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Favorable; beneficent. Milton.

re the end of a day's journey or task. Some virgin, sure, . . . benighted in these woods. Milton.

ntle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant. Creator bounteous and benign. Milton.

TO make foul; to soil; to defile. [Obs.] Milton.

To cover with scrawls; to scribble over. Milton.

To scribble over. "Bescribbled with impertinences." Milton.

seech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton.

To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade. "Beset with foes." Milton. Let thy troops beset our gates. Addison.

At the side of; on one side of. "Beside him hung his bow." Milton.

efied. "Besotted devotion." Sir W. Scott. -- Be*sot"ted*ly, adv. -- Be*sot"ted*ness, n. Milton.

To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle. [Obs.] Milton.

To speak. [Obs.] Milton.

To mark with speckles or spots. Milton.

To spurt on or over; to asperse. [Obs.] Milton.

st, he is a little worse than a man. Shak. Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight. Milton.

To serve; to assist; to profit; to avail. Milton.

Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts. Among the bestial herds to range. Milton.

nts or spots here and there; to pierce. Truth shall retire Bestuck with slanderous darts. Milton.

noun. You have so bestirred your valor. Shak. Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Milton.

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