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To embrace; to surround. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud. If thou becloud the sunshine of thine eye. Quarles.

new character. The Lord God . . . breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen. ii. 7. That error now which is become my crime. Milton.

Proper; decorous. [Obs.] And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.

Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray.

In a becoming manner.

The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.

Radiations first observed by the French physicist Henri Becquerel, in working with uranium and its compounds. They consist of a mixture of alpha, beta, and gamma rays.

To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame. [R.] Dr. H. More.

The nut of the Brazilian tree Myristica Bicuhyba, which yields a medicinal balsam used for rheumatism.

A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyræna spet). See Barracuda.

To curl; to adorn with curls.

Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs. And made for him…

The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig.

A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces.

Steps for mounting a bed of unusual height.

The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona. Oxf. Gloss.

To dabble; to sprinkle or wet. Shak.

To make a daff or fool of. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah. Malcom.