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One who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage vow. [Poetic] Shak.

A tick or bag made of cloth, used for inclosing the materials of a bed.

The time to go to bed. Shak.

To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse. "Deep himself beducked." Spenser.

See Bedouin.

To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively. Bp. Hall.

To sprinkle, soil, or cover with dust. Sherwood.

Towards bed.

To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf. Donne.

To dye or stain. Briton fields with Sarazin blood bedyed. Spenser.

p. p. of Be; -- used for been. [Obs.] Spenser.

(Bot.) See Larkspur.

The shortest line from one place to another, like that of a bee to its hive when loaded with honey; an air line. "A bee line for the brig." Kane.

A bird of the genus Merops, that feeds on bees. The European species (M. apiaster) is remarkable for its brilliant colors.

cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.

A tree of the genus Fagus.

The beech.

Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech. "Plain beechen vessels." Dryden.

The nut of the beech tree.

Of or relating to beeches.