2. The fur of the beaver and a hat made of the fur; also, a part of a helmet that covers the face.

Beavered

BE'AVERED, adjective Covered with or wearing a beaver.

Bebleed

BEBLEE'D, verb intransitive [be and bleed.] To make bloody. obsolete

Beblood

BEBLOOD'

BEBLOOD'Y, verb transitive [be and blood.] To make bloody. obsolete

Bebloody

BEBLOOD'Y, v.t. [be and blood.] To make bloody. Obs.

Beblot

BEBLOT', verb transitive [be and blot.] To blot; to stain. obsolete

Beblubbered

BEBLUB'BERED, adjective [be and blubber.] Foul or swelled with weeping.

Becabunga

BECABUN'GA, noun Brooklime speedwell; veronica becabunga; a plant common in ditches and shallow streams.

Becafi-Co

BECAFI-CO, noun [See Beak.] A fig-pecker; a bird like a nightingale which feeds on figs and grapes.

Becalm

BECALM, verb transitive becam. [be calm. See Calm.]

1. To still; to make quiet; to appease; to stop, or repress motion in a body; used of the elements and of the passions; as, to becalm the ocean, or the mind. But calm is generally used.

2. To intercept the current of wind, so as to prevent motion; to keep from motion for want of wind; as, highlands becalm a ship.

Becalmed

BECALMED, participle passive becamed. Quieted; appeased.

1. adjective Hindered from motion or progress by a calm; as a ship becalmed

Becalming

BECALMING, participle present tense becaming. Appeasing; keeping from motion or progress.

BECALMING, noun becaming. A calm at sea.

Became

BECA'ME, preterit tense of become [See Become.]

Because

BECAUSE, becauz' a compound word. [ See By and Cause.]

By cause, or by the cause; on this account; for the cause which is explained in the next proposition; for the reason next explained. Thus, I fled, because I was afraid, is to be thus resolved; I fled, by the cause, for the cause, which is mentioned in the next affirmation, viz. I was afraid. Hence, cause being a noun, because may be regularly followed by of.

The spirit is life, because of righteousness.

BECAUSE of these cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

Bechance

BECH'ANCE, verb intransitive [be, by, and chance.] To befall; to happen to.

Becharm

BECH'ARM, verb transitive [be and charm.] To charm; to captivate.

Bechic

BE'CHIC, noun [Gr.a cough.] A medicine for relieving coughs, synonymous with pectoral, which is now the term mostly used.

Beck

BECK, noun A small brook. Gray. Heb. a brook or rivulet; in the sense of flowing, as tears, weeping. Genesis 32:22. It is obsolete in English, but is found in the names of towns situated near streams, as in Walbeck; but is more frequent in names on the continent, as in Griesbach.etc.

BECK, noun A nod of the head; a significant nod, intended to be understood by some person, especially as a sign of command.

BECK, verb intransitive To nod or make a sign with the head.

BECK, verb transitive To call by a nod; to intimate a command to; to notify by a motion of the head.

Becked

BECK'ED, participle passive Called or notified by a nod.

Becket

BECK'ET, noun A thing used in ships to confine loose ropes, tackles or spars; as a large hook, a rope, with an eye at one end, or a wooden bracket.

Becking

BECK'ING, participle present tense Nodding significantly; directing by a nod.

Beckon

BECK'ON, verb transitive bek'n. [See Beck.]

To make a sign to another, by nodding, winking, or a motion of the hand or finger, etc., intended as a hint or intimation. Acts 19:33.

BECK'ON, verb transitive bek'n. To make a significant sign to.

Beckoned

BECK'ONED, participle passive Having a sign made to.

Beckoning

BECK'ONING, participle present tense Making a significant sign, as a hint.

Beclip

BECLIP', verb transitive To embrace. [Not in use.]

Becloud

BECLOUD', verb transitive [See Cloud.] To cloud; to obscure; to dim.

Become

BECOME, verb intransitive becum'. preterit tense became, participle passive become

1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state or condition, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character; as, a cion becomes a tree.

The Lord God breathed into his nostrils the breath of like and man became a living soul.

