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To beseech. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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.

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

Seen; appearing. [Obs. or Archaic]

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.

The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin. "Fearing a besetment." Kane.

One who, or that which, besets.

Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin.

To shine upon; to ullumine.

A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.

To curse; to execrate. Beshrew me, but I love her heartily. Shak.

To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen.

To shut up or out. [Obs.]

At the side of; on one side of. "Beside him hung his bow." Milton.

Over and above; separate or distinct from; in addition to; other than; else than. See Beside, prep., 3, and Syn. under Beside. Besides your cheer, you shall have sport. Shak.

More than that; over and above; not included in the number, or in what has been mentioned; moreover; in addition. The men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides Gen. xix. 12. To all beside, as much an empty shade, An Eugene living, as a Cæsar dead. Pope.

To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset. Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost. Shak.

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

One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.