Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 24
Beck (n.) A vat. See Back.
Becked (imp. & p. p.) of Beck.
Becking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beck.
Beck (v. i.) 〔古語〕點頭 [搖頭、打手勢等] 召喚，指使 To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand. [Archaic] -- Drayton.
Beck (v. t.) To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to. [Archaic]
When gold and silver becks me to come on. -- Shak.
Beck (n.) 點頭；招手 [C] A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command.
They have troops of soldiers at their beck. -- Shak.
Beck (n.) A beckoning gesture.
Becker (n.) (Zool.) A European fish ({Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.
Becker -- U.S. County in Minnesota
Population (2000): 30000
Housing Units (2000): 16612
Land area (2000): 1310.419093 sq. miles (3393.969725 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 134.687128 sq. miles (348.838046 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1445.106221 sq. miles (3742.807771 sq. km)
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 46.893153 N, 95.742689 W
Headwords:
Becker
Becker, MN
Becker County
Becker County, MN
Becker, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 2673
Housing Units (2000): 967
Land area (2000): 8.662226 sq. miles (22.435062 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.429114 sq. miles (1.111401 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.091340 sq. miles (23.546463 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04618
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 45.391306 N, 93.872650 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 55308
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Becker, MN
Becker
Becket (n.) (Naut.) 【海】環索，環扣 A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope.
Compare: Grommet
Grommet (n.) 金屬扣眼；【海】索環；從事衝浪、輪板、雪板運動的青少年 An eyelet placed in a hole to protect or insulate a rope or cable passed through it or to reinforce the hole.
Grommet (n.) (British) A tube surgically implanted in the eardrum to drain fluid from the middle ear.
Grommet (n.) (Australian) (I nformal) A young or inexperienced surfer or skateboarder.
‘Mega moves that make gods out of grommets.’
Compare: Eyelet
Eyelet (n.) 圓孔眼；觀察孔；鞋孔 A small round hole in leather or cloth for threading a lace, string, or rope through.
Eyelet (n.) A metal ring used to reinforce an eyelet in leather or cloth.
Eyelet (n.) A small hole ornamented with stitching around its edge, used as a form of decoration in embroidery.
[As modifier] ‘The white eyelet duvet.’
Eyelet (n.) A small hole or slit in a wall for looking through.
‘The tomb itself is almost like a miniature fortress, with sloping crenellated outer walls, complete with eyelets for archery.’
‘That worked great and meant no drilling holes and putting eyelets in drywall screwholes.’
Eyelet (v. t.) (Eyelets, eyeleting, eyeleted) 打小孔 Make eyelets in (fabric).
[As adjective eyeleted] ‘Her dress is of the whitest fabric, all eyeleted, embroidered, sashed.’
Becket (n.) A spade for digging turf. [Prov. Eng.] -- Wright.
Becket (n.) (Roman Catholic Church) Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170; murdered following his opposition to Henry II's attempts to control the clergy (1118-1170) [syn: Becket, Thomas a Becket, Saint Thomas a Becket, St. Thomas a Becket].
Becket (n.) (Nautical) A short line with an eye at one end and a knot at the other; used to secure loose items on a ship.
Beckoned (imp. & p. p.) of Beckon.
Beckoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beckon.
Beckon (v. t.) （招手或點頭）向……示意；召喚；吸引；引誘 To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand.
His distant friends, he beckons near. -- Dryden.
It beckons you to go away with it. -- Shak.
Beckon (n.) A sign made without words; a beck. "At the first beckon." -- Bolingbroke.
Beckon (v.) (v. i.) （招手或點頭）示意；召喚 [（+to）] ； 吸引；引誘 Signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably" [syn: beckon, wave].
Beckon (v.) Appear inviting; "The shop window decorations beckoned."
Beckon (v.) Summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture.
Beclap (v. t.) To catch; to grasp; to insnare. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Beclipped (imp. & p. p.) of Beclip.
Beclip (v. t.) To embrace; to surround. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Beclouded (imp. & p. p.) of Becloud.
