Part 623

Among the bestial herds to range. Milton.

2. Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual. Shak.

Syn. -- Brutish; beastly; brutal; carnal; vile; low; depraved; sensual; filthy.

Bes"tial, n. A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial. [Scot.]

Bes*tial"i*ty (&?;), n. [F. bestialité.] 1. The state or quality of being bestial.

2. Unnatural connection with a beast.

Bes"tial*ize (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bestialized (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bestializing.] To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize.

The process of bestializing humanity. Hare.

Bes"tial*ly, adv. In a bestial manner.

Be*stick" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bestuck (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Besticking.] To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce.

Truth shall retire Bestuck with slanderous darts. Milton.

Be*still" (&?;), v. t. To make still.

Be*stir" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bestirred (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bestirring.] To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor; -- usually with the reciprocal pronoun.

You have so bestirred your valor. Shak.

Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Milton.

Be*storm" (&?;), v. i. & t. To storm. Young.

Be*stow" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bestowed (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bestowing.] [OE. bestowen; pref. be- + stow a place. See Stow.] 1. To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put. "He bestowed it in a pouch." Sir W. Scott.

See that the women are bestowed in safety. Byron.

2. To use; to apply; to devote, as time or strength in some occupation.

3. To expend, as money. [Obs.]

4. To give or confer; to impart; -- with on or upon.

Empire is on us bestowed. Cowper.

Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor. 1 Cor. xiii. 3.

5. To give in marriage.

I could have bestowed her upon a fine gentleman. Tatler.

6. To demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by a reflexive pronoun. [Obs.]

How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night in his true colors, and not ourselves be seen ? Shak.

Syn. -- To give; grant; present; confer; accord.