Beg - BEG, n. In the Turkish dominions, a governor of a town or country; more particularly, the lord of
a sangiac or banner. Every province is divided into seven sangiacs or banners, each of which
qualifies a bey; and these are commanded by the governor of the province, called begler‐beg or
lord of all the beys. Each beg has the command of a certain number of spahis, or horse,
denominated
timariots.
In Tunis, the beg or bey is the prince or king, answering to the dey of Algiers.
In Egypt, the begs are twelve generals who command the militia, or standing forces of the
kingdom.
BEG, v.t.
1. To ask earnestly; to beseech; to entreat or supplicate with humility. It implies more urgency
than ask or petition.
Joseph begged the body of Jesus. Math.27.
2. To ask or supplicate in charity; as, we may yet be reduced to beg our bread.
3. To take for granted; to assume without proof; as, to beg the question in debate.
BEG, v.i. To ask alms or charity; to practice begging; to live by asking alms.
I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg. Luke 16.
Beget - BEGET', v.t. pret. begot, begat; pp. begot, begotten.
1. To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; as, to beget a son.
2. To produce, as an effect; to cause to exist; to generate; as, luxury begets vice.
Behind - BEHIND, prep.
1. At the back of another; as, to ride behind a horseman.
2. On the back part, at any distance; in the rear; as, to walk behind another.
3. Remaining; left after the departure of another, whether by removing to a distance, or by death; as, a man leaves his servant behind him, or his estate at his decease.
4. Left at a distance, in progress or improvement; as, one student is behind another in mathematics.
5. Inferior to another in dignity and excellence.
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 2 Cor 11.
6. On the side opposite to that which fronts a person; on the other side; as behind a bed; behind a hill; behind a house, tree, or rock.
Behind the back, in scripture, signifies,out of notice, or regard; overlooked; disregarded.
They cast thy laws behind their backs. Neh 19. Isa 38.
BEHIND, adv. [be and hind.] Out of sight; not produced, or exhibited to view; remaining; as, we know no what evidence is behind.
1. Backwards; on the back-part; as, to look behind.
2. Past in the progress of time.
3. Future, or remaining to be endured.
And fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh. Col 1.
4. Remaining after a payment; unpaid; as, there is a large sum behind.
5. Remaining after the departure of; as, he departed and left us behind.
Bend - BEND, [L.pando,pandare, to bend in; pando, pandere, to open; pandus, bent, crooked]
1. To strain, or to crook by straining; as, to bend a bow.
2. To crook; to make crooked; to curve; to inflect; as, to bend the arm.
3. To direct to a certain point; as, to bend our steps or course to a particular place.
4. To exert; to apply closely; to exercise laboriously; to intend or stretch; as, to bend the mind to study.
5. To prepare or put in order for use; to stretch or strain.
He hath bent his bow and made it ready. Psa 7.
6. To incline; to be determined; that is, to stretch towards, or cause to tend; as, to be bent on mischief.
7. To subdue; to cause to yield; to make submissive; as, to bend a man to our will.
8. In seamanship, to fasten, as one rope to another or to an anchor; to fasten, as a sail to its yard or stay; to fasten, as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
9. To bend the brow, is to knit the brow; to scowl; to frown.
BEND, v.i. To be crooked; to crook, or be curving.
1. To incline; to lean or turn; as, a road bends to the west.
2. To jut over; as a bending cliff.
3. To resolve, or determine.[See Bent on.]
4. To bow or be submissive. Isa 60.
BEND,n. A curve; a crook; a turn in a road or river; flexure; incurvation.
1. In marine language, that part of a rope which is fastened to another or to an anchor. [See To bend. No.8.]
2. Bends of a ship, are the thickest and strongest planks in her sides, more generally called wales. They are reckoned from the water, first, second or third bend. They have the beams, knees, and foot hooks bolted to them, and are the chief strength of the ship's sides.
3. In heraldry, one of the nine honorable ordinaries, containing a third part of the field, when charged, and a fifth, when plain. It is made by two lines drawn across from the dexter chief, to the sinister base point. It sometimes is indented, ingrained, &c.
BEND, n. A band. [Not in use.]
Besom - BE'SOM, n. s as z. A broom; a brush of twigs for sweeping.
I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of Hosts. Isa 14.
BE'SOM, v.t. To sweep, as with a besom.
Rolls back all Greece,and besoms wide the plain.