English English Dictionary

A genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers.

Straw put into a bed.

One who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage vow.

A tick or bag made of cloth, used for inclosing the materials of a bed.

The time to go to bed.

To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse.

of Beduck

See Bedouin.

To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively.

of Bedung

To sprinkle, soil, or cover with dust.

Towards bed.

To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf.

of Bedwarf

To dye or stain.

of Bedye

of Bedye

p. p. of Be; -- used for been.

A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee.

An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidae (the honeybees), or family Andrenidae (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee.