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ar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9.

to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade. The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. Longfellow.

th benediction. Milton. Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. Longfellow. Specifically:

Blessed. [R.] Longfellow.

heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds. Longfellow.

A worthless fellow; a bezonian. [Obs.]

nt with liquid crystal shines. Shenstone. The floor with tassels of fir was besprent. Longfellow.

riage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance. "The feast of betrothal." Longfellow.

be avoided. Beware of all, but most beware of man ! Pope. Beware the awful avalanche. Longfellow.

A low fellow or scoundrel; a beggar. Great men oft die by vile bezonians. Shak.

A lively or mettlesome fellow. [Jocular, Scot.] Burns.

A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort. Longfellow.

A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning. He saw a turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade. Coleridge.

A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.

on growth of earth, the foodful ear. Wordsworth. At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach. Longfellow.

a sheep does. Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. Longfellow.

A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow. [Slang]

A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt. [Obs.] What a block art thou ! Shak.

A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.

A stupid, blundering fellow.