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To sprinkle, as with drops. The yellow carp, in scales bedropped with gold. Pope.

or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Vast chain of being! which from God began. Pope.

r this be by removing to a distance or by death. A small part of what he left behind him. Pope.

To call knave. [Obs.] Pope.

To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor. A parson much bemused in beer. Pope.

nd his mind to any public business. Temple. But when to mischief mortals bend their will. Pope.

e foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii. 19. Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies. Pope.

s Gen. xix. 12. To all beside, as much an empty shade, An Eugene living, as a Cæsar dead. Pope.

f or lest before the thing that is to be avoided. Beware of all, but most beware of man ! Pope. Beware the awful avalanche. Longfellow.

At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope.

To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command. That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. Pope Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. Matt. xiv. 28 I was bid to pick up shells. D. Jerrold.

only, one worth about 12 1/2 cents; also, the sum of 12 1/2 cents. Bit my bit, piecemeal. Pope.

An opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman. Pope.

To cheat; to trick; to take in. [Colloq.] Pope.

To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope

A fish; the ruff or pope.

Those who from our labors heap their board, Blaspheme their feeder and forget their lord. Pope.

hemes. And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God Pope.

table lists he blazed his name. Pollok. To blaze those virtues which the good would hide. Pope.

r calf. Then suddenly was heard along the main, To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train. Pope The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will never answer a calf when he bleats. Shak.