Beslubber – Bidding

Beslubber

BESLUB'BER, verb transitive [be and slubber, slabber.] To soil or smear with spittle, or any thing running from the mouth or nose. [Vulgar.]

Besmear

BESME'AR, verb transitive [be and smear.] To bedaub; to overspread with any viscous, glutinous matter, or with any soft substance that adheres. Hence, to foul; to soil.

Besmeared

BESME'ARED, participle passive Bedaubed; overspread with any thing soft, viscous, or adhesive; soiled.

Besmearer

BESME'ARER, noun One that besmears.

Besmearing

BESME'ARING, participle present tense Bedaubing; soiling.

Besmirch

BESMIRCH', verb transitive [be and smirch.] To soil; to foul; to discolor. [Little used.]

Besmoke

BESMO'KE, verb transitive [be and smoke.] To foul with smoke; to harden or dry in smoke. [Little used.]

Besmoked

BESMO'KED, participle passive Fouled or soiled with smoke; dried in smoke.

Besmut

BESMUT', verb transitive [be and smut.] To blacken with smut; to foul with soot.

Besmutted

BESMUT'TED, participle passive Blackened with smut or soot.

Besnow

BESNOW, verb transitive [be and snow.] To scatter like snow. [Little used.]

Besnowed

BESNOWED, adjective or participle passive [be and snow.] Covered or sprinkled with snow, or with white blossoms.

Besnuff

BESNUFF', verb transitive To befoul with snuff.

Besnuffed

BESNUFF'ED, participle passive Foul with snuff.

Besom

BE'SOM, noun s as z. A broom; a brush of twigs for sweeping.

I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of Hosts. Isaiah 14:23.

BE'SOM, verb transitive To sweep, as with a besom

Rolls back all Greece, and besoms wide the plain.

Besort

BESORT', verb transitive [be and sort.] To suit; to fit; to become.

BESORT', noun Company; attendance; train.

Besotted

BESOT'TED, participle passive Made sottish or stupid. besotted on, infatuated with foolish affection.

Besottedly

BESOT'TEDLY, adverb In a foolish manner.

Besottedness

BESOT'TEDNESS, noun Stupidity; arrant folly; infatuation.

Besotting

BESOT'TING, participle present tense Infatuating; making sottish or foolish.

Besought

BESOUGHT', besaut'. participle passive of beseech. Entreated; implored; sought by entreaty.

Bespangle

BESPAN'GLE, verb transitive [be and spangle.] To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant; as, the heavens bespangled with stars.

Bespangled

BESPAN'GLED, participle passive Adorned with spangles or something shining.

Bespangling

BESPAN'GLING, participle present tense Adorning with spangles or glittering objects.

Bespatter

BESPAT'TER, verb transitive [be and spatter.] To soil by spattering; to sprinkle with water, or with dirt and water.

1. To asperse with calumny or reproach.

Bespattered

BESPAT'TERED, participle passive Spattered over; soiled with dirt and water; aspersed; calumniated.

Bespattering

BESPAT'TERING, participle present tense Spattering with water; soiling with dirt and water; aspersing.

Bespawl

BESPAWL', verb transitive [be and spawl.] To soil or make foul with spittle.

Bespeaak

BESPEA'AK, verb transitive preterit tense bespoke; participle passive bespoke, bespoken. [be and speak.]

1. To speak for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak a seat in a public coach.

My lade is bespoke.

2. To forebode; to foretell.

They started fears, and bespoke dangers, to scare the allies.

3. To speak to; to address. This sense is mostly poetical.

He thus the queen bespoke.

4. To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances; as, his manners bespeak him a gentleman.

Bespeaker

BESPE'AKER, noun One who bespeaks.

Bespeaking

BESPE'AKING, participle present tense Speaking for or ordering beforehand; foreboding; addressing; showing; indicating.

BESPE'AKING, noun A previous speaking or discourse, by way of apology, or to engage favor.

Bespeckle

BESPECK'LE, verb transitive [be and speckle.] To mark with speckles or spots.

Bespice

BESPI'CE, verb transitive [be and spice.] To season with spices.

Bespirit

BESPIRIT'

BESPIT', verb transitive preterit tense bespit; participle passive bespit, bespitten. [be and spit.] To daub or soil with spittle.

Bespit

BESPIT', v.t. pret. bespit; pp. bespit, bespitten. [be and spit.] To daub or soil with spittle.

Bespoke

BESPO'KE, preterit tense and participle passive of bespeak.

Bespot

BESPOT', verb transitive [be and spot.] To mark with spots.

Bespotted

BESPOT'TED, participle passive Marked with spots.

Bespotting

BESPOT'TING, participle present tense Marking with spots.

Bespread

BESPREAD', verb transitive bespred'. preterit tense and participle passive bespread [be and spread.] To spread over; to cover over; as, to bespread with flowers.

Bespringkle

BESPRINGK'LE, verb transitive [be and sprinkle.] To sprinkle over; to scatter over; as, to besprinkle with dust.