Beclouding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Becloud.
Becloud (v. t.) To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud.
If thou becloud the sunshine of thine eye. -- Quarles.
Becloud (v.) Make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley" [syn: obscure, befog, becloud, obnubilate, haze over, fog, cloud, mist].
Became (imp.) of Become.
Become (p. p.) of Become.
Becoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Become.
Become (v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character.
The Lord God . . . breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. -- Gen. ii. 7.
That error now which is become my crime. -- Milton.
Become (v. i.) To come; to get. [Obs.]
But, madam, where is Warwick then become! -- Shak.
To become of, To be the present state or place of; to be the fate of; to be the end of; to be the final or subsequent condition of.
What is then become of so huge a multitude? -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Become (v. t.) To suit or be suitable to; to be congruous with; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things.
It becomes me so to speak of so excellent a poet. -- Dryden.
I have known persons so anxious to have their dress become them, as to convert it, at length, into their proper self, and thus actually to become the dress. -- Coleridge.
Become (v.) Enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!" [syn: become, go, get].
Become (v.) Undergo a change or development; "The water turned into ice"; "Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned traitor" [syn: become, turn].
Become (v.) Come into existence; "What becomes has duration."
Become (v.) Enhance the appearance of; "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This behavior doesn't suit you!" [syn: become, suit].
Becomed (a.) Proper; decorous.
Becoming (n.) That which is becoming or appropriate. [Obs.]
Becoming (a.) Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting.
A low and becoming tone. -- Thackeray.
Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of.
Such discourses as are becoming of them. -- Dryden.
Syn: Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.
Becoming (a.) According with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior" [syn: becoming, comely, comme il faut, decent, decorous, seemly].
Becoming (a.) Displaying or setting off to best advantage; "a becoming new shade of rose"; "a becoming portrait."
Becomingly (adv.) In a becoming manner.
Becomingly (adv.) In a becoming manner; "she was becomingly dressed."
Becomingness (n.) The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness.
The becomingness of human nature. -- Grew.
Becomingness (n.) The quality of being becoming [ant: unbecomingness].
Becripple (v. t.) To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame. [R.] -- Dr. H. More. Becuiba
Becuna (n.) [Sp.] (Zool.) A fish of the Mediterranean ({Sphyraena spet). See Barracuda.
Becurl (v. t.) To curl; to adorn with curls.
Bed (n.) An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.
And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed. -- Byron.
I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds. -- Shak.
In bed he slept not for my urging it. -- Shak.
Bed (n.) (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
George, the eldest son of his second bed. -- Clarendon.
Bed (n.) A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground. "Beds of hyacinth and roses." -- Milton.
Bed (n.) A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.
Bed (n.) The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.
So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed. -- Milton.
Bed (n.) (Geol.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.
Bed (n.) (Gun.) See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.
Bed (n.) (Masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.
Bed (n.) (Masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
Bed (n.) (Masonry) The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.
Bed (n.) (Masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile. -- Knight.
Bed (n.) (Mech.) The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine.
Bed (n.) The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
Bed (n.) (Printing) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
Note: Bed is much used adjectively or in combination; as, bed key or bedkey; bed wrench or bedwrench; bedchamber; bedmaker, etc.
Bed of justice (French Hist.), The throne (F. lit bed) occupied by the king when sitting in one of his parliaments (judicial courts); hence, a session of a refractory parliament, at which the king was present for the purpose of causing his decrees to be registered.
To be brought to bed, To be delivered of a child; -- often followed by of; as, to be brought to bed of a son.
To make a bed, To prepare a bed; to arrange or put in order a bed and its bedding.
From bed and board (Law), A phrase applied to a separation by partial divorce of man and wife, without dissolving the bonds of matrimony. If such a divorce (now commonly called a judicial separation) be granted at the instance of the wife, she may have alimony.
Bed (v. i.) To go to bed; to cohabit.
If he be married, and bed with his wife. -- Wiseman.
