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41beset — Ho opilikia, ho ohei; ho okē (fig.) …
42be beset with — archaic be covered or studded with. → beset …
43beets — beset …
44Besetting — Beset Be*set , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beset}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Besetting}.] [AS. besettan (akin to OHG. bisazjan, G. besetzen, D. bezetten); pref. be + settan to set. See {Set}.] 1. To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects.… …
45hard pushed — Beset with difficulty. Hard pressed …
46china — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. a translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature. 2. any porcelain ware. 3. plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively. 4. figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material …
47China — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. People s Republic of, a country in E Asia. 1,221,591,778; 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Cap.: Beijing. 2. Republic of. Also called Nationalist China. a republic consisting mainly of the island of Taiwan off the SE coast …
48bezet — ⇒BEZET, subst. masc. JEUX (au trictrac). Synon. de ambesas. Les termes cabalistiques de petit jan, de grand jan, (...) de bezet (P. BOURGET, Le Disciple, 1889, p. 139). Prononc. et Orth. :[ ]. Ac. 1798 1878, LITTRÉ, GUÉRIN 1892, Nouv. Lar. ill.,… …
49infest — infest, overrun, beset are comparable when they refer to disagreeable or noxious things and mean to make trouble because of their presence in swarms. Although infest carries only by suggestion the idea of annoyance or repugnance, since idiom does …
50Endurance (1912 ship) — The Endurance was the three masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914 Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition. She was launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway and was crushed by ice, causing her to sink …
