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Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen.

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

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

A plant of the genus Campanula; -- so named from its bell- shaped flowers.

One who, or that which, bellows.

A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck.

One that bestows.

In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.

To weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears. "His timeless death beweeping." Drayton.

To wet or moisten. Gay.

A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed. The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings. Tennyson.

Goutweed (Ægopodium podagraria).

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiæfolia); Roman worm wood. Gray.

Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly. -- n.

Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. Shak. Dryden.

A genus of bulbous plants, natives of Southern Africa, named Hæmanthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of H. toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows.

A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.

A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet. [Low] Smart.

One who, or that which, blows.