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To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects. A robe of azure beset with drops of gold. Spectator. The garden is so beset with all manner of sweet shrubs that it perfumes the air. Evelyn.

The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin. "Fearing a besetment." Kane.

One who, or that which, besets.

Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin.

Having prickles, or sharp points; beset with prickles.

A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination. [Obs.] Encyc. Brit.

Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.

(c) To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around).

Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone). [Obs.] Gower. Chaucer.

To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset. Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost. Shak.

Beset; put in peril. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To put in peril; to beset.

e night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America. Cactus wren (Zoöl.), an American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of several species.

Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay.

Tennyson. To dangle about or after, to hang upon importunately; to court the favor of; to beset. The Presbyterians, and other fanatics that dangle after them, are well inclined to pull down the present establishment. Swift.

Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.

A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew. Gray.

To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately. Hath she sent so soon to dun Swift.

To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements.

To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset. A knight her met in mighty arms embossed. Spenser.