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A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another…

Like a beryl; of a light or bluish green color.

A metallic element found in the beryl. See Glucinum.

A solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl.

Same as Bez-antler.

A great-grandfather. [Obs.]

To make a saint of.

See Bezant.

To cover sparsely by scattering (something); to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.

To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer.

To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.

To cover with scrawls; to scribble over. Milton.

To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal. Shak.

To scribble over. "Bescribbled with impertinences." Milton.

To discharge ordure or dung upon. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To see; to look; to mind. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton.

One who beseeches.

Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look. -- Be*seech"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seech"ing*ness, n.

The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly. [R.] Goodwin.