Part 1012

<blockquote>In the <b>beginning</b> God created the heaven and the earth. <i> Gen. i. 1.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.</def>

<blockquote> I am . . . the <b>beginning</b> and the ending. <i> Rev. i. 8.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which is begun; a rudiment or element.</def>

<blockquote>Mighty things from small <b>beginnings</b> grow. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Enterprise.</def> "To hinder our <i>beginnings</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- Inception; prelude; opening; threshold; origin; outset; foundation.</syn>

<h1>Begird</h1> <Xpage=132>

<hw>Be*gird"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp.</tt> <er>Begirt</er> <tt>(?)</tt>, <er>Begirded</er>; <tt>p. p.</tt> <er>Begirt</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Begirding</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>begyrdan</ets> (akin to Goth. <ets>bigairdan</ets>); pref. <ets>be-</ets> + <ets>gyrdan</ets> to gird.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To surround as with a band; to encompass.</def>

<h1>Begirdle</h1> <Xpage=132>

<hw>Be*gir"dle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To surround as with a girdle.</def>

<h1>Begirt</h1> <Xpage=132>

<hw>Be*girt"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To encompass; to begird.</def>

<i> Milton.</i>

<h1>Beglerbeg</h1> <Xpage=132>

<hw>Beg"ler*beg`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Turk. <ets>beglerbeg</ets>, fr. <ets>beg</ets>, pl. <ets>begler</ets>. See <er>Beg</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier.</def>

<h1>Begnaw</h1> <Xpage=132>

<hw>Be*gnaw"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>p. p.</tt> <er>Begnawed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>, <mark>(R.)</mark> <er>Begnawn</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>begnagan</ets>; pref. <ets>be-</ets> + <ets>gnagan</ets> to gnaw.]</ety> <def>To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode.</def>

<blockquote>The worm of conscience still <b>begnaw</b> thy soul. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Begod</h1> <Xpage=132>

<hw>Be*god"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Begodded</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Begodded</i> saints."

<i>South.</i>

<h1>Begone</h1> <Xpage=132>

<hw>Be*gone"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>interj.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Be</ets>, v. i. + <ets>gone</ets>, p. p.]</ety> <def>Go away; depart; get you gone.</def>

<h1>Begone</h1> <Xpage=132>

<hw>Be*gone"</hw>, <tt>p. p.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>begon</ets>, AS. <ets>big\'ben</ets>; pref. <ets>be-</ets> + <ets>g\'ben</ets> to go.]</ety> <def>Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-<i>begone</i>).</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>