Bede (&?;), v. t. [See Bid, v. t.] To pray; also, to offer; to proffer. [Obs.] R. of Gloucester. Chaucer.
Bede, n. (Mining) A kind of pickax.
Be*deck" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedecked (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bedecking.] To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.
Bedecked with boughs, flowers, and garlands.
Pennant.
{ ||Bed"e*guar, Bed"e*gar } (&?;), n. [F., fr. Per. bd-ward, or bd-wardag, prop., a kind of white thorn or thistle.] A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosæ). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.
Bede"house` (&?;), n. Same as Beadhouse.
{ Be"del, Be"dell } (&?;), n. Same as Beadle.
Be"del*ry (&?;), n. Beadleship. [Obs.] Blount.
||Bed"en (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.