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A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild.

To cover sparsely by scattering (something); to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.

To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.

To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.

A bewildering tangle or confusion. He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.

See Bebeerine.

To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame. They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade. Thomson.

A cap or hood with pieces covering the ears.

In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently. He brawleth bigly. Robynson (More's Utopia. )

matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, o…

A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts.

Having a shell or covering like a double shield.

A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director. Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. 1 Pet. ii. 25. It is a fact now generally recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the church is cal…

s, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away. Totten.

An encampment for the night without tents or covering.

A book kept for the purpose of registering the names of persons liable to censure or punishment, as in the English universities, or the English armies.

Mild, flattering speech.

Fair-spoken; flattering.

To make agreeable and enticing. Mustering all her wiles, With blandished parleys. Milton.

s, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement. Cowering low with blandishment. Milton. Attacked by royal smiles, by female blandishments. Macaulay.