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Moist with dew; dewy. [Obs.] Night with her bedewy wings. A. Brewer.

post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff. Brewer.

ce to face with; facing. Abraham bowed down himself before the people. Gen. xxiii. 12. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord Micah vi. 6.

The Babylonian name of the god known among the Hebrews as Baal. See Baal. Baruch vi. 41.

Turn; purpose; inclination; ends. [Obs.] Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend. Fletcher.

dvance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit. I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them. Jer. xviii. 10.

Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes. Bengal light, a firework containing niter, sulphur, and antimony, and producing a sustained and vivid colored light, used in making signals and in pyrotechnics; -- called also blue light. -- Bengal stripes, a kind of cotton cloth woven with colored strip…

To cover sparsely by scattering (something); to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.

Sprinkled over; strewed. His face besprent with liquid crystal shines. Shenstone. The floor with tassels of fir was besprent. Longfellow.

p. p. of Bestrew.

Having two axes; as, biaxial polarization. Brewster. -- Bi*ax"i*al*ly, adv.

, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc. Neither bid him God speed. 2. John 10. He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. Granrille.

A small stick of wood, as for firewood. They shall beat out my brains with billets. Shak.

Adapted to the use of both eyes; as, a binocular microscope or telescope. Brewster.

To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground. The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned and turned with nothing to bite. Dickens. To bite the dust, To bite the ground, to fall in the agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the…

A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer. Cooley.

The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.

A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.

urn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder. [Obs.] Ye should have somewhat blenched him therewith, yet he might and would of likelihood have gone further. Sir T. More.

A bubble; blubber. [Low] T. Carew. Blobber lip, a thick, protruding lip. His blobber lips and beetle brows commend. Dryden.