Webster's Dictionary 1913

1351

Beck (2)

Beck, n. [OE. bek, AS. becc; akin to Icel. bekkr brook, OHG. pah, G. bach.] A small brook.The brooks, the becks, the rills.Drayton.

1352

Beck (3)

Beck, n. A vat. See Back.

1353

Beck (4)

Beck, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Becked (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Becking.] [Contr. of beckon.] To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand. Drayton.

1354

Beck (5)

Beck, v. t. To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to.When gold and silver becks me to come on.Shak.

1355

Beck (6)

Beck, n. 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.

1356

Beck's scale

Beck's scale (?). A hydrometer scale on which the zero point corresponds to sp. gr. 1.00, and the 30°-point to sp. gr. 0.85. From these points the scale is extended both ways, a...

1357

Becker

Beck″er (�), n.(Zoöl.) A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.

1358

Becket

Beck″et (�), n. [Cf. D. bek beak, and E. beak.]1. (Naut.) A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope or metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a brack...

1359

Beckon

Beck″on, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Beckoned (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Beckoning.] To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand.His distant friends, he beckons ...

1360

Beckon (2)

Beck″on, n. A sign made without words; a beck. “At the first beckon.” Bolingbroke.

1361

Beclap

Be‐clap (�), v. t. [OE. biclappen.] To catch; to grasp; to insnare. Chaucer.

1362

Beclip

Be‐clip″ (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Beclipped (�).] [AS. beclyppan; pref. be + clyppan to embrace.] To embrace; to surround. Wyclif.

1363

Becloud

Be‐cloud″ (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Beclouded; p. pr. & vb. n.Beclouding.] To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud.If thou becloud the sunshine of thine eye.Quarles.

1364

Become

Be‐come″ (�), v. i. [imp.Became (�); p. p.Become; p. pr. & vb. n.Becoming.] [OE. bicumen, becumen, AS. becuman to come to, to happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. b...

1365

Become (2)

Be‐come″, 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...

1366

Becomed

Be‐com″ed (�), a. Proper; decorous.And gave him what becomed love I might.Shak.

1367

Becoming

Be‐com″ing, a. Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting.A low and becoming tone.Thackeray.Formerly sometimes followed by of.Such discourses as are becoming o...

1368

Becoming (2)

Be‐com″ing, n. That which is becoming or appropriate.

1369

Becomingly

Be‐com″ing‐ly, adv. In a becoming manner.

1370

Becomingness

Be‐com″ing‐ness, n. The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness.The becomingness of human nature.Grew.

1371

Becquerel rays

Becque′rel″ rays″ (?). (Physics) Radiations first observed by the French physicist Henri Becquerel, in working with uranium and its compounds. They consist of a mixture of alpha...

1372

Becripple

Be‐crip″ple (�), v. t. To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame. Dr. H. More.

1373

Becuiba

{ Be‐cui″ba (?), n., Be‐cui″ba nut′ (?) }. (Bot.) The nut of the Brazilian tree Myristica Bicuhyba, which yields a medicinal balsam used for rheumatism.

1374

Becuna

‖Be‐cu″na (�), n.(Zoöl.) A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyræna spet). See Barracuda.

1375

Becurl

Be‐curl″ (�), v. t. To curl; to adorn with curls.

1376

Bed

Bed (�), n. [AS. bed, bedd; akin to OS. bed, D. bed, bedde, Icel. be�r, Dan. bed, Sw. bädd, Goth. badi, OHG. betti, G. bett, bette, bed, beet a plat of ground; all of uncertain ...

1377

Bed (2)

Bed, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Bedded; p. pr. & vb. n.Bedding.] 1. To place in a bed. Bacon.2. To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her...