a native or inhabitant of Bermuda.

The capital city of Switzerland. Population (2000) = 129,423.

See Barnacle.

Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks. A Cistercian monk.

Pertaining to the city or canton of Bern, in Switzerland, or to its inhabitants. A native or natives of Bern.

A bernicle goose.

Same as Burnoose.

To rob; to plunder.

A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.

A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green.

Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate; as, a berried shrub.

A mound; a hillock.

A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild.

An Egyptian clover (Trifolium alexandrinum) extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called also Egyptian clover.

frenzied; crazed; usually in predicate position.

One of a class of legendary heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds.

See Bristle.

a genus of plants comprising the hoary alyssum.

To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.

A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.

A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.

A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.

The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake.

Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum).

Of or pertaining to the Berycid/, a family of marine fishes.

A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminum and beryllium. The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium.

Like a beryl; of a light or bluish green color.

A metallic element found in the beryl. See Glucinum.

A solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl.

Same as Bez-antler.

To make a saint of.

See Bezant.

A great-grandfather.

To scatter over.

To treat with scorn.

To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.

To cover with scrawls; to scribble over.

To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal.

To scribble over.

To discharge ordure or dung upon.

To see; to look; to mind.

Solicitation; supplication.

One who beseeches.

Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look.

The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly.

To beseech.

To seem; to appear; to be fitting.

Becoming; suitable.

Fit; suitable; becoming.

To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects.

The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin.

One who, or that which, besets.

Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin.

To shine upon; to illumine.

A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.

To curse; to execrate.

To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen.

To shut up or out.

At the side of; on one side of.

On one side.

To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.

The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged.

One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.

That besieges; laying siege to.

To suit; to fit; to become.

To beslobber.

To enslave.

To defile with slaver; to beslobber.

To daub with slime; to soil.

To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise.

To beslobber.

To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil.

One that besmears.

To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully.

To foul with smoke.

To blacken with smut; to foul with soot.

To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes.

To befoul with snuff.

A worthless fellow; a bezonian.

To sweep, as with a besom.

One who uses a besom.

Befitting associates or attendants.

To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate.

Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied.

In a besotting manner.

p. p. of Beseech.

To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering.

covered with beads or jewels or sequins.

To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.

To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle.

A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.)

One who bespeaks.

To mark with speckles or spots.

To soil or daub with spew; to vomit on.

To season with spice, or with some spicy drug.

Same as Bespurt.

To daub or soil with spittle.

imp. p. p. of Bespeak.

same as made-to-order; -- of clothing.

To mark with spots, or as with spots.

To spread or cover over.

Sprinkled over; strewed.

To sprinkle over; to scatter over.

One who, or that which, besprinkles.

The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.

To spurt on or over; to asperse.

a genus of North American spring wildflowers.

To get the better of.

Beset; put in peril.

To stain.

To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or as with, stars; to bestud.

To put in a certain situation or condition; to circumstance; to place.

same as defeated.

A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial.

same as bestialize.

The state or quality of being bestial.

To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize.

In a bestial manner.

A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages.

To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce.