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To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten. "Battening our flocks." Milton.

n intransitive verb transitive; as, befall (to fall upon); bespeak (to speak for). (c) To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around).

ars against his prey. [Obs.] -- To bear away (Naut.), to change the course of a ship, and make her run before the wind. -- To bear back, to retreat. "Bearing back from the blows of their sable antagonist." Sir W. Scott. -- To bear down upon (Naut.), to approach from the windward side; as, the fleet bore down upon the…

To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.

To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment. "Beatified spirits." Dryden.

One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful.

To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish. The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke.

To make bloody; to stain with blood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To make bloody; to stain with blood. [Obs.] Sheldon.

To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.

To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand. [Archaic] Drayton.

To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand. His distant friends, he beckons near. Dryden. It beckons you to go away with it. Shak.

To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame. [R.] Dr. H. More.

or twigs. And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed. Byron. I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds. Shak. In bed he slept not for my urging it. Shak.

To make a daff or fool of. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To dazzle or make dim by a strong light. "Bedazzled with the sun." Shak.

To make dim; to obscure or darken. Shak.

To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf. Donne.

To cause to behave like a fool; to make foolish. "Some befooling drug." G. Eliot.

To make foul; to soil.