Part 1058

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.</def>

<blockquote>Madam, you have <b>bereft</b> me of all words. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Bereft</b> of him who taught me how to sing. <i>Tickell.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To take away from.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>All your interest in those territories Is utterly <b>bereft</b> you; all is lost. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To take away.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Shall move you to <b>bereave</b> my life. <i>Marlowe.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; The imp. and past pple. form <i>bereaved</i> is not used in reference to immaterial objects. We say <i>bereaved</i> or <i>bereft</i> by death of a relative, <i>bereft</i> of hope and strength.</note>

<syn>Syn. -- To dispossess; to divest.</syn>

<h1>Bereavement</h1> <Xpage=138>

<hw>Be*reave"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.</def>

<h1>Bereaver</h1> <Xpage=138>

<hw>Be*reav"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who bereaves.</def>

<h1>Bereft</h1> <Xpage=138>

<hw>Be*reft"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <def>of Bereave.</def>

<h1>Beretta</h1> <Xpage=138>

<hw>Be*ret"ta</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as Berretta.</def>

<h1>Berg</h1> <Xpage=138>

<hw>Berg</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[&root;95. See Barrow hill, and cf. Iceberg.]</ety> <def>A large mass or hill, as of ice.</def>

<blockquote>Glittering <b>bergs</b> of ice. <i>Tennyson</i></blockquote>.

<h1>Bergamot</h1> <Xpage=138>

<hw>Ber"ga*mot</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. bergamote, fr. It. bergamotta; prob. a corruption of Turk. beg arm<?/di a lord's pear.]</ety> <p><b>1</b> . <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A tree of the Orange family (<spn>Citrus bergamia</spn>), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit. <sd>(b)</sd> A variety of mint (<spn>Mentha aquatica, &var;. glabrata</spn>).</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The essence or perfume made from the fruit.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A variety of pear.</def> <i>Johnson</i>.

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.</def>

<blockquote>The better hand . . . gives the nose its <b>bergamot</b>. <i>Cowper</i></blockquote>.

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit.</def>

<cs><col>Wild bergamot</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>an American herb of the Mint family (<spn>Monarda fistulosa</spn>).</cd></cs>