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To besot; to befool; to beguile; to infatuate. [Obs.] Some ecstasy assotted had his sense. Spenser.

A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.

The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.

Fat; grease; esp. the fat of pigs or geese; usually (Pharm.), lard prepared for medical use.

A grandfather. [Obs.] Writ of Ayle, an ancient English writ which lay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized.

A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat. [Eng.] Southey.

To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.

An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.

hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. Make me not sighted like the basilisk. Shak.

To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.

To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten. "Battening our flocks." Milton.

. The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called the battle, and on it alone depended the fate of every action. Robertson.

Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted. [Colloq.] Quite beat, and very much vexed and disappointed. Dickens.

A father. [Obs.] Wyclif.

s Warwick then become! Shak. To become of, to be the present state or place of; to be the fate of; to be the end of; to be the final or subsequent condition of. What is then become of so huge a multitude Sir W. Raleigh.

Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity. "Her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father." Shak. "The estate of a bedridden old gentleman." Macaulay.

B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.

To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive. This story . . . contrived to befool credulous men. Fuller.

To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father. Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget. Milton.