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foot-flalk; thefe are fmall, f abulous, and of a pale yellow 
colour. Native of Martinico, Jamaica, &c. 
3. Befleria criftata : peduncles fnriple, folitary, calyxes 
ferrate-crefted. This (lirubby plant, very different in its 
habit from the foregoing, climbs up trees, to which it 
adheres by means of roots thrown out from the joints. 
Native of Martinico, &c. in moifi mountainous woods. 
4. Befleria bivalvis : calyxes bivalve'torn. Stem her¬ 
baceous, very long, weak, creeping, hairy, round. Leaves 
oppolite, petioled, veined, hairy, nerved, a hand’s breadth 
in length. Peduncles lateral, oppofite, (liorter than the 
leaves, two from each axil, one flowered. Berry oval, 
with a hard two-celled nucleus. It refembles the third 
fpecies much in the leaves and calyx, but is very different 
in the fruit, and in the defedt of the five-leaved perian- 
thium. It was obferved at Surinam by Dahlberg. 
5. Befleria biflora: peduncles two-flowered involucre 
caducous inflated, leaves ovate quite entire. Native of 
the ifland of Otaheite. 
6. Befleria cymofa : peduncles cymed, pedicels with; 
little bradfes, leaves ovate crenate. Native of the ifland 
of Tanna. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants grow naturally 
in the warm parts of America. The feeds fliould be 
fownon a hot-bed early in the fpring ; and, when the plants 
are come up half an inch high, they fhould be each tranf- 
planted into a fmall pot filled with light frefh earth, and 
plunged into a hot bed of tanner’s bark, obferving to wa¬ 
ter and fliade them until they have taken root; after 
which time they fliould have air and water in proportion 
to the warmth of the feafon, and the heat of the bed in 
which they are placed. When the plants have filled thefe 
fmall pots with their roots, they fliould be fhaken out of 
them, and their roots trimmed, and put into larger pots 
filled with light frefh earth, and plunged into the hot-bed 
again ; where they fliould have a large fliare of air in 
warm weather, and muff be frequently watered. With 
this management the plants will thrive very well in ftim- 
mer, but in winter they muff be removed into the ftove, 
where they muff be placed in a temperate warmth, and 
fhould be often, but fparingly, watered. The fecond year 
thefe plants will flower, and fometimes they will perfedt 
their feeds in this country; but they muff be conftantly pre- 
ferved in the ftove, for they will not live in the open air. 
To BESLUB'BER, v. a. [from Jlubber .] To daub; to 
fmear.—He perfuaded us to tickle our nofes with fpear- 
grafs, and make them bleed ; and then beJLubbtr our gar¬ 
ments with it, and fwear it was the blood of true men. 
Skakefpeare. 
BES'LY (John), king’s advocate at Fontenoy-le-Comte 
in Poitou, born at Coulongnes-les-Royaux, died in 1644, 
at feventy-two years old. There is by him, 1. A Hiftory 
of Poitou, Paris, 1647, folio, efteemed. 3. The Bifliops 
of Poitiers, 1647, 4to. He was a man well verfed in the 
antiquities of France; an incorredt writer, but an accurate 
and profound hiftorian. 
To BESME'AR, v. a. [from /near . ] To bedaub; to 
overfpread wi,th fomething that flicks on. To foil; to foul: 
Firft Moloch, horrid king! befmear’d with blood 
Of human facrifice, and parents’ tears. Milton. 
To BESMIR'CH, v. a. To foil; to difcolour. Notinufe: 
Our gaynefs and our gilt are all befmircb'd 
With rainy marching in the painful field. Shahejpeare. 
To BESMO'KE, v. a. [from /moke .] To foul with 
fmoke. To harden or dry in fmoke. 
To BESMUT', v. a. [from fnut .] To blacken with 
fmoke or foot. 
BE'SOM,/. [befm, bcfma, Sax.] An inftrument to fvveep 
with.—I will fweep it with the befom of deftrudlion, faith 
the Lord of hofts. I/aia/i, xiv. 22. 
BESORCH', f. a coin of tin, current at Ormus, in the 
Perfian gulph, at the rate of ^ parts of a farthing fterling. 
To B ESORT', v.a. [from fort.] To fuit; to fit; to become: 
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Such men as may be fort your age, 
And know themfelves and you. Shakcfpcare. 
Besort, f. [from the verb.] Company; attendance; 
train : 
I crave fit difpofition for my wife, 
With fuch accommodation and befort 
As levels with her breeding. Shakfpcare. 
To BESOT', v. a. [from fot.] To infatuate; to ftupify; 
to dull; to take away the fenfes: 
Swinifli gluttony 
Ne’er looks to heav’n amidft his gorgeous feaft, 
But, with bfottcdb3.it ingratitude, 
Crams and blafphemes his feeder. Milton. 
To make to doat, with on. Not much ufed .* 
Truft not thy beauty ; but reftore the prize 
Which he, befotted on that face and eyes. 
Would rend from us. Dryden. 
BESOUGIIT', [ preterite and part pajjive of befeeck .] 
Haften to appeafe 
Th’ iiicenfed Father, and the incenfed Son, 
While pardon may be found, in time befovght. Milton, 
BESOZ'ZI, or Bezutius, (Ambrogio), a painter of 
confiderable eminence, was born at Milan in 1648. He 
worked fome time under Giofeifo Danedi, called Montalti: 
he afterwards went to Rome, where he ftudied from the 
antiques and the pictures of the greateft matters; and at 
laft perfected himfelf in the fchool of Ciro Ferri. His 
great excellency confifted in painting architecture, friezes, 
imitations of bafs-relievos, and other decorations. He 
died at Milan in 1706, aged fifty-eight years. 
To RESPAN'GLE, v. a. [from fpangle.] To adorn 
with fpangles ; to befprinkle with fomething lhining : 
Not Berenice’s locks firft rofe fo bright, 
The heav’ns be/pangling with diflievell’d light. Pope. 
To BESPAT'TER, v. a. [from /patter.] To foil by 
throwing filth; to fpot or fprinkle with dirt or water. To 
afperfe with reproach.—Thofe who will not take vice into 
their bofoms, (hall yet have it bfpatter their faces. Govern¬ 
ment of the Tongue. 
To BESPAW'L, v.a. [hom/pawl. ] Todaub with fpittle. 
To BESPEAK', v.a. be/poke , or befpake\ 1 have be/poke, 
or bfpoken. [from [peak.] To order, to entreat any thing 
beforehand; or againft a future time. To make way by a 
previous apology. To forbode ; to tell fomething before¬ 
hand.—They ftarted fears, bt/poke dangers, and formed 
ominous prognoftics, in order to fcare the allies. Swift.-— 
To fpeak to ; to addrefs. Tiffs fenfe is chiefly poetical: 
Then flaring on her with a ghaftly look, 
And hollow voice, he thus the queen befpohe. Dryden. 
To betoken ; to fhew.—When the abbot of St. Martin 
was born, he had fo little of the figure of a man, that it 
befpohe him rather a monfter. Locke. 
BESPEAK'ER,/". He that befpeaks any thing.—They 
mean not with love to the befpeaker of the work,- but de¬ 
light in the work itfelf. IVotton. 
To BESPEC'KLE, v. a. [from fpeckle.] To mark with 
fpeckles, or fpots. 
To BESPEW', v. a. [from fpeio.] To dawb with fpevv 
or vomit. 
To BESPI'CE, v. a. [from fpice.] To feafon with fpices. 
To BESPIT', v. a. 1 befpat , or befpit ; I have befpit, or 
befpitten\ [from [pit.] To daub with fpittle. 
BESPLAS' (Jofeph Mary Anne Gros de), dodlor of 
the Sorbonne, abbot of l’Epau, born at Caftelnaudari iu 
Languedoc in 1734, died at Paris in 1783, at firft difeharg- 
ed with not lefs fortitude than charity the painful office 
of accompanying and exhorting the criminals fentenced to 
die. Afterwards, devoting his talents to the pulpit, he 
preached with applaufe at Verfailles and at Paris. His 
feripon on the laft.fupper prefented a piece of eloquence fo 
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