bes

alternative be's

1. dialectalindicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of be

   She bes there these five yare, an' has sint hoome foor her broother an' sister, the mooney for their passage, an' they bes goone these thra yares.

   1850, William Stevens Balch, Ireland, as I Saw it

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   "An' he bes free times as old as herself," he wailed, " an' ugly as a squid ! But he bes rich — rich as any marchant — an' for the bread an' the fixin's an' the gold she bes takin' 'im."

   1916, The Windsor Magazine - Volume 44, page 353

   And she bes white. Now, I bes what they use to call a house nigra. I don't work in no fields. And you know, I likes my color. Sho' not real fair, and not real dark either. I bes just who I be.

   2005, Brenda Dooling, The Diamond Cage, →ISBN, page 236

2. dialectalnonstandardpresentPresent tense inflected form of be: am or are.

   She bes there these five yare, an' has sint hoome foor her broother an' sister, the mooney for their passage, an' they bes goone these thra yares.

   1850, William Stevens Balch, Ireland, as I Saw it

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   And she bes white. Now, I bes what they use to call a house nigra. I don't work in no fields. And you know, I likes my color. Sho' not real fair, and not real dark either. I bes just who I be.

   2005, Brenda Dooling, The Diamond Cage, →ISBN, page 236

plural besses

1. historicalhobbiesA bronze coin of the Roman Republic, worth two thirds of an as.

1. pluralplural of be (“Cyrillic letter”)

1. alternativeAlternative form of beth (“Semitic letter”).

1. uncountablechemistryN,N-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)-2-aminoethanesulfonic acid

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of British Election Study.

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   I use data from several recent academic national surveys: the 2013 Austrian Election Study (AES), British Election Study Panel Survey (BES) conducted in January 2014 (from which I include respondents living in England), and the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) wave conducted in May 2013. […] These questions measuring RWA (or what I would term “authoritarian values”) are available in the BES data.

   (Can we date this quote?), Erik R. Tillman, “Authoritarianism and Support for Populist Radical Right Parties”, in DePaul University, pages 8-9

1. pluralplural of BE

alternative Bisu

1. Egyptianhuman sciencesAn ancient Egyptian god, the protector of households and mothers, children and childbirth.

   The god Bes occurred so early in the human imagination that it reaches back to the earliest of human settlements along the Nile.

   2009, Molefi Kete Asante, Ama Mazama, editors, Encyclopedia of African Religion, SAGE, →ISBN, page 121