Bedded (imp. & p. p.) of Bed.
Bedding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bed.
Bed (v. t.) To place in a bed. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Bed (v. t.) To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.
I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her. -- Shak.
Bed (v. t.) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
Bed (v. t.) To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold.
Bed (v. t.) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock.
Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded. -- Wordsworth.
Bed (v. t.) (Masonry) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.
Bed (v. t.) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position. "Bedded hair." -- Shak.
Bed (n.) A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair."
Bed (n.) A plot of ground in which plants are growing; "the gardener planted a bed of roses."
Bed (n.) A depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed" [syn: bed, bottom].
Bed (n.) (Geology) A stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock); "they found a bed of sandstone."
Bed (n.) A stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit; "he worked in the coal beds" [syn: seam, bed]
Bed (n.) Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" [syn: layer, bed].
Bed (n.) The flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc..
Bed (n.) A foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track; "the track bed had washed away."
Bed (v.) Furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new Arrivals."
Bed (v.) Place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil.
Bed (v.) Put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o'clock."
Bed (v.) Have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" [syn: sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk].
Bed (v.) Prepare for sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn" [syn: go to bed, turn in, bed, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay, hit the sack, sack out, go to sleep, retire] [ant: arise, get up, rise, turn out, uprise].
BED, () Bookmark Exploring Dabbler (VRML).
Bed, () (Heb. mittah), For rest at night (Ex. 8:3; 1 Sam. 19:13, 15, 16, etc.); during sickness (Gen. 47:31; 48:2; 49:33, etc.); as a sofa for rest (1 Sam. 28:23; Amos 3:12). Another Hebrew word (er'es) so rendered denotes a canopied bed, or a bed with curtains (Deut. 3:11; Ps. 132:3), for sickness (Ps. 6:6; 41:3).
In the New Testament it denotes sometimes a litter with a coverlet (Matt. 9:2, 6; Luke 5:18; Acts 5:15).
The Jewish bedstead was frequently merely the divan or platform along the sides of the house, sometimes a very slight portable frame, sometimes only a mat or one or more quilts. The only material for bed-clothes is mentioned in 1 Sam. 19:13. Sleeping in the open air was not uncommon, the sleeper wrapping himself in his outer garment (Ex. 22:26,27; Deut. 24:12,13).
Bedabbled (imp. & p. p.) of Bedabble.
Bedabbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bedabble.
Bedabble (v. t.) To dabble; to sprinkle or wet. -- Shak.
Bedaff (v. t.) To make a daff or fool of. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Bedagat (n.) The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah. -- Malcom.
Bedaggle (v. t.) To daggle.
Bedashed (imp. & p. p.) of Bedash.
Bedashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bedash.
Bedash (v. t.) To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter. "Trees bedashed with rain." -- Shak.
Bedaubed (imp. & p. p.) of Bedaub.
Bedaubing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bedaub.
Bedaub (v. t.) To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty.
Bedaub foul designs with a fair varnish. -- Barrow.
Bedaub (v.) Spread or daub (a surface) [syn: bedaub, besmear].
Bedazzled (imp. & p. p.) of Bedazzle.
Bedazzling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bedazzle.
Bedazzle (v. t.) To dazzle or make dim by a strong light. "Bedazzled with the sun." -- Shak.
Bedazzle (v.) To cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light; "She was dazzled by the bright headlights" [syn: dazzle, bedazzle, daze].
Bedbug (n.) (Zool.) A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect ({Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
Bedbug (n.) Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood [syn: bedbug, bed bug, chinch, Cimex lectularius].
Bedchair (n.) A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.
Bedchamber (n.) A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in. --Shak.
Lords of the bedchamber, eight officers of the royal household, all of noble families, who wait in turn a week each. [Eng.]
Ladies of the bedchamber, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar official position in the royal household, during the reign of a queen. [Eng.]
Bedchamber (n.) A room used primarily for sleeping [syn: bedroom, sleeping room, sleeping accommodation, chamber, bedchamber].
