To make foul; to soil.

made disgustingly dirty.

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

Act of befriending.

To furnish or deck with a frill.

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

To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.

dazed by alcoholic drink.

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

See Bigha.

To adorn with gems, or as with gems.

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

One who begets; a father.

Capable of being begged.

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

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

the seed of bur marigolds.

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

Beggary.

The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.

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

a woman who is a beggar.

Beggarly.

A beggar.

To gild.

Beginning.

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

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.

To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.

To surround as with a girdle.

To encompass; to begird.

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

To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode.

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

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

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

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.

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

To besmear with gore.

imp. p. p. of Beget.

p. p. of Beget.

To bury; also, to engrave.

To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.

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

One who, or that which, begrimes.

To grudge; to envy the possession of.

being given reluctantly or with displeasure.

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.

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

filled with wonder and delight.

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

One who, or that which, beguiles.

Alluring by guile; deluding; misleading; diverting.

See Beghard.

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

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.

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

p. p. of Begin.

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

To happen to.

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.

of or pertaining to behavior.

an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior.

a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism.

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of behaviorists or behaviorism.

same as behaviorism.

same as behaviorist.

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

Beheading.

imp. p. p. of Behold.

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

To vow.

See Behight.

A vow; a promise.

The backside; the rump.

On this side of.

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

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

Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted.

One who beholds; a spectator.

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

The state of being obliged or beholden.

Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use.

Supplying need; profitable; advantageous.

Advantage; behoof.

Advantageous; useful; profitable.

and derivatives. See Behoove,

Useful, or usefully.

To howl at.

Debeige.

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

A place of shelter; protection; refuge.

Since; inasmuch as.

The capital city of Lebanon. Population (2000) = 1,100,000.

To jade or tire.

To jape; to laugh at; to deceive.

To infect with jaundice.

To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle.

Any climbing woody vine of the tropics with the habit of a liane; in the Philippines, esp. any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.

To jumble together.

Half a shekel.

To call knave.

To confess; to acknowledge.

a unit of sound intensity equal to ten decibels.

a cantabile style of operatic singing characterized by purity and evenness of tone, and a precise but brilliant vocal technique displaying ease and agility.

A kind or favorable reception or salutation.

A fine genius, or man of wit.

(Babylonian) the chief Babylonian god; his consort was Sarpanitu.

To ply diligently; to work carefully upon.

To beat or bang.

A lover.

Good friend; dear friend.

To retard or make too late.

Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted.

To laud or praise greatly.

To lay on or cover; to adorn.

The act of belching; also, that which is belched; an eructation.

One who, or that which, belches.

To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.

One who beleaguers.