Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: BE-SLAV'ER-ING – BE-SOT'TED-LY
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BE-SLAV'ER-ING, ppr.
Defiling with slaver.
BE-SLIME', v.t.
To daub with slime; to soil. [Not used.] – B. Johnson.
BE-SLOB'BER-ING, ppr.
Beslubbering. – Ed. Rev.
BE-SLUB'BER, v.t. [be and slubber, slabber.]
To soil or smear with spittle, or any thing running from the mouth or nose. [Vulgar.]
BE-SMEAR', v.t. [be and smear.]
To bedaub; to overspread with any viscous, glutinous matter, or with any soft substance that adheres. Hence, to foul; to soil.
BE-SMEAR'ED, pp.
Bedaubed; overspread with any thing soft, viscous, or adhesive; soiled.
BE-SMEAR'ER, n.
One that besmears.
BE-SMEAR'ING, ppr.
Bedaubing; soiling.
BE-SMIRCH', v.t. [be and smirch.]
To soil; to foul; to discolor. [Little used.] – Shak.
BE-SMOKE', v.t. [be and smoke.]
To foul with smoke; to harden or dry in smoke. [Little used.]
BE-SMOK'ED, pp.
Fouled or soiled with smoke; dried in smoke.
BE-SMUT', v.t. [be and smut.]
To blacken with smut; to foul with soot.
pp, Blackened with smut or soot.
BE-SNOW', v.t. [be and snow. Sax. besniwed, participle.]
To scatter like snow. [Little used.] – Gower.
BE-SNOW'ED, a. [or pp. be and snow.]
Covered or sprinkled with snow, or with white blossoms. – Hanbury.
BE-SNUFF', v.t.
To befoul with snuff.
BE-SNUFF'ED, pp.
Foul with snuff. – Young.
BE'SOM, n. [s as z. Sax. besm, a brush or broom; besman, twigs. Orosius, 2, 3. Ger. besen; D. bezem; Arm. bezo, birch. The besom was a little bundle of twigs used for sweeping.]
A broom; a brush of twigs for sweeping. I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of Hosts. – Is. xiv.
BE'SOM, v.t.
To sweep, as with a besom. Rolls back all Greece, and besoms wide the plain. – Barlow.
BE'SOM-ER, n.
One who uses a besom.
BE-SORT', n.
Company; attendance; train. [Obs.] – Shak.
BE-SORT', v.t. [be and sort.]
To suit; to fit; to become. – Shak.
BE-SOT', v.t. [be and sot.]
- To make sottish; to infatuate; to stupefy; to make dull or senseless. – Milton.
- To make to dote. – Shak.
BE-SOT'TED, pp.
Made sottish or stupid. Bosotted on, infatuated with foolish affection. – Dryden.
BE-SOT'TED-LY, adv.
In a foolish manner. – Milton.