Part 1070

<blockquote>With such accommodation and <b>besort</b> As levels with her breeding. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Besot</h1> <Xpage=139>

<hw>Be*sot"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Besotted</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Besotting</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate.</def>

<blockquote>Fools <b>besotted</b> with their crimes. <i>Hudibras.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Besotted</h1> <Xpage=139>

<hw>Be*sot"ted</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied.</def> "<i>Besotted</i> devotion." <i>Sir W. Scott</i>. -- <wordforms><wf>Be*sot"ted*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Be*sot"ted*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Besottingly</h1> <Xpage=139>

<hw>Be*sot"ting*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a besotting manner.</def>

<h1>Besought</h1> <Xpage=139>

<hw>Be*sought"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>p. p.</tt> <def>of <er>Beseech</er>.</def>

<h1>Bespangle</h1> <Xpage=139>

<hw>Be*span"gle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Bespangled</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Bespangling</er> <tt>(#)</tt>.]</wordforms> <def>To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering.</def>

<blockquote>The grass . . . is all <b>bespangled</b> with dewdrops. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bespatter</h1> <Xpage=139>

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

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To asperse with calumny or reproach.</def>

<blockquote>Whom never faction could <b>bespatter</b>. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bespawl</h1> <Xpage=139>

<hw>Be*spawl"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Bespeak</h1> <Xpage=139>

<hw>Be*speak"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp.</tt> <er>Bespoke</er> <tt>(?)</tt>, <er>Bespake</er> <mark>(Archaic)</mark>; <tt>p. p.</tt> <er>Bespoke</er>, <er>Bespoken</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Bespeaking</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>bispeken</ets>, AS. <ets>besprecan</ets>, to speak to, accuse; pref. <ets>be-</ets> + <ets>sprecan</ets> to speak. See <er>Speak</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; <as>as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was to <b>bespeak</b> his favor. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate.</def>

<blockquote> <b>bespoke</b> dangers . . . in order to scare the allies. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances.</def>

<blockquote>When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so little the figure of a man that it <b>bespoke</b> him rather a monster. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>