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Beerhouse

A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse.

Beery

Of or resembling beer; affected by beer; maudlin.

Beeswax

The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed.

Beeswing

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.

Beet

A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.

Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven, a renowned German composer, born 1770, died 1827.

Beetle

To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.

Beetrave

The common beet (Beta vulgaris).

Beeve

A beef; a beef creature.

Beeves

plural of Beef, the animal.

Befall

To come to pass; to happen.

Befit

To be suitable to; to suit; to become.

Befitting

Suitable; proper; becoming; fitting.

Beflower

To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers.

Befog

To involve in a fog; -- mostly as a participle or part. adj.

befogged

confused and vague; used especially of thinking.

Befool

To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive.

Before

On the fore part; in front, or in the direction of the front; -- opposed to in the rear.

Beforehand

In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.

Befriend

To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance.

Befrill

To furnish or deck with a frill.

Befringe

To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe.

Befuddle

To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.

Beg

To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.

Begem

To adorn with gems, or as with gems.

Beget

To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.

Beggar

To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.

beggar-lice

any of various Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing.

Beggarhood

The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars.

Beggarliness

The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.

Beggarly

In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.

Beginner

One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro.

Beginning

The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.

Begird

To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.

Begirt

To encompass; to begird.

Beglerbeg

The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier.

Begnaw

To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode.

Begod

To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify.

Begohm

A unit of resistance equal to one billion ohms, or one thousand megohms.

Begone

Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone).

Begonia

A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.

Begoniaceae

a natural family of monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America.

Begot

imp. p. p. of Beget.

Begrease

To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.

Begrime

To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.

Begrimer

One who, or that which, begrimes.

Begrudge

To grudge; to envy the possession of.

begrudging

being given reluctantly or with displeasure.

Beguard Beghard

One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins.

Beguile

To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.

Beguilement

The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled.

Beguiler

One who, or that which, beguiles.

Beguiling

Alluring by guile; deluding; misleading; diverting.

Beguinage

A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines.

Beguine

A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.

Begum

In the East Indies, a princess or lady of high rank.

Behalf

Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication.

Behave

To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill.

Behavior

Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.

behaviorism

an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior.

behaviorist

a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism.

Behead

To sever the head from; to take off the head of.

Behemoth

An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24.

Behn Behen

The Centaurea behen, or saw-leaved centaury. The Cucubalus behen, or bladder campion, now called Silene inflata. The Statice limonium, or sea lavender.

Behold

To direct the eyes to, or fix them upon, an object; to look; to see.

Beholden

Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted.

Beholding

The act of seeing; sight; also, that which is beheld.

Behoof

Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use.

Behoovable

Supplying need; profitable; advantageous.

Behove

and derivatives. See Behoove,

Beijing

The capital city of China. Formerly called Peking. Population (2000) = 12,033,000.

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