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, v. t. Etym: [Cf. OIcel. berja to strike.] To pierce. [Obs.] Chaucer.

; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away. Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Shak. Bereft of him who taught me how to sing. Tickell.

The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.

One who bereaves.

of Bereave.

See Coma Berenices, under Coma.

Same as Berretta.

Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare). [Obs. except in North of Eng. and Scot.]

Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip. Spenser.

Of or pertaining to, or resembling, Cerberus. [Written also Cerberian.] With wide Cerberean mouth. Milton.

Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.

One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Well-propotioned; symmetrical. [Poetic] Shak.

Having fibers; made up of fibers.

Called to mind previously. Bp. Montagu.

Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry; -- said of buildings.

One who jabbers.

n lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman. [U.S.] Lumberers have a notion that he (the woodpecker) is harmful to timber. Lowell.

Having limbs; -- chiefly used in composition.

One who numbers.