Besprinkled

BESPRINK'LED, participle passive Sprinkled over.

Besprinkler

BESPRINK'LER, noun One that sprinkles over.

Besprinkling

BESPRINK'LING, participle present tense Sprinkling over.

Bespurt

BESPURT', verb transitive To spurt out, or over; to throw out in a stream or streams. [Not used.]

Best

BEST, adjective superlative. [Eng.but; ] Literally, most advanced, Hence,

1. Most good; having good qualities in the highest degree; applied indifferently to physical or moral subjects; as, the best man; the best road; the best cloth; the best abilities. This, like most, and other attributes, is often used without its noun, when the noun is obvious; as, men are all sinners; the best of them fail in the performance of duty.

2. Most advanced; most accurate; as the best scholar.

3. Most correct or complete; as the best view of a landscape, or of a subject.

4. The best This phrase is elliptical, and may be variously interpreted; as, the utmost power; the strongest endeavor; the most, the highest perfection; as, let a man do his best; let him do a thing to the best of his power.

5. At best in the best manner, in the utmost degree or extent, applicable to the case; as, life is at best very short.

To make the best of, to carry to its greatest perfection; to improve to the utmost; as, to make the best of a sum of money, or a piece of land. Also, to permit the least possible inconvenience; as, to make the best of ill fortune or a bad bargain.

The best of the way. We had made the best of our way to the city; that is, the most, the greatest part of the distance. [This is the primary sense of the word.]

BEST, adverb In the highest degree; beyond all other; as, to love one best; to like this best; to please best

1. To the advantage; with the most ease; as, 'which instrument can you best use?'

2. With most profit or success; as, money is best employed in manufactures; this medicine will answer best in the present case.

3. Most intimately or particularly; most correctly; as, what is expedient is best known to himself.

Best-Tempered

BEST-TEM'PERED, adjective Having the most kind or mild temper.

Bestain

BESTA'IN, verb transitive [be and stain.] To mark with stains; to discolor, either the whole surface of a thing, or in spots.

Bestead

BESTEAD', verb transitive bested' preterit tense and participle passive bested. [be and stead.] To profit.

How little you bestead

1. To accommodate.

They shall pass through it, hardly bestead Isaiah 8:21.

That is, distressed; perplexed.

2. To dispose.

Bestial

BES'TIAL, adjective [from beast.]

1. Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.

2. Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; carnal; as a bestial appetite.

Bestiality

BESTIAL'ITY, noun The quality of beasts; the state or manners of man which resemble those of brutes.

1. Unnatural connection with a beast.

Bestialize

BES'TIALIZE, verb transitive To make like a beast.

Bestially

BES'TIALLY, adverb Brutally; in a manner below humanity.

Bestick

BESTICK', verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive bestuck. [be and stick.]

To stick over, as with sharp points; to mark, by infixing points or spots here and there.

Truth shall retire, bestuck with slanderous darts.

Bestir

BESTIR', verb transitive bestur' [be and stir.] To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor; usually with the reciprocal pronoun; as, rise and bestir yourselves.

Bestirred

BESTIR'RED, participle passive Roused into vigorous action; quickened in action.

Bestirring

BESTIR'RING, ppr. Moving briskly; putting into vigorous action.

Bestness

BEST'NESS, noun The state of being best. [Not used.]

Bestor

BESTOR, verb transitive [be and stow, a place. See Stow. Literally, to set or place.]

1. To give; to confer; to impart; with the sense of gratuity, and followed by on or upon.

Consecrate yourselves to the Lord, that he may bestow on you a blessing. Exodus 32:1.

Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor. 1 Corinthians 13:3.

This word should never be followed by to.

2. To give in marriage; to dispose of.

I could have bestowed her upon a fine gentleman.

3. To apply; to place for the purpose of exertion, or use; as, to bestow our whole force upon an object.

4. To lay out, or dispose of; to give in payment for; as, to bestow money for what we desire. Deuteronomy 14:26.

5. To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place.

I have no room where to bestow my fruits. Luke 12:1.

Bestorm

BESTORM', verb intransitive [be and storm.] To storm; to rage. [Not used.]

Bestowal

BESTOWAL, noun A conferring; disposal. [Little used.

Bestowed

BESTOWED, participle present tense Given gratuitously; conferred; laid out; applied; deposited for safe-keeping.

Bestower

BESTOWER, noun One who bestows; a giver; a disposer.

Bestowing

BESTOWING, participle present tense Conferring gratuitously; laying out; applying; depositing in store.

Bestowment

BESTOWMENT, noun The act of giving gratuitously; a conferring.

God the father had committed the bestowment of the blessings purchased, to his son.

If we consider this bestowment of gifts in this view.

Whatever may be the secret counsel of his will respecting his own bestowment of saving grace.

1. That which is conferred, or given; donation.

They strengthened his hands by their liberal bestowments on him and his family.

The free and munificent bestowment of the Sovereign Judge.

Bestraddle

BESTRAD'DLE, verb transitive To bestride. [See Straddle.]

Bestraught

BESTRAUGHT', adjective Distracted; mad. [Not used.]

