Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BE-DAG'GLED, pp.

Soiled by reaching the mud in walking; bespattering.

BE-DARE', v.t. [be and dare.]

To dare; to defy. [Not used.] Peele.

BE-DARK', v.t. [be and dark.]

To darken. [Not used.] Gower.

BE-DARK'EN-ED, pp.

Darkened; obscured.

BE-DASH', v.t. [be and dash.]

To wet, by throwing water, or other liquor upon; to bespatter, with water or mud.

BE-DASH'ED, pp.

Bespattered with water or other liquid.

BE-DASH'ING, ppr.

Bespattering; dashing water upon, or other liquid.

BE-DAUB', v.t. [be and daub.]

To daub over; to besmear with viscous, slimy matter; to soil with any thing thick and dirty. Shak.

BE-DAUB'ED, pp.

Daubed over; besmeared.

BE-DAUB'ING, ppr.

Daubing over; besmearing.

BE-DAZ'ZLE, v.t. [be and dazzle.]

To confound the sight by too strong a light; to make dim by luster. Shak.

BE-DAZ'ZLED, pp.

Having the sight confounded by too strong a light.

BE-DAZ'ZLING, ppr.

Confounding or making dim by a too brilliant luster.

BE-DAZ'ZLING-LY, adv.

So as to bedazzle.

BED'CHAM-BER, n. [bed and chamber.]

An apartment or chamber intended or appropriated for a bed, or for sleep and repose.

BED-CLOTHES', n. plur. [bed and clothes.]

Blankets, or coverlets, &c., for beds. Shak.

BED'DED, pp.

Laid in a bed; inclosed as in a bed.

BED'DER, or BE-DET'TER, n. [from bed.]

The nether stone of an oil mill. Chalmers.

BED'DING, ppr.

Laying in a bed; inclosing as in a bed. BED'DING n. A bed and its furniture; a bed; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast. Spenser.

BE-DEAD', v.t. [beded'.]

To deaden. Hallywell.

BE-DECK', v.t. [be and deck.]

To deck; to adorn; to grace. Shak.

BE-DECK'ED, pp.

Adorned; ornamental.

BE-DECK'ING, ppr.

Adorning; decking.

BEDE'HOUSE, n. [Sax. bead, a prayer, and house.]

Formerly, a hospital or alms-house, where the poor prayed for their founders and benefactors.

BE'DEL, n.

An officer in the universities of England. [A peculiar orthography of beadle.]