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To mingle; to mix.

rag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt. Bemired and benighted in the dog. Burke.

To envelop in mist. [Obs.]

for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with. Implores their pity, and his pain bemoans. Dryden.

One who bemoans.

To mock; to ridicule. Bemock the modest moon. Shak.

To soil or encumber with mire and dirt. [Obs.] Shak.

The sign [Obs.]

To make monstrous or like a monster. [Obs.] Shak.

To mourn over. Wyclif.

To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.

To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up. Bemuffled with the externals of religion. Sterne.

To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor. A parson much bemused in beer. Pope.

To deprive (of), or take away (from). [Obs.]

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The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.

An Egyptian clover (Trifolium alexandrinum) extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called also Egyptian clover.

A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.

Literally: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for (one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit. A duty well beseeming the preachers. Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God Hocker.

Appearance; look; garb. [Obs.] I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak.