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A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass. His spear a bent, both stiff and strong. Drayton.

A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.

To set upon on all sides; to perplex; to harass; -- said of dangers, obstacles, etc. "Adam, sore beset, replied." Milton. "Beset with ills." Addison. "Incommodities which beset old age." Burke.

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

to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate. Fools besotted with their crimes. Hudibras.

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

A small brass Venetian coin. [Obs.]

A Russian sect. See Raskolnik.

Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses.

A cheat; a trick; a hoax. Hudibras.

t of the group Mallophaga, of which the genera and species are very numerous and mostly parasitic upon birds. -- Bird mite (Zoöl.), a small mite (genera Dermanyssus, Dermaleichus and allies) parasitic upon birds. The species are numerous. -- Bird of passage, a migratory bird. -- Bird spider (Zoöl.), a very large Sou…

The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare).

th meal. And fat black puddings, -- proper food, For warriors that delight in blood. Hudibras.

The black raspberry.

Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.

ny plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses. The crimson dulse . . . with its waving blade. Percival. First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear. Mark iv. 28.

Having a blade or blades; as a two-bladed knife. Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass. Shak.

Consisting of blades. [R.] "Blady grass." Drayton.

as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun. [Bones] blanching on the grass. Tennyson.

Having soft and soothing qualities; not drastic or irritating; not stimulating; as, a bland oil; a bland diet.