Becoming to Bedswerver
Becoming
(Be*com"ing), a. Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting.
A low and becoming tone.
Thackeray.
Formerly sometimes followed by of.
Such discourses as are becoming of them.
Dryden.
Syn. — Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.
Becoming
(Be*com"ing), n. That which is becoming or appropriate. [Obs.]
Becomingly
(Be*com"ing*ly), adv. In a becoming manner.
Becomingness
(Be*com"ing*ness), n. The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness.
The becomingness of human nature.
Grew.
Becripple
(Be*crip"ple) v. t. To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame. [R.] Dr. H. More.
Becuna
(||Be*cu"na) n. [Sp.] (Zoöl.) A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyræna spet). See Barracuda.
Becurl
(Be*curl") v. t. To curl; to adorn with curls.
Bed
(Bed) n. [AS. bed, bedd; akin to OS. bed, D. bed, bedde, Icel. ber, Dan. bed, Sw. bädd,
Goth. badi, OHG. betti, G. bett, bette, bed, beet a plat of ground; all of uncertain origin.]
1. An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled
with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed or this with the bedclothes
added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of
hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.
And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed.
Byron.
I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds.
Shak.
In bed he slept not for my urging it.
Shak.
2. (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
George, the eldest son of his second bed.
Clarendon.
3. A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground. "Beds
of hyacinth and roses." Milton.
4. A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.
5. The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.
So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed.
Milton.
6. (Geol.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.
7. (Gun.) See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.
