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Advantageous; useful; profitable. [Archaic] -- Be*hoove"ful*ly, adv. -- Be*hoove"ful*ness, n. [Archaic]

, and derivatives. See Behoove, & c.

Useful, or usefully. [Obs.]

To howl at. [Obs.] The wolf behowls the moon. Shak.

Debeige.

A place of shelter; protection; refuge. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] [Also written bield and beeld.] The random beild o' clod or stane. Burns.

sed to nonexistence; state or sphere of existence. In Him we live, and move, and have our being. Acts xvii. 28.

To jade or tire. [Obs.] Milton.

To jape; to laugh at; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To infect with jaundice.

To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle. "Bejeweled hands." Thackeray.

Any climbing woody vine of the tropics with the habit of a liane; in the Philippines, esp. any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.

To jumble together.

Half a shekel.

To call knave. [Obs.] Pope.

To confess; to acknowledge. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The Babylonian name of the god known among the Hebrews as Baal. See Baal. Baruch vi. 41.

A kind or favorable reception or salutation. [Obs.]

A fine genius, or man of wit. "A man of letters and a bel esprit." W. Irving.

To ply diligently; to work carefully upon. "If the earth is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn." Barrow.