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A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.

To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint. Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek. Shak.

To praise greatly or extravagantly. Goldsmith.

To rain upon; to wet with rain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Coma Berenices, under Coma.

A great-grandfather. [Obs.]

To make a saint of.

To stain.

A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beetroot molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.

To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak.

Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.

One who bewails or laments.

Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.

The act of bewailing.

A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage. Sir W. Scott.

One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.

The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.

The black-tailed deer (Cervus or Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer.

An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister. Blotches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

A chain in which the alternate links are broad blocks connected by thin side links pivoted to the ends of the blocks, used with sprocket wheels to transmit power, as in a bicycle.