Bestrew

BESTREW', verb transitive preterit tense bestrewed; participle passive bestrewed, bestrown. [be and strew.] To scatter over; to besprinkle; to strow.

Bestrewed

BESTREW'ED, participle passive of bestrew.

Bestride

BESTRI'DE, verb transitive preterit tense bestrid; participle passive bestrid, bestridden. [be and stride.]

1. To stride over; to stand or sit with any thing between the legs, or with the legs extended across; as, to bestride the world, like a colossus; to bestride a horse.

2. To step over; as, to bestride a threshold.

Bestriding sometimes includes riding, or defending, as Johnson remarks; but the particular purposes to the act, which depend on the circumstances of the case, can hardly be reduced to definition.

Bestriding

BESTRI'DING, participle present tense Extending the legs over any thing, so as to include it between them.

Bestrown

BESTROWN, participle passive of bestrew. Sprinkle over.

Bestuck

BESTUCK', participle passive of bestick. Pierced in various places with sharp points.

Bestud

BESTUD', verb transitive [be and stud.] To set with studs; to adorn with bosses; as, to bestud with stars.

Bestudded

BESTUD'DED, pp. Adorned with studs.

Bestudding

BESTUD'DING, participle present tense Setting with studs; adorning as with bosses.

Beswike

BESWIKE, verb transitive beswik'. To allure. [Not used.]

Bet

BET, noun A wager; that which is laid, staked or pledges in a contest, to be won, either by the victorious party himself, or by another person, in consequence of his victory. At a race, a man lays a bet on his own horse, or on the horse of another man.

BET, verb transitive To lay a bet; to lay a wager; to stake or pledge something upon the event of a context.

BET, the old participle of beat, is obsolete or vulgar.

Betake

BETA'KE, verb transitive preterit tense betook; participle passive betaken. [be and take.]

1. To take to; to have recourse to; to apply; to resort; with the reciprocal pronoun; as, to betake ourselves to arms, or to action. It generally implies a motion towards an object, as to betake ourselves to a shade grove; or an application of the mind or faculties, corresponding with such motion, as to betake ourselves to study or to vice.

2. Formerly, to take or seize.

Betaken

BETA'KEN, part of betake.

Betaking

BETA'KING, participle present tense Having recourse to; applying; resorting.

Betaught

BETAUGHT', preterit tense of betake. [Not used.]

Beteem

BETEE'M, verb transitive [be and teem.] To bring forth; to produce; to shed; to bestow. [Not used.]

Betel

BE'TEL

BETHINK', verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive bethought. [be and think.]

To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; generally followed by a reciprocal pronoun, with of before the subject of thought.

I have bethought myself of another fault.

BETHINK', verb intransitive To have in recollection; to consider.

Bethink

BETHINK', v.t. pret. and pp.bethought. [be and think.]

To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; generally followed by a reciprocal pronoun, with of before the subject of thought. I have bethought myself of another fault. BETHINK', v.i. To have in recollection; to consider.

Bethlehem

BETH'LEHEM, noun [Heb. the house of food or bread.]

1. A town or village in Judea, about six miles south-east of Jerusalem; famous for its being the place of Christ's nativity.

2. A hospital for lunatics; corrupted into bedlam.

Bethlemite

BETH'LEMITE, noun An inhabitant of Bethlehem; a lunatic.

1. In church history, the Bethlemites were a sort of Monks, introduced into England in the year 1257, who were habited like the Dominicans, except that they wore a star with five rays, in memory of the comet or star which appeared over Bethlehem at the nativity of our Savior. There is an order of Bethlemites also in Peru.

Bethought

BETHOUGHT', bethaut; , preterit tense and participle passive of bethink.

Bethrall

BETHRALL', verb transitive [be and thrall.] To enslave; to reduce to bondage; to bring into subjection. [Little used.]

Bethump

BETHUMP', verb transitive [be and thump.] To beat soundly. [Little used.]

Betide

BETI'DE, verb transitive preterit tense betid, or betided; participle passive betid. [be and tide.]

To happen; to befall; to come to; used of good or evil.

What will betide the few?

BETI'DE, verb intransitive To come to pass; to happen.

What news else betideth here?

Shakespeare has used it with of. What would betide of thee? but this is unusual or improper.

Betime

BETI'ME

BETI'MES, adverb [be and time, that is, by the time.]

1. Seasonably; in good season or time; before it is late.

To measure life learn thou betimes.

2. Soon; in a short time.

He tires betimes, that spurs too fast betimes.

Betle

BE'TLE, noun A species of pepper, the leaves of which are chewed by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a creeping or climbing plant like the ivy, the leaves somewhat resembling those of the citron. It is planted by a tree, or supported by props. In India, betel is taken after meals; during a visit, it is offered to friends when they meet, and when they separate; in short, nothing is to be done without betel. To correct the bitterness of the leaves, a little areca is wrapped in them with the chinam, a kind of burnt lime made of shells.

Betoken

BETO'KEN, verb transitive beto'kn. [be and token.]

1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs.

A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow

Betokening peace from God.

2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm.

Betokened

BETO'KENED, participle passive Foreshown; previously indicated.

Betokening

BETO'KENING, participle present tense Indicating by previous signs.

Betony

BET'ONY, noun [Latin betonica.] A genus of plants of several species. The purple or wood betony grows in woods and shady places, and is deemed useful as a mild corroborant.

Betook

BETOOK', preterit tense of betake.

Betorn

BETO'RN, adjective Torn in pieces.

Betoss

BETOSS', verb transitive [be and toss.] To toss; to agitate; to disturb; to put in violent motion.

Betrap

BETRAP', verb transitive [from trap.] To entrap; to ensnare. [Not used.]

Betray

BETRA'Y, verb transitive [Latin traho.]

1. To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; as, an officer betrayed the city.

The son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men. Matthew 17:22.

2. To violate by fraud, or unfaithfulness; as, to betray a trust.

If the people of America ever betray their trust, their guilt will merit even greater punishment than other nations have suffered, and the indignation of heaven.

3. To violate confidence by disclosing a secret, or that which was intrusted; to expose; followed by the person, or the thing; as, my friend betrayed me, or betrayed the secret.

4. To disclose, or permit to appear, what is intended to be kept secret, or what prudence would conceal.

Be swift to hear, but cautions of your tongue, lest you betray your ignorance.

Hence,

5. To mislead or expose to inconvenience not foreseen; as, great confidence betrays a man into errors.

6. To show; to discover; to indicate what is not obvious at first view, or would otherwise be concealed.

Nor, after length of years, a stone betray

The place where once the very ruins lay.

This river betrays its original in its name.

All the names in the country betray great antiquity.

7. To fail, or deceive.

But when I rise, I shall find my legs betraying me.

Betrayed

BETRA'YED, participle passive Delivered up in breach of trust; violated by unfaithfulness; exposed by breach of confidence; disclosed contrary to expectation or intention; made known; discoverd.

Betrayer

BETRA'YER, noun One who betrays; a traitor.

Betraying

BETRA'YING, participle present tense Delivering up treacherously; violating confidence; disclosing contrary to intention; exposing; discovering.

Betrim

BETRIM', verb transitive [be and trim.] To deck; to dress; to adorn; to grace; to embellish; to beautify; to decorate.

Betrimmed

BETRIM'MED, participle passive Adorned; decorated.

Betrimming

BETRIM'MING, ppr. Decking; adorning; embellishing.

Betroth

BETROTH', verb transitive [be and troth, truth, faith. See Truth, and Troth.]

1. To contract to any one, in order to a future marriage; to promise or pledge one to be the future spouse of another; to affiance; used of either sex. 'The father betroths his daughter.'

2. To contract with one for a future spouse; to espouse; as, a man betroths a lady.

3. To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration.

Betrothed

BETROTH'ED, participle passive Contracted for future marriage.

Betrothing

BETROTH'ING, participle present tense Contracting to any one, in order to a future marriage, as the father or guardian; contracting with one for a future wife, as the intended husband; espousing.

Betrothment

BETROTH'MENT, noun A mutual promise or contract between two parties, for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; espousals.

Betrust

BETRUST', verb transitive [be and trust.] To entrust; to commit to another in confidence of fidelity; to confide. This is less used than entrust.

Betrusted

BETRUST'ED, participle passive Entrusted; confided; committed in trust.

Betrusting

BETRUST'ING, participle present tense Entrusting; committing in trust.

Betrustment

BETRUST'MENT, noun The act of entrusting; the thing entrusted.

Betso

BET'SO, noun The smallest Venetian coin.

Better

BET'TER, a comparative of bet. See Best.]

1. Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; applied to physical, acquired or moral qualities; as a better soil, a better man, a better physician, a better house, a better air, a better harvest.

2. More advantageous.

Were it not better for us to return to Egypt:Exodus 14:12.

3. More acceptable.

To obey is better than sacrifice. 1 Samuel 15:22.

4. More safe.

It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in man. Psalms 118:8.

5. Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the patient is better

6. To be better off, to be in a better condition. Beddoes, Hygeia. This is a very common phrase; but ought not off, to be of? It is not elegant.

7. To have the better is to have the advantage or superiority, followed by of before him or that over which the advantage is enjoyed; as, the English had the better of the Spaniards.

8. To get or gain the better is to obtain the advantage, superiority or victory; as, to get the better of an enemy.

9. For the better is for the advantage or improvement.

BET'TER, adverb In a more excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, virtue, advantage or success; as, to perform work better; to plan a scheme better; land better cultivated; laws better executed; government better administered.

1. More correctly, or fully; as, to understand a subject better than another.

2. With superior excellence; as, to write or speak better than another.

3. With more affection; in a higher degree; as, to love one better than another.

It is not easy to specify and exemplify the various applications of better In general, it implies what is more excellent, advantageous, useful, or virtuous, than something else.

BET'TER, verb transitive

1. To improve; to meliorate; to increase the good qualities of; as, manure betters land; discipline may better the morals.

