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Selected; culled.

Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire.

Made thin or slender.

Having ears. See Aurited.

Having ears or appendages like ears; eared. Esp.: (a) (Bot.) Having lobes or appendages like the ear; shaped like the ear; auricled. (b) (Zoöl.) Having an angular projection on one or both sides, as in certain bivalve shells, the foot of some gastropods, etc. Auriculate leaf, one having small appended leaves or lobes o…

Having lobes like the ear; auriculate.

as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious. Who scornful pass it with averted eye. Keble.

Nitrogenized; nitrogenous.

Having many berries.

Destitute of hair on the head; baldheaded. Shak.

Having barbed points. A dart uncommonly barbated. T. Warton.

Having the feet bare.

Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath. Macaulay.

Having battlements. A battlemented portal. Sir W. Scott.

Stupid; dull. Shak.

Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted. "Some belated peasant." Milton. -- Be*lat"ed*ness, n. Milton.

Encircled by, or secured with, a belt; as, a belted plaid; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; as, a belted knight; a belted earl.

Containing or impregnated with benzoin; as, benzoinated lard.

Made sottish, senseless, 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.

Biangular.