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826 words match “BEG”

BEGIRD v. 2 definitions
To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.
BEGIRDLE v.
To surround as with a girdle.
BEGIRT v.
To encompass; to begird. Milton.
BEGLERBEG n.
The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier.
BEGNAW v.
To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode. The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul. Shak.
BEGOD v.
To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify. [Obs.] "Begodded saints." South.
BEGOHM n.
A unit of resistance equal to one billion ohms, or one thousand megohms.
BEGONE p. 2 definitions
Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone). [Obs.] Gower. Chaucer.
BEGONIA n.
A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one- sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.
BEGORE v.
To besmear with gore.
BEGOT n.
imp. & p. p. of Beget.
BEGOTTEN n.
p. p. of Beget.
BEGRAVE v.
To bury; also, to engrave. [Obs.] Gower.
BEGREASE v.
To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.
BEGRIME v.
To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in. Books falling to pieces and begrimed with dust. Macaulay.
BEGRIMER n.
One who, or that which, begrimes.
BEGRUDGE v.
To grudge; to envy the possession of.
BEGUILE v. 3 definitions
rtifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure. The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. Gen. iii. 13.
BEGUILEMENT n.
The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled.
BEGUILER n.
One who, or that which, beguiles.
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