To the Jew, I became a Jew.

2. To become of, usually with what preceding; to be the fate of; to be the end of; to be the final or subsequent condition; as, what will become of our commerce? what will become of us?

In the present tense, it applies to place as well as condition. What has become of my friend? that is, where is he? as well as, what is his condition? Where is he become? used by Shakespeare and Spenser, is obsolete; but this is the sense in Saxon, where has he fallen?

BECOME, verb transitive In general, to suit or be suitable; to be congruous; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, decent or proper. It is used in the same sense applied to persons or things.

If I become not a cart as well as another man.

This use of the word however is less frequent, the verb usually expressing the suitableness of things, to persons or to other things; as, a robe becomes a prince.

It becomes not a cart as well as another man.

Becoming

BECOM'ING, ppr., but used rarely or never except as an adjective. Fit; suitable; congruous; proper; graceful; belonging to the character, or adapted to circumstances; as, he speaks with becoming boldness; a dress is very becoming

Some writers formerly used of, after this word.

Such discourses as are becoming of them.

But this use is inelegant or improper.

BECOM'ING, adjective Ornament. obsolete

Becomingly

BECOM'INGLY, adverb After a becoming or proper manner.

Becomingness

BECOM'INGNESS, noun Fitness, congruity; propriety; decency; gracefulness arising from fitness.

Becripple

BECRIP'PLE, verb transitive [See Cripple.] To make lame; to cripple [Little used.]

Becurl

BECURL', verb transitive To curl. [Not used.]

Bed

BED, noun [The sense is a lay or spread, from laying or setting.]

1. A place or an article of furniture to sleep and take rest on; in modern times, and among civilized men, a sack or tick filled with feathers or wool; but a bed may be made of straw or any other materials. The word bed includes often the bedstead.

2. Lodging; a convenient place for sleep.

3. Marriage; matrimonial connection.

George, the eldest son of his second bed

4. A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.

5. The channel of a river, or that part in which the water usually flows.

6. Any hollow place, especially in the arts; a hollow place, in which any thing rests; as the bed of a mortar.

7. A layer; a stratum; an extended mass of any thing, whether upon the earth or within it; as a bed of sulphur; a bed of sand or clay.

8. Pain, torment. Revelation 2:22. The grave. Isaiah 57:7. The lawful use of wedlock. Hebrews 13:4.

The bed of the carriage of a gun is a thick plank which lies under the piece, being, as it were, the body of the carriage.

The bed of a mortar is a solid piece of oak, hollow in the middle, to receive the britch and half the trunnions.

In masonry, bed is a range of stones, and the joint of the bed is the mortar between two stones placed over each other.

BED of justice, in France, was a throne on which the king was seated when he went to parliament. Hence the phrase, to hold a bed of justice.

To make a bed is to put it in order after it has been used.

To bring to bed to deliver of a child, is rarely used. But in the passive form, to be brought to bed that is, to be delivered of a child, is common. It is often followed by of; as, to be brought to bed of a son.

To put to bed in midwifery, is to deliver of a child.

Dining bed or discubitory bed among the ancients, a bed on which persons lay at meals. It was four or five feet high, and would hold three or four persons. Three of these beds were ranged by a square table, one side of the table being left open, and accessible to the waiters. Hence the Latin name for the table and the room, triclinium, or three beds.

From bed and board. In law, a separation of man and wife, without dissolving the bands of matrimony, is called a separation from bed and board, a mensa et thoro. In this case the wife has a suitable maintenance allotted to her out of the husband's estate, called alimony.

BED, verb transitive To place in a bed

1. To go to bed with. [Unusual.]

2. To make partaker of the bed

3. To plant and inclose or cover; to set or lay and inclose; as, to bed the roots of a plant in soft mold.

4. To lay in any hollow place, surrounded or inclosed; as to bed a stone.

5. To lay in a place of rest or security, covered, surrounded or inclosed; as a fish bedded in sand, or under a bank.

6. To lay in a stratum; to stratify; to lay in order or flat; as bedded clay, bedded hairs

BED, verb transitive To cohabit; to use the same bed

If he be married and bed with his wife.

