Be*com"ing*ly, adv. In a becoming manner.
Be*com"ing*ness, n. The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness.
The becomingness of human nature.
Grew.
Be*crip"ple (&?;), v. t. To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame. [R.] Dr. H. More.
||Be*cu"na (&?;), n. [Sp.] (Zoöl.) A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyræna spet). See Barracuda.
Be*curl" (&?;), v. t. To curl; to adorn with curls.
Bed (&?;), n. [AS. bed, bedd; akin to OS. bed, D. bed, bedde, Icel. be&?;r, Dan. bed, Sw. bädd, Goth. badi, OHG. betti, G. bett, bette, bed, beet a plat of ground; all of uncertain origin.] 1. An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.
And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed.
Byron.
I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds.
Shak.
In bed he slept not for my urging it.
Shak.