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Fit; suitable; becoming. [Archaic] In beseemly order sitten there. Shenstone.

The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged. Golding.

a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.

To allow; to permit; to suffer. [Obs.] So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Shak.

A hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam.

An inhabitant of Bethlehem in Judea.

Having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; -- said of a decompound leaf.

Having two members; as, a bimembral sentence. J. W. Gibbs.

The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.

An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.

or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. So Dagon shall be magnified, and God, Besides whom is no god, compared with idols, Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton. How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge thyself on…

One who blasphemes. And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God Pope.

Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature. "Blasphemous publications." Porteus. Nor from the Holy One of Heaven Refrained his tongue blasphemous. Milton.…

In a blasphemous manner.

ively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification. Punished for his blasphemy against learning. Bacon.

The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.

Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.

Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.

, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind. Sin is a soil which blemisheth the beauty of thy soul. Brathwait.

Without blemish; spotless. A life in all so blemishless. Feltham.