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prop. n. 1. A member of the Bantu tribes resident in Angola. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖a. Of or pertaining to Aracan, a province of British Burmah. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Aracan. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Aragon, in Spain, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Aragon, in Spain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. arch- + diocese. ] The diocese of an archbishop. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Assam. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. Of or pertaining to Bengal. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Bengal. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Benin. Beninese bronzes
Syn. -- Benin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a native or inhabitant of Benin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pertaining to the city or canton of Bern, in Switzerland, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Bern. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ AS. beseón; pref. be- + &unr_;eón to see. ] To see; to look; to mind. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Solicitation; supplication. [ Obs. or Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Besought p. pr. & vb. n. Beseeching. ] [ OE. bisechen, biseken (akin to G. besuchen to visit); pref. be- + sechen, seken, to seek. See Seek. ] 1. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. [ 1913 Webster ]

I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To beg; to crave. -- To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate. These words agree in marking that sense of want which leads men to beg some favor. To solicit is to make a request, with some degree of earnestness and repetition, of one whom we address as a superior. To entreat implies greater urgency, usually enforced by adducing reasons or arguments. To beseech is still stronger, and belongs rather to the language of poetry and imagination. To implore denotes increased fervor of entreaty, as addressed either to equals or superiors. To supplicate expresses the extreme of entreaty, and usually implies a state of deep humiliation. Thus, a captive supplicates a conqueror to spare his life. Men solicit by virtue of their interest with another; they entreat in the use of reasoning and strong representations; they beseech with importunate earnestness; they implore from a sense of overwhelming distress; they supplicate with a feeling of the most absolute inferiority and dependence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who beseeches. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look. -- Be*seech"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seech"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly. [ R. ] Goodwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To beseech. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Beseemed p. pr. & vb. n. Beseeming. ] [ Pref. be- + seem. ] Literally: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for (one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit. [ 1913 Webster ]

A duty well beseeming the preachers. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God ? Hocker. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To seem; to appear; to be fitting. [ Obs. ] “As beseemed best.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Appearance; look; garb. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Comeliness. Baret. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Becoming; suitable. [ Archaic ] -- Be*seem"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seem"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fit; suitable; becoming. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In beseemly order sitten there. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Properly the p. p. of besee. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Seen; appearing. [ Obs. or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Decked or adorned; clad. [ Archaic ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Accomplished; versed. [ Archaic ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Beset; p. pr. & vb. n. Besetting. ] [ AS. besettan (akin to OHG. bisazjan, G. besetzen, D. bezetten); pref. be- + settan to set. See Set. ] 1. To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects. [ 1913 Webster ]

A robe of azure beset with drops of gold. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

The garden is so beset with all manner of sweet shrubs that it perfumes the air. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade. “Beset with foes.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let thy troops beset our gates. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To set upon on all sides; to perplex; to harass; -- said of dangers, obstacles, etc. “Adam, sore beset, replied.” Milton. “Beset with ills.” Addison. “Incommodities which beset old age.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To occupy; to employ; to use up. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To surround; inclose; environ; hem in; besiege; encircle; encompass; embarrass; urge; press. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin. “Fearing a besetment.” Kane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, besets. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. Bételgeuse, of Arabic origin. ] (Astron.) A bright star of the first magnitude, near one shoulder of Orion. [ Written also Betelgeux and Betelgeuse. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a native or inhabitant of Bhutan.
Syn. -- Bhutani. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bhutan. Bhutanese Buddhists
Syn. -- Bhutani. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to Bologna. -- n. A native of Bologna. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bolognese school (Paint.), a school of painting founded by the Carracci, otherwise called the Lombard or Eclectic school, the object of which was to unite the excellences of the preceding schools. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n. [1913 Webster]

A kind of soft French cream cheese; -- so called from the district in France where it is made; it is milder than Camembert; -- called also fromage de Brie, Brie and brie (uncapitalized). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the formal and often obscure style of writing characteristic of some government officials; officialese; -- it is characterized by euphemisms, circumlocutions, vague abstractions, and circumlocutions. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to Burmah, or its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or the natives of Burma (Myanmar). Also (sing.), the language of the Burmans. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a language spoken in Northern Burma and Yunnan.
Syn. -- Lolo-Burmese. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n., or . A kind of rich, soft, unpressed cream cheese made in the vicinity of Camembert, near Argentan, France; also, any cheese of the same type, wherever made. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Ceylon; -- since the change of name, replaced by Sri Lankan. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Ceylon; -- since the change of name, replaced by Sri Lankan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. chese, AS. cēse, fr. L. caseus, LL. casius. Cf. Casein. ] 1. The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia). [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration. De Quincey. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cheese cake, a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. Prior. --
Cheese fly (Zool.), a black dipterous insect (Piophila casei) of which the larvæ or maggots, called skippers or hoppers, live in cheese. --
Cheese mite (Zool.), a minute mite (Tryoglyhus siro) in cheese and other articles of food. --
Cheese press, a press used in making cheese, to separate the whey from the curd, and to press the curd into a mold. --
Cheese rennet (Bot.), a plant of the Madder family (Golium verum, or yellow bedstraw), sometimes used to coagulate milk. The roots are used as a substitute for madder. --
Cheese vat, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and cut or broken, in cheese making. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a board on which cheeses are served.
Syn. -- cheese tray. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a hamburger with melted cheese on it. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

A thin, loosely-woven cotton cloth of a gauze texture, such as is used in pressing cheese curds. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. an erect or decumbent Old World perennial (Malva sylvestris) with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced into the U. S.
Syn. -- tall mallow, high mallow, cheese, Malva sylvestris. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. Keslop. ] A bag in which rennet is kept. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who deals in cheese. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A thin portion of the rind of a cheese. -- a. Scrimping; mean; as, cheeseparing economy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. cherso`nhsos; che`rsos land + nh`sos island. ] A peninsula; a tract of land nearly surrounded by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Chersonese, or Jutland; the Tauric Chersonese, or Crimea. [ 1913 Webster ]