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.

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

p. p. of Bestrew.

imp. p. p. Bestick.

To set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set thickly; to stud; as, to bestud with stars.

To lure; to cheat.

An early form of Better.

The second letter of the Greek alphabet, B, /. See B, and cf. etymology of Alphabet.

Excessive or extended use of the b sound in speech, due to conversion of other sounds into it, as through inability to distinguish them from b, or because of difficulty in pronouncing them.

A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beet-root molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.

To take or seize.

a type of particle accelerator which accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux.

Delivered; committed in trust.

To better; to mend. See Beete.

To mend; to repair.

An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc.

To give ; to bestow; to grant; to accord; to consent.

A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber with ovate many-nerved leaves.

A bright star of the first magnitude, near one shoulder of Orion.

the 2nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

To think; to recollect; to consider.

A hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam.

An inhabitant of Bethlehem in Judea.

imp. p. p. of Bethink.

To reduce to thralldom; to inthrall.

To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books.

To beat or thump soundly.

To come to pass; to happen; to occur.

In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early.

To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle.

To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.

The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion.

To attack with the tongue; to abuse; to insult.

A plant of the genus Betonica (Linn.).

imp. of Betake.

Torn in pieces; tattered.

To put in violent motion; to agitate; to disturb; to toss.

To draw into, or catch in, a trap; to insnare; to circumvent.

To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city.

The act or the result of betraying.

One who, or that which, betrays.

Betrayal.

To set in order; to adorn; to deck, to embellish; to trim.

To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.

The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance.

The act of betrothing, or the state of being betrothed; betrothal.

To trust or intrust.

The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted.

A small brass Venetian coin.

One who bets or lays a wager.

more familiar or renowned than the other of two. Antonym of lesser-known.

more pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion.

being in a more prosperous condition.

changing for the better; -- antonym of worsening.

A making better; amendment; improvement.

Best.

The quality of being better or superior; superiority.

A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.

a genus of marsupials including the jerboa kangaroo, the bettong.

One who bets; a better.

A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.

a natural family of monoecious trees and shrubs, including the genera Betula; Alnus; Carpinus; Corylus; Ostrya; and Ostryopsis.