2. To surpass; to exceed.

The works of nature do always aim at that which cannot be bettered.

Qu.is not the sense, made better:

3. To advance; to support; to give advantage to; as, to better a party; to better a cause.

BET'TER, noun A superior; one who has a claim to precedence on account of his rank, age, or office; as, give place to your betters. It is generally or always used in the plural.

Bettered

BET'TERED, participle passive Improved; meliorated; made better.

Bettering

BET'TERING, participle present tense Making better; improving.

Bettering-House

BETTERING-HOUSE, noun A house for the reformation of offenders.

Bettor

BET'TOR, noun [from bet.] One who bets or lays a wager.

Betty

BET'TY, noun [Supposed to be a cant word from the name of a maid; but qu. is it not from the root of beat or Latin peto?]

An instrument to break open doors.

Betumbled

BETUM'BLED, adjective [be and tumble.] Rolled about; tumbled; disordered.

Between

BETWEE'N, preposition

1. In the intermediate space, without regard to distance; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia; the Delaware river runs between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

2. From one another; passing from one to another, noting exchange of actions or intercourse; as, things go well between the parties.

3. Belonging to two or more, in common or partnership; as, two friends have but one soul between them; twenty proprietors own a tract of land between them. We observe that between is not restricted to two.

4. Having mutual relation to two or more; as, discords exist between the families.

5. Noting difference, or discrimination of one from another; as, to distinguish between right and wrong.

Betwixt

BETWIXT', preposition

1. Between; in the space that separates two persons or things; as, betwixt two oaks.

2. Passing between; from one to another, noting intercourse. [See Between.]

Bevel

BEV'EL, noun

Among masons, carpenters, joiners, etc., an instrument, or kind of square, one leg of which is frequently crooked, according to the sweep of an arch or vault. It is movable on a point or center, and so may be set to any angle. An angle that is not square is called a bevel angle, whether obtuse or acute.

1. A curve or inclination of a surface from a right line; as, the proper bevel of a piece of timber.

BEV'EL, adjective Crooked; awry; oblique.

BEV'EL, verb transitive To cut a bevel angle.

BEV'EL, verb intransitive To curve; to incline towards a point, or from a direct line.

Beveled

BEV'ELED, participle passive Formed to a bevel angle.

Beveling

BEV'ELING, participle present tense Forming to a bevel angle.

BEV'ELING, adjective Curving; bending from a right line.

BEV'ELING, noun A hewing of timber with a proper and regular curve, according to a mold laid on one side of its surface.

1. The curve or bevel of timber.

Bevelment

BEV'ELMENT, noun In mineralogy, bevelment supposes the removal of two contiguous segments from the edges, angles or terminal faces of the predominant form, thereby producing two new faces, inclined to each other at a certain angle and forming an edge.

Bever

BEV'ER, noun A collation or small repast between meals. [Not used.]

BEV'ER, verb intransitive To take a small repast between meals.

Beverage

BEV'ERAGE, noun [Latin bibo; ] Drink; liquor for drinking. It is generally used of a mixed liquor. Nectar is called the beverage of the gods.

In the middle ages, beverage beveragium, or biberagium was money for drink given to an artificer of other person over and above his hire or wages. The practice has existed, to a certain extent, in American, within my memory, and I know not but it still exists in some parts of this country. A person who had a new garment, was called onto pay beverage that is, to treat with liquor. Hence,

1. A treat on wearing a new suit of clothes, or on receiving a suit from the tailor; also a treat on first coming into prison; a garnish.

In England, water-cider, a mixture of cider and water, made by putting water into pumice before it is pressed.

Bevile

BEV'ILE, noun [See Bevel.] In heraldry, a thing broken or opening, like a carpenter's bevel.

Bevy

BEV'Y, noun [I know not the origin or affinities of this word. The etymologies I have seen are not worth notice.]

A flock of birds; hence, a company; an assembly or collection of persons; usually applied to females.

Bewail

BEWA'IL, verb transitive [be and wail.] To bemoan; to lament; to express sorrow for. It expresses deep sorrow; as, to bewail the loss of a child.

The true penitent bewails his ingratitude to God.

BEWA'IL, verb intransitive To express grief.

Bewailable

BEWA'ILABLE, adjective That may be lamented.

Bewailed

BEWA'ILED, participle passive Lamented; bemoaned.

Bewailer

BEWAILER, noun One who laments.

Bewailing

BEWA'ILING, participle present tense Lamenting; bemoaning; expressing grief for.

BEWA'ILING, noun Lamentation.

Bewake

BEWA'KE, verb transitive [be and wake.] To keep awake. [Not used.]

Beware

BEWA'RE, verb intransitive

1. Literally, to restrain or guard one's self from. Hence, to regard with caution; to restrain one's self from anything that may be dangerous, injurious or improper; to avoid; to take care; followed by of before the thing that is to be avoided.

Beware of all, but more beware of man.

Beware of false prophets; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees; beware of the concision.

