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One who begets; a father.

Obliged; beholden. [Obs.] I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father. Robynson (More's Utopia). So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller.

A grandfather, or ancestor. "His great belsire Brute." [Obs.] Drayton.

To bow in prayer, or in token of submission. While each to his great Father bends. Coleridge.

to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property. My heritage, which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak.

A great-grandfather. [Obs.]

To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate. Fools besotted with their crimes. Hudibras.

Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. "Besotted devotion." Sir W. Scott. -- Be*sot"ted*ly, adv. -- Be*sot"ted*ness, n. Milton.

nant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively. [Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome. Addison.

or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible. "This day's black fate." "Black villainy." "Arise, black vengeance." "Black day." "Black despair." Shak.

A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal. And fat black puddings, -- proper food, For warriors that delight in blood. Hudibras.

pious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.

A white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables, used esp. for braised meat.

r him which is so bright of blee. Lament. of Mary Magd. That boy has a strong blee of his father. Forby.

g the mental eye darkened. Hence: Heedless; reckless; as, blindfold zeal; blindfold fury. Fate's blindfold reign the atheist loudly owns. Dryden.

d (Law), relationship through only one parent. -- Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole blood. Bouvier. Peters.

To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse. Sir W. Scott.

A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench. [Obs.] Shak.

Coarse and ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored; frowzy.

The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.