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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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BEHOOVEFUL a.
Advantageous; useful; profitable. [Archaic] -- Be*hoove"ful*ly, adv. -- Be*hoove"ful*ness, n. [Archaic]
BELIKE adv.
It is likely or probably; perhaps. [Obs. or Archaic] -- Be*like"ly, adv. Belike, boy, then you are in love. Shak.
BENCH n.
ace, as jack planes, long planes. -- Bench show, an exhibition of dogs. -- Bench table (Arch.), a projecting course at the base of a building, or round a pillar, sufficient to form a seat.
BENE n.
A prayer; boon. [Archaic] What is good for a bootless bene Wordsworth.
BENEMPT p.
Named; styled. [Archaic] Sir W. Scott.
BENIGHT v.
To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. [Archaic] The clouds benight the sky. Garth.
BENT n.
Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus. [Archaic] The full bent and stress of the soul. Norris.
BESEEMING a.
Becoming; suitable. [Archaic] -- Be*seem"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seem"ing*ness, n.
BESEEMLY a.
Fit; suitable; becoming. [Archaic] In beseemly order sitten there. Shenstone.
BESEEN a. 3 definitions
Seen; appearing. [Obs. or Archaic]
BESOM n. 2 definitions
A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys. [Archaic or Fig.] I will sweep it with the besom of destruction. Isa. xiv. 23. The housemaid with her besom. W. Irving.
BESOMER n.
One who uses a besom. [Archaic]
BETTER adv.
In a higher or greater degree; more; as, to love one better than another. Never was monarch better feared, and loved. Shak.
BEWILDER v.
zes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly. Lost and bewildered in the fruitless search. Addison.
BEWRAY v.
To expose; to reveal; to disclose; to betray. [Obs. or Archaic] The murder being once done, he is in less fear, and in more hope that the deed shall not be bewrayed or known. Robynson (More's Utopia. ) Thy speech bewrayeth thee. Matt. xxvi. 73.
BEWRAYER n.
One who, or that which, bewrays; a revealer. [Obs. or Archaic] Addison.
BEYOND prep.
Sidney. Beyond sea. (Law) See under Sea. -- To go beyond, to exceed in ingenuity, in research, or in anything else; hence, in a bed sense, to deceive or circumvent. That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter. 1 Thess. iv. 6.
BILE n.
A boil. [Obs. or Archaic]
BINDING a.
That binds; obligatory. Binding beam (Arch.), the main timber in double flooring. -- Binding joist (Arch.), the secondary timber in double-framed flooring.
BIOGRAPHER n.
rites an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.
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