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Besetment :: Besetment (n.) The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin..

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..

Aculeate :: Aculeate (a.) Having prickles, or sharp points; beset with prickles..

Urgent :: Urgent (a.) Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important..

Dangerous :: Dangerous (a.) Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.

Piliferous :: Piliferous (a.) Beset with hairs.

Siege :: Siege (v. t.) To besiege; to beset.

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..

Woe-begone :: Woe-begone (a.) Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful.

Beset :: Beset (v. t.) To occupy; to employ; to use up.

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

Tear-thumb :: Tear-thumb (n.) A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles..

Difficult :: Difficult (a.) Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous..

Drosera :: Drosera (n.) A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew..

Embarrass :: Embarrass (v. t.) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements..

Besetting :: Besetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bese.

Lime-twigged :: Lime-twigged (a.) Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime..

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..

Begone :: Begone (p. p.) Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone).

Obsess :: Obsess (v. t.) To besiege; to beset.

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