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To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself. Milton.

To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be. All the lookers-on him dead behight. Spenser.

hether this be by removing to a distance or by death. A small part of what he left behind him. Pope.

Existence, as opposed to nonexistence; state or sphere of existence. In Him we live, and move, and have our being. Acts xvii. 28.

To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander. Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him. Shak.

In hell, or the regions of the dead. What businesss brought him to the realms below. Dryden.

o encompass; to surround. A coarse black robe belted round the waist. C. Reade. They belt him round with hearts undaunted. Wordsworth.

e the person or thing taken away. Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Shak. Bereft of him who taught me how to sing. Tickell.

At the side of; on one side of. "Beside him hung his bow." Milton.

en the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so little the figure of a man that it bespoke him rather a monster. Locke.

Most intimately; most thoroughly or correctly; as, what is expedient is best known to himself.

t; to behave; -- followed by a reflexive pronoun. [Obs.] How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night in his true colors, and not ourselves be seen Shak.

To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager. John a Gaunt loved him well, and betted much money on his head. Shak. I'll bet you two to one I'll make him do it. O. W. Holmes.

r the better, in the way of improvement; so as to produce improvement. "If I have altered him anywhere for the better." Dryden.

pt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters.

ve a special regard; to heed. [Obs.] Behold, I send an Angel before thee. . . . Beware of him, and obey his voice. Ex. xxiii. 20, 21.

r 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 person of consequence; as, the bigwigs of society. [Jocose] In our youth we have heard him spoken of by the bigwigs with extreme condescension. Dickens.

er (b) Among merchants, a letter sent by an agent or other person to a merchant, desiring him to give credit to the bearer for goods or money. -- Bill of divorce, in the Jewish law, a writing given by the husband to the wife, by which the marriage relation was dissolved. Jer. iii. 8. -- Bill of entry, a written accou…

und by affection; commerce binds nations to each other. Who made our laws to bind us, not himself. Milton.