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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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3,364 words match “MAKE”

BEG v.
To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.
BEGGAR n.
One who makes it his business to ask alms.
BEGIN v. 2 definitions
o take the first step; to start. "Tears began to flow." Dryden. When I begin, I will also make an end. 1 Sam. iii. 12.
BELATE v.
To retard or make too late. Davenant.
BELAY v.
To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel. Totten.
BELITTLE v.
To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.
BELL v. 2 definitions
To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.
BELLOW v. 2 definitions
To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.
BEMAD v.
To make mad. [Obs.] Fuller.
BEMEAN v.
To make mean; to lower. C. Reade.
BEMONSTER v.
To make monstrous or like a monster. [Obs.] Shak.
BEND v.
To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
BENEFIT v.
To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.
BENUMB v.
To 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.
BERATTLE v.
To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down. [Obs.] Shak.
BERAY v.
TO make foul; to soil; to defile. [Obs.] Milton.
BEREAVE v.
To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away. Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Shak. Bereft of him who taught me how to sing. Tickell.
BESAINT v.
To make a saint of.
BESOT v.
To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate. Fools besotted with their crimes. Hudibras.
BESPAWL v.
To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle. [Obs.] Milton.
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