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from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character. The Lord God . . . breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen. ii. 7. That error now which is become my crime. Milton.

To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter. "Trees bedashed with rain." Shak.

nts of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott.

One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts. -- Bed"ou*in*ism (, n.

en or inclosure to set beehives in ; an apiary. Mortimer. -- Bee glue, a soft, unctuous matter, with which bees cement the combs to the hives, and close up the cells; -- called also propolis. -- Bee hawk (Zoöl.), the honey buzzard. -- Bee killer (Zoöl.), a large two-winged fly of the family Asilidæ (esp. Trupanea ap…

s plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc. Small beer, weak beer; (fig.) insignificant matters. "To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer." Shak.

To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers. Hobbes.

s, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation. Jer. Taylor.

To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.

A stoneware jug of a pattern originated in the neighborhood of Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.

Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal. [R.] Animal and belluine life. Atterbury.

To bespatter, as with mud. [R.] Sterne.

ngs. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming. He will do nothing that is beneath his high station. Atterbury.

Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course. Bents and turns of the matter. Locke.

To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil. Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser.

To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes. [R.] Gower.

To sprinkle over; to scatter over. The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden.

tly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.

To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [Spelt also bestrow.] Milton.

Torn in pieces; tattered.