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ils 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.

To misbecome. [Obs.] Massinger.

Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.

To misbecome. [Obs.] Bp. Sherlock.

To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay.

To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.

pplication to things, as 6, 8, 10; but when applied to any thing, as 6 feet, 10 men, they become concrete. -- Abstract or Pure mathematics. See Mathematics.

To become a party by associating one's self with others; to give one's adhesion. Hence, to agree or assent to a proposal or a view; as, he acceded to my request. The treaty of Hanover in 1725 . . . to which the Dutch afterwards acceded. Chesterfield.

nt (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.

The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

A substance liable to become sour.

dhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce.

Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. Dryden.

Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.

To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.

To accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential. [R.] Where no act of the will advenes as a coefficient. Coleridge.

foreign. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.

That may be affected. [R.] Lay aside the absolute, and, by union with the creaturely, become affectible. Coleridge.