BEGUIN
BE'GUIN, noun The beguins are a congregation of nuns in Flanders, so called from their founder, or from their head dress. beguin in French, is a linen cap. From this order sprun...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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BEGUN
BEGUN', participle passive or begin. Commenced; originated.
BEHALF
BEHALF, noun behaf. [See Behoof.]1. Favor; advantage; convenience, profit; support, defense, vindication. The advocate pleads in behalf of the prisoner. The patriot suffers in b...
BEHAPPEN
BEHAP'PEN, verb intransitive [be and happen.] To happen to.
BEHAVE
BEHA'VE, verb transitive1. To restrain; to govern; to subdue.He did behave his anger e'er 'twas spent.This sense is obsolete. Yet it often seems to be implied; for to behave one...
BEHAVED
BEHA'VED, participle passive Conducted.
BEHAVING
BEHA'VING, participle present tense Carrying; conducting.
BEHAVIOR
BEHA'VIOR, noun behavyur. [See Behave.]Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; conduct; manners; carriage of one's self, with respect to propriety, or morals; deportment. It ex...
BEHEAD
BEHEAD', verb transitive behed'. [be and head.]To cut off the head; to sever the head from the body, with a cutting instrument; appropriately used of the execution of men for cr...
BEHEADED
BEHEAD'ED, participle passive behed'ed. Having the head cut off.
BEHEADING
BEHEAD'ING, participle present tense behed'ing. Severing the head from the body.BEHEAD'ING, noun behed'ing. The act of separating the head from the body by a cutting instrument;...
BEHELD
BEHELD', preterit tense and participle passive of behold, which see.
BEHEMOTH
BE'HEMOTH, noun [Heb. a beast or brute; from an Arabic vert, which signifies, to shut, to lie hid, to be dumb. In Eth.dumb.]Authors are divided in opinion as to the animal inten...
BEHEN
BE'HEN, BEN, OR BEK'EN, noun A plant. The white behen is a species of Cucubalus, called Swedish Lychnis, or gum sepungar. The empalement of its flower resembles net-work, and it...
BEHEST
BEHEST', noun Command; precept; mandate.[Antiquated, except in poetry.]
BEHIGHT
BEHI'GHT, verb transitive behite; preterit tense behot.To promise; to entrust; to call, or name; to command; to adjudge; to address; to inform; to mean; to reckon. The orthograp...
BEHIND
BEHIND, preposition1. At the back of another; as, to ride behind a horseman.2. On the back part, at any distance; in the rear; as, to walk behind another.3. Remaining; left afte...
BEHINDHAND
BEHINDHAND, adjective [behind and hand.] In arrear; in an exhausted state; in a state in which rent or profit has been anticipated, and expenditures precede the receipt of funds...
BEHOLD
BEHO'LD, verb transitivepreterit tense and participle passive beheld' [Latin observo, from servo, to keep.]1. To fix the eyes upon; to see with attention; to observe with care.B...
BEHOLDEN
BEHO'LDEN, participle passive or adjective beholdn. [The participle of behold, to keep, guard, or bind. See Behold.]Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted.Little are we beholden ...
BEHOLDER
BEHO'LDER, noun One who beholds; a spectator; one who looks upon, or sees.
BEHOLDING
BEHO'LDING, participle present tense Fixing the eyes upon; looking on; seeing.1. Fixing the attention; regarding with attention.2. Obligation. [Not used.]3. Obliged. Bacon on Lo...
BEHOLDINGNESS
BEHO'LDINGNESS, noun The state of being obliged.[An error, and not in use.]
BEHONEY
BEHON'EY, verb transitive To sweeten with honey.
BEHOOF
BEHOOF', noun1. Radically, need, necessity; whence, by an easy analogy, the word came to signify that which supplies want. Hence, in present usage.2. That which is advantageous;...
BEHOOVABLE
BEHOOV'ABLE, adjective Needful; profitable.
BEHOOVE
BEHOOVE, verb transitive behoof'. To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience.And thus it behooved Christ to suffer. Luke...