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.

Over and above; separate or distinct from; in addition to; other than; else than. See Beside, prep., 3, and Syn. under Beside.

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 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.

To make still.

To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor; -- usually with the reciprocal pronoun.

To storm.

To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put.

The act of bestowing; disposal.

One that bestows.

The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or bestowal.

To bestride.

Out of one's senses; distracted; mad.

To streak.

To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle.

To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over

imp. p. p. of Bestride.

p. p. of Bestrew.

imp. p. p. Bestick.