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,n.See Bear, barley. [Scot.]

acterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. "Besotted devotion." Sir W. Scott. -- Be*sot"ted*ly, adv. -- Be*sot"ted*ness, n. Milton.

avor. Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favor. Sir W. Scott.

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

deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put. "He bestowed it in a pouch." Sir W. Scott. See that the women are bestowed in safety. Byron.

that there is a concealed bias within the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away. Sir W. Scott.

A fight with stones between two parties of boys. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Obedient; docile. [Scot.]

A shelter. Same as Beild. [Scot.]

To build. [Scot. & North of Eng. Dial.] Sir W. Scott.

A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile. Prescott.

s, a bing of wood. "Potato bings." Burns. "A bing of corn." Surrey. [Obs. or Dial. Eng. & Scot.]

A bench. [North of Eng. & Scot.]

rch. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower. Sir W. Scott.

A lively or mettlesome fellow. [Jocular, Scot.] Burns.

To revolve or cause to revolve; to spin. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A bristle or bristles. [Scot.]

; noble extraction. Elected without reference to birth, but solely for qualifications. Prescott.

Of mean extraction. [R.] Sir W. Scott.