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

befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things. It becomes me so to speak of so excellent a poet. Dryden. I have known persons so anxious to have their dress become them, as to convert it, at length, into their proper self, a…

To cause to dote; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A sore on the back or hips caused by lying for a long time in bed.

To cause to behave like a fool; to make foolish. "Some befooling drug." G. Eliot.

ll before them where to choose. Milton. Before the mast (Naut.), as a common sailor, -- because the sailors live in the forecastle, forward of the foremast. -- Before the wind (Naut.), in the direction of the wind and by its impulse; having the wind aft.

To produce as an effect; to cause to exist. Love is begot by fancy. Granville.

To cause to seem very poor and inadequate. It beggared all description. Shak.

That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source. I am . . . the beginning and the ending. Rev. i. 8.

To cause the time of to pass without notice; to relieve the tedium or weariness of; to while away; to divert. Ballads . . . to beguile his incessant wayfaring. W. Irving.

A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.

To cause to swell out; to fill. [R.] Your breath of full consent bellied his sails. Shak.

That which restrains or confines as a girdle. He cannot buckle his distempered cause Within the belt of rule. Shak.

A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.

To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue. "Except she bend her humor." Shak.

A solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl.

onversion of other sounds into it, as through inability to distinguish them from b, or because of difficulty in pronouncing them.

as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause. But when I rise, I shall find my legs betraying me. Johnson.

To cause to bulge.

A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind. Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll. Cowper.