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[Prep. phrase.] Because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Eph. v. 6.

The title of a heathen deity to whom the Jews ascribed the sovereignty of the evil spirits; hence, the Devil or a devil. See Baal.

The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.

To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in. Books falling to pieces and begrimed with dust. Macaulay.

An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15- 24.

ic beverages. -- To believe on, to accept implicitly as an object of religious trust or obedience; to have faith in.

make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. The creeping death benumbed her senses first. Dryden.

Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor. Kirby.

To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub. Beplastered with rouge. Goldsmith.

A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.

To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil. Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser.

To sprinkle over; to scatter over. The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden.

A hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam.

An insane person; a madman; a bedlamite.

To weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears. "His timeless death beweeping." Drayton.

. -- To go beyond, to exceed in ingenuity, in research, or in anything else; hence, in a bed sense, to deceive or circumvent. That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter. 1 Thess. iv. 6.

To drink; to tipple. [Obs.] This miller hath . . . bibbed ale. Chaucer.

Obedient; docile. [Scot.]

n which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened. [Spelt also bidry, bidree, bedery, beder.]

nous limestone, a mineral of a brown or black color, emitting an unpleasant smell when rubbed. That of Dalmatia is so charged with bitumen that it may be cut like soap. -- Bituminous shale, an argillaceous shale impregnated with bitumen, often accompanying coal.