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by beads or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side of the glass, when shaken.

ired; fatigued; exhausted. [Colloq.] Quite beat, and very much vexed and disappointed. Dickens.

To make dim; to obscure or darken. Shak.

esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house. Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. Ps. xxxvii. 25.

condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9.

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

in general; especially, an ugly old woman; a hag. Around the beldam all erect they hang. Akenside.

at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belongin…

A token or badge of knightly rank.

The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively.

To bow in prayer, or in token of submission. While each to his great Father bends. Coleridge.

A drunken spree. [Low, U. S.] Bartlett.

word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel.

ed to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent.

The language spoken in Bengal.

Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor. [Obs.] Wright. Bowmen bickered upon the bent. Chevy Chase.

o still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.

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.

To blacken with smut; to foul with soot.

Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. "Besotted devotion." Sir W. Scott. -- Be*sot"ted*ly, adv. -- Be*sot"ted*ness, n. Milton.