Part 1071

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To speak to; to address.</def> <mark>[Poetic]</mark>

<blockquote>He thus the queen <b>bespoke</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

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

<hw>Be*speak"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To speak.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Milton.</i>

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<hw>Be*speak"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.)</def> "The night of her <i>bespeak</i>."

<i>Dickens.</i>

<h1>Bespeaker</h1> <Xpage=139>

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

<h1>Bespeckle</h1> <Xpage=139>

<hw>Be*spec"kle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Bespeckled</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Bespeckling</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To mark with speckles or spots.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Bespew</h1> <Xpage=139>

<hw>Be*spew"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To soil or daub with spew; to vomit on.</def>

<h1>Bespice</h1> <Xpage=139>

<hw>Be*spice"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To season with spice, or with some spicy drug.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Bespirt</h1> <Xpage=139>

<hw>Be*spirt"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Bespurt</er>.</def>

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<h1>Bespit</h1> <Xpage=140>

<hw>Be*spit</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp.</tt> <er>Bespit</er>; <tt>p. p.</tt> <er>Bespit</er>, <er>Bespitten</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Bespitting</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To daub or soil with spittle.</def>

<i>Johnson.</i>

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<hw>Be*spoke"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <def><tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> of <er>Bespeak</er>.</def>

<h1>Bespot</h1> <Xpage=140>