Dictionary: BE-PINCH' – BE-REAV'ING

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BE-PINCH', v.t. [be and pinch.]

To mark with pinches.

BE-PINCH'ED, or BE-PINCHT', pp.

Marked with pinches. – Chapman.

BE-PLAIT'ED, a.

Plaited. – Mrs. Butler.

BE-POW'DER, v.t. [be and powder.]

To powder; to sprinkle or cover with powder.

BE-PRAISE', v.t. [be and praise.]

To praise greatly or extravagantly. – Goldsmith.

BE-PUCK'ER-ED, a.

Puckered.

BE-PUFF'ED, a.

Puffed.

BE-PUR'PLE, v.t. [be and purple.]

To tinge or dye with a purple color.

BE-QUEATH', v.t. [Sax. becwæthan; be and cwethan, to say; cwid, a saying, opinion, will, testament; cythan, to testify; Eng. quoth.]

To give or leave by will; to devise some species of property by testament; as, to bequeath an estate or a legacy.

BE-QUEATH'ED, pp.

Given or left by will.

BE-QUEATH'ER, n.

One who bequeaths.

BE-QUEATH'ING, ppr.

Giving or devising by testament.

BE-QUEATH'MENT, n.

The act of bequeathing; a bequest.

BE-QUEST', n.

Something left by will; a legacy.

BE-RAIN', v.t.

To rain upon. [Not in use.] – Chaucer.

BE-RATE', v.t. [be and rate.]

To chide vehemently; to scold.

BE-RAT'TLE, v.t. [be and rattle.]

To fill with rattling, sounds or noise. – Shak.

BE-RAY', v.t.

To make foul; to soil. [Not in use.] – Milton.

BER'BE-REN, n.

A yellow, bitter principle, contained in the alcoholic extract of the root of the berberry plant.

BER'BER-RY, n. [L. berberis.]

See Barberry.

BERE, n. [Sax. ber, barley.]

The name of a species of barley in Scotland. – Gray.

BE-REAVE', v.t. [pret. bereaved, bereft; pp. bereaved, bereft. Sax. bereafian, of be and reafian, to deprive. See Rob and Reap.]

  1. To deprive; to strip; to make destitute; with of before the thing taken away. Me have ye bereaved of my children. – Gen. xlii. It is sometimes used without of, and is particularly applied to express the loss of friends by death.
  2. To take away from. – Shak.

BE-REAV'ED, pp.

Deprived; stripped and left destitute.

BE-REAVE'MENT, n.

Deprivation, particularly by the loss of a friend by death.

BE-REAV'ING, ppr.

Stripping bare; depriving.