Bed-Clothes

BED'-CLOTHES, noun plural [bed and clothes.]

Blankets, or coverlets, etc., for beds.

Bed-Hangings

BED-HANGINGS, noun Curtains.

Bedabble

BEDAB'BLE, verb transitive [be and dabble.] To wet; to sprinkle

Bedabbled with the dew.

Bedabbled

BEDAB'BLED, participle passive Wet; sprinkled.

Bedabbling

BEDAB'BLING, participle present tense Wetting; sprinkling.

Bedaff

BEDAFF', verb transitive To make a fool of. [Not in use.]

Bedaggle

BEDAG'GLE, verb transitive [be and daggle.] To soil, as clothes, by drawing the ends in the mud, or spattering them with dirty water.

Bedaggled

BEDAG'GLED, participle passive Soiled by reaching the mud in walking; bespattering.

Bedare

BEDA'RE, verb transitive [be and dare.] To dare; to defy. [Not used.]

Bedark

BEDARK', verb transitive [be and dark.] To darken. [Not used.]

Bedash

BEDASH', verb transitive [be and dash.] To wet, by throwing water, or other liquor upon; to bespatter, with water or mud.

Bedashed

BEDASH'ED, participle passive Bespattered with water or other liquid.

Bedashing

BEDASH'ING, participle present tense Bespattering; dashing water upon, or other liquid.

Bedaub

BEDAUB', verb transitive [be and daub.] To daub over; to besmear with viscous, slimy matter; to soil with any thing thick and dirty.

Bedaubed

BEDAUB'ED, participle passive Daubed over; besmeared.

Bedaubing

BEDAUB'ING, participle present tense Daubing over; besmearing.

Bedazzle

BEDAZ'ZLE, verb transitive [be and dazzle.] To confound the sight by too strong a light; to make dim by luster.

Bedazzled

BEDAZ'ZLED, participle passive Having the sight confounded by too strong a light.

Bedazzling

BEDAZ'ZLING, participle present tense Confounding or making dim by a too brilliant luster.

Bedchamber

BED'CHAMBER, noun [bed and chamber.] An apartment or chamber intended or appropriated for a bed, or for sleep and repose.

Bedded

BED'DED, participle passive Laid in a bed; inclosed as in a bed.

Bedder

BED'DER

BED'DING, participle present tense Laying in a bed; inclosing as in a bed.

BED'DING, noun A bed and its furniture; a bed; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast.

Bedding

BED'DING, ppr. Laying in a bed; inclosing as in a bed.

BED'DING, n. A bed and its furniture; a bed; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast.

Bedeck

BEDECK', verb transitive [be and deck.] To deck; to adorn; to grace.

Bedecked

BEDECK'ED, participle passive Adorned; ornamented.

Bedecking

BEDECK'ING, participle present tense Adorning; decking.

Bedehouse

BE'DEHOUSE, noun Formerly, a hospital or alms house, where the poor prayed for their founders and benefactors.

Bedel

BE'DEL, noun An officer in the universities of England. [A peculiar orthography of beadle.]

Bedelry

BE'DELRY, noun The extent of a bedel's office.

Bedetter

BEDET'TER, noun [from bed.] The nether stone of an oil mill.

Bedew

BEDEW', verb transitive [be and dew.] To moisten, as with dew; to moisten in a gentle manner with any liquid; as, tears bedew her face.

Bedewed

BEDEW'ED, participle passive Moistened, as if with dew; gently moistened.

Bedewer

BEDEW'ER, noun That which bedews.

Bedewing

BEDEW'ING, participle present tense Moistening gently, as with dew; wetting.

Bedewy

BEDEW'Y, adjective Moist with dew. [Little used.]

Bedfellow

BED'FELLOW, noun [bed and fellow.] One who lies in the same bed.

Bedight

BEDI'GHT, verb transitive bedi'te. [be and dight.] To adorn; to dress; set off with ornaments. [Little used.]

Bedighted

BEDI'GHTED, participle passive Adorned; set off with ornaments.

Bedighting

BEDI'GHTING, participle present tense Adorning.

Bedim

BEDIM', verb transitive [be and dim.] To make dim; to obscure or darken.

Bedimmed

BEDIM'MED, participle passive Made dim; obscured.

Bedimming

BEDIM'MING, participle present tense Making dim; obscuring; darkening.

Bedizen

BEDIZ'EN, verb transitive bediz'n. [be and dizen.] To adorn; to deck; a low word.

Bedizened

BEDIZ'ENED, participle passive Bedecked; adorned.

Bedizening

BEDIZ'ENING, participle present tense Adorning.

Bedlam

BED'LAM, noun [Corrupted from Bethlehem, the name of a religious house in London, afterward converted into a hospital for lunatics.]

1. A mad house; a place appropriated for lunatics.]

2. A madman; a lunatic; one who lives in bedlam

3. A place of uproar.

BED'LAM, adjective Belonging to a mad house; fit for a mad house.

Bedlamite

BED'LAMITE, noun An inhabitant of a madhouse, a madman.

Bedmaker

BED'MAKER, noun [bed and maker.] One whose occupation is to make beds, as a college or university.

Bedmate

BED'MATE, noun [bed and mate.] A bedfellow.

BED'-MOLDING, [bed and molding.] In architecture, the members of a cornice, which are placed below the coronet, consisting of an ogee, a list, a large boultine, and another list under the coronet.

Bedote

BEDO'TE, verb transitive [be and dote.] To make to dote. [Not in use.]

Bedpost

BED'POST, noun [bed and post.] The post of a bedstead.

Bedpresser

BED'PRESSER, noun [bed and press.] A lazy fellow; one who loves his bed.

Bedraggle

BEDRAG'GLE, verb transitive [be and draggle.] To soil, as garments which are suffered, in walking, to reach the dirt; to soil by drawing along on mud.

Bedraggled

BEDRAG'GLED, participle passive Soiled by reaching the dirt, in walking.

Bedraggling

BEDRAG'GLING, participle present tense Soiling by drawing along in dirt or mud.

BEDRENCH'verb intransitive [be and drench.] To drench; to soak; to saturate with moisture; applied to things which imbibe moisture.

Bedrenched

BEDRENCH'ED, participle passive Drenched; soaked.

Bedrenching

BEDRENCH'ING, participle present tense Soaked; drenching.

Bedrid

BED'RID

BED'RIDDEN, adjective [bed and ride.] Confined to the bed, by age or infirmity.

Bedrite

BED'RITE, noun [bed and rite.] The privilege of the marriage bed.

Bedroom

BED'ROOM, noun [bed and room.] A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.

1. Room in a bed. [Not in use.]

Bedrop

BEDROP' verb transitive [be and drop.] To sprinkle, as with drops.

Bedropped

BEDROP'PED, participle passive Sprinkled as with drops; speckled; variegated with spots.

Bedside

BED'SIDE, noun The side of the bed.

Bedstaff

BED'STAFF, noun [bed and staff.] A wooden pin anciently inserted on the sides of bedsteads, to keep the clothes from slipping on either side.

Bedstead

BED'STEAD, noun bed'sted. [bed and stead.] A frame for supporting a bed.

Bedstraw

BED'STRAW, noun [bed and straw.] Straw laid under a bed to make it soft; also the name of a plant, a species of galium.

Bedswerver

BED'SWERVER, noun [bed and swerve.] One that swerves from his bed; that is one who is false and unfaithful to the marriage vow.

Bedtime

BED'TIME, noun [bed and time.] The time to go to rest; the usual hour of going to bed.

Beduck

BEDUCK', verb transitive [be and duck.] To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse.

Bedust

BEDUST', verb transitive [be and dust.] To sprinkle, soil or cover with dust.

Bedward

BED'WARD, adverb [bed and ward.] Toward bed.

Bedwarf

BEDWARF', verb transitive [be and dwarf.] To make little; to stunt or hinder growth.

Bedwork

BED'WORK, noun [bed and work.] Work done in bed, without toil of the hands or with ease.

Bedye

BEDY'E, verb transitive [be and dye.] To dye; to stain.