Beset: alternatives and connections

To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

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To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks.

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To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

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A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…

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To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice…

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The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.

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To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…

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The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.

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Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

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To render null and void.

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A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the…

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That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.

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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.

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To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

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A mound or small hill.

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Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.

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A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.

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Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively…

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A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.

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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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An engine for casting stones.

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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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See Chivy, v. t.

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To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.

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To incrust. See Incrust.

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To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens o…

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To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.

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To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of; as, iron incrusted with rust; a vessel incrusted with salt; a sweetme…

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To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.

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That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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