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Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming. -- Be*witch"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*witch"ing*ness, n.

The act of bewitching, or the state of being bewitched. Tylor.

To fill with wonder. [Obs.]

To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax.

To soil. See Beray.

One who, or that which, bewrays; a revealer. [Obs. or Archaic] Addison.

Betrayal. [R.]

To wreck. [Obs.]

To wreak; to avenge. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.

Embroidered. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

vince or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis.

The territory ruled by a bey.

On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher.

The second branch of a stag's horn.

antium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants. [Written also besant, byzant, etc.]

The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.

A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points.

A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea.

Pertaining to, or compounded with, bezoar. -- n.

Having the qualities of an antidote, or of bezoar; healing. [Obs.]