Webster's Dictionary 1828

1027

BEMETE

BEME'TE, verb transitive [be and mete.] To measure. [Not in use.]

1028

BEMINGLE

BEMIN'GLE, verb transitive [be and mingle.] To mingle; to mix. [Little used.]

1029

BEMIRE

BEMI'RE, verb transitive [be and mire.] To drag or incumber in the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirty places.

1030

BEMIST

BEMIST', verb transitive [be and mist.] To cover or involve in mist. [Not used.]

1031

BEMOAN

BEMOAN, verb transitive [be and moan.] To lament; to bewail; to express sorrow for; as, to bemoan the loss of a son.

1032

BEMOANABLE

BEMOANABLE, adjective That may be lamented. [Not used.]

1033

BEMOANED

BEMOANED, participle passive Lamented; bewailed.

1034

BEMOANER

BEMOANER, noun One who laments.

1035

BEMOANING

BEMOANING, participle present tense Lamenting; bewailing.

1036

BEMOCK

BEMOCK', verb transitive [be and mock.] To treat with mockery. [Little used.]BEMOCK', verb intransitive To laugh at.

1037

BEMOIL

BEMOIL', verb transitive [be and moil.] To bedraggle; to bemire; to soil or incumber with mire and dirt. [Not in use.]

1038

BEMOL

BEMOL, noun In music, a half note.

1039

BEMONSTER

BEMON'STER, verb transitive [be and monster.] To make monstrous. [Not in use.]

1040

BEMOURN

BEMOURN, verb transitive To weep or mourn over. [Little used.]

1041

BEMUSED

BEMU'SED, adjective [be and muse.] Overcome with musing; dreaming; a word of contempt.

1042

BEN

BEN or BEN'-NUT, noun A purgative fruit or nut, the largest of which resembles a filbert, yielding an oil used in pharmacy.

1043

BENCH

BENCH, noun1. A long seat, usually of board or plank, differing from a stool in its greater length.2. The seat where judges sit in court; the seat of justice. Hence,3. The perso...

1044

BENCHER

BENCH'ER, noun In England, the benchers in the inns of court, are the senior members of the society who have the government of it. They have been readers, and being admitted to ...

1045

BEND

BEND, [Latin pando, pandare, to bend in; pando, pandere, to open; pandus, bent, crooked]1. To strain, or to crook by straining; as, to bend a bow.2. To crook; to make crooked; t...

1046

BENDABLE

BEND'ABLE, adjective That may be bent or incurvated.

1047

BENDED

BEND'EDBEND'ER, noun The person who bends, or makes crooked; also, an instrument for bending other things.

1048

BENDER

BEND'ER, n. The person who bends, or makes crooked; also, an instrument for bending other things.

1049

BENDING

BEND'ING, participle present tense Incurvating; forming into a curve; stooping subduing; turning as a road or river; inclining; leaning; applying closely, as the mind; fastening.

1050

BENDLET

BEND'LET, noun In heraldry, a little bend, which occupies a sixth part of a shield.BEND'-WITH, noun A plant.

1051

BENDY

BEND'Y, noun In heraldry, the field divided into four, six or more parts, diagonally, and varying in metal and color.

1052

BENE

BENE, noun ben'y. The popular name of the sesamum orientale, called in the West Indies vangloe, an African plant.

1053

BENEAPED

BENE'APED, adjective [be and neap.] Among seamen, a ship is beneaped when the water does not flow high enough to float her from a dock or over a bar.