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Besieging
(Be*sie"ging) a. That besieges; laying siege to.Be*sie"ging*ly, adv.

Besit
(Be*sit") v. t. [Pref. be- + sit.] To suit; to fit; to become. [Obs.]

Beslabber
(Be*slab"ber) v. t. To beslobber.

Beslave
(Be*slave") v. t. To enslave. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Beslaver
(Be*slav"er) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beslavered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Beslavering.] To defile with slaver; to beslobber.

Beslime
(Be*slime") v. t. To daub with slime; to soil. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Beslobber
(Be*slob"ber) v. t. To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise.

Beslubber
(Be*slub"ber) v. t. To beslobber.

Besmear
(Be*smear") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besmeared ; p. pr. & vb. n. Besmearing.] To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil.

Besmeared with precious balm.
Spenser.

Besmearer
(Be*smear"er) n. One that besmears.

Besmirch
(Be*smirch") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besmirched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Besmirching.] To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully. Shak.

Besmoke
(Be*smoke") v. t.

1. To foul with smoke.

2. To harden or dry in smoke. Johnson.

Besmut
(Be*smut") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besmutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Besmutting.] [Pref. be- + smut: cf. AS. besmitan, and also OE. besmotren.] To blacken with smut; to foul with soot.

Besnow
(Be*snow") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besnowed ] [OE. bisnewen, AS. besniwan; pref. be- + sniwan to snow.]

1. To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes. [R.] Gower.

2. To cover with snow; to whiten with snow, or as with snow.

Besnuff
(Be*snuff") v. t. To befoul with snuff. Young.

Besogne
(Be*sogne") n. [F. bisogne.] A worthless fellow; a bezonian. [Obs.]

Besom
(Be"som) n. [OE. besme, besum, AS. besma; akin to D. bezem, OHG pesamo, G. besen; of uncertain origin.] A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys. [Archaic or Fig.]

I will sweep it with the besom of destruction.
Isa. xiv. 23.
The housemaid with her besom.
W. Irving.