English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Bescreen (v. t.)

To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal.

Bescribble (v. t.)

To scribble over.

Bescumber (v. t.)

Alt. of Bescummer

Bescummer (v. t.)

To discharge ordure or dung upon.

Besee (v. t. & i.)

To see; to look; to mind.

Beseech (n.)

Solicitation; supplication.

Beseech (v. t.)

To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.

Beseecher (n.)

One who beseeches.

Beseeching (a.)

Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look.

Beseeching (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Beseech

Beseechment (n.)

The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly.

Beseek (v. t.)

To beseech.

Beseem (v. i.)

To seem; to appear; to be fitting.

Beseem (v. t.)

Literally: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for (one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit.

Beseemed (imp. & p. p.)

of Beseem

Beseeming (n.)

Appearance; look; garb.

Beseeming (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Beseem

Beseeming (n.)

Comeliness.

Beseeming (a.)

Becoming; suitable.

Beseemly (a.)

Fit; suitable; becoming.