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27,182 words match “BE”

BENZYL n.
A compound radical, C6H5.CH2, related to toluene and benzoic acid; -- commonly used adjectively.
BEPAINT v.
To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint. Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek. Shak.
BEPELT v.
To pelt roundly.
BEPINCH v.
To pinch, or mark with pinches. Chapman.
BEPLASTER v.
To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub. Beplastered with rouge. Goldsmith.
BEPLUMED a.
Decked with feathers.
BEPOMMEL v.
To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing. Thackeray.
BEPOWDER v.
To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.
BEPRAISE v.
To praise greatly or extravagantly. Goldsmith.
BEPROSE v.
To reduce to prose. [R.] "To beprose all rhyme." Mallet.
BEPUFFED a.
Puffed; praised. Carlyle.
BEPURPLE v.
To tinge or dye with a purple color.
BEQUEATH v. 3 definitions
testament; -- said especially of personal property. My heritage, which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak.
BEQUEATHABLE a.
Capable of being bequeathed.
BEQUEATHAL n.
The act of bequeathing; bequeathment; bequest. Fuller.
BEQUEATHMENT n.
The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest.
BEQUEST n. 3 definitions
The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B.
BEQUETHEN n.
old p. p. of Bequeath. [Obs.] Chaucer.
BEQUOTE v.
To quote constantly or with great frequency.
BERAIN v.
To rain upon; to wet with rain. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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