Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.
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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.
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.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
Stupid; dull.
a hardy breed of beef cattle derived as a cross between the American bison and domestic cattle, usually being genetically / bison and / domestic bovine; -- it yields leaner beef than conventional breeds.
a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun.
One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person.
made greater or stronger.
A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling.
An Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland.
Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy.
A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively.
A house for bees; an apiary.
Same as Beild.
The title of a heathen deity to whom the Jews ascribed the sovereignty of the evil spirits; hence, the Devil or a devil. See Baal.
A trumpet.
One who keeps bees.
A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.
a protruding potbelly caused by excessive drinking of beer.
same as beer belly.
Sour beer.
A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse.
Beery condition.
Of or resembling beer; affected by beer; maudlin.
Same as Biestings.
The first milk given by a cow after calving.
The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed.
The second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee.
A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.
Ludwig van Beethoven, a renowned German composer, born 1770, died 1827.
of or pertaining to Ludwig van Beethoven.
To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.
Dull; stupid.
The handle of a beetle.
The common beet (Beta vulgaris).
A beef; a beef creature.
plural of Beef, the animal.
To come to pass; to happen.
To be suitable to; to suit; to become.
Suitable; proper; becoming; fitting.
In a befitting manner; suitably.
To flatter excessively.
To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers.
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