Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 25
Bedewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bedew
Bedew (v. t.) （以露水、眼淚）沾濕 To moisten with dew, or as with dew. "Falling tears his face bedew." -- Dryden.
Bedew (v.) Cover with drops of dew or as with dew.
Bedewer (n.) One who, or that which, bedews.
Bedewy (a.) Moist with dew; dewy. [Obs.]
Night with her bedewy wings. -- A. Brewer.
Bedfellow (n.) 共床人；夥伴 One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch. Bedfere
Compare: Bedfere
Bedfere (n.) A bedfellow. [Obs.] -- Chapman.
Bedfellow (n.) A temporary associate; "politics makes strange bedfellows".
Bedfellow (n.) A person with whom you share a bed.
Bedfere; Bedphere (n.) A bedfellow. [Obs.] -- Chapman.
Bedgown (n.) 睡衣 A nightgown.
Compare : Nightgown
Nightgown (n.) [C] 女睡袍；男用長睡衫 A loose gown used for undress; also, a gown used for a sleeping garment.
Nightgown (n.) Garments designed to be worn in bed, such as pyjamas, a nightgown, etc.
Syn: nightwear.
Nightgown (n.) Lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women [syn: nightgown, gown, nightie, night-robe, nightdress].
Compare: Nightwear
Nightwear (n.) [Mass noun] 睡衣類 Clothing suitable for wearing in bed.
Bedight (p. p.) of Bedight
Bedighted (p. p.) of Bedight
Bedight (v. t.) 【古】裝飾 To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn. [Archaic] -- Milton.
Bedight (v.) Decorate; "deck the halls with holly" [syn: deck, bedight, bedeck].
Bedimmed (imp. & p. p.) of Bedim
Bedimming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bedim
Bedim (v. t.) To make dim; to obscure or darken.
Bedizen (v. t.) 過分地打扮 To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste.
Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. -- Sir W. Scott.
Bedizen (v.) Decorate tastelessly.
Coompare: Tastelessly
Tastelessly (adv.) 無味地；乏味地；不雅緻地；無鑑賞力地；無品味地 See Tasteless.
Tastelessly (adv.) In a tasteless manner.
// A tastelessly ill-timed joke.
Tastelessly (adv.) Such that it cannot be detected by the sense of taste.
Tasteless (a.) 沒味道的；味道差的；乏味的；不雅觀的；庸俗的；不禮貌的；無鑑賞力的，無審美力的 Lacking flavour.
‘The vegetables were watery and tasteless.’
Tasteless (a.) Considered to be lacking in aesthetic judgement or to constitute inappropriate behaviour.
‘A tasteless joke.’
Bedizen (v.) Dress up garishly and tastelessly [syn: {bedizen}, {dizen}].
Bedizenment (n.) That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.
Compare: Tawdrily
Tawdrily (adv.) 俗麗地 See Tawdry.
Tawdrily (adv.) In a tastelessly garish manner
Syn: Garishly, Gaudily.
Compare: Garishly
Garishly (adv.) 華麗地；過分裝飾地 See Garish.
Compare: Garish
Garish (a.) 炫耀的；過分裝飾的；過分鮮豔的，耀眼的 Obtrusively bright and showy; lurid.
‘Garish shirts in all sorts of colours.’
Compare: Gaudily
Gaudily (adv.) 華麗而俗氣地 See G audy.
Gaudily (adv.) (Comparative more gaudily, superlative most gaudily) In a gaudy manner.
Compare: Gaudy
Guady (a.) (Gaudier, gaudiest) （文風、服飾等）華麗而俗氣的 Extravagantly bright or showy, typically so as to be tasteless.
‘Silver bows and gaudy ribbons.’
Compare: Extravagantly
Extravagantly (adv.) 奢侈地；浪費地 With a lack of restraint in spending money or using resources.
‘He lived extravagantly and fell deeply into debt.’
Extravagantly (adv.) In an excessive or elaborate way.
‘Extravagantly decorated ceilings painted with stars and angels.’
Extravagantly (adv.) To a large degree and with extreme feeling.
‘As a child, Mozart was extravagantly praised.’
‘He was extravagantly admired for his versatility.’
Compare: Tawdry
Tawdry (a.) (Tawdrier, tawdriest) 花俏而庸俗的，俗麗的；俗氣的 Showy but cheap and of poor quality.
‘Tawdry jewellery.’
Tawdry (a.) Sordid or unpleasant.
‘The tawdry business of politics.’
Tawdry (n.) [Mass noun] [Archaic] 廉價而俗麗之物，俗麗的服飾 Cheap and gaudy finery.
‘I had seen him in procession with his golden crook, preceded by the priests of his diocese, dressed up in all the tawdry of their canonicals.’
Bedkey (n.) An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead.
Compare: Bethlehem
Bethlehem (n.) A hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam.
Bethlehem (n.) (Arch.) In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the eucharist is made. -- Audsley. Bethlehemite
Bethlehem (n.) A town in eastern Pennsylvania on the Lehigh River to the northwest of Philadelphia; an important center for steel production.
Compare: Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (n.) (Proper noun) 美國賓夕法尼亞州 A state in the north-eastern US; population 12,448,279 (est. 2008); capital, Harrisburg. Founded in 1682 by William Penn, it was one of the original thirteen states of the Union and ratified the US Constitution in 1787.
Compare: Harrisburg
Harrisburg (n.) (Proper noun) 哈利斯堡（美國賓夕法尼亞州之首府） The capital of Pennsylvania, in the south-eastern central part of the state, on the Susquehanna River; population 47,148 (est. 2008). The nearby nuclear power station at Three Mile Island suffered a serious accident in 1979.
Bethlehem (n.) 伯利恆（耶穌降生地） A small town near Jerusalem on the West Bank of the Jordan River; early home of David and regarded as the place where Jesus was born [syn: Bethlehem, Bayt Lahm, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Bethlehem-Judah].
Bedlam (n.) 混亂；喧鬧；吵鬧的地方；【古】精神病院 A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse. -- Abp. Tillotson.
Bedlam (n.) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman. [Obs.]
Let's get the bedlam to lead him. -- Shak.
Bedlam (n.) Any place where uproar and confusion prevail.
Bedlam (a.) Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse. "The bedlam, brainsick duchess." -- Shak.
Bedlam (n.) A state of extreme confusion and disorder [syn: chaos, pandemonium, bedlam, topsy-turvydom, topsy- turvyness].
Bedlam (n.) Pejorative terms for an insane asylum [syn: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit].
Bedlamite (n.) 瘋子 An inhabitant of a madhouse; a madman. "Raving bedlamites." -- Beattie.
Bedlamite (n.) An archaic term for a lunatic.
Compare: Lunatic
Lunatic (n.) 瘋子，瘋傻的人 [C] A person who is mentally ill (not in technical use).
Lunatic (n.) An extremely foolish or eccentric person.
‘This lunatic just accelerated out from the side of the road.’
Lunatic (a.) 瘋的，精神錯亂的；愚妄的，瘋狂的 Mentally ill (not in technical use).
‘A ward of lunatic old ladies.’
Lunatic (a.) Extremely foolish or eccentric.
‘He would be asked to acquiesce in some lunatic scheme.’
Bedmaker (n.) 寢室管理員 One who makes beds. Bed-molding
Bed-molding (n.) Alt. of Bed-moulding
Bed-moulding (n.) (Arch.) 簷板下線腳 The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona. -- Oxf. Gloss.
Bedote (v. t.) To cause to dote; to deceive. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Bedote (v. t.) To make to dote; befool; deceive.
Compare: Dote
Dote (v.) [No object] (Dote on/ upon) 年老昏聵；溺愛 [（+on/ upon）] Be extremely and uncritically fond of.
‘She doted on her two young children.’
Dote (v.) [No object] [Archaic ] Be silly or feeble-minded, especially as a result of old age.
‘The parson is now old and dotes.’
Dote (n.) (Informal Irish) A sweet or adorable person.
‘He's gorgeous and the twins are dotes.’
Compare: Uncritically
Uncritically (adv.) 不加批評地；不加鑑別地 With a lack of criticism or consideration of whether something is right or wrong.
‘He uncritically accepts lunatic ideas and believes almost anything.’
Befool (v.) [With object] [Archaic] 愚弄，嘲弄 Make a fool of.
‘You befooled me on your first trip.’
Befool (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Befooled; p. pr. & vb. n. Befooling.] To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive.
This story . . . contrived to befool credulous men. -- Fuller.
Befool (v. t.) To cause to behave like a fool; to make foolish. "Some befooling drug." -- G. Eliot.
Befool (v.) Make a fool or dupe of [syn: fool, gull, befool].
Befool (v.) Fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across].
Bedouin (n.) 貝多因人（居住敘利亞、阿拉伯等地帶的阿拉伯遊牧人）；遊牧的人；流浪者 One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over
Bedouin (a.) 貝多因人的；遊牧人的 Pertaining to the Bedouins; nomad.
Bedouin (n.) A member of a nomadic tribe of Arabs [syn: Bedouin, Beduin].
Compare: Nomad
Nomad (n.) [C] 遊牧民；流浪者 A member of a people that travels from place to place to find fresh pasture for its animals and has no permanent home.
‘The withering of their grasslands forced the nomads of the Sahara to descend into the Nile valley.’
‘The nomads who roam the borderlands of Afghanistan.’
[As modifier ]‘The Magyars were a nomad people of the steppes.’
Nomad (n.) A person who does not stay long in the same place; a wanderer.
‘Dolly was a nomad who had finally taken root in Hawaii.’
Nomad (a.) 遊牧的；流浪的 Nomadic.
Compare: Nomadic
Nomadic (a.) 遊牧的；流浪的 Living the life of a nomad; wandering.
‘Nomadic herdsmen.’
Bedpan (n.) 睡床用腳爐 A pan for warming beds. -- Nares.
Bedpan (n.) 便盆 A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed.
Bedpan (n.) A shallow vessel used by a bedridden patient for defecation and urination.
Compare: Bedridden
Bedridden (a.) 久病的 Confined to bed by sickness or old age.
Compare: Urination
Urination (n.) [Mass noun] 撒尿 The discharge of urine from the body.
‘Symptoms of frequent urination.’
Bedfere, Bedphere (n.) A bedfellow. [Obs.] -- Chapman.
Bedphere (n.) See Bedfere. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Bedpiece (n.) Alt. of Bedplate
Bedplate (n.) (Mach.) The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate.
Bedpost (n.) One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead.
Bedpost (n.) Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff.
Bedquilt (n.) A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.
Bedrabble (v. t.) To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble.
Bedraggled (imp. & p. p.) of Bedraggle
Bedraggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bedraggle
Bedraggle (v. t.) To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc.
Bedrenched (imp. & p. p.) of Bedrench
Bedrenching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bedrench
Bedrench (v. t.) To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak.
Bedribble (v. t.) To dribble upon.
Bedrid (a.) Alt. of Bedridden
Bedridden (a.) 臥病的 Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity. "Her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father." -- Shak. "The estate of a bedridden old gentleman." -- Macaulay. Bedright
Bedridden (a.) 久病的 Confined to bed (by illness) [syn: bedfast, bedridden, bedrid, sick-abed].
Bedright, Bedrite (n.) The duty or privilege of the marriage bed. -- Shak.
Bedrizzle (v. t.) To drizzle upon.
Bed rock () The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig.
Bedroom (n.) A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.
Bedroom (n.) Room in a bed.
Bedrop (v. t.) To sprinkle, as with drops.
Bedrug (v. t.) To drug abundantly or excessively.
Bed screw () A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching.
Bed screw () A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces.
Bedside (n.) The side of a bed.
Bedsite (n.) A recess in a room for a bed.
Bedsore (n.) (Med.) 褥瘡 A sore on the back or hips caused by lying for a long time in bed.
Bedsore (n.) A chronic ulcer of the skin caused by prolonged pressure on it (as in bedridden patients) [syn: bedsore, pressure sore, decubitus ulcer].
Bedspread (n.) 床單；床罩 A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet. [U. S.]
Bedspread (n.) Decorative cover for a bed [syn: bedspread, bedcover, bed cover, bed covering, counterpane, spread].
Bedstaves (n. pl. ) of Bedstaff
Bedstaff (n.) "A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side."
Bedstead (n.) A framework for supporting a bed.
Bed steps () Steps for mounting a bed of unusual height.
Bedstock (n.) The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead.
Bedstraw (n.) Straw put into a bed.
Bedstraw (n.) A genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers.
Bedswerver (n.) One who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage vow.
Bedtick (n.) A tick or bag made of cloth, used for inclosing the materials of a bed.
Bedtime (n.) The time to go to bed.
Beducked (imp. & p. p.) of Beduck
Beduck (v. t.) To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse.
Beduin (n.) See Bedouin.
Bedunged (imp. & p. p.) of Bedung
Bedung (v. t.) To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively.
Bedust (v. t.) To sprinkle, soil, or cover with dust.
Bedward (adv.) Towards bed.
Bedwarfed (imp. & p. p.) of Bedwarf
Bedwarf (v. t.) To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf.
Bedyed (imp. & p. p.) of Bedye
Bedyeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bedye
Bedye (v. t.) To dye or stain.
Bee () p. p. of Be; -- used for been.
Bee (n.) An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidae (the honeybees), or family Andrenidae (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee.
Bee (n.) A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee.
Bee (n.) Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks.
Beebread (n.) A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.
Beeches (n. pl. ) of Beech
Beech (n.) A tree of the genus Fagus.
Beechen (a.) Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech.
Beechnut (n.) The nut of the beech tree.
Beech tree () The beech.
Beechy (a.) Of or relating to beeches.
Bee-eater (n.) A bird of the genus Merops, that feeds on bees. The European species (M. apiaster) is remarkable for its brilliant colors.
Bee-eater (n.) An African bird of the genus Rhinopomastes.
Beef (n.) An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.
Beef (n.) The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.
Beef (n.) Applied colloquially to human flesh.
Beef (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
Beefeater (n.) One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person.
Beefeater (n.) One of the yeomen of the guard, in England.
Beefeater (n.) An African bird of the genus Buphaga, which feeds on the larvae of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two species are known.