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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.

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]

Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.

Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.

A partner in a lease taen.

See Cognizor, Cognizee.

The bitter fruit of Cola acuminata, which is nearly as large as a chestnut, and furnishes a stimulant, which is used in medicine.

The common rape or cole.

A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets.

The seed of the cotton plant.

A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed.

A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure (sp. gr., .92-.93). and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils.

One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.

Same as Indorsee.

To close eyes of; to seel; -- said in reference to a hawk. [Obs.]