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To pray; also, to offer; to proffer. [Obs.] R. of Gloucester. Chaucer.

To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace. Bedecked with boughs, flowers, and garlands. Pennant.

A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosæ). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.

,n.Same as Beadhouse.

,n.Same as Beadle.

Beadleship. [Obs.] Blount.

The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.

Same as Beadsman. [Obs.]

on, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment. Bedeviled and used worse than St. Bartholomew. Sterne.

The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble. [Colloq.]

To moisten with dew, or as with dew. "Falling tears his face bedew." Dryden.

One who, or that which, bedews.

Moist with dew; dewy. [Obs.] Night with her bedewy wings. A. Brewer.

An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.

A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. Fuller.

Fem. of Beadsman.

To wrong; to do injury to. [Obs.] Who hath you misboden or offended Chaucer.

Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement. "And cheeks all pale." Byron.

To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn. [Archaic] Milton.

To sprinkle over; to scatter over. The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden.