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Much talking; prattle; chatter. Byron.

A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood. [Obs. or Dial. Eng.]

the same word as by; joined with verbs, it serves: (a) To intensify the meaning; as, bespatter, bestir. (b) To render an intransitive verb transitive; as, befall (to fall upon); bespeak (to speak for). (c) To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around).…

To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple. [Prov. Eng.]

To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.

A man who escorts, or pays attentions to, a lady; an escort; a lover.

from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character. The Lord God . . . breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen. ii. 7. That error now which is become my crime. Milton.

To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter. "Trees bedashed with rain." Shak.

nts of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott.

One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts. -- Bed"ou*in*ism (, n.

en or inclosure to set beehives in ; an apiary. Mortimer. -- Bee glue, a soft, unctuous matter, with which bees cement the combs to the hives, and close up the cells; -- called also propolis. -- Bee hawk (Zoöl.), the honey buzzard. -- Bee killer (Zoöl.), a large two-winged fly of the family Asilidæ (esp. Trupanea ap…

. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.

s plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc. Small beer, weak beer; (fig.) insignificant matters. "To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer." Shak.

To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers. Hobbes.

s, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation. Jer. Taylor.

To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.

A stoneware jug of a pattern originated in the neighborhood of Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.

Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal. [R.] Animal and belluine life. Atterbury.

To bespatter, as with mud. [R.] Sterne.

ngs. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming. He will do nothing that is beneath his high station. Atterbury.