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One who uses a besom. [Archaic]

To expose; to reveal; to disclose; to betray. [Obs. or Archaic] The murder being once done, he is in less fear, and in more hope that the deed shall not be bewrayed or known. Robynson (More's Utopia. ) Thy speech bewrayeth thee. Matt. xxvi. 73.

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

A boil. [Obs. or Archaic]

To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. [Archaic] "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.

Complexion; color; hue; likeness; form. [Archaic] For him which is so bright of blee. Lament. of Mary Magd. That boy has a strong blee of his father. Forby.

To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self). [Archaic] Holinshed.

To stain, smear or wet, with blood. [Archaic] Reach out their spears afar, And blood their points. Dryden.

A blossoming; a bloom. [Obs. or Archaic] "In the blowth and bud." Sir W. Raleigh.

approval of, one's self; -- followed by of and the thing to which the boasting relates. [Archaic] Boast not thyself of to-morrow. Prov. xxvii.

A boatman. [Archaic]

One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner. [Archaic]

A xassal or serf; a slave. [Obs. or Archaic]

A gallows. [Archaic] Spenser.

To stop. [Archaic] They stoop, they bow down together. Is. xlvi. 2

ing any sort of superiority or excellence; -- especially such as in conspicuous. [Obs. or Archaic as applied to material things.] Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth. Bacon. It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall. Pepys.

A brier. [Archaic] Chaucer.

Breadthwise. [Archaic]

To embroider. [Archaic] They shall make a broidered coat. Ex. xxviii. 4.

One who embroiders. [Archaic]