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.

The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness.

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.

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.

To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc.

To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak.

To dribble upon.

Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity.

The duty or privilege of the marriage bed.

To drizzle upon.

A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.

To sprinkle, as with drops.

To drug abundantly or excessively.

The side of a bed.

a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing).

A recess in a room for a bed.

a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing).

A sore on the back or hips caused by lying for a long time in bed.

A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.

/A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side./

A framework for supporting a bed.

The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead.

Straw put into a bed.

One who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage vow.

A tick or bag made of cloth, used for inclosing the materials of a bed.

The time to go to bed.

To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse.

See Bedouin.

To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively.

To sprinkle, soil, or cover with dust.

Towards bed.

To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf.

To dye or stain.

An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apid/ (the honeybees), or family Andrenid/ (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee.

a perennial herb (Monarda fistulosa) of North America.

any dipterous insect of the family Bombyliidae, which eat nectar and in some cases resemble bees. Their larvae are parasitic on the larvae of bees and other insects.

A bird of the genus Merops, that feeds especially on bees. The European species (Merops apiaster) is remarkable for its brilliant colors. An African bird of the genus Rhinopomastes.

A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.

A tree of the genus Fagus.

Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech.

The nut of the beech tree.

Of or relating to beeches.