Word origins

• beldameA grandmother.
• beleadTo lead away.
• belieffulHaving belief or faith; faithful.
• belieffulnessThe state or quality of being beliefful; faithfulness.
• belikedBeloved; liked.
• belimbTo cut off a limb or limbs; dismember; mutilate; disfigure.
• bellmakerSomeone who makes bells.
• bellringingThe ringing of bells, as performed by a bellringer.
• belockTo lock up or lock in place; hold tight; fasten.
• belookTo look about or around; look over or across; look after; give a look to; look at.
• beloveTo please.
• belsiregrandfather; old man.
• bemazeTo bewilder.
• bemeanTo mean; signify; inform.
• bemeteTo measure.
• bemireTo soil with mud or a similar substance.
• bemournTo weep or mourn over.
• benameTo swear on oath; to solemnly declare; promise; give.
• bendlyHaving a diagonal stripe; bendy.
• benedightBlessed; benedict.
• benightTo overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached.
• benimTo take away; rob; deprive; ravish
• benimmingThe taking away or removal of something.
• BeoleyA village and civil parish in Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0669).
• beotA boast or threat; boastful speech.
• bepissTo urinate on.
• berainTo rain upon; wet with rain; moisten.
• bereadTo advise; inform; counsel; plan; (reflexive) to advise or bethink oneself; deliberate.
• beredeTo advise.
• berideTo ride around; beset with horsemen.
• berobTo rob; to plunder.
• berollTo roll about; roll around; roll over.
• berrilA twist or spin given in throwing an object.
• besagewA small disc of metal which protects the armpit, a piece of armor typically worn together with a spaulder or pauldron; a rondel, sometimes especially when used to steady a lance.
• besagueA kind of double-bladed axe.
• besayTo say about (someone or something); get something across verbally or by saying; relay; signify; declare.
• bescratchTo scratch; scratch about; scratch all over.
• beseeTo look at; see; mind; regard; favour.
• beseekTo beseech; entreat.
• beseemGenerally with a qualifying word such as ill or well: to appear, look, or seem (a certain way for someone or something).
• beseenFurnished; arrayed; dressed; equipped.
• besendTo send over or across; send to; send a message to.
• besewTo sew.
• beshadeTo shadow; cast a shadow over.
• beshadowTo cast a shadow around, about, or over; overshadow.
• beshearTo shear or shave off; shear or shave all over.
• beshieldTo shield around or about; protect; defend.
• beshiteTo shite all over; befoul with shitting; beshit.
• beshittenCovered with or befouled with or as with excrement.
• beshrewTo invoke or wish evil upon; to curse.
• beshutTo shut in or inclose; shut up or confine.
• besingTo sing of or sing about; celebrate in song or poetry; sing the praises of; praise; laud.
• besingeTo singe about or all over.
• besitTo sit around; sit about; besiege.
• beslabberTo slabber all over; beslaver; beslobber.
• besleepTo sleep; have a sleep; sleep with.
• beslobberTo wet, besmear, or befoul with spittle or anything running from the mouth; cover in slobber; bespawl.
• besmearTo smear over, to smear all over, to daub.
• besmokeTo fill with smoke; act on with smoke; fumigate.
• besnowTo snow on; to cover with snow, or as if with snow.
• besnowedCovered or laden with snow.
• besoilTo cover with or as with soil; stain; sully.
• besorrowTo sorrow about or over; care about; fill with care or sorrow; make sad.
• besowTo sow; sow all around or about; scatter; disperse; plant.
• bespitTo spit upon (someone or something); to soil with spittle.
• bespotTo make spots on; mark with spots; cover with or as with blots or blemishes.
• bespouseTo marry
• bespreadTo spread over; to cover with.
• besprengeTo sprinkle or scatter.
• besprentbesprinkled
• besprinkleTo sprinkle.
• besprinkledSprinkled.
• bestainedStained all over, completely stained or discoloured.
• bestayTo secure or steady; cause to come to a fixed position or state; bring to a halt or stop.
• besteadTo help, assist.
• bestealTo steal, move stealthily.
• bestepTo step on; step over, tread upon.
• best friendAn especially close and trusted friend.
• bestiallyIn a bestial manner.
• bestrewTo strew or scatter about; throw or drop here and there.
• bestrideTo be astride something, to stand over or sit on with legs on either side, especially to sit on a horse.
• bestripTo strip away, remove; strip, undress; deprive.
• besullyTo make sullied or soiled; defile.
• beswatheto cover (something) (both literally and figuratively).
• besweatCovered with sweat.
• beswingeTo scourge; beat.
• beswinkto labour, toil; belabour
• beteachTo show; point out.
• betellTo speak or tell about; declare; narrate; describe.
• bethatchTo cover with thatch; to thatch.
• bethinkingThe act of thinking, thinking about, considering, reflecting, or remembering.
• bethrowTo throw or twist about; throw off; torture.
• betidesAt any early period.
• betimberTo build.
• betimeTo occur; betide.
• betineTo hedge about; enclose; shut up.
• betokenTo signify by some visible object; show by signs or tokens.
• betowTo tow about; pull; draw; lead about; conduct.
• betrapTo catch in a trap; entrap; ensnare; enclose.
• betrashTo make or treat as trash.