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

Besiege :: Besiege (v. t.) To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset..

Beset :: Beset (imp. & p. p.) of Bese.

Dun :: Dun (v. t. & i.) To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately..

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

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..

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

Midst :: Midst (n.) Hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset; the press; the burden; as, in the midst of official duties; in the midst of secular affairs..

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..

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..

Obsession :: Obsession (n.) The state of being besieged; -- used specifically of a person beset by a spirit from without.

Amphicome :: Amphicome (n.) A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination..

Barbate :: Barbate (a.) Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.

Cactus :: Cactus (n.) Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America..

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..

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..

Emboss :: Emboss (v. t.) To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.

Waylay :: Waylay (v. t.) To lie in wait for; to meet or encounter in the way; especially, to watch for the passing of, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush..

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

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

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