Search the Dictionary

the preachers. Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God Hocker.

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 besieging, or the state of being besieged. Golding.

To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes. [R.] Gower.

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.

Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cloth; the best abilities. When he is best, he is a little worse than a man. Shak. Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight. Milton.

ey shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: . . . and curse their king and their God. Is. viii. 21. Many far worse bestead than ourselves. Barrow.

; to impart; -- with on or upon. Empire is on us bestowed. Cowper. Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor. 1 Cor. xiii. 3.

That which is given or bestowed. They almost refuse to give due praise and credit to God's own bestowments. I. Taylor.

To lure; to cheat. [Obs.] Gower.

r any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager. "Having made his bets." Goldsmith.

To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun. They betook themselves to treaty and submission. Burke. The rest, in imitation, to like arms Betook them. Milton. Whither shall I betake me, where subsist Milton.

In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow.

show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton.

To draw into, or catch in, a trap; to insnare; to circumvent. Gower.

et, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known. Willing to serve or betray any government for hire. Macaulay.

Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air. Could make the worse appear The better reason. Milton.

The difference by which fine gold or silver exceeds in fineness the standard.

ng motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two. If things should go so between them. Bacon.

To keep watch over; to keep awake. [Obs.] Gower.