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Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.

A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.

A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet. [U. S.]

To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively. Bp. Hall.

To sprinkle, soil, or cover with dust. Sherwood.

y insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera. Beetle mite (Zoöl.), one of many species of mites, of the family Oribatidæ, parasitic on beetles. -- Black beetle, the common large black cockroach (Blatta orientalis).…

To cover or adorn with lace. [Obs.] Beaumont.

To lay on or cover; to adorn. [Obs.] Jacket . . . belayed with silver lace. Spenser.

of which is the back. Belly doublet, a doublet of the 16th century, hanging down so as to cover the belly. Shak. -- Belly fretting, the chafing of a horse's belly with a girth. Johnson. -- Belly timber, food. [Ludicrous] Prior. -- Belly worm, a worm that breeds or lives in the belly (stomach or intestines). Johnson.…

An apron or covering for the front of the person. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up. Bemuffled with the externals of religion. Sterne.

To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint. Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek. Shak.

To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub. Beplastered with rouge. Goldsmith.

To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.

To cover sparsely by scattering (something); to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.

To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.

To cover with scrawls; to scribble over. Milton.

To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal. Shak.

To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen.

To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes. [R.] Gower.