2. To have a special regard to.

Behold, I send an angel before thee--beware of him, and obey his voice. Exodus 23:21.

[This is unusual and hardly legitimate.]

This word though here admitted as a verb, from the Saxon, is rarely used as a verb in fact; or if a verb, is now never used except in the imperative mode It is a compound of be and the Old Eng. ware, now wary. Be wary of danger. Hence it cannot be used with did, like a regular verb, nor with be, in any of its inflections, he is beware; for this would be to use the substantive verb twice before ware and wary, is and be. Ben Jonson however has used the word in the third person. He bewares to act. But it has no past tense or participle, and therefore, if admitted as a verb, it is defective, and used only in the imperative mode, or after an auxiliary.

We must beware of excess.

Beweep

BEWEE'P, verb transitive [be and weep.] To weep over; to bedew with tears. [Little used.]

BEWEE'P, verb intransitive To make lamentation. [Little used.]

Bewept

BEWEPT', participle passive Wept over; bedewed with tears. [Little used.]

Bewet

BEWET', verb transitive [be and wet.] To wet; to moisten. [Not used.]

Bewilder

BEWIL'DER, verb transitive To lead into perplexity or confusion; to lose in pathless places; to confound for want of a plain road; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex.

Lost and bewildered in the fruitless search.

Bewildered

BEWIL'DERED, participle passive Lost in mazes; perplexed with disorder, confusion, or intricacy.

Bewildering

BEWIL'DERING, participle present tense Losing in a pathless place; perplexing with confusion or intricacy.

Bewinter

BEWIN'TER, verb transitive To make like winter. [Not used.]

Bewitch

BEWITCH', verb transitive [be and witch.] To fascinate; to gain an ascendancy over by charms or incantation; an operation which was formerly supposed to injure the person bewitched, so that he lost his flesh, or behaved in a strange unaccountable manner; ignorant people being inclined to ascribe to evil spirits what they could not account for.

Look, how I am bewitched; behold, mine arm

Is like a blasted sapling withered up.

1. To charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance.

The charms of poetry our souls bewitch

2. To deceive and mislead by juggling tricks or imposter. Acts 8:9.

Bewitched

BEWITCH'ED, participle passive Fascinated; charmed.

Bewitcher

BEWITCH'ER, noun One that bewitches or fascinates.

Bewitchery

BEWITCH'ERY, noun Fascination; charm; ; resistless power of anything that pleases.

Bewitchful

BEWITCH'FUL, adjective Alluring; fascinating.

Bewitching

BEWITCH'ING, participle present tense Fascinating; charming.

BEWITCH'ING, adjective That has power to bewitch or fascinate; that has power to control by the arts of pleasing.

Bewitchingly

BEWITCH'INGLY, adverb In a fascinating manner.

Bewitchment

BEWITCH'MENT, noun Fascination; power of charming.

Bewondered

BEWON'DERED, adjective [be and wonder.] Amazed. [Not used.]

Bewrap

BEWRAP', verb transitive berap'. [be and wrap.] To wrap up.

Bewray

BEWRA'Y, verb transitive beray. To disclose perfidiously; to betray; to show or make visible.

Thy speech bewrayeth thee. Matthew 26:73.

[This word is nearly antiquated.]

Bewrayed

BEWRA'YED, participle passive Disclosed; indicated; betrayed; exposed to view.

Bewrayer

BEWRA'YER, noun A divulger of secrets; a discoverer.

Bewraying

BEWRA'YING, participle present tense Disclosing; making known or visible.

Bewreck

BEWRECK', verb transitive bereck'. [be and wreck.] To ruin; to destroy. [Not used.]

Bewrought

BEWROUGHT', adjective beraut' [be and work.] Worked. [Not used.]

Bey

BEY, noun In the Turkish dominions, a governor of a town or particular district of country; also, in some places, a prince; the same as the Arabic Beg. [See Beg.]

Beyond

BEYOND', preposition

1. On the further side of; on the side most distant, at any indefinite distance from that side; as beyond a river, or the sea, either a mile beyond or a hundred miles beyond the river.

2. Before; at a place not yet reached.

A thing beyond us, even before our death.

3. Past; out of reach of; further than any given limit; further than the extent of any thing else; as, beyond our power; beyond comprehension; beyond dispute; beyond our care.

4. Above; in a degree exceeding or surpassing; proceeding to a greater degree, as in dignity, excellence, or quality of any kind; as, one man is great or good beyond another.

To go beyond is a phrase which expresses an excess in some action or scheme; to exceed in ingenuity, in research, or in anything else; hence, in a bad sense, to deceive or circumvent.

Let no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter.

BEYOND', adverb At a distance; yonder.

Bezan

BEZ'AN, noun A cotton cloth from Bengal, white or striped.

Bezant

BEZ'ANT, noun A gold coin of Byzantium. [See Byzant.]

Bezantler

BEZANT'LER, noun [from antler.] The branch of a deer's horn, next above the brow antler.

Bezel

BEZ'EL, noun The upper part of the collet of a ring, which encompasses and fastens the stone.

