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Carefully; properly; becomingly. [Obs.] A young clerk . . . in Latin thriftily them gret [greeted]. Chaucer.

Well appearing; looking or being in good condition; becoming. [Obs.] I sit at home, I have no thrifty cloth. Chaucer.

Arranged in good order; orderly; appropriate; neat; kept in proper and becoming neatness, or habitually keeping things so; as, a tidy lass; their dress is tidy; the apartments are well furnished and tidy. A tidy man, that tened [injured] me never. Piers Plowman.

Becoming torpid or numb. Shenstone.

The act of becoming tumid; the state of being swollen; intumescence.

Becoming turgid or inflated; swelling; growing big.

The proximal segment in the hyoidean arch, becoming a part of the styloid process of the temporal bone in adult man.

soup in appearance, and prostration and muscular debility, gradually increasing and often becoming profound at the acme of the disease. Its local lesions are a scanty eruption of spots, resembling flea bites, on the belly, enlargement of the spleen, and ulceration of the intestines over the areas occupied by Peyer's gl…

The process of forming an ulcer, or of becoming ulcerous; the state of being ulcerated; also, an ulcer.

Not behooving or becoming; unseemly. [Obs. & R.] Gower.

To be unbecoming or unsuitable to; to misbecome.

Unbecoming; not befitting. -- Un`be*seem"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*seem"ing*ness, n.

Contrary to Christianity; not like or becoming a Christian; as, unchristian conduct.

Becoming an understrapper; subservient. [R.] Sterne.

rite one's name under, or set one's name to, as a policy of insurance, for the purpose of becoming answerable for loss or damage, on consideration of receiving a certain premium per cent; as, individuals, as well as companies, may underwrite policies of insurance. B. Jonson. The broker who procures the insurance ought…

Unsuitable to a son or a daughter; undutiful; not becoming a child. -- Un*fil"ial*ly, adv.

In a manner not becoming to a guest. [R.] Milton.

Not meet or fit; not proper; unbecoming; unsuitable; -- usually followed by for. "Unmeet for a wife." Tennyson. And all unmeet our carpet floors. Emerson. -- Un*meet"ly, adv. -- Un*meet"ness, n.

Unbecoming to a saint. Gauden.

Unbeseeming; not fit or becoming.