Definition of beset

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

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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..
Cactus :: Cactus (n.) Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America..
Besetment :: Besetment (n.) The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin..
Be- :: Be- () To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around)..
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..
Besetting :: Besetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bese.
Waylay :: Waylay (v. t.) To lie in wait for; to meet or encounter in the way; especially, to watch for the passing of, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush..
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..
Amphicome :: Amphicome (n.) A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination..
Bestead :: Bestead (v. t.) To put in peril; to beset.
Emboss :: Emboss (v. t.) To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
Dangerous :: Dangerous (a.) Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
Beset :: Beset (v. t.) To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects.
Piliferous :: Piliferous (a.) Beset with hairs.
Beset :: Beset (v. t.) To occupy; to employ; to use up.
Drosera :: Drosera (n.) A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew..
Beset :: Beset (v. t.) To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade.
Dun :: Dun (v. t. & i.) To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately..
Bestad :: Bestad (imp. & p. p.) Beset; put in peril.
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