*bere*

v. t. [ Cf. OIcel. berja to strike. ] To pierce. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Bear, barley. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bereaved Bereft p. pr. & vb. n. Bereaving. ] [ OE. bireven, AS. bereáfian. See Be-, and Reave. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away. [ 1913 Webster ]

Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bereft of him who taught me how to sing. Tickell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take away from. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All your interest in those territories
Is utterly bereft you; all is lost. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To take away. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall move you to bereave my life. Marlowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The imp. and past pple. form bereaved is not used in reference to immaterial objects. We say bereaved or bereft by death of a relative, bereft of hope and strength. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To dispossess; to divest. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. mourning due to the death of a loved one.
Syn. -- bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning(prenominal), sorrowing(prenominal). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who bereaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Bereave. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ See Berenice's Locks, in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. ] (Astron.) See Coma Berenices, under Coma. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a cap made of soft cloth with no brim or bill, widening somewhat outward from a close-fitting headband to a flat top, which often has a button or tab in its center. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. Same as Berretta. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to, or resembling, Cerberus. [ Written also Cerberian. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

With wide Cerberean mouth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A civilian; a carpetmonger. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Well-proportioned; symmetrical. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Having fibers; made up of fibers.

a. Called to mind previously. Bp. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.), A plant growth hormone of the gibberellin series (C19H22O6), also called gibberellin A₃. It was first isolated from the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi. It is used to promote the growth of seedlings. See also gibberellin. MI11 [ PJC ]

n. (Chem.), Any of a number plant growth hormones, the first of which was isolated in 1938 from the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi; more than 60 related gibberelins are known. The most important is gibberellin A₃, also called gibberellic acid. They are used in agriculture for promoting plant growth. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. (Arch.) Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry; -- said of buildings. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who jabbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Lumberers have a notion that he (the woodpecker) is harmful to timber. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having limbs; -- chiefly used in composition. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) Having legs of a different tincture from that of the body; -- said of a bird in heraldic representations. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who numbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who remembers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A Setembrist. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who slabbers, or drools; hence, an idiot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who slobbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A slovenly farmer; a jobbing tailor. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who slumbers; a sleeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. subereus of the cork tree. ] Of or pertaining to cork; of the nature of cork; suberose. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Furnished with timber; -- often compounded; as, a well-timbered house; a low-timbered house. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Built; formed; contrived. [ R. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Massive, like timber. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His timbered bones all broken, rudely rumbled. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Covered with growth timber; wooden; as, well-timbered land. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Unbereft. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not bereft; not taken away. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not incumbered; not burdened. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Free from any temporary estate or interest, or from mortgage, or other charge or debt; as, an estate unincumbered with dower. [ 1913 Webster ]