Emily Dickinson Lexicon
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.]
- 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.
- 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.