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adj. 1. of or pertaining to an archespore. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops.
Syn. -- archespore. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n.; pl. Beaux-esprits [ F., fine wit. ] A fine genius, or man of wit. “A man of letters and a bel esprit.” W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bespangled p. pr. & vb. n. Bespangling ] To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. [ 1913 Webster ]

The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. covered with beads or jewels or sequins.
Syn. -- beaded, beady, bejeweled, bejewelled, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bespattered p. pr. & vb. n. Bespattering. ] 1. To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To asperse with calumny or reproach. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whom never faction could bespatter. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Bespoke Bespake (Archaic); p. p. Bespoke, Bespoken p. pr. & vb. n. Bespeaking. ] [ OE. bispeken, AS. besprecan, to speak to, accuse; pref. be- + sprecan to speak. See Speak. ] 1. To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favor. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ They ] bespoke dangers . . . in order to scare the allies. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so little the figure of a man that it bespoke him rather a monster. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To speak to; to address. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He thus the queen bespoke. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To speak. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.) “The night of her bespeak.” Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who bespeaks. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bespeckled p. pr. & vb. n. Bespeckling. ] To mark with speckles or spots. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To soil or daub with spew; to vomit on. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To season with spice, or with some spicy drug. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. Same as Bespurt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Bespit; p. p. Bespit, Bespitten p. pr. & vb. n. Bespitting. ] To daub or soil with spittle. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

adj. 1. same as made-to-order; -- of clothing.
Syn. -- bespoke, custom, made-to-order, tailored, tailor-made. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. bound by an agreement to become married to someone.
Syn. -- affianced, betrothed, engaged, pledged, promised(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bespotted p. pr. & vb. n. Bespotting. ] To mark with spots, or as with spots. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bespread; p. pr. & vb. n. Bespreading. ] To spread or cover over. [ 1913 Webster ]

The carpet which bespread
His rich pavilion's floor. Glover. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. [ OE. bespreynt, p. p. of besprengen, bisprengen, to besprinkle, AS. besprengan, akin to D. & G. besprengen; pref. be- + sprengan to sprinkle. See Sprinkle. ] Sprinkled over; strewed. [ 1913 Webster ]

His face besprent with liquid crystal shines. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

The floor with tassels of fir was besprent. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Besprinkled p. pr. & vb. n. Besprinkling ] To sprinkle over; to scatter over. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, besprinkles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To spurt on or over; to asperse. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Private end or view; by-interest. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Cespitose. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions; as, cardiopulmonary resuscitation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. caespes, caespitis, a turf. ] An oil obtained by distillation of peat, and containing various members of the pyridine series. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. caespiticius, fr. caespes turf. ] Same as Cespitious. [ R. ] Gough. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. caespes turf. ] (Bot.) Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots. [ Written also cæspitose. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Cespitose. ] Pertaining to, consisting, of resembling, turf; turfy. [ 1913 Webster ]

A cespitous or turfy plant has many stems from the same root, usually forming a close, thick carpet of matting. Martyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A forked piece of wood or plastic, or a small device with a spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A receptacle for clothes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
Syn. -- CER, conditioned emotion. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a behavioral response to a stimulus that has been acquired by experience or conditioning.
Syn. -- CER, conditioned emotion. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Law) One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Corresponded; p. pr. & vb. n. Corresponding. ] [ Pref. cor- + respond: cf. f. correspondre. ] 1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. [ 1913 Webster ]

None of them [ the forms of Sidney's sonnets ] correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer; -- followed by to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Words being but empty sounds, any farther than they are signs of our ideas, we can not but assent to them as they correspond to those ideas we have, but no farther. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To have intercourse or communion; especially, to hold intercourse or to communicate by sending and receiving letters; -- followed by with. [ 1913 Webster ]

After having been long in indirect communication with the exiled family, he [ Atterbury ] began to correspond directly with the Pretender. Macaulay.

Syn. -- To agree; fit; answer; suit; write; address. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. correspondance. ] 1. Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects of the post office. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The letters which pass between correspondents. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or department for instruction by correspondence, as in a university or other educational bodies, but the term is commonly applied to various educational institutions organized on a commercial basis, some of which offer a large variety of courses in general and technical subjects, conducted by specialists. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Correspondencies Same as Correspondence, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

The correspondencies of types and antitypes . . . may be very reasonable confirmations. S. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. correspondant. ] Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

As fast the correspondent passions rise. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will be correspondent to command. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com.) One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Carrying on intercourse by letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corresponding member of a society, one residing at a distance, who has been invited to correspond with the society, and aid in carrying out its designs without taking part in its management. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a corresponding manner; conformably. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Corresponding; conformable; adapted. Shak. -- Cor`re*spon"sive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Despaired p. pr. & vb. n. Despairing. ] [ OE. despeiren, dispeiren, OF. desperer, fr. L. desperare; de- + sperare to hope; akin to spes hope, and perh. to spatium space, E. space, speed; cf. OF. espeir hope, F. espoir. Cf. Prosper, Desperate. ] To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of. [ 1913 Webster ]

We despaired even of life. 2 Cor. i. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

Never despair of God's blessings here. Wake.

Syn. -- See Despond. [ 1913 Webster ]