Lexicon: beware – bill

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beware, v. [OE be- + 'guard, take charge'; see aware, adj. and wary, adj.]

  1. Avoid; bypass; be suspicious of.
  2. Mind; respect; notice; be careful around; pay close attention to; be wary of; be alert to the power of; (see Deuteronomy 6:12).

bewildered, verbal adj. ['be' + 'lead one astray'; see wild, adj. and wilderness, n.] (webplay: lost).

  1. Perplexed; dumbfounded; confused; disoriented; puzzled; at a loss.
  2. Uncertain; lacking direction; not knowing where to turn; [fig.] lost in the wilderness.

bewildering, adj. [see bewildered, verbal adj.]

Confusing; enigmatic; causing perplexity or puzzlement.

beyond, adv. [OE be Ê’eondan.] (webplay: further, indefinite, reach).

Further on; at a greater distance; [fig.] in immortality; after this life; on the farther side of mortality.

beyond, prep. [see beyond, adv.] (webplay: above, before, death, degree, distance, gone, limit, pass, place, power, reach).

  1. Past; further on than; at a more distant point than.
  2. Surpassing; exceeding; greater than; past the limit of; reaching further than.

Bible, n. [Fr. < late L. biblia, the books.] (webplay: volume).

Judeo-Christian scriptural text; Old and New Testament; sacred writings; collection of prophetic revelations; (see ED letters, “I read my Bible sometimes”).

bid (-s, bade), v. [OE boden.] (webplay: ask, prospect).

  1. Tell; say to; declare to; (see Luke 9:61).
  2. Make; oblige; charge; require to; charge to; direct to; force to; (see Acts 11:12).
  3. Order; send; command.

bier, n. [OE < Germanic beran, to bear.]

Portable funeral bed; framework for carrying a corpse to the grave; movable stand on which a dead body rests (see Luke 7:14); [fig.] death; grave.

big (-gest), adj. [ME] (webplay: brought, grief, load, size, spirit, swelling).

  1. Large; great in size;
  2. Heavy; weighty; burdensome; [fig.] dreadful; sorrowful.
  3. Substantial; consequential; significant; important.

bill, n1. [OE bil, sword; split, cleave.] (webplay: trees).

  1. Beak; nib; hard termination of a bird's mouth; sharp extension of a fowl's mandible.
  2. [Word play] cutting instrument; crescent-shaped pruning tool.