Bezoar

BE'ZOAR, noun

1. An antidote; a general name for certain animal substances supposed to be efficacious in preventing the fatal effects of poison. bezoar is a calcarious concretion found in the stomach of certain ruminant animals, composed of concentric coats surrounding each other, with a little cavity in the middle, containing a bit of wood, straw, hair, or the like substance. There are two sorts; the oriental, from Persia and the East Indies, of a shining dark green or olive color, with a smooth surface; and the occidental, from the Spanish West Indies, which has a rough surface, is less green much heavier, more brittle, and of a looser texture. The oriental is generally less than a walnut; the occidental is larger, and sometimes as large as a goose egg.

The oriental bezoars are generally of a resinous composition and combustible.

2. In a more general sense, any substance formed, stratum upon stratum, in the stomach or intestines of animals.

This name is also given to the biliary calculi of certain animals.

Fossil-bezoar is a figured stone, formed, like the animal bezoar with several coats round some extraneous body, which serves as a nucleus; found chiefly in Sicily, in sand and clay pits. It is of a purple color, and of the size of a walnut. It seems to be of the nature of bole armenian, and is called Sicilian earth.

Bezoar-mineral. This preparation is an oxyd of antimony, produced by distilling the nitrous acid several times to dryness from the sublimated muriate of antimony.

Bezoardic

BEZOAR'DIC, adjective Pertaining to or compounded of bezoar.

BEZOAR'DIC, noun A medicine compounded with bezoar.

Bezola

BEZ'OLA, noun A fish of the truttaceous kind, of a dusky blue color, nearly of the size of a herring.

Bezzle

BEZ'ZLE, verb transitive To waste in riot. [Not used.] [See Embezzle.]

Bhuchampac

BHUCHAMP'AC, noun A beautiful plant of India, known in Linne's system, under the name of Koempferia rotunda. The blossoms rise from the ground with a short scape, and scarce live a whole day.

Bia

BI'A, noun In commerce, a small shell called a cowry, much valued in the East Indies.

Biangulate

BIAN'GULATE

BIAN'GULATED

BIAN'GULOUS , adjective [Latin bis, twice, and angulus, an angle.]

Having two angles or corners. [Little used.]

Biangulated

BIAN'GULATED

Biangulous

BIAN'GULOUS , a. [L.bis, twice, and angulus, an angle.]

Having two angles or corners. [Little used.]

Biarmian

BIARM'IAN, adjective Noting a race of Finns in Perme, in the north of Europe, on the Dvina, and about the White Sea; written also Permian. The Biarmians or Permians are said to be the most wealthy and powerful of the Finnish tribes.

Bias

BI'AS, noun

1. A weight on the side of a bowl which turns it from a straight line.

2. A leaning of the mind; inclination; prepossession; propensity towards an object, not leaving the mind indifferent; as, education gives a bias to the mind.

3. That which causes the mind to lean or incline from a state of indifference, to a particular object or course.

BI'AS, verb transitive To incline to one side; to warp; to give a particular direction to the mind; to prejudice; to prepossess. The judgment is often biassed by interest.

This word is used by Shakespeare as an adverb, bias and thwart, i.e. aslope; and as an adjective.

Blow till they bias cheek

Outswell the cholic of puft Aquilon.

Bias-Drawing

BI'AS-DRAWING, noun Partiality. [Not used.]

Biased

BI'ASED, participle passive Inclined from a right line; warped; prejudiced.

Biasing

BI'ASING, participle present tense Giving a bias, particular direction or propensity; warping; prejudicing.

Bib

BIB, noun A small piece of linen or other cloth worn by children over the breast.

1. A fish about a foot in length, the back of a light olive, the sides yellow, and the belly white.

BIB, verb transitive [Latin bibo.] To sip; to tipple; to drink frequently. [Little used.]

Bibacious

BIBA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin bibax. See Bib.] Addicted to drinking; disposed to imbibe.

Bibacity

BIBAC'ITY, noun The quality of drinking much. [Not used.]

Bibber

BIB'BER, noun A tippler; a man given to drinking; chiefly used in composition, as winebibber.

Bibble-Babble

BIB'BLE-BABBLE, noun Idle talk; prating to no purpose. [A low word, and not used.]

Bibio

BIB'IO, noun A name of the wine fly, a small insect found in empty wine casks.

Bible

BI'BLE, noun [Gr. a book.]

THE BOOK, by way of eminence; the sacred volume, in which are contained the revelations of God, the principles of Christian faith, and the rules of practice. It consists of two parts, called the Old and New Testaments.

The bible should be the standard of language as well as of faith.

Bibler

BIB'LER, noun [See Bib.] A tipler; a great drinker.

Biblical

BIB'LICAL, adjective Pertaining to the Bible, or to the sacred writings; as biblical criticism.

Bibliographer

BIBLIOG'RAPHER, noun [Gr. a book.] One who composes or compiles the history of books; one skilled in literary history; a transcriber.

Bibliographic

BIBLIOGRAPH'IC

BIBLIOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the history of books.

