To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood.

Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful.

To beatify.

The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of /the blessed,/ or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization.

proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration.

To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.

The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.

Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.

a member of the Beat Generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior.

A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy.

A small flat curl worn on the temple by women.

A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet.

See Biffin.

Like a beau; characteristic of a beau; foppish; fine.

A cement used in making joints, filling cracks, etc. For iron, the principal constituents are iron borings and sal ammoniac; for wood, white lead or litharge, whiting, and linseed oil.

A father.

The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.

The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau.

an outstanding example of its kind; as, when I make a mistake it's a beaut.

Full of beauty; beautiful; very handsome.

Beautiful; embellished.

the act of making something more beautiful.

One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful.

Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind.

To become beautiful; to advance in beauty.

Destitute of beauty.

pl. of Beau.

See Bauxite.

A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is the most commonly used ore for the preparation of aluminum and alumina. It is also used for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.

That piece of armor which protected the lower part of the face, whether forming a part of the helmet or fixed to the breastplate. It was so constructed (with joints or otherwise) that the wearer could raise or lower it to eat and drink.

Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat.

A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing.

A tropical South American tree (Nectandra Rodi/i), the bark of which yields the alkaloid bebeerine, and the wood of which is known as green heart.

An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodi/i). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine.

To make bloody; to stain with blood.

To make bloody; to stain with blood.

To blot; to stain.

To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.

A tremolo effect, such as that produced on the piano by vibratory repetition of a note with sustained use of the pedal.

To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease.

imp. of Become.

A South American bird of the flycatcher family. (Tityra inquisetor).

By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that.

See Brooklime.

A small bird. (Silvia hortensis), which is highly prized by the Italians for the delicacy of its flesh in the autumn, when it has fed on figs, grapes, etc.

A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream.

To befall; to chance; to happen to.

To charm; to captivate.

Pertaining to, or relieving, a cough. A medicine for relieving coughs.

A division of the Bantus, dwelling between the Orange and Zambezi rivers, supposed to be the most ancient Bantu population of South Africa. They are divided into totemic clans; they are intelligent and progressive.

A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command.

A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.

A sign made without words; a beck.

To catch; to grasp; to insnare.

To embrace; to surround.

To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud.

To suit or be suitable to; to be congruous with; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things.

Proper; decorous.

That which is becoming or appropriate.

In a becoming manner.

To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame.

The nut of the Brazilian tree Myristica Bicuhyba, which yields a medicinal balsam used for rheumatism.

A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyr/na spet). See Barracuda.

To curl; to adorn with curls.

To go to bed; to cohabit.

The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona.

To dabble; to sprinkle or wet.

To make a daff or fool of.

The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah.

To daggle.

To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter.

To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty.

ornamented in a vulgar or showy fashion.

to cause to be senseless, groggy, or dizzy; cause to lose ability to respond normally; desensitize.

To dazzle or make dim by a strong light.

A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.

A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.

A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in.

Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.

A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed.

Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged in a bed or beds.

an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed.

A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.

A kind of pickax.

To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.

A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites ros/). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.

Same as Beadhouse.

An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.

Same as Beadle.

Beadleship.

The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.

Same as Beadsman.

A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.

Fem. of Beadsman.

To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.

The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble.

To moisten with dew, or as with dew.

One who, or that which, bedews.

Moist with dew; dewy.

One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.

A nightgown.

an area on which a drove of cattle or sheep can sleep for a night.

To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn.

To make dim; to obscure or darken.

made dim or indistinct.

To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste.

That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.

An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead.

Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse.

An inhabitant of a madhouse; a madman.

One who makes beds.

To cause to dote; to deceive.

Pertaining to the Bedouins; nomad.

A pan for warming beds.

See Bedfere.

A bedfellow.

The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate.

One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead.

A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.

To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble.