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A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. [R.] Cowell. Baron of beef, two sirloins not cut asunder at the backbone. -- Barons of the Cinque Ports, formerly members of the House of Commons, elected by the seven Cinque Ports, two for each port. -- Baron of the exchequer, the judges of the Court of Exchequer, one…

The common perch. See 1st Bass. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A place of shelter for cattle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A child's hornbook. [Obs.] Halliwell.

A kind of hawk. [Obs.] Halliwell.

To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple. [Prov. Eng.]

A sudden swelling or reënforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in un…

A division of the Bantus, dwelling between the Orange and Zambezi rivers, supposed to be the most ancient Bantu population of South Africa. They are divided into totemic clans; they are intelligent and progressive.

d with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things. It becomes me so to speak of so excellent a poet. Dryden. I have known persons so anxious to have their dress become them, as to convert it, at length, into their proper self, and thus actually…

e three bedrooms, two have fireplaces, and all are of fair size, with windows and bedsite well placed. Quart. Rev.

To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill.

To cause to swell out; to fill. [R.] Your breath of full consent bellied his sails. Shak.

Greatly loved; dear to the heart. Antony, so well beloved of Cæsar. Shak. This is my beloved Son. Matt. iii. 17.

To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To meet. [Obs.] Our very loving sister, well bemet. Shak.

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

Literally: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for (one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit. A duty well beseeming the preachers. Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God Hocker.

ciprocal pronoun. You have so bestirred your valor. Shak. Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Milton.

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.

Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. [Obs.] Shak.