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Seen; appearing. [Obs. or Archaic]

To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects. A robe of azure beset with drops of gold. Spectator. The garden is so beset with all manner of sweet shrubs that it perfumes the air. Evelyn.

The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin. "Fearing a besetment." Kane.

One who, or that which, besets.

Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin.

A bright star of the first magnitude, near one shoulder of Orion. [Written also Betelgeux and Betelgeuse.]

A native of Bologna. Bolognese school (Paint.), a school of painting founded by the Carracci, otherwise called the Lombard or Eclectic school, the object of which was to unite the excellences of the preceding schools.

A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.

One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n.

A kind of soft French cream cheese; -- so called from the district in France where it is made; --called also fromage de Brie.

Of or pertaining to Burmah, or its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

A kind of soft, unpressed cream cheese made in the vicinity of Camembert, near Argentan, France; also, any cheese of the same type, wherever made.

Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.

Of or pertaining to Ceylon. -- n. sing. & pl.

A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed togehter in the form of a cheese.

A thin, loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.

A bag in which rennet is kept.

One who deals incheese. B. Jonson.

A thin portion of the rind of a cheese. -- a.

water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Chersonese, or Jutland; the Tauric Chersonese, or Crimea.