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

n which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened. [Spelt also bidry, bidree, bedery, beder.]

To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew. The grasses grew A little ranker since they dewed them so. A. B. Saxton.

Enmity. Br. Bedell.

To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint. [Obs.] "Nicely gauded cheeks." Shak.

ity; to place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to adorn; to grace; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or glory; to invest with an estate. I do invest you jointly with my power. Shak.

To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.

To sprinkle or moisten with dew; to bedew. [Obs.]

The act of bedewing; the state of being moistened with de [Obs.] Chambers.

pra Nubiana) found in the mountains of Abyssinia, Upper Egypt, and Arabia; -- called also beden, and jaela.

of Misbede.

of Misbede.

Adorned; decorated; beautiful. "So bedecked, ornate, and gay." Milton.

Dewy; bedewed. [R.] T. Granger.

o imbue or fill with odor; to perfume. Balm from a silver box distilled around, Shall all bedew the roots, and scent the sacred ground. Dryden.

y fiber of flax; the refuse of scutched flax. "The smoke of the burning scutch." Cuthbert Bede.

A place baited with chaff to entice birds. [Written also scrap.] [Obs.] Bp. Bedell.

Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc. "Write it then, quickly," replied Bede; and summoning all his spirits together, like the last blaze of a candle going out, he indited it, and expired. Fuller.