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To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or as with, stars; to bestud. "Bestarred with anemones." W. Black.

To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [Spelt also bestrow.] Milton.

imp. & p. p. of Bethink.

re, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and better. [Colloq.] To think better of (any one), to have a more favorable opinion of any one. -- To think better of (an opinion, resolution, etc.), to reconsider and alter one's decision.

Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage. He knew no beverage but the flowing stream. Thomson.

To drink to excess; to revel. [Obs.]

To drink; to sip; to tipple. He was constantly bibbing. Locke.

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

Addicted to drinking.

The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling. Blount.

One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.

Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling.

A great drinker; a tippler. [Written also bibbler and bibbeler.]

Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.

An invitation of friends to drink ale at some poor man's house, and there to contribute in charity for his relief. [Prov. Eng.]

A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.

Small articles of virtu, as jewelry, trinkets, etc.

To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse. [Obs. or Dial.] Skelton.

rcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. When ground it is the chief ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing. -- Berlin black. See under Berlin.

r, as the sight. Figuratively: To obscure (mental or moral perception); to blind; to hoodwink. That tickling rheums Should ever tease the lungs and blear the sight. Cowper. To blear the eye of, to deceive; to impose upon. [Obs.] Chaucer.