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Besetting :: Besetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bese.

Urgent :: Urgent (a.) Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important..

Barbate :: Barbate (a.) Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.

Hispid :: Hispid (a.) Beset with stiff hairs or bristles.

Obsession :: Obsession (n.) The state of being besieged; -- used specifically of a person beset by a spirit from without.

Lime-twigged :: Lime-twigged (a.) Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime..

Persecute :: Persecute (v. t.) To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship..

Worry :: Worry (v. t.) To harass or beset with importunity, or with care an anxiety; to vex; to annoy; to torment; to tease; to fret; to trouble; to plague..

Midst :: Midst (n.) Hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset; the press; the burden; as, in the midst of official duties; in the midst of secular affairs..

Amphicome :: Amphicome (n.) A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination..

Drosera :: Drosera (n.) A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew..

Besetment :: Besetment (n.) The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin..

Serrated :: Serrated (a.) Beset with teeth pointing forwards or upwards; as, serrate leaves..

Beset :: Beset (v. t.) To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects.

Embarrass :: Embarrass (v. t.) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements..

Aculeate :: Aculeate (a.) Having prickles, or sharp points; beset with prickles..

Beset :: Beset (v. t.) To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade.

Besetter :: Besetter (n.) One who, or that which, besets..

Sundial :: Sundew (n.) Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort..

Dangerous :: Dangerous (a.) Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.

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