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To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn. [Archaic] Milton.

To come to pass; to happen. I have revealed . . . the discord which befell. Milton.

To be suitable to; to suit; to become. That name best befits thee. Milton.

ire; before the house. His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire. Milton.

nce; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison.

to generate; -- commonly said of the father. Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget. Milton.

To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself. Milton.

To encompass; to begird. Milton.

At the back part; in the rear. "I shall not lag behind." Milton.

Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use. No mean recompense it brings To your behoof. Milton.

To jade or tire. [Obs.] Milton.

d beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted. "Some belated peasant." Milton. -- Be*lat"ed*ness, n. Milton.

e vent to; to vent. Within the gates that now Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame. Milton.

belief, a first principle incapable of proof; an intuitive truth; an intuition. Sir W. Hamilton.

person, a statement, or a doctrine. Our conqueror (whom I now Of force believe almighty). Milton. King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets Acts xxvi. Often followed by a dependent clause. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Acts viii. 37.

notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton.

Good cheer; viands. [Obs.] "Bellycheer and banquets." Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." Milton.

ust loathing and disdain, . . . how below all history the persons and their actions were. Milton. Who thinks no fact below his regard. Hallam.

turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline. "Bend thine ear to supplication." Milton. Towards Coventry bend we our course. Shak. Bending her eyes . . . upon her parent. Sir W. Scott.

e invocation of happiness. So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus Followed with benediction. Milton. Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. Longfellow. Specifically: