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Be*smear"er (&?;), n. One that besmears.

Be*smirch" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besmirched (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Besmirching.] To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully. Shak.

Be*smoke" (&?;), v. t. 1. To foul with smoke.

2. To harden or dry in smoke. Johnson.

Be*smut" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besmutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Besmutting.] [Pref. be- + smut: cf. AS. besmtan, and also OE. besmotren.] To blacken with smut; to foul with soot.

Be*snow" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besnowed (&?;).] [OE. bisnewen, AS. besnwan; pref. be- + snwan to snow.] 1. To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes. [R.] Gower.

2. To cover with snow; to whiten with snow, or as with snow.

Be*snuff" (&?;), v. t. To befoul with snuff. Young.

Be*sogne" (&?;), n. [F. bisogne.] A worthless fellow; a bezonian. [Obs.]

Be"som (&?;), n. [OE. besme, besum, AS. besma; akin to D. bezem, OHG pesamo, G. besen; of uncertain origin.] A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys. [Archaic or Fig.]

I will sweep it with the besom of destruction. Isa. xiv. 23.

The housemaid with her besom. W. Irving.

Be"som, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besomed (&?;).] To sweep, as with a besom. [Archaic or Poetic] Cowper.

Rolls back all Greece, and besoms wide the plain. Barlow.

Be"som*er (&?;), n. One who uses a besom. [Archaic]

Be*sort" (&?;), v. t. To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become. [Obs.]

Such men as may besort your age. Shak.

Be*sort", n. Befitting associates or attendants. [Obs.]

With such accommodation and besort As levels with her breeding. Shak.

Be*sot" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besotted (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Besotting.] To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate.

Fools besotted with their crimes. Hudibras.

Be*sot"ted, a. Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. "Besotted devotion." Sir W. Scott. -- Be*sot"ted*ly, adv. -- Be*sot"ted*ness, n. Milton.

Be*sot"ting*ly, adv. In a besotting manner.

Be*sought" (&?;), p. p. of Beseech.

Be*span"gle (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bespangled (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bespangling (&?;).] To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering.

The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.

Be*spat"ter (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bespattered (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bespattering.] 1. To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.

2. To asperse with calumny or reproach.