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BESOTTED a.
seless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. "Besotted devotion." Sir W. Scott. -- Be*sot"ted*ly, adv. -- Be*sot"ted*ness, n. Milton.
BESOTTINGLY adv.
In a besotting manner.
BESOUGHT p.
of Beseech.
BESPANGLE v.
angles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.
BESPATTER v. 2 definitions
To asperse with calumny or reproach. Whom never faction could bespatter. Swift.
BESPAWL v.
To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle. [Obs.] Milton.
BESPEAK v. 6 definitions
To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor. Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favor. Sir W. Scott.
BESPEAKER n.
One who bespeaks.
BESPECKLE v.
To mark with speckles or spots. Milton.
BESPEW v.
To soil or daub with spew; to vomit on.
BESPICE v.
To season with spice, or with some spicy drug. Shak.
BESPIRT v.
Same as Bespurt.
BESPIT v.
To daub or soil with spittle. Johnson.
BESPOKE n.
imp. & p. p. of Bespeak.
BESPOT v.
To mark with spots, or as with spots.
BESPREAD v.
To spread or cover over. The carpet which bespread His rich pavilion's floor. Glover.
BESPRENT p.
Sprinkled over; strewed. His face besprent with liquid crystal shines. Shenstone. The floor with tassels of fir was besprent. Longfellow.
BESPRINKLE v.
To sprinkle over; to scatter over. The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden.
BESPRINKLER n.
One who, or that which, besprinkles.
BESPRINKLING n.
The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.
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