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A game at cards similar to loo. [Obs.] Wright.

contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass. He beat them in a bloody battle. Prescott. For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. M. Arnold.

To make bloody; to stain with blood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope

A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.

To dye or stain. Briton fields with Sarazin blood bedyed. Spenser.

To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be. All the lookers-on him dead behight. Spenser.

Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind.

To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes. When he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Num. xxi. 9. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John. i. 29.

A sweet or loving look. [Obs.] Spenser.

A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.

: A horizontal mark at the water's edge with reference to which the height of tides and floods may be measured.

To jut over; to overhang. There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully in the confined deep. Shak.

A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.

To see; to look; to mind. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look. -- Be*seech"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seech"ing*ness, n.

Appearance; look; garb. [Obs.] I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak.

To spread or cover over. The carpet which bespread His rich pavilion's floor. Glover.

Sprinkled over; strewed. His face besprent with liquid crystal shines. Shenstone. The floor with tassels of fir was besprent. Longfellow.

on, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride. God hath not in heaven a bigger argument. Jer. Taylor.