Bibliographical

BIBLIOGRAPH'ICAL, a. Pertaining to the history of books.

Bibliography

BIBLIOG'RAPHY, noun A history or description of books; the perusal of books, and manuscripts, with notices of the different editions, the times when they were printed, and other information tending to illustrate the history of literature.

Bibliolite

BIB'LIOLITE, noun [Gr. a book, and a stone; called also phytobiblia and lithobiblia.]

Bookstone; a species of shistous stones, mostly calcarious, which present, between their lamens, the figures of leaves, or sometimes simple dendrites.

Bibliomancy

BIBLIOM'ANCY, noun [Gr.a book, and divination.]

A kind of divination, performed by means of the bible; consisting in selecting passages of scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning things future.

Bibliomania

BIBLIOMA'NIA, noun [Gr.book, and madness.]

Book-madness; a rage for possessing rare and curious books.

Bibliomaniac

BIBLIOMA'NIAC, noun One who has a rage for books.

Bibliopolist

BIBLIOP'OLIST, noun [Gr. book, and to sell.] A Bookseller.

Bibliothecal

BIBLIOTH'ECAL, adjective [Latin bibliotheca, a library.]

Belonging to a library.

Bibliothecary

BIBLIOTH'ECARY, noun A librarian.

Bibliotheke

BIBLIOTHE'KE, noun A library.

Biblist

BIB'LIST, noun [from bible.] With the Romanists, one who makes the scriptures the sole rule of faith.

1. One who is conversant with the bible.

Bibracteate

BIBRAC'TEATE, adjective Double bracteate.

Bibulous

BIB'ULOUS, adjective [Latin bibulus, from bibo, to drink.]

Spungy; that has the quality of imbibing fluids or moisture.

Bicapsular

BICAP'SULAR, adjective [Latin bis, double, and capsula, a little chest, from capsa, a chest. See Capsular.]

In botany, having two capsules containing seeds, to each flower; as a bicapsular pericarp.

Bicarbonate

BIC'ARBONATE, noun Supercarbonate; a carbonate containing two primes of carbonic acid.

Bicauda

BICAU'DA, noun A fish of the sword-fish kind, about five feet in length; its back and sides of a brown color, and its belly white.

Bice

BICE or BISE, noun Among painters, a blue color prepared from the lapis armenus, Armenican stone.

BICE is smalt reduced to a fine power by levigation.

Bicipital

BICIP'ITAL

BICIP'ITOUS, adjective [Latin biceps, of bis, twice, and caput, head.]

Having two heads. Applied to the muscles, it signifies having two heads or origins; and any such muscle is denominated biceps.

Bicker

BICK'ER, verb intransitive

1. To skirmish; to fight off and on; that is, to make repeated attacks. [But in this sense I believe rarely used.]

2. To quarrel; to contend in words; to scold; to contend in petulant altercation. [This is the usual signification.]

3. To move quickly; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame or water; as the bickering flame; the bickering stream.

Bickerer

BICK'ERER, noun One who bickers, or engages in a petty quarrel.

Bickering

BICK'ERING, participle present tense Quarreling; contending; quivering.

Bickerment

BICK'ERMENT, noun Contention. [Not used.]

Bickern

BICK'ERN, noun An iron ending in a beak or point.

Bicorn

BI'CORN, noun [Latin bis, twice, and cornu, a horn, bicornis.]

A plant whose anthers have the appearance of two horns.

BI'CORN

Bicornous

BICORN'OUS, adjective Having two horns.

Bid

BID, verb transitive preterit tense bid or bade; participle passive bid bidden. [Latin peto, to drive at, to attack, to ask, to desire, to beseech, anciently beto; impetus. Applied to the voice, it denotes utterance, a driving of sounds, which is applied to asking, prayer, and command. Class Bd.]

1. To ask; to request; to invite.

Go ye into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. Mattew 22:9.

This sense is antiquated, but we have the same word from the Latin, in invite, [in and bid ]

2. To command; to order or direct.

And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come to thee on the water. Matthew 14:28.

3. To offer; to propose; as, to bid a price at an auction.

4. To proclaim; to make known by a public voice.

Our bans thrice bid

5. To pronounce or declare; as, to bid a welcome.

6. To denounce, or threaten; as, to bid defiance.

7. To wish or pray.

Neither bid him good speed. John 10:1.

To bid beads, is to pray with beads, as the Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer.

Also, to charge parishioners to say a number of paternosters.

To bid fair, is to open or offer a good prospect; to appear fair.

BID or BID'DEN, participle passive of bid Invited; offered; commanded.

BID, noun An offer of a price; a word much used at auctions.

Bidale

BID'ALE, noun [bid and ale.] In England, an invitation of friends to drink ale at some poor man's house, and there to contribute in charity; an ancient and still a local custom.

Bidder

BID'DER, noun One who offers a price.

Bidders at the auction of popularity.

Bidding

BID'DING, participle present tense Inviting; offering; commanding.

BID'DING, noun Invitation; command; order; a proclamation or notifying.