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To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle. "Bejeweled hands." Thackeray.

diligently; to work carefully upon. "If the earth is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn." Barrow.

To cover or adorn with lace. [Obs.] Beaumont.

To lay on or cover; to adorn. [Obs.] Jacket . . . belayed with silver lace. Spenser.

To fill with lies. [Obs.] "The breath of slander doth belie all corners of the world." Shak.

Worn in, or suspended from, the belt. Three men with belted brands. Sir W. Scott. Belted cattle, cattle originally from Dutch stock, having a broad band of white round the middle, while the rest of the body is black; -- called also blanketed cattle.

le (the Latin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel.

A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake.

A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green. [Also spelt beretta, biretta, etc.]

A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.

Decked or adorned; clad. [Archaic] Chaucer.

To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects. A robe of azure beset with drops of gold. Spectator. The garden is so beset with all manner of sweet shrubs that it perfumes the air. Evelyn.

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

to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances. When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so little the figure of a man that it bespoke him rather a monster. Locke.

To set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set thickly; to stud; as, to bestud with stars. Milton.

To set in order; to adorn; to deck, to embellish; to trim. Shak.

To cover (the head) with a wig. Hawthorne.

He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.

The second branch of a stag's horn.

Having two angles or corners.