Bed-chamber, () An apartment in Eastern houses, furnished with a slightly elevated platform at the upper end and sometimes along the sides, on which were laid mattresses. This was the general arrangement of the public sleeping-room for the males of the family and for guests, but there were usually besides distinct bed-chambers of a more private character (2 Kings 4:10; Ex. 8:3; 2 Kings 6:12). In 2 Kings 11:2 this word denotes, as in the margin of the Revised Version, a store-room in which mattresses were kept.
Bedclothes (n. pl.) Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. -- Shak.
Bedclothes (n.) Coverings that are used on a bed [syn: bedclothes, bed clothing, bedding].
Bedcord (n.) A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed.
Bedded (a.) Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged in a bed or beds.
Bedded (a.) Deposited or arranged in horizontal layers; "stratified rock" [syn: stratified, bedded] [ant: unstratified].
Bedded (a.) Having a bed or beds as specified [ant: bedless].
Bedding (n.) A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.
Bedding (n.) (Geol.) The state or position of beds and layers.
Bedding (n.) Coverings that are used on a bed [syn: bedclothes, bed clothing, bedding].
Bedding (n.) Material used to provide a bed for animals [syn: bedding material, bedding, litter].
Bede (v. t.) To pray; also, to offer; to proffer. [Obs.] -- R. of Gloucester. Chaucer.
Bede (n.) (Mining) A kind of pickax.
Bede (n.) (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735) [syn: Bede, Saint Bede, St. Bede, Baeda, Saint Baeda, St. Baeda, Beda, Saint Beda, St. Beda, the Venerable Bede].
Bedecked (imp. & p. p.) of Bedeck.
Bedecking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bedeck.
Bedeck (v. t.) 修飾，裝飾 To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.
Bedecked with boughs, flowers, and garlands. -- Pennant. Bedeguar
Bedeck (v.) Decorate; "deck the halls with holly" [syn: deck, bedight, bedeck].
Bedeguar (n.) Alt. of Bedegar.
Bedegar (n.) A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly ({Rhodites rosae). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.
Beadhouse, Bedehouse (n.) An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.
Bedehouse (n.) Same as Beadhouse. Bedel
Bedel, Bedell (n.) Same as Beadle.
Bedel, () Eng. law. A cryer or messenger of a court, who cites men to appear and answer. There are also inferior officers of a parish or liberty who bear this name.
Bedelry (n.) Beadleship. [Obs.] -- Blount.
Compare: Jaal goat
Jaal goat, () (Zool.) A species of wild goat ({Capra Nubiana) found in the mountains of Abyssinia, Upper Egypt, and Arabia; -- called also beden, and jaela.
Beden
(n.) (Zool.)
The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex ({Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat
of the Bible.
Compare: Beadsman
Beadsman, Bedesman, (n.; pl. -men.) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.
Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. -- Fuller.
Bedesman (n.) Same as Beadsman. [Obs.]
Bedesman (n.) A person who is paid to pray for the soul of another [syn: beadsman, bedesman].
Bedevilled (imp. & p. p.) of Bedevil.
Bedeviling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bedevil.
Bedevilling () of Bedevil.
Bedevil (v. t.) 使痛苦；使苦惱；虐待 To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.
Bedeviled and used worse than St. Bartholomew. -- Sterne.
Bedevil (v. t.) To spoil; to corrupt. -- Wright.
Bedevil (v.) Treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" [syn: {torment}, {rag}, {bedevil}, {crucify}, {dun}, {frustrate}].
Bedevil (v.) Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher" [syn: {confuse}, {throw}, {fox}, {befuddle}, {fuddle}, {bedevil}, {confound}, {discombobulate}].
Bedevilment (n.) 陰魂附體；活見鬼；發狂；惱 The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble. [Colloq.]
Bedevilment (n.) The act of harassing someone [syn: {badgering}, {worrying}, {torment}, {bedevilment}].
Bedewed (imp. & p. p.) of Bedew.